This is the first in a series of blogs exploring the role and impact of security solutions for the convergence/mobility space. Check back often for additional blog posts on this subject

It is no surprise that IT budgets come under scrutiny when companies look to cut costs. In light of our economy, IT leadership teams are calculating how to balance long-term strategic needs with the daily demands of deploying and managing technology for the enterprise. In a recent webinar, Gartner addresses this very topic and provides real steps enterprises can implement now. More...

This is the last segment in a six part series highlighting Sprint’s deployment of unified communications. To read the previous segments click on the appropriate links: How We Got Started, Planning the Move, Successful First Phase, Where We Are Today, and Lessons Learned. More...

Several research companies just announced forecasts for the Unified Communications (UC) market. Infonetics Research expects the UC market to top $1 billion by 2013, and Wainhouse Research sees the UC industry growing to a healthy $30 billion market in just five years. Should we be surprised? Are enterprises integrating UC into their plans and budgets, despite constraints, and actually deploying UC solutions? More...

I am so pleased to report on part I of a recent interview with William Compton, CIO and VP-Information Management for ConvaTec, a leader and marketer of medical technologies worldwide.

With Americans focusing on the universal healthcare debate in the United States, what an incredible opportunity to talk frankly with a CIO in the healthcare industry. Not only did we talk about William’s perspective on the impact of universal healthcare on IT, we addressed topics such as green IT, unified communications, and cloud computing impacting enterprises in all vertical industries. More...

Months of planning and deploying Unified Communications within a company the size of Sprint continually pushes us to examine what we have learned. We have learned many important lessons and by sharing them, hope to make things easier for others embarking on UC initiatives. More...

With the new year upon us, we thought it would be a good time to look back...so we could look ahead.

By that, I mean 2009 was the year of predictions for Seamless Enterprise. Several of our bloggers took a crack at predicting emerging trends and created forward-looking visions of the future. Three of these articles stood out in my mind: More...

I saw a reference online the other day to “hosted vs. on-premises UC.” Something about that bothered me, and I think it’s this: It positions this as an either/or, all-or-nothing scenario that doesn’t really reflect reality. Sort of like “Good vs. Evil,” which is fine in the abstract, but which gets sticky once you apply it to real life situations. There’s just a lot of gray in between the black and white of those two absolute choices. In fact, I kind of wonder if the whole way service providers, equipment vendors, VARs, etc. have been positioning this question is incorrect in the first place. More...

Rolling out UC to a company with 50,000 employees and contractors isn’t something you do overnight. Currently, we are almost 50% complete and it has been a very successful first year. More...

On December 29^th, Information Week announced that a German computer scientist cracked the encryption algorithm that secures 80% of the world's mobile phones. This means more than 3 billion mobile users, in over 200 countries, could be compromised. That sounds big, but just how big is the threat, and what does it mean to your enterprise? More...

Last year I wrote an article for Seamless Enterprise titled "Seven 2009 Business Telecom Predictions."  It was well received, and now I'm being asked to make my predictions for the new year. More...