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10 Lessons from Volleyball, Part 2

By Peter on Thursday, May 23

Part 1 of the 10 Business Lessons from Volleyball can be found here. In volleyball, the only play you control yourself is...

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Tagged sales, strategy, volleyball

CloudTC and N-Able Acquired

By Peter on Wednesday, May 22

"Australian-owned IP PBX systems company, Vixtel, has completed the acquisition of Silicon Valley based glass phone developer, CloudTC, for an undisclosed figure,"...

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Tagged hosted pbx, itexpo, mergers, phone system, RMM

ProfitBricks: Where InfiniBand Meets Cloud 2.0

By Rich Tehrani on Wednesday, May 22

In a recent meeting with William Toll and Pete Johnson of ProfitBricks, the pair were ecstatic to explain how their company has...

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Tagged amazon, cloud computing, data center, ec2, infiniband, interop, profitbricks, public cloud, technology

Proactive Care Puts Operators One Step Ahead

By Peter Bernstein on Monday, May 20

By Thomas Fuerst, Senior Director, Multimedia Solutions MarketingAlcatel-Lucent

Monitoring and analyzing network data proactively saves operators time, money, and customers.

When a network service fails, it makes headlines, ticks off customers, and costs that network operator money. When a failure is headed off in advance, on the other hand, there might not be praise-laden headlines, but it's newsworthy nonetheless.

The traditional approach to customer care has typically been: a disgruntled customer calls customer service and complains of a service interruption or problem; the rep, learning of it for the first time, sends out a technician the next day, and eventually finds a resolution. Often, customers are left feeling put out, and the operator has spent significant time and money resolving the problem. Even worse is the customer who doesn’t call and just feels this is ‘typical’ of their network experience. That is a customer at risk of leaving.

Proactive care flips this dynamic on its head by using predictive analytics to identify potential outages or errors in the network and stop them before they occur. It consists of three main parts: one, constantly monitoring and measuring data on the network; two, real-time analysis of the data; and three, the most important, acting on that analysis to fix the problem.

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Tagged Alcatel-Lucent, big data, customer care, KPIs, network monitoring, procativecare | Responses

10 Lessons from Volleyball

By Peter on Monday, May 20

I've played volleyball for over 25 years. I have traveled around the US to watch the pros live - both indoor...

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Tagged hiring, strategy, volleyball

Emerging Threats Combats a Million Plus Pieces of New Malware a Week

By Rich Tehrani on Friday, May 17

There are 250,000 plus new pieces of malware being produced each day equating to one piece per person in the US in...

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Tagged emerging threats, interop, malware, security

NFV-Based Software Telcos Need OSS/BSS Interoperability

By Rich Tehrani on Friday, May 17

One of the goals of ETSI NFV is to allow new entrants to provide solutions to carriers based on software instead of...

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Tagged bss, carrier, ericsson, huawei, interoperability, nfv, nokia siemens networks, nsn, oss, sdn, software telco

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Emerging Threats Combats a Million Plus Pieces of New Malware a Week

May 17, 2013

There are 250,000 plus new pieces of malware being produced each day equating to one piece per person in the US in just over three and a half years. The question is, what do you do with this onslaught of algorithms which are written with malicious intent in mind? One company, Emerging Threats thinks they can help with part of the equation… Identification of the sites which are compromised.

I recently met with the company at Interop in Las Vegas to learn about their IP and domain intelligence solutions ETPro Ruleset for IDS/IPS and IQRisk Suite for IDS/IPS, Firewalls, SIEMs and DNS.

Posted in Security, Technology

Tagged: emerging threats, interop, malware, security : Related Tags: emerging threats, company, threats, moreover, malware, emerging

NFV-Based Software Telcos Need OSS/BSS Interoperability

May 17, 2013

One of the goals of ETSI NFV is to allow new entrants to provide solutions to carriers based on software instead of hardware. CSPs hope they can take advantage of the same network efficiencies they see in their data centers in their core networks.

In this brave new world of software, there will be lots of opportunity and challenges as well. For example how do OSS/BSS systems manage new services provided by new entrants?

Posted in Software Telco

Tagged: bss, carrier, ericsson, huawei, interoperability, nfv, nokia siemens networks, nsn, oss, sdn, software telco : Related Tags: solutions carriers, based software, press release, interoperability, systems, software

SysAid's Lifshitz: The Cloud Will Dominate ITSM Market

May 16, 2013

Cloud computing has really become a household word with mainstream media outlets running stories on television about the growth in the space as recently as today. In the tech world, we are no stranger to this move as it has been taking place steadily for over a decade but with an extremely accelerated pace these last few years. The IT service management market is no exception and one vendor in the space, SysAid has made an aggressive prediction about the intersection of cloud and ITSM.

SysAid’s Founder and Chairman, Israel Lifshitz says his company is leading the push to cloud-based ITSM with over 1,000 customers using their solution as a service.

Posted in Call Center, Technology

Tagged: help desk, itsm, mdm, sysaid : Related Tags: customers using, asset management, company, customers, cloud, sysaid

Avaya Takes Networking Lead in SPB

May 15, 2013

At Interop Las Vegas 2013 Avaya was demonstrating their real-world Shortest Path Bridging (SPB) solutions and while interoperating with Spirent, HP and Alcatel-Lucent. Many of you will remember when Avaya was actually the enterprise division of Lucent before the company spun off just over twelve years ago. Randy Cross the company’s director of PLM discussed how there is a rapid move to software in the networking market and SPB is an evolution of MPLS allowing services to be created dynamically on the server where the applications reside or on the switches nearest the users.

This is one of the main benefits of SPB in-fact… It allows customers to simplify network creation and management by requiring service provisioning only at the edge of the network.

Posted in Avaya, Broadband, Cloud Computing, IP Communications, Networking, Optical, Technology, Video

Tagged: alcatel-lucent, avaya, hp, interop, lucent, mpls, networking, spb, spirent, zeus kerravala : Related Tags: between nodes, intermediate system, network, building, company, avaya

Alianza Wants to Host Your Software Telco

May 14, 2013

The software telco(r)evolution representing the move from hardware to software is perhaps the biggest trend in the world of carrier telecom this decade. Whenever we see such disruption in a market, it becomes an opportunity for new entrants to displace existing companies. As you may recall, Sonus Networks and Acme Packet (now Oracle) were just a few companies which were born and prospered during the transition from circuit to packet switched carrier networks.

In the past I have written about Metaswitch and their software telco solutions through NFV or network functions virtualization and their open-source Project Clearwater initiative which allows a carrier to run IMS on standard servers for free.

Posted in 4G, Broadband, Cloud Computing, IP Communications, Open Source, Technology, Video, Wireless

Tagged: acme packet, alianza, etsi, hosted ims, nfv, oracle, software telco, software telco congress, virtualization : Related Tags: software telco, cloud based, hardware software, service provider, company provides, software

Wearable Tech to Grow Even Faster than 40% a Year?

May 9, 2013

If you had a chance to listen to my radio interview with IMI TechTalk you know I believe the analytics behinds wearable computing will be a huge business. As sensors and cameras become part of our wardrobe, there will be billions of new data gathering devices connected to the cloud.

Companies like Facebook and Google will want to soak up as much of this data as possible and use it to generate revenue through a variety of services.

At a certain point, many of us will have sensors on our bodies - perhaps as part of our smarphones which measure our pulse and body temperature in real time. Using analytics we can use this data to determine the epicenter of a variety of incidents. For example, one imagines heart rates will increase in unison when there is roaring thunder, tsunami or earthquake.

Moreover, this data can be used to determine the spread of the flu or a pandemic based upon the increasing temperature of a population.

In addition there could be early heart attack symptoms we can determine from this wealth of sensory information which means lives can be saved...

Posted in Cloud Computing, Consumer Electronics, Facebook, Gadget, Google, Wearable Tech

Tagged: analytics, big data, personal analytics, sensors, wearable tech, wolfram alpha : Related Tags: wearable, analytics, already, personal, determine

How Apple Lost Control of its Branding

May 3, 2013

The one thing Apple does better than any other tech company is name products and technologies in an easy-to-understand manner. iPhone, iTunes, iPod, you get the idea. Sure there are some exceptions like adding an "S" after some of the iPhone iterations that doesn't seem to make much sense but perhaps the worse offense is the branding of the 3rd generation iPad. Instead of calling it the iPad 3 it was called "The New iPad."

The point is, the name was stupid. It was certainly different and caught us off-guard but sometimes thinking different is thinking incorrectly.

Posted in Apple

Tagged: apple, branding, ipad, rakuten, retina.buy.com : Related Tags: control branding, retina display, iphone, apple, branding, retina

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