Collaboration

Google Opens Up The Secure Meet Video Service To The Masses Amidst COVID-19 Crisis

By / Collaboration, Research / May 14, 2020

As the country remains largely in lockdown in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, video conferencing solutions are experiencing an unprecedented boom. Students, sent home from schools in March, rely on them for lectures and communicating with faculty. Unprecedented amounts of people are suddenly working from home, and relying on these solutions for meetings and …

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Google Is Adding Two Million New Meet Users Each Day And I’m Not Surprised

By / Collaboration, Research / April 23, 2020

My team and I at Moor Insights & Strategy use G Suite, Google Hangouts and Meet (now named Google Meet), on a daily basis. Since all our employees and contractors WFH (work from home) or remotely, it is one of the primary solutions we use to interact, before and during the COVID-19 lockdown. While many …

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What Technology Accelerates Long-Term After The Short-Term COVID-19 Danger Subsides?

By / Collaboration, Personal Computing / April 23, 2020

I recently sat down with my friend and fellow analyst Daniel Newman, of Futurum Research, for a podcast discussion on some of the technology trends we expect to accelerate in the post-corona world. In addition to the tragic human cost, the global pandemic has changed many aspects of our lives, and disrupted industries across the world. When …

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How Webex Securely And Privately Provides For Over 4.2 Million Meetings A Day

By / Collaboration, Research / April 23, 2020

Cisco’s Webex is one of the biggest collaboration platforms in the world. In recent months it owes a lot of its traffic to the COVID-19 crisis and the growing number of employees now working from home (WFH). However, Webex was not built in a month nor built in the timeframe of the COVID-19 crisis. I …

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Zoom Is Looking More And More Like Facebook Every Day

By / Collaboration, Research / April 20, 2020

Zoom drove tremendous growth at the beginning of March because of the coronavirus. It went from hosting 10 million daily meeting participants at the end of last year to over 200 million daily meeting participants this year in March. The influx naturally attracted bad actors who took advantage of Zoom’s security flaws resulting in “zoombombings” …

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Zoom’s Board Of Directors Should Commission An External Investigation On Security And Privacy Lapses

By / Collaboration, Research / April 20, 2020

This morning, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan published an update to the company’s 90-day plan to improve the service’s well-documented security and privacy issues. Zoom needs to act fast else see its future business prospects fade into oblivion. We’re already seeing class-action and investor lawsuits and this is just the beginning. The company seemed to be doing well flying under everyone’s radar …

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