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2011 Cloud Computing for National Security Summit: October 27, 2011
By Blog | September 29, 2011 at 11:55 AM EDT | No Comments


This timely event is the only one of its kind to bring together strategic leaders from military, government and industry to discuss the challenges, opportunities and technological advancements in Cloud Computing as organizations push to deliver the most efficient, safe and cost effective network systems.

Panel One: As Cloud Computing is still an evolving paradigm, this panel will explore its definitions, uses, underlying technologies, issues, risks, and benefits in a spirited debate by leaders in the both the public and private sectors.  Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. 

As networks have pushed to improve security while seeking the most cost effective platform, cloud computing has proven to be one of the most popular models for many organizations looking for the next “best” IT solution. The decision makers in the IT arena now know that it would be wise to quickly take advantage of the synergy and increased process speed of these multi-tenant services. Many high profile organizations are using the cloud platform to not only increase performance but also keep their exposure to hazards and costs low. This partnership has allowed IT organizations to focus less on maintaining IT infrastructures and allowed them to become more efficient in managing improvements for their internal clients. 

This panel will explore the business cases and possible ROI for cloud and consolidated IT infrastructure. 

Panel Two: This session will give attendees insight into current cloud offerings in the federal marketplace.  An assortment of cloud solutions will be examined and the requirements that providers must address that enable end users in federal and commerical markets to manage risk will be discussed including:

  • Essential Characteristics: On-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, measured Service,
  • Service Models: Cloud Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
  • Deployment Models: Private Cloud, Community Cloud, Public Cloud, Hybrid Cloud

When: October 27, 2011
Where: Washington Marriot, Wardman Park, 2660 Woodley Road, Washington, D.C. 20008


Vidyo recognized by Frost and Sullivan as the 2011 winner of the Best Practices Award for Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems!
By Blog | September 14, 2011 at 11:41 AM EDT | 1 comment

HACKENSACK, NJ, SEPTEMBER 13, 2011 – Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, and Vidyo, Inc., the first company to deliver personal telepresence, today announced that Vidyo is the 2011 recipient of the Frost & Sullivan Global Product Differentiation Excellence Award in Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems.  Based on the findings of Frost & Sullivan's Best Practices research, the award spotlights the emergence of Vidyo as a key vendor in a market that is highly competitive and dominated by videoconferencing giants. Frost & Sullivan's analysis indicates that Vidyo's disruptive platform and APIs will expand the market.

 

"In a marketplace defined by technological advancements, Vidyo has been at the forefront of innovation, launching products that have positioned the company for growth," said Roopam Jain, Industry Director, Unified Communications and Collaboration, Frost & Sullivan.  "In terms of innovation, technical excellence, scalability and adaptability to varied videoconferencing environments, the VidyoConferencing suite of solutions is impressive and market disruptive. Vidyo’s technology allows new entrants a low barrier of entry to create new, differentiated and cost-effective applications at a desired price performance."

 

Vidyo is seeing success based on new and innovative products that address end user pain points. In its Best Practices Report on Vidyo, Frost & Sullivan cites that currently, several products in Vidyo's portfolio - the VidyoRouter, VidyoRouter Cloud Edition, VidyoPanorama and VidyoMobile enjoy a "first mover advantage" in terms of a high quality solution at a reasonable price point, "clearly jettisoning Vidyo to a prominent position in the fast growing videoconferencing market."  In addition to this award, the 2011 Best of Interop Award for Collaboration and several others, Vidyo is also the current winner of the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Networking, Internet and Broadband. Selected as the single winner in this category amongst all public and private companies, Vidyo was recognized by the Wall Street Journal for “technology that will create an economic disruption,” impacting all three of these industries.

 

“The Frost & Sullivan Global Product Differentiation Excellence Award signifies that Vidyo has achieved what others in our industry have tried to do for decades – Align the price and performance of natural video communications with user expectations and deliver telepresence quality over the Internet and wireless networks for the cost of VoIP infrastructure,” said Ofer Shapiro, CEO and co-founder of Vidyo.  "We are honored to be recognized for our accomplishments, and will continue to push hard to lead this market in technological innovation.”

 

According to the Best Practices report, Vidyo’s solution is well positioned to meet the current and future needs of enterprises, based on two significant trends in the market: Video is becoming more pervasive and a mainstream form of communication thanks to the success of consumer products that support the technology and the demand to tighten corporate travel budgets both for expense control as well as green initiatives. Additionally, the consumerization of IT has users demanding that their productivity and communication tools be available on their personal devices and leveraging existing hardware platforms such as tablets and standard server technologies. As a result, the desktop video market has huge potential for growth. Vidyo’s Adaptive Video Layering™ architecture is a new and more scalable approach to video conferencing eliminating delay, freezing and audio video loss that plagues traditional video conferencing, without requiring expensive network upgrades and complex bandwidth management solutions, while providing an HD experience for mobile, desktop, room system and immersive telepresence users.

 

About Frost & Sullivan

Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, enables clients to accelerate growth and achieve best-in-class positions in growth, innovation and leadership. The company's Growth Partnership Service provides the CEO and the CEO's Growth Team with disciplined research and best-practice models to drive the generation, evaluation and implementation of powerful growth strategies. Frost & Sullivan leverages 50 years of experience in partnering with Global 1000 companies, emerging businesses and the investment community from more than 40 offices on six continents. To join our Growth Partnership, please visit http://www.frost.com.

 

About Vidyo, Inc.

Vidyo, Inc. pioneered Personal Telepresence enabling natural, HD multi-point videoconferences on tablets and smart phones, PCs and Macs, room systems, gateways that interoperate with H.323 and SIP endpoints, telepresence solutions and affordable cloud-based broadcast solutions.  Learn more at www.vidyo.com, on the Blog or follow @vidyo on Twitter.