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costs and improve business agility. With its superior performance and value in a dynamic “Compared with most other communications
compelling functionality and lower total cost and challenging market,” Frost & Sullivan said.
solutions, 3CX Phone System provides a greater
of ownership (TCO), 3CX has earned Frost & e high quality of the company’s technology ease of deployment, management and use for
Sullivan’s recognition as the price/performance was praised. “3CX is on the cutting edge of both IT admins and end users.”
value leader in the uni ed communications innovation in a ercely competitive market,” the Solution enhancements around deeper
market,” Elka Popova, Program Director
expert said.
WebRTC integration with existing SIP
and Senior Fellow, Connected Work Digital “3CX stands out among uni ed technologies, greater HIPAA and PCI
Transformation, Frost & Sullivan said.
communications vendors with its innovative compliance, and more detailed reporting will
3CX has successfully aligned technology technology, rich feature set, competitive pricing, further expand 3CX Phone System’s appeal,
features development with key customer trends, and ability to respond to evolving market according to the analysis.
Frost & Sullivan said. Businesses want improved conditions and customer demand.”
e award analysis noted that 3CX, as a
collaboration among remote workers, and
so ware-based solution, is managed from a
they want it to be served by powerful Uni ed RICH AND ROBUST SET OF FEATURES
user-friendly, Web-based console, providing a
Communications tools.
e award cites the rich and robust set of single point of support for the whole system.
“3CX’s compelling feature set and
features available in 3CX Phone System, Users can view contact presence and choose
continuous innovation resonate well with including voicemail and fax to email, instant a desk phone, a mobile device or a PC so
business customers,” the award analysis says. their entire user base.”
messaging and presence, audio and video client to message, call and conference others,
“Businesses of all sizes and industries use
conferencing, smartphone and so phone according to their availability and needs.
3CX’s comprehensive Uni ed Communication RAPID GROWTH AND HIGH QUALITY
clients, CRM integration and call center
capabilities to support their diverse workforce. 3CX was cited for its rapid annual growth rate, features.
AWARD-WINNING PERFORMANCE
All-inclusive license bundles allow customer unequalled in the UC market. “3CX’s expanding Quality, however, is much higher at 3CX, With its strong overall performance, 3CX
organizations to economically deliver advanced customer base and double-digit annual revenue the award analysis says. Frost & Sullivan has earned Frost & Sullivan’s 2015 Price/
features (e.g., video conferencing, so phones) to
growth rates demonstrate its ability to deliver
stresses the ease of use of 3CX Phone System:
Performance Value Leadership Award. ■

Hyper-convergence is a

game changer for all IT

R
OSENBAUM
distributed solutions,” writes consultant offer, effectively removing the burden of scale to meet growing requirements. Hyper-
Stuart Miniman in a January 15 blog post.
choosing the right applications from the convergence allows VMcentricity, scalability,
by Andrew Rosenbaum, business buyer.
and space and power savings, with the ability
PR Oficer, 3CX
WHAT IS HYPER-CONVERGENCE?
As Forrester Research explains in a recent to manage all the different parts as a single
HVirtualization has permitted organizations
report: “Hyper-converged platforms blend whole.
yper-convergence is changing the way to deploy fully integrated compute, storage ease of use, scalability, and integration
IT is sold to businesses as vendors and network gear as one unit, or hyper- into easily consumable webscale building MANAGEMENT DEMANDS
compete to be the single source for all
convergence - - the term was coined in 2012, blocks. This simplicity allows infrastructure ARE MINIMAL
enterprise computing needs. The approach although the honor of creation is disputed. and operations (I&O) leaders to spend less According to the ActualTech Media survey,
clearly favors virtualized, software-based The core infrastructure of enterprises and time engineering and tuning fundamental those already deploying hyper-convergence
applications, analysts say.
service providers has become successively infrastructure and more time putting solutions are meeting their expectations
According to a survey by ActualTech Media more virtualized, increasing the ease
capabilities in the hands of their irm’s’ in terms of scalability and cost. Backup,
of 500 IT and management professionals with which infrastructure can be scaled customers.”
recovery and disaster recovery are all
published at the end of 2015, nearly one as workloads increase. The next step So what makes a hyper-converged included and working well.
quarter (24 percent) of survey respondents was convergence, which simply bundled system different from a converged system? As the survey shows, the current reception
already have hyper-converged infrastructure and integrated IT systems from different Converged systems consist of separate to hyper-converged solutions by both
in place, although the survey’s authors admit producers of services like storage or data components that are designed to work smaller and large companies is enthusiastic.
that a broader cross-section of the industry analytics.
together.
Hyper-converged solutions are expected
might have provided a somewhat lower And the next step was hyper-convergence, Hyper-converged systems are truly to increasingly replace converged and
igure. Hyper-converged systems now make which, put succinctly, means systems are modular, with separate components traditional solutions. Companies are eager
up a fast-growing market, according to IDC, “infrastructure in a box.” Businesses can preintegrated to work together. This to reduce the strain of managing large IT
which forecasts its value reaching $807 start with a minimum number of modules increasingly popular approach clearly infrastructure, as well as reducing costs, and
million globally by 2018.
and seamlessly scale up from there. All favors virtualized business solutions, as, hyper-convergence provides a solution to
“While these solutions offer simplicity functionality is included in each module, so for example, a software based PBX that is both of these issues.
and better economics than traditional that the time for installation and deployment limitlessly scalable.
To be sure, hyper-convergence solutions
infrastructure, there has been an opportunity is extremely short.
are a new entry to the market, and they will
to take advantage of the latest technology REDUCE COMPLEXITY,
need to mature. But more and more vendors
(including lash storage, services in software EASE OF USE, SCALABILITY AND IMPROVE EFFICIENCY
are jumping into this space, the survey
and increased density of cores) to create
INTEGRATION
The ultimate goal of hyper-convergence is to shows, because it offers the possibility
a new architecture that both reduces the Now, hyper-convergence permits getting enable IT departments to improve eficiency, of resolving a great many business and IT
components of infrastructure while enabling
everything the enterprise needs in a single
reduce operational complexity, and quickly
issues. ■