October 24, 2011 2:46 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
AT&T,
cloud CRM,
Cloud Services,
Oracle,
Oracle Public Cloud,
RightNow,
SaaS,
telecom capex,
VerizonSome things are up, some are down, I guess. That seems to be true with regard to tech signals this morning, anyway. Oracle is buying RightNow, a CRM cloud player, and the Street is...
October 7, 2011 9:37 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Alcatel-Lucent,
Amazon,
Amazon EC2,
Apple,
appliances,
Cloud computing,
cloud computing services,
cloud ecosystem,
cloud provider,
Cloud Services,
Ericsson,
Google,
networking market,
networking vendors,
Oracle,
Oracle Public Cloud,
SonyThere are signs that the networking industry is doing a bit more weaving and bobbing as it looks for a position that sustains revenue and profit growth. One big item is the story that Sony...
September 16, 2011 12:39 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
CIMI Corp. survey,
Cisco,
Cloud computing,
HPI sent out the survey material for our fall strategy sweep, and as usual I asked both service providers and enterprises to respond quickly with the answers to the following questions; “What’s the hottest network issue”, “What’s your...
September 14, 2011 12:00 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Cisco,
data center fabric,
HP,
Huawei,
JuniperCisco held its investor meeting yesterday, and the Street view of the event was considerably more favorable than its view of rival Juniper. Analysts appear to...
September 10, 2011 12:48 AM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Alcatel-Lucent,
application development,
Cisco,
content monetization,
enterprise neteworking,
Ericsson,
network operators,
networking strategy,
networking vendors,
NSN,
service layer platforms,
technology planningWe’re heading into the fall now, and with the change in season will come a new period of technology-strategy planning for both enterprises and the service providers. I’ve tracked the former group with a formal fall survey since 1982 and the latter since 1991, and the results of the surveys are...
September 8, 2011 1:52 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Alcatel-Lucent,
content delivery networks,
iPhone,
multi-screen applications,
next-gen content delivery and video,
NSN,
tablets,
VeravueIn video, we’re seeing a bit more focus on the kind of features more likely to be associated with monetized video than passive streaming. Vendors are jumping onto this, not with what we’d like to see (a true, architected, service layer) but at least with silo video offerings. I noted that
September 6, 2011 1:58 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Apple,
cable operators,
iPhone,
quadruple play,
service layer architecture,
tablets,
TV everywhere,
WiFiOne of the more interesting wrinkles in the ongoing tablet wars is a decision by more cable companies to back away from any commitments (on...
August 25, 2011 1:25 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Alcatel-Lucent,
Android,
Apple,
Chrome OS,
cloud ecosystem,
Google,
mobile behavior,
smartphones,
tabletsApple's Steve Jobs has finally decided that his health won’t permit him to head Apple and has passed control to Tom Cook, the Apple COO who has been the administrative head since Jobs...
August 20, 2011 9:02 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Brocade,
Cisco,
data center,
Extreme,
F5,
HP,
IBM,
Juniper,
Oracle,
PCsWell, revolutions are interesting at least, and we certainly have one now. HP is exiting the PC business, spinning off its PC unit and doing some M&A to boost itself as a player in the...
