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Bill McCarthy: Cisco on Opps, Challenges for CLECs

Catherine Girardeau — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:59:39 +0000

Bill McCarthy, operations director with MetaSwitch partner Cisco talked with PodTech.net about opportunities and challenges for competitive local exchange carriers. The interview took place during a MetaSwitch-sponsored breakfast event at the World Center Marriott in Orlando, Florida.

Tags: Bill McCarthy, MetaSwitch, Cisco

Convergence Spells Opportunity for Managed Services

Catherine Girardeau — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:10:44 +0000

Gary Kim, managing editor of IT Business Wire, and Andy Randall, MetaSwitch's vice president of marketing, chat with PodTech.net at the World Center Marriott in Orlando after a breakfast meeting sponsored by MetaSwitch. The breakfast panel focused on opportunities and challenges for the new competitive local exchange carriers, or CLECs. Kim and Randall discuss home and office application convergence, and the content management and distribution model changes heralded by rising demand for broadband content.

Tags: Gary Kim, Andy Randall, MetaSwitch, CLECs

Intel Scientists Talk Tereflops

editor — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 01:47:13 +0000

This is a video of Intel engineers talking about their research into 80-core chip technology. PodTech's interview with Intel CTO Justin Rattner about the company's 80-core announcement can be found here.

Commissioned by Intel.

Technology Challenges for Next Generation CLECs

Catherine Girardeau — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:50:25 +0000

In an interview with PodTech.net at the World Center Marriott in Orlando, Florida, MetaSwitch's Chris Mairs, CTO and senior vice president, business development, and Andy Randall, vice president, marketing, discuss the partnership between Cisco and MetaSwitch, the definition of service in next generation networks, and the challenges CLECs face in the 21st century IT climate.

Tags: MetaSwitch, Chris Mairs, Andy Randall, Cisco

F5's Kevin Hohenbrink: Data Replication Disaster Recovery, Part 2

Michael Johnson — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:31:44 +0000

Kevin Hohenbrink, product manager at F5 Networks, discusses Business Impact analysis and its importance in a data disaster recovery strategy. Hohenbrink is the optimization manager for the WANJet, F5's appliace-based data compression and accelerator tool. This is the second of a two part interview. This is an F5 podcast.

Part one here.

Tags: Kevin Hohenbrink, F5 Networks, disaster recovery, WANJet

F5's Kevin Hohenbrink: Data Replication Disaster Recover: Part 1

Michael Johnson — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:37:21 +0000

Kevin Hohenbrink, product manager at F5 Networks, outlines the key points of data replication, recovery-point-objective (RPO) and recovery-time-objective (RTO), and their importance in a business continuity/disaster recovery plan. Hohenbrink is the optimization manager for the WANJet, F5's appliace-based data compression and accelerator tool. This is the first of a two part interview. This is an F5 podcast.

Part two here.

Tags: Kevin Hohenbrink, F5 Networks, WANJet

CIO Dilemmas: A Conversation

Paul Lancour — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:47:53 +0000

This is the last in the series of podcasts with Frank Buytendijk, vice president for corporate strategy at Hyperion. The series emphasizes the need to address more directly the specific problems any CIO might face in order to arrive at meaningful solutions. In this final, "bonus" podcast, Frank hears from leaders in business intelligence, and directly addresses their comments about real-world issues faced by top-level CIOs.

Tags: Frank Buytendijk, corporate strategy, Hyperion, CIO, business intelligence

Seniors Online: Safe, Smart & Active

editor — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:52:50 +0000

The Internet is a great way for seniors to stay connected, informed, and involved. The following tips will help you to keep your information safe while you are online.

More information at:
Symantec.com

Tags: Symantec

Medical Network on the Move

Paul Lancour — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:00:40 +0000

Mobile Medical Corporation provides onsite drug testing for construction workers and helps ensure that those who hire them can sleep at night.

Tags: Mobile Medical Corporation

How to Survive the Escalation of Market Data in Financial Services

Paul Lancour — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:00:40 +0000

Market data services in today's global financial services institutions can prove to be an ever- escalating issue that can have a severe bottom-line impact. If market data services are not carefully planned for and service levels drop, it can cost a financial services firm dearly.

In this podcast, Farid Moussavi, managing director of BearingPoint Financial Services Technical Solutions Practice will help you to better understand a service delivery framework to address the prevalent issues in providing market data to your internal clients. He will also explore what it would take to treat market data like a service.

Tags: Farid Moussavi, BearingPoint

Intel Proposes 80 Core… For Your Laptop

Jason Lopez — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:44:57 +0000

Intel says it has developed an 80-core microprocessor chip that could enable PCs and chip-enabled devices to perform Teraflop level computing. The company will offer more details of its research in a series of scientific papers at the annual Integrated Solid State Circuits Conference this week in San Francisco. The chip maker says the result of providing such chips to the market could help usher in artificial intelligence, instant video communications, photo-realistic games, multimedia data mining and real-time speech recognition. The demonstration model unveiled last week in San Francisco, however, is not a prototype for a product. Still, the company says the technology would be built into future chips designs. Jason Lopez of PodTech spoke with Intel CTO Justin Rattner.

Here's an interesting video produced by Intel at their research facility in Hillsboro, Oregon featuring engineers who are working on 80-core technology.

Partners Extend and Enhance Home Automation Offerings

Brad Baldwin — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:46:11 +0000

Platforms are validated as partners develop solutions. Control4 invited a number of their key partners to display and show their solutions at CES. The solutions enhance and extend the lighting, climate, audio/visual, and security benefits. From Somfy's solutions to manage window coverings and lighting, to iPort's solution that leverages the iPod for digital content, to Key Digital's HD video and audio offerings for night-club owners, there are a number of solutions to benefit those seeking to create the everyday easy home. Other partners include: Vision Art (custom framed art to cover HD TVs); Card-Access (wireless controls); Home Automation, Inc. (audio, lighting, theater), Eaton (wireless controls); Wellspring Wireless (metering products based on ZigBee); DSC (security), Johnson Controls (light commercial market); and Ember (ZigBee Provider).

This podcast is brought to you by Rocky Mountain Voices.

Tags: Control4, CES, Rocky Mountain Voices

Changing Education: Beyond the Classroom

Paul Lancour — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 06:41:46 +0000

Hear how two award-winning school districts are profoundly changing education, enabling students and teachers to collaborate with people around the world.

Delivering Life-Changing Medical Care

Paul Lancour — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:54:22 +0000

Hear how the network is helping a global charity and its hospital ships deliver free medical care and relief aid to some of the world's poorest nations.

CIO Dilemmas: Bridging IT Service Delivery and Business Focus

Paul Lancour — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:29:57 +0000

In this fifth podcast in the series examining the changing demands on the CIO, Frank Buytendijk, vice president for corporate strategy at Hyperion, discusses the dilemma of bridging IT service delivery and business focus. Frank examines the unique difficulties a CIO faces, straddling the technical world and the strategic world of an organization.

Tags: CIO, Frank Buytendijk, corporate strategy, Hyperion, IT

Verizon Business: Real Time Customizable Network-based Firewall

Michael Johnson — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 05:52:44 +0000

Michael Marcellin, the Executive Director for IP & Ethernet Networking for
Verizon Business, announces the launch of the first network-based firewall that can be customized in real time, adding the ability to control traffic through business networks, with a simple web-based GUI, (Graphical User Interface). This is a Verizon Business podcast.

Tags: Michael Marcellin, Verizon Business, firewall, Verizon

CaringBridge: The Next Best Thing to Being There

editor — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 21:13:52 +0000

Find out how a nonprofit is using the network to keep loved ones informed, and how an IP phone brings Santa to the hospital room.

Tags: IP phone

Juniper's Master of IT - Eric Walters of 7-eleven

John Furrier — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:01:41 +0000

Eric Walters is manager of network services for 7-eleven, focusing on the continental U.S. and Canada, and he is a Juniper Networks Master of IT. The 7-eleven network is provides some big challenges, especially when it comes to the company's many stores, and the technology those stores are using. Virtual commerce — using enhanced ATM machines — is only one of the many critical deployments of new technology that requires a highly secure, highly dependable network. (Another challenge — the stores are using a wireless system internally. That's one more thing to maintain, and to keep secure….) Eric speaks with PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier.

For more on Master of IT visit Juniper's website, www.masterofit.net.

Tags: Eric Walters, 7-eleven, Juniper Networks, Master of IT, PodTech, John Furrier