David Duffett April 24th, 2013
I’m having to whisper, because I’ve got all the details about AstriCon 2013 – and I’m spilling them just for you, before anyone else has them. The official release will happen later today – so you really are the first to know! I can reveal that AstriCon, the only ‘must-attend’ Asterisk user event in the world, will be at the at the Renaissance Atlanta Waverly Hotel & Convention Center in Atlanta, GA (as its name suggests) from October 8-10 this year. We’re expecting more Asterisk enthusiasts, telephony geeks, smart business types that are in the know and gifted developers than [...]
David Duffett April 11th, 2013
Matt Jordan (leader of the Asterisk development team at Digium) and maybe some other team members will be on the VoIP Users Conference tomorrow (Friday) at 12 noon EDT to discuss some deep changes being made to Asterisk which will show up in Asterisk 12. These changes are a direct result of last year’s AstriDevCon, at which the Asterisk Developer Community committed to (1) getting a new SIP channel driver built for Asterisk (2) doing something about how Asterisk represents itself to external systems The changes underway are the deepest for quite some time and entail some major internal re-architecturing [...]
Shannon Belew April 1st, 2013
With the first quarter of 2013 officially behind us, businesses of all sizes are pausing to evaluate their plans for the rest of the year. If you are like most SMBs, you are paying particular attention to whether or not your budget is on track. One area of spending that may need to be adjusted is in how much is being slotted for technology investments. According to an updated forecast from analysts with Gartner, Inc., worldwide IT spending is projected to reach $3.8 trillion this year – an increase of just over 4 percent from 2012. Even if your company’s [...]
Angie Reed March 27th, 2013
I recently heard the song “Both Sides Now” where legendary folk singer, Joni Mitchell insightfully sings about clouds, admitting: I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now, From up and down, and still somehow It’s cloud illusions I recall. I really don’t know clouds at all… Fast forward 40 years later and some might argue that these lyrics still resonate as the word “Cloud” has now moved from catchy song lyrics to must-have tech solutions. For some small and medium-size businesses (SMBs), the term “Cloud” may be confusing, especially as they try to understand how to best use it to [...]
Shannon Clemons March 25th, 2013
On the heels of our recent 5-star partner program award, we thought it would be appropriate to have a guest blog from one of our newest distributors. We’ve invited Jeffrey Freedman, Vice President of Sales for Gentek, to share his thoughts on the opportunities in VoIP. With experience in helping resellers grow their business with VoIP and UC, he has some great insight for partners who are considering this solution for their SMB customers. There are a lot of products in the VoIP PBX market and the choices include Hosted (Cloud), Premises based or a combination of both. My company [...]
