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Smart Green Infrastructure: How To Grow Sustainable Cities

EDL Admin — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:43:56 +0000

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

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Technology Management Program UCSB: Infrastructure

EDL Admin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:30:16 +0000

Calestous Juma, Professor, Harvard Kennedy School; shares insights on Entrepreneurship and Globalization: Challenges and Opportunities Series: Technology Management Program [5/2009] [Business] [Show ID: 15974]

Duration : 0:58:21

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Disaster Recovery: GTSI Technology Leadership Series

EDL Admin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:12:00 +0000

Dan Smith, Senior Manager, Solution Consulting and Engineering, GTSI. Next-Generation Business Continuity—Moving From Disaster Recovery to Constant Availability, GTSI Technology Leadership Series, August 2008.

The GTSI Technology Leadership Series brings government leaders, industry innovators and IT analysts together in a lively forum that examines key technology issues facing government today.

GTSI helps government agencies proactively manage their enterprise technology infrastructure, using a Technology Lifecycle Management (TLM) approach. GTSI provides deep technical expertise to assess, acquire, implement, support, refresh, and dispose of technology. GTSI’s certified engineers and project managers leverage strategic partnerships with technology providers and use proven, repeatable processes to deploy, manage, and support solutions through each phase of the technology lifecycle

Duration : 0:4:31

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Disaster Recovery: GTSI Technology Leadership Series

EDL Admin — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:22:03 +0000

David Edborg, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer – Data Protection Business Unit, NetApp. Next-Generation Business Continuity—Moving From Disaster Recovery to Constant Availability, GTSI Technology Leadership Series, August 2008.

The GTSI Technology Leadership Series brings government leaders, industry innovators and IT analysts together in a lively forum that examines key technology issues facing government today.

Duration : 0:4:42

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Disaster Recovery: GTSI Technology Leadership Series

EDL Admin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:05:09 +0000

Daniel Mintz , CIO, U.S. Department of Transportation. Next-Generation Business Continuity—Moving From Disaster Recovery to Constant Availability, GTSI Technology Leadership Series, August 2008.

The GTSI Technology Leadership Series brings government leaders, industry innovators and IT analysts together in a lively forum that examines key technology issues facing government today.

Duration : 0:5:3

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Business Continuity Made Simple

EDL Admin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:59:19 +0000

I have created this webcast on Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery based on me and my team’s experience in designing and implementing Business Continuity Management Systems (BCMS) solutions for organizations worldwide. Your feedback is welcome.

Duration : 0:9:24

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VMware and Disaster Recovery at Kane County, Illinois

EDL Admin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:59:16 +0000

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

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Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Conference 2009

EDL Admin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:59:14 +0000

The Partnership for Emergency Planning (PEPKC) hosted the second annual Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Conference at the Johnson County Conference Center on July 16, 2009.

Duration : 0:2:28

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VMware and Disaster Recovery at Bowdoin College

EDL Admin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:59:12 +0000

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

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Disaster Recovery and VMware at Collier County Schools

EDL Admin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:59:10 +0000

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

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