Google’s Chrome OS Book Addresses the Connected User
This week at Google’s I/O developer conference, the company announced the general availability of two Chrome OS Laptops. Both Best Buy and Amazon will be selling the devices made by Acer and Samsung....
View ArticleHardware Matters When Scaling the Cloud!
One of the most important changes in scaling corporate data center has been the evolution of the application delivery controller (ADC). The ADC bridges the network and application environments...
View ArticleNote to the incoming Fed CIO: Continue the Kundra mission of user first IT
Last week the White House announced that Vivek Kundra, the first ever federal government CIO, will leave his position in August. Prior to Kundra, federal IT was considered about as aggressive as...
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The Technology Behind Star Trek
I was on a flight earlier this week and watched one of my favorite movies – Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. It made me think about how the movie, and even the original TV shows that dated back to the...
View ArticleCisco Introduces AppHQ
Today, Cisco announced AppHQ, a corporate-focused Android app store for its Cius tablet. What makes AppHQ different from the consumer app-based open source Android Marketplace is that AppHQ’s...
View ArticleUnified Communications Buyers Should Think “Sessions,” Not “Calls”
In 2012, look for the Unified Communications (UC) industry to finally evolve away from using terms like “calls” and “trunks” and replace it with the concept of a “session.” I believe this to be an...
View ArticleCloud Value Must Extend Past Cost Savings
Yesterday I took some time out of my Enterprise Connect schedule and headed to New York to participate in a cloud event held by Navisite, a leading provider of cloud services. The theme of the event...
View ArticleIs this RIM’s last stand?
RIM held its annual “BlackBerry World” conference recently in Orlando and while I didn’t attend the event live, I did have the opportunity to interview a number of people that did and followed the news...
View ArticleIn Search of the Value of Session Management
It’s been a couple of weeks since Interop and I’ve had some time to think about some of the happenings from the conference. One of the sessions I ran was a panel on the value of session management, and...
View ArticleMobile vs. Portable and the changing nature of the office
To learn more about this topic, please join me on June 13th at 11am at an event in Marlborough, MA. Here is the registration link: www.versacomm.com/shoreteldock The vision of being able to deliver...
View ArticleXen and the Art of Mobile Worker Maintenance
There’s rarely a company I talk to nowadays that doesn’t have some kind of bring-your-own-device, or BYOD, program underway. The most recent survey data from ZK Research shows that 82% of organizations...
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