Business Service Commentary
WVT Communications sees strong growth with Alteva in the fold
Connected Planet talks with Alteva president about synergies, cloud opportunities, differentiation points...
Standards key to carrier Ethernet growth
A Q&A with MEF president and founding member Nan Chen ...
The Rising Tide of Outages
Moving toward a greener, more resilient North American Smart Grid...
Opportunity ahead in cloud market
Communications service providers well positioned to benefit ...
Desktop videoconferencing could be a new source of telco revenue
In the interesting recent movie “Up in the Air”, George Clooney plays the lead role of a constantly traveling consultant...
How ya gonna keep ‘em down on the farm?
In the telecom industry, where talent makes all the competitive difference, it’s a seller’s market for the best and the brightest, despite unemployment in the U.S. still hovering around 10%. ...
The buy side of innovation
Political cycles can seemingly turn on a dime, as we have all witnessed just in the last few weeks...
Clouds vs. outages
Recent outages at cloud computing service provider RackSpace beg the question: "How can the cloud be down?"...
It's time for new business models in 2010
I hope all of you are as glad to see 2009 go as I am and also as excited about the possibilities we all have in 2010...
Crystal Ball 2.0: Crazy ideas for 2010
It's that time of year again. A full economic cycle has unfolded since just last November, when I offered up "Eight Crazy Ideas" re: industry predictions. In hindsight, six of these eight ideas have played out pretty much as foreseen...
Skype courting carriers
After years of stealing telecom service share from traditional providers, Skype is looking to cozy up with carriers...
Cloud computing gets cold water splash
Cloud computing has been riding the typical hype curve this year, considered to be one of the few technologies that wouldn’t be seriously impacted by the weak economy, given its ability to provide significant savings. ...
Commentary: Incumbents don’t warm to stimulus funding
If you accept the notion that broadband connections are important to economic development and general community well-being — and if you don’t, just stop reading here...
Is your boss spying on your smartphone?
Smartphones were once perks of privilege for businesses, but no more...
Is Verizon rebound-ready?
In announcing its second-quarter earnings, Verizon today acknowledged that business services revenues are slowing down because of the weak economy...
Will telepresence users push for interoperability?
The last time I tried to write about the need for interoperability within telepresence, I provoked annoyed response from companies such as Polycom and Tandberg, which already have made their services interoperable and are open to connections with others...
Telepresence + Interoperability: A winning equation?
At a time when most businesses seem to be cutting back, it’s hard to imagine major investments in upgrading video communications...
Whom do you trust as your backup?
Today’s Verizon Business announcement of a Remote Backup and Restore service is just one glimpse of what next-generation networks can logically deliver to enterprise customers — and for that matter, consumers...
Leaving your keys in the car
According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, auto theft is on the decline in the U.S., but many of the vehicles still being stolen were left unlocked, and one-quarter of them had the keys inside, almost begging to be taken...
