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- Mobile BI: Actionable Intelligence for the Agile Enterprise
- Creating the Enterprise-Class Tablet Environment - by Yankee Group
- How To Regain IT Control In An Increasingly Mobile World - by BlackBerry
- Red Alert: Why Tablet Security Matters - by BlackBerry
- New Visual and Wizard-Driven Paradigms for Exploring Data and Developing Analytic Workflows
Dell Invests In iSCSI Servers; Will Anyone Else?
May 17, 2010 12:49 AM | Charles Babcock
Michael Dell, CEO of Dell, told the Citrix Systems Synergy user group last week that virtualization "will sweep through all IT -- servers, storage and networking." As it does so, he touched on how iSCSI will helping establish efficient virtualized servers. That's a Dell specialty and perhaps Dell's contribution to the low end of converged networking and unified computing.| Read Article »
Web 2.0: IBM's Experimental iPhone E-Mail Client
May 07, 2010 07:08 PM | Thomas Claburn
Among the various interesting keynote presentations at the Web 2.0 Expo earlier this week was one by IBM mobile computing researcher Jeff Pierce.| Read Article »
Lines Blur Between Voice and Social Networking
November 04, 2009 05:05 PM | Andrew Conry Murray
Siemens Communications will integrate Twitter with its Unified Communications (UC) platform, and PBworks announces plans to offer voice alongside its collaboration and social software services.| Read Article »
Avaya-Nortel: The Pushback
September 02, 2009 04:47 PM | Eric Krapf
Any big combination, whether it's a merger or an acquisition, is tough to pull off--tough, but not impossible.| Read Article »
Halfway Through A Bad Year
August 26, 2009 09:47 AM | Eric Krapf
Allan Sulkin is out with his mid-year numbers for enterprise communications shipments, and as he previewed in a No Jitter blog a week or so back, the second quarter was a pleasant surprise, as revenues rose from 1Q09. However, the full report shows that we're a long way from done with these bad times.| Read Article »
UC for Free
August 20, 2009 02:57 PM | Eric Krapf
Enterprise communications is always going to be a complex system--not a mere application or even a mere collection of applications.| Read Article »
Will You Change Vendors?
July 28, 2009 01:05 PM | Eric Krapf
Vendor relationships, and enterprise buyers' approach to them, are probably more uncertain than they've ever been.| Read Article »
How Big Will Avaya Go?
July 21, 2009 03:33 PM | Eric Krapf
Could Nortel just be an appetizer for Avaya?| Read Article »
How Secure Are SIP Trunks?
June 17, 2009 11:03 AM | Eric Krapf
The basic issue seems to be that a SIP trunk is an IP connection, and any IP connection can be sniffed pretty easily.| Read Article »
U.S. Gov't Asked Twitter For Help with Iran
June 17, 2009 10:50 AM | Andrew Conry Murray
A State Department official asked Twitter to postpone scheduled downtime to keep a channel open for Iranians protesting the country's contested election, according to the NY Times.| Read Article »
Another Way To Kill The Desk Phone
May 27, 2009 10:45 AM | Eric Krapf
How do Cisco and Avaya not surrender the IP phone as a high-margin sale?| Read Article »