Strategy : Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications 2012 and Beyond

 

Gartner Report : Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications - 27 August 2012

 

 

 

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Microsoft Office for the IPhone & iPad Reveal

Microsoft's Office for iPad, iPhone, and Android is a reality. Although Office Mobile has been rumored and reportedly spotted in the wild, Microsoft has remained persistently quiet about its plans for the product. The Verge has learned through several sources close to Microsoft's plans that the company will release Office versions for Android and iOS in early 2013.

Full Exclusive: Microsoft Office for iPhone, iPad and Android revealed here:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/7/3612422/microsoft-office-mobile-ipad-iphone-android-screenshots?=1

If the future is Cloud BYOD whose will it be? Introducing Open Stack...

Who, What , When, Where & why of Openstack

OpenStack is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing project started by Rackspace Cloud and NASA in 2010.

Currently more than 150 companies have joined the project among which are AMD, Intel, Canonical, SUSE Linux, Red Hat, Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM and Yahoo!.

It is free open source software released under the terms of the Apache License.

OpenStack integrates code from NASA's Nebula platform as well as Rackspace's Cloud Files platform, and is included and released in both the Ubuntu and Red Hat Linux distributions currently only.  11/7/12 Wikipedia

..and why Cisco, VMware and I are in...

History: openstack building a free massively scalable cloud computing platform.

Objective: Any app, Any time, Any cloud.

More from Cloud Expo 2012

http://cloudcomputingexpo.com/

Microsofts Propietary Cloud ( Yes, Propietary)

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial/

Leading Players

A M A Z O N

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

http://aws.amazon.com/s3/
...
Emergent ...

Cisco : http://vcider.com/
Vmware:   http://nicira.com/

Oracle: http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/cloud/overview/index.html

DinCloud : http://www.dincloud.com/

Cloud Storage ( SAN killer? )

NirVanix 2013 - http://www.nirvanix.com/

Business Insider : Skype Is Replacing Windows Live Messenger

Skype will be replacing Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger, according to Skype CEO Tony Bates who announced the news in a blog post.

Microsoft bought Skype last year for $8.5 billion, and Skype's Internet-calling software also included an instant-messaging component. As a first step towards integration, Messenger users can sign in to Skype and bring over their contacts.

Here's what's more interesting to us: Microsoft also has a business-messaging product called Lync. In September, the Lync team announced integration with Skype. Previously, Lync supported Windows Live Messenger.
The combination of email, IM, and voice is known as "unified communications," and Microsoft is really interested in selling servers that handle unified communications. So the news that Microsoft is rationalizing its communications products and leaning heavily on Skype makes sense


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/skype-replace-windows-live-messenger--2012-11#ixzz2BUIs7KRb