Zippys Telecom Blog and Buyers Guide http://www.richardgrigonis.com The telecom blog, buyers guide and personal website of internationally-known editor, writer and industry pundit, Richard Grigonis (RichardGrigonis.com). en-us Copyright 2009, 2010 Richard Grigonis Tue, 18 May 2010 18:31:24 +0400 http://www.rssfeedssubmit.com/rss-generator/ http://www.richardgrigonis.com/images/Zippys Telecom Blog.jpg Zippys Telecom Blog http://www.richardgrigonis.com 115 118 Parallels in the Evolution of Telephony and the Orchestration of Energy http://www.richardgrigonis.com/index.html Today the world of energy is as exciting as was the world of telecom back in the 1990s. Instead of applying computer intelligence to telephony, it is now being applied to power distribution in the form of the Smart Grid. An Interview with Telesofts President, Kevin Donoghue http://www.richardgrigonis.com/2010-05-03.html Telesoft has been in this business for a long time, about 27 years. This industry has evolved into the present-day advanced form of telecom expense management; from the former fields of call accounting and cost allocation, which dealt with corporate landlines. Guest Blog: Earth Day and Telecom Expense Management http://www.richardgrigonis.com/2010-04-21.html With Earth Day falling on April 22, its only befitting to take a closer look at some of the ways Telecom Expense Management (TEM) programs can help organizations save money on their fixed and mobile expenses, all while contributing to a cleaner environment. RadiSys Introduces the Integrated Mobile Media Server for Mobile Service Providers http://www.richardgrigonis.com/2010-02-19.html RadiSys Corporation has announced the Integrated Mobile Media Server (IMMS), which is designed to enhance Mobile Service Providers’ (MSPs) ability to grow new revenues from the sudden increase in 3G mobile video services and emerging 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) deployments. First Orions PrivacyStar for the BlackBerry Continues to Evolve, Introduces 800 Number ID Service. http://www.richardgrigonis.com/2010-02-17.html Since PrivacyStars U.S. launch on the BlackBerry platform in December 2009, several changes have occurred which have both broadened its scope and enriched the service. SUPERCOMM 2010 Gets Flushed Down the Cloaca Oeconomia http://www.richardgrigonis.com/2010-02-10.html SUPERCOMM 2010 had been scheduled for October 26-28 at Chicagos McCormick Place convention center, but the show has been cancelled for 2010 and no one knows if it will reappear in the future. BT and Logica Move into NGD Europes Mammoth Data Center in Wales Ahead of Schedule http://www.richardgrigonis.com/2010-02-03.html NGD announces that two large-scale custom built data halls for BT and Logica have been completed in record time at the new NGD Europe data center, allowing both anchor tenants to commence managed services operations ahead of schedule. Free Conferencing Corporations New Feature - Breakout Conference Sessions for FreeConferencing.com http://www.richardgrigonis.com/2010-01-29.html This Long Beach, California-based company has announced a breakout conferencing feature for FreeConferencing.com. During a live conference call, a conference host may now distribute callers into up to four breakout conferencing rooms. GoAhead Software Acquisition of the S3 embeddedMIND Business, and What it Means http://www.richardgrigonis.com/2010-01-15.html GoAhead Software, known as a pioneer in the world of High Availability (HA) middleware, enters a new, though related area - the configuration management space - by acquiring the embeddedMIND business from S3. America and Europe Take Notice as Next Generation Data Preeminent Data Center Opens for Business in Wales http://www.richardgrigonis.com/2009-12-14.html Interview with Simon Taylor, whose company, Next Generation Data, has unveiled in the picturesque countryside near Newport, Wales, a truly stupendous Tier 3 75,000 square meter (807,300 square foot) data center, almost certainly the largest, most resilient, most secure and most technologically advanced building of its type in Europe. Known as NGD1, it can house 19,000 racks of servers.