{"id":354,"date":"2009-05-04T20:38:33","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T01:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/?p=354"},"modified":"2009-05-04T20:38:33","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T01:38:33","slug":"network-design-in-an-uncertain-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/2009\/05\/network-design-in-an-uncertain-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Network Design in an Uncertain Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s no secret that IT budgets worldwide have been slashed and that spending on new projects has been drastically reduced for most companies.&#160; However, contrary to popular opinion, there\u2019s a lot of opportunity to make cost-saving investments now.&#160; On that topic, I will be presenting some best practices in a webcast titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itmanagement.com\/webinar\/recession-proof-network\/\">Building a Recession-Proof Network<\/a> (sponsored by Nortel).&#160; From the webcast web site:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In today\u2019s economy, ensuring you have a network that is reliable and secure 24&#215;7 can help you to recession-proof your business even with a limited IT budget. Learn step-by-step about how your company can build a cost-effective, energy-efficient and secure network in \u201909!<\/p>\n<p>Join us now and learn:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Easy steps to build a cost-effective, energy-efficient and secure network in \u201809 <\/li>\n<li>Best practices to recession-proof your network on a limited IT budget <\/li>\n<li>How to reduce your TCO while increasing ROI across your company <\/li>\n<li>Low-cost ways to maximize and extend your network capabilities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The free webcast is scheduled for 10:00am Pacific Time on Thursday May 7, 2009.&#160; My portion will focus on suggestions for justifying network improvements such as investing in Unified Communications (UC) and ways to sell that idea to the rest of the organization.&#160; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s no secret that IT budgets worldwide have been slashed and that spending on new projects has been drastically reduced for most companies.&#160; However, contrary to popular opinion, there\u2019s a lot of opportunity to make cost-saving investments now.&#160; On that topic, I will be presenting some best practices in a webcast titled Building a Recession-Proof [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,36,30,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-tips","category-presentations","category-general-systems-admin","category-webcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}