Hosted Services

I read with interest Paula Bernier’s story “SaaS Continues Move Forward” in July’s xchange magazine. My company, nGenX, comes to SaaS with a telecom background, so I felt compelled to share our perspective with carriers. Salesforce.com is the gold standard for SaaS. Salesforce.com was able to get out in front and establish a first-mover advantage. Now, there are literally hundreds ...

Telx has acquired additional colocation data center space in Chicago, IL. The 5,000 square feet of fully conditioned data center colocation space can accommodate 200 cabinet equivalents and will seamlessly connect to the existing Telx Meet Me Room. This acquisition is the third in the second quarter of 2008, following data center expansions in New York at 60 Hudson Street ...

Embarq, the largest rural service provider in the United States, has given up the management of its network operations center (NOC), along with approximately 265 of its people, to Nokia Siemens Networks as part of a seven-year managed services agreement. The move is a bold one, but perhaps only because it was first. “If you think we’re the only ones, ...

Verizon Business has moved to aggressively go after multinational companies with its unified communications portfolio — a market it says is ripe for UC adoption. According to Verizon Business product marketing guru Roberta Mackintosh, multinationals are a perfect fit for Verizon’s fully hosted managed UC service, given several crucial attributes. “These are companies that need to be served in a ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. Chairman and Co-founder Scott McNealy today during his NXTcomm keynote speech will announce version 6.3 of the company’s MySQL Cluster product. This is the first major MySQL announcement targeted specifically at the telecom market for Sun, which completed the acquisition of open source database outfit MySQL AB earlier this year. At NXTcomm this week, Sun is showing ...