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Symantec consumer business unit group president, Janice Chaffin, said, as part of the Norton Everywhere initiative, "Norton One is a new model that will address the security and service challenges that consumers face today."

Business intelligence software company, QlikTech, is expanding the group collaboration capabilities of its QlikView Business Discovery platform through the integration of Salesforce's Chatter Connect.

QlikTeck A/NZ regional director, Mark Sands, said, "QlikView's Chatter integration enables business users to collaborate around data-driven decisions, building on the Chatter enterprise collaboration platform to extend social BI to a new set of users. Now, QlikView users can benefit from Chatter's social collaboration, and users in Chatter have visibility to insights discovered in QlikView."

Victoria's Bialik College has replaced its outdated and expensive phone system with the implementation of a self-managed Digium Switchvox voice over IP telephony platform.

The cost-effective solution

The cost-effective solution, which includes an AA355 Switchvox server and over 150 Polycom handsets enables the College to utilise IP PBX (Private -Automatic- Branch Exchange) unified communications, with the ability to integrate its phone system partially or totally to its data network.

The new platform delivers advanced functionality as standard features, including conference bridging, call recording, call queues, interactive voice response functionality and integrated voicemail, enhancing both internal and external communication for teachers and parents.

The customisable system as well gives the college the possibility to integrate Wi-Fi devices and use products just as the iPhone as softphones.

Bialik College head of innovation, David Micallef, said, "the system is so easy to use that staff are able to manage their own telephony needs including change of name, email addresses, call forward, and time of day rules all through Switchvox's browser based interface."

The Mobile Control service

This comes alongside the Mobile Control service, designed exactly to support mobile devices just as Apple iPhones and iPads, Google Android and Windows Mobile devices.

It aims to assist enterprises in building and executing security strategies to identify and prevent possible liabilities resulting from the rise of mobility, cloud computing, and social media.

They include: HP Information Security Management, HP Enterprise Cloud Service - End Point Threat Management, HP Security Information and Event Management and HP Application Seucrity Testing-as-a-Service. All security data is compiled into a central system through the HP Secure Boardroom, giving authorised personnel the abilities to assess risks to facilitate business-led strategic investment and management decisions.

Today's de facto standard controller-based Wi-Fi infrastructure model is just too complicated, too expensive, and too unreliable. It's common for enterprise and mid-market network operators alike to get caught in a crossroads of compromises involving costs, complexity, features, and reliability.