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By Allison Boccamazzo, Managing Content Producer
As the world's largest nongovernmental funder of cancer research, the American Cancer Society stands as one of today's most influential and impactful organizations. The company boasts over 6,000 staff members, 3 million volunteers and 70 million donors-all of which help support the brand's efforts to fight harder and stronger against cancer with each passing day.

By Carrie Majewski (née Schmelkin), Director of Content Marketing, Content Boost
Simply put, digital literacy was not on the AARP's upcoming roadmap. But a convention in Vegas changed things for the social mission organization.

By Paula Bernier, Executive Editor, TMC
Ashar Baig, a research director at the well-respected analysis firm Gigaom, today at ITEXPO offered his perspective on the future (and the recent past) of cloud services.

By Eric Lebowitz, Digital Content Editor
Chance Myers, co-founder and CMO of TeleSpeak, didn't know much about WebRTC 18 months ago. Now, he sees the free technology that enables web browsers with Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities via JavaScript APIs as the future for his company.

By Carrie Majewski (née Schmelkin), Director of Content Marketing, Content Boost
ITEXPO attendees took a break from tweeting, hashtagging ITEXPO and blogging this morning to get back to the roots of social media-including what networks exist today, why enterprises must use social platforms and how to go about crafting a best-of-class social media strategy in a panel discussion titled "Social Media for the Enterprise 101: Back to the Basics." The session kicked off day three of Mobile Enterprise Expo, an ITEXPO collocated event.

By Eric Lebowitz, Digital Content Editor
Today's businesses face increasing challenges for customer engagement and service, as consumers expect excellence across all channels. But before businesses tackle these new obstacles, it's important to understand exactly what service-level expectations exist in today's market.

By Allison Boccamazzo, Managing Content Producer
Software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) require service providers to rethink the notion of network engineering. Traditional network engineering processes are a bit stiff while SDN and NFV call for a more agile form of network service delivery to help meet dynamically changing application and service chaining needs.

By Allison Boccamazzo, Managing Content Producer
A huge barrier to achieving software telecommunications is the support of providers' existing infrastructure, especially at the edge of the network. We're entering a new age of innovative and compelling infrastructure, and one that many providers are seeing as a necessity to transition to. So, how can software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) technologies optimally be deployed? More importantly, which strategies make sense and which don't? The success of today's competing providers is dependent on these answers.

By Carrie Majewski (née Schmelkin), Director of Content Marketing, Content Boost
When you hear that a company is in the business of providing cloud-based services, you don't typically expect to pull up its website and be greeted with a picture of a heavily tattooed young lady sporting sunglasses and a carefree smile smack in the middle of the homepage.

By Paula Bernier, Executive Editor, TMC
There's an interesting dichotomy in business today. Information and communications technology have become engrained in the workings of most organizations, so it might seem that IT types would be sitting pretty. Yet, at the same time, things are moving so quickly in tech that it's important for IT leaders to be proactive to ensure they remain relevant.

By Allison Boccamazzo, Managing Content Producer
The exciting reveals continue during ITEXPO 2014, happening now through August 14 at the Rio in Las Vegas. This year's event represents a lot for BlueOSS, a leading provider of telecom billing software and operational support systems-the company this week announced its all new cost reconciliation capability as a part of its industry leading cloud billing solution, Cloud Innovation Suite (CIS).

By Paula Bernier, Executive Editor, TMC
IT staffs at organizations tend to think of themselves as support teams. Instead, they need to look at things through a different lens and consider what they can be doing to drive the business at large forward.

By Eric Lebowitz, Digital Content Editor
When Jay Ferro came on as CIO of the American Cancer Society three years ago, he inherited quite a mess. The organization, which is the leading non-governmental funder of cancer research in the U.S., had a hundreds of independent systems and thousands of servers housed in geographically disparate data centers.

By Eric Lebowitz, Digital Content Editor
This year at ITEXPO, Aruba is promoting its The ClearPass Access Management System, designed to give IT a more straightforward avenue towards creating a system that support strong security policies and allows for an enhanced user experience across the entire enterprise.

By Carrie Majewski (née Schmelkin), Director of Content Marketing, Content Boost
As Richardson explained during an ITEXPO panel Wednesday titled "Leading Change: Taking Your Business and Technology in the Next Generation," IBM spends a lot of time interacting with different business executives, exploring the concept of adoption and change management, especially as it relates to technology.

By Allison Boccamazzo, Managing Content Producer
Disruptive technologies are changing the face of real-time communications, especially including Web real-time communications, or WebRTC. Today's ITEXPO panel, "The Economics of WebRTC," presented by Doug Green, editor and publisher of "Telecom Reseller," explored the potential of WebRTC and why thought leaders are looking at it to heighten business processes. The panel was presented as part of the SIP Trunking, UC and WebRTC seminars at ITEXPO 2014, taking place now through August 14 at The Rio in Las Vegas.

By Eric Lebowitz, Digital Content Editor
If you've been hearing a lot about WebRTC recently, you are certainly not alone. The technology, a free, open project that enables Web browsers with Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities through JavaScript APIs-is being talked about breathlessly in technology circles.

By Doug Mohney, Contributing Editor
Phone numbers are far from dead, but there's a lot that could be done to add value to the traditional telephone numbering system.


 

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