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It s been awhile since we first began hearing about WiMAX, and it may have sounded impossible at first. Not to Frank Gruber. He says it was inevitable, that it works, and it s cool. Beginning this week, you can think of Baltimore as one big hotspot. The computing potential for a city that s completely wirelessly connected is huge. No matter where you are, you are connected. Simply put, it is the next generation of mobile broadband access. Tags: Baltimore, Intel, Somewhat Frank, Sprint, WiMax, Xohm, Frank Gruber

Join BearingPoint Managing Director, Brian Hart, as he explores the importance of an adequate risk and performance platform and how it can help companies deal with the credit crisis. Given the scope, depth, and length of this crisis, our clients are clearly being forced to re-examine how they conduct business. The issues that we see are the most prevalent are the need to access capital, how to fund a balance sheet, earnings, acquisitions and dispositions, government intervention, and most importantly- the speculation around change. When an organization deals with these issues on a day-to-day basis, like we see happening now, we know we’ve entered crisis mode. This has many companies wondering what went wrong and how can we better equip ourselves for the future? The single most important thing that needs to be addressed is the realization of how much capital is being used at a given time. Most people don’t realize how much capital they’re using because of their lack of transparency, and when they finally realize it, it’s too late. To come out of this, we’re asking people to watch very closely how much capital they are spending and to cut any unnecessary costs. This can be done by acknowledging the need for better data management and risk capabilities. BearingPoint has addressed this with a seven point analytical strategy that can assist clients with understanding what changes they need to make. In the podcast, you will hear important points, such as how to manage data, estimate risk, change current business processes and how to implement an integrated risk and performance framework. Clearly this crisis has exposed a number of weaknesses in risk management across the sector. Most organizations still have basic issues around risk and transparency. This podcast addresses key areas that are lacking in the risk management sector; such as understanding your risks, what risks are making you money and how effectively your trading machine is working? There are many changes that need to be made across the entire financial services sector, and the key points that are addressed in the podcast can help you itemize an action plan to take the appropriate measures to ensure future success. Tags: BearingPoint, Brian Hart, credit crisis

In this podcast, Patrick E. Spencer, Sr. Director of Customer Relationships and Publishing, provides an overview of the 2008 EMEA Visionary Award winners. Visit the Symantec Forums to learn more about the 2008 Visionaries.

In this podcast, Vice President for Data Loss Prevention solutions, Michael Wolfe, provides an update on why companies are concerned with data loss and how Symantec Data Loss Prevention 9.0 addresses their concerns. For more information, visit: www.symantec.com

In this podcast, Sr. Director of Product Marketing, Mathew Lodge provides and overview of Symantec s new Information Risk Management Strategy, and talks about the three new products that make up the cornerstone of the new strategy. For more information, visit the business section at: www.symantec.com

Unified communications and collaboration (UC C) – the integration of business telephony and information technology (IT) applications – enables corporate users to communicate more effectively and collaborate more easily. Yet, many global enterprises are challenged by the complexities of moving to UC C. Mike Marcellin, vice president of global product marketing for Verizon Business, explains the growing interest in UC C and details how it can help enterprises enhance employee productivity, do more with less and be eco-responsible. Tags: Collaboration, IT, Mike Marcellin, Unified Communications, Verizon Business, UC C

Join BearingPoint Managing Director, Lowell Alcorn, as he explores the strategies needed to understand loss mitigation. In recent weeks we’ve seen all the turbulence within some huge financial services organizations, and many are wondering what lessons can be learned from this crisis. When speaking with Lowell Alcorn, he explained that the two most important take-aways from the crisis are the need to improve risk management and managing data through aggressive loss mitigation. Key executives need to understand their risks and be able to report those risks. Many organizations also need to tighten up their aggressiveness around loss mitigation. Each and every company out there should be able to fulfill those two requirements when conducting business. For future success, key executives should outline clear incentives, process and partnership changes. These three elements will keep a disaster from happening again. For example, as loans are being put together, we need to ensure that securitization documents need to be reviewed and possibly rewritten; a great case for proper process changes. The investors who own the loans need to form a tighter relationship to outline some common incentives. This will define a clear partnership where incentives are agreed upon. These investors also need to have leeway. Right now it’s contractually based, but there needs to be more agreement to ensure a successful outcome. By making the necessary changes outlined, it will provide the end customer with more flexibility and stability in the future. This flexibility might provide someone with the opportunity to stay in their home, or different options to make payments. This will also ensure that the end customer has provided a lot more documentation prior to being granted funds they’ve requested. This crisis has taught us that we need improved risk management and reporting both internally and externally to ensure that risk is managed appropriately and that everyone involved is up-to-speed on how and why the transaction transpired. Tags: BearingPoint, Lowell Alcorn, financial services, loss mitigation

What does being good at design and being able to build a community have in common? Plenty says CEO of HiveLive, John Kembel. Also a consulting associate professor of the Institute of Design at Stanford, Kembel talks to Marketing Voices about how the process of doing good design has similarities to the process of building a good community. The brainstorming and iterative thinking is similar in both professions and empathy for the customer is a solid need as well says Kembel. Tags: Design, highlive, Institute of Design at Stanford, jenifer jones, Jennifer Jones, john kembel, Marketing Voices, social media, Stanford

Janice Chaffin, group president, Consumer Business Unit at Symantec, discusses the Norton 2009 release, the expanding Norton portfolio, and initiatives focused on one-click support for customers. She also discusses how protecting consumers comes first, as they are the more frequent initial target of attacks, which is then leveraged by the enterprise group to adopt technologies that meet their requirements. For more information, visit: www.symantec.com/ciodigest Tags: CIO Digest, Symantec, Janice Chaffin, Norton 2009

Jason Wilkins joined Xstrata as CIO in 2002 when the company had a market capitalization of around $500 million USD and a few thousand employees. Today, the company has more than 56,000 employees and a market capitalization of approximately $60 USD billion. With growth fueled by an exponential acquisition strategy that necessitates a decentralized business model, Wilkins and his team develop and employ central frameworks and standards across each localized IT operation. For more information, visit: www.symantec.com/ciodigest Tags: CIO Digest, Symantec, Jason Wilkins, Xstrata

Jason Wilkins joined Xstrata as CIO in 2002 when the company had a market capitalization of around $500 million USD and a few thousand employees. Today, the company has more than 56,000 employees and a market capitalization of approximately $60 USD billion. With growth fueled by an exponential acquisition strategy that necessitates a decentralized business model, Wilkins and his team develop and employ central frameworks and standards across each localized IT operation. For more information, visit: www.symantec.com/ciodigest Tags: CIO Digest, Symantec, Jason Wilkins, Xstrata

Alex Siow has held a number of different professional roles, ranging from civil engineering, to marketing, to sales, to professor, and he draws upon this breadth of front-line business experience in helping to build greater linkages between the business and technology initiatives. Siow has blazed many trails in helping to create and build the IT profession in Singapore. For more information, visit: www.symantec.com/ciodigest Tags: Alex Siow, CIO Digest, Symantec, Singapore

Rhonda MacLean, the Global CISO at Barclays Global Retail and Commercial Banking, uses the analogy of a brakes on a car when explaining the relevance of information security today. In short, like brakes, information security is there to help the business go faster. Throughout her 20-year career in information security, MacLean has taken this methodological basis in developing the right strategy and then in approaching various projects. For more information, visit: www.symantec.com/ciodigest Tags: CIO Digest, Symantec, Rhonda MacLean, Barclays, Commercial Banking

Join BearingPoint Managing Director, Sandeep Vishnu, as he explores risk strategies for market survival. With all the turmoil in the financial services space in recent weeks, everyone is wondering how we got into such a mess? What began as a contained subprime crisis has spilled over into all segments of the financial services industry, in what seems like a domino effect. In this podcast, we discuss the fundamental lack of risk transparency and risk governance as the two most important factors that led to this crisis and how companies can better prepare themselves for the future. There are multiple lessons that can be learned from our current financial situation. Companies need to focus on transparency within their organization and develop a culture that is more risk sensitive so that risk governance takes on a more important role than it has in the past. We are learning that had senior management been aware of their data and level of risk, they might have seen what was emerging within their organization. To ensure we don’t ever see another crisis at this magnitude, companies need to instill a risk base culture that has a set shared of values among its employees. This doesn’t happen overnight, but there are steps that can be taken to head in that direction. First and foremost, the data challenge needs to be made head on. If we’re going to eliminate this challenge in the future, we need to conquer this challenge now. The governance challenge needs to also be met. This is where BearingPoint can assist. We have developed numerous solutions to assist our clients with their current situations. We are putting a focus on what can be changed within a current organization. There are certain elements that if put into place now, can help institutions with their future struggles. Tags: BearingPoint, Sandeep Vishnu, subprime crisis, risk strategies, market survival, financial services

Join BearingPoint Managing Director and Senior Vice President of Global Markets, Peter Horowitz, as he explores the recent credit crisis and its contributors. With all the turmoil in the financial services space over the past few weeks, it seems that one must look at the source of the problem to really understand how it originated. It started out with a large amount of credit, coupled with lax lending standards and many heavy borrowers which created a heavy base of players, such as the mortgage owners and banks. It then trickled down to those that weren’t even familiar with the borrower or the actual real estate itself. This ‘mortgage value chain’ was the beginning of the turbulence we are all becoming so familiar with. So what actually caused the crisis, especially within investment banks? The problem was too much leverage. These banks did not have sufficient capital to support the size of their ownership positions. When the position turned against them, both realized and unrealized losses, it wiped out their capital. It really comes down to the fact that their risk management systems failed the senior management of these giant organizations. It was so complex that the firms could not keep up with the changes. BearingPoint has taken the proper measures to ensure their clients are being offered the most efficient solutions to deal with all the turbulence in the market. We offer a wonderful suite of solutions, such as our Risk Compliance and Security practices Trade Performance Solution that is assisting both buy and sell-side clients with all their risk-related issues. Our banking practice has also just introduced their Default Loan Loss Mitigation Solution, which is assisting clients with reducing the costs of defaults and foreclosures with investors. BearingPoint has been actively engaged with all their clients to ensure they are offering the most efficient and cost effective solutions to respond to this financial crisis and prepare for a successful future. Tags: BearingPoint, Global Markets, Peter Horowitz, credit crisis, financial services, lending standards, Risk Compliance

In this podcast, Vice President for Backup Exec in the Symantec Data Protection Group, Pat Hanavan, provides product overviews of Backup Exec 12.5 and Backup Exec System Recovery 8.5. Hanavan gives and in depth look at the features and benefits of each product, and talks about how the new releases play into Symantec s Next Generation Data Protection Strategy. For more information, visit: www.backupexec.com Tags: Pat Hanavan, Backup, Backup Exec, Data Protection, Symantec

School districts across the nation are upgrading legacy networks to converged Internet protocol (IP) networks, paving the way for the introduction of new advanced capabilities, such as voice-over-IP and distance learning. Designed to enhance the learning experience and access to information for students, IP networks deliver the crucial speed and reliability that enable truly collaborative classrooms. Alex Coleman, group president for government and education markets with Verizon Business, discusses K-12 communications and information technology trends. Tags: Verizon Business, IP networks, Alex Coleman, K-12, information technology trends, education markets

The 2008 Digital States Survey, conducted by the Center for Digital Government and sponsored by Verizon Business, highlights how state governments across the United States use technology to serve constituents and streamline operations. Based on responses from state officials, the comprehensive study examines best practices used by state governments to leverage investments in technology to power the transformation to digital government. As more and more states move to IP, Alex Coleman, group president for government and education markets with Verizon Business, discusses factors driving the evolution of state information technology. Tags: Verizon Business, Digital States Survey, Center for Digital Government, Alex Coleman, state information technology

Today s Knowledge Worker frequently has a whole new set of expectations for how to collaborate and use content as part of their daily jobs, thanks to ever-increasing usage of new Web 2.0 technologies, such as wikis, social networking sites, and blogs. Incorporating Web 2.0 tools into the way business people work and access information only goes part of the way when it comes to facilitating efficiency improvements in an organization. Companies also have to consider how all that new information is managed as part of their overall content management strategy. In this EMC technology innovation episode, Lance Shaw, group product marketing manager, Knowledge Worker Applications at EMC, addresses the urgent need for organizations to marry an approachable, modern, Web 2.0 interface with the compliant content management infrastructure required to safely manage intellectual property. Please visit EMC for more information and a whitepaper. Tags: Collaboration, Content Management, EMC, Lance Shaw, Social Networking, Wiki, knowledge worker

Strategic communications is an art not a science. Social media is a tool of strategic communications - a tool that can help impact influence. Trying to put this all together is exactly what Alan Kelly, CEO and Founder of The Playmaker’s Standard has done. He developed a periodic table that names, describes and prescribes influence plays. He talks to Jennifer Jones about this system, and how it can help communicators and business strategists better impact their communications especially those in the social media world. Tags: Alan Kelly, Jennifer Jones, Marketing Voices, social media, strategic communications, The Playmaker s Standard, Playmaker

Join BearingPoint Senior Manager Pat Tobin as he explores the importance of Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) and how it can directly impact your bottom line. With a 50 percent growth in storage data of companies in recent years, the ILM Solution has evolved heavily over the past seven years. Companies that typically used a centralized system to store data now want much more control over their information and are turning to the ILM solution for that support. The ILM Solution is also heavily used for E-discovery. With E-discovery costs on the rise, organizations are in need of a solution that assists with gathering only the necessary data, and not just a compilation of tons of document that are not needed. With every litigation suite, there is only a certain amount of documentation needed. Clients can experience massive cost decreases when just the necessary data is pulled. With the many positives of designing an effective ILM solution come some struggles. Firms have legacy data all over the place. It is a very big obstacle trying to balance all of the data, plus input anything new. Another challenge is the need for a lot of governance. With all of the legalities, it s extremely important to know the regulations and compliance issues up front. Lastly, an organization needs guidance on how to initiate this solution and where it should end. This is where BearingPoint can assist. ILM is a journey, but a journey worth pursuing. This journey will result in massive cost reduction and extreme efficiency for all your storage needs. Tags: BearingPoint, Pat Tobin, Information Lifecycle Management, ILM, E-discovery

Thing5, a leading provider of software-based messaging services to the hospitality industry, is leveraging Verizon Business’ IP networking to offer cost-effective and reliable services via software-as-a-service (SaaS) to hospitality chains such as Extended Stay Hotels, La Quinta and LXR Luxury Resorts Hotels. David Thor, managing director of Thing5, discusses his firm’s deployment of Verizon Business IP Trunking with Burstable Enterprise Shared Trunks (B.E.S.T.). B.E.S.T. is a newly available IP trunking feature that enables on-demand sharing of under-utilized trunk capacity. Verizon Business is the only major North American service provider to offer this capability that quickly shifts bandwidth from one location to another. Tags: Thing5, Verizon Business, B.E.S.T, Burstable Enterprise Shared Trunks, SaaS, David Thor

It may seem obvious that planning pays. But for those CIOs and their staffs, managing an IT infrastructure often occurs in an environment where problems are moving targets. Many organizations have little time to plan ahead. But they must. You re not going to get there unless you have a plan, says Bob Stoddard, Intel IT Architect. He was on the team that molded Intel s IT plan starting in late 1990s. Almost a decade later, Intel s IT shop is seeing dividends from that plan in the form of lower TCO and improved client efficiency. vPro is really a beachhead for us in cracking the code to get closer to an end-to-end management solution, not just for the client, but across compute network and storage, says Prasad Rampalli, vice president of Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group. vPro transcends clients all the way to the data center. In this podcast, Intel’s Josh Hilliker, Prasad Rampalli and Bob Stoddard discuss the role of planning and why IT architecture is crucial to success. Tags: CIO, IT infrastructure, Bob Stoddard, Intel, vPro, Prasad Rampalli, Digital Enterprise Group, Josh Hilliker, IT architecture

In this podcast, Sr. Manager Mike Baldwin provides an features and benefits overview of Symantec Online Remote Access, and discusses the role the product will play in Symantec Protection Network platform. For more information, visit: www.spn.com Tags: remote access, Symantec, Symantec Protection Network, Mike Baldwin

In this podcast, Sr. Vice President of the Symantec Data Protection Group, Deepak Mohan, provides a high-level overview of key trends in virtualization and data protection, and how Backup Exec 12.5 can help organizations protect their data in virtual environments. For more information, visit: www.backupexec.com Tags: Backup Exec, Data Protection, Symantec, Deepak Mohan

In this podcast, Sr. Vice President of the Symantec Data Protection Group, Deepak Mohan, provides an overview of how the recent release of Backup Exec 12.5 integrates into the broader Symantec Next Generation Data Protection strategy. For more information, visit: www.backupexec.com Tags: Backup Exec, Data Protection, Symantec, Deepak Mohan

Verizon Business recently launched its global billing report, the newest addition to the company s suite of online self-service billing applications. Delivering a practical and environmentally friendly alternative to paper-based billing and reporting, the global billing report provides Verizon Business multinational customers with a convenient way to view, monitor and analyze worldwide communications expenses. This podcast features comments from Verizon Business’ Mark Chodoronek, executive director - customer enablement and billing assurance and Dave Landry, executive director - sales support and billing systems. Tags: Dave Landry, Global Billing Report, Mark Chodoronek, Verizon Business

Providing point-to-point high-speed links to distributed shared memory, Intel QuickPath technology unleashes Nehalem s parallel processing performance. Tags: distributed shared memory, Intel, QuickPath, Nehalem, parallel processing, Chip Chat

Wendia AG International, a privately-held European software company founded in 1990, is setting up their North American headquarters in Utah. Wendia provides best-in-class Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) based service management solutions to hundreds of organizations worldwide. ITIL is the de-facto global standard in the area of Service Management, and contains comprehensive and public technical documentation for the planning, provision and support of IT services. Wendia’s ITIL and service management solutions can readily integrate with all the major desktop management and systems management solutions including Microsoft’s SMS, CA’s Asset Management and Unicenter, BMC’s Patrol, IBM’s Tivoli, Novell’s Zenworks, HP’s OpenView, Nimsoft’s NimBUS, and Monolith Software’s mSuite ITM solution. Wendia s CEO and Founder Kerstin Daun talks with Brad Baldwin from Rocky Mountain Voices about the business and benefits of the ITIL standards. Daun also discusses their entrance into the North America market under Hal Tueller.

So you ve gone wireless. Now think about where you can go, and what you can do, now that you re not tethered to the wall. We ventured out to hot spots in San Francisco, to check out mobility in action, and how its changing the way we, work, live, and play! Get the Inside Scoop at Intel s new Consumer Blog. Tags: wireless, Inside Scoop, Intel