Time compression, travel limits, and increasing complexity in every walk of professional life have driven web and video conferencing from new application to essential services – just like phone, FAX and email before it. This paper describes how OmniJoin™ cloud computing technology and widely available audio/video peripherals deliver easy, high-quality conferencing sessions within IT-friendly network bandwidth and security policies – the essential ingredients for successful business-to-business online meetings.
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Time compression, travel limits, and increasing complexity in every walk of professional life have driven web and video conferencing from new application to essential services – just like phone, FAX and email before it. This paper describes how OmniJoin™ cloud computing technology and widely available audio/video peripherals deliver easy, high-quality conferencing sessions within IT-friendly network bandwidth and security policies – the essential ingredients for successful business-to-business online meetings.
Facebook and Google: The Race for the Next-Gen Communications Platform
In Part 1, I looked at what could be behind Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp and subsequent purchase of Oculus Rift. How are these seemingly different acquisitions related? There is no question that both Facebook and Google are in a race to build the next-generation computing/communications platform (after mobile) and the battle lines are being drawn between the over-the-top (OTT) players and telecommunications companies. After all, both Facebook and Google count on telcos to deliver services to their customer base. How will the WhatsApp and Oculus Rift acquisitions shape Facebook and impact the rest of the market including Google and mobile?
Facebook did not pay $19 billion for WhatsApp simply because it’s an SMS replacement, a Skype and Twitter competitor, because it could grow its international subscriber base, or could attract customers among the coveted millennial demographic – although these reasons are icing on the cake. Facebook’s WhatsApp acquisition was a shot across the bow to telcos: we will be masters of our own destiny and not be reliant on you to reach our customers. With the addition of voice calling to WhatsApp, this puts even more pressure on mobile providers who are already feeling the heat from WhatsApp, which has cost them billions in lost SMS revenue. Now, they have to worry about an even bigger impact on their bread and butter voice business if that follows a similar pricing pressure trajectory. With an already 450 million strong WhatsApp subscriber base added to Facebook’s own customer base, Facebook has the ideal launch pad for the next-generation communications platform provided by Oculous Rift. While Facebook and Google have similar business (new subscribers and advertising revenue) and personal (secure a place in the history books) motivation that is driving both companies overall strategy, their approach is quite different.
Cloud Storage Barriers and How to Bulldoze Through Them
Another week, another cloud storage price drop. The barrier of price is slowly melting away as the cloud storage wars rage and prices drop into the pennies per gigabyte per month. Not familiar with the price wars? Here’s an abridged version:
In 2013, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google, and Rackspace dropped prices a combined 25 times.
So far in 2014, AWS, Google and Azure have all continued to engage in price wars, dropping storage pricing more than 50 percent.
New entrants like IBM Softlayer recently got in the game with a price drop of up to 65 percent on storage
Cloudian Receives $24 Million in New Funding Round
Cloudian has announced that it has closed a $24 million financing round with new investors, INCJ and Fidelity Growth Partners, and existing Cloudian shareholders, including Intel Capital. All three funds actively seek well-positioned, high-growth, enterprise-focused companies for investment and targeted Cloudian as a key provider of hybrid cloud storage solutions. The funding will enable the company to extend its global sales and marketing reach through targeted programs and amplified market development.
«This substantial investment is strong validation of our unique and leading approach to enterprise on-premises storage and hybrid cloud storage,» said Michael Tso, CEO and co-founder of Cloudian. «The rapid growth of unstructured data is transforming the data storage landscape. With this funding, we will accelerate the deployment of our production-proven storage solutions and revolutionize the cost, scalability and availability models for storing unstructured data in the enterprise.»
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Cloudian Receives $24 Million in New Funding Round
Cloudian has announced that it has closed a $24 million financing round with new investors, INCJ and Fidelity Growth Partners, and existing Cloudian shareholders, including Intel Capital. All three funds actively seek well-positioned, high-growth, enterprise-focused companies for investment and targeted Cloudian as a key provider of hybrid cloud storage solutions. The funding will enable the company to extend its global sales and marketing reach through targeted programs and amplified market development.
«This substantial investment is strong validation of our unique and leading approach to enterprise on-premises storage and hybrid cloud storage,» said Michael Tso, CEO and co-founder of Cloudian. «The rapid growth of unstructured data is transforming the data storage landscape. With this funding, we will accelerate the deployment of our production-proven storage solutions and revolutionize the cost, scalability and availability models for storing unstructured data in the enterprise.»
CommVault Fuels Cloud Growth with Enhanced Partner Program
CommVault on Tuesday announced a series of new enhancements to the CommVault PartnerAdvantage partner program Service Provider (SP) Edition, designed to help service provider partners maximize revenue, profitability and growth opportunities through new leading edge tools, resources and solutions that support their specialized requirements.
CommVault’s ongoing cloud strategy builds on its leadership in software innovation and, through strategic relationships with service provider partners, delivers solutions to simplify and secure the transition of these services providers and their customers to cloud computing. To achieve this, CommVault utilizes its single software platform to power highly efficient cloud infrastructures, is expanding market reach through a broad cloud ecosystem and further investing in its own cloud solutions group.
NaviSite Launches Enterprise Mobility Management Solution
NaviSite, Inc., a Time Warner Cable Company and premier provider of enterprise-class hosting, managed applications, managed messaging and managed cloud services, on Tuesday announced an Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solution to help enable enhanced data security while simplifying the management of devices and resources across an organization. NaviSite’s EMM solutions provide a full portfolio of Mobile Device Management (MDM) capabilities to help companies address the critical challenge of securing data across a range of personal devices in a workplace environment where Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) has become the norm.
Case Study: Implementing a Cloud-Based Information Management System
In the pharmaceutical industry, the drug development clock is ticking at the rate of warp-speed. As a result, companies are constantly looking for solutions to help them accelerate time to market – and many are realizing that implementing a cloud-based information management system can bring much needed clarity, organization and efficiency to the complex documentation processes and protocols required to bring a drug to market.
One such company is Singapore-based Lypanosys, an early-stage pharmaceutical company developing a clinically differentiated drug for the dermatology market. Blaine Ah Yuk-Winters, the project manager of the geographically dispersed pharmaceutical startup, describes Lypanosys as a virtual company in the sense that its manufacturing, preclinical, and clinical development activities are spread across the US, Asia, and Australia.