video conferencing

There are so many different ways to communicate with partners, customers and co-workers--by phone, email, instant messaging, fax, video conferencing, and social media. Managing each system separately is not only inefficient, but can cause conflicts since they all use the same underlying technology--the Internet.

With an eye on business collaboration and communication, Cisco has released a range of new video production products aimed at enterprise customers.

Citrix Systems' new HD video is just one more bandwidth-sucking app to the hogs already clogging up your net. If you try to resist, they'll eat you.

While properly recycling old equipment and purchasing Energy Star-compliant products may come to mind when looking to lower your carbon footprint, business travel is also gaining attention.

One of the most striking enterprise products on display at this year's DEMOfall show has been HP's Skyroom videoconferencing software that combines instant messaging capabilities with high-definition video streaming.

At Purdue Pharma, CIO Larry Pickett found the only issue he had with desktop video conferencing was that his vendor, Microsoft, had an instant messaging (IM) client that was built in and enabled by default, which goes against his company's policy of banning IM. Disabling the client added complexity to installing the application across the enterprise, which could result in lower utilization of the tool than he had expected.