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Self-Encrypting Disk Drives to Move into Data Centers

Michael Johnson — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:30:41 +0000

Seagate, IBM, and LSI have been working to make changes in how data is protected in enterprise Data Centers. Today Seagate announced it is making available the world’s first self-encrypting hard drive for data centers. PodTech spoke with key executives at Seagate, IBM, and LSI about this new technology shift, how it works and why enterprise data center managers should know more about the next phase in enterprise security.

In this first of three podcasts, PodTech’s Michael Johnson speaks with Sherman Black, senior vice president and general manager of the enterprise compute business at Seagate. Black explains how Full Disk Encryption (FDE) is crucial for enterprise data storage security, as all drives eventually leave the data center, whether for repair, retirement, or maintenance. For more information go to:
fdesecurityleaders.com

Tags: Sherman Black, data center, enterprise, FDE, Full Disk Encryption, Seagate, self-encrypting

Consumer-Directed Healthcare: Transforming the M&A Market

Paul Lancour — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:00:54 +0000

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 areas, as well as private equity and venture capital firms, are looking to capitalize on the market dynamics emerging with the growth of consumer-directed health care and the emerging vertical market of “health banking.”

While the complexities of cross-industry M&A are even greater than those for intra-industry transactions, the similarities between the industries contribute to a compelling business case. The key is a deep understanding of market direction and growth, a well-planned approach to the transaction and, equally important, clear confidence as to what happens post-transaction, both inside the company and in the marketplace.

The convergence of banking, insurance and health is driving great opportunity to leverage strengths, capabilities and channels across market sectors to the benefit of consumers, companies and investors. But the risk of disappointing outcomes is especially high in inter-industry efforts without essential knowledge and planning. To improve the chances of a positive outcome, look well beyond the deep financial analysis applied to traditional intra-industry efforts. Finally, design and articulate a post-transaction operating model that can position you to take advantage of this dramatic U.S. economic shift.

Tags: BearingPoint, Kirsten Trusko, consumer-directed, mergers and acquisitions, M&A, private equity, venture capital, health banking, CDH

The Reboot: The Death of the Xbox 360 HD-DVD Player

Rio Pesino — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:28:02 +0000

Microsoft has officially discontinued production of its Xbox 360 external HD-DVD player. The decision comes days after consumer electronics giant Toshiba announced that it will no longer produce HD-DVD products, essentially ending the HD-format war with Sony’s Blu-Ray. Video game juggernaut Electronic Arts wants to take over Take-Two Interactive and Sony’s Phil Harrison calls it quits. Those stories and more on this episode of The Reboot with Rio Pesino.

Tags: Microsoft, Xbox 360, HD-DVD, Sony Blu-Ray, Electronic Arts, Take-Two Interactive, Phil Harrison, The Reboot, Rio Pesino

MSN Mobile India Shifts Into High Gear Part-1

Kamla Bhatt — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 20:47:14 +0000

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 the reasons why we have not heard much about Mobile in India is because they were primarily working with the telco carriers.

Tags: MSN Mobile India, Senthil Sundaram

Inventor of the Web talks about future of the Web

Robert Scoble — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:04:56 +0000

Tim Berners-Lee, on Tuesday, visited HP Labs in Palo Alto where he talked with employees and the press about the trends he’s seen happen on the Web and where its future lies. He’s working with the Web Science Research Initiative and the University of Southampton in England on a variety of research initiatives, mostly focused around developing technologies for the semantic Web and social software. He talked at length about the coming shift of the Web away from pages to more granular information that can be displayed as pages, as graphs, or in other ways.

Tags: Tim Berners-Lee, HP Labs, Palo Alto, Web Science Research Initiative, semantic Web, social software

M&A Outlook 2008: Power Hitters Ross and Rubenstein

Jason Lopez — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:10:42 +0000

There was a shift in the audience at the M&A Outlook 2008 when David Rubenstein — co-founder and managing director of the Carlyle Group — was sighted in the room. The crowd got quiet. The same happened when Wilbur Ross, chairman and CEO of WL Ross and Co. took the stage. After their keynote interviews, PodTech’s Jason Lopez gathered their thoughts on the M&A market and filed this podcast.

Tags: M&A Outlook 2008, David Rubenstein, Carlyle Group, Wilbur Ross

Charlie Northend of DMNA Agency

editor — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:10:52 +0000

This Podcast features Charlie Northend, President and CEO of DMNA Advertising Agency, discussing how the marketing, publishing and advertising industry is changing and how DMNA is adapting to those changes. Eric Vidal, advertising and new media leader at WebEx, moderates this conversation that touches on how the internet is playing a part in advertising, how larger ad agencies are dealing with changes and how the industry has shifted from the “martini business lunch” to a more fast paced technology-driven work environment.

Tags: Charlie Northend, DMNA, Eric Vidal, WebEx, martini business lunch

How Use Cases are Helping to Productize the IT Organization

Paul Lancour — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:00:44 +0000

Join BearingPoint manager and technologist Zahra Rahemtulla, as she presents a case for use cases and their role as an effective vehicle to map out activities an IT organization should put in place for a proactive approach to service delivery.

Productization is a means of helping an organization to think about its IT products and services, and how they could be packaged to offer and sell to end users. It’s about providing a bundled service that delivers business value to the end users.

Transforming the thinking and IT operations is a cultural shift that requires a new mindset. The use cases help organizations see on paper how it would work, because they represent a real life scenario that depicts how a service should behave in a future state (not just the ideal state). They help show minimum requirements to help deliver and support the service.

Tags: BearingPoint, Zahra Rahemtulla, Productization

Conversational Marketing

Paul Lancour — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:00:26 +0000

Marketing is undergoing a dramatic shift as social media takes hold. In this podcast, Eric Vidal of WebEx speaks with John Battelle, entrepreneur, journalist, professor, and the founder and chairman of Federated Media. John also helped launched the Web 2.0 Conference. He has some great insights into the transition the industry is in the midst of, and vital information for anyone involved in marketing in the current media landscape.

Tags: social media, Eric Vidal, WebEx, John Battelle, entrepreneur, Federated Media, Web 2.0

Jamison Young on How Musicians Can Benefit From Creative Commons

Kiruba Shankar — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 00:59:10 +0000

Jamison Young is a full-time artist who has refused to sign up with big record labels. Instead, he believes in giving away his music for free using Creative Commons, and that has surprisingly helped him sell more records. Now, this may sound contradictory but Jamison says that by giving away your music for free downloads, it vastly increases the number of people who listen to your music and they in turn refer to their friends. This spreads word about the album and quite a few of them buy the album off the store shelves. This is actually a good technique to give a fighting chance against the most established artists.

Jamison has written, sung, produced and marketed his own album, called Shifting Sands of the Blue Car, the music for which is freely available for download on his website and at MySpace.

Jamison is an Australian now living Europe. Over the past year, he has performed in Australia, France, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Thailand, Switzerland and the U.S.

Jamison launched a new project called Hungry Artists Feed Hungry People, with portion of the sales proceeds going to help poor people in third world countries.

Tags: Jamison Young, record labels, Creative Commons, Shifting Sands of the Blue Car, Hungry Artists Feed Hungry People

Hewlett Packard - Business Technology Podcast - Ann Livermore, EVP, Technology Solutions Group

editor — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:00:48 +0000

Hear more on the concept of Business Technology and how HP helps customers focus on business outcomes.

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Tags: Business Technology, HP

ConnectCast Weekly - 13 April, 2007

Cydni Tetro — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 06:06:33 +0000

Forbes Magazine has rated 3 of the top 11 Best Places for Business and Careers in the Rockies. Provo, Utah (#2), Boise, Idaho (#3), and Ogden, Utah (#11). While Provo and Boise have seen lots of press over the last few years, Colin Kelly is impressed at the major shift is the business climate in Odgen, Utah. Kelly thinks much of the credit can be pinned on Ogden Mayor Matthew Godfrey; Grow Utah Ventures’s Alan Hall and his wife, Jeanne and Curt Geiger, vice president of Descente.

Symantec shareholders approve the $830M Altiris acquisition. Some see the acquisition as bittersweet — bitter because it means another company is moving its HQ out of state, sweet because a number of people will cash in and probably return proceeds to the local economy through reinvestment in entrepreneurial ventures.

Will Seth Godin make it to Utah? That depends on the number of pledges to to get him to set foot on Utah soil. Utah bloggers Phil Burns and Ash Buckles have donated their hair, committing Godin can shave their heads as part of a Utah event.

ConnectCast Weekly is hosted by Rocky Mountain Voices‘ own Cydni Tetro and Colin Kelly, executive editor, Connect Magazine.

Tags: Provo, Boise, Ogden, Colin Kelly, Matthew Godfrey, Alan Hall, Curt Geiger, Descente, Altiris, Seth Godin, Phil Burns, Ash Buckles, Cydni Tetro, Connect Magazine

IDF: Who’s the Scoble of China?

Jason Lopez — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:19:55 +0000

The Intel Developer Forum shifts to Beijing China this spring where the company plans to say more about its products and strategies, especially in areas like 45 nanometer chips, mobility and gaming. One new wrinkle: the world’s largest chip maker will be giving bloggers their props, in English and Chinese. PodTech’s Jason Lopez talks with Intel’s Stacy English and Bryan Rhoads about the event.

Photo - Creative Commons: Forbidden City by Marc van der Chijs

Tags: Intel Developer Forum, Beijing, China, 45 nanometer, Intel, Stacy English, Bryan Rhoads

Intel Unveils New 45nm Architecture-Nehalem

Jason Lopez — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:27:03 +0000

Intel unveiled the next stages for its new 45 nanometer process technology. The new microarchitecture is code-named Nehalem and represents a major shift in design. The technology is aimed partly at the requirements of next-generation media services over the Internet. Chips based on Nehalem are expected to launch in 2008. At a San Francisco press briefing, PodTech’s Jason Lopez spoke with Intel’s Pat Gelsinger about Nehalem, IDF Beijing and his upcoming blog.

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Will Change Business

Phil Leigh — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:52:34 +0000

Don Tapscott argues that online collaboration will forever change the way we do business. At least that is the theme of his current best-selling book, Wikinomics. He speaks with authority, having earlier published Paradigm Shift, Digital Capital, and Growing Up Digital.

Tags: Don Tapscott, Wikinomics

David Weinberger On Social Media and Changing Communications

Jennifer Jones — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 03:28:52 +0000

David Weinberger is co-author of Cluetrain Manifesto. In this podcast, Weinberger discusses the ways in which business will work in the newly connected marketplace. Speaking at the New Communications Forum in Las Vegas, Weinberger believes that a generational shift has to occur before marketing really changes and adopts social media. His advice to marketers is to take small risks and keep pushing back on CEOs who don’t yet “get” it. Weinberger gives mild kudos to USA TODAY for its new format, and uses it as an example of slow change. The former Woody Allen gag writer tells Jones his new book is due out May 1 and entitled: “Everything is Miscellaneous.”

Photo Credit: Doc Searls via Creative Commons/Flickr

Tags: David Weinberger, Cluetrain Manifesto, New Communications Forum

Utility Computing - Is It Real?

Paul Lancour — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:13:48 +0000

Utility computing is not a new concept, but the technologies that make it viable are finally maturing. Properly deployed, utility computing can increase server utilization rates, reduce the requirement to build overcapacity and lower operating costs. This podcast identifies key success factors for organizations hoping to capture the benefits of utility computing.

Moreover, utility computing is a dramatic departure from the ways IT departments have traditionally worked. Like providers of electricity, gas, water and other utilities, organizations can use the utility computing model to consolidate capacity and automatically allocate resources based upon the real-time requirements of users.

As a result, the utility computing model can contribute to achieving extremely high server utilization rates — and greatly save when it comes to the cost of adding and managing data center capacity in the traditional way.

Join BearingPoint technologist Frederic Veron to explore why, for these reasons and more, BearingPoint believes that the time is right to implement utility computing.