Vidyo goes mobile

	Why… delays… in… video calls just might be good for you | The Grill: Ken Murdoch
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	Vidyo goes mobile Vidyo announced last week that it now has a mobile video conferencing app with the release of VidyoMobile for iOS 4.x on iPads, iPhones and the iPod Touch available from the Apple App Store. The application allows Vidyo's enterprise customers include mobile workers as participants in company video conferences from iOS or Android mobile devices. Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. Akamai Cloud Optimization for Amazon EC2™ The emergence of public cloud platforms and services has IT organizations thinking about which applications they want to keep in-house and which they can build within the cloud. Read more In this Issue Why… delays… in… video calls just might be good for you The Grill: Ken Murdoch OpenStack Eyes 'Extreme Scale' in Upgrade Google engineer: 'We don't get platforms;' G+ 'pathetic' Android to iOS: Where Google 'inspired' Apple WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Read now HP's Converged Infrastructure incorporates tools that make remote support and management efficient and effective. HP Insight Control, for example, helps reduce server deployment time from four hours to just 20 minutes, a 12-fold decrease in deployment time. learn more Why… delays… in… video calls just might be good for you The next time you're on a Google+ hangout or other video call, relish any computer- or network-based communications delays between you and the other participant. After all, such seemingly awkward and frustrating silences can actually enhance the conversation, according to research out of Ohio State University. Read More WHITE PAPER: Raritan Best Practices: KVM Smart Card Authentication Systems Selecting a smart card-enabled KVM system? Choose one that supports PKI authentication to multiple servers from a single location and makes the necessary KVM feature adjustments to enable seamless use of the reader. This White Paper examines best practices when evaluating a Smart Card solution. Learn More The Grill: Ken Murdoch Ken Murdoch's colleagues at the Save the Children Federation venture where few corporate workers go: war-torn countries, poverty-stricken regions and areas devastated by natural disasters. Yet this CIO's 30-member IT team must provide the same technologies that businesspeople in posh office buildings expect. Consider, for example, that Save the Children was one of the first nongovernmental organizations to have its networks restored and running following the catastrophic 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Murdoch's IT team made Skype operational again in less than 24 hours, allowing Save the Children officials to appear on news shows to provide information and appeal for aid, while the organization's remaining IT infrastructure was up in less than 72 hours. Murdoch credits his team for such successes. Here he discusses other aspects of leading Save the Children's IT operations. Read More WEBCAST: Quest Software Data Protection for Data Growth Today's unprecedented growth in data - and the need to protect it - means you must find an effective, inexpensive to backup and potentially recover your company's data! In this Quest Software on-demand video, learn how to develop and manage a flexible backup and recovery strategy. Watch it today. View Now! OpenStack Eyes 'Extreme Scale' in Upgrade OpenStack developers have updated the project's open-source cloud software with a new graphical interface and a unified authentication-management system. Read More Google engineer: 'We don't get platforms;' G+ 'pathetic' Google engineer Steve Yegge, right, meant for his here's-what's-wrong-with-Google manifesto to be a "little family intervention" read by the 20,000 Googler's present on Google+. Read More Android to iOS: Where Google 'inspired' Apple iPhone and iPad aficionados like to cite Google's copying of iOS features -- but the reverse happens, too Read More
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