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Serverless, software-defined, containerised and cloud-native are all technologies that are associated with the next-generation data centre, but how can partners differentiate between hype and reality and understand how to move customers to next generation technology?

Today’s digital businesses rely on data being relevant, immediately accessible, accurate and impactful. However, data continues to grow in variety, volume and velocity and comes in structured and mostly unstructured formats. How can partners help customers to modernise their data strategy to cope with these pressures?

Cloud adoption is growing rapidly, with most customers using two or more cloud services. There is a huge opportunity for partners to provide public cloud services from the leading vendors, to build their own cloud offerings, to offer services that integrate with or wrap around other cloud services or to provide a mix of all of these.

Why is IoT security such a thorny topic? To be frank, it’s because it doesn’t comprehensively exist – it’s too much of an afterthought. Everyone says, “We have IoT security” …until things gets a little more complex. How are you going to protect something that’s in someone’s house if it’s connected to their WiFi network? What kind of device behavior do you want to keep an eye on? You can secure the...

In this bite sized episode taken from the Arrow Bandwidth recordings at Electronica 2018, Richard talks with Oyvind Strom, Product Marketing Director at Microchip Technology about their AVR IoT development boards. Find out more about what Microchip are doing to help engineers and developers connect their "things" to the internet quickly, securely and simply. By creating the ideal foundation for co...

In this insightful podcast, Arrow’s technical team discusses the Arrow Solutions Lab and how it supports our partners and their end-customers. Topics include what our Labs in Denver and Atlanta are capable of, how we put together proof of concepts, and how we can mix and match a variety of supplier offerings to meet business needs. The guest speakers describe how Arrow’s state-of-the-art Solutions...

In this technical deep dive, Christoph Wertz, System Engineer from Cloudera – Arrow’s newly signed supplier partner – discusses the history of Big Data, what solutions were originally implemented to manage it, and how Cloudera has stepped in and created a platform that collocates data, transforms it, and drives value. Originally, managing data was very batch oriented; but the present and the futur...

IoT is on everyone’s mind right now – it’s the “buzz du jour.” IoT is sometimes perceived as just sensors, analytics and connecting things, but its value lies in answering WHY we are connecting these things or devices – more specifically, what are we going to do with the data that we extract from them? In this podcast, our experts explore how to turn IoT data into a good business outcome, failed v...

Over the past several years, the definition of “Data Center” has evolved from four walls with racks of servers… to hosted data centers… to managed services… to the cloud. Today, a data center is defined as basically everything that makes up your customer’s world – data, servers, cloud, services, security – fundamentally every part of their business. But if data centers include everything, how do y...

In the past, security focused on gateways. Now, tactics have evolved and visibility is needed around multiple parts of the network. Because of this, many questions are arising around security – some people may even be wondering, what exactly IS security? It’s tough when you don’t already have a security practice but realize the need for it. If you do have a security practice, what holes might ther...

Episode 6: Manufacturing and IoT Izzy is joined in the last episode of this series by Rebecca Sendel, Industrial IoT Segment Solution Leader with Arrow, to talk about how we take the “sensor to sunset” message to market as we evolve from a distributor to a technology solution aggregator. Rebecca and Izzy discuss what encompasses the “industrial” vertical, from manufacturing environments to oil & g...

In this second of a series of podcasts recorded at Electronica 2018, regular Bandwidth host Richard Holmes talks to Marcus

Episode 5: Future IoT In Izzy’s final episode with Matthew, they help listeners understand his vision of our world in ten years, what success for IoT deployment & adoption looks like and we’ll also hear about the potential risks if we fail to adopt smart technologies in effectively . The episode culminates in an examination of such far ranging issues as artificial intelligence, and data as a curre...

In this first of a series of podcasts recorded at Electronica 2018, regular Bandwidth host Richard Holmes talks to one of our IoT Solution Architects Rainer about a typical day, understanding what the component parts of an "IoT Solution", from the devices at the edge to the services and applications at the core. Listen to the team talk about how Arrow work across the fields of data generation, man...

In January 2019, the Arrow Oracle team traveled to Seattle for Oracle’s Cloud Partner OCI Deep Dive Days and Autonomous Database Workshops. Over the course of two days, Arrow was briefed on all things Oracle and the future of Oracle Cloud. This podcast is a summary of the top-level take a ways from this training and what people should expect to see from Oracle in the coming year. SPEAKERS T. J. Ki...

Fifteen years ago, the thought of running IT production workloads anywhere but on-premises was unthinkable. But times have changed, and now, cloud has become a normal and trusted part of business operations. Cloud has proven that location doesn't matter anymore, as long as workloads are quickly and securely available. During this Arrow Bandwidth podcast, you’ll learn what the best approach to clou...

Episode 4: Implementing Smart Cities Izzy & Mathew tackle the topic of how smart cities are formed, how the technology in episode 3 is implemented. Is there one topic or solution to rule them all? How do cities start on the journey? What works? Listen to this episode to find out Mathew’s answer!

The largest LoRaWAN conference in Amsterdam kicks off on January 31st 2019. To co-inside with this, Arrow Bandwidth look back at our interview with Wienke Giezeman, Initiator of The Things Network & CEO of The Things Industries at Electronica November 2018. Join us in this special episode as we discussed LoRa, the challenges of building and connecting "the Internet of Things" and what TTN has achi...

Episode 3: Smart Cities Technologies In this episode Izzy & Mathew talk about the technologies that enable us to build a smarter world. prompts a lively discussion about the latest and greatest technologies and smart cities. From public safety to traffic management and how products such as V5 are leveraging edge computing from vendors such as Intel, hear how Arrow and our ecosystem are working tod...

Episode 2: A Triple Bottom Line Mindset Izzy is joined once again by Arrow’s resident smart cities expert and the co-founder of the Colorado Smart Cities alliance, Mathew Bailey to discuss “TBLM”, the modern day transformational mindset where the importance of IoT technology to business and government is not just in generating revenue, but a socially inclusive, environmentally and financially sust...

Episode 1: IoT Foundations If hearing the words, “Internet of Things,” leaves you with more questions than clarity, this is the podcast for you. As a leader in all things IoT (Internet of Things), Arrow takes this seemingly complicated concept and boils it down to six short yet illuminating episodes. Our host Izzy Benazzo is, appropriately enough, a tech novice who unabashedly asks the questions t...

This episode Ruairi McBride @mcbride_ruairi is joined by Alun Griffiths @WelshMatador Matthew Kershaw @mkershaw1985 and Paul Stillitano all from Arrow ECS UK where they review this year’s NetApp Insight EMEA from Barcelona. We give our impression on the conference overall and what we did and didn’t like (which there isn’t much). We discuss the Key Notes including Gerd Leonhard @gleonhard Chief Fut...

Some say infrastructure has become a commodity driven by price. Others point to the evolution of infrastructure—software-defined networks, hyper convergence—as a lucrative opportunity? which is it? Speakers: Adam Catbagan Technology Leader, Arrow An accomplished technical sales leader, Adam Catbagan has been a driving force for creating cultures of technical accountability, discipline and sales ex...

Some say infrastructure has become a commodity driven by price. Others point to the evolution of infrastructure—software-defined networks, hyper convergence—as a lucrative opportunity. So, which is it? Submit your Fact or Fiction questions and perspectives at the Oracle and VMware exhibit hall tables on Thursday evening, then join our experts on Friday morning as they debate your submissions. Spea...

This week we talk to DellEMC's Ross Porter and Ben Conquest about unstructured data and its purpose in the modern enterprise. We are also joined by regular guest host Ruairi McBride from Arrow ECS Ross Porter Ross leads the Dell EMC EMEA Isilon Unstructured Data and Analytics Presales team. He is focused on delivering innovative scale out, object, analytics and big data solutions to customers acro...