In this podcast, Sr. Director of Customer Relationships & Publishing, Patrick E. Spencer, provides an overview of the October 2008 issue of CIO Digest, Symantec’s quarterly containing strategies and analysis for senior and c-level IT leaders around the world. Each issue of CIO Digest includes an exclusive interview, an industry ...

Rhonda MacLean, the Global CISO at Barclays Global Retail and Commercial Banking, uses the analogy of a brakes on a car when explaining the relevance of information security today. In short, like brakes, information security is there to help the business go faster. Throughout her 20-year career in information security, ...

Janice Chaffin, group president, Consumer Business Unit at Symantec, discusses the Norton 2009 release, the expanding Norton portfolio, and initiatives focused on one-click support for customers. She also discusses how protecting consumers comes first, as they are the more frequent initial target of attacks, which is then leveraged by the ...

Jason Wilkins joined Xstrata as CIO in 2002 when the company had a market capitalization of around $500 million USD and a few thousand employees. Today, the company has more than 56,000 employees and a market capitalization of approximately $60 USD billion. With growth fueled by an exponential acquisition strategy ...

Alex Siow has held a number of different professional roles, ranging from civil engineering, to marketing, to sales, to professor, and he draws upon this breadth of front-line business experience in helping to build greater linkages between the business and technology initiatives. Siow has blazed many trails in helping to ...

It may seem obvious that planning pays. But for those CIOs and their staffs, managing an IT infrastructure often occurs in an environment where problems are moving targets. Many organizations have little time to plan ahead. But they must. “You’re not going to get there unless you have a ...

CIOs are faced with a wide range of opportunities and challenges. Verizon Business recently interviewed several information technology (IT) professionals about the most-pressing IT challenges facing their organizations and this podcast features highlights of their responses. Representing a broad mix of vertical markets – education, government, manufacturing and ...

Driving technology innovation on a reliable and predictable timeline, Intel developed a model designed to deliver ongoing innovation. Referred to as our tick-tock model, Intel has successfully alternated and delivered the next generation of silicon technology as well as new processor microarchitecture year after year.

Intel CIO Diane Bryant shares ...

In this video podcast, Diane Bryant, Intel Corporation’s recently-named chief information officer, discusses the role of IT in the enterprise today. Bryant sees three main functions for Intel’s IT organization, beginning with the company’s strategy for driving business growth. That centers upon ultra low-power devices in support of ...

In this podcast, writer Alan Drummer provides an overview of a CIO Digest article titled Define Retentive. Drummer expands on ways organizations can streamline their email and document management policies. For more information, visit www.symantec.com/ciodigest.

Robert Taylor, CEO of KennTechnologies, Inc. and former CIO at Fulton County, Georgia, spoke with Patrick E. Spencer, Symantec’s director of publishing and customer marketing programs and editor in chief of CIO Digest, about the unique IT challenges local government CIOs face today, ranging from email and document archiving and ...

David S. Finn, VP and CIO at Texas Children’s Hospital, whose background is in theatre, describes the “production” aspects of IT and the nuances of pediatric IT to Patrick E. Spencer, Symantec’s director of publishing and customer marketing programs as well as editor in chief of CIO Digest. Under his ...

Patrick E. Spencer, Symantec’s editor in chief of CIO Digest, sat down with Myrna Soto, VP of Governance and CISO at MGM MIRAGE, to discuss how she leverages a mixture of industrial psychology, Six Sigma, an MBA, and best practices from the Project Management Institute to map a successful path ...

Patrick E. Spencer, Symantec’s editor in chief of CIO Digest, sat down with Myrna Soto, VP of Governance and CISO at MGM MIRAGE, to discuss how she leverages a mixture of industrial psychology, Six Sigma, an MBA, and best practices from the Project Management Institute to map a successful path ...

The California Department of Parks and Recreation is harnessing the power of IP to converge networks, increase capacity and support new capabilities. Alan Friedman, department CIO, discusses the migration from frame relay to managed MPLS and highlights how the new Verizon Business network is enabling new school outreach programs ...

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 ...

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 ...

Understanding is Only Human: Discover how the Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs Human Factors team is helping to deliver a superior user experience

Alcatel-Lucent is committed to helping operators deliver a superior user experience. One of the ways to help is to gain an intimate understanding of end-user behavior and the Bell Labs Human Factors team is one of the many groups within Alcatel-Lucent doing just that. The team is made up of Ph.D.s with an average of 15+ years professional usability experience working to:

Join BearingPoint senior manager Richard Birt to understand the fundamentals of Marketing Performance Management. Even though it’s starting on the small, analytics are framing the way an organization can look at their future marketing efforts. In a recent poll, CMO’s have confirmed that 25% of their ...

Happy Lunar New Year! February 7, 2008 begins the year of the Rat, the first year of the Chinese zodiac, a time of activity and renewal. Today we’ll take you on a quick tour of lunar new year basics, factoids, and food traditions. It is said ...

Why have we not heard of MSN Mobile India? MSN mobile has been doing business in India for over four years now. I turned to MSN Mobile’s Senthil Sundaram to find out more about MSN Mobile in India. Senthil is the business head of MSN Mobile India. One of ...

Bryant Terry, co-author of the book GRUB: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen, and Jason Harvey, founder of Oakland Food Connection, teamed up recently to have a totally organic soul food brunch. Hanging out with food justice foodies as of late, we’ve been hearing a similar idea ...

We first met the Community Services Unlimited folks at the Just Us For Food Justice Bioneers day. They told us we should come check out their work in community gardening in South Central LA. How could we not? These folks are on the front lines of urban ...

This podcast discusses the issues that keep CIOs up at night. Hear how the Verizon Business portfolio of managed, IT and professional services, can be leveraged to meet today’s most pressing business requirements.

We hear from John Shultz, executive director – product management and development, managed network services, Verizon.