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I Cannot Keep Up. CBEY Maxes Cloud
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...
Basically The Cloud is
Basically, the Cloud is here. But then it has been for a while. The Cloud has been around a while. We used to use it to describe the Internet. Then we used it to describe the Frame Relay system when...
The Cloud is For Agents, too
Khali Henderson of Phone+ and I are doing a webinar tomorrow for agents at TCA on The Cloud. One of the TCA Board Members, Emmet Tydings, President of AB&T Telecom, sent me this response:“Voice is just another application in an...
Cloud Opportunities for Agents
I was on a Cloud panel for Comdex Virtual for VAR’s. (You can see that Nov. 16-17, 2010). And I am moderating Demystifying the Cloud for Agents at Microcorp One-on-One on Monday morning. Then I will be presenting Put Your...
What Have I Been Saying?
Gary Kim writes, “A study of data submitted by 221 small U.S. telcos by Telergee Alliance confirmed trends you would expect: Broadband and wireless are growing, cable TV is flat, and voice is declining. As has been the case for...
3 Ways VARs Can Profit From Cloud
I was speaking to an IT shop owner this morning who will be attending SMB Nation in Vegas in a couple of weeks. His worry is How Do I Make Money From The Cloud?Agents have a similar worry. One reason...
Net-Heads Versus Bell-Heads
So I gave my talk today about Net-Heads versus Bell-heads at CVX (Channel Vision Expo). There is a shift happening in the telecom world. Not only is the world of IT and the world of Telecom blending, but technology is...
The Mobile Ecosystem Battle
Just finished recording a webinar for COMDEX-Virtual on Mobility + The Cloud = Convergence in Telecom. Khali Henderson, Editor-in-Chief of Phone+ magazine was on the panel with me. I shared this article her because it was relevant. Now I want...
COLOTRAQ Picks Up Slack
Just as Switch-and-Data became Equinix, the channel program was shuttered. Well, COLOTRAQ is here to pick up the slack. COLOTRAQ has launched its master agency for colocation and managed hosting. Officials with Colotraq said that the new master agency empowers agents...
Bundling for Stickiness
Last year at Broadsoft Connections I did a panel on Bundling. Not many VoIP Providers bundle. Sure they offer Internet Access but that’s mainly for QOS. What do they offer that makes them STAND OUT? Stop being Me-too. The whole...
Cloud Computing for Beginners
This is the first draft of The Cloud 101 for Microcorp’s One-on-One agent event. The Cloud 101View more presentations from RAD-INFO, Inc.. Comments welcome....
An Interview With Level3
As a founding member of the Technology Channel Association, I get to interface with some of the channel execs. One that I have a lot of respect for is Craig Schlagbaum, VP Indirect Channels, Level 3. Craig let me interview...
How to SELLECOM SAAS
A 20 minute conversation with Joe Pennavaria, a Channel Manager with CoreBanc, Inc. discussing how to sell Software-as-a-Service (SAAS). (Part of my SELLECOM series)....
Is Rural Wireline Profitable?
Exhibit A: Fairpoint Communications. Small rural telco merges with New England Verizon assets and billions in debt. The 3 state utility commissions were uneasy about the merger to begin with. Two years later, Fairport is struggling to get out of...
Marketing is Not Sales
Marketing is creating noise. Marketing is puking on Twitter and other social networks. Sales is about relationships. Never forget: people do business with people. Sales is also about product knowledge. How can you be a Trusted Advisor if you don't...
My Thoughts on the BSFT IPO
Disclaimer: I work with both Broadsoft and its customers.I was shocked to learn that Broadsoft hasn't made money yet. Granted some of their clients came through acquisitions of Genband and Sylantro, but they have 400+ clients including many large ILEC's...
The Big Push to the Cloud
The news is awash with stuff being pushed into the Cloud. Everything is going hosted. Reading press releases, it seems that conferencing is changing and everyone is rolling out a hosted PBX solution. It's a frenzy of zombies following the...
What Happened to Redundancy?
I don't know if you have been reading about the outages that the Cloud Providers have been having. Rackspace, Amazon, Terremark to name a few have experienced outages in the last six months.My question is What Happened to Redundancy?The main selling...
Cloud Communications Alliance Interview
Lots of buzz this week about the launch of the Cloud Communications Alliance by a group of 8 Broadsoft based service providers. This is a short interview with Dean Parker of Callis Communications about the Cloud Communications Alliance and what...
How Do They Avoid Being Just the Dumb Pipe
On LinkedIn there was a question in the Telecom Executives Business Network group: "How can a Telco Service Provider value chain defend itself from the attack by the emerging "Cloud" services? My understanding is that the emerging "cloud" services remove...
Enterprise Cloud Computing Seminar
The February South Florida Technology Association (SFTA) monthly meeting in Fort Lauderdale will bring together the leaders in the virtual server and storage cloud computing space. Panelists will include representatives from Dell, VM Ware, Cisco, and DataCore."There is a lot...
Cloudy Thought
Visual basic was designed to make it easy to program for Windows. Macros in Excel spreadsheets are under a similar theme. Cloud based apps like Twilio and virtualization make it easier for companies to go to market while utilizing technology...
Making Money in IP Communications
In a room filled with VAR's, inter-connects and VoIP resellers (and one investor), our ITEXPO panel this morning discussed making money from IP communications.How does the indirect channel make money from IP? It is SO different from TDM. This isn't...
Will Reliability Be a Factor?
I see many folks asking if SAAS (software-as-a-service) will be hurt by data center outages. So I figured I would take a shot at it.Anything over the IP network is going to be slightly less reliable than the TDM network. The...
A Collision is Coming
Another point Nicholas Carr made was that IT and telecom are colliding. A new landscape is coming. My thoughts immediately went to GV. Who will be replaced by Google Voice?Who is the commodity? Who will add Value to the User Experience?People will...
