And There You Have IT!: Recent Episodes
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Is your organization agile and secure enough to survive? Join us as we chat with industry leaders about information technology trends and their impact on people, business, and our world. From IT security to cloud technology, learn how your business can not only survive, but thrive.
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As more companies find themselves with an immense amount of data, many are wondering how they can use that data to save money or even create revenue. Data monetization is the process of using data to gain economic profit. Organizations that collect large amounts of data can significantly benefit from creating a data monetization strategy as part of their overall data and analytics practice. There are various ways to monetize your organization's data, from using data to optimize business performance to selling data to third parties.
Listen to this episode to learn about:
• Common preconceptions and obstacles to data monetization
• 3 main approaches to data monetization
• How to build capabilities to enable data monetization
Listen to our podcast to learn how observability provides organizations with continuous and complete telemetry, enabling faster, automated problem identification and resolution.
Learn how automation can help your development and operations teams deliver features and functionality quicker and more reliably.
A well-run organization can be complex and operate beautifully like a fine timepiece. However, many organizations that don’t analyze and evaluate complexity end up running inefficiently like a Rube Goldberg machine.
Join us to learn about managing organizational complexity as a business objective, how to begin analyzing complexity, and methods for simplifying it so that your organization can operate more efficiently, innovate without unnavigable roadblocks, and release high-quality products and experiences faster than before.
In this podcast, “7 Essential Components of a Data Governance Program,” Wendi O’Neill, Director, Data and Analytics, and Lee Pierce, Healthcare Chief Data Officer, cover some of the essentials of a successful data governance program.
Listen to this episode to learn about:
- The definition of data governance
- Reasons why organizations struggle with data governance
- 7 essential components of a data governance program
- Guiding principles for a data governance program
- How data privacy intertwines with data governance, and more!
The modern workforce has become more dispersed and remote than ever before, and IT teams are looking to implement strategies and technologies that address key challenges such as fragmented or insufficient security, operational complexity, and disappointing employee experience. Though many organizations are recognizing the benefits of supporting a distributed workforce model, they are also realizing that effective support must be long-term and address technology-related challenges that were less problematic when remote work was still a short-term strategy.
In this podcast, Cloud and the Foundation for a Successful Digital Workforce, industry experts Andrew Young and Ryan Humble, discuss some of the obstacles to distributed workforce success, and ways to overcome those challenges.
In the drive to transform and modernize, cloud continues to be the critical foundation for success. But, for some organizations, obstacles have stalled the progression of key business imperatives.
In this podcast, we speak with industry experts to understand how a managed cloud service provider can help organizations secure the strategic benefits of AWS while allowing their team to focus on delivering business value.
Put your software delivery pipeline in "turbo mode" by enhancing your DevOps methodology with Agile principles, containerization, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and other modern practices. Join us to learn more.
Put your software delivery pipeline in "turbo mode" by enhancing your DevOps methodology with Agile principles, containerization, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and other modern practices. Join us to learn more.
In this podcast, industry experts discuss a unique hybrid cloud solution that is focused on delivering increased power and control to organizations looking for a better way to manage their workloads and applications.
The cloud has become synonymous with benefits such as operational efficiency, agility, and cost savings. While those benefits are very real, so are the challenges. Given the growing complexity of environments and mission-critical workloads, implementing a tactical multi-cloud solution built on a solid foundation that supports top strategic IT initiatives is key to maximizing the business value of the cloud.
In this episode, we speak with industry experts Andrew Young and Brandon Seymour to understand some of the key components to a strategic cloud deployment.
Supply chain attacks came into focus recently with the discovery of the SolarWinds breach late last year. The shockwaves from this breach continue and it’s clear that no industry or entity is outside of the impact zone.
Supply chain attacks are an increasingly popular attack method for hackers. Companies are adopting better security practices and technology solutions are improving their built-in security features. That leaves attackers looking for easier vulnerabilities to leverage, which can include IoT devices.
Listen to this episode to learn:
- How IoT, OT and IoMT devices may be impacted by supply chain attacks
- Three ways to reduce the impact of an attack on these devices
- How to safely bridge the gap when transferring data from your devices through your network
- The role of least privilege and how it’s defined for IoT
The new, “smart” normal brings with it new safety measures, automated processes and a continued focus on efficiency as organizations strive to do less with more—but enhanced workplace safety may require enhanced security as well. Integrating sensors with your network in addition to devices like access control systems can come with numerous security challenges. How can you be sure that your new, “smart” devices or areas are secure?
As organizations begin re-opening, customer and employee safety is more important than ever. IoT technology like thermal imaging, contact tracing, access control and social distance monitoring can help protect anyone sharing a physical space.
By using sensors to monitor critical information about anyone entering a building, like body temperature or physical distance, these solutions can help mitigate risk in a non-invasive way. Many of these systems send automated alerts to a targeted set of users, eliminating the need for manual screenings and reducing the number of dangerous bottlenecks at building entrances and exits.
Listen to this episode to learn:
- The role that IoT technology is playing in helping businesses re-open safely
- How thermal imaging technologies are helping organizations everywhere mitigate the risk of illness in the workplace
- Best practices for selecting a thermal imaging solution and implementing a screening protocol
- Which new IoT technologies are on the horizon as part of a “back-to-work" blueprint
Transform your organization’s IT environment with a virtualization platform that has capabilities that improve virtually all functionalities previously performed on traditional hardware-based networks.
“Digital transformation” is a popular business buzz word, but what exactly does it mean?
When people talk about digital transformation, a lot of times they actually mean “digital modernization.” While these terms sound synonymous and are often used interchangeably, it is important to recognize key differences.
Digital transformation is much more than simply going digital. It is the process of taking advantage of innovative technology to reimagine an organization’s processes, culture, people, and customer experiences. It can result in new business models, revenue streams, policies, and values. We’re speaking with industry expert Russ Nelson, who is our Adobe platform leader, to understand digital transformation and why it’s important, especially for industries facing disruption.
Listen to this episode to learn:
- The difference between digital transformation and digital modernization
- What is driving digital transformation
- How to get kick-start your organization’s digital transformation
- Tips for a successful digital transformation
Understanding what applications you have and what roles those applications play within your business is the first step to improving your application environment. Application rationalization will help improve efficiency, reduce complexity, and start you on the path to application clarity.
Tune in to the latest “ and there you have IT” podcast to learn:
- Current state of the application environment
- Benefits of an application rationalization
- Tips for a successful cloud migration
The busiest shopping days of the year happen during the holidays. Can your website survive Black Friday? Join us as we discuss tips for preparing your e-commerce website for the holidays, the top 3 things retailers should focus on, and small improvements that most organizations would find easy to accomplish.
Listen to part four in our podcast series Ten Things Traditional Enterprises Can Learn from Cloud-Native Companies to hear Alan Grantham speak about the importance of cloud governance, and why the governance engines you use must enable business and enhance cloud guidelines. Mr. Grantham also touches on where he thinks cloud is headed, and what the state of cloud will look like in the next ten to fifteen years.
The term cloud can be a nebulous one. Cloud is a broad concept that can involve public, private, hybrid, colocation,multiple platforms, and multiple models. Any conversation around cloud should really be a conversation that incorporates the business, security, data, labor and resource components of your impending journey.
When it comes to cloud strategy, the list of considerations is long. Successbegin with a shift in mindset, a shift in culture, and a team of empowered humans ready to unlock the full business value of cloud.
In this episode, hear Alan Grantham talk more about these critical considerations:
- Why cloud-first can be a challenge
- How “faking it until they are making it” leads to a bigger realization
- The importance of failure, and why it should be rewarded
An increasing number of traditional organizations are turning to cloud in an effort to increase scalability, flexibility and productivity. While the benefits are clear, many IT security teams are struggling with the possible security implications associated with a shift to cloud. Building in security controls during development, along with continuous and programmatic evaluation of those controls is necessary to avoid placing the entire environment at risk.
Listen to this episode to learn:
- Misconceptions around cloud security.
- The crucial need for ingrained security resources
- How to stay secure and agile in an ever-evolving threat landscape.
In the drive to transform and modernize IT, a successful and agile journey to the cloud starts with a clear understanding of an organizations culture. A move to cloud must be viewed as transformational, and companies must be poised to foster long-term changes in their people, processes and culture.
Listen to this episode to learn:
- The questions organizations should ask about their culture.
- How the answers can lead you to a successful cloud journey.
- How to strive for the same business value of a cloud native organization.
IoT Technology is extremely complex, but its true value lies in its unlimited possibilities to improve business outcomes. Are you leveraging any Internet of Things (IoT) solutions to enhance your customer experience, improve efficiency, or reduce overhead? Do you have access to all of the data you need to be a strategic player in your industry?
We’re speaking with industry expert Scott Davis to learn how to best navigate the big data and IoT space.
Listen to this episode to learn:
- How to connect the dots between your data and your infrastructure
- What a good IoT strategy looks like
- Best practices for blending and integrating data
- How to uncover potential problems after launching
The age of the digital workforce has arrived, and with it comes a new set of expectations from employees in the workplace. Next-gen professionals want real-time data at their fingertips. Embracing a digital workspace results in a more productive and empowered workforce by delivering an enhanced employee experience through smarter connections, collaboration and communication.
Listen to this episode to learn:
- Key challenges that bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies are creating for IT leaders
- Top ways businesses can optimize end user experience
- Benefits of a Windows 10 migration strategy
In today’s digital age it has become expected for businesses to provide a great employee experience, especially around the ability to work remotely. But how does a business start developing a remote workforce strategy and how can they address their concerns about providing a digital workspace?
Listen to this episode to learn:
- Why it’s important to have a remote workforce option
- The benefits to the employees and to your business
- What to consider when preparing a remote workforce strategy
- The best digital solutions to utilize
One common IT issue every business can relate to: effectively managing their business-critical data. If you can get past dealing with unpredictable growth, over-provisioning and under-provisioning, you’ll also have to survive painful forklift upgrades every three to five years. Sweet.
It can be tough to forecast your organization’s needs. The purchasing and procurement process can be time consuming and inefficient, often accounting for the peak, or worst-case scenario, rather than the expected day-to-day usage. With limited human and financial resources, IT leaders are looking to storage services and subscription options to accommodate growth gaps.
Listen to this episode to learn:
- Escape dated storage practices
- Learn how to leverage public cloud and scale workloads across your environment
- Understand the modern storage-as-a-service model
- Find out why IT leaders are making the shift toward IT services
With advances in technology, healthcare providers now have access to sophisticated imaging systems that have improved medical diagnostics. Newer digital modalities produce higher resolution and better-quality images that enable more accurate clinical decisions. But this benefit comes at a cost. From MRIs to multi-slice CTs, tomosynthesis, cardiac imaging, and more, imaging data is growing at a staggering rate.
As we transition from the digital age to the data age, an increasing number of healthcare organizations are challenged by overwhelming data growth. The introduction of nontraditional imaging and the requirements of managing larger imaging studies are affecting the ability to share data between remote facilities, meet retention guidelines, and recover from outages without sacrificing accessibility or availability, both of which are crucial for efficient operation and effective patient care.
Listen to this episode to learn:
- Learn the three keys to effective EHR optimization
- How to effectively bring in data sources and simplify data management
- Understand the benefits and challenges of adopting cloud technology in a healthcare IT environment
- Find out how healthcare organizations are strategically utilizing public could technology
Transforming enterprise networks and investing in improved technology can create a more secure organization, and one better aligned to tackle the demands of today’s always-on IT landscape. Become better prepared for seamless integration into future-state IT by listening to these 5 tips on overcoming some of the challenges associated with future-proofing enterprise networks:
- MAXIMIZE NETWORK SECURITY
- COPE WITH NETWORK EVOLUTION
- RE-ARCHITECT WIDE AREA NETWORKS
- CAPTURE NETWORK ANALYTICS AND PERFORMANCE
- ENABLE AUTOMATION
Taking the next steps to digitize enterprise networks allows organizations to stay up to speed with the ever-changing demands of the digital era. A more comprehensive security strategy will not only make an organization more secure, but will also prepare their network to seamlessly integrate into future IT.
Business transformation is not a roadmap that your business will follow, step by step, milestone after milestone, until you reach a destination or end-goal called “digital transformation.” A final destination does not exist—transformation is more like an on-going charter—you set out with well-reasoned and well-supported intentions (a strong business case and buy-in from the C-suite) for your business to venture into the future. The unexpected will occur, but your business will learn from it.
Listen to this episode to learn about 6 guidelines for crafting a charter for your business transformation:
- Define what transformation means to your enterprise and your customer.
- Align IT and business.
- Laser-focus on one thing you do really well.
- Lead with a Tiger Team—and make it a brilliant one.
- Innovation is the key driver of transformation and, to innovate, you must allow for iteration and failure.
- Build in security and privacy.
Web applications are under siege as hackers work around the clock to identify weak spots and steal data. Last year’s Equifax data breach put a spotlight on web-application vulnerabilities, which can be used to target any organization with an internet presence.
Cyber attackers have embraced the use of automation to scan applications for vulnerabilities. Protecting against application-layer techniques such as SQL injection (SQLi), cross-site scripting (XSS), cross-site request forgery (CSRF) and distributed denial of service (DDoS) is imperative, but automated attacks can overwhelm existing security solutions.
Listen to this episode to learn:
- How to maintain awareness of evolving web application issues and trends
- Tips for advancing patch management and vulnerability assessment processes
- Solutions that leverage DDoS defenses, bot mitigation, artificial intelligence (AI) and API endpoint protection to combat automated attacks
- Techniques for protecting apps in multi-cloud infrastructures
- Best practices for ensuring security checks and controls are applied automatically and transparently throughout the software development lifecycle.
Last year, the impacts of the WannaCry, NotPetya, and Equifax cyber attacks were closely followed by the stunning disclosure of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, increasing the sense of urgency around cybersecurity and driving spending higher than ever before.
Despite increased spending on security products and services, the number of data breaches continues to rise. Funding doesn’t guarantee successful security. Organizations often waste valuable resources on practices that fail to protect against evolving threats, and continue to prop up password security.
Listen to this episode to learn:
- Why the latest version of the CIS Controls has removed all references to passwords
- How multi-factor authentication (MFA) can make access hard for hackers, but easy for users
- The advantage of risk-based authentication mechanisms
- How to identify the authentication solution that is best for your organization
- Best practices for avoiding MFA implementation pitfalls
Data deluge can be discouraging, but a good data strategy is all about gaining value from all of your data — no matter the format.
Traditionally, data was held in structured databases, but in today’s digital age, organizations are accessing unstructured data from numerous sources and often in large amounts. Sources such as web clickstreams, text messages, social media inputs, text documents, videos and medical imaging. Management of this unstructured big data can be an undertaking, but once reviewed and analyzed properly, it will provide actionable business insights.
The more data accessed and analyzed, the more knowledge about the business will be revealed, providing a clearer picture of how to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. However, making sense of all the unstructured data requires a great deal of planning before attempting to monetize it. When an organization takes the time to understand this data, it will gain insights that can help make better business decisions and transform the way it operates, boosting both its data intelligence and the bottom line.
Listen to this episode to learn:
- The questions organizations should ask to address unstructured data challenges
- How the answers can lead you to a data management strategy
- How to prepare your company for digital transformation
- How to develop insights and bring value to your business
It’s the best of times, it’s the worst of times; it’s the age of new converged technologies, it’s the age of tightening IT budgets.
Figuring out how to minimize the data center footprint, protecting data, driving down costs without sacrificing performance or resiliency; the largest initiative IT administrators are undertaking today is setting up infrastructure to help support business outcomes. This drive comes from the outstanding business need to turn ideas into value faster than the competition.
In this podcast, we discuss how IT organizations can keep core legacy systems up and running while integrating new technologies to support business goals.
Listen to this episode to learn:
- The advantages of hyper-connected enterprise
- The difference between hyperconverged systems and composable infrastructure
- How bringing together compute, storage and networking into a single platform can boost business
- How to choose the right mix of converged technologies for you
While many organizations are making a calculated leap to hybrid IT, some are stumbling upon the hybrid design by chance. In a recent survey conducted by Forrester, two-thirds of the organizations ended up with hybrid IT by accident. Additionally, only 33 percent of the businesses had designed a comprehensive hybrid IT strategy from the ground up. The other interviewees reported having to triage an organic model, or that their current plans are spinning out of control.
Trying to transform your company’s infrastructure without the correct strategy and technical expertise can severely disrupt your business. It can lead to an unmanageable and risky mix of workload-specific hardware platforms and shadow IT that could tie your organization in knots.
Listen to this episode to learn:
- Best practices for hybrid IT implementation
- Advantages and disadvantages of hybrid IT
- Tips for leveraging the latest hybrid IT tools
- How to find the right mix of traditional, on-prem environments, along with private and public clouds
In today’s threat landscape, protecting data is critical to security and regulatory compliance. Organizations in all industries have become lucrative targets for hackers, and data breaches are making headlines on a daily basis.
Companies need to find solutions that can help them protect sensitive data, while at the same time empowering employees to work across devices, connect to multiple networks, and work within cloud applications.
Listen to this episode to learn:
- How DLP technology has evolved
- The critical role it can play in helping organizations maintain compliance with strict data protection and privacy requirements such as those within the GDPR
- The path to successfully extending DLP policy enforcement to the cloud, and addressing shadow IT issues
- Complementary solutions that integrate with DLP to provide comprehensive data-centric security
The key to defining data protection for your business is understanding the type of data you collect and knowing how you store and manage it. By classifying your data, you can gain a thorough understanding of your business needs and data protection goals, which will make it easier for you to build a data protection strategy that’s up to the task.
In this episode of And There You Have IT!, industry experts from Sirius and Dell EMC give us a crash course on data protection and where to start when building a strategy.
Listen to this episode learn:
- The basics of data protection
- The importantce of data classification
- How data should be classified
- Key steps and tools to get started with
In this episode of And There You Have IT, industry experts discuss what to consider when developing a multi-cloud data management strategy. They’ll cover all the reasons why it’s a good idea to have a strategy in place, the most common challenges businesses face when developing one and the best things to keep in mind.
Listen to this episode learn:
- The benefits of implementing a multi-cloud strategy
- How a multi-cloud strategy can protect your most important data
- What to focus on when building a strategy
- Common challenges to avoid
Organizations are suffering from cyber fatigue with too many alerts, too many technologies, and not enough people. This makes it difficult to streamline operations, and decrease the time it takes to detect and remediate security incidents.
Companies that rely heavily on security information and event management (SIEM) to support threat detection efforts are increasingly complementing deployments with solutions that advance their analytics capabilities, effectively taking SIEM to the next level.
Listen to this episode to learn:
- How to ensure you have the right building blocks in place for advanced analytics
- How to identify use cases and build out strategies to support them
- The positive impact user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) can have on visibility
- How threat intelligence can arm you with the insights you need to understand how you are being targeted
- HowSOCs and IR teams are leveragingendpoint detection and response (EDR) tools and network security analytics for additional capabilities
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Sponsored by Veritas
In the drive to transform and modernize IT, backup remains critical. But IT modernization demands a new way of thinking about data, and that means a new way of thinking about backup.
In the past, all data was backed up equally. Today, the path to modernization requires going beyond backup to intelligent data management that enables innovation while driving efficiencies. We’re speaking with industry expert Adam Shomaker to learn how organizations can gain a new understanding of the backup and storage modernization.
Listen to this episode to learn:
- The three questions organizations should ask to prepare for storage modernization.
- How the answers can lead you to a data management strategy.
- How to strive for efficiency, but not at the cost of security.
- How the platform approach to data management can be customized to your unique business environment.
Beyond Backup to Intelligent Data Management – Successful backup and storage modernization relies on a data management platform approach that gives organizations features to better, more easily use data – not just back it up.
5 Steps to Keeping Your Storage Sanity– In a time of understaffed IT departments with limited budgets, the rapid progress in storage and data technologies can be daunting. Here are five steps to help you develop a successful storage strategy.
Forsythe Technology, a Sirius Company - For more than 40 years, Forsythe has helped companies succeed by working to optimize, modernize, and innovate enterprise IT. We develop solutions that make practical business sense from idea to implementation. We help champion innovation and deliver bottom-line results. We serve as the bridge, moving you from traditional to new IT. Whatever your business needs, we make it happen.
Sponsor: Palo Alto
Traditional data security strategies tend to operate under a “trust but verify” approach — trusting internal users with unrestricted network access and considering the external network as the only network in need of security controls.
Rooted in the principle of “never trust, always verify,” Zero Trust architecture is an alternative and individualized approach to network security that uses an organization’s functionality and business objectives to determine exactly what data needs to be safeguarded and how best to do it.
Because it diverges from traditional strategies, there are common misconceptions about the implementation and function of this approach. We spoke with the creator of Zero Trust, John Kindervag, to debunk myths and learn how the model can be strategically implemented.
Listen to this episode to learn:
- Why Zero Trust architecture is changing security strategies
- The 4 major myths about Zero Trust architecture
- How real companies are finding success with this model
- How to implement the Zero Trust approach
4 Major Myths of Zero Trust Architecture – Zero Trust architecture can help organizations maximize data security. Let’s debunk the myths so you can build a stronger security solution that aligns with the needs of your enterprise.
Get Your Guide to Transforming Enterprise Cybersecurity Today – In this eBook, get actionable security advice from industry experts on the cybersecurity landscape, and what your organization should be doing to combat threats.
Sirius - Sirius is a national integrator of technology-based business solutions that span the enterprise, including the data center and lines of business. Built on products and services from the world's top technology companies, Sirius solutions are installed, configured and supported by our dedicated teams of highly certified experts.
Businesses depend heavily on a solid application infrastructure. Increasingly, IT is the foundation for the business and in charge of enabling organizations to innovate. Speed, agility, impenetrable security, and availability of applications are essential, but also tricky to deliver flawlessly.
We spoke with industry expert, Andrew Young, about how a virtualized approach can enable IT to move as fast as the business demands without compromising the security or availability of critical applications.
Listen to this episode to learn:
- How virtualization is helping companies drive business and transform their industries
- The key benefits of virtualization
- How virtualization can help keep your business secure
- Some of the best use cases for a virtualized approach and where we’re seeing success stories
Get Your Guide to Transforming Enterprise Cybersecurity Today - In this eBook, get actionable security advice from industry experts on the cybersecurity landscape, and what your organization should be doing to combat threats.
Transform Your Business with Cloud – This cloud strategy guide is for IT leaders who want to use cloud to transform to a more agile, secure, digital business. Learn how to transform your business with cloud.
Forsythe Technology, A Sirius Company - For more than 40 years, Forsythe has helped companies succeed by working to optimize, modernize, and innovate enterprise IT. We develop solutions that make practical business sense from idea to implementation. We help champion innovation and deliver bottom-line results. We serve as the bridge, moving you from traditional to new IT. Whatever your business needs, we make it happen.
Sponsored by Dell EMC
Times are changing when it comes to the never-ending storage refresh cycle. By moving to a flexible consumption-based storage model, you can avoid spending too many resources on the yearly refresh, lower expenses and gain efficiencies.
So, how can companies get moving on a hyperconverged storage model? We spoke with industry-expert Patrick Conway to learn how to build a roadmap to digital transformation by 2020.
Listen to this episode to learn:
- What digital transformation means in terms of business transformation
- Why now is a critical time to shift to a hyperconverged storage model
- How to create and execute a vision for digital transformation by 2020
- How real companies are taking advantage of their own digital transformations
[Webinar] Top Storage Trends that Will Impact Your Data Center – Get yourself out of the old, draining refresh cycle and make a shift that will help position your IT team as strategic business partners.
Hyperconvergence Installation: How to Make Yours a Smooth Operation – From configuration to implementation, we take a look at how to smoothly deploy a hyperconverged infrastructure.
Forsythe Technology, A Sirius Company - For more than 40 years, Forsythe has helped companies succeed by working to optimize, modernize, and innovate enterprise IT. We develop solutions that make practical business sense from idea to implementation. We help champion innovation and deliver bottom-line results. We serve as the bridge, moving you from traditional to new IT. Whatever your business needs, we make it happen.
Storage is undergoing a fundamental transformation as workloads and applications demand higher performance, scalability, and resiliency. Deploying the right converged infrastructure solution can help solve these business challenges, but not all convergence is the same.
So, how do you know which solution is right for your business? Today, we’re talking with industry expert Matt Coffey to learn about how to find the right solution and partner for your needs.
Listen to this episode to learn about:
- The critical differences between converged and hyperconverged systems
- The best use cases for each solution
- Which elements of finance and support to consider
- How to prepare for implementation
Modernization Through Convergence: Simplifying Complexity and Improving Performance for Data-driven Businesses – Not all convergence is the same. Find out whether convergence or hyperconvergence is right for your business.
Hyperconvergence Installation: How to Make Yours a Smooth Operation – From configuration to implementation, we take a look at how to smoothly deploy a hyperconverged infrastructure.
Forsythe Technology, A Sirius Company - For more than 40 years, Forsythe has helped companies succeed by working to optimize, modernize, and innovate enterprise IT. We develop solutions that make practical business sense from idea to implementation. We help champion innovation and deliver bottom-line results. We serve as the bridge, moving you from traditional to new IT. Whatever your business needs, we make it happen.
Healthcare is constantly changing, and so must its IT. With massive consolidations and mergers driving many healthcare providers, IT organizations are tasked with supporting business-critical projects, securing data, transforming IT, and managing small capex budgets. On top of all this, IT organizations play a critical role in optimizing patient care and outcomes.
We spoke with Kevin Gee, a master consultant at Forsythe, to find out how simplifying your IT can revolutionize and enhance your healthcare brand.
Listen to this episode to learn how to:
- Prepare for the critical challenges facing healthcare IT
- Use technical and operational approaches to simplification
- Lower your total cost of ownership (TCO)
- Maintain a strategy that sustains innovation, modernization and security
- Implement technologies that target simplification
How to Build a Modern, Secure, Digital Healthcare Brand – Learn how the principles of simplicity and scalability can help you innovate and secure your healthcare organization.
From Disco to the Digital Age, UNIX Delivers Value – UNIX continues to defy the negative myths that surround it. Learn how businesses are still benefitting from UNIX.
Forsythe Technology, A Sirius Company - For more than 40 years, Forsythe has helped companies succeed by working to optimize, modernize, and innovate enterprise IT. We develop solutions that make practical business sense from idea to implementation. We help champion innovation and deliver bottom-line results. We serve as the bridge, moving you from traditional to new IT. Whatever your business needs, we make it happen.
Think about all of the information – personal and professional – that you’ve entrusted to the Internet of Things (IoT). Have IoT devices earned this trust we invest in them?
Our interactions with IoT are so often focused on automated technology that — by choice or by habit — we often assume we can trust IoT simply because it’s not human. But, in reality, the human elements of IoT devices are critical to their success and to their failure. Just as a device can be programmed to solve challenges and create conveniences, they can also be programmed to hack data and hide security flaws.
We spoke with industry expert E.G. Nadhan of Red Hat to learn more about the state of IoT security and how companies and consumers can avoid risk.
Listen to this episode to learn about:
- Emerging paradigms in IoT security
- The inherent risks of IoT and how to develop the right level of trust
- The new way companies should calculate their risk
- Recommendations for IoT security strategies
Weaponized Smart Devices & the Internet of Things – As companies increase adoption of IoT devices, cyber attackers continue to take advantage of the security risks they present.
Why You Need to Grasp the Human Side of the Internet of Things (IoT) – The Internet of Things isn’t just about, well, things. To succeed with IoT, you must understand the human connections that power technology.
Forsythe Technology, A Sirius Company - For more than 40 years, Forsythe has helped companies succeed by working to optimize, modernize, and innovate enterprise IT. We develop solutions that make practical business sense from idea to implementation. We help champion innovation and deliver bottom-line results. We serve as the bridge, moving you from traditional to new IT. Whatever your business needs, we make it happen.
Today, we’re debunking the myth that UNIX is dead. From powering large workloads on complex systems, to lowering total cost of ownership, to merging legacy systems, we’re here to find out how Unix is not only helping businesses survive, it’s helping them thrive in disruptive markets.
We spoke with industry expert Kevin Gee to find out how the myth got started and how it’s bringing still value to diverse organizations.
Listen to this episode to learn:
- Why UNIX gets a bad rap
- How UNIX is still providing value to businesses
- How IBM Power Platforms are helping organizations see value with Unix
- How your company should decide on a platform
- The future of UNIX and how young, STEM graduates can benefit from working with it
How to Build a Modern, Secure, Digital Healthcare Brand – Learn how the principles of simplicity and scalability can help you innovate and secure your healthcare organization.
Why a Successful Move to Cloud Bridges the Old with the New – A few years ago, IT organizations thought that they needed to separate their old and new technologies as they embraced the cloud, but this thinking is problematic. Here are keys to successfully combining the old with the new.
Forsythe Technology - For more than 40 years, Forsythe has helped companies succeed by working to optimize, modernize, and innovate enterprise IT. We develop solutions that make practical business sense from idea to implementation. We help champion innovation and deliver bottom-line results. We serve as the bridge, moving you from traditional to new IT. Whatever your business needs, we make it happen.
Sponsored by: McAfee
We’ve all heard the buzz about machine learning and artificial intelligence. The terms cover all kinds of exciting and cutting edge tools, but the technology is also evolving all the time. So, how should companies assess machine learning models to see if they’re right for their business? And, how can they integrate the right model, reap the benefits, and keep their risk-management in check? To learn more, we spoke with Celeste Fralick, chief data scientist and senior principal engineer for McAfee.
Listen to this episode to learn:
- The benefits of integrating machine learning tools
- How to choose the right model for your data and your business
- How human involvement in machine learning improves accuracy up to 30%
- Who “fake data-scientsts” are and how you can avoid them
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Hyperconvergence offers a number of benefits, but many enterprises are cautious of adopting the technology.
To demystify hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions, we sat down with convergence solutions specialist Bob Perkins to talk about the deployment process. We find out how to make any HCI installation a smooth operation, from configuration all the way to implementation.
Listen to this episode to learn:
- What HCI deployment looks like, from start to finish
- Steps you can take to ensure a smooth installation process
- How you should prepare for what could go wrong
- Just how easy the installation can really be
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Hyperconvergence Has Changed the Game. It’s Your Turn. - Hyperconverged platforms are enabling innovation and disruption. Is your company ready to do the same?
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Episode Sponsor: HPE
From the small and ubiquitous iPhone to the large and complex Tesla, hyperconverged platforms are enabling companies to innovate and disrupt. Is your company ready to do the same?
Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions have many use cases, but to truly realize the benefits, you have to find the right fit for your enterprise. We spoke with Bob Perkins, a convergence solutions specialist, to find out what you should know before getting started with HCI.
Listen to this episode to learn about:
HCI’s top use cases, including an example from HPE’s SimpliVity
How Tesla used HCI to help hurricane victims in Florida
How you can reduce operational requirements to get more time for innovation and growth
What factors you should consider to find the right HCI solution for your enterprise
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From delivering pizzas faster, to saving money on energy bills, to improving healthcare systems, the Internet of Things (IoT) affects not only the convenience and quality of our daily lives. As IoT technology continues to rapidly evolve, the true innovators are the ones incorporating a human touch.
We spoke with E.G. Nadhan, chief technology strategist for Red Hat, about companies that are using IoT to drive business value and solve real world problems by focusing on the human connections to IoT.
Listen to this episode to learn how:
- Data driven by human interactions is changing IoT technology and driving business
- Innovators in transportation, energy, retail, and healthcare are using IoT to solve real world problems
- Bad data can make a smart device work like dumb one
- Human connections with technology can fuel IoT innovation
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Moving to the cloud can bring you a number of business benefits, but it may cost more than you had planned.
According to the RightScale 2017 State of the Cloud, users report an average of 30 percent wasted cloud spend, while RightScale measures actual waste between 30 and 45 percent.
The culprit behind these wasted resources: poor planning. To avoid unexpected cloud spend, you need a defined cloud strategy before you migrate.
In this episode, host Cherie Caswell Dost speaks with industry expert Dave Carlson, vice president, Forsythe Hosting Solutions about how gain control of your cloud costs.
Listen to this episode to learn:
- How to develop a cloud strategy that sets you up for success.
- The hidden costs associated with cloud and how to gain control before you migrate.
- Why you should focus on managing costs instead of cutting them.
- Four ways to optimize your cloud spend now.
The Truth about Cloud Costs: 5 Things You Should Know – Moving applications to the cloud offers you greater agility, but your bill may give you sticker shock. Here’s how to migrate applications to the cloud while keeping the true costs of cloud computing in check.
Ignite a Business Transformation with Cloud – Find out how our cloud strategy guide can help you ignite a transformation at your organization.
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Gartner predicts that through 2018, over 50 percent of Internet of Things (IoT) device manufacturers will not be able to address threats due to weak authentication practices. Millions of IoT devices — including everyday objects like routers, security cameras, DVRs, medical devices, cars and more — have already been infected with malware and repurposed as zombie armies by cyber attackers. As a result, the bandwidth of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks reached frightening levels in 2016, culminating with attacks of well over 600 Gbps.
Until device makers require unique passwords by default, it is up to us to protect ourselves. In this episode, host Cherie Caswell Dost speaks with Bryan Fischer, senior director, Forsythe Security Professional Services, about the ever-changing security challenges of IoT devices, and how organizations can mitigate associated risks.
Listen to the latest episode of And There You Have IT to learn:
- How IoT continues to change the threat landscape.
- The inherent and evolving risks that accompany smart devices.
- How manufacturers are trying to shore up their devices.
- How companies can take action against IoT-related risks.
- Why robust authentication practices are critical.
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The passing of a new European Union (EU) data protection framework — the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — is having a tremendous impact on enterprises that collect data on Europeans. The May 25, 2018 compliance deadline, which from an IT planning and management perspective is right around the corner, has U.S. organizations scrambling. According to PwC, 77 percent of U.S. multinational companies are planning to spend $1 million or more on GDPR readiness this year, and 68 percent are earmarking between $1 million and $10 million.
Companies looking to maintain a European presence should assess their overall data protection capabilities to identify gaps and compliance risks.
In this episode, host Cherie Caswell Dost speaks with Bryan Fischer, senior director, Forsythe Security Professional Services.
Listen to the latest episode of And There You Have IT to learn:
- How businesses should respond to GDPR immediately and into the future.
- Why it’s critical to implement a data centric security strategy.
- How data discovery and data classification can be your most useful tools.
- Why enterprises should consider GDPR — and regulations like it — an opportunity, not a nuisance.
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The FBI estimates that $209M was paid to ransomware criminals in the first quarter of 2016 alone. In 2017, ransomware is only growing in sophistication.
Consider the WannaCry outbreak, a large-scale ransomware attack that is reported to have hit at least 150 countries, and infected 230,000 machines to date. This worldwide security incident is unprecedented in its disruption of large institutions such as Spain's Telefónica and the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS).
It is also the first ransomware to incorporate worm functionality. The infection of one computer can ultimately lead to the infection of an entire network, without the need for additional users to click on malicious links or attachments.
In this episode, host Cherie Caswell Dost speaks with Bryan Fischer, senior director, Forsythe Security Professional Services, about the evolution of ransomware and how organizations can take proactive steps towards maturing their security capabilities.
Listen to the latest episode of And There You Have IT to learn:
- How ransomware is getting smarter and more automated.
- Proactive steps your organization can take.
- Why your ability to recover from ransomware attacks rests in your backups.
- How ransomware has become a business.
- The new meaning of “defense-in-depth” when it comes to IT security.
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In this episode about identity and access management (IAM), Cherie and Matt discuss:
- Why it’s critical to know what “normal” looks like for your data
- How micro breaches can be just as damaging as major ones
- The importance of examining all IAM practices for improvement, not just the “broken” ones
- What security professionals can learn from insider threats, like the infamous Edward Snowden breach
With a comprehensive security strategy, IAM technology can generate the intelligence you need to increase your understanding of broader security events and advance your overall security posture.
Join Forsythe’s host Cherie Caswell Dost, formerly of Chicago Public Radio, and industry expert Matt Sickles, director of consulting services, Forsythe Security Solutions, for a multi-episode series of our podcast, And There You Have IT. In this six-part series, “The Six Pillars of Security," we explore how companies can stay agile and secure in the face of an ever-evolving threat landscape.
Listen to the podcast series to explore all six pillars of security.
The Six Pillars of Security: Pillar 5, Data Center & Cloud Security – Many organizations continue to struggle with security implications associated with the cloud. Weaknesses in a cloud or colocation vendor’s security can have a dramatic impact on your organization’s overall security posture.
Identity and Access Management: Defining the New Security Perimeter – Learn how to use incorporate IAM solutions and services to fill gaps left by the traditional security perimeter and more effectively protect your enterprise data.
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In this episode about data center and cloud security, Cherie and Matt discuss:
- Securing a cloud environment versus a physical data center.
- The biggest cloud security misconceptions.
- How to manage your third-party risk.
Learn more about maintaining accountability and remediating third-party risk, whether your organization uses a cloud environment, a physical data center, or a hybrid model.
Join Forsythe’s host Cherie Caswell Dost, formerly of Chicago Public Radio, and industry expert Matt Sickles, director of consulting services, Forsythe Security Solutions, for a multi-episode series of our podcast, And There You Have IT. In this six-part series, “The Six Pillars of Security," we explore how companies can stay agile and secure in the face of an ever-evolving threat landscape.
Listen to the podcast series to explore all six pillars of security.
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In this episode about application security, Cherie and Matt discuss:
- The importance of third-party risk assessment.
- How the rapid pace of application development affects security.
- The importance of trust after verification.
Effectively handling sensitive information is a constant challenge, and transformational technologies like the cloud bring a new set of risks along with the opportunities they provide. Developing a comprehensive security strategy is your best defense.
Join Forsythe’s host Cherie Caswell Dost, formerly of Chicago Public Radio, and industry expert Matt Sickles, director of consulting services, Forsythe Security Solutions, for a multi-episode series of our podcast, And There You Have IT. In this six-part series, “The Six Pillars of Security," we explore how companies can stay agile and secure in the face of an ever-evolving threat landscape.
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In this episode about security compliance and governance, Cherie and Matt discuss:
- How easy it is to be compliant without being secure.
- Why a comprehensive strategy is the only way to achieve successful security program governance.
- The paradox of measurement and how to avoid chasing red herrings so you can focus on critical data.
- The importance of continuous education.
It’s time to stop relying on compliance checklists and work toward establishing repeatable, measurable security programs that focus on what’s mission-critical to the business.
Join Forsythe’s host Cherie Caswell Dost, formerly of Chicago Public Radio, and industry expert Matt Sickles, senior principal consultant, Forsythe Security Solutions, for a multi-episode series of our podcast, And There You Have IT. In this six-part series, “The Six Pillars of Security," we explore how companies can stay agile and secure in the face of an ever-evolving threat landscape.
Listen to the podcast series to explore all six pillars of security.
The Six Pillars of Security: Pillar Two, Threat & Vulnerability Management – Knowing how cyber criminals think can give you a brand new perspective on your threat and vulnerability management.
How to Start an IT Security Conversation in the Boardroom an IT Security Conversation in the Boardroom – Making security a board-level priority is critical in the effort to safeguard data, contain breaches and minimize damage in an atmosphere of escalating cyber attacks.
Forsythe Technology - For more than 40 years, Forsythe has helped companies succeed by working to optimize, modernize, and innovate enterprise IT. We develop solutions that make practical business sense from idea to implementation. We help champion innovation and deliver bottom-line results. We serve as the bridge, moving you from traditional to new IT. Whatever your business needs, we make it happen.
In this episode about threat and vulnerability management, Cherie and Matt discuss
- How sometimes even the most dangerous cyber threats boil down to the simple principles of an old-fashioned con
- How the uptick in social engineering has affected threat and vulnerability management
- The importance of vulnerability assessments and the surprising security gaps they can reveal
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Listen to the series: The Six Pillars of Security: Pillar One, Data Protection.
The Six Pillars of Security: Pillar One, Data Protection – The first episode in, “The Six Pillars of Security,” series. In this episode, our expert discusses why shifting to a comprehensive data-centric strategy is critical to securing a business, how human nature has affected the evolution of cyber attacks, and how employee education is essential to security success.
8 Steps to an Effective Vulnerability Assessment – Vulnerability assessments can be invaluable, but only if their results are weighed in the context of the business and existing security infrastructure. By analyzing assessment output with business risk in mind, and applying that knowledge to the development of a sound security strategy, you can make the most of your security budget and strengthen your overall security and compliance posture.
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In this episode, we discuss why shifting to a comprehensive data-centric strategy is critical to securing a business, how human nature has affected the evolution of cyber attacks, and how employee education is essential to security success.
Join Forsythe’s host Cherie Caswell Dost, formerly of Chicago Public Radio, and industry expert Matt Sickles, senior principle consultant, Forsythe Security Solutions, for a multi-episode series of our podcast, And There You Have IT. In this six-part series, “The Six Pillars of Security," we’ll explore how companies can stay agile and secure in the face of an ever-evolving threat landscape.
According to Gemalto's Breach Level Index 2016 Report, data breaches led to almost 1.4 billion data records being compromised worldwide during 2016, an increase of 86 percent over 2015. And Verizon's 2016 Data Breach Investigations Report found that in 93 percent of cases where data was stolen, systems were compromised in minutes or less. Organizations, meanwhile, took weeks or more to discover that a breach had even occurred — and it was typically customers or law enforcement that sounded the alarm, not their own security measures.
Traditional prevention and detection methods are being bypassed, and many organizations either don’t know what to do, or don’t have the right resources in place to advance their security.
To keep up with highly skilled and aggressive attackers, we need to move beyond the predictable patterns of network security and static defenses that our cyber adversaries are well-attuned to. Listen to the podcast to learn more.
10 Keys to Data-Centric Security - It is no longer enough to focus our efforts on networks and endpoints. As IT changes continue to occur, organizations need to keep pace and advance their security by focusing on the data itself through the development of a data-centric security program.
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Join host Cherie Caswell Dost, formerly of Chicago Public Radio, and industry experts Brian Peterson, former VP of Solutions Enablement, Forsythe and James Brown, Solution Architect, Forsythe.
In this episode of And There You Have IT, Cherie, Brian, and James discuss what it means to "Be Tomorrow."
According to VMware, “tomorrow’s” all-digital world is quickly approaching.
About 20 percent of businesses have fully embraced the cloud and are prepared for “tomorrow”. The rest are still in the “be” stage and are slowly moving towards a hybrid cloud model. VMware predicts a 50/50 split between public and private clouds within the next five to 10 years.
Technology strategists have stressed the importance of bridging the digital divide via a hybrid, unified cloud. This model gives enterprises agility – making it easier for them to innovate and stand out from their competitors. Businesses who take advantage of the hybrid cloud will become leaders in their industries, while those that don’t make the move will lag behind.
The Top 3 Highlights from VMworld 2016: What Every CIO Should Know - The theme for VMworld 2016 was “Be Tomorrow.” And the event lived up to its promise, giving 23,000 attendees a crystal ball view of the future of cloud. According to VMware, a new era of cloud freedom and control is here.
VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture - To help your IT organization drive your enterprise’s digital agenda, the VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture™ provides an easy way to run, manage, connect, and secure apps across clouds and devices in a common operating environment. This means you have the freedom to innovate across clouds.
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