Verizon Enterprise Solutions completed agreements with and began deploying innovative business technology solutions – including intelligent networks, cloud, managed security and machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions – for a variety of corporations and organizations around the globe in the third-quarter of 2013. The organization also made significant news with new innovations, solutions and advances in technology during the quarter. Highlights include:
Clients
- General Electric works on things that matter. Building upon its long-standing relationship with Verizon, GE selected Verizon’s private networking technology to support its expansion in markets outside of the U.S.
- Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., the world's second-largest cruise company, operates a combined total of 41 ships with four under construction. The company’s continuous growth creates numerous challenges in their standard model of building and maintaining in-house, highly available data centers. Verizon’s co-location and cloud services provide Royal Caribbean with a reliable hybrid solution, including advanced data centers in diverse geographical areas, and an enterprise-grade cloud platform which help Royal Caribbean expand globally and are beneficial in its disaster recovery planning.
- As New York’s Hometown Airline™ and a leading carrier in Boston, Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood, Los Angeles (Long Beach), Orlando and San Juan, JetBlue carries 29 million customers a year to 79 cities in the U.S., Caribbean and Latin America with more than 700 daily flights. JetBlue has expanded its relationship with Verizon Terremark to include managed voice network services with onsite resources for an additional three years.
- Guggenheim Partners is a global financial services firm with more than $180 billion in assets and 2,500 employees. It provides asset management, investment banking, and insurance services to institutions, governments, corporations, and high-net-worth families and individuals.
Verizon is helping to provide the intelligent network that Guggenheim requires in order to conduct its global commerce. Under a new agreement, the number of sites will increase and Verizon’s Managed Services will be further implemented to ensure everything is running smoothly world-wide. This Intelligent Network consists of 50+ sites on 3 different continents and includes Private IP and Managed Network Services, as well as IP Trunking in the United States.
- Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts has chosen a Verizon Terremark enterprise cloud computing solution to host its key online infrastructure. With more than 80 hotels and resorts throughout Asia Pacific, North America, the Middle East, and Europe, the group is one of the world’s premier hotel companies.
- The U.S. Department of the Interior selected Verizon to participate in a $10 billion, 10-year contract to provide cloud and hosting services, potentially one of Verizon’s largest federal cloud contracts to date. The services covered by the contract will be available to all nine of the department’s technical bureaus and seven administrative offices covering more than 2,400 locations and 70,000 employees, as well as all other federal departments and agencies. The Foundation Cloud Hosting Services contract is an essential pillar of the department’s multiyear IT transformation initiative, which is expected to produce savings of $100 million a year from 2016 through 2020.
- From activation and provisioning to mobile content management and cloud services, Synchronoss Technologies enables a seamless connected experience regardless of channel, device or operating platform. Its solutions help carriers activate, acquire, retain and service subscribers quickly and cost effectively. The company depends on Verizon’s cloud-computing centers for their reliability, scalability and security to host their applications so they can best serve its customers. Synchronoss has found Verizon to deliver just the right level of performance as well as an expanded data center footprint to ensure their cloud needs are well met.
- When one of the world’s leading business process guidance vendors, Panviva, chose to transition its flagship enterprise solution, SupportPoint, onto Verizon Terremark’s private cloud, the decision helped facilitate an important strategic direction for the company’s chief information officer – transforming SupportPoint into a SaaS-ready solution that easily scales to Panviva’s growing global customer base. As a result, Panviva can now deliver SupportPoint to customers 90 percent faster than before, enabling the company to offer its services at a more competitive price point and also frees up employees to focus on the customer experience, rather than the delivery process.
- To support the rapid growth of Near Field Communications (NFC) media technology, Thinaire selected Verizon Terremark’s Enterprise Cloud which allows for seamless scaling based upon traffic, need and demand. Such capabilities are critical for Thinaire when powering mobile marketing campaigns for customers, including News America Marketing whose SmartSource with NFC initiative has the capability to deliver in-store information and offers from thousands of retailers directly from the shelves to the mobile devices of millions of consumers.
- Verizon was selected by the Australian Federal Police to supply a managed gateway service that will boost the security, reliability and overall efficiency of the agency’s IT systems. Under the terms of the deal, Verizon will supply the Australian Federal Police and its client agencies – the Australian Crime Commission, the CRIMTRAC Agency, the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre and the Commonwealth Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions – with a dual Internet gateway service. It will provide intrusion detection and firewall management, anti-spam and anti-virus management, VPN management and DoS Protection with IPv6-capable bandwidth. With management fully-outsourced to Verizon, Verizon will also staff a local contact center that will provide 24/7 support.
The three-year, AU$15 million ($14 million) agreement is in line with the Australian federal government’s gateway reduction program led by the Department of Finance. Under the program, the government is reducing its Internet gateways to eight from 124 over four years, from 2010 to 2014, to achieve a savings of AU$25 million.
Innovation
- Verizon published the 2013 State of the Enterprise Cloud Report, which draws upon Verizon data between January 2012 and June 2013 and examines current cloud adoption and usage trends – both in terms of how organizations are deploying cloud technologies and what they want from enterprise-grade cloud services. It considers the factors driving adoption; the growth in demand for VMs, memory, and storage; and expectations for the future of the cloud.
- Verizon expanded 100G technology on its ultra-long-haul network in the U.S. and Europe, adding the technology to more than 4,800 miles of its global IP network during the first half of 2013. The 100G expansion includes almost 4,500 miles on the Verizon U.S. network, bringing to approximately 21,400 the total number of 100G miles currently deployed on the network.
- Verizon successfully completed a field trial demonstrating the ability to double the capacity of a fiber by using 200G technology on Verizon’s ultra-long-haul production network between New York and Boston. The trial, which involved sending traffic approximately 260 miles, proves the ability to double spectral efficiency while reducing the cost per bit when compared with 100G technology, currently the fastest speed available on Verizon’s network. By doubling the spectral efficiency, this advanced technology can help meet the robust traffic growth from such drivers as online video, LTE 4G and cloud usage.
- Verizon launched the VERIS Community Database to collect, organize and publish all publicly disclosed data breaches. The data is coded into VERIS format and available in an interactive dashboard via Tableau Public as well as in individual files in JSON format in a GitHub repository. Both can be reached from the VERIS Community site as well.
- Verizon expanded the Verizon Partner Program to include a Partner Advisory Council to further empower the company to meet the growing demand for cloud, advanced mobility, strategic communications and intelligent networking solutions for medium business.
- Verizon received U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for Converged Health Management, a cloud-based remote patient monitoring medical device. This marks the first time Verizon has sought and gained FDA clearance for a healthcare solution. Verizon’s new solution, which resides in the company’s HIPAA-ready cloud, provides clinicians with access to up-to-date patient data from connected biometric devices so they can more efficiently monitor and manage patients from their home, or when they are on the go.
- Verizon and Motorola Solutions launched a new vehicle-based modem that will enable first responders and emergency personnel to tap the power of 4G LTE mobile broadband. Designed to operate on the Verizon 4G LTE wireless network and LTE-based public safety broadband networks, the VML 700 LTE Vehicle Modem R1.1 will support a broad array of applications, such as ultra-fast database access, photos and streaming video, to help first responders obtain the information needed to respond to emergencies and routine activities.
- Verizon introduced a fully-managed, wireless Automated Teller Machine (ATM) connectivity solution, Managed Wireless ATMs, which banks can deploy to their remote ATMs, at events or for business continuity planning. Verizon’s Managed Wireless ATMs provides retail banks with modernization to a traditional distribution channel for enhancing the customer experience and increasing operational efficiency, on the most expansive 4G LTE network in the U.S. Ideal for banks with remote or off-branch sites such as malls or retail stores, Managed Wireless ATMs can also be used to quickly recover from natural disasters and outages that may impact branch locations.
- Verizon Global Wholesale launched Managed Security Services-Premises for resale by U.S.-based carriers to their customers, which leverages Verizon’s global network of security operations centers and proprietary managed security platform to collect, correlate and analyze millions of security events each day in order to provide users with actionable risk intelligence.
