Category Archives: Enterprise video
April 26, 2012
The Wall Street Journal’s story on the officeless office points to a larger trend that goes beyond the issue of cubicle timesharing: employees are spending less time together as companies are less and less defined by a physical location.
The “extended enterprise” is creating a gap in employee communication. Workers have less face time with their management and peers, and fewer hallway conversations. They miss out on the clarity, camaraderie and serendipity that comes with proximity. Add to that time-shifting due to increasingly global work teams and you have people that are less connected. Continue reading »
April 16, 2012
There’s a growing paradox for business owners and IT: make important digital content more available, while at the same time maintaining more control over it.
Businesses need to reach their audiences – internal and external – on all of their devices. But files are growing in size (thanks especially to the surge in video content). Send more, faster and broader.
At the same time, the costs and risks of sensitive or valuable content being misplaced or misdirected is growing as fast or faster. And content is growing so large that big publishing “events” can take down networks. Continue reading »
February 22, 2012
Video production has spread to the masses, as we all know (thank you YouTube). Creating and publishing personal, “amateur” video has become an accepted tool for communicating with friends and colleagues. Despite this, there is a growing counter-trend of corporations investing … Continue reading »
February 1, 2012
Why do people increasingly choose texting over phone calls? For the same reason I watch 90% of my entertainment content from Netflix and Tivo: participating in communication and entertainment on my schedule vs. someone else’s is convenient and empowering. Continue reading »
November 16, 2011
For most organizations, IT still means data and desktops. Sure, lots of us are using laptops, but the operative view remains “computing devices for workers at desks”. Interesting research from IDC and Cisco points to a convergence of mobile technology … Continue reading »
October 17, 2011
I’ve talked about how Qumu video communications solutions are delivered via “Atoms” (loaded on servers) or “Bits” (software alone), because our customers need both options.
But the question of Atoms vs. Bits is bigger than just how video infrastructure is deployed; content itself comes in these two forms. We as consumers of digital content make this same choice every day in deciding how we will consume it. Continue reading »
October 12, 2011
Ray Hood, Qumu’s leader and a new member of the Rimage team, talks about how our customers and partners need video communications solutions delivered as both “Atoms” and “Bits”:
Some customers want Atoms – appliance-based implementations of the Qumu video solution that are ready to plug in and deploy.
Others want Bits – software that gets installed on physical infrastructures or delivered via the cloud. Continue reading »
October 10, 2011
We’ve been talking about Content Everywhere at Rimage for a long time. Today we’re living it.
Rimage announced this morning that we are acquiring Qumu, the leader in Enterprise Video Communications. Continue reading »
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