IT EXPO Fall 2011–8×8 buys another cloud computing company

Austin, Texas – 8×8, once upon a time the poster child for business hosted HD voice, bought yet another cloud computing today.

8×8 is acquiring privately-held Contactual, a provider of cloud-based call center and customer interaction management (CRM by any other name) solutions, in an all-stock transaction not to exceed 6.7 million shares of common stock.  [...]

Cloud Communications Alliance emerges, embraces HD voice

Eight business VoIP service providers have more formally joined together as the Cloud Communications Alliance (CCA).  The newly created organization says it represents more than $100 million in combined annual revenue and collectively serve more than 110,000 businesses in the United States – and it wants to make good on HD voice peering.

Members of the CCA [...]