In late 2008, Verizon completed another field trial of 100 Gigabits per second, or 100G, optical networking. This trial successfully transmitted 100G traffic over a distance of more than 1,040 kilometers, setting a new distance record. Glenn Wellbrock, director of optical transport, network architecture and design for Verizon, discusses the ...

Created in 1992, the Verizon Business Major Emergency Response Incident Team, or MERIT, comprises full-time employees with specialized emergency response management training, as well as experience in the repair and maintenance of communications equipment and networks. Located around the United States, MERIT members have been deployed in ...

Join BearingPoint Managing Director ,Julien Courbe, as he walks us through the latest edition of BearingPoint’s Financial Services Technology Journal on cost management for IT organizations. The fluctuations of financial services firms’ business volumes reflect the cyclical nature of the overall financial markets. These dynamics are often caused by specific ...

As companies look to equip an increasingly global and mobile workforce, operate more efficiently, and protect the environment,teleworking - keeping employees connected to corporate resources whether working from home or an alternative work location, such as a hotelling site - has become a hot and sometimes heated topic for consideration.Nancy ...

As a concept, “unified communications” has been around for awhile. It can mean anything from bringing all business communications into a single, seamless user experience to bringing global collaboration and conferencing technologies onto the same basic platform as traditional voice and text communications systems. It’s one of the most exciting ...

Join BearingPoint Managing Director Chris Estes and Manager Eileen Perrin in understanding the UDAP Legislation. In May 2008, the Federal Reserve, OTC and NCUA proposed a regulation under section 5(a) of the Federal Trade Commission Act, affectionately known as UDAP (Unfair and Deceptive Acts and Practices). The proposed ...

The Core i7 microprocessor (built on Intel’s Nehalem microarchitecture) represents a major advance in computing to enable chips to handle more data. In this video podcast, Ronak Singhal, a lead architect on Nehalem, says the chip design is an overhaul–the internal core has been changed significantly for added performance, as ...

At Intel’s Jones Farm Campus in Hillsboro, Oregon, the new Core i7 chip is going through the rigors of testing. Stephen Gunther is Power Management Architect at Intel who shows how the new Turbo Mode feature revolutionizes multi-core processor performance, giving the best of both worlds – ...

Collaborative technologies ranging from conferencing, voice-over-Internet protocol and mobility offer large-business and government customers around the globe the opportunity to reduce costs, enhance employee productivity, streamline business processes and decision making and strengthen eco-friendly initiatives. Featuring comments from Verizon’s Denny Strigl, president and COO, and Nancy Gofus, senior vice ...

Unified communications options all compete to lower costs, increase productivity and improve customer service. When it comes to customers - improving response times and quality - businesses all have to earn customer loyalty. In this podcast, Siemens’ Martin Northend discusses some of the ways that Siemens’ HiPath OpenOffice can ...

Intel and HP recently announced the world’s best four-socket TPC-C benchmark result — a showing of 634,000 transactions per minute. HP’s Aaron Spurlock joins Noe Garcia from Intel to discuss the specifics of how the HP Proliant DL580 G5 server with Intel Xeon 7400-series processors stacks up against world-class competition.

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Information intelligence is a core component of next-generation content management. In this EMC technology innovation podcast, information intelligence expert Lou Jordano discusses how combining advanced search, classification, content analytics, and visualization capabilities with a content management platform transforms data into valuable intelligence. The result: knowledge workers quickly find the information ...

As high definition video conferencing takes hold in the enterprise, it improves communication in clear ways, as well as in some subtle ones. The impact on the boardroom is one thing: groups and executives now come together for effective virtual meetings that save money and valuable energy resources. But new ...

Microsoft’s hypervisor-based server, “Hyper-V,” is part of the company’s offerings — along with presentation virtualization and application virtualization — aimed at helping companies to take full advantage of virtualization and quad-core technology. The server virtualization product, in conjunction with Intel’s VT hardware-assisted virtualization technology, provides simplified resource management to increase ...

Facing the daunting challenge of keeping 31,000 students and 12,000 faculty and staff informed during events that potentially threaten campus safety, the University of Pittsburgh turned to Verizon Business to deploy an automated notification service. Jinx Walton, director of computing services and systems development for the University of Pittsburgh, discusses ...

MobileUC means bringing unified communications applications to mobile workers with the same quality and reliability as we have at the desks in our offices. In this German language podcast, Marcus Birkl, vice president with Siemens Enterprise Communications, discusses the impacts and challenges involved with keeping productivity high, costs low, and ...

MobileUC means bringing unified communications applications to mobile workers with the same quality and reliability as we have at the desks in our offices. In this podcast, Luc Roy, vice president with Siemens Enterprise Communications, discusses the impacts and challenges involved with keeping productivity high, costs low, and workers connected. ...

Intel’s introduction of 45nm technology last year brought with it new levels of innovation and data center efficiency. With a trend toward bigger servers using virtualization, however, comes a need for increased performance headroom. In this podcast, Intel’s Chris Peters discusses some of the innovations brought by 45nm, as well ...

Join Lance Shaw, group product marketing manager at EMC, as he chats with Frost & Sullivan Principal Analyst Melanie Turek on how Web 2.0 technologies are transforming the way organizations conduct business today. Hear Melanie’s perspective on the potential benefits these tools can offer as well as the ramifications of ...

It didn’t take long for wireless computing and the mobility it affords to become an accepted part of the landscape of public spaces, offices and homes. But there was still a catch: you couldn’t stay connected outside of the hotspots offered at cafes, airports and hotel lobbies. WiMAX changes all ...

Join BearingPoint Senior Business Advisor, Larry Taylor, as he explores some of the risk strategies that can assist with market survival. With all the turmoil in the financial services space in recent weeks, it’s important to know how the industry got in to this ‘mess’ to prevent future occurrences. ...

Join BearingPoint Managing Director, Paul Ringmacher, as he discusses how BearingPoint recently helped a major North American bank replace a paper-based loan origination system for its small-business customers.

When completed, the project took small-business banking loan origination to a new level. An inefficient manual, paper-based system was transformed into ...

Verizon Business is expanding its Managed WAN Optimization Services portfolio to help improve the performance of widely used business applications such as enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management and collaboration tools to users around the globe. Verizon Managed WAN Optimization Services, now available on Cisco and Juniper Networks platforms, provide ...

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 ...