Welcome to the GGR Communications Managing Directors Bulletin. In this edition we have continued to outline the benefits of Unified Communications and Datacentre 3.0, plus we’d like to invite you to come along to our breakfast briefing in association with the Institute of Directors ‘Remote working – a risk to your business or a tool to improve productivity?’

If you have comments or opinions on what we should be covering in the next bulletin please send me an email.

Adrian Clinton – Watkins

Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express and Unified Communications Manager

In the last edition of the bulletin we discussed the entry level Cisco Unified Communications system (The UC500) and the benefits it offers the SMB market. In this edition we will talk about the big brothers of the UC500 - Unified Communications Manager Express and Unified Communications Manager. Both of these products build on the scale and functionality of the UC500 to bring Unified Communications to larger businesses (from up to 240 users for the single Express system and up to a staggering 30,000 users on a single Communications Manager cluster).
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Data Centre 3.0: Part 2

An overview of Data Centre 3.0 was given in the last edition of the e-bulletin, and we talked about Nexus Switches and how they offer a new order of magnitude to network bandwidth. You can read the previous edition here. Now we will look in more detail at Data Centre 3.0 and virtualisation, and in particular at the integration of Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Local Area Networks (LAN) with Data Centre 3.0.

The Data Centre 3.0 core initiative brings network, storage and virtualisation platforms together to increase flexibility, visibility and policy enforcement. Let’s look at the features Cisco Nexus fabric brings to allow that to happen.
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Have breakfast with us at the new Walsall Football Stadium

More and more is being made of ‘remote working’ and how it can help businesses. But we’re increasingly being asked ‘what is it?’ and ‘how does it have an impact on my business?’. Most articles and information in the public domain are driven by what the technology can do. In a different approach GGR are partnering with a leading HR consultant to discuss both of these important questions. Looking at remote working from all business parts that are effected.

This breakfast session is an ideal opportunity to understand remote working and how it could be integrated securely into your business to make a positive impact from all levels.
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