There are plenty of enterprise collaboration applications to choose from. Wikis, blogs and forums are all the rage, but are they really better than email? This week on Buzzword Bingo, Jason and Mike talk enterprise collaboration tools with Michael Popovich and Jeremy Laurenson. Michael is a Consulting Systems Engineer with Cisco. Jeremy is a Technology Solutions Architect with Cisco. Together they provide some great insight on the usefulness of enterprise collaboration tools and their impact on end-user productivity.
(Sorry, but I messed up the chapters in this episode. They’ll be back next time. But now, if you subscribe to the video podcast in iTunes, there are chapters in that version.)
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Do you carry a mobile phone for work? In this week’s Buzzword Bingo, Jason, Mike and two entertaining and knowledgeable guests from Amsterdam survey the current state of mobile phones for corporate use. Jan-Willem Ruys and Jerry de Boer are both Cisco Consulting Systems Engineers. They have years of enterprise mobility experience and offer some interesting perspectives on device usability and functionality. We compare Google Android, Windows Mobile, iPhone, Nokia and Blackberry phones and cover the Net-Net News, Rants and of course, the Call-To-Action (hint: it involves MC Hammer pants).
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Server virtualization is commonplace in the enterprise today. But what about desktop virtualization? What benefit does desktop virtualization bring to the enterprise end-user? Why go through the trouble of virtualizing the desktop when many applications are moving to the browser? On this week’s Buzzword Bingo, we’ll talk to two virtualization experts, Kevin Corbin (Data Center Architect – Cisco) and Michael Williams (Architect – Sisters of Mercy Health System). They join Mike and Jason for a healthy debate on the future of the enterprise desktop.
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Ever wondered what it’s like to use a Macintosh in a large company? On this week’s Buzzword Bingo, we hear from two real enterprise Mac users, one of whom has switched back to Windows. Sal Collora and Shane Lisenbea join us for a spirited debate between Windows and Mac in the enterprise.
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Show #2 Agenda
Think-Outside-the-Box Main Topic: Windows vs. Mac in the Enterprise
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I’m pleased to announce our first show! This week we’re talking security with Corey Moomey. Corey is a Security Consulting Systems Engineer with Cisco. He has 10 years of experience with large enterprise customer networks and brings a realistic view of the current state of network and host security.
Show #1 Agenda
Show introduction
Increased hacker activity in 2009
GhostNet
Conficker
The state of Windows security
Microsoft goes after Apple with their new ad campaign
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