New VoIP Phone Systems are A Critical Workflow Enabler For The Always-On Generation

Despite the good reliability record of the U.S. power grid, a catastrophic power outage is not out of the question. Some experts have expressed surprise that such an event hasn’t occurred yet. Most outages are the direct result of weather-related events restricted to certain regions—such as Hurricane Sandy in the Northeast—but that doesn’t mean a disaster is not within striking distance of your business.
Much has been made of the so-called Millennial demographic—those young people born between 1980 and 2000. The 25 and under cohort is just entering the workforce, but they will likely change telecom as we know it—paving the way for ubiquitous unified communications (UC) that rely on mobility as a key pillar.
Millennials will make up 50% of the workforce in less than five years, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. By 2030, they’ll represent three-quarters of it. And UC will be a critical workflow enabler for this always-on generation.
Having grown up with access to connected, always-on everything, including mobile phones, instant messaging and text messaging, entertainment, and more, Millennials expect a seamless communications and content experience as they migrate across devices. And these expectations must be integrated into the workplace to enable optimized productivity.
Mobility will be a big part of this. The latest Gallup poll shows that smartphones are our near-constant companions. A full 81 percent of smartphone users say they keep their phone near them "almost all the time during waking hours." Smartphone attachment peaks in younger demographics. The survey found that more than 7 in 10 young smartphone owners check their device a few times an hour or more often, including 22 percent who admit to checking it every few minutes.
That contrasts with the 21 percent of smartphone owners who are aged 65 and older who check it a few times an hour or more, with a miniscule 3 percent of that older age group checking it every few minutes.
The use of mobility as an enabling reality for business functions of all kinds—be it checking email or downloading critical files with sensitive company information—will only grow in importance as this group takes its place in the workforce.
Most of all, younger employees expect to have the ability to work flexibly—and from pretty much any location. Businesses that fail to recognize this risk losing employees and missing out on new talent. At the same time, organizations need a way to maintain IT control, run analytics on employee workflow, and enforce corporate policy and security approaches.
UC is the perfect path to developing this kind of functionality, which can be embraced by both the employer and the employee.
The opportunity for channel partners is to be able to help organizations large and small to successfully migrate to modern UC solutions that incorporate mobility and a range of ancillary applications. It’s a shift from the traditional telecom infrastructure approach, to be sure—but the sooner businesses understand that such a change is inevitable, the better position they’ll be in to maintain their competitive position when it comes to hiring the best and brightest in their fields.
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VoIP Security - OpenSSL Security Advisory

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Today we were made aware of SSL/TLS MITM vulnerability that has just come to light and has a known fix. The OpenSSL Security Advisory has warned that "an attacker using a carefully crafted handshake can force the use of weak eying material in OpenSSL SSL/TLS clients and servers. This can be exploited by a Man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack where the attacker can decrypt and modify traffic from the attacked client and server. The attack can only be performed between a vulnerable client *and* server. OpenSSL clients are vulnerable in all versions of OpenSSL. Servers are only known to be vulnerable in OpenSSL 1.0.1 and 1.0.2-beta1. Users of OpenSSL servers earlier than 1.0.1 are advised to upgrade as a precaution."

While we do not have any reason to believe there have been any attacks on our systems, we will be watching this latest vulnerability carefully. As part of our normal operations we continually monitor our systems and we will be taking any corrective actions necessary to protect our servers and customers from this latest threat.

We advise any customers or partners that use OpenSSL or leverage products that use OpenSSL to take similar precautions.

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SMBs Cite Presence Information as Major Need

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Picture this: It’s the eighth inning of a baseball game. The manager calls the bullpen for his relief pitcher, but he’s nowhere to be found. As a result, there is no one available to help the team at a critical moment.

Just as a baseball manager needs to know his players’ availability at all times, you need to know where your employees are when they're on the clock. When it comes time to summon help to complete a task, you shouldn’t have to search the office or dial three different phone numbers trying to connect with someone.

As indicated in a recent survey from Software Advice, this is currently a widespread problem at the small- to medium-sized business (SMB) level. About two-thirds of end users at the SMB level currently have no way of viewing their associates’ presence information. Despite the widespread use of computers and networking technology, there is often no way to determine a connected user’s availability on the network. This means that many businesses are held back by missed opportunities and diminished productivity.

If your business is experiencing these problems due to a lack of visibility into employee status, it may time to embrace presence management technology - one of the most helpful Unified Communications solutions for streamlining employee collaboration. Using presence tools, all the members of your organization will have the ability to see who is available, and on what device, over a variety of channels including chat, text, voice and video.

With Star2Star’s StarScope2, employees can monitor and control all of their communications in one place. In addition, users gain access to helpful features including favorites and recently called lists, an integrated company-wide directory and a multiparty Instant Messaging chat client. In other words, presence simply helps bring people together.

Click here to learn more about how you can enhance your business’s communications with Star2Star today.

Data and graphs courtesy of Software Advice, an online telecom comparison firm.

Make the Switch to Star2Star
Switching to Star2Star is easy. Just contact your Star2Star re-seller at AccuVoIP Services. Contact http://www.accuvoipservices.com/ at 262-649-1097 They’ll analyze your current situation and expenses and show you exactly how much money you’ll save with Star2Star. In most cases, you can even keep your old phone numbers.