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The ColdSpark/BearingPoint Solutions to Success

Paul Lancour — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:20:18 +0000

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 cost-effectiveness, manage regulatory compliance, integrate information and transition to “next-generation” technology.

ColdSpark helps the world’s most demanding companies harness the power of email to create business value, while ensuring security, compliance, performance and management for email networks and systems. As the leading provider of enterprise solutions and platforms for email processes and delivery, ColdSpark helps BearingPoint assist its clients with saving money, making money and addressing security concerns, amongst others. By utilizing a holistic approach, ColdSpark offers great scalability and flexibility around the client’s current infrastructure.

The relationship between BearingPoint and ColdSpark provides clients with solutions that drive revenue, strengthen relationships with customers and ensure compliance issues are addressed, improving security and optimizing performance while growing revenue and cutting costs significantly.

Tags: BearingPoint, Terence Oi, ColdSpark, Scott Brown

What’s New: Empowering your sales force, SAVO Group

Cydni Tetro — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:00:38 +0000

John O’Donnell, a Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist with Microsoft, met with Drew at Convergence 2008 to talk about the challenge of making a Dynamics CRM solution compelling for sales people and how his company’s product (SAVO) can help drive Dynamics CRM usage by making important sales information easy to find, manipulate and rate and therefore encourage sales professionals to access and update Dynamics CRM each day.

Tags: CRM, John O’Donnell, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, S + S, SAAS, SAVO Group, USISV

Intel Helps Developers With Multi-Threaded Software Community

editor — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:53:44 +0000

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 for the software that will help to realize the higher performance potential of multi-core. Intel is leading the effort to adopt with key software packages and developer tools that make it easier to write multi-threaded code.

To find out what Intel is doing for the community, check out the community site, “Threading for Multi-Core Developer Community.” There, Intel and the community share tools and expertise with featured articles, threading analysis tools, industry benchmarks, training, and access to Intel developers and experts, for training and best practices information.

Krishnapura is a principal engineer in the Intel Platform and Design Capability Engineering group, driving the internal engineering of High Performance Computing solutions optimized for Tapeout and Design Computing. As an architect of Intel Architecture migration program for Electronic Design Automation, Shesha is responsible for enabling IA-based optimization and adoption in EDA market by enabling application vendors and strategically influencing world-wide semiconductor customers for best-in-class design compute solutions.

Tags: Tim Phillips, Shesha Krishnapura, multi-core processors, multi-threaded software, multi-threaded code, threading analysis, High Performance Computing, Tapeout, Design Computing, Intel Architecture, Electronic Design Automation, IA, optimization, HPC, Intel, VTune, Threading Analysis, Intel Performance Libraries, Intel Threading Building Blocks, EDA

Intel’s Craig Barrett: Malaysia’s on Track

Jason Lopez — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:11:37 +0000

Intel’s Craig Barrett says that private companies can’t go it alone when trying to make a difference in developing markets, and neither can governments. In a visit to Malaysia, the chairman of the chip giant stopped off at Penang, where the company has committed itself to help local schools. Barrett, a former professor at Stanford University, is a big believer in education, especially in developing teachers. Barrett also appeared at the 16th World Congress on Information Technology where he delivered a keynote reaffirming his belief that real change can happen when governments and private industry team up.

In this video podcast PodTech producer Jason Lopez captured Barrett’s visits in Penang and in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

World Congress on Information Technology Blog

Tags: Intel, Craig Barrett, Malaysia, ICT

Intel to Work with Grameen Bank

Jason Lopez — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:04:27 +0000

In a surprise announcement at the 16th World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Intel Chairman Craig Barrett informed a keynote audience that the world’s biggest chipmaker would work together with Grameen Bank. The financial institution was started by Professor Muhammad Yunus as a way to provide credit to the rural poor in Bangladesh without collateral. Yunus was awarded the Nobel Prize for his efforts in 2006. In this podcast Barrett, along with Yunus via pre-recorded video, unveil the joint venture.

Tags: Craig Barrett, Grameen, Intel, Muhammad Yunus, WCIT, World Ahead, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Intel ISEF 2008: Atlanta Hosts Global Science Fair

Jason Lopez — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:01:57 +0000

In this video podcast, Dr. Oren Shriki, a science teacher at the Israel Arts and Sciences Academy, speaks about Intel’s International Science and Engineering Fair, taking place in Atlanta, May 11-16. (As excitement builds toward the event’s opening, you can follow along on a dedicated Intel ISEF blog.)

Many of the best young scientists from around the world will attend, selected through regional science fairs for a wide range of skills, from identifying and addressing important scientific challenges or questions to using organized and logical thought to reach conclusions. The participants in Intel ISEF are very likely to be tomorrow’s leaders in technology, medicine and health, agriculture, environmental science and engineering.

During Intel ISEF, their work will be judged by professional scientists who will look for gifted communicators with excellent foundational understanding in specific research and the scientific process.

No matter what the judges decide, however, participants in the annual event will benefit from meeting their peers from around the world, hearing from Nobel laureates and scientists involved in the same kinds of research as theirs, and also creating lasting memories, like those found on the blog of 2004 ISEF alum (and member of a Fourth Award-winning team) Jayson Reggie Obos.

Here’s more information about the science fair as well as a quick look at recent ISEF events, including the 2007 Intel ISEF in Albuquerque, N.M.

Tags: Oren Shriki, Intel, International Science and Engineering Fair, ISEF, science fair, environmental science, Nobel laureate

Verizon Business Helps Companies Conduct Eco-Friendly Business

Michael Johnson — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:00:16 +0000

In this podcast, Chris Kimm discusses the Verizon Business’s commitment to the environment and how advanced communications and information technology solutions can help multinational companies employ energy-efficient business practices that make good business sense. Kimm is vice president of sales engineering for Verizon Business.

Tags: Chris Kimm, Eco-Friendly, green, Verizon Business

SNWSpotlight: Storage Virtualization, Green Data Centers

Paul Lancour — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:58:55 +0000

In this podcast, reporter Michael Johnson delves into storage virtualization technology, speaking with Don Fautt, LSI director of software marketing, and Doug Jury, LSI’s director of software business sales. Catherine Girardeau tackles power efficiency in the data center, speaking with Dave Vellante and William Souder about Vellante’s Wikibon Project. It’s had a terrific impact on the bottom line at Berry College, where Sounder is director of information technology.

SNWSpotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World. It’s brought to you by LSI.

Tags: Michael Johnson, storage virtualization, Catherine Girardeau, power efficiency, data center, SNWSpotlight, Storage Networking World, LSI, Wikibon Project, Dave Vellante, Berry College, William Souder, Doug Jury, Don Fautt

SNWSpotlight: Harry Mason and Dr. Claudine Simson, at SNW

Paul Lancour — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:30:50 +0000

In this podcast, we chat with Harry Mason, president of the SCSI Trade Association. Also, Dr. Claudine Simson, chief technology officer for LSI, gives us a preview of her keynote address. SNWSpotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World. It’s brought to you by LSI.

Tags: Harry Mason, SCSI Trade Association, Claudine Simson, LSI, SNWSpotlight, Storage Networking World

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

Information Management Series: How Intelligent is Your Enterprise Business Intelligence Strategy?

Rio Pesino — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:51:40 +0000

Join BearingPoint director Larry Manno to explore enterprise business intelligence (BI) strategies and the opportunities it presents to an organization. Many organizations recognize the opportunity to capture performance benefits through the use of BI tools. Increasingly, they are turning to BI as the means to transform their raw data into actionable information for competitive advantage. However, every organization faces unique challenges in defining their BI vision and executing on it. Even within information-intensive industries such as financial services, there is much opportunity for improvement.

Businesses are often architected for the transaction state, not the information state. Even organizations that achieve some level of maturity in their use of BI tools cannot stand idle. Because the financial services industry is facing a business environment characterized by a sustained demand for performance in the midst of such a versatile marketplace, they must improve their risk management and transparency. The market will continue to change rapidly, therefore organizations must think strategically and act pragmatically. Exciting developments in BI are opening the door to dramatic improvement in business performance. Organizations can effectively capitalize on the opportunities by taking a strategic approach to enterprise BI. BearingPoint believes that organizations can be effective by matching needs to mature technology enablers on a just-in-time basis and executing incrementally against a time-based road map. This approach is practical for organizations regardless of where they are on the BI maturity continuum. We also believe the ability to execute BI within a business-oriented vision and a broader enterprise information management framework remains a differentiator.

Tags: BearingPoint, Larry Manno, business intelligence, BI, risk management

Data Centers Recycle Excess Heat

Catherine Girardeau — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:01:20 +0000

Instead of wasting all the excess heat your data center generates, wouldn’t it be more efficient to reuse it to heat offices, water, and more? With the growing number of data centers being built, now is the time to integrate energy saving and reuse methods. In part one of this two-part podcast, Doug Garday, a data center design engineer with Intel Information Technology, explains energy recycling, a method of reducing the impact of data centers on the environment. Intel IT recommends building systems to recover data center heat into the design of new facilities. Garday explains Intel’s design scheme, and gives tips on calculating your return on investment.

Tags: datacenter, data center cooling, data center power, green data centers

Shanghai IDF Preview, with Intel’s Pat Gelsinger

Michael Johnson — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:00:38 +0000

In this podcast, a preview of this year’s Spring IDF 2008, bringing thousands of hardware and software engineers from around the world to Shanghai, China, for a developer forum with a telling theme: “Invent the New Reality.”

Intel Senior Vice President and Digital Enterprise Group co-GM Pat Gelsinger speaks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson about what is going to happen at the event in Shanghai.

Here, Gelsinger talks about the scheduled keynotes and new mobile internet devices based on the Intel Atom processor. Gelsinger shares his fondest memories of IDF over the years.

If you aren’t attending in person, that’s not a problem. Intel blogs will keep the information flowing in both directions with regular updates, photos and video.

If you’re not attending the event in person, be sure to follow online at Intel’s IDF pages and check in here for more video podcast coverage.

Tags: Pat Gelsinger, IDF, IDF2008, Nehalem, WiMAX, Dunnington, Intel Research, Mobile Internet Devices, Intel Atom, Intel

Bell Labs Human Factors

Rio Pesino — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:30:06 +0000

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:
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Vertafore and SmartClient Deployment

Cydni Tetro — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:24:15 +0000

How should SmartClient technology integrate with web solutions? VP Development at Vertafore Chris Kinsman talks with Microsoft Architect Evangelist Bruce Kyle about how and why SmartClient deployment of Windows Forms deliver the most value to its financial services customers in the AMS 360 product. And he describes how the Software + Services (S+S) company uses Internet Information Services (IIS) 7 in Windows Server 2008 to the update the data center.

Tags: Microsoft, smartclient, vertafore

Prof Tapan Parikh: Innovator and Social Entrepreneur

Kamla Bhatt — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 08:01:37 +0000

Prof. Tapan Parikh is a teacher, an innovator and a social entrepreneur, who currently teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. He was recently named as the Humanitarian of the Year by MIT’s Tech Review. While at graduate school in Seattle, Tapan took some time off and travelled to India, where he worked with various NGOs and ended up co-founding EkGaon Technologies.

Tapan’s focus is to create simple, innovative solutions that can be used in countries like India, Mexico and others. He created a simple, effective solution called CAM by harnessing the power of the ubiquitous camera phone. CAM allows users to scan and store information through a voice prompt and has proved to be effective solution for small organizations in India and other countries.

Tune in to find out what this reluctant entrepreneur has to say about the use of technology in emerging countries like India. Tapan is a big believer in the cell phone and how it can empower people in these countries.

Tags: CAM, EkGaon Technologies, Humanitarian of the Year, Mobile Phones, Tapan Parikh

OER Commons: Free Online Educational Materials

editor — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:01:57 +0000

At this year’s Tech Museum Awards, presented by Applied Materials, the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education was among the Microsoft Education Award Laureates. The Institute founded the OER Commons with the goal of sifting through mountains of free information available online, using technology to evaluate and organize the most appropriate, most high-quality free online educational materials. Their interactive, open-source network aggregates exceptional materials and provides a social networking opportunity for users who want to share their experiences and outcomes. A virtual community of teachers and learners rates materials, tags them, creates blogs, and even offers edits and ideas.

Here, Lisa Petrides, president of the Institute, along with Vice President Thad Nodine, discuss the OER Commons site, already used in 194 countries and territories around the world.

The Tech Awards: full coverage

Tags: Tech Museum Awards, Applied Materials, Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, Microsoft Education Award, OER Commons, open-source, social networking, virtual community, Lisa Petrides, Thad Nodine

TakingITGlobal: Adding Social Change to the Curriculum

editor — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:23:03 +0000

This year’s recipient of the Microsoft Education Award at The Tech Awards went to TakingITGlobal, an online community that connects youth to find inspiration, access information, get involved, and take action in their local and global communities. With hundreds of thousands of unique visitors each month, TakingITGlobal technology provides young people worldwide with an online platform for social change.

TakingITGlobal created a multilingual, advertising-free online community to incubate young leaders and help them learn from each other’s ideas. The site guides users to a deeper awareness of social, economic, and environmental issues. And it builds a bridge between learning and action by allowing young people to create their own community project pages, and by fostering mutual understanding across continents and languages.

Nick Yeo and Michael Furdyk were on hand to receive the award at The Tech Museum. They spoke with PodTech for this video podcast.

The Tech Awards: full coverage

Tags: Microsoft Education Award, TakingITGlobal, social change, Nick Yeo, Michael Furdyk

Adelphi University Helps Faculty and Students Foster Collaboration Securely

Michael Johnson — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:42:24 +0000

In this podcast, we hear from Verizon Business customer, Jack Chen, Chief Information Officer for the Office of the Provost for Adelphi University in Garden City, New York. Mr. Chen discusses how collaboration is at the heart of the university and how the university leverages technology to foster collaboration with staff, faculty, students and visiting professors, to name a few. He also highlights how partnering with Verizon Business to provide advanced security services helps him meet his business and IT requirements – all so that he can sleep better at night.

Tags: Verizon Business, Jack Chen, Adelphi University, Verizon, security, IT

Intel Ships New 45nm Penryn Chip

Paul Lancour — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:01:30 +0000

Gordon Moore’s Law will remain in effect for the foreseeable future. Intel Corporation’s new 45nm Penryn microprocessor relies on a new recipe that combines the element Hafnium and metal gate technology to increase performance and significantly reduce eco-unfriendly, wasteful electricity leaks. (more…)

Tags: Moore’s Law, 45nm, Penryn, microprocessor, new recipe, Hafnium, metal gate, eco-unfriendly, wasteful electricity leaks

Intel and HP Discuss Latest in Energy-Efficient Computing

Catherine Girardeau — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:30:20 +0000

Energy management and energy efficiency in data centers: Intel and HP are working together to save energy and money while boosting computing performance. The Climate Savers Computing Initiative is one way that Intel and HP are working to create sustainable high-performance technology for the enterprise. How do the energy management capabilities achieved by deploying Intel’s vPro platform contribute to power savings across an entire business? And what should the energy-conscious data center manager consider in trying to implement power savings in the data center? (More information on energy-effient chips related to this week’s announcement from another sponsor of the initiative, Marvell — a chip that actually determines the energy requirements of individual applications.

Tags: Energy management, energy efficiency, data centers, Intel, HP, computing performance, Climate Savers Computing Initiative

Morocco’s Tech Challenge: Literacy

Jason Lopez — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:51:41 +0000

In a country marked by influences — Berber, Arab, Jewish, French, Spanish — Morocco faces the challenge of absorbing one more: information technology. Countries like India, China, Brazil and Nigeria have seen the astonishing impact that simple PCs can have on an economy - but the key to unlocking the potential of an information-driven workforce is always the same — education. Morocco wants to create its own Silicon Valley. Intel Chairman Craig Barrett visited the country to reaffirm the company’s commitment to helping Morocco shorten its road to literacy. PodTech’s Jason Lopez filed this podcast

Tags: Morocco, information technology, education, Silicon Valley, Intel, Craig Barrett, literacy, PodTech, Jason Lopez

Journey to Connect Africa: First Leg, Lagos

Jason Lopez — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:08:36 +0000

Intel Chairman Craig Barrett is traveling this week in Africa, as part of an ongoing effort by the United Nations, the International Telecommunication Union and private enterprise to improve Africa’s Information and Communication Technology, or ICT infrastructure. Barrett, who heads up the UN’s Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN GAID), is accompanied by PodTech’s Jason Lopez, who files this podcast report from Lagos, Nigeria. The digital divide is at the heart of this week’s Connect Africa Summit, but from Lopez’s reporting so far, it’s not just a digital divide.

More about the Connect Africa effort

New, Smaller 45nm Transistors from Intel, Making a Big Splash at Supercomputing 2007

Jason Lopez — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:02:20 +0000

“Penryn” is the name for the upcoming family of processors built on new technology that Intel co-Founder Gordon Moore called one of the biggest advances to transistors in 45 years, PodTech’s Jason Lopez talks with Richard Dracott, General Manager of the High Performance Computing Organization in the Digital Enterprise Group at Intel.

Dracott talks about the possibilities of high performance computing, and about the upcoming SC ‘07 conference, where today’s leading computer companies will feature their latest and greatest products and technology. Featured at the Intel booth will be a contest to build a 768 GFlop processing cluster using the latest Intel quad core processors, and the winner gets to take it home. For more information and to participate, go to ultimatehpcgeek.com. Find more info on High Performance Computers, or go to Intel’s knowledge base Wiki on supercomputing.

ICT Access for Africa: Intel, UN and ITU Efforts to Globalize Broadband

Jason Lopez — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:44:35 +0000

Broadband, connectivity, Wi-Fi, accessibility and education efforts are all priorities for the ongoing efforts in developing nations and regions around the globe. Intel, along with the United Nations and International Telecommunication Union (ITU), among others, is participating this month in the Connect Africa Summit, which aims to bring together human, technical and financial resources to speed development and improvement of Africa’s Information and Communication Technology, or ICT infrastructure. Expanding broadband, wireless and mobile access technologies is the current push, after indications that Africa’s general ICT development is lagging behind its unprecedented adoption of mobile phone technology (400 percent in just a few years - well ahead of projections).

Dr. Hamadoun Touré is secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union. His call for what he refers to as a “Marshall Plan for ICT infrastructure development in Africa,” has been heard by the United Nations, and particularly by Intel Chairman Craig Barrett who, leading the UN’s Global Alliance for ICT and Development, or UN GAID, is working to bring the leading ICT companies in Silicon Valley and around the world to the challenges in Africa.

The United Nations’s Millennium Development Goals are driving innovation around the world, as the challenge of reducing global poverty by half by 2015 looms. The Connect Africa effort brings together private enterprise and non-governmental organizations for a two-day summit in Kigali, Rwanda, beginning on October 29, hosted by Rwanda President Paul Kagame and John Kufour, president of Ghana and chairman of the African Union.

Intel’s World Ahead Program, established in May 2006, has already seen the chip maker pledge more than $1 billion over five years to bridge the digital divide and bring full access to technology to the developing world.