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 [See the full post…]

Kenneth Moelis has a unique talent for translating his 25-year career on Wall Street into the kind of information that financial specialists from the Street and beyond need the most. In this keynote podcast, Moelis puts the current Wall Street [See the full post…]

“None of us smart enough to call the bottom in financials or any other industry,” says Gary W. Parr, vice chairman at independent investment bank Lazard. Noting the value to investors of structuring deals for a few years of protection [See the full post…]

When times get tough, investors need to answer a few key questions: which industries are most attractive for investment? What deal structures are investors choosing? Where are sellers’ expectations? In this podcast, although there was some consensus around the prediction [See the full post…]

Whether you call it a credit crunch or a credit squeeze, there’s evidence to be found that the chilled climate for deals has spread from the realm of the mega-deal into the middle market. To discuss the new economic realities [See the full post…]

In this podcast, writer Alan Drummer provides an overview of a CIO Digest article titled Define Retentive. Drummer expands on ways organizations can streamline their email and document management policies. For more information, visit www.symantec.com/ciodigest.

Robert Taylor, CEO of KennTechnologies, Inc. and former CIO at Fulton County, Georgia, spoke with Patrick E. Spencer, Symantec’s director of publishing and customer marketing programs and editor in chief of CIO Digest, about the unique IT challenges local government [See the full post…]

David S. Finn, VP and CIO at Texas Children’s Hospital, whose background is in theatre, describes the “production” aspects of IT and the nuances of pediatric IT to Patrick E. Spencer, Symantec’s director of publishing and customer marketing programs as [See the full post…]

Patrick E. Spencer, Symantec’s editor in chief of CIO Digest, sat down with Myrna Soto, VP of Governance and CISO at MGM MIRAGE, to discuss how she leverages a mixture of industrial psychology, Six Sigma, an MBA, and best practices [See the full post…]

Patrick E. Spencer, Symantec’s editor in chief of CIO Digest, sat down with Myrna Soto, VP of Governance and CISO at MGM MIRAGE, to discuss how she leverages a mixture of industrial psychology, Six Sigma, an MBA, and best practices [See the full post…]

Enterprise computing has come a long way from the days of centralized mainframes in the 1970’s to the fully distributed desktops and laptops we see today. With the workplace becoming more technologically diverse and increasingly mobile, desktop IT workload grows [See the full post…]

The California Department of Parks and Recreation is harnessing the power of IP to converge networks, increase capacity and support new capabilities. Alan Friedman, department CIO, discusses the migration from frame relay to managed MPLS and highlights how the new [See the full post…]

In this podcast, Jeff Meier, chief information officer for Fujitsu North America, discusses how a broad range of Verizon Business services enable his firm’s U.S.-based business operations. Meier then looks ahead to future initiatives with Verizon Business and offers personal [See the full post…]

In this podcast, we check in with Josh Hilliker, who manages Intel’s online vPro Expert Center, for a community status report. How has the community grown? What topics are people blogging, vlogging, and discussing? How is the content feeding the [See the full post…]

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…]

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 [See the full post…]

In this podcast, join BearingPoint Senior Manager Andy Sanderson as he explores rogue trading and what can be done to stop it. Rogue trading is when an employee makes unauthorized trades on behalf of their company, often resulting in the [See the full post…]

In this podcast, Intel’s David Jenkins discusses energy efficiency from silicon through the data center. David is the Marketing Manager for Energy Efficient Technologies and Eco-Technology for the Server Platforms Marketing Group of the Intel Corporation. He has been with [See the full post…]

Join BearingPoint senior manager Bill Stotzer in exploring the challenges facing the sourcing and procurement organizations today. Many financial institutions have identified procurement cost savings and made an attempt at cost reduction. Some have achieved greater success than others. We [See the full post…]

A candid discussion of Nortel’s BSG product; a next-gen multi-service business gateway, designed from-the-ground-up to provide the functionality, performance, programmability and centralized management required to address the lucrative hosted SMB market for Carriers.

The private capital markets are in an intriguing position. The economy is sluggish after last year’s sub-prime mess and major buyout firms have not seen a lot of action. That was expected. But the middle markets have only dropped off [See the full post…]

Intel is now shipping Xeon processors built via a 45nm manufacturing process. These chips exhibit some of the best performance per watt characteristics on the market. Later in 2008, however, Intel plans to advance its silicon again via a new [See the full post…]

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 [See the full post…]

Join BearingPoint Managing Director Brian Hart to explore the seven steps to more effective performance and risk management. As a result of the recent credit crisis, organizations are faced with a challenge of making the best use of a very [See the full post…]

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…]