Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: David Guthrie, CTO of PGi (Part 5)

SM: I heard you say a few things that I’d like probe into. Transcription, automatic transcription, is that a requirement that your customers are asking for? DG: No, it’s not a requirement. Henry Ford said that what he would have given his customers if they’d asked for it would have been a faster horse. SM:

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: David Guthrie, CTO of PGi (Part 4)

SM: I’ll defer to you on this. This whole game is going to come under tremendous margin pressure. Everybody innovates. Everybody will continue to innovate. There will be new players that will apply more pricing pressure, but anytime it becomes a major telecom game, including cloud storage, these are all pricing games, and they’re going

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: David Guthrie, CTO of PGi (Part 3)

SM: I understand the motivation. I’m asking more for a state of the union in that market. Since you’re an insider in that marketplace, it sounds like one of your strategies is to sell through these telecom providers. DG: Yes. It’s not our only strategy, but we believe it’s a great opportunity for the reasons

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: David Guthrie, CTO of PGi (Part 2)

SM: Point taken. But the products in the market also have very large user bases. DG: Sure. So, did other wireless phones that you know about before the iPhone came out, before the Droid came out with their OSes that changed the way you interact with phones. But there were other phones like Samsung and

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: David Guthrie, CTO of PGi (Part 1)

Remote workforces continue to grow and telecommuting becomes more commonplace every day as modern technologies like Web conferencing and video chats make it easier for people from all over the world to collaborate on projects or simply work from home. These types of conveniences save money for everyone, and companies like PGi strive to make

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ViVu Offer For DimDim Customers

Readers, as you know, DimDim, our longtime partner for the 1M/1M strategy roundtables, has recently been acquired by Salesforce.com. Following the acquisition, Salesforce turned off all of the free accounts that DimDim had so generously supported. We have since moved to the ViVu video conferencing platform, and gone from an audio/Web conferencing experience to an

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Deal Radar 2009: Central Desktop

Central Desktop is a web-based collaborative tool that allows users at small and mid-sized businesses to share information and communicate in real time with others in their workgroups. Users can also manage projects, coordinate tasks and share files on their own time by using this collaboration platform, whose features include web and audio conferencing, wikis

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Deal Radar 2008: Dimdim

Dimdim is a web-based conferencing service. Unlike other online conference platforms, Dimdim does not require users to download any client – a big win over the competing offerings from WebEx, Adobe, and GoToMeeting.