Disruptive Forces in AV/IT – Part 4: Acano

New solutions continue to enter the market at a rapid pace and if all were taken into consideration, it’s altogether possible that this series could go on for months. However, due to the fact that I’ve set it to end prior to InfoComm we are coming to the last few chapters. So far all companies […]

Disruptive Forces in AV/IT – Part 4: Acano

Disruptive Forces in AV/IT – Part 3: Zoom

OK, I’ll admit it, I’m a social media junkie. Without social media, I’m not sure I’d have even been doing such a series in the first place — I’ve gotten a very good idea of what the companies involved in this bring to the table either through certain individuals or collectively. And this company is […]

Disruptive Forces in AV/IT – Part 3: Zoom

Disruptive Forces in AV/IT — Part 2: Pexip

Next up in the series is a company who approaches this new age of video communications from a bit of a different angle, one that may look to be more IT-centric mirroring what is currently occurring in enterprise IT, as organizations move toward replacing hardware in the infrastructure with software and virtualized technologies. Based in […]

Disruptive Forces in AV/IT — Part 2: Pexip

Weekly Wrap-Up: April 11, 2014

Here’s a second look at some of the top stories from last week. Enjoy! And if you think we missed anything, be sure to let us know! Post by rAVe.

Weekly Wrap-Up: April 11, 2014

Disruptive Forces in AV/IT — Part 1: Blue Jeans

OK, here we go with the first in a series on numerous participants in the new market of disruptive technologies. The groundwork has been laid in the prologue that was published late last week, you may want to first refer back to that if you haven’t read it yet to get set up for the […]

Disruptive Forces in AV/IT — Part 1: Blue Jeans

Disruptive Forces in AV/IT – The Series

The interview — the power of the spoken word, the real sense of expression and feeling when one gives you direct response to something that you’ve been thinking and/or wondering about. In blogs previous to the last two that I’ve done on the title subject of AV/IT be they cloud, BYOD or cybersecurity, it was […]

Disruptive Forces in AV/IT – The Series

Satya Nadella – A Big Step Into Some Very Big Shoes

Apple’s Steve Jobs. Virgin Atlantic’s Richard Branson. Tesla Motor’s Elon Musk. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerburg. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. And yes, Microsoft’s Bill Gates. All can be summed up in one word — influencers. Just what is an influencer? Even though the word itself doesn’t appear in WikiPedia or any online dictionaries, in an overview of the […]

Satya Nadella – A Big Step Into Some Very Big Shoes

Apple, AV and a Whole New Perspective

As someone who has regularly blogged on AV/IT, cloud and mobility/BYOD, it was my recent blog interview article which brought a whole new angle on blogging for me, opening up a new door where I plan on making it a regular theme as I identify AV companies across the world in this format. I’d like […]

Apple, AV and a Whole New Perspective

Getting AV/IT Business Done in the Great White North

The competitive battle for U.S. AV integrator market supremacy has grown hotter over the last few years, and newer technologies in AV/IT, cloud and BYOD are beginning to elevate this movement toward market reign. In many articles that I have read lately, suggestions (and even directives) are being expressed to the integrators to embrace these […]

Getting AV/IT Business Done in the Great White North

Microsoft and the New AV World Order

Hot on the heels of the January 10th announcement by InfoComm International, many of us now know that Microsoft is coming to InfoComm 2014 as a Platinum sponsor. In the announcement, David Labuskes, CTS, RCDD, executive director and CEO, InfoComm International said: “The decade-long conversation about the convergence of AV and IT technology has been […]

Microsoft and the New AV World Order

AV/IT — An Aerial View Assessment

It looks as if lately LinkedIn group discussions have become the basis and inspiration for my recent blogs. The previous one I was encouraged to write by the moderator of the group discussion, this one I was not, however I saw the opportunity to put together collective thoughts, some related to the thread and some […]

AV/IT — An Aerial View Assessment

BYOD, Telehealth and a Value Proposition

On August 1st, I was an attendee at a high level Health Information Technology (HIT) meeting in Washington DC, as an invited guest of the National eHealth Collaborative. The National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) is a public-private partnership that accelerates effective use of health IT to create a more patient and family centered healthcare system with […]

BYOD, Telehealth and a Value Proposition

AV and BYOD — The Landscape Ahead

Have you read and heard enough about mobility and devices yet? The AV industry continues to buzz about the concept of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and how it relates to everything from presenting to collaborating to control. However I have to wonder, have the resellers and integrators grasped it as a core concept? I […]

AV and BYOD — The Landscape Ahead

Microsoft and Skype – A Match Made for Lync

If you’ve ever met someone on Facebook who you’ve wanted to carry on an extended friendship with, the possibility of a “Skype” chat is likely to arise in conversation. Upon agreement, each party simply downloads the application on their PC or mobile device, one sends a connect request to the other, and in minutes they’re […]

Microsoft and Skype – A Match Made for Lync

Cloud, BYOD and More – InfoComm 2013

First let me say that InfoComm 2013 was hands down the best show I have ever attended since my beginnings in the AV industry dating back to Dallas in ’95 (great projector shootout by the way). The organization did a terrific job with its focused approach on cloud, unified communications, digital signage and especially BYOD. […]

Cloud, BYOD and More – InfoComm 2013

Mobile at the Show – Then and Now

As I prepare to head to Orlando, with InfoComm 2013 now less than a week away, I look back at my last trip down to the show several years back. Back then, I traveled from New Jersey with my trusty Dell laptop and my Blackberry, my main mobile business tool. Of course to travel light […]

Mobile at the Show – Then and Now