After many year of broken promises, lost opportunities and costly errors, the time has come to look over the obstacles and poor choices leading up to today's videoconferencing and telepresence offerings.
Given enough time, pure software can always beat pure hardware. That was shown in the demise of Crescendo Networks, a hardware vendor that was in the process of being liquidated before F5 Networks stepped in to buy some parts of the company.
The company firms up the underpinnings of its business by addressing needed features in the product line as well as geographical expansion, where there remains low-hanging fruit for resellers.
The company started with a handful of tools for assessing application performance by passively inspecting and analyzing network performance. As it forms a community of interest among customers and partners, ExtraHop could become an attractive prospect.
Riverbed has been on a buying binge, picking up Aptimize and Zeus Technology, apparently in order to compete with some of its erstwhile partners in content delivery, datacenter communications acceleration and virtualization.
With built-in management tools originally designed for physical machines, the task of managing multiple virtual machines has been disproportionately difficult. Now SolarWinds addresses cross-vendor virtualization.
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