Survey: Cloud has cleared the QoS hurdle, but security is a different story
May 25, 2015
Grazed from ITWorldCanada. Author: Danny Bradbury.
Cloud-based communications provider Switch Communications just landed $35m in funding, highlighting a growing interest in the online communications and collaboration market. The series C financing follows an $18 million B-round for Switch Communications, which provides cloud-based unified communications and phone systems.
The funding round for the San Francisco-based firm was led by Amasia Associates, with Felicis Ventures, SoftBank, Work-Bench Ventures and previous investors Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures. The deal might signal good fortunes for companies selling cloud-based telecommunications, but companies are still showing themselves to be wary of the cloud, especially when it comes to mission-critical infrastructural applications…
This was the finding of a survey from West IP Communications, a cloud-based unified communications company based in the US…
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