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CTO Padmasree Warrior discusses cloud computing, and BT Global Services expands an offering in this area.

Sheila McGee-Smith

July 6, 2010

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CTO Padmasree Warrior discusses cloud computing, and BT Global Services expands an offering in this area.

One of the big announcements at Cisco Live 2010 was Hosted Collaboration Services. In the first segment of this video, Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior discusses the definition of Cloud Computing during her keynote, an important ingredient in Cisco's delivery of its collaboration solutions through service providers.

In a second segment, VP of Marketing for BT Global Services Simon Farr answers questions about potential users of Hosted Collaboration Services. At Cisco Live, BT announced the expansion of its hosted unified communications services--initially available only in the UK--to the United States. Farr told us that the US market will be served from redundant data centers in Chicago and Manhattan. There are plans are expand even further, to Asian markets, by the end of the year.

About the Author

Sheila McGee-Smith

Sheila McGee-Smith, who founded McGee-Smith Analytics in 2001, is a leading communications industry analyst and strategic consultant focused on the contact center and enterprise communications markets. She has a proven track record of accomplishment in new product development, competitive assessment, market research, and sales strategies for communications solutions and services.

McGee-Smith Analytics works with companies ranging in size from the Fortune 100 to start-ups, examining the competitive environment for communications products and services. Sheila's expertise includes product assessment, sales force training, and content creation for white papers, eBooks, and webinars. Her professional accomplishments include authoring multi-client market research studies in the areas of contact centers, enterprise telephony, data networking, and the wireless market. She is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, user group and sales meetings, as well as an oft-quoted authority on news and trends in the communications market.

Sheila has spent 30 years in the communications industry, including 12 years as an industry analyst with The Pelorus Group. Early in her career, she held sales management, market research and product management positions at AT&T, Timeplex, and Dun & Bradstreet. Sheila serves as the Contact Center Track Chair for Enterprise Connect.