The communications industry is experiencing the explosion of the “Me-We” phenomenon! Customers want “Me” services that are personalized, easy to use and focused on their needs. At the same time they want what we call the “We” experience, access to their friends and their social communities, such as ...

In this podcast, Jeff Meier, chief information officer for Fujitsu North America, discusses how a broad range of Verizon Business services enable his firm’s U.S.-based business operations. Meier then looks ahead to future initiatives with Verizon Business and offers personal suggestions on how to create and maintain a productive relationship ...

In this podcast, Chris Kimm discusses the Verizon Business’s commitment to the environment and how advanced communications and information technology solutions can help multinational companies employ energy-efficient business practices that make good business sense. Kimm is vice president of sales engineering for Verizon Business.

In this podcast, we hear from Bart Vansevenant, director of strategy for Verizon Business Security Solutions. Mr. Vansevenant highlights Verizon Business’s announcement of a new suite of services that help large businesses and government agencies protect data and prevent data loss within the extended enterprise. He talks about why data ...

The Trans Pacific Express (TPE) is the first next-generation undersea optical cable system directly linking the U.S. and mainland China, as well as the first major undersea system to land on the U.S. West Coast in seven years. As the only U.S.-based charter consortium member, Verizon Business is playing a ...

In this third of three podcasts on enterprise data security, PodTech’s Michael Johnson speaks with Bob Cancilla, vice president of disk systems at IBM. Cancilla explains the important role of encryption key management across the enterprise data storage security space, especially with an encrypted drive. Cancilla says that key management, ...

In this second of three podcasts on enterprise data security, PodTech’s Michael Johnson speaks with Phil Bullinger, executive vice president and general manager of the Engenio Storage Group at LSI Corporation. Bullinger explains the role of the storage system in the enterprise data storage security ecosystem. Bullinger says that ...

Seagate, IBM, and LSI have been working to make changes in how data is protected in enterprise Data Centers. Today Seagate announced it is making available the world’s first self-encrypting hard drive for data centers. PodTech spoke with key executives at Seagate, IBM, and LSI about this ...

Ken Salchow, F5’s manager of technical marketing, talks about F5’s Application Ready Networks (ARNs). These road-tested architectures cover best practices and deployment support for specific solutions from F5 and major software vendors. F5 currently offers ARNs for Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle products. This podcast describes how ARNs benefit ...

Tom Meagher, director of transport planning for Verizon Business, explains how Verizon Business’s multi-year Ultra Long Haul (ULH) strategy provides customers with reduced provisioning times, improved reliability and lower latency. This network strategy reduces network elements by 70 percent, thereby enabling the network to operate more efficiently.

As video streaming, file sharing, database delivery and business continuity solutions drive bandwidth demand, industry experts are increasingly looking toward 100 Gbps network upgrades. In late 2007, Verizon successfully completed the industry’s first successful field trial proving that the existing network can be upgraded to carry 100 Gbps ...

In this podcast, a preview of this year’s Spring IDF 2008, bringing thousands of hardware and software engineers from around the world to Shanghai, China, for a developer forum with a telling theme: “Invent the New Reality.”

Intel Senior Vice President and Digital Enterprise Group co-GM Pat Gelsinger speaks with ...

Intel processing power was the name of the game at the 2008 Game Developers Conference. With quad core and 8-core muscle “under the hood,” gamers, developers, and graphics folks alike had a chance to see their games supercharged: faster rendering, MMOs running at ultimate speed, and easier ...

VMware has just released ESX 3.5 and Virtual Center 2.5. In this 5th of a 5 part podcast series, VMware Technical Account Manager Joe Gazarik explains more of the new features of ESX 3.5 and networking, jumbo frame support, TCP segment offloading, support for Cisco Discovery Protocol, ...

This video podcast, featuring comments from Ivan Seidenberg Verizon chairman and CEO, and Nancy Gofus, chief marketing officer for Verizon Business, discusses how Verizon’s network investments are driving innovations in fixed-mobile convergence. Hear how our powerful global IP and wireless networks are being used as the platform to ...

Brian Fenimore, director of global infrastructure for MEI Group discusses how close collaboration with Verizon Business resulted in the on-time deployment of a brand new managed global network. Fenimore speaks to the advantages of a fully managed global infrastructure and offers suggestions on how to maximize the value ...

VMware has just released ESX 3.5 and Virtual Center 2.5. In the fourth of a 5 part podcast series, VMware Technical Account Manager Joe Gazarik explains more of the new features of ESX 3.5 and Virtual Center 2.5 including support for 64G of RAM in virtual machines, larger ...

Peak traffic can overload servers and cause bandwidth congestion, leaving web sites unavailable to users. Commercial Content Delivery Networks (CDN) improve performance, but costs are unpredictable, highly variable, and wreak havoc on budgets. In this podcast, Joe Hicks, F5 Networks Product Manager, explains how you can control and lower ...

Enterprises want to distribute content closer to their remote users, but can’t use commercial Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), because the information is internal, dynamic and confidential. In this podcast, Joe Hicks, F5 Networks Product Manager, explains how F5 BIG-IP WebAccelerator can be deployed symmetrically to create an ...

VMware has just released ESX 3.5 and Virtual Center 2.5. This is the 3rd of a 5-part podcast series, featuring VMware Technical Account Manager Joe Gazarik on Virtualization. In this podcast, he focuses on the functional improvements to VC 2.5, like scalability, tools management, and 64 bit operating ...

On the floor of CES 2008 in Las Vegas, PodTech’s Michael Johnson speaks with Bruce Lidl, PR Manager, DivX, Inc. about DivX. In this podcast, we’ll found out about the oft-cited but little understood codec: what it is, and how it is an increasingly used format for online, and ...

VMware has just released ESX 3.5 and Virtual Center 2.5. This is the second of a 5-part podcast series, featuring VMware Technical Account Manager Joe Gazarik. In this podcast, he delves deeper into three benefit catagories of ESX 3.5 and Virtual Center 2.5: simplified operations, increased service levels, ...

The final stretch for CES revealed bleary eyes from late night parties, cheers for Scoble as he appeared on CNBC, and a rocking good time at BlogHaus. In this installment we get to see rapping about memory chips, amazing flat panel TVs , new technologies ...

Come walk the floor at CES and check out the sleek TV you can wear on your head, green screen thrills from Intel, Belkin’s new game pad, a glimpse of the back of Fata1ity’s head, and the Frag Dolls appearance at Bloghaus.