We’re proud to report that for the fourth consecutive year, 8x8 has been named as one of the top five hosted business VoIP and unified communications (UC) service providers in North America by Infonetics Research.

8x8 demonstrated its industry-leading hosted PBX, Unified Communications, Contact Center, Video and Mobile suite of services this week at Enterprise Connect 2012 (http://www.enterpriseconnect.com/orlando/), the leading conference and exhibition for enterprise communications and collaborations systems, software and services.

Suppose you want to get out of the business of running your core PBX/UC platform—or you at least want to supplement this CPE function with cloud-based services for some locations. Who should you turn to? Are the big carriers who used to be your Centrex providers the right choice for hosted UC? How much does size matter when it comes to hosted UC? How important is the technology platform that the provider uses?