Oracle had to get its feet into the SD-WAN market and they are not the last cloud company to do so. Question is, did they make the right choice with respect to the acquisition target. Financially Talari was probably a good deal. Technically, I’m not sure.
I have a feeling this is not the last move Oracle will be required to do in order to reach a strong position in this market.
Cisco Adds Another Piece to its Enterprise IT Puzzle
Although Cisco has a very strong position in the UC market, its strengths are mainly in UC of the past (on-premises deployments and telephony focused).
The acquisition of Broadsoft will help Cisco to better compete in the next generation cloud UC and team collaboration.
Overall a strong move of Cisco to help it compete with its rivals such as Microsoft and Slack.
WebRTC Shines Silently as Collaboration, CRM and IoT Join Hands
Expect more of these silent integrations of WebRTC enabled services with other, non-communication centric services to come. Communication is added to specific services as a feature. It also means plain vanilla communication is of less value. We already said that the value of voice goes down to zero and that the value of it is the service in which it is embedded in.
Why The WebRTC Video Codec War Is Not Over Yet, VP8 & H.264 Are Still In The Boxing Ring
There are 2 main decision criteria for choosing a video codec – technical and business. Tsahi touched the technical part in his post. While I’ll get a bit into the technical aspects as well, in this post I also want to cover some of the business considerations. Let’s put one thing behind us. The difference between H.264 and VP8 from quality perspective is more of a religion than anything else.
The Drift from Closed Services to PaaS Continues
Unify announced the availability of APIs for their Circuit collaboration platform opening it for the general public of developers. This is not the first time we see closed WebRTC based collaboration platforms in the cloud open up for developers. What drives companies to make this kind of shift and does it pay off? UC vendors need to reinvent themselves, abandon the term UC