Latest Verizon Business Stories
SAGINAW, Mich., April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- MiCTA, a national, non-profit group purchasing organization, is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Verizon Business Services to extend the scope of services provided under Verizon Business' current Master Service Agreement. The new agreement allows MiCTA members to purchase Verizon's Terremark enterprise cloud computing, collocation services and managed services at a discount. "We are pleased to offer our...
NEW YORK and SAGINAW, Mich., Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- State and local government agencies, K-12 schools, colleges and universities, libraries and nonprofit organizations across the U.S. will continue to have access to a broad array of advanced communications and information technology solutions under a renewed agreement between Verizon and MiCTA, a nationwide group-purchasing organization. Under the agreement with MiCTA (previously known as Michigan Collegiate...
NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- September has been designated as National Preparedness Month in the United States, but Verizon's Business Continuity and Emergency Management teams are busy every day of the year monitoring, preparing and responding to weather-related and man-made events throughout the world. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120913/NY73635 ) The company carefully monitors major events such as hurricanes, tornadoes, typhoons, floods, wildfires,...
NEW YORK, July 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon has enlisted Best Buy's Geek Squad to provide a new set of services to meet the increasingly complex information technology requirements of small and mid-size businesses across the country. Verizon designed the solution, IT Help Desk, to help small and medium-sized companies, which often cannot support in-house staffing resources, keep the focus on their business by leaving technology challenges and opportunities to a dedicated team...
NEW YORK and VIENNA, Va., April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon and Cellcrypt, a provider of government-grade encrypted voice-calling software, will collaborate to deliver secure mobile calling capabilities to the U.S. government. Under terms of a recently signed strategic agreement, the two companies will jointly market Cellcrypt's mobile voice-encryption solution to military, intelligence and civilian agencies. The service will help government information technology departments...
ASHBURN, Va., April 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Enterprise Solutions will help the U.S. Army move to cloud computing, enabling it to lower costs and consolidate data centers. Verizon, as part of a General Dynamics-led team, has been awarded two contracts to develop and implement fixed and mobile cloud computing capacity for the Army under the Area Processing Centers Army Private Cloud 2 initiative, known as APC2. The five-year, multiple-award contracts have a combined...
NEW YORK and TROY, N.Y., April 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CornerStone Telephone Company, a provider of advanced communications services, is now working with Verizon Global Wholesale to provide cloud-computing services to CornerStone's business customers. Under the agreement, CornerStone will resell an enterprise-class cloud service from Terremark, Verizon's IT services subsidiary. The service, to be sold under CornerStone's SkySphere brand, will help its customers efficiently and...
NEW YORK, March 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon employees across the globe will join millions of people in more than 128 countries and territories to support Earth Hour on Saturday (March 31). From 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. local time, millions of square feet in more than 600 company locations will go dark, helping to raise awareness of energy-efficiency opportunities. During the event last year, Verizon in just one hour saved 45,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity, enough energy to...
NEWARK, N.J., Feb. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon continued to bring communications and computing innovation to the state's consumers and businesses in 2011, investing more than $732 million in its wireline communications network and IT infrastructure throughout the state. "The communications industry is vital to New Jersey's economy, and Verizon is the state's leading private investor in network and IT infrastructure," said Dennis Bone, president of Verizon New Jersey....
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Annually one of the largest investors in the Keystone State's economy and infrastructure, Verizon continued to bring communications and computing innovation to the state's consumers and businesses in 2011. The company last year invested more than $512 million in its wireline communications network and IT infrastructure throughout the state. "A strong and vibrant Verizon is crucial to the economic well-being of Pennsylvania...
