This Week @ Citrix Synergy

May 23, 2011 6:00 am   |   Leave a Comment

Citrix Synergy San Francisco will be jammed packed this week, with compelling speakers, outstanding demonstrations and opportunities to network. We invite you to stop by our booth, #638, to see industry-leading desktop videocommunications on the Citrix platform.

And if you can, we urge you to attend Avistar’s presentation on 2pm on 5/26 by CTO Chris Lauwers, a noted industry thought leader who will discuss architectures for interactive audio and video within VDI environments. That talk is at 2 pm in the Moscone West Convention Center.

Preparing for Synergy

May 17, 2011 6:50 am   |   Leave a Comment

As we finalize our plans for Citrix Synergy we are proud of how far we have come. We were the first to offer desktop visual communications for VDI environments. In 2010, the industry recognized this with a Best of Synergy Award for Workforce Productivity for the Avistar C3 Integrator™ solution. The Avistar C3 Integrator™ for Citrix solution enables rich videoconferencing to run optimally and at lower cost on virtual desktops across LANs and WANs. Users can experience immersive high-definition desktop video communication on the smallest of thin terminals, without degrading network performance or server scalability. Everyone wins with the Avistar C3 Integrator™ for Citrix solution as end users experience a fully immersive desktop videoconferencing experience, while the IT organization benefits from lower IT operating costs and gains the efficient deployment and support model of the VDI environment. If you are heading to Citrix Synergy, we’d welcome hearing from you on your needs and experiences with desktop videoconferencing. And we invite you to stop by our booth, #638, to test-drive Avistar C3 Integrator™ for yourself and experience the richest videoconferencing experience on the thinnest of terminals.

Citrix Synergy San Francisco

Apr 29, 2011 8:38 am   |   Leave a Comment

Next month, Avistar heads to Citrix Synergy San Francisco. One line from the show’s website truly strikes a familiar chord: “You’ll see how virtualization, networking and cloud technologies work together to make businesses more agile and efficient, and make workers more productive and satisfied.”

Avistar’s technology is rooted in the mission of “visibly smarter communications” — and we lead the industry in offering desktop visual communications for VDI environments. A month from today, our Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Chris Lauwers, will address the Citrix Synergy audience on the topic of “architectures for interactive video and audio in VDI environments.” It’s a talk not to be missed, and a look into the current and future state of helping businesses and workers of today become more productive, efficient and satisfied with the tools they need to do their jobs.

We hope to see you there, booth #638.

How to tell if a meeting is worth attending in person

Mar 29, 2011 11:39 am   |   Leave a Comment

In her monthly Fast Company column, “Do Something,” which covers business lessons from the nonprofit sector that can be applied to the for-profit sector, Nancy Lublin recently wrote about a topic that interests is a great deal.

Entitled, “How to Tell if a Conference Is Travel-Worthy or a Time Waster,” Lublin’s column provided “Travel-Worthy or Time Waster” quiz to determine whether attending a conference is “worth your while.”

While Lublin is focused attending conferences, we think some of the questions can be applied to determine whether you need to attend a meeting in person or can attend remotely such as by videoconference.

Key variables include:

  • The people who will be in the room.
  • The location – Lublin suggests travel-worthy meetings include those in “the city you live and/or work” or “a location you’re dying to visit.”  But we also know that sometimes short-distance meetings can be annoying to attend; it may not make sense to attend a half-hour meeting that’s an hour away, eating two hours (there and back) of your day to attend.
  • Timing – if you need to be in a million places in one day, the best solution is to connect to meetings remotely like using videoconferencing.
  • Your role – If you’re leading the meeting with a lot of other people in the room, it might be worthwhile to attend in person, too.

Here’s to being able to reduce the time-wasting meetings in your job!

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Avistar (AVSR.PK) is an innovation leader in the unified visual communications industry, with more than 15 years of experience providing proven business-class desktop videoconferencing technology. Avistar’s solutions are used across a broad spectrum of industries with deployments ranging in size from 30-35,000 users. Avistar’s technology also helps to power solutions from Citrix, IBM, LifeSize, Logitech and many other leading unified communications vendors, while delivering end-user videoconferencing solutions to some of the world’s largest corporations, in more than 40 countries. For more information, please visit www.avistar.com.

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