I was scouring the news today and found some forward thinking companies are using Infocomm as the springboard to launch or help propel their WebRTC efforts. Who did? Well rather than a series of blog posts, here's a quick summary: StarLeaf is promising video calling and conferencing hardware and software solution integration. Vidtel and IntelePeer are … Read more
8×8's CEO Bryan Martin was featured in an NBC TV news feature in the Bay Area about the second coming of the technology boom in Silicon Valley as the Nasdaq, where many tech companies list their stock reached a twelve year high. Watch the video. My take–we're seeing a new renaissance of sorts in technology. … Read more
Image via CrunchBase Tomorrow I say "cheerio" to London for the second time this year. And for the second time this year I'm not leaving London for home, but for an industry conference. In my mind the new year hasn't really started as I've only been home for five nights in my own bed before … Read more
Consumerization of IT (Photo credit: Ross Mayfield) They BYOD (bring your own device) movement is weakening the IT departments ability to manage and if I go Post Hoc Ergo Proctor Hoc (if this, therefore, thenfore that) consumerization of the enterprise (COtE) would be the death star for IT Managers according to Gartner which makes their … Read more
Pal Jon Arnold has written a killer post about cloud based video, citing the rationale of clients Vidtel and Telesphere and why they have invested in the space, but also going more deeply into why, how come and what will make companies with their video calling heads in the clouds worth something. Jon was very thorough … Read more
8×8, Inc. (Nasdaq:EGHT), today announced it has some changes at both their board and management level. Mansour Salame was named to its Board of Directors, effective January 2, 2012. The Company also announced the resignation of Donn Wilson from its Board of Directors, effective the same date. But the really big news is that that … Read more
IT Expo moves their fall show to Austin starting September 13 and for me the cloud is where it will be. Cloud Comm, one of the many (maybe too many) co-located conferences at the fall TMCnet shindig is now in its 4th event and for the vetrans like me this event was always the one … Read more
Image via CrunchBase Last week the world saw that Amazon Web Services EC2 went down, wrecking havoc with many so called Cloud based startups. Later in the week I fell victim to the JungleDisk DNS outage, and while Rackspace which manages JungleDisk, even though my data sits on Amazon,was able to maintain data integrity, the … Read more
