Polycom unveils cloud-based video-as-a-service plans

Polycom (NASDAQ: PLCM) will combine its RealPresence videoconferencing platform with AT&T’s (NYSE: T) Business Exchange telepresence solution and other services in a strategic accord between the two companies to deliver a higher grade of business-centric, cloud-based video meetings and collaborations. Video is well on its way to becoming a universal presence not only in the IT marketplace and

Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: DealsThe Polycom Real Presence platform is to be part of the underlying infrastructure that powers six out of the seven service providers that are offering ‘breakthrough’ Open Visual Communications Consortium (OVCC) compliant, cloud-delivered video collaboration services.

Cisco has enhanced Videoscape, its IPTV platform for service providers, to enable them to offer a range of cloud-based video services to consumers.

Video conferencing is fast becoming a popular tool for communications among a growing number of businesses. But few want to invest the money in deploying the hardware necessary to make enterprise-class video conferencing and collaboration.

Someone at Polycom (NASDAQ:PLCM) must love channel program overhauls.

A newly rechristened Cloud.com on Tuesday unveiled its CloudStack Platform, an integrated software solution that lets enterprises and service providers quickly and easily build, manage and deploy Infrastructure as a Service cloud computing solutions.

A newly rechristened Cloud.com on Tuesday unveiled its CloudStack Platform, an integrated software solution that lets enterprises and service providers quickly and easily build, manage and deploy Infrastructure as a Service cloud computing solutions.

EMC (NYSE: EMC) is enhancing and expanding its Velocity Service Provider Program. The changes, effectively Jan. 1, 2013, could help (A) VARs to transform into cloud services providers and/or (B) VARs to find partners that offer EMC-certified cloud storage services. So, how many VARs will embrace the initiative?

Members of the cloud computing industry this week announced the Open Cloud Initiative, a non-profit organization to advocate open standards in cloud computing, at the OSCON 2011 open source convention in Portland, Ore. The organization maintains a set of Open Cloud Principles, adherence to which will determine whether a given product or service can indeed bear the open cloud label.