Virtual Office Pro VoIP and Unified Communications Solution
Download the results of an extensive, independent evaluation of 8×8 Virtual Office cloud communications solution recently completed by industry analyst firm Wainhouse Research. Conducted over a six-week period, the Wainhouse Research evaluation of the 8×8 Virtual Office solution analyzed a broad range of installation, performance, feature and system management attributes….
Cloudera and T-Systems to provide cloud-based data analytics
Cloudera, provider of enterprise software built around Apache Hadoop, has teamed up with T-Systems, a Deutsche Telekom subsidiary, to provide cloud-based data-analytics solutions. The companies will develop the "Analytics-as-a-Service" solutions together. It will combine Cloudera’s Impala RTQ real-time analytics in the data-management-infrastructure layer and T-Systems’ cloud-computing infrastructure. The deal gives…
Cisco Puts Focus on B2B Video Collaboration, Integrates TelePresence, WebEx
Enterprise software vendor Cisco is focusing on increasing the scale and easing the process of B2B video collaboration and communication with several new technology releases and upgrades. Most significantly, Cisco is integrating its TelePresence and WebEx platforms. One important development is that TelePresence users can now invite external users…
Mobilis modernise son système d’information avec IBM et Comparex Algérie
L’operateur de telephonie mobile Mobilis a signe mardi a Alger un accord avec la multinationale IBM et son partenaire Comparex Algerie pour la modernisation et le renforcement de son systeme d’information. La ceremonie de signature s’est deroulee en presence du ministre de la Poste et des Technologies de l’information et…
Here’s One Insider’s Take On Apple’s Big New Hire…
The reactions to Apple’s startling hire of a senior executive at Adobe, Kevin Lynch, as VP of Technology continue to roll in. The Apple blogosphere is up in arms, with analyst John Gruber having called Lynch a "bozo" and "bad guy." The animosity from diehard Apple fans seems to be…
Alteva’s unified communications services make up 50% of its revenues
Alteva (NYSE MKT: ALTV), a cloud services provider that grew out of its rural telco roots as Warwick Valley Telephone (WVT), reported that unified communications (UC) services contributed nearly 50 percent to its Q4 2012 consolidated revenues. As with other telcos, Alteva is seeing its next-gen IP-based services like UC take up…
Progress through Technology: Why Germany Needs to Become a Social Business
If you had asked me four years ago how successful social business concepts would be in German companies, I would have answered very cautiously. The Germans are justifiably known for their prudence when it comes to introducing new technologies. We are one of the nations that have thought longest and…
Startup OX Documents Offers Alternative to Google Docs, Office 365
German collaboration software vendor Open-Xchange is to launch a cloud-based office suite called OX Documents which will compete directly with Google Docs and Microsoft Office 365. The first of the tools, the OX Text word processor, is due to launch at the beginning of April and has a neat design As…
HP Unveils Unified Communications Enterprise Cloud Services
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) announced at Enterprise Connect this week U.S. availability of a cloud service around unified communications. The HP Enterprise Cloud Services – Unified Communications offering was announced alongside other unified communications and collaboration products, but this unified-communications-as-a-service (UCaaS) offering is the only one that directly fits into HP’s…
The Big Data Snowball Effect
Data piles up quickly in business applications, and compound annual data growth threatens to bury today’s application infrastructure. A senior executive at a major bank remarked, "There are only 3 things certain in life: death, taxes, and data growth." Businesses accumulate data across a range of categories, including enterprise applications, data…