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Interview with Stephan Schaade, Senior Vice President of Cloud Communications, in Siemens Enterprise Communication 2013 Analyst Summit
- 19 Jun 2013 22:22
- by Mohamed Alaa Saayed
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Stephan Schaade joined Siemens Enterprise Communications in 1994 and currently is Senior Vice President of Cloud Communications. In his role, he is resposible for the end-to-end strategy and business development of all aspects of cloud communications. In this video interview Stephan shares with us the company´s vision around cloud communications...
Huawei unveils world's thinnest smartphone
- 19 Jun 2013 04:58
- by Lawrence Lundy
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Yesterday, Huawei launched its new flagship device - the Ascend P6 - in an attempt to muscle in on the premium smartphone segment. Despite being the largest telecommunications equipment maker in the world, Huawei is still a relatively unknown brand in Europe and has struggled to capture mind share. The launch of the Ascend P6 is Huawei's first real...
New Device Chart Lets You Compare Today's Streaming Boxes and Content Platforms
- 17 Jun 2013 14:09
- by Dan Rayburn
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There’s more than a dozen streaming media boxes on the market today and trying to compare their technical specs and which content platforms they support can be a challenge. So I’ve put together an updated chart which compares the top 14 devices. This is an update to last year’s chart and includes recently released boxes from Roku 3, Hisense, Asus,...
Instart Logic Launches New CDN To Focus On Delivering Web Applications Over Mobile Networks
- 17 Jun 2013 14:06
- by Dan Rayburn
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There are a lot of different types of content delivery services in the market, pushing content over various types of networks and across many different devices. While the market is crowded with CDN vendors focusing on the delivery of video, fewer solutions exist in the market for delivering web applications, especially over wireless networks. This ...
Amazon Gets More Competitive With Announcement Of Custom SSL Support For Static & Dynamic Content Delivery
- 17 Jun 2013 14:03
- by Dan Rayburn
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Late in the day on Tuesday, Amazon announced that custom SSL domain names and root domain hosting support features have now been enabled for content owners who want to deliver static and dynamic content via Amazon’s CloudFront delivery service. These two new features are something a lot of content owners have been waiting on and many I have spoken...
Visual Analytics, High Performance Analytics and Cloud - SAS's View on the Future of Big Data
- 12 Jun 2013 08:52
- by Saverio Romeo
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This year, the annual SAS conference brought analysts to Stresa on the Maggiore Lake in North Italy. Sitting on the Terrazza of the beautiful Royal Palace Hotel with Isola Bella on the horizon and the green hills rapidly climbing towards the Alps, analysts had relaxing moments to think about a company that grows globally continuously offering new i...
The World Is Changing—Are Your Communications Ready for BYOD?
- 11 Jun 2013 10:42
- by Melanie Turek
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Think about this: A recent Frost & Sullivan survey of more than 250 C-level executives revealed that in the vast majority of their organizations, employees routinely use mobile phones to conduct business—and, more importantly, for two-thirds of those users, a mobile device is their telephony end point of choice. Even when employees are working in t...
Google Close to Acquiring Waze
- 10 Jun 2013 12:38
- by Lawrence Lundy
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It looks like Google has stolen a march of its rivals and sown up a deal for the Israeli mapping start-up for $1.3 billion. Waze is a crowd-sourced navigation app with over 50m worldwide users. It has been reported that Facebook and Apple were both interested in the company, and if the deal goes through it would represent a real coup for Google. Wi...
The Connected Car: Driving New Opportunities for ICT Suppliers
- 06 Jun 2013 01:05
- by Andrew Milroy
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The nexus of cloud computing, high speed mobile networks, big data and ‘The Internet of Things’ is creating huge opportunities to transform entire industries. From the healthcare industry to the automotive industry, we are on the brink of a surge in innovation, driven by ICT advances. Organizations no longer view ICT as a way of increasing product...
Tablets Cause a Paradigm Shift in Enterprise Communications Endpoints
- 05 Jun 2013 17:02
- by Mohamed Alaa Saayed
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I just wrapped up a private market insight entitled: “Beyond the Hype: Leveraging Tablets for Real Business Value”. For a period of two months I had several interviews with key UCC vendors including Aastra, Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, Cisco, Mitel, NEC, ShoreTel, and Siemens Enterprise Communications. Discussions centered around topics such as the val...
Does UCC Need a Social Facelift?
- 28 May 2013 12:49
- by Elka Popova
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Social networks and social media have rapidly become a key element of our daily interactions with family, friends, and business associates. Capitalizing on the ubiquity and improving quality of the public Internet, growing computer and Internet literacy among younger generations, and demand for maintaining relationships in an increasingly dynamic s...
Navigating Turbulent Waters: A Q1 2013 Update on the Enterprise Communications Platforms and Endpoints
- 24 May 2013 11:51
- by Mohamed Alaa Saayed
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The enterprise communications platforms and endpoints market suffered flat to negative sales in 2012. Almost all types of enterprise communications solutions (e.g., TDM and IP systems, desktop phones) were impacted in revenues due to a tough macro-economic situation. Mobile voice and UC clients represented a notable exception as they continued to...
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