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Azaleos Broadens Private Cloud Managed Lync 2013 UCaaS
SEATTLE --(Business Wire)--
Azaleos® Corporation,
the global private cloud services company for managed
Lync, as well as managed
Exchange and managed
SharePoint, today announced that it has added key new capabilities
to its UCaaS offering to help customers deploy voice services using the
Microsoft Lync unified communications (UC) platform. Azaleos also
announced that it ranked number one in Washington State on Deloitte's (News - Alert)
Technology Fast 500™ list of the fastest growing technology, media,
telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in
North America. Azaleos grew more than 1800 percent in part due to a
large uptake for its Managed Lync Services and ongoing demand for the
managed Exchange and SharePoint services.
In related news, Avanade announced on November 14th that it
plans to acquire Azaleos to expand its leadership position in managed
services for Microsoft communication and collaboration technologies. See
press release for details: http://bit.ly/QbA3vP
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"Azaleos was the first Micrsoft partner to support Lync 2013 and is
capable of providing complete migration, deployment and managed Lync
services," said Scott Gode, vice president of marketing and product
management for Azaleos. "The Skype (News - Alert) integration built into Lync 2013
coupled with our support for industry leading hardware from Audiocodes,
Jabra and Plantronics provides customers with the most complete and
flexible Unified Communications as a Service offering on the market."
Turn Key Lync Enterprise Voice
The Lync 2013 enhanced Azaleos UC services will enable customers to
confidently deploy Lync enterprise voice and unified communications
without the need to recruit and retain difficult to find Lync experts,
while using their preferred hardware providers. Azaleos has bolstered
its private cloud Managed Lync Services with the following additions:
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Skype: Full integration and federation with Lync
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Media Gateways: Interconnectivity and full monitoring and management
for leading communications infrastructure provider Audiocodes
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Endpoint devices: Complete support for Jabra and Plantronics (News - Alert) devices
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Fault Tolerance: Improved disaster recovery and high availability
capabilities for Lync
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New Lync Enterprise Voice and Video Features: Including support for
multiple trunks between mediation servers and gateways; intertrunk
routing that enables Lync Server to support different phone systems
and manage/delegate simultaneous ring and caller ID presentation;
Video Gallery view to support up to five simultaneous video streams
and HD video conferencing.
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Hybrid Architecture: Deployment and management support for integrating
Office 365 environments with on-premise and private cloud Lync
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Archiving integration: Allowing Lync to work with the Legal Hold
feature in Exchange for compliance and e-discovery needs
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Enhanced mobility: Support for improved collaboration on smartphones
and tablets
About Azaleos
Azaleos Corporation provides managed email, collaboration and unified
communications services available in private cloud, on-premise or mixed
deployment architectures. Azaleos' 24x7 managed services for Microsoft
Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and AirWatch (News - Alert) MDM improve availability,
security and performance, while reducing maintenance time and costs. The
patented AzaleosX technology platform enables customers to maintain
control over servers and data including their location, while uptime,
maintenance, and support is proactively handled by certified experts in
Azaleos network operations centers. Hundreds of companies from Fortune
500 to mid-market enterprises rely on Azaleos to manage their
collaboration infrastructures and address issues before users ever know
they exist. A member of the National Systems Integrator program (NSI (News - Alert)),
Azaleos is one of Microsoft's top 34 partners in the U.S. For more
information, visit www.azaleos.com.
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