Peter Sondergaard from Gartner, spoke today here at Orange Business Services Orange Business Live 2010 event. He gave an over arching view of the challenges facing business and CIOs today, where – in his words – IT is shifting its focus towards towards balancing risk, cost, growth and innovation. I’ve attempted to catch what he said [...]

According to Dell’Oro Group figures released this month, the VoIP marketing is still a two horse race between Cisco and Avaya. The market for IP Phones grew by 10 Percent, which is a promising sign. They have also reported that the Unified Communications market grew in the third quarter of the year. The top two Unified [...]

There’s a gadget that has had our interest for a little while now. The first encounter was in St James’ Park, where this wallet sized device was enabling the real-time uploading of photos in the middle of a picnic. Vodafone has now launched the Novatel Wireless Intelligent Mobile Hotspot 2352 – or MiFi to its friends [...]

Recently I met up with Christopher Barrow at Avaya’s Guildford offices to talk through Avaya’s latest moves, and the evolving world of communications enabled business processes. Chris is an Avaya old hand, having been with the company through its many iterations, most recently as Product Marketing Manager for Avaya in the Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) [...]

TechwiseTV is running ran a webinar on UC and collaboration, together with a real-time conversation via Twitter, (under the tag #twtv): “Pushing the Boundaries of Collaboration” I am of the view that effective communication and collaboration tools are the best competitive weapon that any business can have. As the description of the webinar said, “[they] overcome the technology walls [...]