Grant Terrell and Erik Linask consider growth drivers of the virtual desktop market.

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Akamai's Gary Ballabio discusses the challenges with creating a consistent user experience when delivering applications, content, and services through the cloud, with Erik Linask.

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SHI's Ed McNamara talks about cloud's shift from a marketing topic to a technology topic and the emergence of backup as a service.

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Hostway's Aaron Hollobaugh talks with Erik Linask about growing trends in cloud computing, from backup and storage growth to channel partners.

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Compuware's Nagraj Seshadri explains to Erik Linask why faster is better when it comes to cloud.

Tags: Nagraj Seshadri, Compuware, cloud computing, Cloud Expo, cloud performance, Erik Linask, TMC, user experience, cloud experience, PRISM, NSA, data privacy, cloud visibility

Steve Surfaro from Axis Communications tells Erik Linask about the growth of IP video, driven by the cloud and ease-of-use of systems.

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Cloudant's Sam Bisbee talks about the concept of database as a service to help enterprises meet their growing data storage and analysis needs.

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PGI's Tom Maurath leverages experience from 200 million cloud-based conferences to explain how mobility is made easier through cloud.

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Terry Woloszyn from Leeward Security talks passwords with Erik Linask and explains how to increase security by password protection and management.

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AgilePoint's Jesse Shiah tells Erik Linask the real power of the cloud is in the platform, not the infrastructure, allowing businesses to generate process efficiencies in their business processes.

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OVH.com's JS Bruneau talks about the company's success as an IaaS provider and the market demand for VDI.

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Brendan O'Brien from Aria Systems tells Erik Linask why an integrated billing and subscription platform is the key to taking cloud services to the channel.

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Cirba's Andrew Hillier discusses the challenges of managing cloud resources when balancing workloads for optimal efficiency, with Erik Linask.

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Ipsoft's Jonathan Crance discusses trends driving cloud adoption growth, inclding moving to an OPEX model, mobility, trust, and security and the new role it creates for the CIO.

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Robert Miggins from Peer 1 Hosting talks to Erik Linask about the maturity of cloud computing and the impact of that evolution of enterprise cloud usage.

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Chris Pennisi and Ian Farruggio tell Erik Linask how Pacnet has evolved its cloud capabilities into a global model.

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Allisair Farquarson from SOA Software explains the role of APIs in cloud environments and the need to manage APIs to ensure security, availabilty, and performance.

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Dell's Danalynne Wheeler explains the evolution of enterprise cloud usage and enterprise needs when managing multiple cloud environments to Erik Linask

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George Rautenberg from Zimory talks about the commoditization of cloud resources and the creation of a cloud exchange for trading cloud resources.

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NaviSite's Sandra Palumbo and Erik Linask consider cloud's role in driving the growth of virtual desktop services in an increasingly mobile business environment.

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AppEnsure's Colin McNab discusses how to ensure mission critical application performance across entire cloud infrastructures with Erik Linask.

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MetraTech's Esmerelda Swartz explains the evolution of billing from a second thought to a critical service provider need in creating brand stickiness

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ActiveState's Jeff Hobbs talks to Erik Linask about the benefits of private PaaSas an alternative to public cloud platforms.

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Eric Hutts and Janine Soika explain how mid-sized enterprises can take advantage of secure cloud data centers with high performance managed hosting services.

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Nikos Vekiarides from TwinStrata talks to Erik Linask about the DRaaS market as a logical evolution of the cloud storage industry.

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Server Central's Peter Berg tells Erik Linask why performance of cloud services and applications has evolved in the past year and how it will continue to mature.

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Endstream's Erik Levitt tells Erik Linask how Enstream is taking enterprise mobile communications to a new level with a fully portable enterprise desktop client for mobile devices.

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Erik Levitt from Open Data Centers discusses the cloud's role in driving enterprise mobility.

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Brett Dunst from Dream Host Explores the evolving storage needs of enterprises and the challenges with migrating to scalable cloud storage solutions.

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Rob Conti from Layer 7 Technologies tells Erik Linask what security needs enterprises have when migrating applications and data to cloud environments.

Tags: Layer 7, Rob Conti, CA Technologies, Cloud Expo, Cloud Computing, Erik Linask, TMC, enterprise cloud, PRISM, NSA, data privacy, cloud security, hybrid cloud, cloud API, public cloud, private cloud, internal cloud, external cloud, identity managament,

Noah Rafalko and Erik Linask discuss the evolution of communications and the need for call centers to embrace SMS as the most popular form of communication globally and integrate into their customer engagement strategies.

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With the release of BlackBerry 10, the former RIM reinforces its place in the mobile market. John Cash tells Erik Linask why Blackberry's enterprise install base in on solid footing.

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Cbeyond’s Zane Long explains the value of deep partner relationships in growing a cloud and communications business through a well-designed channel program.

Tags: Cbeyond, ITEXPO, Miami, Zane Long, Erik Linask, TMC, cloud computing, cloud communications, TotalCloud, managed services, IP communications, cloud migration, cloud services, VoIP

ILS Technology CEO Fred Yentz discusses the evolution of the M2M market and the value proposition of the massive amounts of data that are generated by the Internet of Things and how that data can be used to generate business value.

Tags: ILS Technology, M2M, ITEXPO, Miami, Fred Yentz, Erik Linask, TMC, machine to machine, big data, data analytics, connected planet, connected world, internet of things, connected auto, telematics, connected home, asset tracking, smart grid, smart meter

CommLogik’s Kevin Fox discusses the evolution of the Unified Communications market and the advantages a multi-vendor distributor has in accommodating the needs of a growing universe of Microsoft Lync users.

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EQ Contact Center CEO Gregg Hansen explains the benefits of a fully Web-based contact center platform with integrated PBX functionality, compared to traditional on-premises alternatives.

Tags: EQ Contact Center, Equilibrium, Gregg Hansen, PBX, open source, contact center, call center, cloud contact center, Web-based call center, Web-based communications, customer service, TMC, Erik Linask, ITEXPO, Miami

Huawei’s Mike McBride discusses the work of the ONF and the role of OpenFlow and Software Defined Networks in a new era of application and service connectivity, along with the future of SDN.

Tags: Huawei, ONF, OpenFlow, SDN, software defined network, Open Networking Foundation, TMC, ITEXPO, Erik Linask, Mike McBride, Miami

HiperPBX’s Gustavo Scheveloff talks to TMC’s Erik Linask about the Latin American voice market and the advantages of building an ecosystem of partners around an Asterisk-based PBX system.

Tags: HiperPBX, TMC, Erik Linask, Gustavo Scheveloff, ITEXPO, Asterisk, PBX, phone system, VoIP, Unified Communications, channel partner, open source, telephony, Miami, Microsoft, Lync

Ranajit Nevatia explains why enterprises looking for cloud storage solutions need an integrated global file system for management and discovery.

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Bill Roth the VP of Marketing at Nexenta tells TMC's Rich Tehrani about his company's enterprise storage software solutions which utilize open source to provide more economical technology than EMC or NetApp.

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As businesses collect more and more data, they will require storage capabilities that are easily and secure, accessible, and quickly scalable for pure storage as well as data analytics.

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As the adopotion of cloud computing continues to increase, businesses are finding, while they understand the potential benefits, they need help understanding the security and compliance ramifications of moving data into cloud data centers.

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Businesses have reached beyond education and are starting to make signifcant cloud computing deployments, which means they need an awareness of public and private resources, which to deploy in what instances, and how to manage and maintain applications across both domains.

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In order to enable customers to create new revenue streams from their content and applications, cloud providers can provide test environments to allow businesses to more efficiently develop and test new applications.

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One of the challenges for multinational enterprises is establishing connectivity between infrastructure located on different continents. The Transatlantic Data Center Alliance helps overcome many of these challenges, including regulatory and compliance needs.

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While the benefits of virtualization and cloud computing are generally understood, efficienty utilization of virtual servers and other cloud resources requires accurate modeling of needs.

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Virtual application development allows businesses to build new applications on top of existing solutions and lets businesses to unify their on-premises and cloud infrastructure components to leverage all network systems to create maximum value.

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Enterprises are recognizing they can achieve benefits with cloud computing and are ready to start depoloying cloud solutions. But they need help understand which technologies are best suited for them and how to most effectively use them to generate revenue.

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People often think of Cloud as a place. Instead, Axway's John Thielens talks about cloud computing as a way of delivering product and managing infrastructure in a secure environment.

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As enterprises move more and more applications and data to the cloud, they have to be increasingly aware of compliance and regulatory requirements and how they relate to each piece of data they want to move.

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One of the fastest growing uses cases for cloud computing is for disaster recovery strategies, allowing them to lower costs without reducing recovery or failover capabilities.

Tags: Cloud Expo, Windstream, cloud computing, infotech spotlight, erik linask, disaster recover, recovery as a service, cloud recovery

Businesses have been using business intelligence software for a long time, but cloud computing reduces the time to deloy and update software and allows businesses to more efficiently work with the vast amounts of business data they collect.

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Cloud storage provides big data creators to focus their IT resources on other critical business operations instead of data management and maintenance.

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Satellites provide worldwide geopositioning for various m2m solutions.

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Tom Trainer of Red Hat details the company's economical, scalable, software-only, storage software appliances to Rich Tehrani

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Ranajit Nevatia from Panzura tells Rich Tehrani about his company's innovative cloud storage object database architecture at Interop

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Matt Pehnke at Netgear tells Rich Tehrani about the company's broad rang of NAS solutions supporting surveillance and more

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HD Video Conferencing Reseller Newport Video Testimonial

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HD Video Conferencing Customer Healthcare Video Testimonial

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Hiroshige Kamine, Panasonic

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TMC's Paula Bernier speaks with Nikki Cuban, VP of Sales & Marketing for OnAsset Intelligence

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TMC's Paula Bernier speaks with Nikki Cuban, VP of Sales & Marketing for OnAsset Intelligence

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TMC's Stefanie Mosca speaks with Adam Crossno, President & CEO of OnAsset Intelligence

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TMC Group Managing Editor Patrick Barnard speaks with Nikki Cuban, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for OnAsset Intelligence

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TMC’s Juliana Kenny speaks with Kim Murtagh, Director SIP Communications, Panasonic

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4GWE Carl Ford speaks with Troy Pingree, National Sales Manager, Panasonic

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4GWE Carl Ford speaks with Troy Pingree, National Sales Manager, Panasonic

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Panasonic Debuts Toughbook Arbitrator 360...
InsideSales.com Intros New Dialer Report Engine...
Companies Adopt SmartTurn's SaaS WMS...

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InetSoft Technology’s Customer Service-Focused Dashboard
Shared Health Offers IT Tools to Hospitals
Panasonic Restructures Communications Teams

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