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| Peter Radizeski of RAD-INFO, Inc. talking telecom, Cloud, VoIP, CLEC, and The Channel.

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Expectations in 2011 with Jon Arnold

December 15, 2010

Posted in Internet, broadsoft, cloud computing, communications, data center, hosted uc, outage, saas, tele-presence, telecommunications, unified communications

What's It Take to be a VoIP Winner?

December 13, 2010

What does it take to run a successful VoIP services company? According to Report Linker, "the biggest VoIP providers are ostensibly run-of-the-mill telecom companies. This means smaller providers must innovate and take the role of pioneers whose marketing strategy doesn't rely only on offering the lowest price, since that's a game they can't win."

Lowest price is about scale.

Posted in CLEC, Marketing, PBX, cableco, cloud computing, communications, duopoly, hosted uc, saas, smb, technology, telecommunications, unified communications, voip
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J2 Buys Competition (and other M&A)

December 8, 2010

So Salesforce bought a Ruby based cloud platform company called Heroku for $212M, which my RubyonRails geeks say is a steal. Why? Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com, says: "Ruby is the language of Cloud 2, and Heroku is the leading Ruby application platform-as-a-service for Cloud 2 that is fueling this growing community.
Posted in apps, cloud computing, mergers, unified communications, voip

8 Questions for Cloud Providers

November 22, 2010

I've done a couple of webinars lately for VAR's and Agents about the Cloud. I think that between SAAS and Cloud, vendors are forgetting that they are selling applications.

I think the disconnect right now is that Agents aren't comfortable selling apps. They aren't comfortable with many of the SAAS Providers.

Posted in Web 2.0, agents, apps, backup, cloud computing, compliance, data center, disaster recovery, saas, sales and selling, technology

Cloudy With a Chance of Rain

November 17, 2010

The news is filled with Cloud and mergers. Will it Rain?

Rain is revenue. Will all these acquisitions turn into revenue? We'll wait and see, but most big mergers do not see the synergies that were predicted.

Posted in cloud computing, data center, mergers, telco

Podcast with Jon Arnold on Hosted UC

November 16, 2010

Posted in broadsoft, cloud computing, hosted uc

Rural ILEC Strategy

November 12, 2010

You have probably read about the unemployment rate. I would love to know how many jobs that the ILEC's have shed in the last 3 years. 75,000? Probably more.

Posted in CLEC, broadband, cableco, cellular, cloud computing, duopoly, fiber, mergers, saas, smb, technology, telco, video, voip, wireline

You Can't Be All Things to All People

November 7, 2010

This morning Seth Godin blogs about alienating the 2%. In short, you can't please everyone. There's more money in trying to please a targeted core. In cliche, You can't please everyone.

Posted in Marketing, PBX, agents, channel, cloud computing, sales and selling, voip
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Not a Cloud in the Sky - Clear Sailing for M&A

November 4, 2010

The headline is goofy. I know. But another acquisition happened. Windstream grabbed some hosting.

We saw Cbeyond's purchase of both Aretta Communications and MaximumASP for what appears to be 3.5x anual revenue today.

Posted in apps, cloud computing, data center, mergers, saas

I Cannot Keep Up. CBEY Maxes Cloud

November 4, 2010

Cbeyond, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBEY), a leading provider of IT and communications services to 55,000 small businesses across the country, today announced that it has acquired the assets of privately held MaximumASP and its affiliated companies, as well as the outstanding stock of privately held Aretta Communications. MaximumASP provides cloud services such as managed virtual servers and dedicated servers, and Aretta Communications provides cloud services such as cloud PBXs (private branch exchange) and SIP (Session Internet Protocol) trunking. Both companies target small- and medium-sized businesses throughout the U.S.

Posted in CLEC, Internet, apps, cloud computing, mergers, security
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