August 24th, 2010
A recent 2010 survey by the Yankee Group showed that enterprises are now the fastest adopters of the cloud. In less than a decade Google, Amazon, and Salesforce.com went from unknown ideas to global market powers. In even less time LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter changed the world. According to the Executive Guide to Cloud Computing, these organizations rode the power of the cloud to dominance. “With roots in supercomputing and many other technical disciplines, cloud computing unleashed an entirely new economic reality: technology-enabled enterprises built on low-cost, flexible, and limitless technical infrastructures”. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Heidi Gigler in cloud computing | No Comments »
August 23rd, 2010
The following blog is by guest blogger, Lisa Pierce. Pierce is president of Strategic Networks Group, an independent analyst firm specializing in emerging business-class network services.
Catalyst
In reading August 12th’s UC Communications News article on mobility and UC, I was struck by how some architectures are better suited to certain types of calling patterns (vs. others). The article begins by discussing a business whose FMC functionality depends on employees to update their presence status and preferred connectivity profile on an ongoing basis. The article then goes on to provide several examples of recent improvements in FMC solutions like the Blackberry MVS and Agito’s Roam Anywhere UC client to use GPS triangulation to improve automating location-based rules. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Guest Blogger in Mobility & Devices, Unified communications | No Comments »
August 19th, 2010
Gartner calls it Data Deluge. McKinsey calls it Big Data. No matter the name, the flood of incoming data to an organization, and data captured from the Web, is doubling every 18 months says McKinsey in its August 2010 Quarterly Report. Web communities, and technologies for capturing and analyzing information, give organizations access to customer data as never before.
How can the enterprise capitalize on all this captured data and knowledge within its organization? Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Heidi Gigler in Unified communications, cloud computing, green IT | No Comments »
August 18th, 2010
It’s that time of year when many IT leaders make their annual “pilgrimage” (at least virtually) up the corporate hill preparing next year’s capital and expense budgets. With that in mind I thought I would share some thoughts about Return on Investment (ROI) as it relates to Unified Communications.
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Posted by Joe Hamblin in IP networking, Unified communications | No Comments »
August 17th, 2010
Brad Reed at Network World describes how the new BlackBerry Torch could sink or swim based on its new operating system. I don’t often write about mobile devices, but the thing that interests me about any converged device is how the operating system is stacked. In operating systems of old, the device was king and the user was but a knave. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Christopher Glenn in Mobility & Devices | No Comments »
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