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| Spotlight Story | | | Is the future of convergence 'enterprise on a blade'?
|  By Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick
In reply to our newsletter last week titled "VoIP is not dead", we heard from Steve Hegg with a well written and insightful reply. Hegg is an independent consultant and is currently based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. We'd like to share some of Hegg's points and respond to his views. Hegg believes that the industry is "heading for the era of the 'enterprise on a blade'...[that will] impact not only small, medium and large enterprises, but also the larger carriers that provide services to the home as well as the enterprise." Read full story Steve Taylor is president of Distributed Networking Associates and publisher/editor-in-chief of Webtorials. Larry Hettick is a principal analyst at Current Analysis. | | | | Related News: | |  | VoIP is not dead, it's just not sexy anymore We've noticed lately that some in the industry are suggesting that VoIP is dead or in serious decline and we couldn't disagree more. We offer three proof points: in the case of the enterprise VoIP is being rebranded as part of unified communications; in the consumer market cable operators are enjoying very successful VoIP growth; and in the service provider market companies like Clearwire and Verizon have disclosed plans to offer VoIP over broadband as integral parts to their ongoing voice strategy. Top 10 predictions for VoIP and convergence in 2009 We've got to admit that making predictions for 2009 is a little tougher than usual given today's economic challenges and uncertainty, but we're willing to give it a shot provided our readers are willing to understand ... Eye on 2009: Telecom predictions for the New Year Last week we looked at how well the Eye of the Carrier predictions held up for 2008. This week, let's peer into the crystal ball for 2009. You'll notice a few similarities — and a couple of key changes — for this year: 'Unified computing' and virtualization at the heart of Cisco's new data center push Speculation that Cisco is preparing to launch new data center gear has resurfaced. Fuelling the speculation is a blog post by Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior, who writes that Cisco's data center push is around 'unified computing' and virtualization. January giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet
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