If SIP Trunking looks so good on paper – and it does – as you run the numbers on it for cost savings and productivity gains, why do many enterprises seem so half-hearted about it?

Sorell Slaymaker, writing at NoJitter, has some thoughts on that, with some interesting insight into why it is that, as he says, some 70 percent of organizations have SIP trunks in their network environment, but only five percent have fully migrated. More...

You can make all the arguments you want about how SIP Trunking and Unified Communications are about more than just reducing enterprise communication costs, but in this economy, it should come as no surprise what motivates organizations.

That rationale was validated once again in one of the latest white papers from Webtorials, titled UCC and SIP Drive Savings in Cost-Conscious Enterprises (registration required, but its free). It’s sponsored by a maker of UC equipment, but apart from the promotional aspects of the paper, it has some interesting information. More...

When we first saw ABI Research’s latest projection of cloud migration trends, our first thought was that their numbers were a bit conservative. The headline was that 41 percent of all enterprise communications applications users worldwide would migrate to the cloud within five years, by 2016. More...

There’s not much we can add to what has been said about Steve Jobs in the wake of his death at far too young an age. The impact he has had on the technology industry is almost immeasurable, and his life presents us all a valuable lesson.

If there is one take-away from Jobs’ biography, it is that he did not let failure define him. Apple certainly went through some tough times, and was essentially written off for many years by the industry (despite its uniquely passionate fans). For a lot of people, those tough times would have been enough to drive them out of the industry and into another line of work. More...

Seamless Enterprise readers may not need a reminder, but there are a lot of people out there that do about Sprint’s strong and long-lasting position in wireline. It’s nice that the company is known for wireless, but sometimes that reputation overshadows the wireline side. More...

Polls can be useful, or they can be irritating. The useful polls help us determine trends that really have an impact on how we conduct business or conduct our lives. The irritating polls are those that ask people to offer opinions about things that they simply don’t have sufficient information to judge. More...

 The whole idea behind SIP Trunking is to enable flexibility and return on investment for enterprises, to give them an option of moving to SIP trunks when and how they want to, while reaping the financial benefits of a converged network. Whether their main motivation is to save money over the local telco trunks alternative or to begin building a foundation for the future or Unified Communications, SIP Trunking gives them freedom of choice. More...

There’s a school of thought out there that cloud transport can and should be just a commodity. A dumb pipe that gets you to your data or app destination. Then, inside that destination, all the intelligence resides in the software, along with the security and reliability. More...

We love a good debate. Since you can’t get them when it comes to political candidates anymore (everybody’s too worried about each answer containing a good sound bite and one of two or three talking points), a good place to turn might be NoJitter.

There’s an interesting back-and-forth exchange between consultant Marty Parker and NoJitter Editor Eric Krapf about SIP Trunking. It will be clear which of the two of them we side with, but both have good points to make. Marty’s side is here, and Eric’s is here. More...

When it comes to the highway to the cloud, it will be paved with partnerships, between ASPs (and other solutions providers) and carriers. Sprint, preferably, but there’s probably room for other carriers, I suppose.

We’re not the only ones with this partnership perspective. This article from CRN makes the point that while there has been a traditional divide between solution providers and carriers, that divide is no longer practical in a world where enterprises simply want to be cloud-connected in the most effective and reliable way possible. Increasingly, this is what customers want and demand. More...