Converged Technology Professionals Expands ShoreTel Offerings

Converged Technology Professionals has expanded its product offerings and included ShoreTel (News - Alert) virtual switches in its product portfolio. This is a fully complementary addition to ShoreTel’s distributed architecture and it provides the ability to virtualize important applications.

Virtualized infrastructure offers benefits like enhanced security, server consolidation, and the ability to adapt to changing situations. It also makes sure that applications are up and running more often than not. In fact, the importance of virtual switches comes to light during downtime.

ShoreTel allows its customers the flexibility to pick the deployment model in a distributed architectural platform that suits their needs. They can go for ShoreTel purpose-built appliances, virtualized applications, or combinations of both. The company also allows users to deploy ShoreTel Unified Communications (News - Alert) Platform applications on industry-standard x86 servers located in a data center or on-premises.

ShoreTel Unified Communications Platform core software can be deployed in a virtualized environment. This means the customers will have the ability to consolidate their onsite servers and also have best of what virtualization infrastructure vendors have to offer.

“The addition of virtualized switch technology really allows the ShoreTel system great flexibility in deployment and comprehensive solutions for disaster recovery,” said Eric Peterson, President of Operations at Converged Technology Professionals, Inc. “Instead of deploying appliances as traditionally done, the organization’s investment in virtualization can be leveraged for phone, SIP, and conferencing resources. The built-in capabilities of the hypervisor will allow the system to survive any number of different types of outages. We’re very excited about virtualized switches and delivering our customers more awesome service.”