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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

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

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

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

Case studies

Additional Resources

iPhone replacements

washed out row of pixelsI had a washed out row of pixels on my screen and they just gave me a brand new one. Took about 5 minutes, and when I hooked it up to iTunes, everything I had synced: contacts, songs, movies, text messages, alarm clocks, notes, etc. was...

Tags: Sales strategy, Smart phones, Sales force management, Verizon Communications Inc., Apple iPhone, sales

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Office Starter 2010: The fine print on Microsoft's Works replacement

For me, non-starterA crippled, incompatible, ad supported product makes little sense to me, when Open Office and Google are alternatives.ExactlyThere's already a portable version of OpenOffice that runs on a USB stick - nothing new here.The excluded formats are used in only about 1% of documentsIt is well-known that macros...

Tags: Starter, Microsoft Works, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Office Starter

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Apple Tablet - Unofficial, unannounced ... but still delayed

You guys have been asking...You guys have been asking for a Mac tablet for years already, while we have been able to get tablet PCs for many years now, in many different form factors and from many different vendors.Yet when you close your world off by relying solely on Apple,...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, tablet, Apple Inc., vaporware

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

AT&T launches Verizon counter-punch ad, keeps digging that hole

There's a Cr-app for that!I only have one thing to say, Sprint! Well, two things, AT&T neglects to mention 4G. Well, three things, They are the most expensive carrier for the least amount of quality delivered. Oh wait, 4 things, I had an iPhone and loved the interface. In the...

Tags: 3G, Smart phones, Cellular phones, Wireless and Mobility, AT&T Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T launches Verizon, AT&T Launches, ATT, Apple iPhone, advertisement

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Salesforce kicks off Dreamforce, announces Chatter

Salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics or ACTall three are greatposted October 21, 2009 ?Karleton Helfer was consistently one of our top producers. Karleton received numerous production and achievement awards, and frequently led the business unit in total sales. Karleton took a very strategic approach to the sales process, always researching technology developments,...

Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Salesforce.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

AT&T loses lawsuit over Verizon's map commercial

Ha! Take THAT Such a silly waste of the court's time. If they finally lose, I hope they are made to pay treble court costs just as a lesson in frivolous lawsuits clogging the courts. That would send a much needed messageThat if a corporation is going to...

Tags: Cellular phones, AT&T Corp., GSM, CDMA, Apple iPhone, Verizon Communications Inc., W-CDMA

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Rumored HTC 'Dragon' Google phone to spar with iPhone, Droid

The problem for competitors is that Google could throw a billion or more atmobile OS market including Android and ChromeOS. They just want a flood of cheap, very functional, very powerful mobile internet devices. They do not need ANY profits on the OS itself.Hardware manufactures like Palm, Blackberry, and Nokia...

Tags: Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, Smart phones, Handhelds, phone, keyboard, Google Inc., physical keyboard, High Tech Computer Corp., iPhone Droid, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Apple's app approval revolt: Will it matter? Maybe

Once somebody matches the ease of the App store,Create a desktop application which makes it brain-dead simple to buy, install, arrange, and sync software and multimedia content with the Droid and it will take off like crazy. That's about the only thing the iPhone has over the Droid at this...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Digital music, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, developer

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Most security products flunk quality tests

Testing company ICSA Labs reported that 78 percent of security products fail their first test due to inadequate performance of core product functionality. In a report released Tuesday, ICSA Labs noted that 78 percent of product failures during the first series of tests are due to inadequate...

Tags: ICSA Labs, Security Product, security, test, Liau Yun Qing, ZDNet Asia, Liau Yun Qing, ZDNet Asia

News items 2009-11-17

Widespread BlackBerry data outage reported, is it time to move on?

umgotta say this sounds like a justification for an iffy iphone purchase or usage maybe? you make it sound like if BIS goes down you're dead in the water, but if BIS goes down all you lose is what you don't have with any other service anyway, you still get...

Tags: Manufacturing, Telecom & Utilities, BIS, outage, BlackBerry Data, RIM BlackBerry, phone

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

News to know: Win7 exploit; Verizon-AT&T; Windows Marketplace; Nokia-Palm; Cisco-Tandberg

A Windows 7 exploit, Verizon's response to an AT&T lawsuit, a Windows marketplace for Mobile, and the business decisions that would come with Nokia buying Palm are among today's top headlines. by Sam Diaz

Tags: Nokia Corp., Palm Inc., Marketplace, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-11-17