HP Eases UC Deployment For Enterprises

HP has announced two new offerings that facilitate the rapid adoption of unified communications (UC) solutions, helping clients more quickly realise enhanced productivity and improved responsiveness to customers through UC.

The new offerings include HP AppSystem for Microsoft Lync, a turnkey platform designed to expedite UC deployments, and a customisable HP and Polycom Rich Media Communications (RMC) solution for greater visual collaboration.

To help organisations quickly embrace UC, HP is enabling clients to quickly and cost-effectively deploy Polycom RealPresence video solutions and Microsoft Lync, a UC solution that offers audio, video, web and instant messaging capabilities.

HP AppSystem for Microsoft Lync is an integrated UC platform built on HP Converged Infrastructure. The solution is preconfigured for rapid deployment of Microsoft Lync, allowing clients to quickly realise greater collaboration between employees, partners and customers. The offering also includes assessment, deployment and support services to help ensure the platform is quickly up and running.

This integrated, scalable solution is designed to reduce implementation time and costs by offering extensive testing that ensures multivendor interoperability.

To help clients rapidly respond to changing market demands and improve the user experience, HP offers a portfolio of support and consulting services. These services help enable clients to rapidly deploy UC solutions, as well as optimise and secure their network. HP expertise aligns IT with business or government goals to create a clear transformation path for clients while ensuring pervasive user adoption through comprehensive training.

“Unified communications is an attractive option to help increase collaboration and productivity, but not all companies have the IT support to manage deployment and integration with their present IT environments,” said Giovanni Mezgec, General Manager, Lync, Microsoft Corp. “HP’s solution helps to support these organisations.”

The HP and Polycom RMC solution combines HP Networking products based on the HP FlexNetwork architecture with Polycom RealPresence video solutions built on the Polycom RealPresence Platform, which provides comprehensive software infrastructure for universal video collaboration. Clients can easily prepare and install network video capabilities from desktop to conference room and immersive suites.

HP and Polycom RMC is an open standards based, interoperable and extensible offering that enables easy integration into an organisation’s existing multivendor environment. In addition, it has built-in multilayer security to protect users’ video streams and applications.