
Cloud in a Box
Panasonic wants to sell SMBs hosted voice – and is doing so via retail with its new “Panasonic Cloud Business Phone System.” Available now at Amazon, Best Buy, Office Depot, and Staples. The vast majority of hosted voice services downplay the phone itself – usually positioning it as optional (use a softphone) and treating it […]

NATO takes tentative Cloud steps, with help from IBM
As part of a restructuring of the organisation’s US-based data centres, the acronym-laden NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) today announced that its ACT (Allied Command Transformation) will be deploying IBM‘s PCS (Private Cloud Solution*) inside its HQ SACT (Headquarters, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation) in Norfolk, VA. According to IBM’s E.J. Herold, the company is delivering […]