In case you missed them the first time around, a pair of Stratecast-Frost & Sullivan white papers focused on convergence are resurfacing for a second life.

The papers – Technology Convergence and Information Velocity: the Engines for Business Agility and Workforce Productivity and Simplification through Convergence: Reducing Cost and Complexities – were both sponsored by Sprint, which gave us the opportunity to highlight them before they were made available to the general public. More...

In case you missed them the first time around, a pair of Stratecast-Frost & Sullivan white papers focused on convergence are resurfacing for a second life.

The papers – Technology Convergence and Information Velocity: the Engines for Business Agility and Workforce Productivity and Simplification through Convergence: Reducing Cost and Complexities – were both sponsored by Sprint, which gave us the opportunity to highlight them before they were made available to the general public. More...

As a loyal Seamless Enterprise reader, what could you find more appealing than to be alerted to the latest post here via Twitter?

Yours truly is now taking care of our site’s Tweets, and we encourage you to follow me. I’m at @SeamlessEd, under the pseudonym of Ed (short for editor!) Seamless. More...

There may be more in common than one thinks between enterprise IT and Facebook. And it has everything and nothing to do with social media. To start, consumers upload 300 million pictures each day to Facebook, and this number is only growing. In addition, this rate is seasonal says Facebook as the company anticipates up to 2 billion photos on Halloween alone.  

Enterprise organizations, like Facebook, understand the demand for network and storage requirements. Traffic spikes, usage of network collaboration tools, and availability of critical data on the spot – all increase the need for more bandwidth and network intelligence. There may be a lesson in the way the company addresses these challenges:More...

Wouldn’t we all like to be a hero? All that admiration and acclaim, the satisfaction of knowing we really accomplished something bold and daring. Not to mention what a great resume enhancer heroism can be.

While we’re dreaming, why not just make the leap to superhero? We all have a favorite superhero (I’ve always been partial to capes), and just imagine what we could accomplish in our work lives with superpowers. Cooling the data center with your breath could be a huge energy saver, for instance, and probably would at least earn you Employee of the Month honors and a reserved parking space. More...

One of the biggest drivers of the converged network is “big data,” as enterprises capture massive amounts of data from every customer interaction and analyze it to predict future sales. One company managing this data really well today is Netflix.

I originally registered for Netflix streaming for research purposes. I have spent a lot of my career developing algorithms to capture the relationship between countless variables that drive business productivity.More...

I have written before about how gamification will become an incentive for convergence by tying  all the systems and processes together in the cloud and creating a game-like application environment. One example is a company that is trying to gamify getting out of bed. Actually, not a company so much as a hackathon team. More...

Coming at business, and life, from a technology perspective, we often fail to consider some of the non-technology issues surrounding adoption of any new way of doing business. Yes, if it was all just a matter of attaching connector A to port B and inserting tab C into slot D, it would be a piece of cake.

But as we all know, and as Gary Audin writes in a new Webtorials entry, it just isn't that neat and clean. Those pesky people always get in the way. Audin's latest thoughts look at some non-technical barriers to UC implementation, and while his original piece isn't all that long, we're going to brief it down even further, almost Tweet-like, for you. More...

One key driver of convergence is the cloud. As more and more enterprise workers interact with data in the cloud, there is less and less to tie them to their desk and to their legacy PCs and laptops.

Google recently entered the storage and collaboration market with Google Drive, which is one more nail in the coffin of the legacy enterprise network. Initially, Google Drive is accessible from PCs, Macs or those mobile devices that happen to run Android. More...

I’ve written before about how enterprise applications are changing. Trends such as gamification, which have nothing to do with playing around, are influencing business apps. John Cox, on his Network World blog, recently penned “What enterprise mobile apps can learn from mobile games,” and his perspectives add some gravity to the idea that convergence isn’t just about bringing wireline and wireless together, or deskphones and mobile  phones together, it’s about creating a seamless  application experience for all applications of technology. That includes making them fun, easy to learn, and intuitive. More...