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2013: The Consolidation of IT
- 24 Mar 2013 22:52
- by Jinu Mathew
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It's that time of year again. The time of year where the world's IT commentators offer their predictions for the following year. For the past few years, predictions have focused very much on cloud computing, 'big data' (a misnomer if ever I have heard one), mobility, social, and consumerization. All of these technology trends are now having a prof...
Cloud Computing and the Road to Disruption
- 24 Mar 2013 22:44
- by Jinu Mathew
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When the subject of cloud computing is raised, there is often a healthy suspicion from IT buyers that cloud is a marketing term which is used as a new way of selling complex, unproven solutions to them. This is not surprising, considering the history of the IT business. There is an alarmingly high incidence of IT projects failing to meet expectatio...
How Telecom Vendors Can Stay Relevant in a Changing Communications World
- 24 Mar 2013 10:09
- by Melanie Turek
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In what has become a fun annual event, I participated in the Locknote session at Enterprise Connect this week, and while several key topics were discussed, my favorite question was “Who are the winners and losers?” Everyone answered it a little differently, of course, but in my view, the clear winner at EC and going forward are the end users—you an...
When You Take Your Cloud Journey, Don't Leave SAP Behind
- 25 Feb 2013 05:06
- by Jinu Mathew
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By Lynda Stadtmueller, Program Director, Cloud Computing, Stratecast In these early days of cloud computing, many enterprises are being very cautious about the workloads that they migrate to the new business model. They generally target peripheral workloads and applications: those that are neither mission-critical nor proprietary; those that inte...
Truly Unified Communications and Collaboration Technologies Still Not Mainstream
- 05 Feb 2013 16:55
- by Melanie Turek
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According to Frost & Sullivan’s 2012 IT Decision Makers’ View of the Enterprise Communications Evolution survey, awareness and usage of various communications and collaboration tools is increasing. The C-level executives who participated in the survey report the highest level of awareness and usage for instant messaging and conferencing (including ...
New eBook Targets Shift in Collaboration
- 12 Jan 2013 17:44
- by Melanie Turek
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One of the biggest shifts in business today is a steady move toward a virtual workplace, in which employees routinely work in locations that are different from those of their colleagues, managers, and direct reports—not to mention customers, partners and suppliers. Whether they are working from a remote office, home office, client site or the road,...
Cisco Collaboration Summit: The Highlights
- 26 Oct 2012 15:38
- by Melanie Turek
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I recently attended Cisco’s annual Collaboration Summit for analysts, consultants and partners. A lot of the content was heavy on marketing-speak, and light on new information. The truth is, the UC&C story hasn’t changed much over the past few years; the goal of unifying a quiver of communications capabilities and then delivering them to end users ...
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