VBrick’s Unified Communications Strategy Unfolding

This week we announced that Gurdeep Singh Pall has recently joined our board of directors. As VP of Microsoft’s Unified Communications Group, Gurdeep is responsible for vision, product strategy, business development and R&D for Microsoft’s unified communications offerings including Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS), Microsoft Office Communicator, Microsoft Office Live Meeting and Microsoft Office Communications Online. We look forward to his inspiration and advice as we develop an integrated solution for VBrick and Microsoft customers that will bring together live and on-demand enterprise video distribution and management with the Microsoft UC platform.

Our CEO, Vince Graziani, had this to say about this news: “Securing Gurdeep as a member of our Board of Directors marks an exciting moment in VBrick’s history. We look forward to a long and successful working relationship.”

VBrick has already developed UC capability with our IBM SameTime integration which brings the VEMS Program Guide and live channels directly into the SameTime client. Now we will be extending this functionality into the Microsoft Office Communicator and leveraging the rich interactive capabilities of OCS. Going forward, I will be managing this effort at VBrick.

Please stay tuned here for updates on this project and please post a comment with your ideas about how VBrick should work with Microsoft’s UC platform. If you would like me to follow up directly with you regarding your UC implementation requirements, please feel free to drop me a line at erikh@vbrick.com. Thank you!