In a constant effort to manage and reduce IT spending, CIOs and CTOs are also charged with constantly having to demonstrate the value of IT to the business. Join us to hear Thierry Turc, managing director and technologist for BearingPoint, [See the full post…]

It’s the revenue-generator, but does your organization’s call center need to connect and centralize multiple data centers and agents? The idea behind call center virtualization is to enable transactions and calls to be routed in any situation, based on the [See the full post…]

ProSafe products have always been designed and built to the higher standards required for business-class networks. To clearly demonstrate that NETGEAR products offer world-class quality, NETGEAR now offers a full lifetime hardware warranty on ProSafe products – switches, firewalls, and [See the full post…]

Beyond the help desk, there are a number of technologies that have been around for years, but today there are more and more intuitive tools that allow for better automation. Now the IT organization can turn the dial, depending on [See the full post…]

SNW Spotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World, in San Diego. In this wrapup edition of SNW Spotlight, the PodTech Team recalls the best moments from SNW, with highlights and selected clips from the podcast [See the full post…]

SNW Spotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World in San Diego. In this edition of SNW Spotlight, exploring the subtleties of network architecture, and columnist and futurist Thornton May talks about the human brain, coral [See the full post…]

SNW Spotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World, in San Diego. In this edition of SNW Spotlight, two shows for the price of one! Storage news coverage from the NAB conference in Las Vegas, and [See the full post…]

SNW Spotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World, in San Diego. In this edition of SNW Spotlight, storage in China, and security on your hard drive. Four Chinese journalists opine about what needs to happen [See the full post…]

SNW Spotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World, in San Diego. In this edition of SNW Spotlight, all things SAS. As Serial Attached SCSI makes great inroads into the market, the Storage Networking World conference [See the full post…]

SNW Spotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World. On today’s SNW Spotlight, we look behind the scenes of SNW with event sponsors Computer World and the Storage Networking Industry Association, and we chat with LSI’s [See the full post…]

Does your enterprise network infrastructure group face challenges that include a need for differentiated service levels for different business units, or are they stuck using obsolete technologies and non-scalable architecture? Multi Protocol Label Switching – MPLS – could be the [See the full post…]

SNWSpotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World, taking place in San Diego from April 16th through the 19th. Subscribe to these podcasts for valuable up-to-the-minute news from the conference, plus interviews with industry leaders about [See the full post…]

Certain enterprises are ideally suited for Web conferencing and for delivering training materials via the Internet, and Darco International is one of them. As a designer of medical products, demonstration and training is an integral part of the company’s success. [See the full post…]

Typically, IT organizational structures are the result of an evolutionary process and are not necessarily the outcome of planned design. So, how should the IT organization be designed and operated? To start, using a value chain provides an overview of [See the full post…]

For this podcast we return to the office of David Knight, vice president of WebEx Connect. In this conversation we go a little deeper into what makes WebEx Connect a powerful tool for organizations to partner with when looking into [See the full post…]

Most IT departments allocate a significant portion of the total cost to labor yet do not apply any formal estimation methodology to determine the appropriate allocation, growth, and productivity of their labor. The use of an estimation model can have [See the full post…]

William H. Morgan is executive vice president and chief information officer with the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. As such, he knows how latency and down time are unacceptable for a business network. In this podcast, he talks about the rollout of [See the full post…]

A Business Case is a structured proposal for business change that is justified in terms of risk-adjusted costs and benefits. The objective is to request and secure funding for the project. It’s a living document and will be reviewed throughout [See the full post…]

Network managers find themselves with a widening set of non-network management responsibilities as enterprise web services and applications become more complex and network-dependent. But, it is neither realistic nor cost effective for enterprises to diffuse the expertise of network managers [See the full post…]

IT solutions of all colors are required by enterprises and service providers to effectively and efficiently manage their IT organization. These solutions address management requirements at the IT infrastructure, services and business layers and leverage several best practices, such as [See the full post…]

NETGEAR has announced its new Digital Entertainer HD. It’s the next step in bridging the barrier between your television and the digital media on your computer. Listen to this conversation with Jamison Ching of NETGEAR, as he outlines all the [See the full post…]

There are four major IT integration models that companies adopt, depending on their existing business and technology environments and their post-M&A business goals. Each model has distinctive characteristics in speed of integration, costs, complexity and synergies. Recent studies have shown [See the full post…]

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 [See the full post…]

This podcast is our second with Venu Venugopal, vice president of solutions marketing at CA. In today’s IT environment your operations group can be deluged with event storms, numerous false positives, and a “sea of red” on their consoles. An [See the full post…]

When Frank Russell founded GeoLearning ten years ago, the landscape for delivering corporate training materials was quite different from what it is today. As the network became more and more vital for business, and as software-as-a-service began to mature, Frank [See the full post…]