IRWIN LAZAR
Principal Analyst & Program Director, Collaboration & Convergence, Nemertes Research
A Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and sought-after speaker and author, Mr. Lazar is a columnist for Business Communications Review magazine and Collaboration Loop. He is a frequent resource for the business and trade press. He is regular speaker at events such as Interop, VoiceCon, and Enterprise 2.0. Mr. Lazar serves as the conference director for FutureNet (formerly MPLScon), the chair for Network World IT Roadmap Web 2.0 track, and is on the advisory board for the Enterprise 2.0 conference.
Blog Entries by Irwin Lazar
The business case for replacing a perfectly good desktop phone with a new IP phone is increasingly difficult to make.
The top 5: The next OCS release; Norvaya; Cisco vs. Microsoft; video; and UC's future.
Google has its sights set on the cell phone market, hoping to do to it what VOIP has done to residential voice.
For now, IT managers ought to be cautious in adopting Skype-based trunking services.
This is good news for both Tandberg and Cisco customers.
When we asked enterprises what they were forced to cut, as well as what they would cut last, surprisingly voice and UC topped both lists.
Those that are moving toward IP phones are increasingly looking at incorporating alternatives to traditional desktop phones.
Is unified messaging finally poised to realize its long awaited promise to improve voice messaging delivery, storage and retrieval?
Despite the recession, or perhaps as a result, interest in video conferencing has never been higher.
We found much more of a focus on tactical application of UC rather than a strategic enterprise-wide UC deployment.
At VoiceCon, we'll explore the crossroads of Web 2.0 and enterprise communications.
OCS is the trojan horse.
Femtocells may prove to be the answer by providing better call quality at a lower cost than other wireless alternatives.
The vision of VOIP as a free, Internet-based application is dead, but I believe that unified communications will drive VOIP innovation moving forward.
Given present economic realities, most IT executives we talk with these days are far more interested in ways to achieve short term cost savings via unified communications then they are in the promise of UC to improve productivity, or even to apply UC to improve business processes for top line revenue improvement.
Creation of a common architecture for Unified Communications provides a template for discussion and evaluation of UC products, services, and solutions, and hopefully reduces confusion around what UC is (or isn't).
Virtualization was the big topic at last week's Interop event in New York City as vendors and enterprise IT architects alike tout the ability of virtualized environments to reduce costs, improve flexibility, and enable organizations to quickly deliver new services....
For years we’ve heard that the age of ubiquitous video conferencing was just around the corner, but now a perfect storm has formed, driving demand for video conferencing within the enterprise, and causing potential for chaos for network managers....
Fred Knight and Marty Parker have had a bit of a debate last month on UC adoption and whether or not there’s really any “there” there (See What’s Really Hot in UC). I thought I would weigh in given that...
Nemertes Research recently wrapped up interviews with over 130 IT executives representing approximately 117 enterprise organizations in which we asked participants about their views on unified communications as well as their plans and drivers for adoption....
Over the last two months or so we’ve had the opportunity to interview about 100 IT executives from end-user organizations of varying size and scope about their organization’s approach to unified communications. We’re asking IT executives about their UC plans,...
I’d be remiss if I didn’t post “YAVR” (yet another VoiceCon recap) given the tremendous job done by Eric, as well as my fellow NoJitter bloggers. This was my seventh VoiceCon, with my first being the infamous blizzard of 2002,...
Fifty-three percent of IT executives who participated in the Nemertes benchmark entitled Advanced Communications Services 2008 told us that their organization was already using, or planned to use SIP trunking services in the next 1-3 years, with 26% noting that...
One of the first things that you learn in any basic economics class is that when it comes to the economy, prophecies tend to be self-fulfilling. As folks begin to talk about the potential likelihood of a recession, they begin...
I think most visitors to this site would agree that from a communications and networking perspective, 2007 was the “Year of Unified Communications”. But what is the outlook for 2008 (and beyond)?...
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