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Explore the Colonial Theatre's resident company’s latest fundraiser, the first public screening of Granite Orpheus, a 70-minute independent film made entirely in New Hampshire.
Starring Powerhouse co-founder Bryan Halperin, and produced and directed by John Hession and Rick Broussard of Concord, NH-based Resurrection Films, the movie is a modern take on the Orpheus and Eurydice story inspired by Jean Cocteau's 1950s film based on the Greek myth.
Presented by both the Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative and Spectacle Live, the Sept. 26, 2025 screening of Granite Orpheus in the Colonial Theatre is a fundraiser for both Powerhouse and the Colonial Theatre Advancement Fund.
Welcome to the Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative's latest Voice of the Actors Podcast. Stay with us now as we introduce and explore the Colonial Theatre's resident theatre company’s latest production opening on May 2, the epic musical extravaganza, The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Based on Victor Hugo's 1831 classic novel, this lushly scored production explores love, acceptance, and what it means to be a hero. Set in 1482, Hunchback has a little bit of everything. And as a musical, with a cast of 71 performers -- including a full choir, a set of gargoyles, ghosts, statues, fire dancers, and citizens -- it's a major spectacle opening soon on the Colonial stage. Not only that, but this production also follows shortly after the famous cathedral in Paris was reopened after an extensive renovation following the tragic April 2019 fire that nearly destroyed this major symbol of France, which was completed way back in 1260.
Welcome to the Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative’s latest Voice of the Actors podcast. Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative Co-Founder Bryan Halperin, along with Actor and Playwright John Cariani, join moderator Dana Gardner to explore the Colonial Theatre's resident company’s latest production opening in central New Hampshire on February 14, 2025, the unique and quirky romantic comedy LOVE/SICK. Tickets.
Welcome to the Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative’s latest Voice of the Actors podcast. Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative Co-Founder Bryan Halperin, along with The Crucible actor Kenny Aber and Assistant Director Debbi Finkelstein, join moderator Dana Gardner to explore the Colonial Theatre's resident company’s latest production opening in central New Hampshire on October 11, 2024, the powerful and Tony Award-winning The Crucible by Arthur Miller.
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.
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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.
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Welcome to the Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative’s latest Voice of the Actors podcast. Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative Co-Founder Bryan Halperin, along with Fiddler on the Roof lead Joel Iwaskiewicz and Chava actor Emma Malloy, join moderator Dana Gardner to explore the Colonial Theatre's resident company’s latest production opening in central New Hampshire on August 9, 2024, the enduring Broadway musical standard and globally adored, Fiddler on the Roof.
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.
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. Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Welcome to the Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative’s latest Voice of the Actors podcast. Join moderator Dana Gardner as we explore two aspects of two upcoming community theater productions. First tickets are going fast for the perennial all-around favorite, A Sound of Music, opening Aug. 11. And, yes, even in August we’re preparing for the holiday season with auditions for A Christmas Carol: The Musical Ghost Story. The podcast panel consists of Bryan Halperin, Co-Founder of the Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative and director of both upcoming productions; Rachel Hunton, elementary school teacher in Bow, NH and active community theatre performer; and Cat Martinez, a regional performer, music director, and opera singer.
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.
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. [Sponsor: Bitdefender.]
New Hampshire’s Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative’s latest Voice of the Actors podcast explores how the stunning and impactful set designs arrive in beautiful downtown Laconia to support these many theatrical productions. Stay with us now as we welcome two set designers to learn more about their journey to backstage creativity and artistry and how the scenes you’re now familiar with come to life, Melissa Shakun, Two-time Emmy Award winning Designer and Art Director at SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE in New York, and -Samantha Tutasi, a Scenic Designer based in Beacon, New York.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative introduces and unpacks the Colonial Theater resident acting company’s latest new participation opportunities. There’s a new Broadway choir singing group, the Power Chords, a duets competition, and auditions for the longstanding favorite, The Sound of Music. Panel includes Bryan Halperin, Co-Founder of the Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative; Johana Halperin, the other Co-Founder of the PTC, and Lorraine Barrows, Music Director of the Power Chords Broadway choir initiative. Moderator is Dana Gardner.
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.
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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.
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Welcome to New Hampshire’s Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative’s latest Voice of the Actors podcast.
Stay with us as we introduce and unpack the Colonial Threatre's resident company’s latest production opening on Feb. 10, 2023 -- Shakespeare’s family feuds-gone-terribly-wrong tale of woe, Romeo and Juliet.
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.
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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.
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The Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative’s latest Voice of Community Theatre podcast explores the current challenges from post-COVID social isolation — especially for younger generations -- and how community theatre offers a unique and easily accessible way to bring more people back together — for fun, health, creativity, and social rejuvenation. Join Panelists Bryan Halperin, Co-Founder of Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative in Laconia, NH; Jenna Rogato, Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Founder of Experience Healing Counseling Services in Gilford, NH; Fran Page, Senior Learning Experience Designer at Elevance Health and Teaching Lecturer of Theatre at Plymouth State University, and Will Stewart, Executive Director at Stay Work Play New Hampshire, based in Manchester.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There has never been a better time to build efficient, protected, powerful, and modular data centers -- yet many enterprises and public sector agencies cling to aging, vulnerable, and chaotic legacy...
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The path to cloud computing adoption persistently appears complex and risky to both government and enterprise IT leaders, recent surveys show.
This next BriefingsDirect managed cloud methodologies discussion explores how tackling complexity and security requirements upfront helps ease the adoption of cloud architectures. By combining managed services, security solutions, and hybrid cloud standardization, both public and private sector organizations are now making the cloud journey a steppingstone to larger business transformation success.
We'll now explore how cloud-native apps and services modernization benefit from prebuilt solutions with embedded best practices and automation. To learn how, we welcome Raj Raman, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Cloud at Unisys, and Jerry Rhoads, Cloud Solutions Architect at Microsoft. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Unisys and Microsoft.]
Container-based deployment models have rapidly gained popularity across a full spectrum of hybrid IT architectures -- from edge, to cloud, to data center.
This next edition of the BriefingsDirect Voice of the Innovator podcast series examines how IT operators are now looking to increased automation, orchestration, and compatibility benefits to further exploit containers as a mainstay across their next-generation hybrid IT estate.
Stay with us to explore the escalating benefits that come from broad container use with Robert Christiansen, Evangelist in the Office of the Chief Technology Officer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The interview is conducted by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HPE.]
Openness, flexibility, and speed to distributed deployments have been top drivers of the steady growth of container-based solutions. Now, IT operators are looking to increase automation, built-in intelligence, and robust management as they seek container-enabled hybrid cloud and multicloud approaches for data and workloads.
This next edition of the BriefingsDirect Voice of the Innovator podcast series examines the rapidly evolving containers innovation landscape with Mark Linesch, Vice President of Technology Strategy in the CTO Office and Hewlett Packard Labs at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The composability strategies interview is conducted byDana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next edition of the BriefingsDirect Voice of the Innovator podcast series explores the latest developments in hybrid IT management.
IT operators have for decades been playing catch-up to managing their systems amid successive waves of heterogeneity, complexity, and changing deployment models. IT management technologies and methods have evolved right along with the challenge, culminating in the capability to optimize and automate workloads to exacting performance and cost requirements.
But now automation is about to give an AIOps boost from new machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities -- just as multicloud and edge computing deployments become more common -- and demanding.
Stay with us as we explore the past, present, and future of IT management innovation with a 30-year veteran of IT management, Doug de Werd, Senior Product Manager for Infrastructure Management at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The interview is conducted by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer discussion explores a program to expand the variety of CPUs that support supercomputer and artificial intelligence (AI)-intensive workloads.
The Catalyst program in the UK is seeding the advancement of the ARM CPU architecture for high performance computing (HPC) as well as establishing a vibrant software ecosystem around it.
Stay with us to learn about unlocking new choices and innovation for the next generations of supercomputing with Dr. Eng Lim Goh, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for HPC and AI at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and Professor Mark Parsons, Director of the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) at the University of Edinburgh. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer edge computing trends discussion explores the rapidly evolving confluence of operational technology (OT) and Internet of Things (IoT).
New advances in data processing, real-time analytics, and platform efficiency have prompted innovative and impactful OT approaches at the edge. Weâll now explore how such data analysis platforms bring manufacturers data-center caliber benefits for real-time insights where they are needed most.
To hear more about the latest capabilities in gaining unprecedented operational insights, we sat down with Riaan Lourens, Vice President of Technology in the Office of the Chief Technology Officer at PTC, and Tripp Partain, Chief Technology Officer of IoT Solutions at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
How businesses perform has always depended on how well their employees perform. Yet never before has the relationship between how well employees work and the digital technology that they use been so complex.
At the same time, companies are grappling with the transition to increasingly data-driven and automated processes. Whatâs more, the top skills at all levels are increasingly harder to find -- and hold onto -- for supporting strategic business agility.
As a result, business leaders must enhance and optimize todayâs employee experience so that they in turn can optimize the customer experience and -- by extension â better support the success of the overall business.
Stay with us as BriefingsDirect explores how those writing the next chapters of human resources (HR) and information technology (IT) interactions are finding common ground to significantly improve the modern employee experience.
We're now joined by two leaders in this area who will share their thoughts on how intelligent workspace solutions are transforming work -- and heightening worker satisfaction. Please welcome Art Mazor, Principal and Global Human Resources Transformation Practice Leader at Deloitte, and Tim Minahan, Executive Vice President of Strategy and Chief Marketing Officer at Citrix. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Citrix.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer advanced motorsports efficiency innovation discussion explores some of the edge computing and deep analytics technology behind the Formula E auto racing sport.
Our interview focuses on how data-driven technology and innovation make high-performance electric racing cars an example for all endeavors where limits are continuously tested and bested.
To learn more about the latest in Formula E efficiency strategy and refinement, please welcome Susie Wolff, Team Principal at Venturi Formula E Team in Monaco. The interview is conducted by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect enterprise storage partnership innovation discussion explores how the best of startup culture and innovation can be married to the global reach, maturity, and solutions breadth of a major IT provider.
Stay with us to unpack the budding relationship between an upstart in the data management space, Cohesity, and venerable global IT provider Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE).
To learn more about the latest in total storage efficiency strategies and HPEâs Pathfinder program we welcome Rob Salmon, President and Chief Operating Officer at Cohesity in San Jose, California, and Paul Glaser, Vice President and Head of the Pathfinder Program at HPE. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Innovator discussion explores the latest insights into hybrid cloud strategies.
While many businesses recognize thereâs a hybrid cloud future, far fewer are adopting a hybrid cloud approach with an overabundance of due diligence, governance, and cost optimization -- at least not yet. Unlike the often, ad hoc adoption of public cloud services by various groups across an enterprise, getting the right mix and operational coordination required of true hybrid cloud cannot be successful if itâs not well managed.
Stay with us as we examine the innovation maturing around hybrid cloud models and operations, and learn how proper common management of hybrid cloud from start to finish can make or break the realization of its promised returns.
Here to explain how to safeguard successful hybrid cloud deployments and operations is Erik Vogel, Global Vice President of Hybrid IT and Cloud at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The interview is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Innovator discussion focuses on the growing complexity around multicloud managementand how greater accountability is needed to improve business impacts from all-too-common haphazard cloud adoption.
Stay with us to learn how new tools, processes, and methods are bringing insights and actionable analysis that help regain control over the increasing challenges from hybrid cloud and multicloud sprawl.
Here to explore a more pragmatic path to modern IT deployment management is Harsh Singh, Director of Product Management for Hybrid Cloud Products and Solutions at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The interview is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect business trends discussion explores the reinforcing nature of Enterprise Architecture (EA) and agile methods.
Weâll now learn how Enterprise Architects can embrace agile approaches to build competitive advantages for their companies.
To learn more about retraining and rethinking for EA in the Digital Transformation (DT) era, we are joined by Ryan Schmierer, Director of Operations at Sparx Services North America, and Chris Armstrong, President at Sparx Services North America. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: The Open Group.]
The next BriefingsDirect enterprise IT productivity discussion focuses on solving tactical challenges around security to unlock strategic operational benefits in the public sector.
For a large metropolitan borough council in South Yorkshire, England, an initial move to thwarting recurring ransomware attacks ended up a catalyst to wider IT infrastructure performance, cost, operations, and management benefits.
This security innovations discussion then examines how the Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council information and communications technology (ICT) team rapidly deployed malware protection across 3,500 physical and virtual workstations and servers.
Here to share the story of how that one change in security software led to far higher levels of user satisfaction -- and a heightened appreciation for the role and impact of small IT teams -- is Stephen Furniss, ICT Technical Specialist for Infrastructure at Barnsley Borough Council. The interview was conducted by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Bitdefender.]
The next BriefingsDirect business intelligence (BI) trends discussion explores the latest research and products that bring the power of people and machine intelligence closer together.
As more data becomes available to support augmented intelligence -- and the power of analytics platforms increasingly goes to where the data is -- the next stage of value is in how people can interact with the results.
Stay with us now as we examine the latest strategies for not only visualizing data-driven insights but making them conversational and even presented through a form of storytelling.
To learn more about making the consumption and refinement of analytics delivery an interactive exploit open to more types of users, we welcome Elif Tutuk, Head of Research at Qlik. The interview is conducted by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Qlik.]
The next BriefingsDirect data disruption discussion focuses on why the rising tidal wave of data must be better managed, and how new tools are emerging to bring artificial intelligence (AI) to the rescue.
Stay with us to learn how the latest AI innovations improve both data and services management across a cloud deployment continuum -- and in doing so set up an even more powerful way for businesses to exploit AI.
To learn how AI will help conquer complexity to allow for higher abstractions of benefits from across all sorts of analysis, we welcome Rebecca Lewington, Senior Manager of Innovation Marketing at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The interview is conducted by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
The next BriefingsDirect intelligent workspaces discussion explores how businesses are looking to the latest digital technologies to transform how employees work.
There is a tremendous amount of noise, clutter, and distraction in the scattershot, multi-cloud workplace of today -- and itâs creating confusion and frustration that often pollute processes and hinder innovative and impactful work.
Weâll now examine how IT can elevate the game of sorting through apps, services, data, and delivery of simpler, more intelligent experiences that enable people -- in any context -- to work on relevancy and consistently operate at their informed best.
To illustrate new paths to the next generation of higher productivity work, please welcome Marco Stalder, Team Leader of Citrix Workspace Services at Bechtle AG, one of Europe's leading IT providers, and Tim Minahan, Executive Vice President of Strategy and Chief Marketing Officer at Citrix. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Citrix.]
Better security over data and applications remains a foremost reason IT organizations embrace and extend the use of client virtualization. Yet performance requirements for graphics-intense applications and large files remain one of the top reasons the use of thin clients and virtualized desktops trails the deployment of full PC clients.
For a large architectural firm in Illinois, gaining better overall security, management, and data center consolidation had to go hand in hand with preserving the highest workspace performance -- even across multiple distributed offices.
The next BriefingsDirect security innovations discussion examines how BLDD Architects, Inc. developed an IT protection solution that fully supports all of its servers and mix of clients in a way thatâs invisible to its end users.
Here to share the story of how to gain the best cloud workload security, regardless of the apps and the data, is Dan Reynolds, Director of IT at BLDD Architects in Decatur, Illinois. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Bitdefender.]
The next BriefingsDirect business intelligence (BI) trends discussion explores the impact of dispersed data in a multicloud world.
Gaining control over far-flung and disparate data has been a decadesâ old struggle, but now as hybrid and public clouds join the mix of legacy and distributed digital architectures, new ways of thinking are demanded if comprehensive analysis of relevant data is going to become practical.
Stay with us now as we examine the latest strategies for making the best use of data integration, data catalogs and indices, as well highly portable data analytics platforms.
To learn more about closing the analysis gap between data and multiple -- and probably changeable -- cloud models, we are joined by Mike Potter, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Qlik. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Qlik.]
The next BriefingsDirect workplace productivity discussion explores how businesses are using the latest digital technologies to re-imagine the employee experience -- and to transform their operations and results.
Employee experience isn't just a buzz term. Research shows that engaged employees are happier, more productive, and deliver a superior customer experience, all of which translates into bottom line results.
To learn how, our panel will now explore how IT helps deliver a compelling experience that enables employees to work when, where, and how they want -- and to perform at their best. Joining us are Adam Jones, Chief Revenue Officer, who oversees IT for the Miami Marlins Major League Baseball team and organization, and Tim Minahan, Executive Vice President of Strategy and Chief Marketing Officer at Citrix. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Citrix.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Innovator discussion focuses on how advances in design enhance the total experience for IT operators. Stay with us now as we hear about the general philosophy and modernization of design, and how new discrete best practices are making usability a key ingredient of modern hybrid IT systems.
To learn more about the latest in IT innovations, we're joined by Bryan Jacquot, Vice President and Chief Design Officer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect intelligent enterprise innovations discussion explores new ways that leading enterprises like McKesson Corp. are digitizing procurement and automating spend management.
We'll now examine how new intelligence technologies and automation methods like robotic process automation (RPA) help global companies reduce inefficiencies, make employees happier, cut manual tasks, and streamline the entire source-to-pay process.
To learn more about the role and impact of automation in business-to-business (B2B) finance, please welcome Michael Tokarz, Senior Director of Source to Pay Processes and Systems at McKesson, in Alpharetta, Georgia. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: SAP Ariba.]
The next BriefingsDirect intelligent workspaces discussion explores how for 30 years Citrix has pioneered ways to make workers more productive, IT operators stronger, and a vast partner ecosystem more capable.
We will now hear how Citrix is by no means resting on its laurels by charting a new future of work that abstracts productivity above apps, platforms, data, and even clouds. The goal: To empower, energize, and enlighten disaffected workers while simplifying and securing anywhere work across any deployment model.
To hear more about Citrixâs evolution and ambitious next innovations, please welcome David Henshall, President and CEO of Citrix. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Citrix.]
The next BriefingsDirect business intelligence (BI) trends discussion explores the growing role of data integration in a multi-cloud world.
Just as enterprises seek to gain more insights and value from their copious data, theyâre also finding their applications, services, and raw data spread across a hybrid and public clouds continuum. Raw data is also piling up closer to the edge -- on factory floors, in hospital rooms, and anywhere digital business and consumer activities exist.
Stay with us now as we examine the latest strategies for uniting and governing data wherever it resides. By doing so, businesses are enabling rapid and actionable analysis -- as well as entirely new levels of human-to-augmented-intelligence collaboration.
To learn more about the foundational capabilities that lead to a total data access exploitation, weâre now joined by Dan Potter, Vice President of Product Marketing at Attunity, a Division of Qlik. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Qlik.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Innovator podcast discussion explores the latest insights into hybrid cloud and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) strategies.
Speed to business value and simplicity in deployments have been top drivers of the steady growth around HCI solutions. IT operators are now looking to increased automation, built-in intelligence, and robust security as they seek such turnkey appliance approaches for both cloud and traditional workloads.
Stay with us now as we examine the rapidly evolving HCI innovation landscape, which is being shaped just as much by composability, partnerships, and economics, as it is new technology.
Here to help us learn more about the next chapter of automated and integrated IT infrastructure solutions is Thomas Goepel, Chief Technologist for Hyperconverged Infrastructure at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer IT modernization journey interview explores how a global candy maker depends on increased insight for deploying and optimizing servers and storage.
Weâll now learn how Ferrara Candy Company boosts its agility as a manufacturer by expanding the use of analysis and proactive refinement in its data center operations by bringing more intelligence to IT infrastructure.
Stay with us to hear about unlocking the potential for end-to-end process and economic efficiency with Stefan Floyhar, Senior Manager of IT Infrastructure at Ferrara Candy Co. in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect healthcare finance insights discussion explores ways that healthcare providers can become more proactive in financial and cost transparency from the patient perspective.
By anticipating rather than reacting to mandates on healthcare economics and process efficiencies, providers are becoming more competitive and building more trust and satisfaction with their patients -- and caregivers.
To learn more about the benefits of a more proactive and data-driven approach to healthcare cost estimation, we are joined by expert Kate Pepoon, Manager of Revenue Cycle Operations at Baystate Health in Springfield, Mass., and Julie Gerdeman, President of HealthPay24 in Mechanicsburg, Penn. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HealthPay24.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer discussion revisits the drive to define the ârefinery of the futureâ at Texmark Chemicals.
Texmark has been combining the best of operational technology (OT) with IT and now Internet of Things (IoT) to deliver data-driven insights that promote safety, efficiency, and unparalleled sustained operations.
Stay with us now as we hear how a team approach -- including the plant operators, consulting experts and latest in hybrid IT systems -- joins forces for rapid process and productivity optimization results.
To learn how, are are joined by our panel, Linda Salinas, Vice President of Operations at Texmark Chemicals, Inc. in Galena Park, Texas; Stan Galanski, Senior Vice President of Customer Success at CB Technologies (CBT) in Houston, and Peter Moser, IoT and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next edition of the BriefingsDirect Voice of the Innovator podcast series explores the latest developments in hybrid IT and datacenter composability.
Bringing higher levels of automation to data center infrastructure has long been a priority for IT operators, but it's only been in the past few years that they have actually enjoyed truly workable solutions for composability.
The growing complexities, from hybrid cloud and the pressing need for conservation of IT spend -- as well as the need to find high-level IT skills -- means there is no going back. Indeed, there is little time for even a plateau on innovation around composability.
Stay with us now as we explore how pervasive increasingly intelligent IT automation and composability can be with Gary Thome, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Composable Cloud at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The interview is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect enterprise management innovations discussion explores the role of the modern chief operating officer (COO) and how they are tasked with creating new people-first strategies in an age of increased automation and data-driven intelligence.
We will now examine how new approaches to spend management, process automation, and integrated procurement align with developing talent, diversity, and sustainability.
To learn more about the leadership trends behind making globally dispersed and complex organizations behave in harmony, please welcome James Lee, Chief Operating Officer at SAP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass.The interview is conducted by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: SAP Ariba.]
The next BriefingsDirect healthcare insights discussion explores the shift medical services providers are making to improve the overall patient experience.
Taking a page from modern, data-driven industries that emphasize consumer satisfaction and ease, a major hospital in the New York metro area has embarked on a journey to transform healthcare-as-a-service.
To learn more about the surging importance and relevance for improving patient experiences in the healthcare sector using the many tools available to other types of businesses, we are joined by Laura Semlies, Vice President of Digital Patient Experience, at Northwell Health in metro New York, and Julie Gerdeman, President at HealthPay24 in Mechanicsburg, Penn. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HealthPay24.]
The next BriefingsDirect extreme use-case for high-performance computing (HPC) examines how the strictly governed redesign of Formula 1 race cars relies on data center innovation to coax out the best in fluid dynamics analysis and refinement.
Weâll now hear how Alfa Romeo Racing (formerly Alfa Romeo Sauber F1 Team) in Hinwil, Switzerland leverages the latest in IT to bring hard-to-find but momentous design improvements -- from simulation, to wind tunnel, to test track, and ultimately, to victory. The goal: To produce cars that are glued to the asphalt and best slice through the air.
Here to describe the challenges and solutions from the compute-intensive design of Formula 1 cars is Francesco Del Citto, Head of Computational Fluid Dynamics Methodology for Alfa Romeo Racing, and Peter Widmer, Worldwide Category Manager for Moonshot/Edgeline and Internet of Things (IoT) at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect intelligent solutions discussion explores how healthcare organizations are using the latest digital technologies to transform patient care and experiences.
When it comes to healthcare, time is of the essence and every second counts, but healthcare is a different game today. Doctors and clinicians, once able to focus exclusively on patients, are now being pulled into administrative tasks that can eat into their capability to deliver care.
To give them back their precious time, innovative healthcare organizations are turning to a new breed of intelligent digital workspace technologies. We are now joined by two leaders who will share their thoughts on how these solutions change the game and help transform healthcare as we know it.
Please welcome Mick Murphy, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at WellSpan Health, and Christian Boucher, Director and Strategist-Evangelist for Healthcare Solutions at Citrix. The interview is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Citrix Systems.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Analyst interview explores new ways that businesses can gain the most control and economic payback from various cloud computing models.
Weâll now hear from an IT industry analyst on how developers and IT operators can find newfound common ground to make hybrid cloud the best long-term economic value for their organizations.
Here to help explore ways a managed and orchestrated cloud lifecycle culture should be sought across enterprise IT organizations is Daniel Newman, Principal Analyst and Founding Partner at Futurum Research. The interview is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect healthcare finance insights discussion explores the impacts from increased cost transparency for medical services.
The recent required publishing of hospital charges for medical procedures is but one example of rapid regulatory and market changes. The emergence of more data about costs across the health provider marketplace could be a major step toward educated choices â and ultimately more efficiency and lower total expenditures.
But early-stage cost transparency also runs the risk of out-of-context information that offers little actionable insight into actual consumer costs and obligations. And unfiltered information requirements also place new burdens on physicians, caregivers, and providers â in areas that have more to do with economics than healthcare.
To learn more about the pluses and minuses of increased costs transparency in the healthcare sector, we are joined by our expert panel:
--Heather Kawamoto, Chief Product Officer at Recondo Technology in Denver
--Joann Barnes-Lague, Revenue Cycle Director at Shields Health Care Group in Quincy, Mass.
--Julie Gerdeman, President at HealthPay24 in Mechanicsburg, Penn.
--Beth Jones Sanborn, Managing Editor at Healthcare Finance News/HIMSS Media in Portland, Maine
--Alena Harrison, Senior Director of PBM Innovation at CVS Health in Woonsocket, RI
The panel is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HealthPay24.]
The next BriefingsDirect cloud adoption best practices discussion focuses on some of the strictest security and performance requirements that are newly being met for an innovative global finance services deployment.
Weâll now explore how a major financial transactions provider is exploiting cloud models to extend a distributed real-time payment capability across the globe. Due to the needs for localized data storage, privacy regulations compliance, and lightning-fast transactions speeds, this extreme cloud-use formula pushes the boundaries -- and possibilities -- for hybrid cloud solutions.
Stay with us now as we hear from an executive at Mastercard and a cloud deployment strategist about a new, cutting-edge use for cloud infrastructure. Please welcome Paolo Pelizzoli, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Realtime Payments International for Mastercard, and Robert Christiansen, Vice President and Cloud Strategist at Cloud Technology Partners (CTP), a Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) company. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect IT operations strategy panel discussion explores how the IT4IT[tm] Reference Architecture for IT management creates demonstrated business benefits â in many ways, across many types of organizations.
Since its delivery in 2015 by The Open Group, IT4IT has focused on defining, sourcing, consuming, and managing services across the IT functionâs value stream to its stakeholders. Among its earliest and most ardent users are IT vendors, startups, and global professional services providers.
To learn more about how this variety of highly efficient businesses and their IT organizations make the most of IT4IT â often as a complimentary mix of frameworks and methodologies -- we are now joined by our panel:
--Lars Rossen, Fellow at Micro Focus, in Copenhagen;
--Mark Bodman, Senior Product Manager at ServiceNow, in Austin;
--John Esler, Client Principal at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Pointnext, in Denver;
--Rob Akershoek, IT Architect at Fruition Partners, a DXC Technology Company, in Amsterdam;
--Varun Vijaykumar, Associate General Manager and ITSM Architect at HCL Technologies, in Raleigh-Durham, and
--Jerrod Bennett, CEO and Co-Founder at Dreamtsoft, in San Diego.
The panel discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: The Open Group.]
The next BriefingsDirect sustainable resources improvement interview examines how more companies are plunging into the circular economy to make the most of their existing IT and business assets.
We'll now hear how more enterprises are optimizing their IT kit and finding innovative means to reduce waste -- as well as reduce energy consumption and therefore their carbon footprint. Stay with us as we learn how a circular economy mindset both improves sustainability as a benefit to individual companies as well as the overall environment.
Here to help us explore the latest approaches to sustainable IT is William McDonough, Chief Executive of McDonough Innovation and Founder of William McDonough and Partners, and Gabrielle Ginér, Head of Environmental Sustainability for BT Group, based in London. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect industrial-edge innovation use-case examines how RealWear, Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) MyRoom combine to provide workers in harsh conditions ease in accessing and interacting with the best intelligence.
Stay with us to learn how a hands-free, voice-activated, and multimedia wearable computer solves the last few feet issue for delivering a businessâ best data and visual assets to some of its most critical onsite workers.
Here to describe the new high-water mark for wearable augmented collaboration technologies are Jan Josephson, Sales Director for EMEA at RealWear, and John âJTâ Thurgood, Director of Sales for UK, Ireland, and Benelux at RealWear. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect business trends panel discussion explores how the role of the data scientist in the enterprise is expanding in both importance and influence.
Data scientists are now among the most highly sought-after professionals, and they are being called on to work more closely than ever with enterprise strategists to predict emerging trends, optimize outcomes, and create entirely new kinds of business value.
To learn more about modern data scientists, how they operate, and why a new level of business analysis professional certification has been created by The Open Group, we are joined by Martin Fleming, Vice President, Chief Analytics Officer, and Chief Economist at IBM; Maureen Norton, IBM Global Data Scientist Professional Lead, Distinguished Market Intelligence Professional, and author of Analytics Across the Enterprise, and George Stark, Distinguished Engineer for IT Operations Analytics at IBM. The panel is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: The Open Group.]
The next BriefingsDirect hybrid IT management strategies interview explores new ways that businesses should procure and consume IT-as-a-service. Weâll now hear from an IT industry analyst on why changes in cloud deployment models are forcing a rethinking of IT economics -- and maybe even the very nature of acquiring and cost-optimizing digital business services.
Here to help us explore the everything-as-a-service business model is Rhett Dillingham, Vice President and Senior Analyst at Moor Insights and Strategy. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect manufacturing modernization and optimization case study centers on how a Canadian maker of containers leverages the Internet of Things (IoT) to create a positive cycle of insights and applied learning.
We will now hear how CuBE Packaging Solutions, Inc. in Aurora, Ontario has deployed edge intelligence to make 21 formerly isolated machines act as a single, coordinated system as it churns out millions of reusable package units per month.
Stay with us as we explore how harnessing edge data with more centralized real-time analytics integration cooks up the winning formula for an ongoing journey of efficiency, quality control, and end-to-end factory improvement.
Here to describe the challenges and solutions for injecting IoT into a plastic containerâs production advancement success journey is Len Chopin, President at CuBE Packaging Solutions. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect digital strategies interview examines why many businesses struggle with cloud computing adoption, and how they could improve by attaining a culture directed at cloud consumption and total productivity.
Due to inertia, a lack of skills, and even outright hostility, some enterprises are stumbling in their march to cloud use due to behavior and perception -- and not the actual technology hurdles.
We will now hear from an observer of cloud adoption patterns on why a cultural solution to adoption may be more important than any other aspect of digital business transformation.
Here to help us explore why cloud inertiacan derail business advancement is Edwin Yuen, Senior Analyst for Cloud Services and Orchestration, Data Protection, and DevOps at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). [Note: Since this podcast was recorded on Nov. 15, 2018, Yuen has become principal product marketing manager at Amazon Web Services.] The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect composable cloud strategies interview explores how changes in business organization and culture demand a new approach to leadership over such functions as hybrid and multi-cloud procurement and optimization.
Weâll now hear from an IT industry analyst about the forces reshaping the consumption of hybrid cloud services and why the model around procurement must be accompanied by an updated organizational approach -- perhaps even a new office or category of officer in the business category.
Here to help explore who -- or what -- should be in charge of spurring effective change in how companies acquire, use, and refine their new breeds of IT is John Abbott, Vice President of Infrastructure and Co-Founder of The 451 Group. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect hybrid IT strategies interview explores how new maturity in the management and composition of multiple facets of IT -- from cloud to bare-metal, from serverless to legacy systems -- amount to a culmination of 30 years of IT evolution.
Weâll hear now from an IT industry analyst about why â for perhaps the first time -- weâre able to gain an uber-view over all of IT operations. And weâll explore how increased automation over complexity such as hybrid and multicloud deployments sets the stage for artificial intelligence (AI) in IT operations, or AIOps.
It may mean finally mastering IT heterogeneity and giving businesses the means to truly manage how they govern and sustain all of their digital business assets.
Here to help us define the new state of total IT management is Martin Hingley, President and Market Analyst at ITCandor Limited, based in Oxford, UK. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor:Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect big data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) strategies discussion explores how human capital management (HCM) services provider ADP unlocks new business insights from vast data resources.
With more than 40 million employee records to both protect and mine, ADP is in a unique position to leverage its business data network for unprecedented intelligence on employee trends, risks, and productivity. ADP is entering a bold new era in talent management by deploying advanced infrastructure to support data assimilation and refinement of a vast, secure data lake as foundations for machine learning (ML).
Stay with us as we unpack how advances in infrastructure, data access, and AI combine to produce a step-change in human capital analytics with panelists Marc Rind, Vice President of Product Development and Chief Data Scientist at ADP Analytics and Big Data, and Dr. Eng Lim Goh, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect data center architecture modernization journey interview explores how HP Inc. (HPI) has rapidly separated and modernized a set of data centers as part of its splitting off from what has become Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE).
We will now learn how HP Inc. has taken four shared data centers and transitioned to two agile ones, with higher performance, lower costs, and an obsolescence-resistant and strategic infrastructure design.
Here to help us define the data center of the future are Sharon Bottome, Vice President and Head of Infrastructure Services at HPI, and Piyush Agarwal, Senior Director of Infrastructure Services, also at HPI. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect cloud deployment strategies interview explores how public cloud adoption is not reaching its potential due to outdated behaviors and persistent dissonance between what businesses can do and will do with cloud strengths.
Many of our ongoing hybrid IT and cloud computing discussions focus on infrastructure trends that support the evolving hybrid IT continuum. Todayâs focus shifts to behavior -- how individuals and groups, both large and small, benefit from cloud adoption.
It turns out that a dark side to cloud points to a lackluster business outcome trend. A large part of the disappointment has to do with outdated behaviors and persistent dissonance between what line of business (LOB) practitioners can do and will do with their newfound cloud strengths.
Weâll now hear from an observer of worldwide cloud adoption patterns on why making cloud models a meaningful business benefit rests more with adjusting the wetware than any other variable.
Here to help explore why cloud failures and cost overruns are dogging many enterprises is Robert Christiansen, Vice President, Global Delivery, Cloud Professional Services and Innovation at Cloud Technology Partners (CTP), a Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) company. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect digital business innovation panel discussion explores how a finance matchmaker application assists small businesses impacted by natural disasters in the United States.
By leveraging the data and trust inherent in established business networks, Apparent Financing by SAP creates digital handshakes between lenders and businesses in urgent need of working capital financing.
The solutionâs participants -- all in the SAP Ariba Network -- are putting the innovative model to good use by initially assisting businesses impacted directly or via supply chain disruptions from natural disasters such as forest fires and hurricanes.
To learn how data-driven supplier ecosystems enable new kinds of matchmaker finance relationships that work rapidly and at low risk, we are joined by our panel, Vishal Shah, Co-Founder and General Manager of Apparent Financing by SAP; Alan Cohen, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Payments and Financing at SAP Ariba, and Winslow Garnier, President of Garnier Group Technology Solutions, LLC in San Diego, California. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: SAP Ariba.]
The next BriefingsDirect thought leadership panel discussion focuses on how The Open Group is spearheading ways to make smart cities initiatives more effective.
Many of the latest technologies -- such as Internet of Things (IoT) platforms, big data analytics, and cloud computing -- are making data-driven and efficiency-focused digital transformation more powerful. But exploiting these advances to improve municipal services for cities and urban government agencies face unique obstacles.
Challenges range from a lack of common data sharing frameworks, to immature governance over multi-agency projects, to the need to find investment funding amid tight public sector budgets.
The good news is that architectural framework methods, extended enterprise knowledge sharing, and common specifying and purchasing approaches have solved many similar issues in other domains.
BriefingsDirect recently sat down with a panel to explore how The Open Group is ambitiously seeking to improve the impact of smart cities initiatives by implementing what works organizationally among the most complex projects.
The panel consists of Dr. Chris Harding, Chief Executive Officer at Lacibus; Dr. Pallab Saha, Chief Architect at The Open Group; Don Brancato, Chief Strategy Architect at Boeing; Don Sunderland, Deputy Commissioner, Data Management and Integration, New York City Department of IT and Telecommunications, and Dr. Anders Lisdorf, Enterprise Architect for Data Services for the City of New York. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: The Open Group.]
The next BriefingsDirect intelligent enterprise discussion explores new opportunities for innovation and value creation inside of business networks and among their powerful ecosystem of third party services providers.
We now explore how business and technology platforms have evolved into data insights networks, and why third-party businesses and modern analytics solutions are joining forces to create entirely new breeds of digital commerce and supply chain knowledge benefits.
To explain how business ecosystems are becoming incubators for value-added services for both business buyers and sellers, we welcome Sean Thompson, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Business Development and Ecosystem at SAP Ariba. The interview is conducted by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: SAP Ariba.]
Modern dentistry depends on more than good care. It also demands rapid access to data and applications.
For a rapidly growing dental services company -- consisting of hundreds of dental offices spread across 10 US states -- the task of managing all of its data availability, privacy, and security needs grew complex and costly.
The next BriefingsDirect security innovations discussion examines how Great Expressions Dental Centers found a solution by combining hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) with advanced security products.
Here to share the story of how to best balance data compliance and availability requirements via modern IT infrastructure is Kevin Schokora, Director of IT Operations at Great Expressions Dental Centers in Southfield, Michigan. The interview is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Bitdefender.]
The next BriefingsDirect panel discussion explores the creation of new guidance on how digital business professionals should approach their expanding responsibilities.
Perhaps more than at any time in the history of business and IT, those tasked with planning, implementation, and best use of digital business tools are being transformed into a new breed of digital practitioner.
This discussion focuses on how The Open Group is ambitiously seeking to close the gap between IT education, business methods, and what it will take to truly succeed at such work over the next decades.
Here to explain what it will take to prepare the next generation of enterprise leadership is our panel,Venkat Nambiyur, Director of Business Transformation, Enterprise, and Cloud Architecture at Oracle; Sriram Sabesan, Consulting Partner and Digital Transformation Practice Lead at Conexiam; Michael Fulton, Associate Vice President of IT Strategy and Innovation at Nationwide and Co-Chair of The Open Group IT4IT⢠Forum, and David Lounsbury, Chief Technical Officer at The Open Group. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: The Open Group.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer use-case discussion explores how a European gaming company adopted new cloud management and governance capabilities with developer productivity as the prime motivator.
Weâll now learn how Magellan Robotech puts an emphasis on cloud management and control as a means to best exploit hybrid cloud services to rapidly bring desired tools and app dev resources to its developers.
Here to reveal the journey to responsible cloud adoption with impressive payoffs is Graham Banner, Head of IT Operations at Magellan Robotech in Liverpool, England, and Raj Mistry, Go-to-Market Lead for OneSphere at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and heâs based in Manchester, England. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect strategic storage and business continuity case study discussion explores how Norwayâs venerable meat processing business, Fatland, relied on rapid backup and recovery solutions to successfully defended against a nasty ransomware attack.
The comprehensive backup and recovery stack allowed Fatlandâs production processing systems to snap back to use after only a few hours, but the value of intelligent and increasingly hybrid storage approaches go much further to assure the ongoing integrity of both systems -- and business outcomes.
Here to explain how vertically integrated IT infrastructure and mirrored data strategies can prevent data loss and business downtime are Terje Wester, the CEO at Fatland, based in Norway, and Patrick Osborne, Vice President and General Manager of Big Data and Secondary Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect hybrid cloud advancement interview explores how the triumvirate of a global data center hosting company, a hybrid cloud platform provider, and a global cloud community are solving some of the most vexing problems for bringing high-performance clouds to more regions around the globe.
We will now explore how Equinix, Microsoft Azure Stack, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)âs Cloud28+ are helping managed service providers (MSPs) and businesses alike obtain world-class hybrid cloud services.
Here to explain more about new breeds of hybrid cloud solutions are David Anderson, Global Alliance Director at Equinix for its Microsoft alliance, and Xavier Poisson, Vice-President of Worldwide Services Providers Business and Cloud28+ at HPE. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect thought leadership discussion explores how intelligence gleaned from business applications, data, and networks provides the best new hope for closing the digital transformation gap at many companies.
A recent global survey of procurement officers shows a major gap between where companies are and where they want to be when it comes to digital transformation. While 82 percent surveyed see digital transformation as having a major impact on processes -- only five percent so far see significant automation across their processes.
How can business networks and the cloud-based applications underlying them better help companies reach a more strategic level of business intelligence and automation?
To find out, BriefingsDirect recently visited SAP in Palo Alto, Calif. to sit down with Darren Koch, Chief Product Officer at SAP Ariba. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: SAP Ariba.]
The next BriefingsDirect extreme IT-in-sports use case interview examines how an edge-computing Gordian Knot is being sliced through innovation and pluck at a prestigious live golfing event.
We will now explore how the 2018 Ryder Cup match between European and US golf players places a unique combination of requirements on its operators and suppliers. As a result, the IT solutions needed to make the Ryder Cup better than ever for its 250,000 live spectators and sponsors will set a new benchmark for future mobile sports events.
Here to describe the challenges and solutions for making the latest networks and applications operate in a highly distributed environment is Michael Cole, Chief Technology Officer for the European Tour and Ryder Cup. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect digital business innovation interview explores how the powerful combination of deep analytics and the procurement function makes businesses smarter and more efficient.
When the latest data science techniques are applied to more data sets that impact supply chains and optimize procurement, a new strategic breed of corporate efficiency and best practices emerge.
To learn how data-driven methods and powerful new tools are transforming procurement into an impactful intelligence asset, BriefingsDirect recently sat down with David Herman, Chief Data Scientist for Strategic Procurement at SAP Ariba. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: SAP Ariba.]
As businesses of every stripe seek to bring more virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to their end users, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is proving a deployment back-end architecture of choice.
Indeed, HCI and VDI are combining to make one of the more traditionally challenging workloads far easier to deploy, optimize, and operate.
The next BriefingsDirect hybrid IT solutions ecosystem profile examines how the benefits of HCI are being taken to managed cloud, hybrid cloud, and appliance deployment models for VDI as well.
To learn more about the future of VDI powered by HCI and hybrid cloud, we are joined by executives from two key players behind the solutions, Bernie Hannon, Strategic Alliances Director for Cloud Services at Citrix, and Phil Sailer, Director of the Software Defined and Cloud Group Partner Solutions at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect digital business innovation interview explores how critical business functions provide unique vantage points from which to derive and act on enterprise intelligence.
These classic functions -- like procurement and supply chain management-- are proven catalysts for new value as businesses seek better ways to make sense of all of their data and to build more intelligent processes.
Here to help us explore how businesses can best operate internally -- and across extended networks -- to extract insights and accelerate decision-making is Barry Padgett, President of SAP Ariba. The interview is conducted by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: SAP Ariba.]
Solving security concerns has risen to the top of the requirements list for just about everyone, yet service providers in particular have had to step up their game.
Just as cloud models and outsourcing of more data center functions have become more popular, the security needs, too, across cloud models have grown even more fast-paced and pressing.
And as small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have turned to such managed service providers (MSPs) to be in effect their IT departments, they are also seeking those MSPs to serve as their best defenses against myriad and changing security risks.
The latest BriefingsDirect security insights discussion examines how MSPs in particular are building better security postures for their networks, data centers, and clients' operations.
Here to discuss the role of the latest security technology in making MSPs more like security services providers are Brian Luckey, Director of Managed Services, and Jeremy Wiginton, Applications Administrator, both at All Covered, IT Services from Konica Minolta, in Ramsey, New Jersey. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Bitdefender.]
One of the key elements of digital transformation is aligning core, cloud, and edge computing using the latest architectures and efficiencies. Yet new levels of simplicity are needed to satisfy all the requirements for both end users and IT operators.
The next BriefingsDirect IT solutions ecosystem profile interview examines how Citrix and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) are specifically aligned to help bring such digital transformation benefits to a broad, global market.
To learn more about the venerable and always-innovative Citrix-HPE partnership, BriefingsDirect sat down withexecutives Jim Luna, Senior Director for Global Alliances at Citrix, and Jeff Carlat, Senior Director of Global Alliances at HPE. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect hybrid IT management strategies interview explores how jerry-riggedapproaches to cloud adoption at many organizations have spawned complexity amid spiraling -- and even unknown -- costs.
Weâll hear now from an IT industry analyst about what causes unwieldy cloud use, and how new tools, processes, and methods are bringing insights and actionable analysis to regain control over hybrid IT sprawl.
Here to help us explore new breeds of hybrid and multicloud management solutions is Rhett Dillingham, Vice President and Senior Analyst at Moor Insights and Strategy. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
IT architects and operators face an increasingly complex mix of identifying and automating for both the best performance and the best price points across their cloud options. The modern IT services procurement task is made more difficult by the vast choices public cloud providers offer -- literally, hundreds of thousands of service options. New tools to help optimize cloud economics are arriving, but in the meantime, unchecked waste is rampant across the total spend for cloud computing, research shows. The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Analyst hybrid IT and multicloud management discussion explores the causes of unwieldy cloud use and how new tools, processes, and methods are bringing insights and actionable analysis to gain control over hybrid IT sprawl. Here to help explain the latest breed of cloud governance solutions is William Fellows, Founder and Research Vice President at 451 Research. The interview is conducted by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect digital business innovation discussion explores how modern marketing is impacted by the General DataProtection Regulation (GDPR). Those seeking to know their customers well are finding that this sweeping new European Union (EU) law forces a dramatic shift in how customer data can be gathered, shared, and protected. And it means that low-touch marketing by mass data analysis and inference alone likely will need to revert to the good-old-fashioned handshake and more high-touch trust building approaches that bind people to people, and people to brands. Here to help sort through a more practical approach to marketing within the new requirements of highly protected data is Tifenn Dano Kwan, Chief Marketing Officer at SAP Ariba. The interview is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: SAP Ariba.]
The next BriefingsDirect hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) use case discussion explores how a New Jersey college has embarked on the time-saving, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) modernization journey.
We will now learn how the combination of HCI and VDI makes the task of deploying and maintaining the latest end-user devices far simpler -- and cheaper than ever before.
Here to explore how a new digital and data-driven culture can emerge from uniting the desktop edge with the hyper-efficient core are Tom Gillon, Director of Network and User Services at County College of Morris (CCM) in Randolph, New Jersey; Michael Gilchrist, Assistant Director of Network Systems at County College of Morris (CCM), and Felise Katz, CEO of PKA Technologies, Inc. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect hybrid cloud strategies discussion examines how the use of containers has moved from developer infatuation to mainstream enterprise adoption.
As part of the wave of interest in containerization technology, Docker, Inc. has emerged as a leader in the field and has greased the skids for management and ease of use.
Meanwhile, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has embraced containers as a way to move beyond legacy virtualization and to provide both developers and IT operators more choice and efficiency as they seek to embrace hybrid cloud deployment scenarios.
Like the proverbial chocolate and peanut butter coming together -- or as I like to say, with Docker and HPE, fish and chips-- the two make a highly productive alliance and cloud ecosystem tag team.
Here to describe exactly how the Docker and HPE alliance accelerates modern and agile hybrid architectures, we are joined by two executives, Betty Junod, Senior Director of Product and Partner Marketing at Docker, and Jeff Carlat, Senior Director of Global Alliances at HPE. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect panel discussion explores cloud adoption strategies that can simplify IT operations, provide cloud deployment choice -- and that make the most total economic sense.
Many data center operators face a crossroads now as they consider the strategic implications of new demands on their IT infrastructure and the new choices that they have when it comes to a cloud continuum of deployment options. These hybrid choices span not only cloud hosts and providers, but also platform technology choices such as containers, intelligent network fabrics, serverless computing, and, yes, even good old bare metal.
For thousands of companies, the evaluation of their cloud choices also impacts how they on can help conquer the âVMware taxâ by moving beyond a traditional server virtualization legacy.
The complexity of choice goes further because long-term decisions about technology must also include implications for long-term recurring costs -- as well as business continuity. As IT architects and operators seek to best map a future from a VMware hypervisor and traditional data center architecture, they also need to consider openness and lock-in.
Our panelists review how public cloud providers and managed service providers (MSPs) are sweetening the deal to transition to predicable hybrid cloud models. The discussion is designed to help IT leaders to find the right trade-offs and the best rationale for making the strategic decisions for their organization's digital transformation.
The panel consists of David Grimes, Vice President of Engineering at Navisite; David Linthicum, Chief Cloud Strategy Officer at Deloitte Consulting, and Tim Crawford, CIO Strategic Advisor at AVOA. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Sponsor: Navisite.]
The next BriefingsDirect digital business innovations discussion explores new ways that companies gain improved visibility, analytics, and predictive responses to better manage supply-chain risk-and-reward sustainability factors. Weâll examine new tools and methods that can be combined to ease the assessment and remediation of hundreds of supply-chain risks -- from use of illegal and unethical labor practices to hidden environmental malpractices. Here to explore more about the exploding sophistication in the ability to gain insights into supply-chain risks and provide rapid remediation, are our panelists, Tony Harris, Global Vice President and General Manager of Supplier Management Solutions at SAP Ariba; Erin McVeigh, Head of Products and Data Services at Verisk Maplecroft, and Emily Rakowski, Chief Marketing Officer at EcoVadis. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: SAP Ariba.]
The next BriefingsDirect panel discussion focuses on improving performance and cost monitoring of various IT workloads in a multi-cloud world. We will now explore how multi-cloud adoption is forcing cloud monitoring and cost management to work in new ways for enterprises. Our panel of Micro Focus experts will explore new Dimensional Research survey findings gleaned from more than 500 enterprise cloud specifiers. We will share their concerns, requirements and demands for improving the monitoring, management and cost control over hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. We will also learn about new solutions and hear about examples of how automation leverages machine learning (ML) and rapidly improves cloud management at a large Barcelona bank. To learn more about interesting new cloud trends, we are joined by Harald Burose, Director of Product Management at Micro Focus, and he is based in Stuttgart; Ian Bromehead, Direct of Product Marketing at Micro Focus, and he is based in Grenoble, France, and Gary Brandt, Product Manager at Micro Focus, based in Sacramento. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Micro Focus.]
The next BriefingsDirect hybrid IT management success story examines how the nonprofit research institute HudsonAlpha improves how it harnesses and leverages a spectrum of IT deployment environments. Weâll now learn how HudsonAlpha has been testing a new Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) solution, OneSphere, to gain a common and simplified management interface to rule them all. Here to help explore the benefits of improved levels of multi-cloud visibility and process automation is Katreena Mullican, Senior Architect and Cloud Whisperer at HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, Alabama. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect developer productivity insights interview explores how a South African insurance innovator has built a modern hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) IT environment that replicates databases so fast that developers can test and re-test to their heartsâ content.
Weâll now learn how King Price in Pretoria also gained data efficiencies and heightened disaster recovery benefits from their expanding HCI-enabled architecture.
Here to help us explore the myriad benefits of a data transfer intensive environment is Jacobus Steyn, Operations Manager at King Price in Pretoria, South Africa. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect digital transformation success story examines how local governments in Norway benefit from a common platform approach for safe and efficient public data distribution.
Weâll now learn how Norwayâs 18 counties are gaining a common shared pool for data on young peopleâs health and other sensitive information thanks to streamlined benefits of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), containers, and microservices.
Here to help us discover the benefits of a modern platform for smarter government data sharing is Frode Sjovatsen, Head of Development for FINT Projectin Norway. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect agile data center architecture interview explores how an Ericsson and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) partnership establishes a mobile telecommunications stack that accelerates data services adoption in rapidly advancing economies.
Weâll now learn how this mobile business support infrastructure possesses a low-maintenance common core -- yet remains easily customizable for regional deployments just about anywhere.
Here to help us define the unique challenges of enabling mobile telecommunications operators in countries such as Bangladesh and Uzbekistan, we are joined by Mario Agati, Program Director at Ericsson, based in Amsterdam, and Chris James-Killer, Sales Director for HPE. The interview is conducted by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The advent of increased automation, data-driven decisions, powerful business networks, and the firepower of artificial intelligence (AI)and blockchainare combining to elevate procurement -- and the professionals who drive it -- to a new plane of greater influence and impact. To learn more about how rapidly evolving technology changes the future of procurement, the next BriefingsDirect panel discussion explores how and why innovation-fueled procurement will fill an increasingly strategic role for businesses. Our future of procurement panelists are Julie Gerdeman, Vice President of the Digital Transformation Organization at SAP Ariba; Shivani Govil, Vice President of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Products at SAP Ariba, and Matt Volker, Vice President of Supply Chain at NatureSweet in San Antonio, Texas. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor. SAP Ariba.]
The next BriefingsDirect panel discussion explores how Step Up For Students (SUFS), a non-profit organization in Florida, has collaborated with SAP Ariba to launch MyScholarShop, a digital marketplace for education that bridges the information gap and levels the playing field for those students most in need.
Now assisting some 10,000 K-12 special needs and low-income students, the user-friendly marketplace empowers parents and guardians to find and purchase the best educational services for their children. In doing so, it also helps maximize availability of scholarship funds to enhance their learning.
Here to share more about how this first-of-a-kind solution actually works, are panelists Jonathan Beckham, Vice President of Technology Strategy and Innovation at Step Up For Students in Jacksonville, Florida; Mike Maguire, Global Vice President of New Market Development at SAP Ariba, and Katie Swingle, a Florida Gardiner Scholarship Program recipient. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: SAP Ariba.]
The next BriefingsDirect IT business model innovation interview explores how pay-as-you-go models have emerged as a new way to align information technology (IT) needs with business imperatives. Weâll now learn how global aerospace and defense integrator Northrop Grumman has sought a revolution in business model transformation in how it acquires and manages IT.
Here to help explore how cloud computing-like consumption models can be applied more broadly is Ron Foudray, Vice President, Business Development for Technology Services at Northrop Grumman. The interview is conducted by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect data center financing agility interview explores how two Belgian hospitals are adjusting to dynamic healthcare economics to better compete and cooperate.
We will now explore how a regional hospital seeking efficiency -- and a teaching hospital seeking performance -- are meeting their unique requirements thanks to modern IT architectures and innovative IT buying methods. Here to help us understand the multilevel benefits of the new economics of composable infrastructure and software defined data center (SDDC) in the fast-changing healthcare field are Filip Hens, Infrastructure Manager at UZA Hospital in Antwerp, and Kim Buts, Infrastructure Manager at Imelda Hospital in Bonheiden, both in Belgium.The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer vertical industry disruption solutions interview explores how intelligence, edge computing, and a rethinking of the user experience come together to give retailers a business-boosting makeover. Weâll now learn how Deloitte and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) are helping traditional retailers -- as well as hospitality organizations and restaurants -- provide a more consistent, convenient, and contiguous user experience across their businesses. Here to help to define the new digitally enhanced retail experience are Kalyan Garimella, IoT Manager at Deloitte Consulting, and Jeff Carlat, Senior Director of Technology Solutions at HPE. The interview is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer optimized cloud design interview explores how a triumvirate of VMware, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and Telefonica together bring managed cloud services to a global audience.
Learn how Telefonicaâs vision for delivering flexible cloud services capabilities to Latin American and European markets has proven so successful. Here to explain how they developed the right recipe for rapid delivery of agile Infrastructure-as-a-Services (IaaS) deployments is Joe Baguley, Vice President and CTO of VMware EMEA, and Antonio Oriol Barat, Head of Cloud IT Infrastructure Services at Telefonica. The interview is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
The use of containers by developers -- and now increasingly IT operators -- has grown from infatuation to deep and abiding love. But as with any long-term affair, the honeymoon soon leads to needing to live well together ... and maybe even getting some relationship help along the way.
And so it goes with container orchestration and automation solutions, which are rapidly emerging as the means to maintain the bliss between rapid container adoption and broad container use among multiple cloud hosts.
This BriefingsDirect cloud services maturity discussion focuses on new ways to gain container orchestration, to better use serverless computing models, and employ inclusive management to keep the container love alive.
Here to help unpack insights into the new era of using containers to gain ease with multi-cloud deployments are our panelists: Matt Baldwin, Founder and CEO at StackPointCloud, based in Seattle; Nic Jackson, Developer Advocate at HashiCorp, based in San Francisco, and Reynold Harbin, Director of Product Marketing at DigitalOcean, based in New York. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Sponsor: DigitalOcean.
A discussion on how a large Missouri medical center developed a comprehensive healthcare infrastructure security strategy from the edge to the data center and everything in between.
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer high-performance computing (HPC) success story interview examines how Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has developed a research computing capability, Bridges, and how that's providing new levels of analytics, insights, and efficiencies.
We'll now learn how advances in IT infrastructure and memory-driven architectures are combining to meet the new requirements for artificial intelligence (AI), big data analytics, and deep machine learning.
Here to describe the inside story on building AI Bridges are Dr. Nick Nystrom, Interim Director of Research, and Paola Buitrago, Director of AI and Big Data, both at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst, at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect cloud efficiency case study explores how a storage-as-a-service offering in a university setting gains performance and lower total cost benefits by a move to all-flash storage.
Weâll now learn how the University of British Columbia (UBC) has modernized its EduCloud storage service and attained both efficiency as well as better service levels for its diverse user base.
Here to help us explore new breeds of SaaS solutions is Brent Dunington, System Architect at UBC in Vancouver. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Analyst interview examines the growing need for proper rationalizing of which apps, workloads, services and data should go where across a hybrid IT continuum.
Managing hybrid IT necessitates not only a choice between public cloud and private cloud, but a more granular approach to picking and choosing which assets go where based on performance, costs, compliance, and business agility.
Here to report on how to begin to better assess what IT variables should be managed and thoughtfully applied to any cloud model is Mark Peters, Practice Director and Senior Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
Implementing and managing IT security has leaped in complexity for organizations ranging from small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to massive government agencies.
Once-safe products used to thwart invasions now have been exploited. E-mail phishing campaigns are far more sophisticated, leading to damaging ransomware attacks.
Whatâs more, the jack-of-all-trades IT leaders of the mid-market concerns are striving to protect more data types on and off premises, their workload servers and expanded networks, as well as the many essential devices of the mobile workforce.
Security demands have gone up, yet there is a continual need for reduced manual labor and costs -- while protecting assets sooner and better.
The next BriefingsDirect security strategies case study examines how a Kansas economic development organization has been able to gain peace of mind by relying on increased automation and intelligence in how it secures its systems and people.
To explore how an all-encompassing approach to security has enabled improved results with fewer hours at a smaller enterprise, BriefingsDirect sat down with Jeff Kater, Director of Information Technology and Systems Architect at Kansas Development Finance Authority (KDFA) in Topeka. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Bitdefender.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Analyst interview explores how globalization and distributed business ecosystems factor into hybrid cloud challenges and solutions.
Mounting complexity and a lack of multi-cloud services management maturity are forcing companies to seek new breeds of solutions so they can grow and thrive as digital enterprises.
Here to report on how international companies must factor localization, data sovereignty and other regional factors into any transition to sustainable hybrid IT is Peter Burris, Head of Research at Wikibon. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect cloud strategies insights interview focuses on how IT architecture and new breeds of service providers are helping enterprises manage complex cloud scenarios.
Weâll now learn how composable infrastructure and auto-scaling help improve client services, operations, and business goals attainment for a New York cloud services and architecture support provider.
Here to help us learn what's needed to reach the potential of multiple -- and often overlapping -- cloud models is Arthur Reyenger, Cloud Practice Lead and Chief Cloud Architect at International Integrated Solutions (IIS) Ltd. in New York. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Analyst interview examines how new machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities are being applied to hybrid IT complexity challenges.
We'll explore how mounting complexity and a lack of multi-cloud services management maturity must be solved in order for businesses to grow and thrive as digital enterprises.
Here to report on how companies and IT leaders are seeking new means to manage an increasingly complex transition to sustainable hybrid IT is Paul Teich, Principal Analyst at TIRIAS Research in Austin, Texas. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Analyst interview examines how the economics and risk management elements of hybrid IT factor into effective cloud adoption and choice.
Weâll now explore how mounting complexity and a lack of multi-cloud services management maturity must be solved in order to have businesses grow and thrive as digital enterprises.
Join us now as we hear from leading IT industry analysts and consultants on how to make the hybrid IT journey to successful digital business transformation. To report on how companies and IT leaders are managing an increasingly complex transition to sustainable hybrid IT, we are joined by Tim Crawford, CIO Strategic Advisor at AVOA in Los Angeles. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect cloud efficiency case study examines how a world-class private cloud project evolved in the financial sector.
Weâll now learn how public cloud-like experiences, agility, and cost structures are being delivered via a strictly on-premises model built on hyper-converged infrastructure for a risk-sensitive financial services company.
Jim McKittrick joins to help explore the potential for cloud benefits when retaining control over the data center is a critical requirement. He is Senior Account Manager at Applied Computer Solutions (ACS) in Huntington Beach, California. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect high performance computing (HPC) success interview examines how strategic reasoning is becoming more common and capable -- even using imperfect information.
Weâll now learn how Carnegie Mellon University and a team of researchers there are producing amazing results with strategic reasoning thanks in part to powerful new memory-intense systems architectures.
To learn more about strategic reasoning advances, please join me in welcoming Tuomas Sandholm, Professor and Director of the Electronic Marketplaces Lab at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect healthcare transformation use-case discussion focuses on how an ecosystem approach to big data solutions brings about improved healthcare informatics-driven outcomes.
We'll now learn how a Philips Healthcare Informatics and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) partnership creates new solutions for the global healthcare market and provides better health outcomes for patients by managing data and intelligence better.
Joining us to explain how companies tackle the complexity of solutions delivery in healthcare by using advanced big data and analytics is Martijn Heemskerk, Healthcare Informatics Ecosystem Director for Philips, based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect cloud ecosystem strategies interview explores how a Canadian software provider delivers a hybrid cloud platform for enterprises and service providers alike.
We'll now learn how Ormuco has identified underserved regions and has crafted a standards-based hybrid cloud platform to allow its users to attain world-class cloud services just about anywhere.
Here to help us explore how new breeds of hybrid cloud are coming to more providers around the globe thanks to the Cloud28+ consortium is Orlando Bayter, CEO and Founder of Ormuco in Montréal, and Xavier Poisson Gouyou Beachamps, Vice President of Worldwide Indirect Digital Services at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), based in Paris. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect IT financing and acquisition strategies insights interview examines how Nokia is refactoring the video delivery business. Learn both about new video delivery architectures and the creative ways media companies are paying for the technology that supports them.
Here to describe new models of Internet Protocol (IP) video and time-managed IT financing is Paul Larbey, Head of the Video Business Unit at Nokia, based in Cambridge, UK. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect Internet of Things (IoT) strategies insights interview focuses on how a Miami telecommunications products provider has developed new breeds of services to help manage complex edge and data scenarios.
We will now learn how IoT platforms and services help to improve network services, operations, and business goals -- for carriers and end users alike.
Here to help us explore what is needed to build an efficient IoT support business is Andres Sanchez, CEO of Identidad IoT in Miami. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect inside story interview explores how a software-defined data center (SDDC)-focused systems integrator developed an ultimate open-source object storage environment.
Weâre now going to learn how Key Information Systems crafted a storage capability that may have broad extensibility into such realms as hybrid cloud and multi-cloud support.
Here to help us better understand a new approach to open-source object storage is Clayton Weise, Director of Cloud Services at Key Information Systems in Agoura Hills, California. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect Internet of Things (IoT) technology trends interview explores how innovation is impacting modern factories and supply chains.
Weâll now learn how a leading-edge manufacturer, Hirotec, in the global automotive industry, takes advantage of IoT and Operational Technology (OT) combined to deliver dependable, managed, and continuous operations.
Here to help us to find the best factory of the future attributes is Justin Hester, Senior Researcher in the IoT Lab at Hirotec Corp. in Hiroshima, Japan. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer thought leader interview examines how DreamWorks Animation is building a multipurpose, all-inclusive, and agile data center capability.
Learn here why a new era of responsive and dynamic IT infrastructure is demanded, and how one high-performance digital manufacturing leader aims to get there sooner rather than later.
Here to describe how an entertainment industry innovator leads the charge for bleeding-edge IT-as-a-service capabilities is Jeff Wike, CTO of DreamWorks Animation in Glendale, California. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer hybrid cloud advancements discussion explores the application development and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) benefits from Microsoft Azure Stack.
Weâll now learn how ecosystems of solutions partners are teaming to provide specific vertical industries with applications and services that target private cloud deployments.
Here to help us explore the latest in successful cloud-based applications development and deployment is our panel, Martin van den Berg, Vice President and Cloud Evangelist at Sogeti USA, based in Cleveland, and Ken Won, Director of Cloud Solutions Marketing at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
Bringing a central IT focus to large public school systems has always been a challenge, but bringing a security focus to thousands of PCs and devices has been compared to bringing law and order to the Wild West.
For the Clay County School District in Florida, a team of IT administrators is grabbing the bull by the horns nonetheless to create a new culture of computing safety -- without breaking the bank.
The next BriefingsDirect security insightâs discussion examines how Clay County is building a secure posture for their edge, network, and data centers while allowing the right mix and access for exploration necessary in an educational environment.
To learn how to ensure that schools are technically advanced and secure at low cost and at high scale, we're joined by Jeremy Bunkley, Supervisor of the Clay County School District Information and Technology Services Department; Jon Skipper, Network Security Specialist at the Clay County School District, and Rich Perkins, Coordinator for Information Services at the Clay County School District. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Bitdefender.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer HPC and edge computing strategies interview explores how a video delivery and customization capability has moved to the network edge -- and closer to consumers -- to support live, multi-screen Internet Protocol (IP) entertainment delivery.
Weâll learn how hybrid technology and new workflows for IP-delivered digital video are being re-architected -- with significant benefits to the end-user experience, as well as with new monetization values to the content providers.
Our guest is Glodina Connan-Lostanlen, Chief Marketing Officer at Imagine Communications in Frisco, Texas. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect healthcare thought leadership panel discussion examines how a global standards body, The Open Group, is working to improve how the healthcare industry functions.
Weâll now learn how The Open Group Healthcare Forum (HCF) is advancing best practices and methods for better leveraging IT in healthcare ecosystems. And weâll examine the forumâs Health Enterprise Reference Architecture (HERA) initiative and its role in standardizing IT architectures. The goal is to foster better boundaryless interoperability within and between healthcare public and private sector organizations.
To learn more about improving the processes and IT that better supports healthcare, please welcome our panel of experts: Oliver Kipf, The Open Group Healthcare Forum Chairman and Business Process and Solution Architect at Philips, based in Germany; Dr. Jason Lee, Director of the Healthcare Forum at The Open Group, in Boston, and Gail Kalbfleisch, Director of the Federal Health Architecture at the US Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: The Open Group.]
The next BriefingsDirect cloud deployment strategies interview explores how hybrid cloud ecosystem players such as PwC and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) are gearing up to support the Microsoft Azure Stack private-public cloud continuum.
Weâll now learn what enterprises can do to make the most of hybrid cloud models and be ready specifically for Microsoftâs solutions for balancing the boundaries between public and private cloud deployments.
Here to explore the latest approaches for successful hybrid IT, weâre joined by Rohit âRoâ Antao, a Partner at PwC, and Ken Won, Director of Cloud Solutions Marketing at HPE. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology trends interview explores how IT combines with IoT to help create the refinery of the future.
Weâll now learn how a leading-edge petrochemical company in Texas is rethinking data gathering and analysis to foster safer environments and greater overall efficiency.
To help us define the best of the refinery of the future vision is Doug Smith, CEO of Texmark Chemicals in Galena Park, Texas, and JR Fuller, Worldwide Business Development Manager for Edgeline IoT at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer Internet-of-Things (IoT) transformation discussion examines the potential impact and improvement of low-power edge computing benefits on rapidly modernizing cities.
These so-called smart city initiatives are exploiting open, wide area networking (WAN) technologies to make urban life richer in services, safer, and far more responsive to residencesâ needs. We will now learn how such pervasively connected and data-driven IoT architectures are helping cities in India vastly improve the quality of life there.
Here to share how communication service providers have become agents of digital urban transformation are VS Shridhar, Senior Vice President and Head of the Internet-of-Things Business Unit at Tata Communications in Chennai area, India, and Nigel Upton, General Manager of the Universal IoT Platform and Global Connectivity Platform and Communications Solutions Business at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect customer experience insights discussion explores how Contact center-as-a-service (CCaaS) capabilities are becoming more powerful as a result of leveraging cloud computing, multi-mode communications channels, and the ability to provide optimized and contextual user experiences.
More than ever, businesses have to make difficult and complex decisions about how to best source their customer-facing services. Which apps and services, what data and resources should be in the cloud or on-premises -- or in some combination -- are among the most consequential choices business leaders now face. As the confluence of cloud and unified communications (UC) -- along with data-driven analytics -- gain traction, the contact center function stands out.
Weâll now hear why traditional contact center technology has become outdated, inflexible and cumbersome, and why CCaaS is becoming more popular in meeting the heightened user experience requirements of today.
Here to share more on the next chapter of contact center and customer service enhancements, is Vasili Triant, CEO of Serenova in Austin, Texas. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Serenova.]
The next BriefingsDirect digital business insights panel discussion focuses on the evolving role of women in business leadership. Weâll explore how pervasive business networks are impacting relationships and changes in business leadership requirements and opportunities for women.
To learn more about the transformation of talent management strategies as a result of digital business and innovation, please join me in welcoming our guests, Alicia Tillman, Chief Marketing Officer at SAP Ariba, and Lisa Skeete Tatum, Co-founder and CEO of Landit in New York. The panel was recorded in association with the recent 2017 SAP Ariba LIVE conference in Las Vegas, and is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: SAP Ariba. Sponsor: SAP Ariba.]
When it comes to securing systems and data, the bad guys are constantly upping their games -- finding new ways to infiltrate businesses and users. Those who protect systems from these cascading threats must be ever vigilant for new technical advances in detection and protection. In fact, they must out-innovate their assailants.
The next BriefingsDirect security insights discussion examines the relationship between security and virtualization. We will now delve into how adaptive companies are finding ways to leverage their virtualization environments to become more resilient, more intelligent, and how they can protect themselves in new ways.
To learn how to ensure that virtualized data centers do not pose risks -- but in fact prove more defensible -- we are joined by two security-focused executives, Kurt Roemer, Chief Security Strategist at Citrix, and Harish Agastya, Vice President for Enterprise Solutions at Bitdefender. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Bitdefender.]
The next BriefingsDirect global digital business panel discussion explores how the expansion of automated tactical buying for business commerce is impacting global markets, and what's in store next for Latin America.
Weâll specifically examine how âspot buyâ approaches enable companies to make time-sensitive and often mission-critical purchases, even in complex and dynamic settings, like Latin America.
To learn more about the rising tide of such tactical business buying improvements, please join our guests, Karen Bruck, Corporate Sales Director at MercadoLibre.com in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Diego Cabrera Canay, Director of Financial Planning at MercadoLibre, and Tony Alvarez, General Manager of SAP Ariba's Spot Buy Business. The panel was recorded at the recent 2017 SAP Ariba LIVE conference in Las Vegas, and is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: SAP Ariba.]
The next BriefingsDirect digital business insights interview explores the successful habits, practices, and culture that define highly effective procurement organizations.
We'll uncover unique new research that identifies and measures how innovative companies have optimized their practices to overcome the many challenges facing business-to-business (B2B) commerce.
To learn more about the traits and best practices of the most successful procurement organizations, please join Kay Ree Lee, Director of Business Analytics and Insights at SAP Ariba. The interview was recorded at the recent 2017 SAP Ariba LIVE conference in Las Vegas, and is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: SAP Ariba.]
The next BriefingsDirect digital business thought leadership panel discussion explores new ways that companies can gain improved visibility, analytics, and predictive responses to better manage supply chain risk in the digital economy.
The panel examines how companies such as Nielsen are using cognitive computing search engines, and even machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), to reduce risk in their overall buying and acquisitions.
To learn more about the exploding sophistication around gaining insights into advanced business commerce, we welcome James Edward Johnson, Director of Supply Chain Risk Management and Analysis at Nielsen; Dan Adamson, Founder and CEO of OutsideIQ in Toronto, and Padmini Ranganathan, Vice President of Products and Innovation at SAP Ariba.
The panel was assembled and recorded at the recent 2017 SAP Ariba LIVE conference in Las Vegas. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: SAP Ariba.]
The next BriefingsDirect digital business thought leadership panel discussion examines the major opportunity from bringing Blockchain technology to business-to-business (B2B) procurement and supply chain management.
We will now explore how Blockchainâs unique capabilities can provide comprehensive visibility across global supply chains and drive simpler verification of authenticity, security, and ultimately control.
To learn more about how Blockchain is poised to impact and improve supply chain risk and management, we're joined by Joe Fox, Senior Vice President for Business Development and Strategy at SAP Ariba, and Leanne Kemp, Founder and CEO of Everledger, based in London.
The panel was assembled and recorded at the recent 2017 SAP Ariba LIVE conference in Las Vegas. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: SAP Ariba.]
The next BriefingsDirect inside story examination of security best practices focuses on the building of a security operations center (SOC) for cyber defense. Learn how Zayo Group in Boulder, Colorado built a state-of-the-art SOC as it expanded its international managed security service provider practice.
Join the podcast as we hear directly from Mike Vamvakaris, Vice President of Managed Cyber Security at Zayo Group, on the build-out, best practices, and end-results from this impressive project. The moderator is Serge Bertini, Vice President of Sales and General Manager of the Canada Security Division at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect digital business thought leadership panel discussion focuses on the latest path to gaining improved diversity across inclusive supply chains.
The panel examines why companies are seeking to improve supplier diversity, the business and societal benefits, and the new tools and technologies that are making attaining inclusive suppliers easier than ever.
To learn more about the increasingly data-driven path to identifying and achieving the workforce that meets all requirements, please welcome Rod Robinson, Founder and CEO of ConnXus; Jon Stevens, Global Senior Vice President of B2B Commerce and Payments at SAP Ariba, and Quentin McCorvey, Sr., President of M and R Distribution Services.
The panel was assembled and recorded at the recent 2017 SAP Ariba LIVE conference in Las Vegas. The discussion was moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: SAP Ariba.]
The next BriefingsDirect digital business thought leadership panel discussion focuses on how artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of things (IoT), machine learning (ML), and blockchain will shake up procurement and supply chain optimization.
Stay with us now as we develop a new vision for how today's cutting-edge technologies will usher in tomorrow's most powerful business tools and processes. The panel was assembled and recorded at the recent 2017 SAP Ariba LIVE conference in Las Vegas.
To learn more about the data-driven, predictive analytics, and augmented intelligence approach to supply chain management and procurement, please welcome Dinesh Shahane, Chief Technology Officer at SAP Ariba; Sudhir Bhojwani, Senior Vice President of the Product Suite at SAP Ariba, and Sanjay Almeida, Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer of Network Solutions at SAP Ariba. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: SAP Ariba.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer discussion highlights how Internet of things (IoT) adoption means more than just scaling-up networks. The complexity and novel architectural demands of IoT require a rethinking of the edge of nearly any enterprise.
We'll explore here how implementing IoT strategies is not a one-size-fits-all endeavor -- nor can it be bought off the shelf. Whatâs more, those new to the computational hive and analytical edge attributes of IoT are discovering that it takes a team approach.
To explain how many disparate threads of an effective IoT fabric come together, we're joined by Tushar Halgali, Senior Manager in the Technology Strategy and Architecture Practice at Deloitte Consulting in San Francisco, and Jeff Carlat, Senior Director of Technology Solutions at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Strategic Alliances. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HewlettPackard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer cloud adoption patterns discussion explores how integration of the latest cloud tools and methods help smooth out the difficult task of creating and maintaining cloud-infrastructure services contracts.
The results are more flexible digital services that both save cloud consumers money and provide the proper service levels and performance characteristics for each unique enterprise and small business.
Stay with us now as we hear from a Tasmanian digital services provider, TasmaNet, about their solution-level approach to cloud services attainment, especially from mid-market enterprises. To share how proper cloud procurement leads to new digital business innovations, we're joined by Joel Harris, Managing Director of TasmaNet in Hobart, Tasmania. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect thought leader interview explores how digital disruption demands that businesses develop a new ideology of hybrid IT.
We'll hear how such trends as Internet of things (IoT), distributed IT, data sovereignty requirements, and pervasive security concerns are combining to challenge how IT operates. And we'll learn how IT organizations are shifting to become strategists and internal service providers, and how that supports adoption of hybrid IT. We will also delve into how converged and hyper-converged infrastructures (HCI) provide an on-ramp to hybrid cloud strategies and adoption.
To help us define a new ideology for hybrid IT, we're joined by Neil Thurston, Chief Technologist for the Hybrid IT Practice at Logicalis Group in the UK. The discussion is moderated by
Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [ Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect thought leadership panel discussion explores the rapidly evolving architectural shift of moving advanced IT capabilities to the edge to support Internet of Things (IoT) requirements.
The demands of data processing, real-time analytics, and platform efficiency at the intercept of IoT and business benefits have forced new technology approaches. We'll now learn how converged systems and high-performance data analysis platforms are bringing the data center to the operational technology (OT) edge.
To hear more about the latest capabilities in gaining unprecedented measurements and operational insights where theyâre needed most, please join me in welcoming Phil McRell, General Manager of the IoT Consortia at PTC; Gavin Hill, IoT Marketing Engineer for Northern Europe at National Instruments (NI) in London, and Olivier Frank, Senior Director of Worldwide Business Development and Sales for Edgeline IoT Systems at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect digital transformation case study highlights how a Swiss engineering firm created an appliance that quickly deploys to index and deliver comprehensive business information.
By scouring thousands of formats and hundreds of languages, the approach then provides via a simple search interface unprecedented access to trends, leads, and the makings of highly informed business decisions.
We will now explore how SEC 1.01 AG delivers a truly intelligent services solution -- one that returns new information to ongoing queries and combines internal and external information on all sorts of resources to produce a 360-degree view of end usersâ areas of intense interest.
To learn how to access the best available information in about half the usual time, we're joined by David Meyer, Chief Technology Officer at SEC 1.01 AG in Switzerland. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect applications health monitoring interview explores how a new breed of continuous intelligence emerges by gaining data from systems infrastructure logs -- either on-premises or in the cloud -- and then cross-referencing that with intrinsic business metrics information.
Weâll now explore how these new levels of insight and intelligence into what really goes on underneath the covers of modern applications helps ensure that apps are built, deployed, and operated properly.
Today, more than ever, how a company's applications perform equates with how the company itself performs and is perceived. From airlines to retail, from finding cabs to gaming, how the applications work deeply impacts how the business processes and business outcomes work, too.
Weâre joined by an executive from Sumo Logic to learn why modern applications are different, what's needed to make them robust and agile, and how the right mix of data, metrics and machine learning provides the means to make and keep apps operating better than ever.
To describe how to build and maintain the best applications, welcome Ramin Sayar, President and CEO of Sumo Logic. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Sumo Logic.]
The next BriefingsDirect digital transformation case study explores how UK IT consultancy OCSL has set its sights on the holy grail of hybrid IT -- helping its clients to find and attain the right mix of hybrid cloud.
We'll now explore how each enterprise -- and perhaps even units within each enterprise -- determines the path to a proper mix of public and private cloud. Closer to home, they're looking at the proper fit of converged infrastructure, hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), and software-defined data center (SDDC) platforms.
Implementing such a services-attuned architecture may be the most viable means to dynamically apportion applications and data support among and between cloud and on-premises deployments.
To describe how to rationalize the right mix of hybrid cloud and hybrid IT services along with infrastructure choices on-premises, we are joined by Mark Skelton, Head of Consultancy at OCSL in London. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer digital transformation case study highlights how high-performing big-data analysis powers an innovative artificial intelligence (AI)-based investment opportunity and evaluation tool. We'll learn how LogitBot in New York identifies, manages, and contextually categorizes truly massive and diverse data sources.
By leveraging entity recognition APIs, LogitBot not only provides investment evaluations from across these data sets, it delivers the analysis as natural-language information directly into spreadsheets as the delivery endpoint. This is a prime example of how complex cloud-to core-to edge processes and benefits can be managed and exploited using the most responsive big-data APIs and services.
To describe how a virtual assistant for targeting investment opportunities is being supported by cloud-based big-data services, we're joined by Mutisya Ndunda, Founder and CEO of LogitBot and Michael Bishop, CTO of LogicBot, in New York. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer digital transformation case study highlights how online travel and events pioneer lastminute.com leverages big-data analytics with speed at scale to provide business advantages to online travel services.
In this podcast, we'll explore how lastminute.com manages massive volumes of data to support cutting-edge machine-learning algorithms to allow for speed and automation in the rapidly evolving global online travel research and bookings business.
To learn how a culture of IT innovation helps make highly dynamic customer interactions for online travel a major differentiator, we're joined by Filippo Onorato, Chief Information Officer at lastminute.com group in Chiasso, Switzerland. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer digital transformation case study highlights how newly combined Finnish national gaming company, Veikkaus, is managing a complex merger process while also bringing more of a digital advantage to both its operations and business model. We'll explore how Veikkaus uses a power big-data analytics platform to respond rapidly to the challenges of digitization.
To learn how a culture of IT innovation is helping to establish a single wholly nationally-owned company to operate gaming and gambling in Finland, we're joined by Harri Räsänen, Information and Communications Technology Architect at Veikkaus in Helsinki. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer digital transformation case study highlights how World Wide Technology, known as WWT, in St. Louis, found itself with a very serious yet somehow very common problem -- users simply couldnât find relevant company content.
We'll explore how WWT reached deep into its applications, data, and content to rapidly and efficiently create a powerful Google-like, pan-enterprise search capability. Not only does it search better and empower users, the powerful internal index sets the stage for expanded capabilities using advanced analytics to engender a more productive and proactive digital business culture.
Here to describe how WWT took an enterprise Tower of Babel and delivered cross-applications intelligent search are James Nippert, Enterprise Search Project Manager, and Susan Crincoli, Manager of Enterprise Content, both at World Wide Technology in St. Louis. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect technology innovation thought leadership discussion explores how rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are poised to reshape procurement -- like a fast-forwarding to a once-fanciful vision of the future.
Whereas George Jetson of the 1960s cartoon portrayed a world of household robots, flying cars, and push-button corporate jobs -- the 2017 procurement landscape has its own impressive retinue of decision bots, automated processes, and data-driven insights.
We wonât need to wait long for this vision of futuristic business to arrive. As we enter 2017, applied intelligence derived from entirely new data analysis benefits has redefined productivity and provided business leaders with unprecedented tools for managing procurement, supply chains, and continuity risks.
To learn more about the future of predictive -- and even proactive -- procurement technologies, please welcome Chris Haydon, Chief Strategy Officer at SAP Ariba. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: SAP Ariba.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer digital transformation case study explores how linen services industry leader AmeriPride Services uses big data to gain a competitive and comprehensive overview of its operations, finances and culture.
Weâll explore how improved data analytics allows for disparate company divisions and organizations to come under a single umbrella -- to become more aligned -- and to act as a whole greater than the sum of the parts. This is truly the path to a digital business.
Here to describe how digital transformation has been supported by innovations at the big data core, weâre joined by Steven John, CIO, and Tony Ordner, Information Team Manager, both at at AmeriPride Services in Minnetonka, Minnesota. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer digital transformation case study explores how -- in an era when cybersecurity attacks are on the rise and enterprises and governments are increasingly vulnerable -- new data intelligence capabilities are being brought to the edge to provide better data loss prevention (DLP).
Hear how Digital Guardian in Waltham, Massachusetts analyzes both structured and unstructured data to predict and prevent loss of data and intellectual property (IP) with increased accuracy.
To learn how data recognition technology supports network and endpoint forensic insights for enhanced security and control, we're joined by Marcus Brown, Vice President of Corporate Business Development for Digital Guardian. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer digital transformation case study explores how data-analysis services startup BlueLabs in Washington, DC helps presidential election campaigns better know and engage with potential voters.
We'll learn how BlueLabs relies on high-performing analytics platforms that allow a democratization of querying, of opening the value of vast data resources to discretely identify more of those in the need to know.
Here to describe how big data is being used creatively by contemporary political organizations for two-way voter engagement, we're joined by Erek Dyskant Co-Founder and Vice President of Impact at BlueLabs Analytics in Washington. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect thought leadership panel discussion explores how public-sector organizations can gain economic benefits from cloud interoperability and standardization.
Our panel comes to you in conjunction with The Open Group Paris Event and Member Meeting October 24 through 27, 2016 in France, with a focus on the latest developments in eGovernment.
As government agencies move to the public cloud computing model, the use of more than one public cloud provider can offer economic benefits by a competition and choice. But are the public clouds standardized efficiently for true interoperability, and can the large government contracts in the offing for cloud providers have an impact on the level of maturity around standardization?
To learn how to best procure multiple cloud services as eGovernment services at low risk and high reward, we're joined by our panel, Dr. Chris Harding, Director for Interoperability at The Open Group; Dave Linthicum, Senior Vice President at Cloud Technology Partners, and Andras Szakal, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at IBM U.S. Federal. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: The Open Group.]
The next BriefingsDirect thought leadership panel discussion explores how public-sector organizations can gain economic benefits from cloud interoperability and standardization.
Our panel comes to you in conjunction with The Open Group Paris Event and Member Meeting October 24 through 27, 2016 in France, with a focus on the latest developments in eGovernment.
As government agencies move to the public cloud computing model, the use of more than one public cloud provider can offer economic benefits by a competition and choice. But are the public clouds standardized efficiently for true interoperability, and can the large government contracts in the offing for cloud providers have an impact on the level of maturity around standardization?
To learn how to best procure multiple cloud services as eGovernment services at low risk and high reward, we're joined by our panel, Dr. Chris Harding, Director for Interoperability at The Open Group; Dave Linthicum, Senior Vice President at Cloud Technology Partners, and Andras Szakal, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at IBM U.S. Federal. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: The Open Group.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer digital transformation case study explores how powerful and diverse financial information is newly and uniquely delivered to the ubiquitous Excel spreadsheet edge.
We'll explore how HTI Labs in London provides the means and governance with its Schematiq tool to bring critical data services to the interface users want. By leveraging the best of instant cloud-delivered data with spreadsheets, Schematiq democratizes end-user empowerment while providing powerful new ways to harness and access complex information.
To learn how complex cloud core-to-edge processes and benefits can be better managed and exploited we're joined by Darren Harris, CEO and Co-Founder of HTI Labs, and Jonathan Glass, CTO and Co-Founder of HTI Labs, based in London. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer performance engineering case study discussion examines how JetBlue Airways in New York uses virtual environments to reduce software development costs, centralize performance testing, and create a climate for continuous integration and real-time monitoring of mobile applications.
We'll now hear how JetBlue cultivated a DevOps model by including advanced performance feedback in the continuous integration process to enable greater customer and workforce productivity.
To describe how efficient performance engineering has reduced testing, hardware and maintenance costs by as much as 60 percent, we're joined by Mohammed Mahmud, the Senior Software Performance Engineer at JetBlue Airways in New York. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect innovation discussion focuses on how technology, data analysis, and digital networks are transforming procurement and the source-to-pay process as we know it. Weâll also discuss what it takes to do procurement well in this new era of business networks.
Far beyond just automating tasks and transactions, procurement today is a strategic function that demands an integrated, end-to-end approach built on deep insights and intelligence to drive informed source-to-pay decisions and actions that enable businesses to adopt a true business ecosystem-wide digital strategy.
And according to the findings of a benchmarking survey conducted by SAP Ariba, there are seven essential traits of modern procurement organizations that are driving this innovation and business transformation.
To learn more about the survey results on procurement best practices, please join me in welcoming Kay Ree Lee, Director of Value Realization at SAP. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: SAP Ariba.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer digital business transformation case study examines how Canadian nonprofit SOCAN faced digital disruption and fought back with a successful storage modernizing journey. We'll learn how adopting storage innovation allows for faster responses to end-user needs and opens the door to new business opportunities.
To describe how SOCAN gained a new competitive capability for its performance rights management business we're joined by Trevor Jackson, Director of IT Infrastructure for SOCAN, the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada, based in Toronto. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer digital business transformation case study highlights how Independent Health in Buffalo, New York has entered into a next phase of "strategic DevOps."
After a two-year drive to improve software development, speed to value, and improved user experience of customer service applications, Independent Health has further extended advanced testing benefits to ongoing apps production and ongoing performance monitoring.
Hear here how the reuse of proven performance scripts and replaying of synthetic transactions that mimic user experience have cut costs and gained early warning and trending insights into app behaviors and system status.
Here to describe how to attain such new strategic levels of DevOps benefits are Chris Trimper, Manager of Quality Assurance Engineering at Independent Health in Buffalo, New York, and Todd DeCapua, Senior Director of Technology and Product Innovation at CSC Digital Brand Services Division and former Chief Technology Evangelist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer digital business transformation case study examines how the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha consolidated and unified its data-protection capacities.
We'll explore how adopting storage innovation protects the state's largest hospital from data disruption and adds operational simplicity to complex data lifecycle management.
To describe how more than 150 terabytes of data remain safe and sound, we're joined by Jeff Bergholz, Manager of Technical Systems at The Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer digital business transformation case study examines how loyalty management innovator Aimia is modernizing, consolidating, and standardizing its global IT infrastructure.
As a result of rapid growth and myriad acquisitions, Montreal-based Aimia is in a leapfrog mode -- modernizing applications, consolidating data centers, and adopting industry standard platforms. We'll now learn how improving end-user experiences and leveraging big data analytics helps IT organizations head off digital disruption and improve core operations and processes.
To describe how Aimia is entering a new era of strategic IT innovation, we're joined by André Hébert, Senior Vice President of Technology at Aimia in Montreal. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer IT innovation case study explores how the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology engages in digital transformation for genomic research and healthcare paybacks.
We'll learn how HudsonAlpha leverages modern IT infrastructure and big-data analytics to power a pioneering research project incubator and genomic medicine innovator.
To describe new possibilities for exploiting cutting-edge IT infrastructure and big data analytics for potentially unprecedented healthcare benefits, we're joined by Dr. Liz Worthey, Director of Software Development and Informatics at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, Alabama. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect cybersecurity innovation and transformation panel discussion explores how cloud security is rapidly advancing, and how enterprises can begin to innovate and prevail over digital disruption by increasingly using cloud-defined security.
We'll hear how a secure content collaboration services provider removes the notion of organizational boundaries so that businesses can better extend processes. And we'll hear how less boundaries and cloud-based security together support transformative business benefits.
To share how security technology leads to business innovations, we're joined by Daren Glenister, Chief Technology Officer at Intralinks in Houston, and Chris Steffen, Chief Evangelist for Cloud Security at HPE. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer case study examines how hosting provider Opus Interactive adopted a software-defined storage approach to better support its thousands of customers.
We'll learn how scaling of customized IT infrastructure for a hosting organization in a multi-tenant environment benefits from flexibility of modern storage, unified management, and elastic hardware licensing. The result is the confidence that storage supply will always meet dynamic hybrid computing demand.
To describe how massive storage and data-center infrastructure needs can be met in a just-in-time manner, we're joined by Eric Hulbert, CEO at Opus Interactive in Portland, Oregon. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect business innovation thought leadership panel discussion examines how digital business transformation has been accomplished by several prominent enterprises. We'll explore how the convergence of cloud, mobility, and big-data analytics has prompted companies to innovate and produce new levels of award-winning productivity.
To learn how these trend-setters create innovation value, we're joined by some finalists from the Citrix Synergy 2016 Innovation Awards Program: Olaf Romer, Head of Corporate IT and group CIO at Bâloise in Basel, Switzerland; Alan Crawford, CIO of Action for Children in London, and Craig Patterson, CEO of Patterson and Associates in San Antonio, Texas. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Citrix.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer IT infrastructure thought leadership case study explores how Purdue University has created a strategic IT environment to support dynamic workload requirements.
We'll now hear how Purdue extended a research and development IT support infrastructure to provide a common and "operational credibility" approach to support myriad types of compute demands by end users and departments.
To describe how a public university is moving toward IT as a service, please join Gerry McCartney, Chief Information Officer at Purdue University in Indiana. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect business innovation for procurement case study examines how UPS modernizes and streamlinines its procure-to-pay processes.
Learn how UPS -- across billions of dollars of supplier spend per year -- automates supply-chain management and leverages new technologies to provide greater insight into procurement networks. This business process innovation exchange comes to you in conjunction with the Tradeshift Innovation Day held in New York on June 22, 2016.
To explore how procurement has become strategic for UPS, we sat down with Jamie Dawson, Vice-President of UPS's Global Business Services Procurement Strategy in Atlanta. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Tradeshift.]
The next BriefingsDirect thought leadership panel discussion focuses on how expert user communities around technologies and solutions create powerful digital business improvements.
As an example, we will explore how the Citrix Technology Professionals Program, or CTPs as they are referred to, gives participants a larger say in essential strategy initiatives such as enabling mobile work styles.
To learn more about the CTP program and how an ongoing dialogue between vendors and experts provides the best end-user experiences, we're joined by Douglas Brown, Founder of DABCC.com in Sarasota, Florida; Rick Dehlinger, an Independent Technologist and Business Visionary in Sacramento, California; Jo Harder is the Cloud Architect at D+H and an Industry Analyst at Virtualization Practice in Fort Myers, Florida, and Steve Greenberg, President of Thin Client Computing in Scottsdale, Arizona. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Citrix.]
The next BriefingsDirect business innovation thought leadership discussion focuses on how companies are exploiting technology advances in procurement and finance services to produce new types of productivity benefits.
We'll now hear from a procurement expert on how companies can better manage their finances and have tighter control over procurement processes and their supply chain networks. This business process innovation exchange comes to you in conjunction with the Tradeshift Innovation Day held in New York on June 22, 2016.
To learn more about how technology trends are driving innovation into invoicing and spend management, please welcome Joanna Martinez, Founder at Supply Chain Advisors and former Chief Procurement Officer at both Cushman and Wakefield and AllianceBernstein. She's based in New York. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Tradeshift.]
The next BriefingsDirect business innovation thought leadership discussion focuses on how new modes of buying and evaluating goods and services are disrupting business procurement.
We'll hear now from a leading industry analyst on how machine learning, cloud services, and artificial intelligence-enabled human agents are all combining to change the way that companies can order services, buy goods, and even hire employees and contractors. This business process innovation exchange comes to you in conjunction with the Tradeshift Innovation Day held in New York on June 22, 2016.
To learn more about how new trends are driving innovation into invoicing and spend management, please join me in welcoming Pierre Mitchell, Chief Research Officer and Managing Director at Azul Partners, where he leads the Spend Matters Procurement research activities. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Tradeshift.]
The next BriefingsDirect security market transformation discussion explores how airline Allegiant Air solved its payment card industry (PCI) problem -- and got a whole lot better security culture to boot.
When Allegiant needed to quickly manage its compliance around the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, it embraced many technologies, including tokenization, but the company also adopted an improved position toward privacy methods in general.
Here to share how security technology can lead to posture maturity -- and then ultimately to cultural transformation with many business benefits -- we're joined by Chris Gullett, Director of Information Assurance at Allegiant Air in Las Vegas. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect business innovation thought leadership discussion focuses on how companies are exploiting advances in procurement and finance services to produce new types of productivity benefits.
We'll now hear from a leading industry analyst on how more data, process integration, and analysis efficiencies of cloud computing are helping companies to better manage their finances in tighter collaboration with procurement and supply-chain networks. This business-process innovation exchange comes in conjunction with the Tradeshift Innovation Day held in New York on June 22, 2016.
To learn more about how new trends are driving innovation into invoicing and spend management, we're joined by Bill McBeath, Chief Research Officer at ChainLink Research in Newton, Mass. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Tradeshift.]
The next BriefingsDirect security market transformation discussion focuses on the implications of the European Parliamentâs recent approval of the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR.
This sweeping April 2016 law establishes a fundamental right to personal data protection for European Union (EU) citizens. It gives enterprises that hold personal data on any of these people just two years to reach privacy compliance -- or face stiff financial penalties.
But while organizations must work quickly to comply with GDPR, the strategic benefits of doing so could stretch far beyond data-privacy issues alone. Attaining a far stronger general security posture -- one that also provides a business competitive advantage -- may well be the more impactful implication.
We've assembled a panel of cybersecurity and legal experts to explore the new EU data privacy regulation and discuss ways that companies can begin to extend these needed compliance measures into essential business benefits.
Here to help us sort through the practical path of working within the requirements of a single digital market for the EU are: Tim Grieveson, Chief Cyber and Security Strategist, Enterprise Security Products EMEA, at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE); David Kemp, EMEA Specialist Business Consultant at HPE, and Stewart Room, Global Head of Cybersecurity and Data Protection at PwC Legal. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer big data case study discussion examines how mobile app advertising platform Tapjoy handles fast and massive data -- some two dozen terabytes per day -- with just two part-time database administrators (DBAs).
We'll learn how Tapjoyâs data-driven business of serving 500 million global mobile users -- or more than 1.5 million add engagements per day, a data volume of a 120 terabytes -- runs with extreme efficiency.
To learn more about how high scale and complexity meets minimal labor for building user and advertiser loyalty we're joined by David Abercrombie, Principal Data Analytics Engineer at Tapjoy in San Francisco. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect thought leadership panel discussion focuses on the heightened role of security in the age of global cloud and mobile delivery of apps and data.
As enterprises and small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) alike weigh the balance of apps and convenience with security -- a new dynamic is emerging. Security concerns increasingly dwarf other architecture considerations.
Yet advances in thin clients, desktop virtualization (VDI), cloud management services, and mobile delivery networks are allowing both increased security and edge applications performance gains.
To learn more about the new reality for end-to-end security for apps and data, please welcome our panel: Stan Black, Chief Security Officer at Citrix; Chad Wilson, Director of Information Security at Children's National Health System in Washington, DC; Whit Baker, IT Director at The Watershed in Delray Beach, Florida; Craig Patterson, CEO of Patterson and Associates in San Antonio, Texas, and Dan Kaminsky, Chief Scientist at White Ops in San Francisco. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Citrix.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer thought leadership discussion focuses on the burgeoning trends around DevOps and how thatâs translating into new types of IT infrastructure that both developers and operators can take advantage of.
To learn more about trends and developments in DevOps, micro services, containers, and the new direction for composable infrastructure, weâre joined by Donnie Berkholz, Research Director at 451 Research, and heâs based in Minneapolis. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect expert panel discussion examines the value and direction of The Open Group IT4IT initiative, a new reference architecture for managing IT to help business become digitally innovative.
IT4IT was a hot topic at The Open Group San Francisco 2016 conference in January. This panel, conducted live at the event, explores how the reference architecture grew out of a need at some of the world's biggest organizations to make their IT departments more responsive, more agile.
Weâll learn now how those IT departments within an enterprise and the vendors that support them have reshaped themselves, and how others can follow their lead. The expert panel consists of Michael Fulton, Principal Architect at CC&C Solutions; Philippe Geneste, a Partner at Accenture; Sue Desiderio, a Director at PriceWaterhouseCoopers; Dwight David, Enterprise Architect at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE); and Rob Akershoek, Solution Architect IT4IT at Shell IT International. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: The Open Group.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer big-data case study discussion focuses on the Tower of Babel problem for disparate data, and explores how Alation manages multiple data types by employing machine learning and crowdsourcing.
We'll explore how Alation makes data more actionable via such innovative means as combining human experts and technology systems.
To learn more about how enterprises and small companies alike can access more data for better analytics, please join Stephanie McReynolds, Vice-President of Marketing at Alation in Redwood City, California. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer discussion explores how increased virtualization across data centers translates into the need for new hybrid-computing approaches to security, compliance, and governance.
Just as next-generation data centers and private clouds are gaining traction, security threats are on the rise -- and attack techniques are becoming more sophisticated.
Are yesterdayâs perimeter-based security infrastructure methods up to the task? Or are new approaches needed to gain policy-based control over all virtual assets at all times?
To explore the future of security for virtual workloads, we're joined by Holland Barry, CTO at Catbird in Scotts Valley, California. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect technology innovation thought leadership discussion focuses on new user experience demands for applications, and the impact that self-service and consumer habits are having on the new user experience design.
As more emphasis is placed on user experiences and the application of consumer-like processes in business-to-business (B2B) commerce, a softer side of software seems to be emerging. We'll now explore a new approach to design that emphasizes simple and intuitive process flows.
To learn more about how business apps design must better cater to consumer habits to improve user experience, we're joined by Michele Sarko, Chief Design Officer at SAP Ariba. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: SAP Ariba.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer discussion explores how social gaming company Playtika uses big-data analytics to deliver captivating user experiences and engagement.
We'll learn how feedback from massive user action streams can be analyzed in bulk rapidly to improve the features and attractions of online games and so help Playtika react well in an agile market.
To learn more about leveraging big data in the social casino industry, we're pleased to welcome Jack Gudenkauf, Vice President of Big Data at Playtika in Santa Monica, California. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer discussion hones in on an organization in Madrid, Spain called Mobile Experience. We're about to learn how they precisely track the location of individuals using mobile devices inside of large organizations, like a museum, and then apply that to an enriched mobile user experience.
To learn how precise positioning in a store or resort â anywhere with WiFi â leads to fascinating new mobile business apps development and interactive user experience benefits, we're joined by Alvaro Garcia-Hoz, Founder and General Manager of Mobile Experience in Madrid. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect IT market analysis discussion explores customer impacts to the global storage market now that the $67 billion Dell-EMC merger deal appears imminent. The proposed merger, which also includes EMCâs majority control of VMware, has been controversial from the start.
A massive and complex financing apparatus, largely built on private equity debt, undergirds the deal, with privately held Dell taking over the publicly traded EMC and VMware federation. This largest IT vendor deal ever is expected to close sometime between now and October 2016.
While EMC CEO and Chairman Joe Tucci has assured the storage and IT infrastructure market that the mega deal means business as usual, many observers, including analysts from Gartner, take a different view.
We're now joined by two storage industry experts to explore how consumers of storage infrastructure can best prepare for the expected storage shockwaves from the Dell takeover of EMC and VMware.
To help us sort through the unknown unknowns of such an unprecedented business merger in IT, please welcome Jorge Maestre, Competitive Strategist, Global Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and Craig Rice, Business Architect at Integris Solutions Group. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect discussion explores improving cyber security in applications across their entire lifecycles. Such trends as the Internet of Things (IoT), hybrid cloud services, mobile-first, and DevOps are increasing the demands and complexity of the overall development process.
Key factors to improving both development speed and security despite these new challenges include new levels of collaboration and communication across formerly disparate teams -- from those who design, to coders, to testers, and on to continuous monitoring throughout operations. The result is security being integrated into software design, even as the pressure builds to bring more apps to market faster.
We're here now with two experts from a Capgemini and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Alliance to learn how to create the culture, process, and technologies needed to make and keep today's applications as secure as possible.
Please join me now in welcoming our guests, Gopal Padinjaruveetil, Global Cyber Security Strategist for Capgemini, and Mark Painter, Security Evangelist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect technology innovation thought leadership discussion examines new ways for small businesses to make and manage the connections that matter to them most using cloud-based networks to bring intelligent buying and digital business benefits to any type of company.
To learn more about the business of doing more commerce in the digital economy using cloud-based networks, please join me in welcoming Bob Rosenthal, Chairman and CEO of JP Promotional Products, Inc. in Ossining, New York, and Anne Kramer, CEO at Ergo Works, Inc. in Palo Alto, California. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: SAP Ariba.]
The next BriefingsDirect hybrid computing case study discussion explores how regulations around data sovereignty are forcing enterprises to consider new approaches to data location, intellectual property, and cloud collaboration services.
As organizations move beyond their on-premises data centers, regulation and data sovereignty issues have become as important as the technical requirements for their infrastructure and applications.
To learn how organizations have been able to get the best of data control and protection -- along with business agility -- from hybrid cloud models, we're joined Richard Anstey, CTO at Intralinks, and he's based in London. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect IT support thought leadership discussion highlights how automation, self-service and big data analytics are combining to allow IT help desks to do more for less.
We'll learn how automation and ITSM-driven insights endow help desk personnel with more knowledge and provide a single point of support for end users, regardless of their needs while still catering to their preferred method of help.
Here to share the latest on how IT support is advancing in the era of bring your own device (BYOD), cloud, and tight budgets, are three experts, David Blackeby, Program Solution Owner for Cloud Services at Sopra Steria, based in the UK; Diana Wosik, Group Program Manager at Sopra Steria, based in Poland, and Mark Laird, Group Technical Architect at Sopra Steria, based in the UK. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect expert panel discussion examines the value and direction of The Open Group IT4IT initiative, a new reference architecture for managing IT as a business.
IT4IT was a hot topic at The Open Group San Francisco 2016 conference in January, and the enterprise architect and IT leader attendees examined it from a variety of different angles. This panel, conducted live at the event, elevates the IT4IT discussion to the level of enabling digital business value.
And so to learn more about how IT4IT aids businesses, we are joined by Chris Davis, Professor of Information Systems at the University of South Florida and also Chairman of The Open Group IT4IT Forum; Lars Rossen, a Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and a chief architect for the IT4IT program; Ryan Schmierer, Business and Enterprise Architect for IT at Microsoft, and David Wright, Chief Strategy Officer at ServiceNow. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: The Open Group.]
The next BriefingsDirect big data case study discussion explores how Etsy, a global e-commerce site focused on handmade and vintage items, uses data science to improve buyers and sellersâ discovery and shopping experiences.
We'll learn how mining big data at speed and volume helps Etsy define and distribute top trends, and allows those with specific interests to find items that will best appeal to them.
To learn more about leveraging big data in the e-commerce space, please join Chris Bohn aka âCB,â a Senior Data Engineer at Etsy, based in Brooklyn, New York. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect expert panel discussion examines the illustrious 20-year history of the UNIX operating system environment as an industry-wide and global standard success story.
It's not often that you reach a multi-decade anniversary in information technology, especially where the technology's relevance remains so high and the promise of more innovation and value is so needed and promising.
To chart this unprecedented journey of interoperable software and stewardship success, we're joined by a distinguished panel: Andrew Josey, Director of Standards at The Open Group; Darrin Johnson, Director of Solaris Engineering at Oracle; Tom Mathews, distinguished engineer of Power Systems at IBM, and Jeff Kyle, Director of Mission-Critical Solutions at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: The Open Group.]
The next BriefingsDirect business innovation thought leadership discussion focuses on how digital payments are catching on for many more companies in the business world following the popularity of services like Apple Pay in the consumer world.
We'll now explore how digital payment solutions are changing the game for small companies like 487 Consulting Services, which is seeing faster and simpler payments using AribaPay. And we will hear more about how B2B digital payment services like AribaPay are expanding around the globe.
To learn more about the future of business payments innovation, we're joined by Drew Hofler, Senior Director of Marketing at SAP Ariba; Ken Crouse, Principal Consultant and Owner at 487 Consulting Services in Folsom, California, and Bill Dulin, Vice President of Commercial Payments at Discover in Chicago. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: SAP Ariba.]
The next BriefingsDirect technology innovation thought leadership discussion focuses on how major new trends in technology are translating into disruption, and for the innovative business -- opportunity.
From invisible robots, to drones as data servers -- from virtual reality to driverless cars -- technology innovation is faster than ever, impacting us everywhere, broadening our knowledge, and newly augmenting processes and commerce. We'll now explore the ways that these technology innovations translate into business impacts, and how consumers and suppliers of services and goods can best prepare.
To learn more about the future of business innovation, weâre joined by two guests, Greg Williams, Deputy Editor of WIRED UK, and Alex Atzberger, President of SAP Ariba. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: SAP Ariba.]
The next BriefingsDirect DevOps innovator case study discussion explores how Hewlett Packard Enterpriseâs (HPE's) internal engineering and IT organizations are exploiting the values and benefits of DevOps methods and practices.
To help us better understand how DevOps significantly aids in the task of product and technology development, please welcome James Chen, Vice President of Product Development and Engineering at HPE. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect business transformation innovator case study discussion explores the impact and experience of using Internet of Things (IoT) technologies together with big data analysis to better control and manage a burgeoning transportation agency in New Zealand.
To hear more about how fast big data supports rapidly-evolving demand for different types of sensor outputs -- and massive information inputs -- we're joined by Roger Jones, CTO for Auckland Transport in Auckland, New Zealand. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect business innovation thought leadership discussion focuses on building a modern marketing organization. Marketing today is a different game. Todayâs buyers are more connected and informed than ever, and thatâs creating major upheaval in the way companies promote their brands.
Social media and business networks have taken the lead in shaping perceptions about brands, products, and companies -- and savvy businesses are embracing these new channels and technologies both to increase their brand awareness and to drive sales.
Weâre here with two experts to talk about these changes and how they are shaping the future of marketing. To learn more, please join me in welcoming Alicia Tillman, Chief Marketing Officer at SAP Ariba, and Pete Krainik, Founder and CEO of The CMO Club. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: SAP Ariba.]
The next BriefingsDirect innovation thought leadership discussion focuses on the rise of business networks and how that requires new models of busing and selling as well as new ways of discovering and relating to customers and partners.
Quite rapidly, we've entered a business world where unprecedented connectedness leads to instant analysis. These insights across entire industries provide powerful new ways for businesses to innovate and to adapt to markets, supply chains, and customer demands.
All things being equal, the companies that best leverage this data-driven innovation and these business network effects will surely win in their markets. Weâre joined by two experts to discuss the future of enterprise software and the role that business networks will play in creating new models for sustained success.
To learn more about doing business best in our digital and connected world, please join two digital business competitors, Alex Atzberger, President of SAP Ariba, and Christian Lanng, CEO and Co-Founder of Tradeshift. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: SAP Ariba.]
The next BriefingsDirect big-data use case discussion explores how technology providers have teamed as an ecosystem to deliver new dynamic and rapid analysis capabilities to the retail industry.
Weâll explore how the Extreme Apps for Retail initiative places new knowledge in the hands of on-site sellers -- to the customized benefit of shoppers at the very point of sales and in real time.
By leveraging power of SAP HANA big-data software infrastructure, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) hardware, and Capgemini targeted analysis and intelligence, these Extreme Apps are designed to make the physical retail experience king by leveraging the best of online assets â all brought to enhance the user experience at the mobile edge.
To learn more about how individual buyer information and group buying behavior inferences combine to customize the buying experience anywhere and anytime, please welcome Frank Wammes, Chief Technology Officer, for Capgemini Continental Europe. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect technology innovation thought leadership discussion focuses on advancements in business applications and the modern infrastructure that supports them, and what that combination portends for the future.
As we enter 2016, the power of business networks is combining with advanced platforms and mobile synergy to change the very nature of business and commerce. Weâll now explore the innovations that companies can expect -- and how that creates new abilities and instant insights -- and how companies can, in turn, create new business value and better ways to reach and serve their customers.
To learn more about the future of technology and business networks, weâre joined by Chris Haydon, Chief Strategy Officer at SAP Ariba. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: SAP Ariba.]
The next BriefingsDirect big-data use case discussion examines how the non-profit New York Genome Center manages and analyzes up to 12 terabytes of data generated each day from its genome sequence appliances. Weâll learn how a swift, cost efficient, and accessible big-data analytics platform supports the drive to better diagnose disease and develop more effective medical treatments.
To hear how genome analysis pioneers exploit vast data outputs to speedily correlate for time-sensitive research, please join our guest, Toby Bloom, Deputy Scientific Director for Informatics at the New York Genome Center in New York City. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect business innovation thought leadership discussion focuses on the heightened role and impact of procurement as a strategic business force.
We'll explore how intelligent procurement is rapidly transforming from an emphasis on cost savings to creating new business value and enabling supplier innovations.
As the so-called digital enterprise adapts to a world of increased collaboration, data access, and business networks, procurement leaders can have a much bigger impact, both inside and outside of their companies.
To learn more about the future of procurement as a focal point of integrated business services weâre joined by Kurt Albertson, Principal of Advisory Services at The Hackett Group in Atlanta, and Dr. Marcell Vollmer, Chief Operating Officer at SAP Ariba and former Chief Procurement Officer at SAP. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: SAP Ariba.]
The next BriefingsDirect big-data use case leadership discussion explores how retail luxury goods market analysis provider Sky I.T. Group has upped its game to provide more buyer behavior analysis faster -- and with more user depth.
Learn how Sky I.T. changed its data analysis platform infrastructure -- and why that has helped solve its challenges around data variety, velocity, and volume -- to make better insights available to the luxury retail marketplace.
To share how retail intelligence just got a whole lot smarter, we welcome Jay Hakami, President; Dane Adcock, Vice President of Business Development, and Stephen Czetty, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, all at Sky I.T. Group in New York. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect business innovation thought leadership discussion focuses on the changing role and impact of accounts payable (AP) as a strategic business force.
Weâll explore how intelligent AP is rapidly transforming by better managing exceptions, adopting fuller automation, and implementing end-to-end processes that leverage connected business networks.
As the so-called digital enterprise adapts to a world of increased collaboration, digital transactions, and e-payables management -- AP is needing to adapt in 2016.
To learn more about the future of AP as a focal point of automated business services we are joined by Andrew Bartolini, Chief Research Officer at Ardent Partners in Boston, and Drew Hofler, Senior Director of Marketing at SAP Ariba. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: SAP Ariba.]
The next BriefingsDirect analyst thought leadership discussion explores the pitfalls and payoffs of DevOps adoption -- with an emphasis on the developer perspective.
We're joined by two prominent IT industry analysts, the founders of RedMonk, to unpack the often tricky path to DevOps and to explore how enterprises can find ways to make pan-IT collaboration a rule, not an exception.
With that, please join me in welcoming James Governor, Founder and Principal Analyst at RedMonk, and he is based in London, and Stephen O'Grady, also Founder and Principal Analyst at RedMonk, and he is based in Portland, Maine. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect big-data case study discussion examines how INOVVO delivers impactful network analytical services for mobile operators to help them engender improved end-user loyalty.
We'll see how advanced analytics, drawing on multiple data sources, enables INOVVOâs mobile carrier customers to provide mobile users with faster, more reliable, and relevant services.
To learn more about how INOVVO uses big data to make major impacts on mobile services, please join me in welcoming Joseph Khalil, President and CEO of INOVVO in Reston, Virginia. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect DevOps innovation case study highlights how Cognizant Infrastructure Services has worked with a large telecommunications and Internet services company to make DevOps benefits a practical reality.
We'll learn important ways to successfully usher DevOps into any large, complex enterprise IT environment, and we'll hear best practices on making DevOps a multi-generational accelerant to broader business goals -- such as adapting to the Internet of Things (IoT) requirements, advancing mobile development, and allowing for successful cloud computing adoption.
To provide a practical guide to effectively ushering DevOps into any organization, we're joined by Sachin Ohal, Manager Consulting at Cognizant Infrastructure Services in Philadelphia, and Todd DeCapua, Chief Technology Evangelist at HPE Software. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect big-data solution discussion explores how triumvirate of big-data players have teamed to deliver a rapid and efficient analysis capability across disparate data types for the healthcare industry.
We'll learn how the drive for better patient outcomes amid economic efficiency imperatives has created a demand for a new type of big-data implementation model. This model with the support from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Microsoft, and Sogeti leverages a nimble big-data platform, converged solutions, hybrid cloud, and deep vertical industry expertise.
The result is innovative and game-changing insights across healthcare ecosystems of providers, patients, and payers. The ramp-up to these novel and accessible insights is rapid, and the cost-per-analysis value is very impressive.
Here to share the story on how the Data-Driven Decisions for Healthcare initiative arose and why it portends more similar vertical industry focused solutions, we're joined by Bob LeRoy, Vice President in the Global Microsoft Practice and Manager of the HPE Alliance at Sogeti USA. He's based in Cincinnati. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect big-data case-study interview examines how Nottingham Trent University in England has devised and implemented an information-driven way to encourage higher student retention.
By gathering diverse data and information and making rapid analysis, Nottingham Trent is able to quickly identify those students having difficulties. They can thereby provide significant reductions in dropout rates while learning more about what works best to usher students into successful academic careers.
Whatâs more, the analysis of student metrics is also setting up the ability to measure more aspects of university life and quality of teaching, and to make valuable evidence-based correlations that may well describe what the next decades of successful higher education will look like.
To learn more about taking a new course in the use of data science in education, we're pleased to welcome Mike Day, Director of Information Systems at Nottingham Trent University in Nottingham, UK. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
Businesses today want to deliver software improvements at weekly and even daily intervals, especially in SaaS environments, for mobile apps, and for cloud-based workloads. Yet those kinds of delivery speeds are inconceivable with any kind of manual software development processes.
As competitive organizations move away from quarterly software releases to faster releases, they are being forced to face the inevitable adoption of DevOps processes and efficiencies.
The next BriefingsDirect thought leadership discussion therefore explores the building interest in DevOps -- of making the development, test, and ongoing improvement in software creation a coordinated, lean, and proficient process for enterprises.
BriefingsDirect sat down with a prominent IT industry analyst, Kurt Bittner, Principal Analyst, Application Development and Delivery at Forrester Research, to explore why DevOps is such a hot topic, and to identify steps that successful organizations are taking to make advanced applications development a major force for business success. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect DevOps thought leadership discussion explores the concept of continuous processes around the development and deployment of applications and systems. Put the word continuous in front of many things and we help define DevOps: continuous delivery, continuous testing, continuous assessment, and there is more.
To help better understand the continuous nature of DevOps, we're joined by two guests, James Governor, Founder and Principal Analyst at RedMonk, and Ashish Kuthiala, Senior Director of Marketing and Strategy for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) DevOps. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect big-data innovation case study highlights how Intuit uses deep-data analytics to gain a 360-degree view of its TurboTax application's usersâ behavior and preferences. Such visibility allows for rapid applications improvements and enables the TurboTax user experience to be tailored to a highly detailed degree.
Here to share how analytics paves the way to better understanding of end-user needs and wants, we're joined by Joel Minton, Director of Data Science and Engineering for TurboTax at Intuit in San Diego. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect big-data case study discussion explores the ways that Spirent Communications advances the use of big data to provide improved user experiences for telecommunications operators.
We'll learn how advanced analytics that draws on multiple data sources provide Spirentâs telco customersâ rapid insights into their networks and operations. That insight, combined with analysis of user actions and behaviors, provides a "total picture" approach to telco services and uses that both improves the actual services proactively -- and also boosts the ability to better support help desks.
Spirentâs insights thereby help operators in highly competitive markets reduce the spend on support, reduce user churn, and better adhere to service-level agreements (SLAs), while providing significant productivity gains.
To hear how Spirent uses big data to make major positive impacts on telco operations, we're joined by Tom Russo, Director of Product Management and Marketing at Spirent Communications in Matawan, New Jersey. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect big-data innovation case study highlights how Yellow Pages (YP) has developed a massive enterprise data warehouse with near real-time reporting capabilities that pulls oceans of data and information from across new and legacy sources.
We explore how YP then continuously delivers precise metrics to over half a million paying advertisers -- many of them SMBs and increasingly through mobile interfaces -- to best analyze and optimize their marketing and ad campaigns.
To learn more, BriefingsDirect recently sat down with Bill Theisinger, Vice President of Engineering for Platform Data Services at YP in Glendale, California. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect DevOps thought leadership discussion explores how continuous processes around the development and deployment of applications are both impacted by -- and a benefit to -- the Internet of Things (IoT) trend.
To help better understand the relationship between DevOps and a plethora of new end-devices and data please welcome Gary Gruver, consultant, author and a former IT executive who has led many large-scale IT transformation projects, and John Jeremiah, Technology Evangelist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect big-data innovation case study interview explores how large-scale monitoring of rainforest biodiversity and climate has been enabled and accelerated by cutting-edge big-data capture, retrieval, and analysis.
We'll learn how quantitative analysis and modeling are generating new insights into whatâs happening in tropical ecosystems worldwide, and we'll hear how such insights are leading to better ways to attain and verify sustainable development and preservation methods and techniques.
To learn more about data science -- and how hosting that data science in the cloud -- helps the study of biodiversity, we're pleased to welcome Eric Fegraus, Senior Director of Technology of the TEAM Network at Conservation International and Jorge Ahumada, Executive Director of the TEAM Network, also at Conservation International in Arlington, Virginia. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
This next BriefingsDirect DevOps thought leadership discussion explores the impact of improved development on security and how those investing in DevOps models specifically can expect to improve their security, compliance, and risk-mitigation outcomes.
To help better understand the relationship between DevOps and security, we're joined by two panelists: Gene Kim, DevOps researcher and author focused on IT operations, information security and transformation (his most recent book, The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win, will soon be followed by The DevOps Cookbook), and Ashish Kuthiala, Senior Director of Marketing and Strategy for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HP) DevOps. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect DevOps innovation case study explores how telecommunications giant Sprint places an emphasis on orchestration and automation to bring IT culture and infrastructure into readiness for cloud, software-defined data center (SDDC) and DevOps.
Learn how Sprint has made IT infrastructure orchestration and automation a pillar of its strategic IT architecture future from Chris Saunderson, Program Manager and Lead Architect for Data Center Automation at Sprint in Kansas City, Missouri. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect big-data thought leadership discussion highlights how fast analytics as a service expands the market for advanced data infrastructure to gain business insights.
We'll learn how bringing analytics to a cloud services model allows smaller and less data-architecture-experienced firms to benefit from the latest in big-data capabilities. And we'll explore how Dasher Technologies is helping to usher in this rapid democratization of big data value.
To share how fast big data as a service has evolved, we're joined by Justin Harrigan, Data Architecture Strategist at Dasher Technologies, as well as Chris Saso, Senior Vice President of Technology at Dasher Technologies in Campbell, California. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect discussion explores the changing role and impact of content marketing, using the IT industry as a prime example. Just as companies now communicate with their consumers and prospects in much different ways -- with higher emphasis on social interactions, user feedback, big data analysis, and even more content to drive conversations -- so too the IT industry has abruptly changed.
There's more movement to cloud models, to mobile applications, to leveraging data at every chance -- and they are also facing lower-margin subscription business models. The margin for error is shrinking in the IT industry. If any industry is the poster child for how to deal with rapid change on all fronts, including marketing, it's surely the global information technology market.
To examine how the IT industry is adjusting to the dynamic nature of marketing, we're joined by Lora Kratchounova, the Founder and Principal at Scratch Marketing and Media in Cambridge, Mass. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
The next BriefingsDirect storage management innovation case study discussion highlights how communications cooperative HTC centralizes storage management to gain powerful visibility, reduce costs, and implement IT disaster avoidance capabilities.
Learn more about how HTC lowers total storage utilization cost while bringing in a common management view to improve problem resolution, automate resources allocation, and more fully gain compliance -- as well as set the stage for broader virtualization and business continuity benefits.
To explore how HTC attains total storage management, BriefingsDirect sat down with Philip Sellers, Senior System Administrator at HTC in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HP.]
This BriefingsDirect IT operations innovation panel discussion focuses on the changing role of IT service management (ITSM) in a hybrid computing world.
As IT systems, resources, assets, and information are more scattered across more enterprise locations and devices -- as well as across various cloud service environments -- how can IT leaders hope to know where their "stuff" is, whoâs using it, how to secure it, and then accurately pay for it?
Better than ever, it turns out. Advanced software asset management (SAM) methods can efficiently enforce compliance, reduce audit risk, cut costs, and enhance end-user productivity -- even as the complexity of IT itself increases.
We'll hear from four IT leaders about how they have improved ITSM despite such challenges, and we'll learn how the increased use of big data and analytics when applied to ITSM improves inventory control and management. We'll also hear how a service brokering role can also be used to great competitive advantage, thanks to ITSM-generated information.
To learn more about how ITSM solves multiple problems for IT, we're joined by Charl Joubert, a change and configuration management expert based in Pretoria, South Africa; Julien Kuijper, an expert in asset and license management based in Paris; Patrick Bailly, IT Quality and Process Director at Steria, also based in Paris, and Edward Jackson, Operational System Support Manager at Redcentric, based in Harrogate, UK. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HP.]
The next BriefingsDirect big data innovation case study interview highlights how Rolta AdvizeX in Independence, Ohio creates analytics-driven solutions in the healthcare and retail industries.
We'll also delve into how the right balance between open-source and commercial IT products helps in creating a big-data capability, and we'll further explore how converged infrastructure solutions are hastening the path to big-data business value and cloud deployment options.
To learn more about how big data can be harnessed for analysis benefits in healthcare and retail, please join me in welcoming our guests, Dennis Faucher, Enterprise Architect at Rolta AdvizeX, and Raajan Narayanan, Data Scientist at Rolta AdvizeX. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HP.]
The next BriefingsDirect big data innovation case study interview highlights how GoodData expands the realms and possibilities for delivering business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing as a service. We'll learn how they're exploring new technologies to make that more seamless across more data types for more types of users -- all in the cloud.
To learn the ups and downs of BIaaS, we welcome Jeff Morris, Vice President of Marketing at GoodData in San Francisco, and Chris Selland, Vice President for Business Development at HP Vertica. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HP Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect big data innovation thought leadership interview highlights how a consultant helps large ecommerce organizations better manage their big data architectures across cloud environments.
To learn more about how big data is best architected for the largest web applications, BriefingsDirect sat down with Jimmy Mohsin, Principal Software Architect at Norjimm LLC, a consultancy based in Princeton, New Jersey. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HP Enterprise.]
The next BriefingsDirect big data innovation case study interview investigates how Localytics uses data and associated analytics to help providers of mobile applications improve their applications -- and also allow them to better understand the uses for their apps and dynamic customer demands.
To learn more about how big data helps mobile application developers better their products and services, please join Andrew Rollins, Founder and Chief Software Architect at Localytics, based in Boston. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HP.]
The latest BriefingsDirect cloud innovation case study interview highlights how Full 360 uses big data and analytics to improve their applications support services for the financial industry -- and beyond.
To learn how Full 360 uses HP Vertica in the Amazon cloud to provide data warehouse and BI applications and services to its customers from Wall Street to the local airport, BriefingsDirect sat down with Eric Valenzuela, Director of Business Development at Full 360, based in New York. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HP.]
The next BriefingsDirect analytics innovation case study interview explores how Snagajob in Richmond, Virginia â one of the largest hourly employment networks for job seekers and employers â uses big data to finally understand their systems' performance in action. The result is vast improvement in how they provide rapid and richer services to their customers.
Snagajob recently delivered nearly 500,000 new jobs in a single month through their systems. To learn how they're managing such impressive scale, BriefingsDirect sat down with Robert Fehrmann, Data Architect at Snagajob in Richmond, Virginia. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions [.Sponsor: HP.]
The next BriefingsDirect business innovation thought leadership discussion focuses on the heightened role and impact of total user experience improvements for both online and mobile applications and services.
We'll uncover how user expectations and rethinking of business productivity are having a profound impact on how business applications are used, designed, and leveraged to help buyers, sellers, and employees do their jobs better.
Weâll hear about the advantages of new advances in bringing instant collaboration, actionable analytics, and contextual support capabilities into the application interface to create a total user experience.
To learn more about why applications must have more than a pretty face to improve the modern user experience, we're joined by Chris Haydon, Senior Vice President of Solutions Management for Procurement, Finance and Network at Ariba, an SAP company. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Ariba, an SAP company.]
The next BriefingsDirect analytics innovation case study interview explores how Zynga in San Francisco exploits big-data analytics to improve its business via a culture of pervasive, rapid analytics and experimentation.
To learn more about how big data impacts Zynga in the fast-changing and highly competitive mobile gaming industry, BriefingsDirect sat down with Joanne Ho, Senior Engineering Manager at Zynga, and Yuko Yamazaki, Head of Analytics at Zynga. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HP.]
The next BriefingsDirect analytics innovation case study interview highlights how GameStop, based in Grapevine, Texas, uses big data to improve how it conducts its business and better serve its customers.
By accessing data sources that were unattainable before and pulling that data out into reports in just a few minutes across nationally distributed retail outlets, GameStop more deeply examines how its campaigns and products are performing.
To learn more about how they deploy big data and use the resulting analytics, BriefingsDirect sat down with John Crossen, Data Warehouse Lead at GameStop. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HP.]
Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect panel discussion in conjunction with The Open Group's upcoming conference on July 20, 2015 in Baltimore.
Our panel of experts examines how cloud governance and enterprise architecture can prove essential in the Bimodal IT era, a period of increasingly fragmented IT.
Not only are IT organizations dealing with so-called shadow IT and myriad proof-of-concept affairs, there is now a strong rationale for fostering what Gartner calls Bimodal IT. There's a strong case to be made for exploiting the strengths of several different flavors of IT, except that -- at the same time -- businesses are asking IT in total to be faster, better, and cheaper.
The topic before us then is how to allow for the benefits of Bimodal IT -- or even multimodal IT -- but without IT fragmentation leading to fractured and even broken businesses.
Here to update us on the work of The Open Group Cloud Governance initiatives and working groups and to further explore the ways that companies can better manage and thrive with hybrid IT are our guests, Dr. Chris Harding, Director for Interoperability and Cloud Computing Forum Director at The Open Group; David Janson, Executive IT Architect and Business Solutions Professional with the IBM Industry Solutions Team for Central and Eastern Europe and a leading contributor to The Open Group Cloud Governance Project, and Nadhan, HP Distinguished Technologist and Cloud Adviser and Co-Chairman of The Open Group Cloud Governance Project. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: The Open Group.]
The next BriefingsDirect applications performance management case study panel discussion explores how improved business service management and data access improvements at a Swiss insurance company and a Turkish mobile phone carrier lead to new business and IT benefits.
By more deeply examining how applications are performing via total performance monitoring and metrics these enterprises slashed mean time to resolution and later significantly reduced the number of IT incidents.
To learn how to build high confidence that IT disruptions can be managed, and even headed off in advance, BriefingsDirect sat down with Thomas Baumann, IT Performance Architect at Swiss Mobiliar in Bern, and Merve Duran, Management System Specialist at Avea in Istanbul. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HP.]
Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect panel discussion in conjunction with The Open Group's upcoming conference on July 20, 2015 in Baltimore.
The panel of experts examines how The Open Group Trusted Technology Forum (OTTF) standards and accreditation activities are enhancing the security of global supply chains and improving the integrity of openly available IT products and components.
We'll also learn how the age-old practice of insurance is coming to bear on the problem of IT supply-chain risk. Supply chain disruption and security ills may be significantly reduced by leveraging business insurance models.
To update us on the work of the OTTF, and explain the workings and benefits of supply-chain insurance, we're joined by our panel of experts, Sally Long, Director of The Open Group Trusted Technology Forum; Andras Szakal, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for IBM U.S. Federal and Chairman of The Open Group Trusted Technology Forum; Bob Dix, Vice President of Global Government Affairs and Public Policy for Juniper Networks and member of The Open Group Trusted Technology Forum, and Dan Reddy, Supply Chain Assurance Specialist, college instructor and Lead of The Open Group Trusted Technology Forum Global Outreach and Standards Harmonization Work Group. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: The Open Group.]
The next BriefingsDirect business trends interview focuses on Caesars Entertainment Corp. and how they're transforming supplier discovery and improving their supplier diversity through collaboration across cloud-based services and open business networks.
Learn from Caesars' best practices on how they expand diversity across their supply chain and how thatâs been accomplished using Ariba Discovery. Weâll hear first-hand how one supplier, M&R Distribution Services, has benefited from such supplier visibility on the business network.
For the inside story on improved supply chain visibility and access, please join our guests, Jessica Rosman, Director of Supplier Diversity and Sustainability at Caesars Entertainment based in Las Vegas, and Quentin McCorvey, Sr., President and COO of M&R Distribution Services, based in Cleveland. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Ariba, an SAP company.]
The next BriefingsDirect performance management discussion uncovers how Redcentric PLC in the UK tackled a major network management project due to a business merger. We'll hear how Redcentric used an advanced configuration database approach to scale management of some 10,000 devices across two disparate companies and made them accessible as a single system.
To learn more about how two major networks became merged successfully using automation based on systems data, we're joined by Edward Jackson, Operational System Support Manager at Redcentric in Harrogate, UK. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HP.]
The next BriefingsDirect big data innovation discussion highlights how Tableau Software and big data analytics platforms come together to provide visualization benefits for those seeking more than just crunched numbers. They're looking for ways to improve their businesses effectively and productively, and to share the analysis quickly and broadly.
To learn more, BriefingsDirect sat down with Paul Lilford, Global Director of Technology Partners for Tableau Software, based in Seattle, and Steve Murfitt, Director of Technical Alliances at HP Vertica. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HP]
This latest BriefingsDirect big data innovation discussion examines how Conservation International (CI) in Arlington, Virginia uses new technology to pursue more data about what's going on in tropical forests and other ecosystems around the world.
As a non-profit, they have a goal of a sustainable planet, but we're going to learn how they've learned to measure what was once unmeasurable -- and then to share that data to promote change and improvement.
To learn how big data helps manage environmental impact, BriefingsDirect sat down with Eric Fegraus, Director of Information Systems at Conservation International.The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HP]
The next BriefingsDirect thought-leader interview focuses on what winning sales organizations do to separate themselves from the competition by creating market advantage through improved user experiences and better information services.
We'll hear from RAIN Group about a recent study on sales that uncovers what sales leaders do differently to foster loyalty and gain repeat business.
And we'll also hear from National Business Furniture on how they're leveraging online business networks to enable more collaborative and innovative processes that enhance their relationships, improve customer satisfaction, and boost sales.
So with that, please join our guests, Mike Schultz, President of RAIN Group, based in Framingham, Mass., and Brady Seiberlich, IT e-Procurement and Development Manager at National Business Furniture, based in Milwaukee. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Ariba, an SAP company.]
The next BriefingsDirect thought-leader interview focuses on the Ariba product roadmap for 2015 -- and beyond.
Aribaâs product and services roadmap is rapidly evolving, including improved business cloud services, refined user experience features, and the use of increasingly intelligent networks. BriefingsDirect had an opportunity to learn first-hand how at the recent 2015 Ariba LIVE Conference in Las Vegas.
To learn more about the recent news at Ariba LIVE -- and also what to expect from both Ariba and SAP in the coming months -- we sat down with Chris Haydon, Senior Vice President of Product Management at Ariba, an SAP company. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Ariba, an SAP company.]
The latest BriefingsDirect mobile development innovation discussion examines how Globe Testing, based in Madrid, helps startups make the leap to cloud-first and mobile-first software development.
We'll explore how Globe Testing pushes the envelope on Agile development and applications development management using HP tools and platforms.
To learn more about modern software testing as a service we're joined by Jose Aracil, CEO of Globe Testing, based in the company's Berlin office. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HP.]
Business networks and big data are joining to give companies new means to identify and eliminate slavery and other labor risks from across their complex global supply chains.
Data-savvy B2B participants in these networks can now newly uncover unsavory and illegal labor practices that may be hidden deep inside multi-level supplier ecosystems.
The next BriefingsDirect best business practices panel discussion focuses on how Made in a Free World, a nonprofit group in San Francisco, is partnering with Ariba, an SAP company, to shine more light across the supply chain networks to not only stem these labor practices, but also reduce the risks that companies may unwittingly incur from within their own pool of buying.
To explain practical and effective approaches to forced-labor risk determination and mitigation, we're joined by Tim Minahan, Senior Vice President of Ariba, and Justin Dillon, CEO and Founder at Made In A Free World in San Francisco. The panel is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Ariba, an SAP company.]
This BriefingsDirect big data innovation discussion examines how Avito, a Russian eCommerce site and portal, uses big data technology to improve fraud detection, as well as better understand how their users adapt to new advertising approaches.
To learn more about how big data offers new insights to the eCommerce portal user experience, BriefingsDirect sat down with Nikolay Golov, Chief Data Warehousing Architect at Avito in Moscow. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HP.]
This BriefingsDirect big data innovation discussion examines how GoodData has created a business intelligence (BI)-as-a-service capability across multiple industries that enables users to take advantage of both big-data performance as well as cloud delivery efficiencies. They had to choose the best data warehouse infrastructure to fit their scale and cloud requirements, and they ended up partnering with HP Vertica.
To learn more about their choice process for best big data in the cloud platform, we're joined by Tomas Jirotka, Product Manager of GoodData; Eamon O'Neill, the Director of Product Management at HP Vertica, and Karel Jakubec, Software Engineer at GoodData. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HP.]
The next BriefingsDirect enterprise mobile strategy discussion comes to you directly from the recent Kony World 2015 Conference in Orlando.
This series of penetrating discussions on the latest in enterprise mobility explores advancements in applications design and deployment technologies across the full spectrum of edge devices and operating environments.
Our next innovator interview focuses on how Source Refrigeration and HVAC has been extending the productivity of its workforce, much of it in the field, through the use of innovative mobile applications and services.
We'll delve in to how Source Refrigeration has created a boundaryless enterprise and reaped the rewards of Agile processes and the ability to extend data and intelligence to where itâs needed most.
To learn how their successful mobile journey has unfolded, we welcome Hal Kolp, Vice President of Information Technology at Source Refrigeration and HVAC in Anaheim, California. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Kony, Inc.]
The next BriefingsDirect IT systems performance innovation case study interview highlights how INFOTEC in Mexico City improves its service desk and monitoring operations and enjoys impressive results -- an incident reduction of more than 20 percent -- from those efforts.
INFOTEC needed to react better to systems failures, to significantly reduce the time to repair, and to learn from those failures to prevent future ones. Now, by deploying advanced IT service management (ITSM) tools, the ISP's users have a much higher quality of dependable service.
To learn more about how they obtained such improvements, we're joined by Victor Hugo Piña García, the Service Desk and Monitoring Manager at INFOTEC. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HP.]
This BriefingsDirect big data innovation discussion examines how Axeda, based in Foxboro, Mass., has created a machine-to-machine (M2M) capability for analysis -- in other words, an Axeda Machine Cloud for the Internet of Things (IoT).
To learn more about how Axeda produces streams of massive data to multiple consumer dashboards that analyze business issues in near-real-time, we're joined by Kevin Holbrook, Senior Director of Advance Development at Axeda. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HP.]
The next BriefingsDirect big data innovation case study interview highlights how InfoScout in San Francisco gleans new levels of accurate insights into retail buyer behavior by collecting data directly from consumersâ sales receipts.
In order to better analyze actual retail behaviors and patterns, InfoScout provides incentives for buyers to share their receipts, but InfoScout is then faced with the daunting task of managing and cleansing that essential data to provide actionable and understandable insights.
To learn more about how big -- and even messy -- data can be harnessed for near real time business analysis benefits, please join me in welcoming our guests, Tibor Mozes, Senior Vice President of Data Engineering, and Jared Schrieber, the Co-founder and CEO, both at InfoScout, based in San Francisco. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HP.]
The next edition of the HP Discover Podcast Series delves into how Telum in Northeast Mexico improves their ISP services delivery reliability through quality assurance and higher availability using advanced monitoring software.
To learn more about how they have matured their process, technology and IT culture, joined Max Garza O'Ward, Head of IT Operations at Telum, an ISP based in Monterrey, Mexico. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HP.]
This latest BriefingsDirect deep-dive big data thought leadership interview examines how Hortonworks is working with HP on improved management of very large -- and very active -- datasets.
We'll explore how HP and Hortonworks are integrating Hadoop into more of the HP Haven family to make it easier for developers and data scientists to access business intelligence (BI) and analytics as a service.
To learn how, BriefingsDirect sat down with Mitch Ferguson, Vice President of Business Development at Hortonworks. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
The next BriefingsDirect deep-dive big data benefits case study interview explores how Vichara Technologies in Hoboken, New Jersey is expanding its capabilities in big data from origins on Wall Street into other areas, and thereby demonstrating the growing marketplace for advanced big-data analytics services.
The use of HP Vertica as a big data core component to Vichara has allowed them to extend their easier to use financial modeling and tools, and then apply them to other industries such as insurance and healthcare.
To learn more about how advanced big data, cloud, and converged infrastructure implementations are expanding the impact and value of rapid and increasingly predictive analytics, BriefingsDirect sat down with Tim Meyer. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HP.]
This BriefingsDirect IT innovation discussion examines how Exelon Corporation, based in Chicago, employs technology and process improvements to not only optimize their IT operations but also to both help manage a merger and acquisition transition, and to bring outsourced IT operations back in-house.
To learn more about how this leading energy provider in the US with a family of companies having $23.5 billion in annual revenue, accomplishes these goals we're joined by Jason Thomas, Manager of Service, Asset and Release Management at Exelon. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HP.]
It's only been a few years since Waste Management's IT organization began rebuilding their quality assurance processes from the ground up.
"Our availability scorecard was pretty bad. Our services were down. At times, we didnât know that our services were down. Our first indication of a problem was from customers calling us," remembers Gautam Roy, Vice President of Infrastructure, Operations and Technical Services at Waste Management in Houston, Texas.
"Now, fast-forward a few years -- with making the appropriate choices and investments in technology, such as in people and processes -- and our scorecard is very good. We know of the problems rapidly. We proactively detect problems and fix the problems before they impact our customers," he says.
To learn how Waste Management came to deliver four 9s availability for its critical applications, BriefingsDirect sat down with Roy. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HP.]
As a provider of both application development management and infrastructure outsourcing, Denmark-based NNIT needed a better way to track, manage and govern the more than 10,000 services across its global data centers.
Beginning in 2010, the journey to better overall services automation paved the way to far stronger cloud services delivery, too. NNIT uses HP Cloud Service Automation (CSA) to improve their deployment of IT applications and data, and to provide higher overall service delivery speed and efficiency.
To learn more about how services standardization leads to improved cloud automation, BriefingsDirect spoke with Jesper Bagh, IT Architect and cloud expert at NNIT, based in Copenhagen. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HP.]
As smartphones have become de rigueur in the global digital economy, users want them to do more work, and businesses want them to be more productive for their employees -- as well as powerful added channels to consumers.
But neither businesses nor mobile-service providers have a cross-domain architecture that supports all the new requirements for a secure digital economy, one that allows safe commerce, data sharing and user privacy.
So how do we blaze a better path to a secure mobile future? How do we make todayâs ubiquitous mobile devices as low risk as they are indispensable?
BriefingsDirect recently posed these and other questions to a panel of experts on mobile security: Paul Madsen, Principal Technical Architect in the Office of the CTO at Ping Identity; Michael Barrett, President of the FIDO (Fast Identity Online) Alliance, and Mark Diodati, a Technical Director in the Office of the CTO at Ping Identity. The sponsored panel discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Ping Identity.]
We have surely entered a golden age of mobile apps development, not just for app stores wares, but across all kinds of enterprise and productivity applications. The notion of mobile-first has altered the development landscape so much that the very notion of software development writ large will never be the same.
With the shift comes a need for speed, but not so much so that security and performance requirements suffer. How to maintain the balance between rapid delivery and quality assurance falls to the testing teams. Into the fray comes cloud-based testing efficiencies.
Our next innovation case study interview therefore highlights how Perfecto Mobile is using a variety of cloud-based testing tools to help its developers rapidly create the best mobile apps for both enterprises and commercial deployment.
BriefingsDirect had an opportunity to learn first-hand how rapid cloud testing begets better mobile development when we interviewed Yoram Mizrachi, CTO and Founder of Perfecto Mobile, based in Woburn, Mass. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HP].
The next BriefingsDirect case study interview explores how American Electric Power improves their financial processes and operations using Ariba Dynamic Discounting.
It turns out that a real-time business-process approach to billing, ordering and settlement terms between buyers and sellers benefits both American Electric Power, one of the largest investor-owned electric utilities in the U.S., and its many vendors.
BriefingsDirect had an opportunity to uncover more about about such new, agile business services at the 2014 Ariba LIVE Conference in Las Vegas when we spoke to Rick Gray, Senior Treasury Specialist at American Electric Power in Columbus, Ohio, and Drew Hofler, Manage Cash Solution Marketing Director at Ariba, an SAP company. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Ariba, an SAP company].
Heartland Payment Systems has successfully leveraged software-assurance tools and best practices to drive better security within its IT organization -- and improve their overall business performance.
In this first of a two-part series -- Does Software Security Pay? -- hear directly from Ashwin Altekar, Director of Enterprise Risk Management at Heartland, as he shares his insights and knowledge with Amir Hartman, the Founder and Managing Director at MainStay, a marketing and IT advisory services firm in San Mateo, California.
Weâll learn how Heartland, based in Princeton, New Jersey, has improved governance results in innovative ways across the organization, thanks to both security best practices and HP Fortify tools.
Hartman, who recently completed a software-assurance return-on-investment (ROI) study, also shares details from that study on how HP Fortify has impacted Heartlandâs IT organization. [Sponsor: HP.]
This next BriefingsDirect case study explores how AribaPay early-adopter Arlington Computer Products (ACP) improves their financial processes and operations using the cloud-based B2B payment service.
Agile business services are entering into a new era, an integrated and on-demand approach to ordering, billing, and settlement processes between buyers and seller. A prime example is Ariba's partnership with Discover, the financial services organization, to create AribaPay.
At the 2014 Ariba LIVE Conference in Las Vegas, BriefingsDirect had an opportunity to learn first-hand how the new approach works and benefits a first major user, ACP. To understand how AribaPay fulfills the last critical step in an end-to-end P2P process, we sat down with Arly Guenther, Chief Executive Officer at Arlington Computer Products in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, and Drew Hofler, Manage Cash Solution Marketing Director at Ariba, an SAP company. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Ariba, an SAP company.]
Nordic IT solutions provider EVRY has taken automation and agility to new heights in its training and documentation of IT products and services, and found that even small steps can make a valuable return on user adoption patterns.
By using HP's Adoption Readiness Tool (ART) to help its employees work better with IT management solutions and processes, EVRY, based in Oslo, has gained new advantages in the adoption and understanding of both new and existing technology.
BriefingsDirect had an opportunity to learn first-hand how EVRY mastered production of documentation and readiness tools when we interviewed Sigve Sandvik, Solution Adviser at EVRY, at the HP Discover 2013 Conference in Barcelona. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HP.]
The next BriefingsDirect enterprise mobile strategy discussion comes to you directly from last month's the Kony World 2015 Conference in Orlando.
This five-part series of penetrating discussions on the latest in enterprise mobility explores advancements in applications design and deployment technologies across the full spectrum of edge devices and operating environments.
For our next innovation interview, we welcome Ed Gross, Kony Vice President of Product Management. Ed is focused on the Kony Visualizer product, including requirements prototyping, development oversight, release planning, and lifecycle management. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: Kony, Inc.]
Governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) form a top-tier of requirements for banks anywhere in the world as they create and deploy applications. A close second nowadays is speed to market, and responsiveness to changing customer expectations and demands.
So when Finansbank, an Istanbul-based bank, knew they had to better manage risk -- but not lose time-to-market advantages -- they did a thorough analysis of available IT products and services. The result was an impressive record of managed risk and deployments, with an eye to greater automation over time.
BriefingsDirect had an opportunity to learn first-hand how Finansbank extended its GRC prowess while smoothing operational integrity and automating speed to deployment using several HP solutions at the HP Discover 2013 Conference in Barcelona.
Learn how from Ugur Yayvak, Senior Designer of Infrastructure at Finansbank in Istanbul. The discussion is moderated by me, Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HP.]
As developers are pressured to produce mobile and distributed cloud apps ever faster and with more network unknowns, the older methods of software quality control can lack sufficient predictability.
And as Agile development means faster iterations and a constant stream of updates, newer means of automated testing of the apps in near-production realism prove increasingly valuable.
Fortunately, a tag-team of service and network virtualization for testing has emerged just as the mobile and cloud era requires unprecedented focus on DevOps benefits and rapid quality assurance.
BriefingsDirect had an opportunity to learn first-hand how Shunra Software and HP have joined forces to extend the capabilities of service virtualization for testing at the HP Discover 2013 Conference in Barcelona.
Learn here how Shunra Software uses service virtualization to help its developer users improve the distribution, creation, and lifecycle of software applications from Todd DeCapua, Vice President of Channel Operations and Services at Shunra Software, based in Philadelphia. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HP.]
Healthcare, like no other sector of the economy, exemplifies the challenges and the opportunity for improving how the various participants in a complex ecosystem interact.
The Open Group has made improved information flow across so-called boundaryless organizations the theme of its recent gatherings of IT leaders, enterprise architects, and standards developers and implementers.
And so this BriefingsDirect discussion explores what it takes to bring rigorous interactions, process efficiency, and governance to data and workflows that must extend across many healthcare participants with speed and dependability.
Learn now how improved cross-organization collaboration plays a huge part in helping to make healthcare more responsive, effective, safe, and cost-efficient. And also become acquainted with what The Open Groupâs new Healthcare Industry Forum is doing to improve the situation.
The panel of experts consists of Larry Schmidt, the Chief Technologist at HP for the Americaâs Health and Life Sciences Industries, as well as the Chairman of The Open Group Healthcare Industry Forum, and Eric Stephens, an Oracle Enterprise Architect. The moderator is Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: The Open Group.]
As enterprise IT departments scramble to meet demand for more mobile applications, many are charting entirely new terrain. Lessons from applications development and support from PCs and notebooks don't necessarily provide a guide for the mobile tier.
Indeed, mobile apps are very different in what end users expect from them. So how to learn new best practices and simultaneously meet the demand for rapid mobile apps development?
Siemens Brazil in São Paulo has learned several valuable lessons from its mobile app development experiments and subsequent full roll-out of high-demand work flow apps for business managers.
BriefingsDirect had an opportunity to learn first-hand how Siemens Brazil has succeeded at its initial mobile apps at the HP Discover 2013 Conference in Barcelona when we interviewed Alexandre Padeti, IT Consultant and Applications Integration Technician with Siemens Brazil. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HP.]
If, as the adage goes, you should fight fire with fire then perhaps its equally justified to fight big data optimization requirements with -- big data.
It turns out that high-performing, cost-effective big-data processing helps to make the best use of dynamic storage resources by taking in all the relevant storage activities data, analyzing it and then making the best real-time choices for dynamic hybrid storage optimization.
In other words, big data can be exploited to better manage complex data and storage. The concept, while tricky at first, is powerful and, I believe, a harbinger of what we're going to see more of, which is to bring high intelligence to bear on many more services, products and machines.
To explore how such big data analysis makes good on data storage efficiency, BriefingsDirect recently sat down with optimized hybrid storage provider Nimble Storage to hear their story on the use of HP Vertica as their data analysis platform of choice. Yes, it's the same Nimble that last month had a highly successful IPO. The expert is Larry Lancaster, Chief Data Scientist at Nimble Storage Inc. in San Jose, California. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Sponsor: HP.]
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The high cost of unwanted intrusion and malware across corporate networks is well known. Less talked-about are the successful ways that organizations are thwarting ongoing, adaptive and often-insider-driven security breaches.
Companies are understandably reluctant to readily discuss either their defenses or mishaps. Yet HP, one of the world's largest companies, is both a provider and a practitioner of enterprise intrusion prevention systems (IPS). And so we asked HP to explain how it is both building and using such technologies, along with seeking some insider tips on best practices.
And so the next edition of the HP Discover Podcast Series explores the ins and outs of improving enterprise intrusion prevention. We learn how HP and its global cyber security partners have made the HP Global Network more resilient and safe. We also gain more insight into HP's vision for security and learn how that has been effectively translated into actual implementation.
The inside story comes from Jim O'Shea, Network Security Architect for HP Cyber Security Strategy and Infrastructure Engagement. The discussion is moderated by me, Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
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Analytics platforms and new healthcare-specific solutions together are offering far greater insight and intelligence into how healthcare providers are managing patient care, cost, and outcomes.
Based on a number of offerings announced this week at the HP Discover Conference in Barcelona, an ecosystem of solutions are emerging to give hospitals and care providers new data-driven advantages as they seek to transform their organizations.
To learn how, BriefingsDirect sat down with Patrick Kelly, Senior Practice Manager at the Avnet Services Healthcare Practice, and Paul Muller, Chief Software Evangelist at HP, to examine the impact that big-data technologies and solutions are having on the highly dynamic healthcare industry. The discussion is moderated by me, Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
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The next BriefingsDirect innovator interview targets how the recent and rapid evolution of mobile and client management requirements have caused considerable complexity and confusion.
We'll examine how incomplete solutions and a lack of a clear pan-client strategy have hampered the move to broader mobile support at enterprises and mid-market companies alike. This state of muddled direction has put IT in a bind, while frustrating users who are eager to gain greater productivity and flexibility in their work habits, and device choice.
To share his insights on how to better prepare for a mobile-enablement future that quickly complements other IT imperatives such as cloud, big data, and even more efficient data centers, we're joined by Tom Kendra, Vice President and General Manager, Systems Management at Dell Software. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
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Creating big-data capabilities and becoming a data-driven organization are near the tops of surveys for the most pressing business imperatives as we approach 2014.
These improved business-intelligence (BI) trends are requiring better access and automation across data flows from a variety of sources, formats, and from many business applications.
The next BriefingsDirect panel discussion then focuses on ways that enterprises are effectively harvesting data in all its forms, and creating integration that fosters better use of data throughout the business process lifecycle.
Here now to share their insights into using data strategically by exploiting all of the data from all of the applications across business ecosystems, we're joined by Jon Petrucelli, Senior Director of the Hitachi Solution Dynamics, CRM and Marketing Practice, based in Austin, Texas; Rick Percuoco, Senior Vice President of Research and Development at Trillium Software in Bedford, Mass., and Betsy Bilhorn, Vice President of Product Management at Scribe Software in Manchester NH.
The discussion is moderated by me, Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
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The next edition of the HP Discover Podcast Series details how German telco EWE TEL has solved performance complexity across an extended enterprise billing process by using service virtualization.
In doing so, EWE has significantly improved applications performance and quality for their end users, while also gaining predictive insights in the composite application services behavior. The use-case will be featured next week at the HP Discover conference in Barcelona.
To learn more about how EWE is leveraging service virtualization technologies and techniques for composite applications, we recently sat down with Bernd Schindelasch, Leader for Quality Management and Testing at EWE TEL based in Oldenburg, Germany. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
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Business trends like bring your own device (BYOD) are forcing organizations to safely allow access to all kinds of applications and resources anytime, anywhere, and from any device.
According to research firm MarketsandMarkets, the demand for improved identity and access management (IAM) technology is estimated to grow from more than $5 billion this year to over $10 billion in 2018.
The explosive growth -- doubling of the market in five years -- will also fuel the move to more pervasive use of identity and access management as a service (IDaaS). The cloud variety of IAM will be driven on by the need for pervasive access and management over other cloud, mobile, and BYOD activities, as well as by the consumerization of IT and broader security concerns.
To explore the why and how of IDaaS, BriefingsDirect recently sat down with Paul Trulove, Vice President of Product Marketing at SailPoint Technologies in Austin, Texas, to explore the changing needs for -- and heightened value around -- improved IAM.
We also discover how new IDaaS offerings are helping companies far better protect and secure their information assets. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
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The relationship between enterprise IT and lines of business leadership has not always been rosy. Sometimes IT holds the upper hand, and sometimes the business does an end-run around IT to use new tools or processes. They might even call it innovation.
Today, with the push toward big data and business intelligence (BI), a new chasm is growing between enterprise IT groups and business units. But, in this case, it could be disastrous because IT should be a big part of the big data execution.
The next BriefingsDirect discussion therefore examines how an ebb and flow between IT centralization and decentralization that swings in the direction of business groups, and even shadow IT, now runs the risk of neglecting essential management security and scalability requirements.
Indeed, big data and analytics should actually force more collaboration and lifecycle-based relationships among and between business and IT groups. For those organizations -- where innovation is being divorced from IT discipline -- we'll explore ways that a comprehensive and virtuous adoption of rigorous and protected data insights can both make the business stronger and make IT more valued.
To get to the bottom of why, BriefingsDirect recently sat down with John Whittaker, Senior Director of Marketing for Dell Software's Information Management Solutions Group. The discussion is moderated by me, Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
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The next edition of the HP Discover Podcast Series delivers an innovation case study interview that highlights how data-intensive credit- and debit-card marketing services provider, Cardlytics, delivers millions of highly tailored marketing offers to banking consumers across the United States.
Cardlytics, in adopting a new analytics platform, gained huge data analysis capacity, vastly reduced query times, and swiftly met customer demands at massive scale. To learn how, we sat down with Craig Snodgrass, Senior Vice President for Analytics and Product at Cardlytics Inc., based in Atlanta.
The discussion, which took place at the recent HP Vertica Big Data Conference in Boston, is moderated by me, Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
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The next edition of the HP Discover Podcast Series delves into how a healthcare solutions provider leverages big-data capabilities. We'll see how Cerner has deployed the HP Vertica Analytics platform to help their customers better understand healthcare trends, as well as to help them better run their own systems.
To learn more about how high-performing and cost-effective big data processing forms a foundational element to improving healthcare quality and efficiency, join Dan Woicke, Director of Enterprise Systems Management at Cerner Corp. based in Kansas City, Missouri.
The discussion, which took place at the recent HP Vertica Big Data Conference in Boston, is moderated by me, Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
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The next VMworld innovator panel discussion focuses on how two companies are using aggressive cloud-computing strategies to deliver applications better to their end users.
We'll hear how healthcare patient-experience improvement provider Press Ganey and project and portfolio management provider Planview are both exploiting cloud efficiencies and agility. Their paths to the efficiency of cloud have been different, but the outcomes speak volumes for how cloud transforms businesses.
To understand how, we sat down with Greg Ericson, Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer at Press Ganey Associates in South Bend, Indiana, and Patrick Tickle, Executive Vice President of Products at Planview Inc. in Austin, Texas.
The discussion, which took place at the recent 2013 VMworld Conference in San Francisco, is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
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The next edition of the HP Discover Performance Podcast Series examines how video advertising solutions provider Visible Measures delivers impactful metrics on video use and patterns.
Visible Measures measures via a massive analytics capability an ocean of video at some of the highest scales I've ever heard of. By creating very deep census data of everything that's happened in the video space, Visible Measures uses unique statistical processes to figure out exactly what patterns emerge within video usage at high speed and massive scale and granularity.
To learn more about how Visible Measures measures, please welcome Chris Meisl, Chief Technology Officer at Visible Measures Corp., based in Boston.
The discussion, which took place at the recent HP Vertica Big Data Conference in Boston, is moderated by me, Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
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The next edition of the HP Discover Performance Podcast Series explores how network testing, monitoring, and analytics provider Empirix developed unique and powerful data processing capabilities.
Empirix uses an advanced analytics engine to continuously and proactively evaluate carrier network performance and customer experience metrics -- amid massive data flows -- to automatically identify issues as they emerge.
To learn more about how a combination of large-scale, real-time performance and pervasive data access made the HP Vertica analytics platform stand out to support such demands for Empirix, join Navdeep Alam, Director of Engineering, Analytics and Prediction at Empirix, based in Billerica, Mass.
The discussion, which took place at the recent HP Vertica Big Data Conference in Boston, is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
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The next edition of the HP Discover Performance Podcast Series focuses on the big-data problem in the realm of politics. We'll learn how the Democratic National Committee (DNC) leveraged big data analytics to better understand and predict voter behavior and alliances in the 2012 U.S. national elections.
To learn more about how the DNC pulled vast amounts of data together to predict and understand voter preferences and positions on the issues, join Chris Wegrzyn, Director of Data Architecture at the DNC, based in Washington, DC.
The discussion, which took place at the recent HP Vertica Big Data Conference in Boston, is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
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The next edition of the HP Discover Performance Podcast Series highlights how Virginia Healthcare provider Sentara Healthcare has improved its IT operations and services delivery at higher quality and higher speed.
As part of its modernization journey, Sentara improved its IT service management (ITSM) maturity, making IT an internal business-service provider, and thereby deployed better monitoring of app services.
To learn more about how Sentara Healthcare excelled at application and data delivery and has progressed toward an automated lifecycle approach for high-performance applications management, join Jason Siegrist, Manager of Enterprise Management Technologies at Sentara. The discussion, which took place at the recent HP Discover 2013 Conference in Las Vegas, is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
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The next edition of the HP Discover Performance Podcast Series provides deep insights into how big data is changing the game around customer analytics.
This case study panel discussion highlights how various organizations are developing the means to develop far better analytics about their customers. Learn how high-performing and cost-effective big data processing enable a steep learning curve from customers on their wants and preferences.
The expert panel consists of Rob Winters, Director of Reporting and Analytics at Spil Games, based in Amsterdam; Davide Conforti, Business Intelligence Director at Jobrapido, based in Milan, and Pete Fishman, Director of Analytics at Yammer in San Francisco.
The discussion, which took place at the recent HP Vertica Big Data Conference in Boston, is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
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The next edition of the HP Discover Performance Podcast Series highlights how healthcare technology provider TriZetto has been improving its development processes and modernizing its ability to speed the applications lifecycle process.
To learn more about how quality and Agile methods tools better support a lifecycle approach to software, we sat down with Rubina Ansari, Associate Vice President of Automation and Software Development Lifecycle Tools at TriZetto.
The discussion, which took place at the recent HP Discover 2013 Conference in Las Vegas, is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
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The next VMworld innovator interview focuses on how a fast-growing healthcare claims company is gaining better control and optimization across its IT infrastructure. Learn how IT leaders at Navicure have been deploying a comprehensive monitoring and operational management approach.
To understand how they're taming IT complexity as they set the stage to adopt the latest in cloud-computing and virtualization infrastructure developments, join Donald Wilkins, Director of Information Technology at Navicure Inc. in Duluth, Georgia.
The discussion, which took place at the recent 2013 VMworld Conference in San Francisco, is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
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The next edition of the HP Discover Performance Podcast Series details how a healthcare solutions provider leverages big-data capabilities.
Learn how MZI Healthcare has deployed the HP Vertica Analytics Platform to help their customers better understand population healthcare trends and identify how well healthcare processes are working.
To discover more about how high-performance and cost-effective big-data processing forms a foundational element to improving overall healthcare quality and efficiency, join Greg Gootee, Product Manager at MZI Healthcare, based in Orlando.
The discussion, which took place at the recent HP Vertica Big Data Conference in Boston, is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
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The next BriefingsDirect innovator interview examines the improved data use benefits at Thomson Reuters in London.
Part of a discussion series on how innovative companies are dodging data complexity through the use of Synthetic APIs, learn here how, from across many different industries and regions of the globe, inventive companies are able to get the best information delivered to those who can act on it with speed and at massive scale.
Here to explain how improved information integration and delivery can be made into business success, we're joined by Pedro Saraiva, product manager for Content Shared Platforms and Rapid Sourcing at Thomson Reuters. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
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The next BriefingsDirect thought leadership discussion defines a momentous shift in business strategy. Join an SAP Cloud executive as we explore the impact that big data, cloud computing, and mobility are having in tandem on how businesses must act -- and react -- across their markets.
Explore how the agility goal of real-time responses is no longer good enough. What's apparent across more business ecosystems is that businesses must do even better, to become so data-driven that they extend their knowledge and ability to react well into the future. In other words, we're now all entering the era of the predictive business.
To learn more about how heightened competition amid a data revolution requires businesses and IT leaders to adjust their thinking to anticipate the next, and the next, and the next moves on their respective chess boards, join Tim Minahan, the Chief Marketing Officer for SAP Cloud, and moderator Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
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Join HP's Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) here to learn about how some of the very largest global enterprises like HP are exploring all of their options for doing business safely and continuously.
Brett Wahlin, Vice President and Global CISO at HP, is the next thought leadership guest interview on the HP Discover Performance Podcast Series.
At HP for approximately eight months, Wahlin previously put the security in place after the infamous PlayStation breach while he was the chief security officer (CSO) at Sony Network Entertainment. Prior to that, he was the CSO at McAfee, after a stint as CSO at Los Alamos Laboratory. Years ago, Wahlin got his start doing counterintelligence for the US Army during the Cold War.
Wahlin is interviewed by Paul Muller, Chief Software Evangelist at HP Software, and Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
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While so-called BYOD isn't necessarily new -- IT departments, after all, have been supporting mobile "road warriors" since the 1980s, the rising tide of end users seeking the use and support of their own consumer devices is something quite different.
It's so different that IT departments are grasping for any standard or proven approaches that make bring your own device (BYOD) access of enterprise resources both secure and reliable. The task is dauntingly complex, and new and unforeseen consequences of BYOD are cropping up regularly -- from deluged help desk to app performance snafus to new forms of security breaches.
The next BriefingsDirect discussion then works to bring clarity to solving the BYOD support, management, and security dilemma. To do so, we gathered a panel to explore some of the new and more-effective approaches for making BYOD both safe and controlled.
The panel consists of Jonathan Sander, Director of IAM Product Strategy at Dell Software, and Jane Wasson, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Mobile Security at Dell Software. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
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The next edition of the HP Discover Performance Podcast Series highlights how employee benefits provider Unum Group has been building a DevOps continuum, and is further exploring the benefits of a better process around cloud-assisted applications development and deployment.
To learn more about how they've been using certain tools and approaches to improve their applications delivery, we sat down with Tim Durgan, an Enterprise Application Architect at Unum Group, and Petri Maanonen, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Application Performance Management at HP Software.
The discussion, which took place at the recent HP Discover 2013 Conference in Las Vegas, is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
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The next edition of the HP Discover Performance Podcast Series highlights how retailer Guess, Inc. has used HP Vertica to both speed up and better distribute its big-data analytics capabilities.
We'll see how Guess can increasingly predict how to satisfy its shopping customers, and we'll specifically look at how Guess's IT organization came to grips with adopting and implementing a big-data platform to bring more of a democratization of data and better access to its employees.
To learn more about how Guess has slashed the latency between data gathering and actionable insights, join Bruce Yen, Director of Business Intelligence at Guess, Inc. The discussion, which took place at the recent HP Discover 2013 Conference in Las Vegas, is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
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The next BriefingsDirect podcast, from the recent 2013 Ariba LIVE Conference in Washington, D.C., explores how the spot-buying process is benefiting buyers and sellers, and how they're using the Ariba Network and Discovery to conduct tactical buying.
Here to explain the latest and greatest around agile procurement for businesses of any size, we're joined by Ian Thomson, Koozoo's Head of Business Development, based in San Francisco. The interview is conducted Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
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The next BriefingsDirect IT innovator interview examines how the City of Melrose, Massachusetts, plans to reduce the cost of supporting its applications to perhaps zero -- and maybe even generate revenue -- by embracing hybrid cloud computing to become a specialized managed-services provider.
Melrose transitioned from nearly 100 percent server virtualization to a novel cloud capability built on VMware vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS). In doing so, they gained dependable disaster recovery (DR) capabilities. They also discovered that they could not only host their own applications, but also those of nearby communities for an ongoing fee. The process sets up a win-win scenario for all the municipalities involved.
To learn how the hybrid cloud leads to new business models and lower total costs, BriefingsDirect recently sat down with Jorge Pazos, the Chief Information Officer, and Colby Cousens, IT System Administrator, both for the City of Melrose. The interview was conducted by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
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This latest BriefingsDirect podcast, from the recent 2013 Ariba LIVE Conference in Washington, D.C., examines how the healthcare sectorhas unique and daunting operational efficiency and regulatory challenges.
We'll learn how MedAssets, a healthcare industry procurement, spend, operations, and supply-chain services company, which currently manages some $50 billion of supply spend for its customers annually, is changing the game. MedAssets, in partnership with Ariba, an SAP company, has found ways to improve health provider and supplier compliance, reduce costs, and develop better accuracy.
To hear how they do it, we sat down with Rick Grodin, Senior Vice President of Product Management at MedAssets, based in Alpharetta, Georgia. The interview is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
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The next edition of the HP Discover Performance Podcast Series explores how wireless services provider T-Mobile US, Inc. improved how it delivers cloud- and data-access services to its enterprise customers.
It's a story about walking back manual cloud provisioning services and moving to a centralized service portal to manage and deploy infrastructure better. In doing so they have improved their service offerings across multiple platforms, and enabled a lifecycle approach to delivering advanced cloud services.
To learn how T-Mobile did it, we recently sat down with Daniel Spurling, Director of IT Infrastructure at T-Mobile US, Inc. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
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This next edition of the HP Discover Performance Discussion Series welcomes Colin Mahony, General Manager at HP Vertica, on the first day of the inaugural HP Vertica Big Data Conference in Boston.
It's been well over two years since HP acquired Vertica, and the analytics platform has become a pillar of HP's recently announced HAVEn Initiative. Now Vertica is poised to advance beyond its MPP column store database origins into a next generation anywhere analytics platform, with ease in cloud deployments and new features coming later this year for improved speed, lower-cost and greater ease in data input and access.
Learn how, as general manager, Mahony is guiding the future of the HP Vertica Analytics Platform, and how users are finding new ways to leverage its unique speed and attributes. The interview is conducted by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
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This latest BriefingsDirect discussion from The Open Group Conference earlier this month in Philadelphia explores the essential role of standards in an increasingly complex and unpredictable world.
From risks around cybersecurity to supply chain concerns to fast-changing trends around cloud computing, the pace of change and pressures on businesses to adjust well have never been higher. To gain a fuller grip on such risk and complexity, The Open Group is shepherding a series of standards and initiatives to provide better tools for understanding and managing true operational dependability.
BriefingsDirect sat down with the President and CEO of The Open Group, Allen Brown, at the July conference to gather an update on the efforts. The interview was conducted by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
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This latest BriefingsDirect discussion, leading into The Open Group Conference on July 15 in Philadelphia, brings together a panel of experts to explore how new IT trends are empowering improvements, specifically in the area of healthcare. We'll learn how healthcare industry organizations are seeking large-scale transformation and what are some of the paths they're taking to realize that.
We'll see how improved cross-organizational collaboration and such trends as big data and cloud computing are helping to make healthcare more responsive and efficient.
The panel: Jason Uppal, Chief Architect and Acting CEO at clinicalMessage; Larry Schmidt, Chief Technologist at HP for the Health and Life Sciences Industries, and Jim Hietala, Vice President of Security at The Open Group. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
This special BriefingsDirect thought leadership interview comes in conjunction with The Open Group Conference, which is focused on enterprise transformation in the finance, government, and healthcare sectors. Registration to the conference remains open. Follow the conference on Twitter at #ogPHL.
Find the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: The Open Group.