By Bo Gowan
30 April 2008
4:35 pm EDT
As Joel Hackney mentioned in his previous guest blog post, today Nortel issued a release to highlight the move by enterprises to Nortel’s enterprise data solutions.
What was a little easy to miss in the news, however, was a second document (PDF) that literally voices the individual thoughts of 50 Nortel data customers. As a former PR guy, I am nothing short of amazed at the ability to get 50 customers’ individual quotes into a single document.
The most evident common theme across the quotes was around network reliability and uptime - with multiple references to Nortel SMLT and “unique architectures.” A great price-to-performance ratio, trust in Nortel, and the willingness to partner with the customer were other common themes.
While all 50 quotes provide their own interesting angle, some of you busy bodies out there might not be willing to sit down and read through the entire 13 page document. So in my never-ending effort to “add value” - here is my own personal top 10 list:
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By Bo Gowan
30 April 2008
9:11 am EDT
Joel Hackney, Nortel President of Enterprise SolutionsThis week Nortel and the industry’s focus turn to Interop in Las Vegas. Joel Hackney, Nortel’s president of Enterprise Solutions, is at the show this week talking to customers, partners and media. Since Joel took the reins of Nortel’s enterprise business last year, he has talked to customers around the world about their networking needs. Joel took some time out from his busy Interop schedule to tell us what he’s hearing from them. Below is his guest blog.
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This week finds me at Interop here in Las Vegas. Interop - what a great venue for meeting with partners, seeing what the competition is up …
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By Bo Gowan
30 April 2008
1:04 am EDT
The Super Pit gold mine in Western Australia
On Monday, Nortel issued two pieces of enterprise news around Interop. One was our new virtualization solution that I wrote about previously. The other was this release detailing our win with Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines (KCGM). Quite frankly, I didn’t even read this second release until today, when this article in ZDNet Australia piqued my interest. Between the release and the article, the network deployment highlights an interesting story.
KCGM operates the “Super Pit“, a huge mine in …
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