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Verizon Business: Extended IT Services

Catherine Girardeau — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:50:41 +0000

Chris Gesell, director of product marketing for IT solutions, discusses a recent Verizon Business announcement that it’s extending IT services down to the desktop. PodTech.net talked with Chris at the Gartner Symposium and ITxpo 2006 in Orlando, Florida.

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Working Better with Service Providers

Catherine Girardeau — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:30:59 +0000

Managing IT change is a continual balancing act of rapid deployment versus poor execution. Enterprises must understand how to align service providers with specific technology goals to gain competitive advantages. In this talk from the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Florida, Chris Gesell, director of product marketing for IT solutions with Verizon Business, shares his experience in working with service providers.

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DDoS Defense

Catherine Girardeau — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:00:52 +0000

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are a growing threat for Internet-enabled businesses. Cindy Bellefeuille and Chris Hunsaker, security experts at Verizon Business, discuss DDoS attacks and alternatives to traditional security services such as firewalls and IDS/IPS solutions.

Tags: Cindy Bellefeuille, Chris Hunsaker, Verizon Business

Facilitating the Rollout of the Wireless LAN

Catherine Girardeau — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:00:24 +0000

When deploying a wireless LAN, businesses can use a managed service provider to help ensure non-intrusive deployment, comprehensive security policies, mitigation against unauthorized access and investment protection. Verizon Business’s Program Manager for Managed Services Andy Boyer talks about how Verizon Business works with customers to deploy and secure their wireless LAN.

Tags: wireless LAN, Verizon Business, Andy Boyer

The Application-Aware MPLS Network

Catherine Girardeau — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:16:27 +0000

Application-aware VPN tools enable private IP enterprises to achieve high levels of performance for applications such as VoIP, enterprise resource planning (ERP) and video. With the proper network assessment, reporting, dynamic bandwidth and packet-marking tools, enterprises can more closely monitor performance, make adjustments and achieve cost-efficiencies. PodTech.net talks with Steve Goodman, marketing manager for Verizon Business, about what MPLS is and how business can benefit.

Tags: VPN tools, Verizon Business, MPLS

Integrated Hosted Communications

Catherine Girardeau — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:39:57 +0000

Availability, cost control and predictability, upgrades, control over employee communications and protection against security threats — hear about these issues and more in this PodTech.net interview with Patrick Verhoeven, group manager in the product management division with Verizon Business.

Tags: Patrick Verhoeven, Verizon Business

Building an Actionable Risk-Management Strategy, Part 2

Catherine Girardeau — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 00:26:29 +0000

Security continues to be a major challenge faced by today’s IP leaders. Listen in on a presentation by Verizon Business’ Chief Information Security Officer, Sara Santarelli, about how to help ensure that risk management touches every system and every action taken. This is the second of a two-part podcast from the Gartner Symposium and ITxpo in Orlando, Florida.

Check out Part One

Tags: Verizon Business, Sara Santarelli

Building an Actionable Risk-Management Strategy, Part 1

Catherine Girardeau — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 00:21:05 +0000

Security continues to be a major challenge faced by today’s IP leaders. Listen in on a presentation by Verizon Business’ Chief Information Security Officer, Sara Santarelli, about how to help ensure that risk management touches every system and every action taken. This is the first in a two-part podcast from the Gartner Symposium and ITxpo in Orlando, Florida.

Check out Part Two

Tags: Verizon Business, Sara Santarelli

Transitioning to Hosted VoIP

editor — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:23:26 +0000

Avoid the common road blocks that can jeopardize the smooth transition from traditional telephony to IP telephony. In this podcast, Verizon Business Vice President of Managed Services Marketing Jim DeMerlis talks with PodTech.net about moving into a managed services approach for your VoIP network.

Tags: Verizon Business, Jim DeMerlis

Ballmer: “Microsoft Just Keeps Coming”

Catherine Girardeau — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:30:03 +0000

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made sure no one would miss his point that Microsoft has been, is now, and will continue to be dogged in everything it does. Even if, as Ballmer said, “we don’t always get it right on the first try.” (more…)

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From Old-School IT to Managed Services

Catherine Girardeau — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:27:03 +0000

“Corporate information technology departments can spend more time reacting to fires than supporting corporate objectives,” said Executive Director of Product Management for Verizon Business’ John Shultz at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo in Orlando, Florida.

Shultz and Verizon Business customer Rick Hawkins, Director of IT Operations and Services for the Timken Company, spoke on October 9th about strategies the two companies are using to align communications infrastructures with business objectives. From the Dolphin Hotel in Orlando, PodTech.net brings you an exclusive interview with Shultz and Hawkins.

Tags: Verizon Business, John Shultz, Gartner Symposium, ITxpo, Verizon, Rick Hawkins, Timken

Ballmer Banters, Rants with Gartner Analysts

Catherine Girardeau — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 05:45:23 +0000

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was interviewed by two tough VPs from research firm Gartner, Inc. at Gartner’s Symposium and ITxpo at the Dolphin Hotel in Orlando Florida October 10th. In the so-called “Mastermind Interview”, Ballmer fielded questions that ranged from lessons learned from the long Vista delay to how Microsoft plans to use to its advantage the growing consumerization of web-based live services. PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau was there, and brings you Part One of the interview.

Check out Part Two

Tags: Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, Gartner

Gartner Symposium: Martin Reynolds On Innovation and Rise of the User

editor — Wed, 24 May 2006 00:18:26 +0000

PodTech’s Jason Lopez sat down with Gartner analyst Martin Reynolds to talk about Sun Microsystems, Apple and the mark of successful companies.

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Gartner Symposium: Press Conference with Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz

editor — Sun, 21 May 2006 20:03:01 +0000

Press conference of Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo in San Francisco May 17, 2006.

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Gartner Symposium: Building web services on a secure LAN foundation

editor — Thu, 18 May 2006 20:50:25 +0000

PodTech’s Michael Johnson checks in with Tom Barsi, CEO of ConSentry Networks at Gartner. Barsi speaks about secure LAN systems solutions and their place in the rapidly changing Web Services Universe. Recently Consentry Networks won a Best of Interop Award at Interop 2006 in Las Vegas.

Tags: Tom Barsi, ConSentry, Gartner, LAN, Interop

Gartner Symposium: Analyst Allen Weiner Says Viral Distribution is Web 2.0’s Next Big Thing

editor — Thu, 18 May 2006 19:27:38 +0000

“I think viral distribution is still in its infancy,” Gartner’s VP for Research Allen Weiner told Podtech’s Catherine Girardeau. “We’ve seen some pretty interesting little proof points along the way about how powerful this could be.” In this podcast, Weiner touches on a few of his many areas of research interest, including what he calls “Digital Media Titans”, and his theory of super-enablers.

Tags: Gartner, Allen Weiner

Gartner Symposium: Redefining SOA… again.

editor — Thu, 18 May 2006 17:03:48 +0000

Daryl Plummer is Gartner’s Managing VP and Chief of Research. At the Gartner ITxpo Symposium 2006 in San Francisco, Plummer speaks about Service-Oriented Architecture’s with PodTech’s Michael Johnson , and about how it’s really not a static concept. Plummer says, “You can define (SOA) conceptually, but in reality it morphs itself and you can never really pin it down, and that’s a good thing.”

Tags: Daryl Plummer, Gartner, ITxpo, SOA

Gartner Symposium: Sun’s Jonathan Schwartz Running Company on Go-Forward Basis

editor — Thu, 18 May 2006 06:46:38 +0000

Sun Microsystems, which dominated the server market during the dot-com boom, has been searching for major revenue drivers over the past 5 years. The company has been criticized, especially by the financial community, for its stumbles. But Schwartz says the market is growing so robustly that the promise for Sun looks good.

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Gartner Symposium: Schwartz Says Java is the Internet

editor — Thu, 18 May 2006 06:42:43 +0000

Jonathan Schwartz (the new CEO of Sun Microsystems–he’s barely been the chief of the company for three weeks) began the Wednesday sessions at the 2006 Gartner Symposium ITxpo in San Francisco. This is the second part of three podcasts covering the keynote, in which Schwartz was interviewed by Gartner analysts Paul McGuckin and Daryl Plummer. In this segment Schwartz describes how Java–which does not directly build revenue–helps Sun sell its other services and equipment.

Tags: Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems, Gartner, ITxpo

Gartner Symposium: Sun CEO Says Top Line Revenue Key to Turnaround

editor — Thu, 18 May 2006 06:27:45 +0000

The Wednesday morning keynote at the 2006 Gartner Symposium ITxpo featured Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, interviewed by Gartner analysts Paul McGuckin and Daryl Plummer. We’ve broken the podcast up into three parts. In this first segment, Schwartz talks about his first weeks on the job as CEO since taking the reins from Chairman Scott McNealy. He also defends Sun for making too much technology.

Tags: Gartner, Jonathan Schwartz, Paul McGuckin, Daryl Plummer, Scott McNealy

Gartner Symposium: Motorola Chief Defends Carriers Over Unfriendly User Wireless Environment

editor — Wed, 17 May 2006 18:54:39 +0000

Why can’t you buy any cell phone and easily use it with most any carrier? Don’t blame Motorola. Chairman and CEO Ed Zander doesn’t blame the carriers either, even though they dictate which phones their customers will use. In this podcast, Zander argues (civilly with Gartner analysts Nick Jones and Ken Dulaney) that carriers don’t want to be in any business other than providing connectivity.

Tags: Motorola, Ed Zander, Nick Jones, Ken Dulaney

Gartner Symposium: Zander Points to Long Term Investment in Infrastructure as the Key to Improving Wireless Connectivity

editor — Wed, 17 May 2006 18:43:27 +0000

One piece of Motorola’s business the public usually doesn’t see are the products sold to governments and municipalities, such as wireless communications gear. The systems used by cities and states during 9-11 and Hurricane Katrina did not hold up well, but Motorola Chairman and CEO says product development at his firm to address those problems has been going for the past 4 years.

Tags: Motorola, Hurricane Katrina

Gartner Symposium: Motorola Chairman and CEO Zander Says Cell Phone is Coming of Age

editor — Wed, 17 May 2006 18:28:46 +0000

Motorola Chairman and CEO Ed Zander says the ultimate cell phone would come back into the home–that is, it would be the only phone one would need. But that development seems far away for users in North America. “People always say to me, ‘I can go to China, and go to the Great Wall of China and make a better phone call than here in the United States,” Zander offered during his keynote interview with Gartner analysts Nick Jones and Ken Dulaney. “And it’s probably true,” Zander noted.

Tags: Motorola, Ed Zander, Nick Jones, Ken Dulaney

Gartner Symposium: Analyst Says Emerging Markets Driving the PC Industry

editor — Wed, 17 May 2006 01:18:09 +0000

PodTech’s Jason Lopez met with Gartner analyst Steve Kleynhans, who covers the PC space, to talk about the state of the industry and prospects for the future. It’s easy to think that broadband is the magic bullet for personal computer makers, but emerging markets may be a bigger driver.

Tags: Gartner, Steve Kleynhans

Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2006: What To Expect

editor — Tue, 16 May 2006 01:34:47 +0000

The Gartner Symposium ITxpo at the Moscone Center in San Francisco features keynote speakers like Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz, Symantec CEO John Thompson, and Motorola CEO Ed Zander. On PodTech we’ll have the keynotes as well as podcasts of interviews with notable Gartner analysts like Martin Reynolds, Steve Kleynhans and Darryl Plummer (who’ll talk about SOA). The Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2006 from San Francisco… on PodTech.net.

Tags: Gartner, Symposium, ITxpo, Sun Microsystems, Symantec, Motorola