Wednesday, the solution provider launched what it's calling the "Open Edge Alliance," a partner ecosystem designed to give members the ability to develop apps that become fully certified components of Telco's suite of solutions.
A new study by the technology market research firm Infonetics found that nearly 80 percent of medium and large businesses in the U.S. are planning to have software-defined networking (SDN) implemented in the data center by 2017.
Additionally, the research firm said companies are overwhelmingly saying that Cisco Systems is the top SDN hardware or software vendor.
Ben Heisler was appointed senior vice president for sales in the Americas for Ipanema Technologies last week, and he comes to the company's Waltham, Mass., U.S. headquarters with hopes of using the channel to make significant steps into the U.S. market.
Solution providers and managed services providers who are helping bring clients to the cloud but not adding connectivity to their solutions are leaving money on the table and risking losing their relationship with clients to carriers and other large services providers.
Anyone delivering cloud solutions to their clients need to also look at clients' on-premises needs as well said Mike Saxby, vice president of Advantage Communications Group, a Roslyn Heights, N.Y.-based broker of telecom services.
Seasoned executive, innovator and longtime entrepreneur Kira Makagon knows a thing or two about the ever evolving IT landscape.
She is currently the executive vice president of innovation at RingCentral, which touts itself as a leading provider of cloud business communication solutions. She has also co-founded startup companies that had successful exits, like Octane Software, which was bought by E.piphany in 2000 for $3.2 billion.
Beacon Systems Inc. and ManTech International Corp. have come to terms on a mentor-protege agreement under which the multi-billion dollar ManTech will provide senior-level mentoring to foster Beacon's growth and development.
Industry experts are predicting the demand for Unified Communications-as-a-service (UCaaS) will continue to increase over the next few years. The mobile UC market alone is expected increase from $5.2 billion in 2014 to $17.4 billion by 2019, according to a forecast report by the research firm MarketandMarkets.
IBM is trying to bring Watson to the channel and his having mixed results.
This week IBM said its Jeopardy-winning Watson supercomputer was headed to Japan in a partnership with SoftBank in a move that both hope will grow a Japanese language-based ecosystem of partners and developers around the Watson technology.
IBM made the SoftBank announcement at its annual Partner World Leadership Conference in Las Vegas, where many partners in attendance said they are enamored by Watson, but still are trying to figure out how the cognitive computer technology can help them make money here at home.
Cisco Systems recently unveiled its first Internet of Everything (IoE) Partner Playbook that provides a blueprint for partners to capitalized on what Cisco says will be a $19 trillion market in the next decade.
The networking giant is looking for partners who are eager to dive into four vertical markets – public sector, manufacturing, transportation, and utilities – to solve problems for customers through Internet of Things (IoT) and IoE.