We all know that there are many different use cases within different vertical markets for exploiting the benefits of UC. UC is particularly beneficial wherever end users are remote and mobile, but still need to easily communicate with each other and collaborate by exchanging information asynchronously or in real time.
The Unified Communications Interoperability Forum (UCI Forum), announced today that it has signed an agreement with the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), to accelerate the adoption of open Software-Defined Networking (SDN) in UC. The agreement establishes a collaborative relationship in the area of SDN integration in unified communications environments. This is an important step in coordinating how UC platforms will interface with SDN-based network services ensuring a better UC user experience.
In this Industry Buzz podcast, Blair Pleasant moderates a discussion among the UCStrate
Workday and Hewlett-Packard are involved in a deal that seems as though it will tread on Amazon cloud territory.
Bill Veghte, the HP Chief Operating Officer, noted that the company had moved Workday over from Amazon's public cloud to HP's.
The Chairman at Workday, Aneel Bhusri, noted that it would not be abandoning Amazon Web Services for HP, as might have been implied by Veghte.
Bhusri said: "We're happy customers of both," speaking at the GigaOM Structure 2013 conference last week in San Francisco, California.
As the prediction season winds down, there's another prognosticator who deserves attention: Elliot Gold of Telespan. This is the 18th consecutive year that Mr. Gold has cast conferencing predictions, and according to his own analysis, his accuracy rate is 75 percent (127 correct out of 170).
Last week, he offered his 10 predictions for 2013 and then reviewed his forecasts from last year. The webinar and more information is available at his site telespan.com.
HP has recently announced the release of HP Converged Cloud, a hybrid delivery approach and portfolio. This unified communications portfolio is based on a common architecture, and is built for the enterprise, extending the cloud across infrastructure, applications, and information.
HP has announced the release of two new offerings, designed to help clients adopt unified communications and enjoy their benefits quickly. The new offerings are the HP AppSystem for Microsoft Lync, and the customizable HP and Polycom Rich Media Communications.
HP has announced that new visual collaboration products have been made available. They can work for desktop and conference rooms, providing a high-definition video experience anywhere and at any time.
The HP Visual Collaboration offerings are software-based, and are designed to reduce the need for travel, thus saving expenses and reducing carbon emissions that come from transportation. Expanding upon HP Halo high-end studios, the solutions let customers run video conferencing over a managed network or their own for flexible collaboration.