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Top 3 Things Affecting Your Agency
Your telecom agency has seen some changes over the last 10 years for certain, but the industry is in another state of change. What three things can affect your Agency?1. Commission changes. They happen often, even without M&A.2. Your biggest...
Crazy News Tidbits
“The U.S. Postal Service continues to hemorrhage money, posting a net loss of $747 million in April, and an accumulated net loss of $3.3 billion in the first seven months of its fiscal year.” [BtoB] That’s crazy! It is time...
TDCloud Joins the Fray
We have seen the hardware distributors moving into the cloud space. We saw that SYNNEX launched Cloud SolvUC as a unified communications play. According to the PR, the first nationwide cloud UC product. Umm, just from that marketing spin alone,...
InterOp 2011 in Vegas
Sungard booth at InterOp. With all the Cloud talk I thought more than just Rackspace and Sungard woul dbe here. InterOp is all about the racks ;) ...
CenturyLink Buys Savvis
It hasn't even finished swallowing Qwest and CenturyLink makes a deal to buy Savvis for $2.5B plus the assumption of $700M in debt. From the press release, "With the addition of Savvis, CenturyLink will achieve global scale as a managed...
The Inexpensive Cloud
Image via Wikipedia Amazon Web Services including EC2 is down today. When Gmail has any failure my twitter stream goes nuts. Facebook collapses often. There is one thing people should keep in mind: Building Resiliency and Survivability into a...
Call Us Customer Experience
During our second conversation with Dean Parker, CEO of Callis, we talk about the exciting things happening at this Mobile, Alabama based Cloud Communications company, including the hiring of a new CTO from Deltacom and the release of a new cloud...
A Failure to Communicate
In the Agent space, many non-telco vendors (like Conferencing and Hosted PBX providers) have tried to get traction. Sales traction from this independent sales force. It isn't going well.Agents (and VAR's) spend about 80-99% of the work week in the...
One Quick Note About Cloud
I keep reading all these projections for Cloud and I have to wonder: Has everyone forgotten that a good portion of this used to be Hosting? Shared Hosting; Managed Hosting; Dedicated Server; Collocation; Digital Hands. This isn't new. Plus it...
VARs are Replacing Agents
In an article in Channel Partners magazine, Master Agents discuss how all their future growth will come from VAR's. Carriers are chasing VAR's for any growth in Channel numbers. Where does that leave the Agents?Well, Agents can partner with VAR's...
A VAR's View from the Cloud
Great conversation with Dan Williams of Xspedeus, a VAR (value-added reseller) who was demonstrating his white label VoIP service at SMB Nation in Vegas. We talk about picking a cloud provider. Give it a listen....
Thoughts on Deploying Cloud
In this 13 minute interview with Dale Frohman of The Frohman Group , we discuss Cloud Deployment in the business.Deployment of Cloud services is much easier in the small business space (under 100 employees), because typically this is not a...
VAR's in the Cloud with HyperOffice
A podcast interview with Farzin Arsanjani, President of HyperOffice, discussing the opportunity for VAR’s in the Cloud. HyperOffice is a SAAS provider that recently released a white paper that focuses on reseller opportunities in cloud messaging and collaboration, one of...
My EarthLink Strategy
When I analyze the four CLEC components of the new EarthLink Business, I wonder what Atlanta will do with it. Deltacom had a huge fiber network (IFN) that essentially went under-utilized. In my experience, many employees did not know...
ATTB2B
This is what Ma Bell is pushing through sales channels: · Hosting & Cloud Services· Application Services for Small Business· Mobile Applications· Small Business Bundles· Unified CommunicationsNotice what is missing? Internet Access, Voice, WAN. Welcome to the end of the PSTN....
The Emergence of Cloud Telephony
So my panel this morning on Trends and Future of VoiP/Telco 2.0: the Emergence of Cloud Telephony with Cbeyond and Dialogic was standing room only. The slide deck is here:ITEXPO-East-2011-Emergence of Cloud Telephony.We discussed the trend of SMB to move...
TWC Snags Navisite
Image via Wikipedia When I first heard the news last night, I thought that TWT (tw telecom) had scoooped up Navisite. Instead, it's TWC (Time Warner Cable) that is paying $230M for the hosting company. The MSO gets 1200 clients...
VZ Buys Terremark for $1.4B
I was shocked last night when I read that VZ had purchased Terremark for $1.4B. It reminded me of MCI Worldcom buying Intermedia just to acquire the Digex assets. It really is all about Cloud these days! Rackspace and...
Simply Put: The Cloud
Host.Net has created a cool cartoon to explain Cloud services to customers in a simple manner. Take a look....
Expectations in 2011 with Jon Arnold
Jon Arnold joins me for a chat about what to expect in 2011. We touch on Acme Packet, SBC, security, outages, IPv4, Cloud and Social CRM. It's a full 25 minutes....
J2 Buys Competition (and other M&A)
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...
8 Questions for Cloud Providers
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...
Cloudy With a Chance of Rain
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.The big merger is The...
Rural ILEC Strategy
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. Verizon has shed over 25,000 themselves in the last 3 years....
Not a Cloud in the Sky - Clear Sailing for M&A
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. (Cbeyond will pay at most $40M for almost...
