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CRAY
STARK
PERCY

Lync and the
Lync and soft- Lync in the enterprise and thinking “big”
ware-defined SMB: A perfect
ideas and big solutions are required.
By Alan Percy, Senior Director
networking
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the upcoming Lync Conference in By John Cray, Director of Marketing and
One example of a large enterprise that little-known fact about the engi-
Las Vegas, one pattern seems to be
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Product Management for Zeacom
took the Lync challenge is Cargill, an inter- emerging – Lync is making strong inroads in Enterprise. Just looking at the end-cus- neering team for Lync and Skype is
hanks to all of its intricate features,
that many of the people came out of national producer and marketer of food, tomers expected at the event and the sched- Microsoft Lync is typically thought
the core networking division for Windows agricultural, financial and industrial prod- uled presenters, you can see a long list of of as a tool for unifying communica-
Server. While most of the world looks ucts and services. During a recent inter- household names, most of which are home tions at huge, tech-savvy enterprises. But
at Lync as a great unified communica- view with Joe Milledge, Voice Architect, to over 10,000 employees. Large enterpris- even the small- to medium-sized business
tions software package, underlying its user
Cargill, he commented “With 142,000
es have some unique challenges, requiring can now cut through the complexities of
See STARK, page 10
See PERCY, page 8
their network architects to “think big”. Big
See CRAY, page 4

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