The VAR Guy is a strong proponent of unified networks. He has blogged live from major Unified events hosted by Cisco Systems, Microsoft and Nortel, among others. But he’s also watching emerging unified solutions. Our Resource Center will soon feature The VAR Guy’s Guide to Asterisk, an open source IP telephony platform that offers unified capabilities. Stay tuned.
After several false starts, TelePresence — that next-generation video conferencing solution — is finally gaining traction in selected high-end vertical niches. Still, TelePresence will need to overcome at least two more major challenges before it goes mainstream, The VAR Guy believes.
More >The VAR Guy and many tech industry watchers breathed a collective sigh of relief on May 6, when Cisco Systems announced relatively strong earnings. Our resident blogger warned readers earlier this week that Cisco would make-or-break Wall Street, based on the company’s results. Overall, things look good at the company. But there was an area of weakness, notes our sister site, MSPmentor.
More >Everybody hold your breath. Cisco Systems is set to announce financial results on May 6. Most observers are cautiously optimistic. If everything goes as planned, Wall Street will breathe a collective sigh of relief. But if CEO John Chambers is in another “lumpy” mood, things could get really ugly real fast.
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About a year ago, Cisco CEO John Chambers predicted his company’s competitive landscape would shift from networking firms to software and Web 2.0 companies. Apparently, Chambers was right: Recent financial results from numerous networking companies suggest many of Cisco’s old rivals are falling off a cliff. Here’s a look behind the numbers.
Last week, The VAR Guy outlined six trends he expected to generate some buzz at this week’s Interop conference in Las Vegas. Now that the show is in full swing, let’s take another look at those six trends to see how they’re shaping up.
More >The VAR Guy can’t help but laugh a bit when he reads IT coverage that’s completely out of touch with Wall Street coverage. The latest example involves Netgear.
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As he blogs from rainy New York, The VAR Guy is daydreaming about Las Vegas — which is hosting two big IT events this week: Juniper Networks’ J-Partner Summit as well as Interop. Here’s the scoop from J-Partner Summit so far.
The buzz involving Interop Las Vegas (April 27-May 2) is building. The VAR Guy has received briefing requests from Adtran, Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks and other networking vendors. Here are three messages he hopes to hear, and three messages he intends to ignore.
More >The VAR Guy couldn’t make it to Hawaii for Cisco’s recent partner summit. But now he hears that Cisco demonstrated Apple’s iPhone working on a unified communications network. Sweet. Some of the details about the demonstration surface in this April 24 Podcast on MSPmentor.net, The VAR Guy’s sister site.
More >The VAR Guy loves JetBlue. And he’s willing to put up with their flight delays out of JetBlue’s terminal at JFK International Airport. But the “free” WiFi networks within JetBlue’s terminals are beyond bad. They’ve been pathetic for more than a year. Now, it’s time for JetBlue to change course.
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