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 response to past emergencies, such as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, and the 2001 Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the anthrax contamination of a postal distribution facility, and the Baltimore train derailment. Dick Price, director of business continuance and emergency management, Verizon Business, discusses the MERIT team and its role in protecting Verizon Business’ infrastructure to help ensure customer networks operate efficiently and reliably during good times and bad.
The VMware Virtual Datacenter Operating System is now an integral part of the enterprise infrastructure for many customers and needs to be managed alongside other infrastructure in the environment. We’ll discuss how VMware works with key partners to enable integrated management of VMware Infrastructure in the datacenter.
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VMware can help solve the business agility dilemma of architecture inadequacy versus the need for automation with VMware Infrastructure, a software platform that provides extreme flexibility, scalability and availability of computing resources. Learn how virtualization delivers the simplicity that IT administrators need.
Speakers: Melinda Wilken, Sr. Director, Product Marketing, VMware
Ryan ...
Today’s Knowledge Worker frequently has a whole new set of expectations for how to collaborate and use content as part of their daily jobs, thanks to ever-increasing usage of new Web 2.0 technologies, such as wikis, social networking sites, and blogs. Incorporating Web 2.0 tools into the way business ...
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 ...
Wendia AG International, a privately-held European software company founded in 1990, is setting up their North American headquarters in Utah. Wendia provides best-in-class Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) based service management solutions to hundreds of organizations worldwide. ITIL is the de-facto global standard in the area of ...
Emergency management personnel require seamless communications during times of crisis to rapidly coordinate assessment of and response to natural disasters and man-made events. Up until now, direct communications between federal, state and local first responders has been challenging due to disparate, and often, incompatible systems. Chuck Vick, manager ...
In this podcast, learn best practices for planning server virtualization and consolidation from VMware and HP experts. Ensure your virtualization project is a success with these tips on target applications, storage and networking considerations, process changes and much more. Listen to Rob Smoot of VMware and James Lomonaco from HP ...
Join BearingPoint Managing Director Terence Oi, and ColdSpark Founder and CTO Scott Brown in this podcast as they explore ColdSpark’s solution suite and how it has helped build a solid relationship between both organizations. BearingPoint and ColdSpark have joined together to provide offerings designed to help clients generate revenue, increase ...
Together, HP and VMware enable you to virtualize server resources and consolidate multiple applications and heterogeneous operating systems onto a single HP ProLiant server. As a result, you can optimize your computing resources, increase scalability, and improve management efficiency.
Listen to this podcast to learn how VMware and HP have ...
Learn about the benefits of server consolidation with VMware virtualization. Increase the flexibility and availability of your datacenter by consolidating up to 20 virtual machines on a single server. Hear why more than 100,000 customers are using VMware to dynamically balance workload among servers and nearly eliminate user impact during ...
As the operator of the world’s most connected IP network, thousands of enterprises around the world rely on the reliability and availability of Verizon Business networks. In order meet these critical requirements, Verizon Business has a highly developed business continuity and emergency preparedness program. In this podcast, Jeannie Diefenderfer, Verizon ...
Cemaphore Systems’ MailShadow for Google Apps keeps your Microsoft Outlook environment in sync with Gmail, Google Calendar, and Gmail Contacts. Make a change in one, and the other is instantly updated to reflect the change. MailShadow for Google Apps is receiving a lot of attention since organizations can ...
In this podcast, Sean Derrington, Director of Storage Management at Symantec, and Matt Fairbanks, VP of Product Marketing at Citrix, discuss the partnership between the two companies in introducing Veritas Virtual Infrastructure. For more information, visit the business section at www.symantec.com or http://vision.symantec.com .
In this podcast, Sean Derrington, Director of Storage Management & High Availability, provides an overview of Veritas Virtual Infrastructure, which was introduced at Symantec Vision 2008. For more information, visit the business section at www.symantec.com or http://vision.symantec.com.
Why is Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) such a “buzzword” within enterprises today? In this podcast, John Lens, who works with some of the largest companies in the world as a VMware Global Account Manager, shares customer stories and explains why VDI is a compelling solution for the enterprise.
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Blackhawk Technology Consulting LLC, a VMware partner, decided to implement their own desktop virtualization solution with VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and VMware Application Virtualization (formerly Thinstall). Using the same solution they normally sell to their customers, Blackhawk was able to implement a standard quarterly re-imaging process that dramatically improved their ...
In this podcast, The Register’s Tim Phillips speaks with Intel’s Shesha Krishnapura about developers’ adoption of multi-core technology. Krishnapura sees that, while multi-core processors have been around for awhile, now is an especially exciting time for multi-threaded software, given the uptake in industry and the increasingly urgent need ...
Enterprise computing has come a long way from the days of centralized mainframes in the 1970’s to the fully distributed desktops and laptops we see today. With the workplace becoming more technologically diverse and increasingly mobile, desktop IT workload grows exponentially with each new user and configuration. Is there a ...
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 manager Dan Draughon in understanding Commercial Equipment Leasing and the challenges with the current infrastructure. The biggest challenge an organization is seeing today is that they are still running on old legacy systems. In order to save on costs they are using outgrown systems ...
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 ...
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 ...
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