CHICAGO, October 22, 2019 (Newswire.com) -Periscope Equity LLC (“Periscope”) today announced its investment in Mobile Solutions, an award-winning Managed Mobility Services (“MMS”) provider and the fourth platform investment of Periscope Equity I, L.P.
Read MoreMunich and Boca Raton, FL – Aug 15, 2016: Unify, the Atos brand for communications software and services, today announced that it has appointed Luiz Domingos as Head of Product House for Unify Software and Platforms. With this appointment, Domingos joins the Unify Executive Committee and assumes responsibility for the entire Unify product portfolio as well as Atos’ social collaboration technology blueKiwi. Domingos succeeds Peter Kuerpick.
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TORONTO, ON, March 14, 2016 – “Today, we are excited to announce that Console Inc., a leading enterprise software and interconnection company, has joined Q9’s Cloud Connect Program to help our data centre clients connect to the cloud,” says Karen Sheriff, Q9 Chief Executive Officer.
Many organizations are increasingly relying on a hybrid set of colocation and cloud IT infrastructure. The ability to rapidly and reliably connect these environments can be challenging. Q9 Cloud Connect offers organizations a fast and cost-effective direct connection to a large and ever-growing ecosystem of private and public cloud services and Internet exchanges through a more reliable, predictable & secure connection versus traditional public Internet links.
“Our clients have been struggling to connect to the largest public clouds, such as Azure, AWS and Salesforce.com as well as industry-specific networks for collaboration purposes. Cloud Connect leverages a set of Q9-approved interconnect partnerships to deliver the global interconnect services our clients require, right from our Canadian data centres,” says Strahan McCarten, SVP, Product Management and Strategy.
Console Inc., headquartered in Silicon Valley, will be available in Q9 data centres in Ontario and Alberta. The Console platform provides a secure, simple and faster way for companies across the globe to bypass the public Internet and directly connect to business-critical cloud providers, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers and other partners.
“We are excited to be working with Q9 and have our Console platform available to customers across their data centres in Canada,” says Al Burgio, Founder and CEO of Console Inc. “Our innovative and easy to use platform will provide Q9 customers with the ability to bypass the public Internet and privately connect to Console’s global ecosystem.”
McCarten adds, “Our goal is to help our customers optimize their IT infrastructure. With Cloud Connect, they now have the ability to extend that environment to the cloud services they need to gain competitive advantage.”
About Q9 Networks Inc.
Q9 Networks Inc. is Canada’s largest provider of outsourced data centre infrastructure for organizations with mission-critical IT operations. Q9’s data centres and network are backed by an industry-leading SLA that guarantees 100 percent network and power availability. Q9 services, including: colocation, private cloud, managed hosting and interconnect service offerings to a global ecosystem allow clients to optimize their IT infrastructure. Q9 is owned by an investor group comprising Canada’s largest communication company, BCE Inc., and some of the largest and most experienced North American pension and private equity funds, including: Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Providence Equity Partners and Madison Dearborn Partners LLC. www.q9.com
About Console Inc.
Console Inc., an IIX company, was founded to change the way enterprises connect to their customers, vendors, and partners. Console’s enterprise software and interconnection platform enables both network-to-network and enterprise-to-enterprise collaboration globally. The Console platform provides enhanced network security, improved performance, and faster business-to-business direct connect. For more information, visithttp://www.console.to.
IIX Inc. is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California. Leveraging its recent acquisition of IX Reach, the company has expanded its global interconnection footprint into more than 150 Points of Presence (PoPs) across North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. IIX is privately held and investors include New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Formation 8, DOT Capital, AME Cloud Ventures, and Drew Perkins. To learn more, visit www.iix.net.
IIX is a registered trademark of IIX Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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Three months ago, we launched Skype for Business Cloud PBX, Meeting Broadcast and PSTN services to provide a complete meetings and voice experience in Office 365. Already, thousands of Office 365 customers are using these services, and many more are trialing them. Today, we’re announcing our first major geographic expansion of these services; new support for hybrid deployments; new, modern meeting room solutions; and improvements to our unified reporting, management and analytics.
As of March 1, 2016, customers in 17 additional countries—Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia and South Korea—can buy dial-in conferencing as part of their Office 365 subscription. Now customers in 32 countries total can simplify their infrastructure using Skype for Business Online for all of their meeting needs, and take advantage of flat-rate, per-user, per-month pricing to simplify budgeting and accounting for conferencing services. Our PSTN conferencing service will include local dial-in numbers in more than 60 countries by the end of this month and nearly 100 countries by the end of June.
We’re also pleased to announce that the new Cloud Connector Edition of Skype for Business Server will be generally available starting in April. All versions of Skype for Business Server allow customers worldwide to use Office 365 Cloud PBX with the carrier calling services of their choice, and the new Cloud Connector Edition allows customers to quickly connect existing phone lines and phone numbers to Office 365 by delivering these proven hybrid capabilities as optimized, pre-configured virtual machine images. In April, we will deliver our new virtual Organizational Auto Attendant in Cloud PBX, enabling customers to use Office 365 for automated handling of business calls and using speech recognition.
Starting in May, we will offer a preview of Skype for Business PSTN Calling services in the UK. With the preview, customers in the UK will be able to trial number acquisition and assignment, inbound and outbound calling, voicemail and other features—all provided by Microsoft and seamlessly integrated as part of Office 365. Office 365 customers in the UK can register for the preview today at the Skype Preview sign-up page.
Over 97 percent of meeting rooms are currently equipped with traditional projectors or displays and only a telephone for including remote participants. But for meetings to be as effective and engaging as possible requires web and video conferencing with features like screen sharing, IM and whiteboard. Without these capabilities, people lose the benefits of rich interaction, remote participants have a sub-optimal experience and the whole team is less productive due to longer meeting startup times.
Today, we are announcing an initiative, codenamed “Project Rigel,” to address this problem. Project Rigel will bring a Skype Meeting experience pioneered on Microsoft Surface Hub to nearly any meeting room with a display or projector. It will use Windows 10 devices for center-of-room touch control and Skype for Business online meeting technology to easily connect remote users. Hardware partners including Polycom and Logitech will certify elements of their portfolios for use with Project Rigel systems, including the Polycom RealPresence Trio and CX5100, and Logitech ConferenceCam Connect, ConferenceCam GROUP and PTZ Pro Camera. Logitech also plans to deliver a purpose-built smart dock for Project Rigel to seamlessly connect the system elements in a meeting room, while Polycom plans to deliver a portfolio of complete Project Rigel systems. We expect the first systems based on Project Rigel to be available in the second half of 2016.
Roughly 3 percent of meeting spaces today include traditional video teleconferencing systems, or VTCs, from Cisco, Polycom and others. We’re pleased to be working with Polycom on two new efforts to extend the Skype Meeting experience to these dedicated video endpoints. First, Polycom will provide an update to its RealPresence Group Series products, which will add both Office 365 integration and a user interface consistent with the Skype Meeting experience. Second, Polycom will provide a Cloud Video Interoperability service, hosted in the Microsoft cloud, which will enable a wide range of existing VTCs, including Cisco and Polycom systems, to connect to Skype for Business meetings in Office 365 and will include audio, video and content interoperability. We will work closely with Polycom to ensure that Office 365 customers can easily take advantage of this service. Both offerings are expected to be available in the second half of 2016.
Through these innovations, we will deliver with our partners a complete range of video conferencing solutions based on Skype for Business in Office 365, establishing a new standard for cloud, hybrid voice and video capabilities for any business meeting room.
Finally, in keeping with our goal to make the Skype for Business management tools powerful and easy to use for IT professionals, we will add powerful management, reporting and analytics tools to our communications cloud in the second half of this year. IT admins will be able to understand usage patterns, analyze call quality and quickly troubleshoot issues in both cloud and hybrid Skype for Business deployments via a single pane of glass within the Office 365 admin portal.
Contact Mostafa Razzak JMRConnect (for Yorktel) 202.904.2048 m.razzak@connect.net FOR RELEASE ON MARCH 2, 2016
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TrueConf now provides video conferencing SDK for developers of mobile solutions and has announced new software integration options for TrueConf Server via the TrueConf API interface.
Read MoreEurope’s largest unified communications and collaboration event, 19-20 April 2016, now open for registration
5th January 2016, London – UC EXPO, Europe’s largest unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) event, today announces that its 2016 event is now open for registration. The free-to-attend event, taking place on 19-20 April at London’s Olympia, brings together a range of technologies and services that enable not only vast efficiencies and cost savings for businesses, but also greater connectivity, creativity and collaboration than ever before.
The 2015 event saw over 90 specialist suppliers exhibiting and nearly 5,000 IT professionals walk through its doors over the two days. 2016 is expected to build on the successes of 2015, bringing together deployment experts from both private and public sectors and addressing those who want to transform their working environment to meet employee demands, boost collaboration between global teams, make themselves accessible to an international talent pool and create huge cost savings.
This year’s speaker line-up includes Thomas Davies, Director of Google for Work in EMEA, who will explore key unified communications trends for the next 12 months and discuss how businesses across all industries – from banking to retail – are already transforming the way their employees work globally. Davies has led Google for Work since 2007 and sits on the Technology Advisory board of a major UK bank, specialising in providing guidance on cultural technology-led transformation.
Other notable speakers include:
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Read MoreExeter, RI, December 1, 2015 -- Carousel Industries, a leading Managed Services Provider (MSP) providing unified communications, data solutions and audio / visual solutions, announced that it has completed the requirements to support the new Skype for Business services in Office 365 and is adding it to its own production Office 365 tenant.
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