Read up on the latest ideas and technologies from companies that sell hardware, software and services. Wireless LANs: Is my enterprise at risk?
Choices in Storage Architecture for Oracle Environments
Optimized Back-up and Recovery for VMWare for VMWare Infrastructure with EMC Avamar
Still Sneaking In: The Threats Your Security Tools Aren't Telling You About
How to Beef Up Your Sales Pipeline
Why Security SaaS Makes Sense Today
Mimosa™ NearPoint™ for Microsoft® Exchange Server: Email Archiving 101
Realizing the Value of Unified Communications
Zones provide focussed content from Computerworld and leading technology partners.Newsletter Subscription
Two companies that distribute the Asterisk VOIP platform released products last week aimed at getting small and midsize businesses up and running quickly with the open source IP PBX.
Digium, a company run by Asterisk inventor Mark Spencer, last week launched its AsteriskNOW software appliance, which bundles the open source Asterisk PBX software, necessary operating system components, and a setup wizard into a package for SMB customers. Meanwhile, Fonality, which markets what it bills as an easy-to-use Asterisk offering, launched a new version of its Trixbox system.
AsteriskNOW from Digium is a streamlined Linux distribution bundled with Version 1.4 of the Asterisk software application. The package installs in around 30 minutes on a standard Intel-based server or PC, the company says. A graphical user installation program makes the setup easier than previous setups, which required a preconfigured server running Linux, Mac OS X, OpenBSD, FreeBSD or Sun Solaris.
Fonality says installation of its Trixbox 2.0 is even faster than the Digium offering -- around 15 minutes. Like AsteriskNOW, Trixbox 2.0 bundles a slimmed-down Linux distribution with Asterisk. But the Fonality product also includes options to install other open source applications during its graphical setup routing: MySQL, phpMyAdmin (an open source network-management tool) and the free software package SugarCRM.
Although Asterisk is starting to pop up in large education and corporate installations, SMBs are a key target market.
F2 is a US-based IT company which hosts Asterisk-based VOIP services and has installed Asterisk systems for roughly 150 SMB customers, most of which have about 50 or fewer employees.
"I think every business wants to have [advanced] telephony features" such as distributed workforce, call routing, follow-me or interactive voice response, says Jay Allen, vice president of marketing for F2. Deploying these features with Asterisk is less expensive than a proprietary VOIP system, key telephone system or PBX, Allen says, because the software is free, and the hardware used is commodity Intel server products.
Computerworld Member Login
Prioritizing Services with IT Service Management (ITSM)
Computerworld Live Webinar
Wednesday 20th, August 2008
11:00am EST (Sydney, Australia)
To be repeated on:
Thursday 4th, September 2008
11:00am EST (Sydney Australia)
Sign up and receive a free copy of The Forrester WaveTM Service Desk Management Tools, Q2 2008 at the conclusion of the Webinar.
Attend and discover:
- How to deliver value to your business through ITSM
- Best practice ITSM implementation
- Why emphasis is changing from optimizing IT management processes to better servicing customers and demonstrating real dollar value
- If service-oriented ITSM is best for your business
- +
Computerworld Live Podcast #97: The Future of Enterprise Networking 25/07/2008 09:45:36
This week CW Live chats with Mark Thompson, global sales and marketing manager for HP ProCurve, on the future of the enterprise networking. Mark discusses the trends we can expect to see in the near future and how the right infrastructure can ensure your enterprise network is secure. - +
Computerworld Live Podcast #96: Security at the Edge 11/06/2008 09:22:22
CW Live speaks with Amol Mitra, HP ProCurve Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan. Today's topic: how enterprises are starting to shift away from simply controlling security via server logins, firewalls and moving to more adaptive security frameworks. - +
Data Management Edition #10: Multi-Petascale Systems 02/05/2008 09:12:33
This week we look at sustainability and the development of multicore technologies to build multi-petascale systems. - +
IT Security Edition #11: How to poison the Storm botnet 01/05/2008 08:51:55
This week CW Live presents a case study on how to poison the notorious Storm botnet . Plus we take a look at Cisco's plans for Ironport. - +
IT Security Edition #10: Cyber-battles fought and won 24/04/2008 11:09:47
Vendors bow to end user pressure to improve product security, and we take a look at the latest concepts shaping the cyber-battlefield of the future.
Viva la Verticals! Key to Vendor Growth is Through Vertical Market Opportunities, Says IDC 2008-09-05 11:05:00+10
F-Secure delivers fastest protection in the online world 2008-09-04 16:50:00+10
NETGEAR expands ProSafe team as business-class products take off in SME market 2008-09-04 16:27:00+10
Rogue security apps dominate Fortinet's Aug 2008 IT threat report 2008-09-04 16:00:00+10
Adaptec Intelligent Power Management Reduces Storage Power Consumption Up to 70 Percent 2008-09-04 11:28:00+10
Radicati Market Quadrant 2008 on Corporate Web Security
An Analysis of the Market for Corporate Web Security Solutions, revealing Top Players, Mature Players, Specialists and Trail Blazers. Read on to discover who makes the grade.
