"When everyone is playing the same game, your execution is critical." - Seth Godin"the way you go to market, the structure of your offering, the model of your business--these are sufficient to cause you to lose, regardless of how you...
Sat in on the CenturyLink Channel Alliance - Get back in the Game Roadshow in Tampa this morning. It was nice to see Stacy Conrad from Microcorp; Josh Anderson and his co-workers from Telephony Partners; Dale Tucker from CCA;...
I blogged about Savvis/Qwest halting MMR commission to the Channel. However, Dale Tucker of the CenturyLink Channel program was at CVX before my panel telling me his people had read the blog post and that I was wrong. CenturyLink/Savvis/Qwest are...
It looks like Zayo Group is going to buy 360 Networks. Back in May, Zayo and 360 entered into a long-term dark fiber deal that must have set off talks of an acquisition. (It explains why 360 was too busy...
The WHIR is reporting that private equity firms, KKR and Silver Lake Partners, are buying GoDaddy for $2B. Late last year, the rumor was that Bob Parsons, CEO of the well-known hosting company, was looking for $1 billion based on the...
Intermedia is a hosted Exchange company that ventured into hosted VoIP. That venture landed them an LOI (letter of intent to buy) from a private equity firm. On the heels of that, Intermedia decided to grab Zlago to bolster the...
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...
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 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...
Microcorp is a master agent that I have dealt with since 2003. Their agent conference is this week. The focus is on Get Away from T1. Well, that’s not the official theme, but that is the message.It started with a...
So you are a launching another cloud computing service? (Or any of ther other trends like UC, Hosted PBX, IVR overlay, Virtualization) What do you do to get a bang? Launch a gutsy campaign.That's what Carpathia Hosting is doing with an online...
This is an interesting way to market a Data Center: Carpathia Hosting is using an e-book!Data Center of the Future: the IntroductionChapter 1: Security, Privacy and Risk ManagementChapter 2:Monitoring, Management & Service FrameworksChapter 3: Datacenter Optimization Services - coming soon!...
It's amazing the news feed you can get from Twitter. Broadband Stimulus Plan: High-Speed Access coming to Rural America Ask our CIO about our UC implementation at Aspect on a Frost & Sullivan webinar tomorrow: Telefonica, Microsoft Offer Windows Live...