Energy used by the nation’s servers and data centers is about 61 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in 2006, costing about $4.5 billion. This consumption is up by a factor of 2 since the year 2000 and is projected to double again by 2011 unless efficiencies are implemented. Bill Ryan, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Foundry Networks joins me to discuss best practices in Green Data Center Networking that can result in network power consumption efficiencies in the 80-to-90% range. If you’re looking to build a Green data center, then you need to listen to this podcast

2007 was the year that enterprise communication vendors restructured with Avaya going private, Shortel going public, Microsoft and Nortel joining forces, Siemens Communications being spun off from Siemens AG, while InterTel and Mitel merged. 2008 is the year of Unified Communications (UC).  I asked Grace Tiscareno-Sato, Senior Global Marketing Manager for UC at Siemens Communications to join the program to provide a view of what’s ahead from the enterprise communication supplier perspective.  Grace lays out her top 8 UC events to watch for in 2008.
 
Download the "Measuring the Pain: What is Fragmented Communication Costing Your Enterprise?" white paper discussed in this podcast here

Selina Lo the CEO of Ruckus Wireless joins me to discuss the emerging mid-tier enterprise WLAN market that Ruckus Wireless finds itself in the envious position of being alone within. Ruckus Wireless is the expert on RF and antennas for high performance and stable WLANs. Radio communications are subject to unpredictable behavior due to environmental dependencies and various flavors of interference. Yet it’s possible to effectively mitigate many of these impairments through continuous intelligent selection of system operating parameters and a sufficiently agile antenna system. WLAN reliability has plagued enterprise WLAN deployments since their inception. Ruckus has invested into engineering solutions to these problems developed over the past three years supplying service providers with over 1 million WLAN solutions for IPTV services around the world. Their intellectual property and mid-tier market requirements could not be more aligned. If you are in the hospitality, retail, education or just a mid-tier enterprise company that needs a stable and easy to deploy WLAN solution, then you need to listen to this podcast.

Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director of THINKstrategies, and founder of the Managed Service Showplace® www.thinkmsp.com and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Showplace® www.thinksaas.com joins the Lippis Report podcast to discuss Managed Services. The general trend is that Managed Service providers are adding IP communication into their service portfolio to differentiate and grow. We discuss MS 3.0 and in particular Cisco’s managed services 3.0 initiative.