This is part five of a seven-part series on how IT managers and communications service providers (CSPs) can work together to simplify their migration of premises-based communications to the cloud.

This is part one of the fourth installment in a five-part series on migrating business communications services. In this post, we take on another common challenge in migrating business communications to the cloud – the increased demands on IP access connectivity – both from a technical and commercial perspective.

Third in a five-part series on migrating business communications services: Deciding when to deploy sites and users on multi-tenant (“public”) cloud solutions versus dedicated, virtualized (“private”) cloud solutions.

As service providers build out their migration offers, one of the most important offer elements relates to how aggressively to turn down legacy systems and turn up cloud communications services. This is the second in a seven-part blog series on migrating business communications services.

In a five-part blog series, we break down the challenges and complexity of cloud communications migrations. We will also provide a series of recommendations to simplify migrations for both service providers and businesses caught in a holding pattern with their existing PBX infrastructure.

If you are a technology professional, then chances are that you are aware (maybe to the point of annoyance) that everything is getting defined in software