To hear IBM tell it, it has always had a fascination with video tech. In a recent announcement, it proudly noted that it has won four Emmy Awards for video-related innovations. In addition, in the past ten years, has been awarded more than 1,000 patents in the space. Video also plays a starring role in the future that IBM envisions, one in which visual information and visual communication dominates how companies communicate among themselves as well as with their customers and suppliers — from and through the cloud…