The Seamless Enterprise

Network World recently ran a series on the 20 greatest “Coke vs. Pepsi“-like battles in the networking industry. Surprisingly, they did not include anything like “POTS vs VoIP” or “Copper vs Fiber.” Perhaps it is because they, like me, don’t think the debate is relevant: VoIP and fiber have already won, but POTS and copper are never going away just as vacuum tubes never will (yes, there is still a need for vacuum tubes and always will be). (more…)

So last week, in my post called “The Pendulum Swings Toward the Cloud,” I talked about how even caches of cloud-based elements could exist in the LAN of the future to cut down on the round-trip time into and out of the cloud. Really, this issue can’t be over-emphasized. I have used the leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications over a network, and I don’t think many executives appreciate the extent to which latency makes or breaks a SaaS application.  (more…)

The cool thing about living in the blogosphere and the Twittersphere is how you stumble across new people with new ideas. I recently went to Pam Broviak’s blog to read an entry entitled “Cloud Computing and Virtualization Aren’t What you Think” and her entry made me realize that the trend toward virtualization is gaining momentum for the same reason that Web 2.0 tagging is. (more…)

Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley just released her much-talked about presentation Internet Trends.  Here is what matters to business. (more…)

Let’s be blunt. “Unified Communications (UC) continues as vague, overused, marketing hype.” Just search UC and you can’t miss comments such as these in the UC blogosphere. What is the truth about UC?

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