Deliver Engaging Virtual Presentations

There is no question that effective communication is critical to the success of any organization. For years, companies have been training people on how to deliver engaging, clear, and concise presentations to communicate important business information internally and to customers. As more and more communication becomes conducted virtually, new skills and knowledge are required to ensure employees can be as equally effective when technology is involved. Virtual presenters need to be able to develop the right message, use technology properly, and keep their audience engaged.

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Technology Specific Virtualization Terminology

IT professionals should strive to learn the proper meanings of terms used in the IT virtualization vocabulary and ensure that they and their colleagues share the same definitions. It is mainly vendor-agnostic, but here are some vendor-specific terms, product names, and feature names used by VMware, Citrix, and Microsoft.

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Exchange 2013: New Features and Changes, Part 2

Microsoft recently released Exchange Server 2013, an improved messaging platform that provides quite a few interesting features at various levels. There are major changes, and organizations will have to rethink the way they plan to maintain or integrate messaging in their infrastructure. The level of changes is not as dramatic as those seen between 2003 and 2007, but as you will see, certain things are dealt with differently. As of now, very few organizations have Exchange 2013 running, so it is certainly going to be interesting to see how this iteration of the product will interconnect with existing messaging solutions soon.

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