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Virtual Desktops – The Wave of the Future?

May 9th, 2008 |
Virtual Desktops – The Wave of the Future?

Join BearingPoint Senior Manager Laurent Mandorla as he explores the importance of virtual desktops and why they are being hailed as the wave of the future. Over the last few years, there has been a lot of buzz around virtualization, [See the full post…]

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How to Make On-Boarding Easier for Your New Hire

April 25th, 2008 |
How to Make On-Boarding Easier for Your New Hire

Join BearingPoint senior manager Randy Nease as he explores employee on-boarding and how it can be made easier for the new hire. Employee on-boarding begins when the new hire accepts a company’s offer, and continues all the way through setting [See the full post…]

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SNWSpotlight: The Week In Review

April 10th, 2008 |
SNWSpotlight: The Week In Review

It’s a busy time of year for storage folks. For the many who made it to Orlando for this show, and for those who followed online from around the world, there was plenty to learn and share, from the floor [See the full post…]

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SNWSpotlight: 8G FC and FCoE, Solid State Storage

April 9th, 2008 |
SNWSpotlight: 8G FC and FCoE, Solid State Storage

In this podcast, a focus on the state of 8-Gigabit fibre channel and fibre channel over Ethernet. Joining the conversation, Tom Hammond-Doel, senior alliance manager at LSI and vice chairman of the Fibre Channel Industry Association, and Greg Schulz, founder [See the full post…]

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SNWSpotlight: High Performance Computing, Green Data Center

April 9th, 2008 |
SNWSpotlight: High Performance Computing, Green Data Center

In this podcast, we hear about a new development in the high performance computing market from Raj Das of SGI and Greg Schulz, analyst with The StorageIO Group, weighs in on the “green gap” in the data center. SNWSpotlight is [See the full post…]

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SNWSpotlight: Storage Virtualization, Green Data Centers

April 8th, 2008 |
SNWSpotlight: Storage Virtualization, Green Data Centers

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 [See the full post…]

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

April 8th, 2008 |
SNWSpotlight: Harry Mason and Dr. Claudine Simson, at SNW

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 [See the full post…]

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SNWSpotlight Conference Preview: Security Partnerships

April 7th, 2008 |
SNWSpotlight Conference Preview: Security Partnerships

SNWSpotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World. Here at the Shingle Creek Resort in Orlando, Fla., we start our coverage with a preview of the conference, featuring Derek Hulitzky of Computerworld, and we preview a [See the full post…]

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How Global Service Delivery Affects Overall Performance

March 20th, 2008 |
How Global Service Delivery Affects Overall Performance

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 [See the full post…]

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Consumer-Directed Healthcare: Transforming the M&A Market

March 20th, 2008 |
Consumer-Directed Healthcare: Transforming the M&A Market

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 [See the full post…]

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What’s Inside SxSW Interactive?

March 17th, 2008 |
What’s Inside SxSW Interactive?

In this video podcast, we travel to Austin, Texas and the SxSW Interactive festival, to focus on what’s inside people’s computers, and just how much they’re relying on those computers for work, communication and – all-important at the SxSW Festival [See the full post…]

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How IT Effectiveness Creates Savings and Increased Performance

March 7th, 2008 |
How IT Effectiveness Creates Savings and Increased Performance

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 [See the full post…]

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How Retail Banking Solutions Can Cut Costs and Still Deliver

March 7th, 2008 |
How Retail Banking Solutions Can Cut Costs and Still Deliver

Join BearingPoint managing director Peter Nikonovich to explore the Retail Banking Solution in the Enterprise Performance Improvement solution suite. With all the pressure on the economy due to the sub-prime crisis, now more than ever, banks are focused on ways [See the full post…]

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How Re-Engineering the Commercial Lending Process is Affecting the Current Credit Crisis

February 29th, 2008 |
How Re-Engineering the Commercial Lending Process is Affecting the Current Credit Crisis

Join BearingPoint senior manager Kevin McClafferty to understand the importance of re-engineering the commercial lending process and how it can impact your organization. When you re-engineer the current process, you open your organization up to the benefits of efficiency, effectiveness, [See the full post…]

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How Enterprise Performance Solutions Impact the Bottom Line

February 28th, 2008 |
How Enterprise Performance Solutions Impact the Bottom Line

Join BearingPoint director Joe Monti to explore the Enterprise Performance Solution and how it can affect your organization’s bottom line. With all the pressure on the economy due to the sub-prime crisis, now more than ever, people are focused on [See the full post…]

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PCI: What Does It Mean for You?

February 13th, 2008 |
PCI: What Does It Mean for You?

In this podcast, Barbara Mitchell, product manager for Verizon Business, provides valuable insight on the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, better known as PCI. She explains what the PCI Data Security Standard means for businesses and who is affected, [See the full post…]

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Is Data Privacy the Next Electronic Border?

February 1st, 2008 |
Is Data Privacy the Next Electronic Border?

Join BearingPoint managing director Warren Zafrin to explore how the Internet’s ability to allow information to flow freely between countries has become the electronic border that will expand or contract depending on the privacy borders. In 1995, Europe established a [See the full post…]

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Intel Asks “What Is This Thing?” at CES 2008

January 9th, 2008 |
Intel Asks “What Is This Thing?” at CES 2008

The Consumer Electronics Show is going on in Las Vegas. In this video podcast we walk out of the Intel booth at the show and onto the Las Vegas Strip to ask “what is this thing?” … and we get [See the full post…]

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Offshoring Advanced Analytics to Predict Business Trends

December 14th, 2007 |
Offshoring Advanced Analytics to Predict Business Trends

Join BearingPoint Senior Manager, Ray Wilson, as he explores offshoring advanced analytics and how it supports businesses today. With the recent credit crisis that has made its way across our nation, more and more companies are demanding an advanced analytics [See the full post…]

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Chris Kenton of MotiveLab

December 4th, 2007 |
Chris Kenton of MotiveLab

In this podcast Chris Kenton, President and CEO of MotiveLab has a conversation with Eric Vidal, advertising and new media leader at WebEx about what’s being talked about by marketing thought leaders as we move forward in a Web 2.0 [See the full post…]

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Staying In The Loop: Stu Schmidt

November 28th, 2007 |
Staying In The Loop: Stu Schmidt

In this podcast Eric Vidal, advertising and new media leader at WebEx, talks to Stu Schmidt, Vice President of solution sales at Cisco/WebEx, about how Web 2.0 and conversational marketing are changing the rules of the marketing game. Learn how [See the full post…]

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Building a Business Case for Voice Over IP (VoIP)

November 27th, 2007 |
Building a Business Case for Voice Over IP (VoIP)

Join BearingPoint manager Takashi Yoskizaki to learn how to build a business case for VoIP. Industry trends show that over the years nearly every organization has done something around utilizing VoIP. Before any new technology can be implemented, a business [See the full post…]

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The Battle of IT Best Practices

November 20th, 2007 |
The Battle of IT Best Practices

Join BearingPoint managing director Frederic Veron to explore the battle of finding the right IT best practice for your organization. It is important to understand that there is not one universal best practice. An organization must define their framework so [See the full post…]

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Replicate and Strategize for Full Disaster Recovery

November 16th, 2007 |
Replicate and Strategize for Full Disaster Recovery

Join BearingPoint managing director Daryouche Behboudi in exploring disaster recovery and the importance of technology architecture. When considering the technology architecture of your company, there are many factors to look at. Besides being cost-effective, one must determine if the plan [See the full post…]

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Intel Ships New 45nm Penryn Chip

November 11th, 2007 |
Intel Ships New 45nm Penryn Chip

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 [See the full post…]

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