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One of the corollaries we found in our 2009 research was that as companies ramp up their use of video conferencing, demand grows for solutions to record video, store video, and share video both inside and outside the firewall. While YouTube is the dominant platform for external video sharing, a slew of new options are bringing YouTube like functionality behind the firewall. Last year Cisco introduced “Show and Share,” part of its Digital Media Suite for creating and delivering video to a variety of different end-points. Microsoft announced that SharePoint 2010 would have the opportunity to store and enable collaboration around video. Last week, Polycom announced a slew of new and upgraded products to support video capture, editing, streaming, and management. In addition, we continue to track advancements from dedicated video streaming vendors, including Accordant, Adobe, Kontiki, Real, Qumu, Vbrick, and Wowza. For those of you who are increasing your video conferencing deployments, pay attention to emerging opportunities to add storage, collaboration and streaming to the mix. Evaluate the options to leverage new platforms to support signage, surveillance, and streaming needs. But also understand potential impacts on the LAN and WAN, and address requirements around governance and discovery of video content.
