Enterprise Connect 2016 - To Cloud or Not to Cloud
At the recent Enterprise Connect 2016, I moderated a session on Cloud Case Studies, where four enterprise organizations discussed their migration to the cloud, lessons learned, benefits, etc.
At the recent Enterprise Connect 2016, I moderated a session on Cloud Case Studies, where four enterprise organizations discussed their migration to the cloud, lessons learned, benefits, etc.
UC industry pundits like myself frequently speak about disruption and inflection points. It's a theme that over the past decade has ceased to get old. We use these terms to describe significant shifts occurring in the industry, such as digital to IP, prem to cloud, hardware to software, and hard phone to softphones. It also applies to less distinct shifts such as next generation applications and mobile-first/cloud-first.
Over the past few weeks, I'm pretty sure that I was the only analyst who attended two particular Cisco events. One was Connect 2014, their annual Canadian event for partners and customers in Toronto, and more recently, their Customer Collaboration Analyst Day, held in Phoenix.
In this vidoecast with Blair Pleasant of UCStrategies, Vishakha Radia of Cisco Consulting Services discusses the Internet of Everything and how it
This is the last chance to register for the WebRTC Conference and Expo in Santa Clara next week, Nov 19-21. This event has all of the major WebRTC players; Google, Mozilla, Cisco, Oracle, TokBox, CafeX, Plantronics, GENBAND, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson and over 40 more companies.
In this Industry Buzz podcast, Blair Pleasant moderates a discussion among the UCStrate
A wireless access point supporting the next-generation 802.11ac (5G) wireless standard, was unveiled by Sunnyvale, California-based Meru Networks last week, and is the company's first access point.
The Meru AP832 access point is the most recent in a series of new wireless equipment brought in this year to support 802.11ac; Aruba Networks, Motorola Solutions and Cisco have also released next-generation access points and routers.
Both The Wall Street Journal and Reuters reported that Samsung is close to signing a deal to provide mobile devices to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Navy. The FBI, in particular, has over 35,000 employees who currently use BlackBerry devices. Whether BlackBerry devices would be replaced by Android-powered Galaxy models or whether handsets from both manufacturers would be used are still not clear at this point.
Some analysts see the forthcoming government deal as proof that mobile has arrived in the enterprise.
Analyst reports on the "videoconferencing market" misrepresent the global opportunity for video sales into the enterprise claims VQ's business development director, Giles Adams (@GilesAdamsVQ).