Companies in the news during the week of Feb. 8 include AVST, MVD, RADVISION, Polycom, Microsoft, Voxeo, Telenet, FaceTime, Blue Coat, Broadcore, ABS Telecom, Digium, Asterisk, ShoreTel, Cal Net Technology, Acme Packet and SYNNEX.
Google is set to release Google Voice for business, expand Google Wave, and release 200 or so Google Apps. The goal is a communications mesh for business that provides UCC as a function of its ubiquitous Web-based platform. It's confusing, audacious -- and takes direct aim at incumbent UC vendors.
UC services and applications are ahead of service provider and enterprise efforts to adequately monitor them. This must be addressed, says Mark Hemmert, the Vice President of Sales and Operations for Psytechnics. (Podcast length: 20:07) 
Sonian Founder and CTO Greg Arnette tells site editor Carl Weinschenk that many of cloud computing's concerns and advantages are the same for unified communications as they are for traditional siloed services. The good news is that UC, despite the tight linkages between services and applications, doesn’t increase the complexity of cloud initiatives (Podcast length: 17:14).Carl Weinschenk
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