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Longview IoT Boosts Energy and Wireless Efficiency

Some of the biggest challenges slowing down the adoption of IoT are security, efficient battery usage and optimized wireless communications.One company has...

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Hallmark's Simple, Inexpensive Way to Boost Customer Satisfaction

In an effort to boost margins, companies often push more users to automated solutions such as FAQs, chatbots, voice bots and anything...

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Huawei Places the World's First 5G VoNR Video Call

Huawei recently completed the world's first voice over NR (VoNR) call. The voice and video call service was made using two Huawei...

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IGEL Advances Future of Work

IGEL is a provider of a next-gen edge OS for cloud workspaces. The company’s software products include IGEL OS, IGEL UD Pocket (UDP) and Universal...

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Tata Communications and Cisco Collaborate on SD-WAN

Tata Communications and Cisco have extended their partnership to enable enterprises to transform their legacy network to a customized and secure multi-cloud...

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How to Win the 50-Year-Old China Trade War

Today and this week in-fact is historic - the left and right in the U.S. agree that we have a major trade...

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Extreme Elements Enables The Autonomous Enterprise

Extreme Networks just announced Extreme Elements which in-turn enables the autonomous network and subsequently the autonomous enterprise. In a dynamic webinar, Dan...

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Extreme Elements Enables The Autonomous Enterprise

May 15, 2019



Extreme Networks just announced Extreme Elements which in-turn enables the autonomous network and subsequently the autonomous enterprise. In a dynamic webinar, Dan Dulac, Vice President, Solution Strategy, and Abby Strong, Management and Marketing Leader said everything is changing – we are in a time of digital transformation. More devices cause more security risk.





Dan explained the inherent push-pull friction of balancing flexible software solutions with adequate security.

The Case for Edge Computing gets Stronger as IIC and OpenFog Unite

February 20, 2019

Edge computing has a very bright future - it is absolutely inevitable.

If you are unconvinced, we invite you to read until the end.

For the sake of this post - we will use edge and fog computing interchangeably. This is becoming a less controversial position based on a recent exclusive interview with Chuck Byers, OpenFog CTO.



The OpenFog Consortium announced at an IoT Evolution Expo keynote in Fort Lauderdale, Florida last month, that their merger with the Industrial Internet Consortium or IIC was finalized. Both Carl Ford and Ken Briodagh with IoT Evolution have interesting insights on this merger, as does Matt Vasey, Chairman and President of OpenFog Consortium.

Suffice it to say, this combining of resources makes a great deal of sense as it helps the adoption of edge/fog computing. Here are some of the benefits and issues of fog-computing and OpenFog contributions.

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Chuck discussed that apps should run in the cloud if possible but there are often impediments.













How Richard Sprague has Evolved Since ITEXPO

February 3, 2019


Many of you may remember Richard Sprague from ITEXPO. He was the Senior Director, Marketing for Microsoft Response Point - their small business phone system launched at the show. It was great working with him throughout 2009.

Richard moved on to focus more on the healthcare space after leaving Microsoft and more recently has been doing some fascinating things with his microbiome, meaning the entire community of microbes found in his body at any given time. A fascinating CNBC article about Rich details how he’s sent in hundreds of samples from his skin, nose and stool to various companies that claim to analyze the microbiome for insights about human health.

Here is an excerpt:

In 2014, he decided to do all he could to understand his body with these newly available tests.








ITEXPO #SuperShow 2019 Agenda Summary

January 30, 2019



My team just sent out this show agenda summary for ITEXPO and collocated events. I wanted to share it to keep you posted - thanks!

 

Dear Colleague,

ITEXPO 2019 is Here!

ITEXPO is Next Week, Get to Know Participants Now

January 21, 2019

We can't wait to host you at ITEXPO next week in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

To get you up to speed on who you will see and what they are all about, check out some early interviews with participants. In addition, the Show Guide for this 2019 show guide is available for you to download.

Thanks, have a safe trip and we'll see you there!



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Nyansa

Nyansa: Cloud and AI Taking Complexity Out of Network Management

Qumu

Qumu: If You're Not Leveraging Video in Your Business, You're Falling Behind

OpsRamp

OpsRamp: Why AIOps is Critical to Business Success

IVR Voice

Why IVR is Critical to Revenue Growth

Avaya

Avaya: The Future of Work is All About AI, Mobility and other Emerging Tech

ServiceTree

ServiceTree: Meeting the Need for Speed with Modern IT Support Solutions

Radisys

Radisys: How Service Providers Can Accelerate Time to Market Strategies

Yottabyte

Yottabyte: How Service Providers Can Keep Pace with Amazon and Google

Pax8

Pax8: How Providers Can Simplify Their Cloud Migrations

Jive Communications (part 1)

Jive: How Cloud is Making Communications Better (Part 1)

Jive Communications (part 2)

Jive: How Cloud is Making Communications Better (Part 2)

Aruba

Aruba: Making SD-WAN Better with SD-Branch

Tehama

Tehama.io: Making Sure Businesses Can Function in the Cloud Era

Incessant Tech

Incessant Tech: Redefining the Future of Work with Digital Automation Strategies

Talari

Talari CEO Talks SD-WAN, Cloud & More



What's Big This Year in Telecom? Vote Now!

January 10, 2019



TMCnet and Andy Abramson and his company Comunicano are asking in the first annual VoIPWatch Poll.. The results will be revealed at this year’s ITEXPO in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday, January 31 at 4:15 pm prior to the start of the always interesting IDEA Showcase.





For years Andy and his Comunicano team have been at the forefront of driving companies in the telecom industry to success. TMCnet and ITExpo have always been where the telecom, collaboration and communications infrastructure companies meet.





VoIPWatch, as one of the first, and now longest running blogs covering our industry, has always been where the community finds unfettered, and unfiltered insight, perspective and opinion. TMCnet is where the tech community discovers what’s new, what’s happening and goes to gather.





That’s why we’ve teamed up and are asking the community, what’s going to be the hot category in telecom in 2019.

Can't Miss at ITEXPO Jan 29-Feb 1st in Florida

January 8, 2019

Thanks to your feedback, we have been building ITEXPO into the most comprehensive business tech event around focusing on communications and IT.



First off, besides the ITEXPO Conference Program, here are some of the collocated events you should be aware of

Asterisk World: This is the business event behind the most popular open-communications solutions in the world. Come learn about the entire open-source/Linux communications ecosystem in a single place.

The Blockchain Event: The one place you need to be to learn about the future of distributed ledger and smart contact technology. Smart contacts could be the hidden gem in this tech as they can allow truly decentralized marketplaces to perform trust-based transactions. In other words - a smart contract could act as an intelligent agent - paying one party from another based upon preset conditions.

MSP Expo: Companies are more frequently turning to MSPs - especially as the war for tech talent heats up.









How The Future of Work Will Change Everything

January 3, 2019

The continuous technological changes coming to all industries is often referred to as the future of work and no corporation is safe from this upheaval. In order to help companies become prepared for what will undoubtedly be an exciting yet disruptive future, TMC (where I am CEO) has developed the world's only Future of Work Exposition.



To give you a sense of where things are going - we've posted past interviews with conference co-chair Jon Arnold. These consisted of near-term AI and ML expectations as well as where the future of work could lead us.

To finish off this series, we just interviewed Jon again about how the future of work will change everything, and we mean everything.

We hope you enjoy this post and further make plans immediately to come to the Future of Work Expo Jan 30-Feb 1st, 2019 in Florida.



There has been a lot of discussion around AI and jobs. Do you think it will be a net job creator?













ITEXPO #SuperShow: The One Event Tech Buyers Should Attend Each Year

December 12, 2018

Time is limited and the only constant in tech is change.

In this environment, our challenge at TMC has been to evolve our conference ITEXPO, into a #SuperShow.







We hope you’ll make it Jan 30th-Feb 1st, 2019 in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

Simply stated, we have spent years, making ITEXPO (photos) the one place where purchasing decision-makers need to go to learn everything they need for the new year.

Mindmatrix Keeps Innovating in Partner and Direct Sales Enablement

November 7, 2018

We are living through one of the longest-running periods of free-flowing funding to many industries such as tech. Moreover, many of the newest companies launching in communications, cybersecurity, AI and other similar spaces are selling their solutions via an indirect channel to businesses.

The classic chicken-and-egg problem for startups is getting the channel interested enough to sell their solutions. The channel has enough to sell already and doesn't want to divert resources to something which may not prove an effective ROI.

This is where automation comes in. Mindmatrix, one of the leaders in the partner and direct enablement space was a common topic of conversation at this year's ITEXPO in Fort Lauderdale, Fl.



To learn more, we spoke in an exclusive interview with Harbinder Khera (pictured, left), CEO & Founder who explained the company can enable dealers, distributors and franchisees.

There is a partner portal which handles recruiting, training, onboarding, deal registration, MDF, incentive management, asset cobranding and asset distribution.









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