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Video Conferencing Market Projected to Reach $14 billion by 2017

December 12th, 2011

According to the latest Global Industry Analysts report, the world video conferencing market is set to reach $14 billion by 2017.

The report, which is called “Video Conferencing: A Global Strategic Business Report”, looks into several market trends, mergers and acquisitions and other industry drivers and finds that the growth of the video conferencing industry is going to soar over the next five years since 2010 when the industry made a comeback after the decline in sales registered in 2008 and 2009 during the global economic recession.

This exponential growth is primarily being fueled by the increase of mobile workforce, the growing number of telepresence solutions and the embracing of video conferencing by the small and medium businesses all over the world.

Also important for the increasing adoption of video conferencing is the increase of low-end free and cheaper products which allow small and medium companies to try the technology and to incorporate it in their business operations, increasing awareness of the impact video conferencing solutions can have on their businesses.

Still, the report shows that it is the high-end video conferencing solutions that are really making the difference. The revolution of both video streaming and broadband technology in the last few years has made new high quality solutions available in the market at reasonable prices for companies to adopt when they make their transition from low-end to high-end solutions.

The report also finds that the U.S. is the largest regional video conferencing market in the world. Still, the Asia-Pacific region is quickly picking up on the U.S. at a CAGR of 8.9% which makes it the fastest growing regional market.

The Asia-Pacific is expected to continue to grow exponentially over the next five years with the development in IP infrastructure, particularly in countries such as India and China.

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The market is looking for solutions that are able to deliver both web and video conferencing

November 10th, 2011

A new research shows that companies are looking for solutions that are able to deliver both web and video conferencing to improve collaboration among their employees and to increase team productivity.

According to the latest InformationWeek Analytics Desktop Videoconferencing Survey, collaboration was cited by 38% of the respondents as being the main reason behind their adoption of desktop web conferencing solutions, followed by the reduction of travel costs with 31%.

The InformationWeek Analytics Desktop Videoconferencing Survey, which tries to determine web and video conferencing adoption plans and strategies in Northern American enterprises, found that 34% of the respondents have already deployed desktop web conferencing and 10% are looking forward to adopting it over the next twelve months.

The report also shows that the majority of the web conferencing solutions will be deployed using Windows PCs (96%), followed by iPads (39%) and Macs (34%).

Still, desktop web conferencing adoption is still far from the numbers achieved by video conferencing solutions which is being used in meeting rooms of companies all across the country. According to the report, video conferencing is being used or is planned to be used in the near future by 78% of the surveyed companies.

What these findings show is that the market is looking for solutions that are able to deliver both web and video conferencing. With the adoption happening at a fast pace, companies will be looking for solutions which allow them to deploy remote conferencing whether they are video, web or even audio, since it is becoming clear that one tool is not enough and that they need different tools for different purposes.

Solutions like RHUB’s 6-in-1 TurboMeeting appliance, which provides video, web and audio conferencing tools as well as remote access in one single appliance, will be leading the market since they deliver value-added service enterprises are looking for in one single and easy-to-use package.

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Appliance-based Computing: The Road to the Future

October 14th, 2011

We live in the time of the cloud. The word “cloud” seem to be everywhere and with it the promise of the cloud based products which often claim to be the future of software and hardware alike. On the other hand we also live in a time where most companies are fighting against insolvency, struggling for their cash flow and attempting to contain their costs to the best of their abilities while still looking for ways to grow and increase productivity.

Many of these companies saw in the “cloud” the holy land of low cost software and virtualized hardware and took the opportunity to renew their operations. But many, when taking a closer at their costs, have found out that cloud computing products and software-as-a-service solutions (SaaS) have higher costs than their appliance counterparts as well as increased security risks.

At a first glance SaaS solutions may seem more cost effective, but monthly fees soon turn into a never ending investment in a platform that is never really owned by the company, as opposed to an appliance solution, which requires a payment for a piece of technology that once paid is owned by its purchaser.

Appliance based solutions are also much easier to deploy than SaaS solutions because they circumvent problems like system requirements and the purchasing of additional hardware for the software to work. Appliance solutions are ready to be deployed and don’t require optimized hardware. They also don’t require professional services to install, integrate and maintain the software.

Appliance based solutions are also more secure to use that their SaaS counterparts. In the case of remote work or remote conferencing, SaaS solutions require the user to connect to a third party server, usually belonging to the software vendor. This third party server is completely out of the control of the solution users and one can never be sure who might be tapping into it or what kind protection it has against hacking intrusion.

With sensitive information on the line, an appliance solution offers its users much more control over potential security threats since one is in control of the servers used to connect the devices and through which the information passes.

Sometimes the best solutions for the future are those of the past. SaaS and cloud based solutions may offer an alternative but in the end the market belongs to the appliance solutions because of one simple detail: higher quality at lower costs.

RHUB’s 6-in-1 Turbomeeting solution is such an example. It offers remote conferencing and remote access in one single appliance, at low costs without requiring any maintenance or special deployment.

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Tags: Appliance

The U.S. IT market is Growing and so are the Buyers Expectations

July 5th, 2011

This year, IT companies are expecting to make most of their revenue from the U.S. market, a shift from previous years where most revenues came from the Chinese and Indian markets. The U.S. will also have the highest percentage of employment growth this year, says a survey by the audit, tax and advisory firm KPMG.

Buyers, according to a Computer Economics survey of 200 IT executives, are also planning to spend this year more than in the last year. The survey found out that that 60% of the respondents have the intention of increasing their operational budgets against 22% that expects to decrease them, 18% expecting to maintain their budgets.

The optimism in a recovery economy is even clearer when these numbers are compared with those of the year before in which 44% stated that they were expecting to reduce their operational budgets.

What can companies and buyers expect

In a scenario of economic recovery, companies can expect a higher level of competition. Buyers will need to find the better deals (those that offer a better price/quality ratio) and companies will have to produce better products at lower prices if they want to survive.

Buyers looking for the best deals and higher quality web conferencing and remote support appliances can expect to find them at RHUB. Not only RHUB offers the most secure products available in the market but it also offers the best deal, giving your four features, namely web conferencing, webinar, remote support and remote access, all in one box.

Most products available in the market are packaged software or hosted solutions, RHUB offers a buyers a third alternative: appliance based solution. RHUB’s appliances provide as a complete hardware and software bundled and pre-configured package that is easy to install, to use and that requires no maintenance. RHUB’s floating licensing only controls the concurrent number of meetings and participants, but there is no limit to the number of users who can host meetings. Moreover, RHUB appliances come with very easy integration with your LDAP to save your time from inputing every employee profile to the appliance.

RHUB’s appliances aren’t just great products. They are market leaders regarding quality and costs and have been recognized as one of the major players in the market.

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Tags: Appliance

American and Chinese students work together through web conferencing software

July 1st, 2011

According to the Miami Herald, third graders from The Cushman School recently had the opportunity o communicate with another class of elementary students on the other side of the world. Using web conferencing software, the American students and educators were able to have a class together with Chinese students from an elementary school associated with Hunan University in Changsha.

One student told the Miami Herald’s reporter that “it’s cool talking to someone from a different country and hearing them speak in a different language.”

Behind this experience was a project called Idea at the Bass, which was designed by the Bass Museum of Art and aimed at having students working together to solve common problems. In question was a Japanese print called the “Mannen Bridge”, showing a bridge and a captured turtle, which led the students to discuss the artwork and the turtle.

Though there are 12 hours of difference between the two countries, students were able to meet by getting up a bit earlier, in case of the Americans, and by staying in school until a little later, in case of the Chinese. The language differences were set aside by having each class speaking in its native language and having the Chinese teacher to translate.

The online meeting took 45 minutes and was all done through web conferencing and desktop sharing. The experience highlights how web conferencing and desktop sharing software and appliances can be used in education and overcome spatial barriers by allowing students in two distant countries to share experiences and learn from each other.

RHUB 4-in-1 Web Conferencing appliances covers everything one may need to hold online meetings. It allows Web Conferencing, Web Seminars, Remote Support and Remote Access to the office computer from home or any other place. Using RHUB’s appliance students can communicate, share experiences and learn from other students on the other side of the world, but it also allows them to attend and participate in special classes delivered by teachers in far away schools and universities.

Imagine a student somewhere in a university in Europe taking a class delivered by a teacher in the Columbia University and vice versa. Such experiences will become more common and relevant as web conferencing appliances enter mainstream education practices and revolutionizes them.