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SANTA CLARA, CA--(Marketwired - Apr 9, 2013) - Now available, Avaya Collaboration Pods for Avaya Aura® Virtualized Environment deploy in hours to accelerate the path to the Collaborative Cloud Pre-integrated, pre-tested full stack solutions include technologies from Avaya, VMware and EMC with common orchestration to simplify deployment and management State of California, TSE, Red Rock Telecommunications among organizations already using Collaboration Pods for high-performance, real-time communications and collaboration Avaya today announced availability of the first offering within the Avaya Collaboration Pods portfolio. Avaya Collaboration Pod for Avaya Aura® Virtualized Environments represents a new model for deploying real-time virtualized communication and collaboration applications that accelerates and simplifies the path to public and private clouds. Avaya also introduced new management orchestration capabilities to simplify ongoing operation of the Avaya Collaboration Pod.  The Collaboration Pod for Avaya Aura Virtualized Environment provides enterprises and Cloud Service Providers (CSP) with a full stack, plug and play communications and collaboration solution that can be deployed in hours instead of days or months. Collaboration Pods reduce or eliminate long planning cycles, extensive cabling, integration testing and optimization phases. The newly introduced Pod Orchestration Suite simplifies ongoing operations through a single interface for managing all Pod components. Avaya Collaboration Pods are available in flexible configurations to match the capacity, services and reliability requirements of the customer's business. Each Collaboration Pod comes equipped with: Avaya Aura Virtualized Environment and Pod Orchestration Suite software pre-loaded as virtual appliances VMware vSphere ESXi 5.0 compliant compute servers deployed in a High Availability Cluster EMC's VNX® 5300 unified storage array providing simplified, flexible and highly reliable storage area networking  Avaya's VSP 7000 with its unique Distributed Top of Rack capability which can interconnect multiple Collaboration Pods and/or external server racks for seamless scalability and highly efficient use of compute and storage resources Avaya G450 Gateway for Digital Signal Processing / PSTN connectivity Options to add the Avaya Aura Messaging Server and the Avaya Session Border Controller for Enterprise. The Avaya Collaboration Pods are now available in the US, Canada and EU countries. Avaya Collaboration Pods are just one of the ways organizations can deploy Avaya Aura. Companies can also select the Avaya Aura Virtualized Environment software-only model or the traditional, appliance model.  The announcement builds on the Avaya Collaborative Cloud portfolio, which includes a variety of solutions that enable customers and partners to build, manage, enable and deliver Avaya solutions through cloud-based delivery models. In March, Avaya also announced Collaborative Cloud offers designed specifically to enable CSPs to provide Avaya's unified communications, contact center and video conferencing solutions to their end customers.  Quotes "We are excited to announce the availability of our new CloudView24 Communications Service that takes advantage of the Avaya Collaboration Pod as our hosted telephony centerpiece. This pre-integrated solution will allow us to deliver feature-rich, cloud-based unified communications solutions with greater ease and agility while meeting the reliability and security requirements that our government and enterprise customers expect. Our customers are demanding real-time solutions that bring data center and cloud services to the edge of the network, and Avaya is a unique partner to deliver those services." - Doug Stone, CEO, TSE "Adoption of new technologies in the public sector can be challenging and time consuming. The Avaya Collaboration Pod allowed us to provide cost-effective communication and collaboration solutions in a fraction of the time over other solutions. We are excited about the innovative and relevant solutions Avaya provides our Department and welcome our continuing productive relationship." -Jeffery Funk, CIO, Department of General Services, State of California "The Avaya Collaboration Pod will play a critical role in our delivery of hosted voice and video solutions. We were looking for a vendor that could offer us a highly reliable platform with the services business to make the solution truly turnkey. We were also impressed by the feature richness of the Collaboration Pod in allowing us to deliver a full suite of communications services to our customers."  - Jack Pleiter, CEO, Red Rock Telecommunications. "Avaya Collaboration Pods are already proving their value to enterprises and cloud service providers who are accelerating time to service, reducing data center complexity and improving application availability. Working with EMC and VMware, this turnkey deployment model for Avaya Aura continues Avaya's strategy to provide high performance communications and collaboration applications that are easy to deploy, use and manage from data center to desktop and mobile devices." -- Marc Randall, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Avaya Networking "By embedding EMC's industry-leading VNX unified storage and information management products within the Avaya Collaboration Pod, Avaya is providing enterprises and service providers with a simpler, more integrated and easy-to-deploy communications solutions which will no longer require separate set up and configuration of SANs to store, manage, protect and analyze the valuable information found in collaboration sessions. We are pleased to be working with Avaya to accelerate and simplify the management of virtualized infrastructure for our joint service providers and enterprise customers." --Anton Prenneis, Technology Evangelist, OEM Solutions, EMC Corporation "By combining Avaya Aura core reliability with the High Availability features of VMware vSphere®, Avaya is creating a turnkey UC platform that enables enterprises and service providers to quickly and easily deploy virtualized applications to reduce cost and complexity." --Parag Patel, vice president, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware Additional Resources Fact Sheet: Collaboration Pod for Avaya Aura® Virtualized Environment Fact Sheet: Avaya Pod Orchestration Suite Images: Avaya Collaboration Pod (Door Closed); Avaya Collaboration Pod (Door Open) Video: Avaya Collaboration Pod on YouTube News Release: TSE Communications Announces CloudView24 based on Avaya Collaboration Pods Tags: Avaya, Avaya Aura, Collaboration Pods, EMC, VMware, collaboration, unified communications, virtualization, enterprise, cloud service providers, cloud About Avaya: Avaya is a global provider of business collaboration and communications solutions, providing unified communications, contact centers, networking and related services to companies of all sizes around the world. 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