Information technology is considered a “clean” industry. True, its contribution to global environmental issues pails in comparison to automobiles or heavy industry. But IT does contribute to the problem, and it’s growing. More...

This week's Interop conference more than met expectations. Sprint's booth was busy all week and attendees were treated to a full slate of good presentations and networking opportunities. Here's a few impressions from our team:More...

Traffic and interest was high at Sprint's booth during this week's Interop conference in Las Vegas, where team members talked about its strategy of converged solutions to enable unified communications, including Mobile integration and SIP Trunking and teaming up with partners: Cisco, IBM, Microsoft.  (Stephanie Greenwood reports).  During the week, Russ McGuire (Vice President, Corporate Strategy) spoke at the two-day CIO boot camp workshop, while Dan Jacobson (Senior Portfolio Manager -Converged Voice Services), participated in a panel discussion on "Unified Mobile Communications."

Modern management theory is so caught up with “Quality” and “Six-Sigma” that we often forget about older, tried and true methods of making companies more efficient and productive. In the case of Unified Communications (UC), many of the questions from customers are about the technology, but I think “time and motion” savings should be the most heavily weighted factor as a company assesses the ROI of UC. 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...

Love reading all these blogs about “convergence” from a technology standpoint. But I think there’s a gap in the dialog. Viewing convergence from a network/technology (i.e. supplier/carrier) standpoint doesn’t necessarily align with convergence from a user standpoint. More...

I still remember the first time I heard the phrase “Green IT”.  It was a few years ago before folks like IBM started running high dollar ad campaigns touting the concept. More...

As we near our 40th Earth Day on April 22, it’s a perfect time to look at how technology can help businesses be as green as possible.More...

Just 10 or 15 years ago, companies typically frowned upon telecommuting.  Managers had a hard time telling if their subordinates were really on-task because there was no unobtrusive way to supervise them remotely. Executives worried about losing the “water cooler effect” – the name given to the productivity boost that occurs when workers unintentionally bump into each other throughout the day and happen to exchange progress reports and remind each other about deadlines and deliverables. More...

Sprint's Dan Jacobson, Manager, Fixed Mobile Convergence, discusses Mobile Integration benefits with customer Michael Higgins (Harris Corporation)

Sprint spent three days at VoiceCon Orlando this week (March 30-April 1) demonstrating the value of its converged solutions technology to hundreds of users. More...