BriefingsDirect Podcasts

The next BriefingsDirect discussion on attaining intelligent spend management explores the findings of a recent IDC survey on paths to holistic business processes improvement. We'll now learn how a long history of legacy systems and outdated methods holds companies back from their potential around new total spend management optimization. The payoffs on gaining such a full and data-rich view of spe...

As businesses move more of their IT services to the cloud, reducing complexity and making sure that security needs are met throughout the migration process are now top of mind. For a UK managed services provider (MSP), finding the right mix of security strength and ease-of-use for its many types of customers became a top priority. The next managed services security management edition of BriefingsD...

The next public sector security management edition of BriefingsDirect explores how managing IT for a rural Virginia county government means doing more with less -- even as the types and sophistication of cybersecurity threats grow. For County of Caroline, a small team of IT administrators has built a technically advanced security posture that blends the right amounts of automation with flexible, c...

The next BriefingsDirect healthcare finance insights discussion explores the rapidly changing ways that caregiver organizations on-board and manage patients. How patients access their healthcare is transitioning to the digital world -- but often in fits and starts. This key process nonetheless plays a major role in how patients perceive their overall experiences and determines how well providers m...

The next BriefingsDirect data security insights discussion explores how cloud deployment planners need to be ever-vigilant for all types of cybersecurity attack vectors. Stay with us as we examine how those moving to and adapting to cloud deployments can make their data and processes safer and easier to recover from security incidents. To learn more about taking the right precautions for cloud and...

Security and privacy protection increasingly go hand in hand, especially in sensitive industries like finance and public safety. For driver risk management software provider SambaSafety protecting their business customers from risk is core to their mission -- and that begins with protection of their own IT assets and workers. Stay with us now as BriefingsDirect explores how SambaSafety adopted Bit...

Companies struggle to find qualified workers in the mature phase of any business cycle. Yet as we enter a new decade in 2020, they have more than a hyper-low unemployment rate to grapple with. Businesses face a gaping qualitative chasm between the jobs businesses need to fill and the interest of workers in filling them. As a result, employees have more leverage than ever to insist that jobs cater...

The next edition of the BriefingsDirect Voice of the Innovator podcast series examines the role and impact of automation on IT management strategies. Growing complexity from the many moving parts in today’s IT deployments are forcing managers to seek new productivity tools. Moving away from manual processes to bring higher levels of automation to data center infrastructure has long been a priority...

The choice of bedrock security technology can make or break managed service providers' (MSPs') ability to scale, grow rapidly while remaining efficient, and maintain top quality customer service. The next edition of BriefingsDirect explores how by simultaneously slashing security-related trouble tickets and management costs by more than 75 percent, Stored Technology Solutions, or StoredTech, grew...

The next BriefingsDirect healthcare insights discussion explores ways to improve the total patient experience -- including financial considerations -- using digital technology. To learn more about ways that healthcare providers are seeking to leverage such concepts as customer relationship management (CRM) to improve their services we are joined by Laura Semlies, Vice President of Digital Patient...

The next BriefingsDirect digital business trends discussion explores how Enterprise Architecture (EA) defines and supports more agile business methods and outcomes. We will now learn how Enterprise Architects embrace agile approaches to build competitive advantages for enterprises and governments, as well as to keep those organizations more secure and compliant. To learn more about attaining agili...

Worker productivity gains -- despite 30 years of computing technology roll outs -- remain hard to define by economists. Ask a worker, however, and you are increasingly likely to get a hard, cold assessment. A huge amount of time these days, they say, is wasted on the inefficiencies of technology run amok. Only a sliver of time is going to the creative and innovative types of work that employees cr...

The next BriefingsDirect intelligent edge adoption benefits discussion focuses on how hospitals are gaining proactive alerts on patients at risk for contracting serious sepsis infections. An all-too-common affliction for patients around the world, sepsis can be controlled when confronted early using a combination of edge computing and artificial intelligence (AI). Edge sensors, Wi-Fi data networks...

For the past 30 years, Citrix has made a successful habit of challenging the status quo. That includes: --Delivering applications as streaming services to multiple users --Making the entire PC desktop into a secure service --Enhancing networks that optimize applications delivery --Pioneering infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) now known as public cloud, and --Supplying a way to take enterprise appl...

The next BriefingsDirect business trends discussion explores how the latest update to the ArchiMate® standard helps Enterprise Architects (EAs) make complex organizations more agile and productive. Joining is Marc Lankhorst, Managing Consultant and Chief Technology Evangelist at BiZZdesign in The Netherlands. He also leads the development team within the ArchiMate Forum at The Open Group. The inte...

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 IT infrastructure. The next BriefingsDirect interview examine how automation, self-healing, data-driven insights, and increasingly intelligent data center components are delivering what amount to data...

The next BriefingsDirect data security insights discussion explores how data -- from one end of its life cycle to the other -- needs new protection and a means for rapid recovery. Stay with us as we examine how backup storage especially needs to be made safe and secure if companies want to quickly right themselves from an attack. To learn more, please welcome Andrew Peters, Stealth Industry Direct...

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 standardi...

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...

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 se...

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...

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 abo...

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. We’ll now explore how such data analysis platforms bring manufacturers dat...

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. What’s more, the top skills at all levels are increasingly harder to find --...

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 le...