Video-as-a-Service Accelerates Adoption, Exploitation
and Expansion of Consumption-Based Secure Business
Video
Slough, UK, 5th July 2011 – Logicalis UK, today
announced the launch of ImmersiV, a complete portfolio of cloud
hosted, Video-as-a-Service (VaaS) offerings, bringing quality, on
demand, consumption-based services to the enterprise. With high
definition quality desktop video services starting at under £30 per
month per user, ImmersiV is designed to accelerate and simplify the
adoption, exploitation and expansion of business video.
The new portfolio includes Video-to-Video Bridging (VtoV),
Secure Video Meeting Rooms, Logicalis’ own Managed Video Network
(MVN), and a personal video assistant, the VideoPA.
Organisations can pay for video to match their exact usage needs,
and can access services such as external bridging to other
organisations without having to build their own discreet
infrastructure.
“Video is now considered a truly beneficial business
productivity tool,” commented Tom Kelly, managing director of
Logicalis UK, “whether for busy executives saving time on travel,
meeting more customers and suppliers face-to-face, or using video
to positively impact complex business processes such as supply
chain management, the benefit of video is no longer in question.
The only question many users now have is how quickly can I adopt
video and how can I pay for it without having to commit to a large
capital purchase?
‘ImmersiV brings a simple consumption-based model to video use,
and further demonstrates our continued commitment to enable
customers to only have to pay for what they use, and consume IT in
new and innovative ways. We want to encourage users to adopt
widespread video, and do so with minimal impact on their capital
budget or strain on their IT department or IT infrastructure.
Logicalis ImmersiV makes high quality video financially and
technically viable for even the smallest of organisations.”
The services are available immediately for desktop users, small,
medium and large room systems, and Telepresence suites. The full
suite of ImmersiV services are delivered from Logicalis’ UK-based
cloud platform, and include:
- ImmersiV – suite of endpoints, out-of-band network and external
bridging provided as a service offers immediate business video
value with minimal IT department impact.
- ImmersiV VtoV - Secure hosted internal and external bridging
(VtoV) and secure virtual rooms – connects users with suppliers and
customers and provides access to secure virtual rooms for
multi-user video conferencing.
- ImmersiV Managed Video Network - reduces the need for time
consuming and expensive network upgrades – guaranteeing Quality of
Experience (QoE) when the existing network is not tuned for video
services.
- ImmersiV VideoPA – full service management of users’ total
video experience.
“With ImmersiV, a month’s high quality video service to the
desktop is now considerably less expensive than a standard return
journey between Manchester and London, and executives recognise
that by not leveraging video in normal business practice they
are wasting valuable time and money,” commented Damien Hicks,
director of video services at Logicalis UK. “But, video isn’t
simply about saving bottom line business costs, or not having to
wait about in airport lounges. Extending an individual’s
presence from their desk or a video room system can dramatically
improve customer engagement and customer satisfaction
‘Organisations can now adopt high definition video, as a full
service, and can directly compare the monthly cost of video
enablement with the cost of a single rail ticket, demonstrating
tangible financial and productivity ROI in the first month.
With ImmersiV there is no added strain on the IT department, and if
the customer’s network is not suitable for video, we can enable
immediate video adoption on our managed video network. This
new portfolio is the fastest and most efficient way of making video
an immersive business tool.”
Built on Cisco/Tandberg video infrastructure, and leveraging
high definition MOVI desktop solutions for individual users, the
VaaS solution from Logicalis is a totally integrated turn-key video
environment.
About Logicalis
Logicalis is an
international provider of integrated information and communications
technology (ICT) solutions and services founded on a superior
breadth of knowledge and expertise in communications &
collaboration; data centre; and professional and managed
services.
Logicalis Group employs over 2,000 people worldwide, including
highly trained service specialists who design, specify, deploy and
manage complex ICT infrastructures to meet the needs of over 5,000
corporate and public sector customers. To achieve this,
Logicalis maintains strong partnerships with technology leaders
such as Cisco, HP, IBM and Microsoft.
The Logicalis Group is a division of Datatec Limited, listed on
the Johannesburg and London AIM Stock Exchanges, with revenues in
excess of $4 billion.
For further information please contact:
Andrew Parker/Jennifer Manning/Charlotte Sandy
Cohesive Communications
T: +44 (0) 1291 626200
E: logicalis@cohesive.uk.com