Telehealth legislation opened the floodgates for investment in modern communications services and APIs since 2010. WebRTC promises a second revolution.
In his session at WebRTC Summit, Ivelin Ivanov, co-founder of TeleStax, will first discuss a real-world example where telephony APIs make a difference in improving patient care and reducing healthcare costs. He will then look into a brighter telehealth future with secure, high quality, ubiquitous WebRTC video interactions.
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WebRTC Summit | WebRTC and the Codec War
The codec war is raging now more than ever before. The increased popularity of the proposed WebRTC protocol and the implied royalty costs make this a hot topic. Google, Cisco, Microsoft and now finally Apple are promoting their preferred technology and attempting to influence the choice to be made for WebRTC. The choice is far from clear especially in light of the latest technology advances, the transcoding infrastructure costs involved and the impact on mobile devices.
In this session, Soufiane Houri will share Weemo’s multi-year experience developing on top of the leading video and voice codecs. He will provide some perspective on the advantages of each across devices taking into account hardware and software-based video acceleration and the impact each have on the end user.
Priologic to Exhibit at WebRTC Summit at Cloud Expo
SYS-CON Events announced today that Priologic, a provider of dedicated enterprise software teams, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 1st WebRTC Summit, which will take place on November 6–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Based in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Priologic Software Inc. has been deploying dedicated enterprise software teams since 2003. Our teams work on strategic projects developing custom applications, enterprise collaboration portlets, platforms and mobile applications. With Priologic you have immediate access to qualified people ready to support your enterprise.
Webinar: Designing for Gamification Success
When implementing gamification to drive long-term user engagement, you need to map your program to key performance indicators that matter. It is not enough to just create a leaderboard or a set of points and badges.
Comprised of experts in game design, loyalty, analytics and employee performance, The Behavior Lab is the gamification industry’s first center of excellence for behavior management solutions.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: One Cloud, No Servers. Pure Joy
A day in the life of the future. In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Lanlogic’s Joe Foos will show how your entire organization can:
Achieve Seamless Communication – voice, video, email and messaging … without playing tag
Enjoy Real Collaboration – meet, work, and share … anytime, anywhere
Enable Unlimited Potential – your cloud will never run out of space, power, or capability
See exactly how the California Strawberry Commission and thousands of other organizations globally, large and small, gained:
Greater Productivity
Cloud Expo: Cloud Platform for New Generation M2M Services
Nowadays, a large number of sensors and devices are connected to the Internet. Leading-edge M2M technologies integrate various types of sensor data to create a new value for several business decision scenarios.
The transparent cloud is a model of a new M2M emergence integration service platform in which many service providers store and access various types of sensor data in order to create and find out new business values by integrating such data.
In their session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Ikuo Nakagawa, Executive Chief Engineer at Intec, Inc.; Shinichi Shibata, Executive Manager, Research & Development Division, Ubiquitous Corporation; and Hideaki Imaizumi, Senior Researcher, TOYOTA InfoTechnology Center USA, will introduce the concepts and challenges of the transparent cloud: transparent API to store, access and process data, policy management for protecting privacy information, and business models between service providers.
Moving Our Datacenter: An IT Director’s Take
An Interview with Matt Mock, IT Director, GreenPages Technology Solutions
Journey to the Cloud’s Ben Stephenson sat down with GreenPages’ IT Director Matt Mock to discuss GreenPages’ recent datacenter move.
Ben: Why did GreenPages decide to move its datacenter?
Matt: Our current contract was up so we started evaluating new facilities looking for a robust, redundant facility to house our equipment in. We needed a facility to meet specific objectives around our business continuity plan. In addition, we were also looking for cost savings.
Ben: Where did you move the datacenter to and from?
Matt: Geographically, we stayed in a close area. We moved it from Charlestown, MA a couple of miles down the road into downtown Boston. Staying within a close area certainly made the physical move quicker and easier.
Ben: What were the benefits of moving the datacenter?
Matt: Ultimately, we were able to get into an extremely redundant and secure datacenter that provided us with cost savings. Furthermore, the datacenter is also a large carrier hotel which gives us additional savings on circuit costs. With this move we’re able to further our capabilities of delivering to our customers 24/7.
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Ben: Tell us about the process of the move? What had to happen ahead of time to ensure a smooth transition?
Matt: The most important parts were planning, testing, and communication. We put together an extremely detailed plan that broke out every phase of the move down to 15 minute increments. We devised teams for the specific phases that had a communication plan for each team. We also devised a backup emergency plan in the event that we hit any issues the night of the move.
Ben: What happened the night of the move?
Matt: The night of the move we leveraged the excellent facilities at Markley to be able to run a command center that was run by one of our project managers. In the room, we had multiple conference bridges to run the different work streams to ensure smooth and constant communication. We also utilized Huddle, our internal collaboration tool, to communicate as our internal systems were down during the move.
Ben: Anything else you had to factor in?
Matt: Absolutely. The same night of the move we were also changing both voice and data providers at three different locations, which added another layer of complexity. We had to work closely with our new providers to ensure a smooth transition. Because we have a 24/7 Managed Services division at GreenPages, we needed to continue to offer customers the same support during the move that we do on a day-to-day basis.
Ben: Did you experience unexpected events during the move? If so, what were they and how did you handle them?
Matt: With any complex IT project you’re going to experience unexpected events. A couple that we experienced were some hardware failures and unforeseen configuration issues. Fortunately, our detailed plan accounted for these issues, and we were able to address them with the teams on hand and remain on schedule.
Ben: You used an all GreenPages team to accomplish this, right?
Matt: Correct. We did not use any outside vendors for this move – all services were rendered by the GreenPages team. Last time we used outside providers and this time we had a much better experience. I’m in the unique position where I have access to an entire team of project managers and technical resources that made doing this possible. In fact, this is something we offer our customers (from consulting to project management to the actual move) so our team is very, very good at it.
Ben: What advice do you have for other IT Directors who are considering moving their datacenters?
Matt: Detailed planning and constant communication is critical, having a plan in place for every possible scenario, and having an emergency plan ready so that in the middle of the night you’re not scrambling with how to address those unforeseen issues.
Ben: Congratulations on the successful move. See you Monday after the Patriots crush your Steelers.
Would you like to learn more about how GreenPages can help you with your datacenter needs?
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Internet of Things
For half a century, the trajectory of computing has followed a «faster, smaller, cheaper» arc. In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Tim Park, Director, Platform Strategy at Microsoft and alumnus of Nest Labs, will look at how that trajectory is both accelerating and changing course as computing begins to infuse many of the everyday items in our lives. He will walk through the hard problems you need to think about when deploying devices and services for the Internet of Things and walk through a framework for Windows Azure that helps cover some of these hard problems so you can focus on your device or application.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Prepare for the Surge… Before It’s Too Late
Outages, downtime, lost revenues and damaged customer trust seem to be on the rise as millions have turned to online shopping, entertainment and daily tasks. Ironically, these same recent events also highlight how cloud infrastructures, when managed correctly, actually provide unprecedented capabilities to deliver high availability, resiliency, and business continuity in IT operations.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Rishi Vaish, VP, Product at RightScale, will describe how American Girl dealt with a major online scaling issue. They needed to launch a social game in a matter of days to meet a marketing deadline, but their architecture was not scaling properly. Hear how the American Girl team was able to build a scalable environment and launch their application into the public cloud, all in time for the catalog drop.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Moving Securely to the Cloud
Many organizations are realizing the benefits that come with moving data to the cloud, including faster implementation, elasticity and reduced costs. But the path to the cloud isn’t always smooth. Finding the right cloud service provider takes research, and data security is always a primary concern, especially for organizations that are regulated by privacy laws.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Steve Pate, CTO & Co-Founder of HighCloud Security, will speak to the safest ways to transition to a public cloud and address key capabilities that might help in the search for the right public cloud for your company.