Last week, CNBC aired a short piece featuring Ofer Shapiro, CEO of Vidyo, who described how video enhances online banking. Vidyo technology can be added into any application to deliver live video over the Internet. Shapiro talked about how well online banking has been adopted, but at the cost of the human touch...
Few businesses have remained untouched by the evolution of the networked society, distributed work teams, and a growing trend for work shifting that allows people to intersperse work and personal lives seamlessly. Leading organizations are developing approaches—from social networks to video conferencing—to break down communication silos among dispersed teams and promote productivity through better collaboration and knowledge-sharing...
In any virtualized computing environment there is a very fine balancing act to carry out.On the one hand you have to make sure there is enough infrastructure capacity to meet the resource demands of application workloads, so performance doesn't take a hit. But on the other hand you want to avoid overprovisioning, because that's an inefficient use of resources and therefore a way for money to disappear down the drain...