Huawei Hopes To Ship One Million Cloud-based Vision Handsets This Year Huawei Technologies Co Ltd , the world’s No.2 network equipment maker, aims to ship a million of its newly-launched cloud-based “Vision” smartphone handsets this year, a senior executive said on Wednesday. Victor Xu, chief strategy and marketing officer, told reporters on the sidelines of the smartphone launch that it also hoped to maintain shipment growth momentum in the second half for its consumer devices unit. Global shipments by Huawei Device, the division that makes cellphones, tablet PCs and wireless cards, increased by nearly 40 percent to 72 million units
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Nefsis Supports Live PDF Sharing with Video Conferencing Cloud Cloud-based HD video conferencing sessions from Nefsis now support live sharing of portable document format (PDF) files. The online services innovator has allowed videoconference participants to share, annotate, and save multipage PDF documents on-the-fly at the click of a mouse. Nefsis claims this entire process is as easy as sharing any other document type including PowerPoint presentations and Word documents. All Nefsis Professional subscribers and trial users can use the new PDF codec as a seamlessly integrated, advanced collaboration feature. Those interested in a free 14-day trial of Nefsis Professional can
8×8 Introduces Cloud-Based Virtual Room Service A new cloud-based video conferencing service from 8×8 is offering an easier, more flexible and significantly more affordable way to collaborate using voice, video and content. 8×8, a provider of innovative cloud communications and computing solutions, is offering these services to businesses of all sizes and claims that it can seamlessly and reliably interoperate with the largest number of participants at the lowest cost. The new service is based on 8×8′s voice and video IP service platform and unified communications (UC) solutions and Polycom’s UC Intelligent Core software platform and video collaboration solutions. 8×8
Media Alert: Cisco to Unveil Networking and Cloud Computing Innovations at Cisco Live SAN JOSE, Calif. – Next week at Cisco Live, Cisco’s annual IT and communications conference, Cisco will host two news conferences to discuss strategy and unveil new technologies for networking and cloud computing. The news conferences will be webcast via the U-Stream service. Tuesday, July 12, 2011 What: News Conference: The Next Generation Network – With customers: VeriSign and HCL Who: Cisco Senior Vice President, Core Technology Group, John McCool When: 8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. PDT Where: To view the live program or the replay, visit
Disney joins 50 game publishers who have provided games for the OnLive platform, with many more coming. OnLive is the pioneer of on-demand, instant-play video game services, delivering real-time interactive experiences and rich media through the Internet. With groundbreaking video compression technology, OnLive harnesses cloud computing to provide the power and intelligence needed to instantly deliver the latest, premium game titles to any HDTV via the OnLive Game System or nearly any PC and Mac via a small browser download. The OnLive Viewer app is available for the iPad and full gameplay is coming to both iPad and Android tablets.
Managing the Virtualization Maturity Lifecycle Virtualization demonstrates substantial benefits — in agility, availability and cost reduction — but it is not all clear sailing. Most organizations struggle, sooner or later, with added complexity, staffing requirements, SLA management, departmental politics and more. In fact, most organizations face one (or more) clear ‘tipping points’, where virtualization deployment stalls as they stop to deal with these new challenges. This ‘VM stall’ tends to coincide with different stages in the virtualization maturity lifecycle — such as the transition from tier 2/3 server consolidation to mission-critical tier 1 applications; or from basic provisioning automation to
