On Thursday June 6th, 2013 I will be moderating a session on whether the cloud is right for your business as part of the Connecticut Business Expo which takes place at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, CT. The session...
In a recent meeting with William Toll and Pete Johnson of ProfitBricks, the pair were ecstatic to explain how their company has developed public cloud 2.0 – in other words this is not your father’s cloud. Now you might be...
Interactive Intelligence is an example of a disruptor which went mainstream and in the process changed the way contact centers operated. Soon after launching in the mid-nineties the company would attract huge crowds to its booths at trade shows as...
Virtualization has made the IT world much more efficient and cloud technology allows applications to scale up and down at will in a far more cost-effective manner while requiring little to no CAPEX. There is hardly an industry which hasn't...
The Future of CloudComputing panel was a big hit at ITEXPO Miami 2013 - lots of great information. Thanks to all who attended - here is a picture. I am at Telefonica press conference right now they have huge...
Most people think of the cloud as being removed from the local environment because, after all, it requires the addition of a browser to access. But thanks to innovation from the people at Plantronics, the cloud can now reach through...
At the recent Cloud Expo in Santa Clara, Rich Steeves and I had a chance to interview many of the important companies in the cloudcomputing space such as Akamai, Citrix, Adaptive Computing, Hostway, PGI, Riverbed, SOA Software, Symantec, ServerCentral,...
Amazon Prime Instant Video app for iOS is out Alcatel Lucent says providing video to devices is a great new revenue opportunity for carriers Google Just Settled a Six-Year Dispute with Belgian Publishers IT spending will pick up in...
At ITEXPO, Michael Riegal of IBM discussed how mobile is transforming industries – and discusses case studies related to his company’s Smarter Planet Strategy. Watch the video and see how many people have 3, 4 and 5 devices with them...
Michael Tessler was one of the few entrepreneurs who was able to start and build an IP communications company from nothing to a billion dollar endeavor. He saw it all from multiple Iraq wars to the dotcom and telecom crash....
How too many investors can lead us to irrational exuberance 2.0 Fred Wilson, managing partner at Union Square Ventures is one of the most well-respected VCs around and does an amazing job with his AVC blog – it is in...
A few weeks back, my team and I went to Silicon Valley, CA to interview a number of companies in the technology and communications space. Officially the event is called the TMC Roadshow/Executive Editorial Open House. The goal of the...
Please enjoy my latest column from TMC's CloudComputing Magazine which I invite you to subscribe to. As enterprises move more and more of their data into the cloud, the reality is they lose more control over the data they...
If you missed the recent Cloud Expo in NY, don’t worry about it because TMC has you covered. Even if you weren't there - here are some refreshers regarding the companies at the show. Here are some of the latest...
I'll be at Cloud Expo all day today and have videos interviews with many companies in the industry. I look forward to meeting with Dell, CloudPassage, Dome9, Akamai and many others....
Look no further than to Wal-Mart when you need your next checkup, physical exam or other medical test. You see, cloud-based video collaboration tech has allowed Dr. Raj Shah of Telemed Ventures to set up shop in Wal-Mart and he...
Recently I had a chance to have an email exchange with Gideon Hack, White Label Product Manager at DIDWW. You may remember he was CTO at Sangoma – the open-source board and UC company. His new company DIDWW provides...
One of the biggest surprises to me is comparing P/E ratios of tech companies against Amazon. Actually to be more specific, I marvel at Amazon’s P/E against pretty much any company I have seen lately. Now I don’t go around...
What happens when you sit at the intersection of cloud, HTML5 and video - especially when tablets and high-resolution smartphones are being sold by the hundreds of millions? The answer is - if you are Brightcove, that your sales grow...
With Facebook’s value being pegged around 100 billion dollars; it is easy to see why many are calling identity the new oil of the internet. And one company, UnboundID is looking to become the leader in this bold new frontier...
For traditional hardware vendors who have strong relationships with information technology departments, the idea that cloudcomputing, one of the hottest trends to ever hit the technology space is being purchased without the consent or guidance of IT is quite...
I recently visited Las Vegas and spent time at the CEO Spaces event and Channel Partners. Both events were well attended - CEO Spaces is a great show for networking and education - it really can help execs take their...
Robert Clyde CEO of Adaptive Computing - the HPC and cloudcomputing company is about to take the stage and begin his keynote session. The conference is located at the Hyatt Escala Resort in Park City, Utah.History of the company...
I am at Adaptive Computing's 2012 user conference in beautiful Park City, Utah. The Hyatt Escala Resort is the host of the conference and is located on a ski slope in Park City, Utah. The air is fresh, the weather...
Cloudcomputing providers are all the rage these days and cloud communications is no exception. Witness the growth of 8x8 as well as the M&A interest in the space evidenced by the recent acquisition of M5 Networks by ShoreTel and...