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Verizon Business News (NYSE:VZ)

Top 10 Business Technology Trends 2011

November 30, 2010 Verizon Business News (NYSE:VZ)

Just like last year, here are the top 10 Business technology trends in 2011, according to this video series created by Verizon. Enterprise applications going mobile in 2011 2011 the Year of High IQ Networks Machine to Machine Cacophony Triggers like the Smart Grid Everything going to the cloud in 2011? Information Security in 2011 [...]

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Verizon On-Demand Cloud Computing PCI compliant

August 19, 2010 Verizon Business News (NYSE:VZ)

Retailers and other organizations that rely on credit card transactions now have a compelling reason to consider moving critical payment applications to the cloud. Verizon Computing as a Service, or CaaS, the company’s cloud computing solution delivered from Verizon cloud centers in the U.S. and Europe, is the first cloud-based solution to successfully complete the [...]

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Level 3 Response to the Verizon-Google Legislative Framework Proposal

August 11, 2010 Level 3 News (Nasdaq: LVLT)

Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) today issued a statement in response to the Verizon-Google Legislative Framework Proposal. The following statement can be attributed to John M. Ryan, assistant chief legal officer and head of Regulatory Affairs for Level 3 Communications: “We are encouraged that two companies with diverse business interests in the broadband Internet [...]

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Verizon Telejustice & Telehealth Collaboration

August 2, 2010 Verizon Business News (NYSE:VZ)

Courts grappling with jammed dockets and prisons struggling to handle inmate health care issues can now put the power of video collaboration to work, with a new, tailored set of technology solutions and professional consulting services from Verizon Business. Through these new services, Verizon Business will help courts and prison health care systems assess collaboration [...]

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Verizon Health Information Exchange Unveiled

July 14, 2010 Verizon Business News (NYSE:VZ)

Verizon Unveils ‘Cloud’ Solution to Facilitate Sharing of Patient Information Among Health Care Providers One of the biggest obstacles to sharing patient information electronically is that health care systems and providers use a wide range of incompatible IT platforms and software to create and store data in various formats.  A new service – the Verizon [...]

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Verizon completes industry-leading 100G Ethernet field trial

June 23, 2010 Alcatel-Lucent News ( NYSE: ALU )

Continuing to lead the industry in 100G technology, Verizon has completed a field trial carrying 100 gigabit-per-second Ethernet traffic on a metropolitan Ethernet infrastructure. Using Alcatel-Lucent equipment deployed in Verizon’s Switched Ethernet Services network, the trial successfully transmitted data over 12.7 kilometers (7.9 miles) of field fiber in the company’s Dallas area network. Verizon SES [...]

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U.S. Secret Service & Verizon to Join Forces on 2010 Data Breach Investigations Report

May 6, 2010 Verizon Business News (NYSE:VZ)

As part of its continuing effort to better understand security breaches and how they can be prevented, Verizon is joining forces with the United States Secret Service on this year’s Data Breach Investigations Report. The 2010 DBIR, slated to be issued this summer, will feature aggregated findings from Verizon’s own caseload as well as hundreds [...]

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Verizon Business Completes SAS 70 Type II Examinations of Global Data Centers

May 5, 2010 Verizon Business News (NYSE:VZ)

Verizon Business has successfully completed the annual SAS 70 Type II examinations of its global data centers, which support the company’s colocation, managed hosting and application management services. Many of these offerings underpin Verizon’s new “everything-as-a-service,” or EaaS, cloud-based delivery model. SAS 70, a widely recognized auditing standard performed by a third-party accounting firm, is [...]

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Verizon and IBM Launch Private Cloud-Based Managed Data Protection Solution

March 31, 2010 Verizon Business News (NYSE:VZ)

With businesses looking more closely than ever at the economics of cloud computing, Verizon and IBM have expanded their relationship to deliver Managed Data Vault – a new private cloud service that provides secure, quick and reliable daily backups, and fast recovery of enterprise information. Available from both companies, the new solution is designed to [...]

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