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New Cloud-Based Service From Mitel is the Next Step in the Evolution of UCaaS

10 May, 2012

Mitel's AnyWare IaaS Service Delivers Flexible Cloud-Based Unified Communications and Collaboration

LAS VEGAS, May 9, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today at Interop(R) 2012, Mitel (Nasdaq: MITL - News), a leading provider of Unified Communications and Collaboration (UCC) software solutions, introduced AnyWare Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), a new approach for deploying Unified Communications-as-a-Service (UCaaS). AnyWare IaaS extends Mitel's Freedom Architecture to give IT organizations the option to host Mitel's virtualized UCC software in a virtual private datacenter provided by Mitel NetSolutions, the company's service provider division.

"UCC is mission-critical for us, but we also don't want to use our limited data center resources on it if we don't have to," said Jamie Vandermeuse, director of Operations at M2 Logistics Inc. "We evaluated other cloud-based UCC services, but they don't have the rich feature set and flexibility we required. What we really needed was a way to connect our offices and customers in a unique and meaningful way without losing the options and features that a premise-based model would offer. The Mitel AnyWare IaaS cloud based-service offers us all this and more." AnyWare IaaS is targeted at IT organizations looking to implement virtualized voice, unified communications and collaboration, but without the capital necessary to deploy these virtual applications in their datacenter. AnyWare IaaS gives IT organizations the option of deploying a private or hybrid cloud model that aims to streamline operations and reduce overall infrastructure costs. This increased flexibility enables IT departments to offload in-house resources and focus on the strategic initiatives critical to their core business, while still delivering world-class collaboration and communication resources to their entire organization. "Until now, companies interested in deploying real-time communication technologies like voice or video had to invest in new infrastructure to support the Quality of Service required for enterprise collaboration," said Jon Brinton, president of Mitel NetSolutions. "Mitel AnyWare IaaS provides a sophisticated, SAS70-certified virtual Private Data Center with the resources to support the deployment of Mitel's comprehensive UC applications, including truly virtualized voice -- the same functionality and integration as if IT purchased and deployed these applications in their own data center -- but via a cloud delivery model." AnyWare IaaS is VMware ReadyO and can integrate with an enterprise's existing virtualized infrastructure. It is optimized for Mitel's purpose-built UCC applications and facilitates centralized UCaaS deployments which can reduce the lifecycle support costs associated with maintaining Enterprise communications infrastructure. AnyWare IaaS will be demonstrated, along with Mitel's other virtualized voice solutions both for datacenters and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployments, at Mitel's booth #2142 at this year's Interop 2012 conference and tradeshow taking place in Las Vegas. "VMware's partnership with Mitel continues to be an innovative one that can enhance the agility and flexibility of IT organizations by providing them with solutions to help accelerate their journey to the cloud," said Parag Patel, vice president, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware. "AnyWare IaaS can allow IT departments to focus on the strategic initiatives critical to their core business, while reducing infrastructure costs." Additional Resources:

Download a study conducted by Forrester Research, "The Total Economic Impact of Mitel Virtual solutions" http://discover.mitel.com/Forrester_report.html
Download Mitel's report on virtualization and UC featuring Gartner: www.mitel.com/gartner-virtualization-newsletter
Twitter: @Mitel
Blog: www.mitel.com/mitelfreedom

About Mitel Mitel (Nasdaq: MITL - News) is a global provider of business communications and collaboration software and services. Mitel's Freedom architecture provides the flexibility and simplicity organizations need to support today's dynamic work environment. Through a single cloud-ready software stream, Mitel delivers a powerful suite of advanced communications and collaboration capabilities that provides freedom from walled garden architectures and enables organizations to implement best-of-breed solutions on any network; extends the "in-office" experience anywhere, on any device; and offers choice of commercial options to fit business needs. For more information, visit: http://www.mitel.com

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