In a comment on one of my recent posts, mike b noted that video conferencing will be best served when anyone who wants to can place a video call to anyone else, just as we do with telephone calls today. Of course, this hits on the idea of interoperability we’ve all been talking about lately. But it also raises the issue of two applications that can make video conferencing more accessible right now. Read the rest of this entry »
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The Clash of Virtualization and UC
Virtualization is one of the "hotter" topics right now in the IT arena, with a growing number of companies looking at virtualization technologies to reduce application server requirements. On the desktop front, we’re seeing a growing interest in replacing "fat" desktops with thin-clients using virtualized desktop applications from Microsoft, VMWare, and others. The idea is to reduce the cost of the user desktop in hardware, support, and operational requirements, but also to reduce power consumption by replacing desktop PCs with small footprint thin-client devices
What Is Your Social Networking Policy?
One of the areas we’re asking enterprise IT executives about for our upcoming benchmark on unified communications and collaboration is organizational policies around the use of social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and MySpace. Not surprisingly, we’ve seen a huge variance in responses.
Interoperability & Integration: The Call is Now
Everyone’s been talking about the need for interoperability and integration lately–a rally that got a jump start at VoiceCon, when Microsoft and IBM had their now infamous handshake on the issue, and which has been gaining momentum ever since.
Of course, interoperability and integration are not the same thing. Read the rest of this entry »
Video Conferencing is Changing Businesses in Many Ways
This week at Interop, I moderated a panel discussion on the value of video conferencing in the enterprise. We had four terrific speakers representing a variety of industries and company sizes, and although each deployment was different they had one thing in common: In all cases, video conferecing has changed the way these companies’ business gets done. Read the rest of this entry »