Andy Lipkis, Founder and President of TreePeople, describes how this organization has pioneered an integrated approach to managing urban ecosystems as watersheds in the Los Angeles region. This involves strategic tree planting, tree-mimicking technologies, and community engagement to generate multiple solutions to the environmental threats facing our cities, including ensuring a sustainable water supply, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, preventing water and air pollution, fostering stronger neighborhoods, and creating jobs. For a summary of TreePeople’s six demonstration projects that are now collecting 1.25 million gallons of water every time it rains 1″ in Los Angeles, visit www. treepeople.org. Video Going to Green: Planting Seeds of Change with Community Forestry produced by the Media & Policy Center Foundation for PBS.
Duration : 0:15:22
David Siles, CTO of Kane County, Illinois, talks about how the county’s virtual infrastructure, standardized on VMware Infrastructure 3, enables unparalleled business continuity and disaster recovery benefits.
Learn more: http://www.vmware.com/solutions/continuity/
Duration : 0:2:41
Bowdoin College is using VMware Infrastructure 3 for enhanced manageability and business continuity for their IT services.
Partnering with Loyola Marymount University in California, Bowdoin has architected an innovative disaster recovery process leveraging the power of virtualization, to allow Bowdoin and Loyola to maintain copies of their virtual infrastructure at each other’s datacenter, in the case of the emergency.
This allows the colleges to enjoy the security benefits of having a strong disaster recovery plan, without the extraordinary cost of maintaining a warm disaster recovery site.
Learn more: http://www.vmware.com/solutions/continuity/
Duration : 0:2:54
Tom Petry of Collier County School District talks about the disaster recovery realities of running a 40k user school district IT infrastructure in Hurricane country.
VMware technology enables Collier to leverage failover sites to ensure robust business continuity even in the case of datacenter loss.
Learn more: http://www.vmware.com/solutions/continuity/
Duration : 0:2:45
