Join BearingPoint Senior Manager Laurent Mandorla as he explores the importance of virtual desktops and why they are being hailed as the wave of the future. Over the last few years, there has been a lot of buzz around virtualization, although it’s only recently that organizations have begun to embrace it. Statistics show that by the year 2011 there will be 700 million users. This is a bold prediction that has many people investing heavily in this solution as a new offering for their clients.
A virtual desktop is one where all computing happens remotely. It contains a very simple screen that allows you to replace the heavy workstations that are currently being used by the majority of companies. Virtual desktops provide a “virtual” space, in which the user can place all their application software. The most compelling argument that vendors use to convince organizations to buy in to this solution is the fact that all the data and applications are in one secure location. Someone can still manage all of their employee’s desktops, even when the computer is off.
The recent trend has been for companies to move to Windows Vista. This allows an organization to keep the same hardware, ...
Join BearingPoint senior manager Randy Nease as he explores employee on-boarding and how it can be made easier for the new hire. Employee on-boarding begins when the new hire accepts a company’s offer, and continues all the way through setting their performance goals. In the midst of this, there ...
It’s a busy time of year for storage folks. For the many who made it to Orlando for this show, and for those who followed online from around the world, there was plenty to learn and share, from the floor (where you might have seen this IBM System ...
In this podcast, a focus on the state of 8-Gigabit fibre channel and fibre channel over Ethernet. Joining the conversation, Tom Hammond-Doel, senior alliance manager at LSI and vice chairman of the Fibre Channel Industry Association, and Greg Schulz, founder and senior analyst with The StorageIO Group. Also in ...
In this podcast, we hear about a new development in the high performance computing market from Raj Das of SGI and Greg Schulz, analyst with The StorageIO Group, weighs in on the “green gap” in the data center.
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In this podcast, reporter Michael Johnson delves into storage virtualization technology, speaking with Don Fautt, LSI director of software marketing, and Doug Jury, LSI’s director of software business sales. Catherine Girardeau tackles power efficiency in the data center, speaking with Dave Vellante and William Souder about Vellante’s Wikibon ...
In this podcast, we chat with Harry Mason, president of the SCSI Trade Association. Also, Dr. Claudine Simson, chief technology officer for LSI, gives us a preview of her keynote address. SNWSpotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World. It’s brought to you by
SNWSpotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World. Here at the Shingle Creek Resort in Orlando, Fla., we start our coverage with a preview of the conference, featuring Derek Hulitzky of Computerworld, and we preview a security partnership among some industry leaders. SNWSpotlight is brought ... Join BearingPoint managing director Gil Mermelstein to explore Global Services Delivery and how it can reduce costs while still providing several opportunities for growth. While many companies, especially in the capital markets industry, have done a lot around realigning their global footprint, there are many organizations that are just ... Join BearingPoint Senior Manager Kirsten Trusko in this podcast to explore consumer-directed health care and how it is affecting the mergers and acquisitions market. A rush of M&A activity is under way at the convergence of the banking, insurance and health industries. Companies in all three ... In this video podcast, we travel to Austin, Texas and the SxSW Interactive festival, to focus on what’s inside people’s computers, and just how much they’re relying on those computers for work, communication and - all-important at the SxSW Festival — creativity. Intel’s Bryan Rhoads took the opportunity to ... Join BearingPoint managing director Frank Mackris to explore how IT effectiveness can reduce costs while improving performance. With all the pressure on the CIO of an organization to deal with the ever-changing marketplace, now more than ever, they are turning to technology resources for assistance. The main obstacle for an ... Join BearingPoint managing director Peter Nikonovich to explore the Retail Banking Solution in the Enterprise Performance Improvement solution suite. With all the pressure on the economy due to the sub-prime crisis, now more than ever, banks are focused on ways to cut costs and still deliver services to their ... Join BearingPoint senior manager Kevin McClafferty to understand the importance of re-engineering the commercial lending process and how it can impact your organization. When you re-engineer the current process, you open your organization up to the benefits of efficiency, effectiveness, transparency and flexibility. In light of the recent credit ... Join BearingPoint director Joe Monti to explore the Enterprise Performance Solution and how it can affect your organization’s bottom line. With all the pressure on the economy due to the sub-prime crisis, now more than ever, people are focused on cutting costs and saving money. In an effort to ... In this podcast, Barbara Mitchell, product manager for Verizon Business, provides valuable insight on the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, better known as PCI. She explains what the PCI Data Security Standard means for businesses and who is affected, as well as how businesses can work toward ... Join BearingPoint managing director Warren Zafrin to explore how the Internet’s ability to allow information to flow freely between countries has become the electronic border that will expand or contract depending on the privacy borders. In 1995, Europe established a privacy law that provides a common privacy framework to protect ... The Consumer Electronics Show is going on in Las Vegas. In this video podcast we walk out of the Intel booth at the show and onto the Las Vegas Strip to ask “what is this thing?” … and we get some interesting answers. Join BearingPoint Senior Manager, Ray Wilson, as he explores offshoring advanced analytics and how it supports businesses today. With the recent credit crisis that has made its way across our nation, more and more companies are demanding an advanced analytics capability in their organization. Advanced analytics requires highly skilled individuals ... In this podcast Eric Vidal, advertising and new media leader at WebEx, talks to Stu Schmidt, Vice President of solution sales at Cisco/WebEx, about how Web 2.0 and conversational marketing are changing the rules of the marketing game. Learn how you have to get involved in the conversation ... Join BearingPoint manager Takashi Yoskizaki to learn how to build a business case for VoIP. Industry trends show that over the years nearly every organization has done something around utilizing VoIP. Before any new technology can be implemented, a business case needs to be developed to be presented for ... Join BearingPoint managing director Frederic Veron to explore the battle of finding the right IT best practice for your organization. It is important to understand that there is not one universal best practice. An organization must define their framework so that the appropriate solutions can be recommended. Once ... Join BearingPoint managing director Daryouche Behboudi in exploring disaster recovery and the importance of technology architecture. When considering the technology architecture of your company, there are many factors to look at. Besides being cost-effective, one must determine if the plan is compatible with their firm’s standards and its ... Gordon Moore’s Law will remain in effect for the foreseeable future. Intel Corporation’s new 45nm Penryn microprocessor relies on a new recipe that combines the element Hafnium and metal gate technology to increase performance and significantly reduce eco-unfriendly, wasteful electricity leaks. SNWSpotlight Conference Preview: Security Partnerships
How Global Service Delivery Affects Overall Performance
Consumer-Directed Healthcare: Transforming the M&A Market
What's Inside SxSW Interactive?
How IT Effectiveness Creates Savings and Increased Performance
How Retail Banking Solutions Can Cut Costs and Still Deliver
How Re-Engineering the Commercial Lending Process is Affecting the Current Credit Crisis
How Enterprise Performance Solutions Impact the Bottom Line
PCI: What Does It Mean for You?
Is Data Privacy the Next Electronic Border?
Intel Asks "What Is This Thing?" at CES 2008
Offshoring Advanced Analytics to Predict Business Trends
Chris Kenton of MotiveLab
Staying In The Loop: Stu Schmidt
Building a Business Case for Voice Over IP (VoIP)
The Battle of IT Best Practices
Replicate and Strategize for Full Disaster Recovery
Intel Ships New 45nm Penryn Chip
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