By Phil
19 June 2008
5:20 pm
This is abit of a belated post as I have been out of pocket for a week or so. I will try hard not to let that happen again.
Global Connect was a great event with attendance up about 38% and it was a dynamic environment.FOr those of you I saw there, it is always great to meet agian (or for the first time).
I did two sessions that I thought were interesting; one as a panel moderator with CIOs for a group of industry pres and the second a joint presentation panel with Bob Hafner of Gartner.
The CIO panel was interesting as it focused on how the results of the IDC Hyperconnectivity survey were seen in the eyes of CIOs. ...
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By Phil
2 June 2008
3:00 pm
I flew out Sunday for the Global Connect event in Dallas. This is the huge Nortel User event that is the opportunity to interact with our customers, partners and a fairly large group of analysts and press.
If you are coming to Global Connect, look me up. I will be at many of the events and look forward to meeting any of you that are there.
I will do a couple of blogs next week from Global Connect. I am doing a session with Bob Hafner of Gartner that is discussing the opportunities in UC with our partners and I think it will create some exciting discussion. I also am talking about Hyperconnectivity and the recent IDC ...
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By Phil
8 February 2008
10:52 am
I continue to be intrigued by the concept of virtual worlds and the ability of them to simulate/replace the physical environment. I find the concept of integrating virtual and real conference rooms (Sun has a demo of this) to be interesting. Much as a play is transformed when the actors "break" the 4th wall between them and the audience, this concept has the capability of radically changing both the virtual world (the play) and the real world (the audience). How could the unique relationship between the audience and Ferris Buehler have been achieved absent his initial dialog about; "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you ...
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By Phil
30 October 2007
5:20 pm
The 2007 Norel Enterprise Vision series is now posted on the Nortel web site and available for viewing. The vision series consists of 7 video segments of about 20-25 minutes each that detail our vision of the industry and the path forward. The overall series can be seen at www.nortel.com/edholm-vision-series. (Update: Link fixed. Thanks Bruce.)
It includes the following areas (uses RealPlayer 8.0 or higher):
Module 1: Introduction and Business Drivers
Module 2: Technology Mega Trends and Hyperconnectivity
Module 3: Nortel Investing to Build on the Changes
Module 4: Architectural Philosophies and Convergence 2.0
Module 5: Unified Communications and ICA
Module 6: Video Collaboration and SOA
Module 7: ...
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