On November 9th, the world celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Let’s look astoundingly at how our world has changed since 1989. We are communicating in ways never before imagined. To experience this in our lifetime is remarkable. To think about bandwidth and network requirements to meet our insatiable demand for voice, data, video, and the web, is mind-boggling. Remarkably, as far as these technologies advance us, some parts of the world still face hurdles to be a part of this communication phenomenon. More...

It’s no surprise that the economy and cloud computing were key discussion points within many sessions and on the exhibit floor at last week’s Gartner IT Expo in Orlando. As usual, the event provided a great opportunity to talk with a significant number of CIOs about their challenges and successes and learn about the latest developments within the IT industry.More...

To appreciate the value of unified communications, the emphasis really needs to be on “unified” versus “communications.” Any organization can communicate, with almost unlimited options for how they do it. But it takes a special mix of technologies and capabilities to make those communications truly unified. This allows the people involved to function as one tight and highly effective unit. More...