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Russian, Euro cybermafia own your data

This report from Verion Business PDF, as reported in the Washington Post, offers some interesting numbers amid the obvious conclusion that cybercrime is conducted by organized crime. 100 data breaches involving 285 million consumer records (think you weren't touched)? 93 percent of...

Tags: Card, Attack, Verizon Business, Financial Services, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-04-16

Verizon Business takes its denial of service defenses global

In the latest example of how services are moving to the Internet backbone, Verizon Business said Tuesday that it will extend its denial of service DOS attack defense to overseas. Verizon Business, which had a service designed to prevent DOS attacks in the U.S., said it will...

Tags: Denial Of Service, Verizon Communications Inc., Service, Attack, Verizon Business, Security, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-10

Verizon Business Case Study: Evonik Industries AG

Evonik Industries is an innovative industrial group from Germany operating in three areas: chemicals, energy, and real estate. The requirement was to ensure that on day one visitors to the business area portals would first be redirected to a splash page so prospects and customers could learn about the new...

Tags: Verizon Communications Inc., Verizon Business, Evonik Industries AG, Evonik Industries, Portals, Web Technology, Networking, Internet

Case studies 2008-08-01

Crystal Group Delivers Global Fashion With Verizon Business

Crystal Group, one of the world's leading garment manufacturers, is using Verizon Private IP to streamline communication across its global business operations. Crystal Group had historically used point-to-point IPLC International Private Leased Circuits network to link its various sites. However, this suffered from inflexible performance and reliability issues, leading to...

Tags: MPLS, Verizon Communications Inc., Crystal Group, Verizon Business, Network Technology, Networking

Case studies 2008-07-01

Linweld Takes Office on the Road With Global Broadband Satellite Access

Linweld manufactures and distributes medical, specialty, and industrial gases and welding supplies, as well as clean air products. The company maintains store locations in the Midwest United States. To actively market its products and services throughout its territory, Linweld visits trade shows and maintains a field sales force. But doing...

Tags: Microsoft Access, Verizon Communications Inc., Broadband, Verizon Business, Linweld, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Broadband Internet, Microsoft Office, Telecommunications, Sales, Office Suites, Software

Case studies 2008-07-01

Verizon Business's Fully Managed Network Wraps Up Global Communications for Elopak

Elopak is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Ferd Group, one of Norway's largest privately owned industrial groups. The existing VPN infrastructure, however, was failing to deliver the necessary performance, let alone the agility the company needed to move forward. Elopak needed to increase the performance and availability of its...

Tags: Network, Verizon Communications Inc., Verizon Business, Elopak, Business Services, Performance Management, Roi/Tco, Networking, WANs, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting

Case studies 2008-04-01

Fairleigh Dickinson Strengthens Business Continuity Plans

Fairleigh Dickinson University FDU offers a wide range of academic programs through their campuses. They were looking to do backups across their campuses, including their central data center in Teaneck, which serves as the hub for most services for the three campuses. They wanted to be able to do remote...

Tags: Business Continuity Planning, Verizon Communications Inc., Business Continuity, Verizon Business, Fairleigh Dickinson, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Backups, It Services, Data Centers, Business Security, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Business Operations

Case studies 2007-07-01

Verizon Business Turns the Tide for Ocean Beauty Seafoods

Download this case study to learn how Ocean Beauty Seafoods leveraged Verizon Business strategic solutions to extend secure, centralized Internet access to all of its processing, distribution, and sales outlets throughout the continental U.S., Alaska, and Japan. The paper outlines the key business challenges that Ocean Beauty faced and explains...

Tags: Seafood, Verizon Communications Inc., Verizon Business, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales

Case studies 2006-05-01

Verizon Business Uses CA eHealth Solutions in Private IP Reporting Service to Better Serve Converged Customer Environment

Verizon Business' Private IP service has become its fastest growing service, with triple-digit growth for four years running. Verizon Business quickly recognized the opportunity to drive additional growth by offering its Private IP customers proactive network management tools. In particular, Verizon Business began offering detailed network performance reporting functionality through...

Tags: Environment, Verizon Communications Inc., Computer Associates International Inc., Private IP, Verizon Business, E-health, Healthcare

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News to know: Windows 7; Google Dashboard; Driving while texting; Steve Jobs; Droid

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are "fantastic" Dana Blankenhorn: What the Google Privacy Dashboard can...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Google Inc., Web, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Mary Jo Foley, Dashboard, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Channel Management, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Blog posts 2009-11-06

Will business users get onboard with the Verizon Droid? [podcast]

YesThe reason it works, it does not require the MS logo and it is secure.

Tags: Podcasts, podcast, Verizon Communications Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Will business users get onboard with the Verizon Droid? [podcast]

The Verizon Droid launches Nov. 6 amid a lot of hype and anticipation. It's also being aimed at business users. We discuss how it measures up. by Jason Hiner

Tags: Verizon Communications Inc., Business User, Podcasts, Internet, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Open source needs successful champions

Open Source powers the Internet period!Open_Source powers the ENTIRE Internet withrouters/switches/servers you name it like Microsoft sitting behind caching Linux distroname servers.Now you tell me what does it need now???It is the FUTURE of smart devices, appliancedriven infrastructure, just like VMware using a Linux derived kernel and it is #1...

Tags: Linux, software cost, Linux Distro, open source, operating system, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

News to know: Intel; Microsoft layoffs; Motorola, Palm; Oracle-Sun; MSN

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: New York AG files antitrust charges against Intel; alleges bribery, coercion Mary Jo Foley: Are the Microsoft...

Tags: Layoff, MSN, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., Motorola Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, Storage, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Data Management

Blog posts 2009-11-05

The iPhone is one of the best phones in the world, carriers with it are the problem

far from perfect indeedIt's a great gadget...until it freezes and you have to wait several minutes while you reboot it. That is if you know how to reboot it, the first time is always accompanied with panic because you think the thing went dead. Don't blame the carriers,...

Tags: Smart phones, iPhone Screen, BlackBerry Tour, Apple iPhone, phone, carrier, keyboard

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

News to know: AT&T, Verizon; T-Mobile; Microsoft CRM; Win7; datacenters; Sony-Ericcson

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: AT&T sues Verizon Wireless, calls map ad "misleading" but doesn't dispute accuracy Matthew Miller: T-Mobile experiences...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Data Center, Dana Gardner, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Andrew Nusca, T-Mobile, AT&T Corp., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Microsoft CRM, Sam Diaz, CRM, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows 7, Smart Phones, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management

Blog posts 2009-11-04

AT&T sues Verizon Wireless, calls map ad "misleading" but doesn't dispute accuracy

The commercial it selfand the AT & T action on it, tell me to never EVER do any business with such a lousy and inferior company. AT&T? who, in is right mind will do business with those crooks?AT&T Focuses on Wrong Thing -- Again...Rather than trying to change its competitor's...

Tags: Cellular phones, Wireless and Mobility, advertisement, Verizon Wireless, AT&T Corp., 3G

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Hey HTC, where is your new QWERTY Google Android device?

I hope not...I'm a G1 user and an avid typer/texter/surfer. I write notes, song lyics, and many other things on my phone, and I'm a tactile feedback -obsessee. In fact, the lack of a hardware keyboard is what kept me away from the iPhone for so long. ...

Tags: Keyboards, Smart phones, High Tech Computer Corp., keyboard, T-Mobile, Facebook, phone, TMobile

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Motorola DROID on Verizon: Is this the iPhone killer you're looking for?

No it isn't.It needs two things to even dent the iPhone, much less kill it. It needs a REAL equivalent to iTunes & App store. It needs to have a crazy simple interface. I haven't seen anything which leads me to believe Droid has either of those.Well, they will not...

Tags: Smart phones, Motorola Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Motorola Droid gets official on Verizon; arrives Nov. 6 for $199

I'm excited...I'll want to play with one at the store first and my VZW contract isn't up for renewal until April, so I may end up having to wait to get the $199 price, but I'm very excited that Verizon finally has what appears to be an "iPhone class" smartphone...

Tags: Smart phones, Motorola Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Android Market, Apple iPhone, Motorola Droid, phone

Discussion threads 2009-10-28