Polycom’s RealPresence Platform

September 26th, 2011 | Posted by Nina Parker in Polycom | Unified Communications | Video Conferencing - (0 Comments)

Polycom continues to demonstrate its commitment to open standards among unified communications solutions with its announcement of  the Polycom RealPresence platform. This new offering includes a comprehensive software infrastructure for universal video collaboration.

The Polycom RealPresence Platform (formerly referred to as the Polycom UC Intelligent Core) is the software infrastructure that powers Polycom’s HD telepresence and video solutions.

The open-standards approach of the Polycom RealPresence Platform ensures integration with hundreds of unified communications and social networking applications, such as Microsoft Lync 2010, IBM Sametime, and Jive’s social business platform.

More here:

http://www.www.istockanalyst.com/business/news/5421447/polycom-introduces-realpresence-platform

 

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Put on your Blue Jeans

July 1st, 2011 | Posted by Adam Kaiser in Industry News | Unified Communications | Video Conferencing - (0 Comments)

An interesting new offering launched this week in the Visual Collaboration world.  The Blue Jeans Network debuted a cloud based video conferencing service that promises to bring the traditional room based systems of manufacturers such as Polycom, Cisco, and Lifesize together with Skype, Google Talk, and more.  And this is all accomplished over the public internet!  The early buzz is that the service works very well.

IVCi welcomes Blue Jeans to the market!

IVCi Named to VAR500 for Fifth Year in a Row

June 13th, 2011 | Posted by Nina Parker in IVCi | Unified Communications - (0 Comments)

IVCi has been named to the VAR500 list for the fifth consecutive year.  Look for upcoming press release!

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Polycom to Acquire HP’s Visual Collaboration Business

June 1st, 2011 | Posted by Nina Parker in Polycom | Unified Communications - (0 Comments)

In another exciting turn of events for our industry, Polycom has announced that it is acquiring HP’s visual collaboration business including Halo, and will become an exclusive partner to HP for telepresence and certain video UC solutions.

Also included in press release:

  • Polycom will integrate video applications in HP’s WebOS platform
  • Establishes open video exchange cloud with leading service providers
  • Expands strategic relationships with Microsoft
  • Announces 2-for-1 stock split

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Polycom-Groundbreaking-iw-3458141717.html?x=0&.v=1%20ut:blank

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Microsoft’s Skype Acquisition: Good News for Video Conferencing Adoption

May 16th, 2011 | Posted by Nina Parker in Unified Communications - (0 Comments)

Although Skype’s target audience has been the consumer market, we believe this acquisition will have ripple effects that will lead to the acceleration of video conferencing use across the enterprise. We believe video conferencing will become ubiquitous as costs continue to come down, quality and ease of use increase, and it is integrated with other communication tools for mobile devices and at the desktop.

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