Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Cloud Computing and QoS Compatibility for Business Video Conferencing

Interesting overview of business video conferencing in the cloud:

The widespread adoption of cloud computing in business-critical applications such as storage and CRM has set the stage for conquering another, video conferencing cloud computing offers compelling, fundamental advantages in this product category: lower cost, automated fail-over, and much easier to scale versus video-specific routers, multipoint control units (MCUs) and other infrastructure hardware solutions.  But as experienced IT managers know, there’s more to video conferencing than meets the eye, literally.  What about bandwidth consumption and manageability?

User happy with UK cloud providers

According to a new survey from the Cloud Industry Forum, companies in the UK are mostly satisfied with their cloud provider, as discussed in my article here.

According to a new survey from the Cloud Industry Forum of 450 organizations in the UK, almost half (48 percent) are already using cloud computing in some shape or form.