Nortel Buzzboard

Nortel and IDC today issued the results of a new IDC study sponsored by Nortel on the “Exploding culture of connectivity and its impact on the Enterprise.” In other words — Hyperconnectivity.

The accompanying press release highlighted several results in the sub-head, including: “China and the United States have the most Hyperconnected business users.” But then today on his blog, Nortel’s Phil Edholm covers the news with the title IDC Hyperconnectivity Study - Is the US lagging????

The release headline relates to the fact that 16% of those surveyed in he U.S. are Are the numbers wrong, or it is just those darn Canadians weighing down the …

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Today Nortel and IDC issued the results of a new IDC study sponsored by Nortel on the “Exploding culture of connectivity and its impact on the Enterprise.”  There is a ton of great information in this study, so here’s a quick summary of it.

Nortel CTO John Roese and IDC Canada’s Senior VP of Worldwide Consulting and Managing Director, Vito Mabrucco speak to a group of media in Toronto this morning on the results of IDC’s global survey sponsored by Nortel.For an overview of the study results, take a look at the Nortel press release.  You can find a collection of related content and discussion of the study (as well as …

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Nortel’s focus on helping enterprises calculate their Cisco energy tax a few weeks ago at Interop has created some buzz with customers, media and bloggers. And that’s not just here on Buzzboard (with posts here and here), but with coverage on Network World’s Cisco Subnet blog, on RedMonk, on TechRepublic, and on a couple of blogs (here for example) that focus on green trends. It was all enough that last week one of Cisco’s data center marketing guys responded on their blog and then followed the trail of coverage with comments trying to pull people back to his post.

While this level of interest isn’t surprising, what is …

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