After Microsoft acquired Skype earlier this month for $8.5 billion, most of the questions revolved around how Skype's IM, voice and video calling features will fit into Microsoft enterprise products such as Outlook and Lync.
In a recession CIOs need to carefully consider an investment in videoconferencing to help reduce travel costs, according to LifeSize Video Communications ANZ director Patrick Micallef.
The company is a US-based videoconferencing company formed in 2003. It The company has local partnerships with HP, The University of Canterbury, Victoria University of Wellington, Massey University, Christchurch Polytechnic, Jade Software and BNZ.
Law firm Holland & Knight already had a who's who of best-of-breed communications products deployed when the firm's IT team decided it needed to replace the tangled mess of PBX systems that provided voice lines at its many offices. It chose to jettison them all in favor of an infrastructure built on Microsoft Lync Server 2013.
AV and IT departments used to be distinct functions within an organization but have since shifted towards a unified, IT-centric organization. CIO and IT departments around the world are being told that audio, video and control (AVC) are now under their care. IT's main concerns are to simply find and deploy a standardized enterprise-wide AVC solution that will solve their collaboration woes and deliver business outcomes. Read more
