Move over, Comcast, Verizon and Sprint. There's a new kid on the block, a telecom start-up with a new technology to manage Internet, voice and data communications, network security and compliance, all in one place.

Wayne’s Evolve IP aims to be the next big thing in business communications.

If the evolution of the workplace telephone were represented in graphics mimicking those of man’s progress from ape to upright-walking, Wii-playing, SUV-driving head of the food chain, it might go something like this: First came the wall-mounted crank phones and their rotary-dialed “candlestick” successors. Then there was the human-manned office switchboard, typically with a female operator...

2,100,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. That's how much storage-as-a-service capacity will be used by 2012. Expresses in its unabbreviated form, 2.1 exabytes is imposing. But what may be even more remarkable is that it represents 35 percent growth over 2007 capacity, according to recent data from IDC.

Ma Bell certainly would be proud of her staying power. Even in these Internet-driven days, telecommunications continues to play an integral role in the success of most enterprises, and due to telecom’s continuing importance, organizations can benefit greatly if they upgrade their architectures to the latest technology.

When a huge fire broke out four blocks from DVFG Advisors' Conshohocken, Pa., offices in August, the company was spared the costly telephone and Web access downtime other nearby businesses experienced.

"When I saw the news about the fire, I logged in and everything was OK," says Bo Breneman, vice president of technology. "We never lost connectivity, but other businesses in the area had to send (employees) home because they didn't have a working phone system."

Solve Difficulties With These Technologies To Keep Your Communications Infrastructure Humming Along

Despite the popularity of email, messaging, and other data-based technologies, voice remains the communication lifeblood for many small and midsized enterprises. As such, implementation and use of VoIP and UC (unified communications) must remain trouble-free to ensure that employees, clients, customers, and others can stay in touch. These technologies are far from flawless, however, so here’s a look at common problems and how to solve them.

In a dismal economy, technology represents a delicate balancing act for many small-business owners. On the one hand, you want your business to operate at peak efficiency, with the best technology to get the job done quickly at the lowest cost. On the other hand, you might not have money available to buy or update equipment and software. And you certainly don’t want to be overspending to perform tech-related tasks you could get cheaper.

Area information technology companies don’t expect the current economic woes to hit them as hard as the dot-com crash did, but they’re either seeing or expecting some impact.

SAP AG, the German business software giant whose American subsidiary is based in Newtown Square, has imposed a hiring freeze and told employees to curtail travel that doesn’t involve meeting customers.

Managed Technology Provider secures more than 1,000 total users in multi-year contracts.

In just the first 180 days of its managed technology services operations, Evolve IP has achieved the important milestone of more than 100 customer accounts and more than 1,000 users installed. The vast majority of these users have chosen to combine several services from Evolve IP, replacing multiple vendors with a single provider, which demonstrates the value and natural complement within the product and services portfolio, and validates that mid-sized business customers desire to work with a single vendor for their vital communications technologies.

Managed WAN networking can help small and mid-sized businesses take advantage of the latest communication technologies and achieve the same level of service as their larger competitors.

Three offices, three different states, 100 employees. They needed a secure, managed wide-area network (WAN) to link them – fast -- and didn’t have the staff to do it themselves, recalls Bo Breneman of DVFG Companies...

Company selected as the exclusive “Preferred Provider” of advanced managed telephony, network, security and other services to ETC member companies.

Evolve IP today announced that it has been selected by the Eastern Technology Council as the exclusive “Preferred Provider” of managed technology services to its members, including Hosted PBX, Hosted Microsoft Exchange, Hosted Data Back Up and Recovery, Managed Voice and Data Network Services, Network Security and Compliance Services and other telecommunications services.

Evolve IP today announced it has acquired Lyrio IP Technology Solutions, a well-respected and successful Philadelphia-based provider of IP technology products and services for small-to-mid-sized businesses (SMBs).  The cash and stock transaction further signifies Evolve IP’s plan to combine their strong organic growth with the active pursuit of targeted acquisitions and strategic partnerships.

Evolve IP LLC, maker of a hosted applications that helps businesses buy, manage and secure their communications systems, has closed a first institutional round of $15.6 million in equity financing.

Evolve IP, a managed technology provider, has announced that it has successfully closed an equity financing round totaling $15.6 million. This financing represents the largest early stage telecommunications and IT investment in the Philadelphia region in the past seven years.