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BriefingsDirect(TM) sponsored podcasts provide deep-dive interviews and analysis on software infrastructure topics with moderator Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

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    How The Open Group Portfolio of Digital Open Standards Supports Digital Business Transformation Journey

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2024 40:06


    The next BriefingsDirect enterprise architecture (EA) discussion explores how a comprehensive portfolio of open standards and associated best practices powerfully supports digital business transformation. As companies chart a critical course to adopt agility using artificial intelligence (AI)-driven benefits, they need proven and actionable structure to help deepen customer relationships, improve internal processes, and heighten business value outcomes. Accordingly, this latest BriefingsDirect interview explores how The Open Group Portfolio of Digital Open Standards instructs innovation internally to match the demands of a rapidly changing, increasingly competitive, and analytics-intensive global marketplace. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Joining us to explore how to strategically architect for ongoing disruption and innovation is our expert guest, Sonia Gonzalez, Digital Portfolio Product Manager at The Open Group. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: The Open Group.

    Make AI Adoption a Strategic, ROI-Focused, and Sustainable Transformation, Says HPE

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2024 42:34


    The next BriefingsDirect expert interview podcast explores best practices for deploying artificial intelligence (AI) with a focus on sustainability and strategic business benefits. As AI rises as an imperative that impacts companies at nearly all levels, proper concern for efficiency around energy use and resources management has emerged as a key ingredient of success -- or failure.  It's becoming increasingly evident that AI deployments will demand vast resources -- energy, water, skills, and upgraded or wholly new data center and electrical grid infrastructures. Read a  full transcript or download a copy.  Stay tuned to learn why factoring the full and long-term benefits — accurately weighed against the actual costs — is essential to assuring the desired business outcomes from AI implementations. Only by calculating the true and total expected costs in the fullest sense can businesses predict the proper fit-for-purpose use for large deployments of AI systems. Here to share the latest findings and best planning practices for sustainable AI is John Frey, Director and Chief Technologist of Sustainable Transformation at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Subscribe to the podcast. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

    How a Minnesota Law Firm Brings Mission Critical Security to Myriad Mobile Devices

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2024 30:46


    The next BriefingsDirect mobile devices security and privacy discussion examines how a new balance needs to be struck between giving users at the remote edge all the productivity they want, while protecting the most sensitive information. Listen to the podcast. Subscribe to it on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy.  Stay here to learn how a Minnesota law firm puts the power of diverse mobility to widespread use and keeps confidential and regulated data under strict control. Here to share his story of how to guide small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to the edge and back safely is Mark Hatfield, IT Director at Jeff Anderson & Associates, and IT Infrastructure and Security Consultant at Hatfield Engineering Corp., both in St. Paul, Minnesota. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Listen to the podcast. Subscribe to it on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: Bitdefender.

    How IT Security Teams Do More with Less When Economies Rapidly Change

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2024 27:44


    The next BriefingsDirect IT security best practices discussion examines how a leading German home builder has adjusted to a major economic market disruption. Germany's home building demand has recently reversed, putting pressure on builders to reduce IT costs while remaining secure. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy.  Stay tuned here to learn how a large, distributed workforce can be best supported by IT -- even as business conditions change and budget requirements lead to broad consolidation. Here to share how an efficient security team helps the shift from managing surging growth to optimizing around necessary contraction is Johannes Hammen, Information Security Officer at DFH Gruppe in Simmern, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: Bitdefender.

    How Accounts Payable Automation and Agility Drive Long-Term Business Productivity

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2023 27:31


    The next BriefingsDirect business modernization discussion focuses on how optimizing and automating accounts payable (AP) functions gives businesses improved insights and levers to better transform. We'll examine how improved control and management over cash flow, payables, and related fiduciary functions elevate overall financial situational awareness. Via adoption of intelligent automation, such new awareness -- and the greater efficiency it produces -- will further support the expected consolidation and convergence of financial operations within the typical office of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO).  Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Here to show how and share his insights as a business operations efficiency veteran and expert is our guest, Jason Kurtz, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Basware. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.  Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: Basware.

    How Dashboard Analytics Bolster Security and Risk Management Insights Across IT Supply Chains

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2023 34:37


    The next  BriefingsDirect security enhancement discussion examines how innovative managers are increasingly benefiting from interactive dashboard analytics. The resulting actionable knowledge elevates security situation awareness to the higher order value of overall business risk assessment and mitigation. Learn how Bruce Auto Group has gained such deep insights -- not only into how its distributed apps, systems, and data are secured, but also into the hidden risks that can develop across entire IT and data services supply chains. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or Download a copy.  Here to share his story on how to elevate IT security to a mission-critical value of comprehensive risk mitigation and overall business resiliency is Paul Jobson, Director of Marketing and IT Strategy at Bruce Auto Group in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or Download a copy.  Sponsor: Bitdefender.

    How WFH Accelerated IT and Security Transformation at Global Publisher HBG

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2023 32:32


    The next  BriefingsDirect security innovations discussion examines how the rapid shift to remote work has accelerated a rethinking of security and IT processes at a New York-based publishing organization. Rearchitecting the security posture of a business means adjusting work patterns and IT in ways that both reduce risk and heighten performance. But the trick is to do so without alienating workers -- wherever they may be -- and maintaining strong productivity. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Here to share her story on how to digitally transform a traditional business structure, reduce risk factors, and preserve a highly creative culture is Heidi Holmes, Senior Director of Information Technology Services at Hachette Book Group (HBG) in New York. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: Bitdefender.

    Why today's hybrid IT complexity makes 'as a service' security essential

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2023 24:33


    Amid rapidly growing IT security costs and the added complexity of distributed workforces, the challenges facing IT services providers are clearly outrunning past practices. That's why more automation, integration, and acquiring security “as a service” are in hot demand. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Stay with us now as the next BriefingsDirect security innovations discussion examines how Heartland Business Systems is seeking such new ways and new partners to ensure that security incidents are kept in check across a variety of hybrid IT services and scenarios. Here to share his story of increasingly embracing security-as-a-service Jason Nuss, Vice President of Cloud Services at Heartland Business Systems (HBS) in Little Chute, Wisconsin. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: Bitdefender.

    For UK MSP, Optimizing Customer Experience is Key to Successful Security Posture and Culture

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2023 34:55


    For managed service providers (MSPs), making the IT infrastructure as invisible as possible isn't just a “nice-to-have" — it's also elemental to delivering the best customer experience. Securing IT for these tech services and support users is no different. The less complexity and interference with productivity from the underlying security apparatus — the better. The next BriefingsDirect security innovations discussion examines how Scottish MSP Grant McGregor Ltd. has taken the customer experience imperative to new heights — even as its users move increasingly to hybrid IT models. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Here to share their story of better managing the security experience as a means of enhancing the overall IT services value are David Lawrence, Co-Founder and Director of IT Support Services and Advice at Grant McGregor in Edinburgh, and Paul Sinclair, Head of IT Service at Grant McGregor. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: Bitdefender.

    Defending the Perimeter Evolves into Securing the User Experience Bubble for UK Cancer Services Provider

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2023 29:11


    An underappreciated aspect of enhancing IT security is the impact on an end user's comfort and trust in the services provided. In the case of health care services and support, making the patient feel welcome and safe can be a game-changer as they seek access to needed services and care.  The next BriefingsDirect security innovations discussion examines how Macmillan Cancer Support in the United Kingdom (UK) places the ease of use and sense of security in the services provided as a top IT -- and community service -- requirement. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Here to share their story on how to develop and deliver a cloud-ready security bubble around all users, their activities, and the sensitive data they share is our guest, Tim O'Neill, Head of Information Security at Macmillan Cancer Support in London. The interview is moderated by  Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: Bitdefender.

    A-Core Concrete Sets a Solid Foundation for Preemptive Security

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 25, 2023 30:03


    A special breed of company -- even though it has a relatively small number of employees -- does very big jobs with those lean and often distributed workforces. A perfect example of such a concentrated and efficient business is A-Core Concrete Specialists, which builds large and complex structures across the Western United States. When it comes to managing IT, the lean-and-mean mantra also holds true. The jack-of-all-trades requirements means that the IT leadership of it is often the head of security. As a prime example, that's another way that A-Core Concrete shines. Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Today's BriefingsDirect security innovations discussion examines how A-Core Concrete has created a security culture that relies on centralized administration, proactive insights, and rapid remediation to successfully assure that the whole company operates at peak performance. Here to share the story of how to best balance resilient security with the efficient use of human capital and resources is Andy Black, Chief Information Officer (CIO) at A-Core Concrete Specialists Inc., in Salt Lake City. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: Bitdefender.

    Hybrid Work is the Future, and Innovative Technology Will Define It

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2022 41:18


    We're all now part of a massive worldwide experiment about the very definition of work. Remote, in-office — or tightrope walking along some sliding scale between the two? How each business and each worker finds the next new work-life balance remains an ongoing "work in progress." In the post-rapid adoption of remote work world -- a full two and half years after the onset of COVID -- there's no definitive answer on which approach to hybrid work works best. And the technology tools and solutions — many designed for an earlier in-office era — are not necessarily up to the task. The perceptions and preferences of bosses and workers alike are in a seemingly unending transition. Nothing quite seems fit for the new, still-to-be-defined purpose.  So, what is the eventual end-state of hybrid work? Will the process of finding it provoke new forms of innovation, opportunity, and technological success? Or will productivity and work-life balance suffer amid a period of tension, power plays, and years of seesawing trial and error approaches to hybrid work? Stay with BriefingsDirect to explore here the drivers and opportunities to get the future of hybrid work right -- perhaps sooner rather than later. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy.   To learn more about what makes hybrid work move to an arc of opportunity, and not wallow in a trough of complexity and confusion, please welcome Amy Haworth, Founder and CEO of Nobody Makes it Alone, and Tim Minahan, Executive Vice President of Strategy at Citrix. The conversation is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.   Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: Citrix.

    How Deep Observability Forms the Gift that Keeps Giving for Hybrid IT Security, Performance, and Agility

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2022 41:39


    For those tasked with delivering unwavering performance of their apps and data, there have never been more unknowns to account for and manage. That's because today's hybrid clouds and mixed-network environments come with a multitude of dynamic variables -- and an unprecedented degree of complexity. Yet modern digital business demands that the entire constellation of these far-flung cloud services, resources, and application constituent parts coalesce perfectly. The end result must be real-time and always-on user experiences that delight, and business transactions that are both highly secure and never fail. Bridging the gap between such daunting complexity and awesome performance and security requirements means gaining the best visibility into all aspects of the hybrid- and multi-cloud continuum. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Watch the video. Stay with us as BriefingsDirect explores the ways that deep observability moves past the limitations of metrics, events, logs, and traces to deliver far richer and faster data-driven insights. By exploiting these new means of pervasive deep observability, the highest levels of security, performance, and agility can be attained by nearly any business and organization. To learn how, please welcome Bassam Khan, Vice-President of Product and Technical Marketing Engineering at Gigamon. The interview is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. View the video. Sponsor: Gigamon.

    How Deep Observability Powers Strong Cybersecurity and Network Insights Across Complex Cloud Environments

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2022 31:34


    The growing prevalence of complex multi- and hybrid-cloud environments has opened a Pandora's Box of unseen risks around security and performance.  But unlike when IT and network operators had the tools and access to track their own internal systems and data, the mixed-cloud model of today is much harder to know and secure. Pandora's Box is open but observing what's going on in and around it is cloaked by inadequate means to gain actionable insights amid all the distributed variables. Enter deep observability and its capabilities, which are designed to provide rich access to multi-cloud and mixed-network behaviors. Such observations and data gathering can be analyzed to rapidly secure end-to-end applications and protect sensitive data. Stay with BriefingsDirect as we explore the latest advances around deep observability, and show how a neutral deployment approach for observation technology spans more infrastructure and services to best protect and accelerate digital business success. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. To learn how deep observability puts cloud chaos and hard-to-know risks back under control, BriefingsDirect welcomes Shane Buckley, President and CEO of Gigamon. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: Gigamon.

    HPE Accelerates its Sustainability Goals While Improving the Impact of IT on the Environment and Society

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2022 28:21


    How Low-Code Development has Entered a Maturity Spurt Thanks to New Process-Oriented Capabilities

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2022 28:46


    When it Comes to API Security, Expect the Whole World to Be Testing Your Mettle, Says Twitter CISO

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2022 30:40


    How Houwzer Speeds Growth and Innovation for Online Real Estate by Gaining Insights into API Use and Behavior

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2021 26:56


    The Open Group Marks 25 Years of Working Together to Make Successful Standards

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2021 39:13


    Traceable AI Platform Builds Usage Knowledge that Detects and Thwarts API Vulnerabilities

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2021 39:23


    How HPE Pointnext Complete Care Transforms Edge-to-Cloud Support to Enable Business-Wide Outcomes

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2021 33:45


    How to Migrate Your Organization to a More Security-Minded Culture – From Development to Production to Partners

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2021 28:46


    Citrix Research Shows Those ‘Born Digital' Can Deliver Superlative Results if Business Leaders Know What Makes Them Tick

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2021 37:08


    API Security Depends on the Novel Use of Advanced Machine Learning and Actionable Artificial Intelligence

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2021 28:46


    Making APIs Secure Demands Tracing and Machine Learning to Rapidly Limit Damage from Attacks

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2021 33:36


    Rise of Broad Reliance on APIs Brings Novel Vector for Security Concern and Need for New Defenses

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2021 28:52


    How HPE Pointnext Tech Care Changes the Game for Delivering Enhanced IT Solutions and Support

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2021 34:22


    How HPE Pointnext ‘Moments’ Provide a Proven Critical Approach to Digital Business Transformation

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2021 43:12


    How Capgemini Optimizes Contingent Workforce Agility Using SAP Fieldglass

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2021 29:50


    The Future of Work is Happening Now Thanks to Digital Workplace Services

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2020 32:26


    Why Customer Experience Management Has Never Been More Important or Impactful

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2020 29:28


    How Transforming Source-to-Pay Procurement Delivers Agility and Improves Outcomes at Zuellig Pharma

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2020 38:23


    Here to Stay, Remote Work Promises to Deliver New Levels of Engagement, Productivity, and Innovation

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2020 38:28


    How the Journey to Modern Data Management is Paved with an Inclusive Edge-to-Cloud Data Fabric

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2020 28:18


    The Path to a Digital-First Enterprise is Paved with an Emergence Model and Digital Transformation Playbook

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2020 41:36


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