Tech means Business

This podcast is produced in conjunction with Riverbed Technology. When people build digital infrastructure, the added monitoring capabilities often can't correlate network or application activity and any customer experience or end-user problems. As today's guest, Brian Gormley (Senior Manager, Solution Engineering for Riverbed Technology), says, it should be "all about putting a lens on exactly wh...

This podcast is produced in conjunction with essensys It's 2022. Today, we experience on-demand digital services in most areas of life, from where we work, to transportation, shopping, deliveries, and even government and health services. Small wonder, then, that the basic requirements of a modern office are so different from what they were even five years ago. In today’s episode, we take a look at...

You can spend millions of dollars on every cybersecurity feature under the sun and commit similar sums to create SOCs and ranks of qualified experts. But sooner or later, your organization will suffer a cyber breach. With that in mind, what's the policy for recovery, rollback, and business continuity? What's your recovery time and recovery objectives? And what are you backing up where, and why? Th...

Formed from the amalgam of FireEye and McAfee Enterprise, Trellix is one of the world's biggest suppliers of cybersecurity technology, serving a decent proportion of the Fortune 500 list of companies. On this episode of the Tech Means Business podcast, we're joined by old friend Daryush Ashjari to talk about the new company's offerings, especially its XDR (eXtended detection and response) capabili...

The back end of the average global marketplace is a complicated arena, where forex procedures sit alongside local banking, tax and import/export duties jostle for attention, and over it all, that CX element has to hit all the right notes. In the Tech Means Business podcast today, we talk to Payoneer and one of its customers, Coupang, about navigating all that complexity while, swan-like, remaining...

When customers pick up the phone or tap out a message, companies on the receiving end need to hear and read those messages in the right order, in one place. That's omnichannel communications; the mainstay of the contact center, customer care department, and the inbound sales division. But how many times have we all contacted brands and organizations to be told to repeat details as we're passed fro...

This podcast is produced in association with Exabeam. A vital part of any organization's cybersecurity arsenal is a SIEM system (security information and event management). Typically, SIEMs base their activities around logfiles, which by definition represent historic data. But today's latest generation SIEM platforms can act on information pretty much as those files are written, and foremost among...

In this episode we talk to the brains behind Care Matched, a UK company that helps domiciliary carers (AKA home help) be matched to those that need their services, with an emphasis on giving full respect to cultural, religious and language preferences. Maaha Suleiman is a young British entrepreneur who saw the need for just such a service, and who designed an mobile app and web-based back end to r...

This podcast is produced in conjunction with Prospection Medical data on patients and their treatments forms highly complex data sets that need specialist software to decode and examine. Among the few organizations that can address the challenges of medical information is Prospection, an Aussie business that works with clinicians, pharmaceutical companies and researchers to decode the hidden patte...

This podcast is produced in conjunction with NGINX. From its earliest incarnations as the first serious challenger to the Apache web server, NGINX has become the go-to platform for modern applications, used for app management, API mediation, proxying, load-balancing, security, and more. This podcast is the audio-only version of the fireside chat, hosted by our very own Joe Green, that preceded the...

This podcast is produced in conjunction with Wipro. When organisations make an investment in technology or an IT transformation, the decision to do so should be based on a mixture of business strategy and technical knowledge. In either arena, it's always a positive thing to bring in an outside, objective view of what's needed, and why. Our guest in this episode of the Tech Means Business podcast h...

As cyber criminals evolve their methods, a zero-trust framework can help prevent a goodly number of attacks by ensuring users, applications, and devices are allowed to even begin interacting with protected system. Then, after being admitted (with minimum privileges), the framework checks again and again, at every point of interaction, to make sure that no-one or nothing gets access to people and s...

The internet's original designers didn't consider the medium's use for crime; unfortunately, that's the reality we all face every day online. This podcast looks at some of the cybersecurity issues facing companies doing business digitally. Our guest is Aaron Bugal, Global Solutions Engineer at Sophos, one of the world's leading cybersecurity companies. We talk about the latest spate of ransomware...

This podcast is produced in conjunction with SUSE In this episode of the Tech Means Business podcast we look at the edge, and really dig into how it's best defined and used by organizations. Edge computing environments are often characterized by the prevalence of IoT or IIoT devices, so any discussion about edge usually involves talking about app deployment on smaller, less powerful hardware. That...

Back in the day, a small company called Citrix started pushing technology that allowed computers, and what became their desktops, to be reached and controlled remotely. Initially, the concept was treated as backwards-looking, harking back to the days when mainframes were addressed by thin clients. From being the CEO of Citrix , Mark B. Templeton has worked and led companies at the vanguard of virt...

The great promise of containerized applications and services is one of true platform agnosticism. Microservices are quick to spin up, knit together, and scale, are less resource-intensive than full-blooded virtual machines and can be deployed on hybrid infrastructure as easily as on a single bare metal instance. As organizations start to explore the options that containers might offer them, we tal...

"Hybrid work is here to stay." So says Brett Wilson, Chief Operating Officer – Infrastructure & Risk at Interactive, an Australian company specialising in remote working, business continuity, protection, and general operational resilience. In this podcast, host Joe Green talks to Brett about how the shape of work is changing, how it's changed since the pandemic outbreak, and what form it will end...

This podcast is produced in conjunction with SAP Many of the world's enterprise-scale businesses and organizations run on software from SAP. The company produces one of the best-known ERP (enterprise resource planning) solutions today, where smart software helps companies with every aspect of their operations, from accounts, HR, operations, business intelligence, marketing, to sales and so much mo...

This podcast is produced in conjunction with McAfee With almost every organization on the planet now making at least some use of cloud computing, how are they protecting those remote operations and their data from a cyber-attack? McAfee has transitioned from a provider of antivirus software on desktops to a device-to-cloud cybersecurity company. Its solutions can oversee all manner of endpoints, f...

In an internet environment that's seen the deterioration of privacy over the last few years especially, there are various methods people and businesses can use to stop sensitive information being leeched away. Some of them -- like setting up a VPN tunnel -- are difficult to achieve in ways that are scalable and reliable. This episode's guest, Seven, is the Brit behind the Orchid VPN, a platform th...

Giant stadiums and local sports grounds all over the world lie empty with sports men and women competing to no audience at all, in most cases. Can tech save sport? Steve Madincea of Fantastec thinks so. His company is behind a digital memorabilia trading platform that's powered by blockchain, and he has plenty more projects at different stages of completion, too, with haptics, drones, IoT and plen...

This episode looks at one of technology's less-regarded aspects, but one that needs quickly to be given a whole lot more attention: the sustainability of the tech we use, and our approaches and attitudes to achieve a greener, yet more technologically advanced future. When your organization starts its next procurement round for a desktop or data center hardware refresh, how high up on the agenda ar...

This podcast is produced in conjunction with Nuage Networks from Nokia Connectivity is a business imperative and is one of the first things companies plan when they open a new store, branch office or far-flung outpost. It's a whole lot easier to get connected these days, too, but once an organization is linked up, how is that connection best optimized? Step forward, SD-WAN -- software-defined wide...

IIoT (the industrial internet of things)  is already changing the face of manufacturing, utilities and heavy industry. But here and in more white-collar settings, deploying even simple, system-on-chip devices is difficult at scale. In this episode of Tech means Business, we talk to Hima Mukkamala, CEO of Pelion, a spin-off from the chip company that powers 99% of IoT, ARM. Hima talks to us about h...

IT professionals have thick skins that deflects most marketing, especially when it comes to AI. After all, your phone apparently uses AI to frame the perfect picture (really?) and your TV knows and adapts to your taste in viewing thanks to "advanced machine learning" (nope). So selling AI into ITops must be an uphill struggle. But with the right message and — most importantly — demonstrable use-ca...