Unified Communication began to build a "Cloud" layer for itself

At the recent VoiceCon Orlando exhibition, Unified Communication Equipment vendors revealed that they expect more cloud computing vendors such as IBM's Lotus live Engage to bring more communication services. IBM services use the cloud to manage personal data and contact information, online meetings, file sharing, instant messages, and lightweight project management capabilities. The company expects that customers can access services and environments through a portal to quickly develop new applications.

Verizon said it was about its cloud computing service, which was promised in the last quarter and can be implemented at any time. In addition, the company has announced the construction of virtualization services and infrastructure.

Christopher Kimm, vice president of Solution Engineering at Verizon, said he only predicted the cost of the used computing to use a virtual machine for one day. For example, customers may want the resources of front-level applications on multiple operating systems to meet their desire for quality assurance. They may perform these operations on a virtual server on the Verizon network without providing their own resources. Although these customers may be able to reserve resources worth 40 days, if the project ends early, the customer may only pay for the actual number of days of resource use. He also mentioned that enterprises may use cloud resources as high-level backups, that is, backups enabled after the primary backup fails. Therefore, if the primary data center stops running, the backup resources will be backed up in the cloud vendor's network until the primary page resumes normal operation.

He revealed that the infrastructure is ready and IP relay is also set. In the intercity region, the company can support a latency of less than one millisecond and has a flexible virtual machine architecture that facilitates Unified Communication.

At this exhibition, Siemens announced a concept validation service in which customers can purchase services based on the company's OpenScape Unified Communication Software. The software runs on the virtual server of Amazon.com.

Although cloud computing is often used to provide commercial storage services, it is still a new concept as a communication platform, and it also has security defects.

Kimm said that suppliers are likely to provide a series of security options, in which users can pay for more security protection. He compared it to different types of network connections that can be purchased-public Internet, virtual professional network, MPLS technology, frame relay, and leased line. Different types have different security and reliability.

Bethann Cregg, director of IBM online partner services, said Lotus live will design software and hardware in accordance with IBM's internal security standards. They will develop these software and hardware by studying user behavior and the security level of locking the application, but users do not have to try to bypass security measures.

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