Does it surprise you as much as it does us that nearly one-fifth of enterprises are not even considering Unified Communications and collaboration technology now, or planning to in the next three years?

That data point leaped out at us in a piece that Melanie Turek of Frost & Sullivan wrote over at NoJitter, based on a survey that her organization did of 200 top executives. Nineteen percent of the respondents said they aren’t considering UC at all and have no plans to deploy it in the next three years. More...

Convergence is ultimately about connecting – more, faster, easier. We live in a world where billions of people are connected through the Internet. More content is created in a single minute online than in a single year back in the 1990s. According to IDC, the "digital universe" – the amount of information and content created and stored digitally - will skyrocket from 1.8 ZB (zettabytes) in 2011 to more than 7 ZB by 2015 with 90 percent of that coming from digital content in the form of graphics and video. More...