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Verizon Business Offers Teleworking Insights

Michael Johnson — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:04:16 +0000

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 Gofus, senior vice president of global business products for Verizon, discusses market drivers and benefits of adopting a teleworking program, describes types of organizations and employees that fit the teleworker profile, highlights potential challenges companies face when considering teleworking and offers tips for launching a successful teleworking program that can help companies make work an activity, not a location.

Tags: mobile workforce, teleworking, Nancy Gofus, Verizon, teleworker

VMworld 2008: Intel Keynote - Collaboration for Leading Virtualization Deployments

editor — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:00:49 +0000

Intel’s Doug Fisher and VMware CTO Steve Herrod met at VMworld 2008 to discuss the collaboration between Intel and VMware that will continue deliver leading virtualization deployments.

Fisher is vice president, software and solutions group and general manager of SSG’s Systems Software Division.

For more information, expert advice and answers, and the latest Xeon series blogs and videos, check out www.intel.com/server.

Tags: Steve Herrod, Intel, Doug Fisher, VMworld2008, VMware, Intel, Xeon 7400, virtualization, Dunnington, microprocessor, datacenter

XML and Enterprise Content Management

Jason Lopez — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:54:11 +0000

XML technologies can solve a broad range of business problems around application integration, information access, business process improvement, and compliance. In this EMC technology innovation video podcast, Jerry Silver, XML product marketing manager at EMC, discusses how the combination of advanced XML processing with enterprise content management can help organizations increase business value for all types of enterprise information.

For more information, read the whitepaper, Managing the XML Revolution: Organizing and Delivering Content Components for Engaging Applications, Best Practices Planning.

Tags: XML, application integration, information access, compliance, EMC, Jerry Silver, enterprise content management

VMWorld08: XEON 7400 Series: Leading Performance with IBM

editor — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:00:41 +0000

Intel’s Xeon 7400-series processor made a solid impact in 2008, with multiple top scores in benchmark surveys and powerful implementations. What does it mean for virtualization performance, especially as the enterprise moves toward virtualizing its most critical applications with a new generation of virtualization technology?

In this video podcast, IBM’s Robert Zuber speaks with Beth Carlton from VMware on the reliability that comes with the IBM’s 3850 and 3950 support for Intel’s 7400-series Dunnington processor.

Tags: Robert Zuber, Beth Carlton, Xeon 7400, VMWorld08, VMware, Intel, Xeon, virtualization, Dunnington, vmotion, Clearbay

Intel and VMware: Virtualization 2.0

editor — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:00:38 +0000

At VMWorld 2008, “Virtualization 2.0″ was the talk of the show. Intel’s Andy Fields met up with Dave Martin from VMware to discuss the collaboration between the two companies, and to explain the impacts of the newsmaking Dunnington release on enabling virtualization.

For more information, expert advice and answers, and the latest Xeon series blogs and videos, check out www.intel.com/server.

Tags: Andy Fields, Dave Martin, VMWorld08, VMware, Intel, Xeon, virtualization, Dunnington, vmotion, Clearbay

Where is Unified Communications Going?

Michael Johnson — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:55:05 +0000

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 ways in which technology is reshaping the corporate environment, and the implications for the enterprise are significant, ranging from greener, more sustainable business practices to drastically reduced friction, latency and overload of existing communications systems.

In this podcast, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Systems Marketing, Siemens Enterprise Communications Mark Straton predicts that the UC feature set will become the new baseline standard. Straton says that unified communications, as we currently know it, will will merge with voice, video, and mobility solutions to create comprehensive but modular UC solutions, with the lines between business applications like email, CRM, ERP, communications platforms, and communications devices blurring or disappearing completely.

Tags: unified communications, global collaboration, conferencing, sustainable business, mobility, Siemens, Mark Straton, CRM, ERP

Understanding UDAP Legislation to Find Revenue Opportunities

Paul Lancour — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:51:51 +0000

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 regulation addresses overdraft processing and credit card activities.

This regulation will ultimately create pressure on financial institution profitability, resulting in lost fee and interest revenue and increased risk management challenges. UDAP will also require costly modifications to systems and processes throughout the account lifecycle. The financial impact on each institution depends on existing policies & practices. If a financial institution has not yet calculated the financial impact of this regulatory change on their income statement, BearingPoint has created a proprietary model to perform a high level calculation that is directionally accurate.

BearingPoint has created an organizational impact assessment tool to assists our clients in identifying the processes that impact them specifically. Organizations need to align their budgets and their resources to be prepared to support UDAP compliance efforts in 2009. Every institution should start investigating revenue enhancement opportunities and BearingPoint is here to ensure you’re fully equipped when this regulation becomes law.

Tags: BearingPoint, Chris Estes, Eileen Perrin, OTC, NCUA, Federal Trade Commission Act, UDAP

Intel and Sun: Business Intelligence Accelerator

editor — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:30:55 +0000

Time is money. BI Accelerator speeds database query response times by 10x to 100x. Here, Scott Allen, of the SAP Alliance Team at Intel, talks with Sun Microsystem’s Gilly Clough. Clough is a principal SAP architect, and they discuss the advantages that Intel blades bring to Sun’s offerings around the Business Intelligence Accelerator and Solaris on Intel.

For more information, expert advice and answers, and the latest Xeon series blogs and videos, check out www.intel.com/server.

Tags: SAP TechEd08, Solaris, Scott Allen, Gilly Clough, Sun Microsystems, SAP, BIA, business intelligence accelerator, BI Accelerator, Intel, Itanium, Xeon, virtualization, IDF 2008, Dunnington, Penryn, 45nm, HP

Intel’s Core i7

Jason Lopez — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:30:07 +0000

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 well as for better energy efficiency.

“We’ve put in features such as Turbo Boost Technology, our integrated power gate, an integrated memory controller, and Hyper-Threading,” he says. The effort took about five years and required thousands of engineers.

“Building this microprocessor brings a lot of people together, like architects, micro architects, the design teams,” commented Rani Borkar, vice president of Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group. “As you get into the development phases, working with the process technology, it’s a mind-boggling effort that requires a lot of teamwork across the board.”

This video takes you into Intel’s labs to meet some of the researchers behind the Core i7.

Tags: Core i7, microprocessor, Intel, Nehalem, microarchitecture, Ronak Singhal, chip design, Turbo Boost Technology, Hyper-Threading, Rani Borkar, energy efficiency, Energy Smart, Francois Piednoel, Regina Wu, gaming

Citizen Journalism Plus A New Local Ad Model: Topix, The Largest News Community On The Web

Jennifer Jones — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:00:24 +0000

Chris Tolles, CEO of Topix, and Jennifer Jones discuss the pros and cons of citizen journalism and the objectivity of journalists today. Tolles also describes how Topix which is the largest news community on the web provides an interesting business model for marketers to advertise locally. Tolles mentions how Walgreens used Topix to run a successful campaign.

Tags: Chris Tolles, citizen journalism, Marketing Voices, social media, Topix

Radical Rethinking in Chip Design: Intel’s Core i7 Ready to Launch

Jason Lopez — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:30:12 +0000

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 – high performance and optimal energy efficiency.

Tags: chip design, Core i7, energy efficiency, Energy Smart, Intel, Nehalem, processor, Turbo Mode, Stephen Gunther, Hillsboro, Power Management

With New Advanced Web Platform, Verizon Business Helps Welsh Assembly Government Keep Citizens Informed

Michael Johnson — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:35:34 +0000

Learn how Verizon Business’ application content management service is helping customers, such as the Welsh Assembly Government, quickly, securely and easily update online content through a simple and intuitive Web interface. In this podcast, Arjan Van Proosdij, senior product marketing manager – IT solutions and hosting, Verizon Business, is joined by Stuart Fitzgerald, head of e-communications for the Welsh Assembly Government, to discuss how the Welsh Assembly Government will leverage Verizon Business’ Application Management Service to help inform and impact the lives of approximately 3 million Welsh citizens.

Tags: Application Management Service, Arjan Van Proosdij, Stuart Fitzgerald, Verizon Business, Wales, Welsh Assembly Government

Intel and HP: Rethinking Virtualization

editor — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:00:52 +0000

Business are modernizing their SAP landscapes, preparing for ERP6.0 migration. Intel’s Enis Skillern speaks with James G. White, SAP modernization director for HP, about the technologies from the two companies that help enterprises keep costs low while allowing for maximum flexibility and scalability.

For more information, expert advice and answers, and the latest Xeon series blogs and videos, check out www.intel.com/server.

Tags: SAP TechEd08, Enis Skillern, James G. White, Intel, HP, TechEd, Itanium, Xeon, virtualization, IDF 2008, Dunnington, Penryn, 45nm, HP

Managing VMware and Your Enterprise Infrastructure

editor — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:45:49 +0000

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.

Featured Speakers:
David Friedlander, Senior Product Marketing Manager, VMware
Ryan Day, Group Manager, VMware

Tags: VMware, Virtualization, Ryan Day, David Friedlander, IT administrators, Enterprise Infrastructure, datacenters

Exploring Global Collaboration with Verizon Business

Michael Johnson — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:00:13 +0000

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 president – global business products, as well as industry analysts, IT man-on-the-street interviews and others, this podcast explores the opportunities of global collaboration and examines the benefits that are driving organizations to adopt unified communications and collaboration to propel business growth and efficiency.

Tags: Collaboration, Denny Strigl, Global, Nancy Gofus, Unified Communications, Verizon Business

Virtualization 2.0 - Intel Chip Chat - Episode 34

editor — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:49:20 +0000

Intel is helping enable the next generation of virtualization usage by allowing IT managers to deliver high availability solutions with the agility to address disaster recovery and real time workload balancing.

Intel, virtualization, chip chat, disaster recovery, workload balancing

Tags: Intel, virtualization, chip chat, disaster recovery, workload balancing

Intel & HP Announce World’s Best 4-Socket TPC-C Result

editor — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:00:20 +0000

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.

Also, at Fall IDF in San Francisco, Intel also announced that the Xeon 7400-series processors posted record performance results, marking the first time that the industry has seen 1.2 million database transactions per minute on an 8-socket IBM server.

For more information, expert advice and answers, and the latest Xeon series blogs and videos, check out www.intel.com/server.

Tags: Noe Garcia, Aaron Spurlock, Intel, Xeon, virtualization, IDF 2008, Dunnington, Penryn, 45nm, TPCC, database transactions, benchmark, HP, Proliant, DL580

Threats From Inside and Out: Best Practices for Information Security

Jason Lopez — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:09:04 +0000

In this podcast, which features highlights from the webinar Minimizing the Risk of Information Security Breaches, Best Practices for SOA Governance and Compliance, experts in the field grapple with today’s data security questions. One of the moderators, Andreas Antonopoulos, senior vice president and founding partner of Nemertes Research, says that conventional thinking is to keep outsiders out and insiders in, because outsiders cannot be trusted and insiders can. “Unfortunately, that’s not the case anymore,” says Antonopoulos. “Not only can you not trust insiders, but also many of your insiders are roaming around all over the world connecting through mobile systems.” So, what makes a good SOA platform? Dutta Satadip, product manager at HP Software’s SOA Center joins us to discuss. And for case use scenarios, we turn to Dr. Clifford Grossner, of security solutions marketing at Alcatel-Lucent.

For more information, visit www.alcatel-lucent.com/enterprise/webinar/security/hp.

Transcript

Tags: webinar, webinar, information security, security breach, SOA governance, SOA compliance, Andreas Antonopoulos, data security, Nemertes Research, Dutta Satadip, HP, Clifford Grossner, Alcatel-Lucent

IBM Announces World Record TPC-C Result: What Does It Mean for IT Managers?

editor — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:00:59 +0000

This past Fall, Intel announced that the Xeon 7400-series processors posted record performance results, marking the first time that the industry has seen 1.2 million database transactions per minute on an 8-socket IBM server. It was announced by Intel Executive Vice President Pat Gelsinger at IDF 2008, and it was the topic of many spirited industry conversations, as well. In this video podcast, Intel’s Mike Moreno speaks with IBM’s Robert Zuber about what the news means for IT managers, and what IBM is doing to help reduce the size of the IT footprint in the enterprise. They also mention new benchmarks around database and virtualization.

For more information, expert advice and answers, and the latest Xeon series blogs and videos, check out www.intel.com/server.

Tags: Mike Moreno, Robert Zuber, Intel, Xeon, virtualization, IDF 2008, Dunnington, Penryn, 45nm, TPCC, database transactions, benchmark

Automating the Datacenter

editor — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:02:25 +0000

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 Day, Alliances Group Manager, VMware

Tags: VMware, virtualization, Melinda Wilken, Ryan Day, automation, IT administrators

Smarter Tools Turn Information Into Intelligence

editor — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:00:38 +0000

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 they need to make informed decisions.

Tags: content analytics, Content Management, Documentum, EMC, knowledge workers, Lou Jordano, information intelligence

Making Corporate Culture An Asset: Forrester’s Bruce Temkin’s Tips

Jennifer Jones — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:20:17 +0000

Making a corporate culture more innovative, and open, so it can listen and share is the advice of Forrester VP and Analyst of Customer Experience, Bruce Temkin. He believes it is time for corporate management to change and adopt his 6 new imperatives. Temkin and Jones discuss how to do this, and describe the best practices of LEGO who Temkin believes is a good example of an open communicative culture.

Tags: Bruce Temkin, Forrester, Jennifer Jones, lego, Marketing Voices, social media

Democratization of HD Video Conferencing

Michael Johnson — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:00:53 +0000

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 technologies are bringing that value and efficiency one step further: by bringing the collaborative video conferencing technology out of the conference room and out to the desktop, they’re turning video communication into the new voice communication. “Video killed the radio star,” is one way that Wayne Seifried might put it. Seifried is the director of Global Portfolio Marketing, Enterprise Mobility and Video Solutions with Siemens Enterprise Communications.

OpenScape Video, from Siemens Enterprise Communication is bringing some of the highest quality video at the lowest possible bandwidth to desktop users throughout the enterprise. The result is something that Seifried calls the “Democratization of HD Video Conferencing,” because with OpenScape, video is part of the unified communication platform, integrating with internal phone systems to allow maximum participation from users anywhere in the company, and pretty much anywhere in the world.

In this podcast, Seifried discusses the changes that high definition video conferencing have already made for all industries, ranging from medicine (where telemedicine allows specialists in one location the real-time ability to assist in medical situations in other, often very remote, locales), to law and even education. He explains why, while the value of video over voice communication is clear, the technology that continues to evolve, bringing high quality video to more users for less cost means great opportunity for the enterprise.

Tags: high definition video, video conferencing, collaboration, conferencing technology, Wayne Seifried, Siemens, enterprise mobility, OpenScape Video, HD Video, democratization

Xeon 7400-Series World Record Results

editor — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:00:56 +0000

Intel’s Xeon 7400-series processors posted record performance results, in time for this announcement from Intel Executive Vice President Pat Gelsinger at IDF 2008, in San Francisco. This podcast includes the IDF announcement of those Xeon performance results, which marked the first time the industry has seen 1.2 million database transactions per minute on an 8-slot IBM server.

The Intel Xeon 7400 series (Dunnington), is the “final member of the Penryn family” — a family that Gelsinger notes shares Intel’s 45nm technology.

For more information, expert advice and answers, and the latest Xeon series blogs and videos, check out www.intel.com/server.

Tags: Pat Gelsinger, Intel, Xeon, virtualization, IDF 2008, Dunnington, Penryn, 45nm, TPCC, database transactions

Microsoft Virtualization Strategy with Hyper-V

editor — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:00:09 +0000

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 IT efficiency. In this podcast, Jeff Woolsey, senior program manager at Microsoft focused on Microsoft Virtualization, and Intel Microsoft Alliance Manager Joakim Lialias discuss the specific benefits of using Hyper-V technology with Intel’s VT virtualization.

Also check out Nick Triantos’s comments on Hyper-V, including thoughts on ease of installation and the details on Windows 2008 and Hyper-V’s minimum requirements, which Jeff Woolsey mentions in the podcast.

Hyper-V is available for download from Microsoft.

For more information, expert advice and answers, and the latest Xeon series blogs and videos, check out www.intel.com/server.

Tags: Microsoft, hypervisor, Hyper-V, virtualization, Intel VT, Intel, Jeff Woolsey, Joakim Lialias, WindowsServer2008