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How to Reduce Organizational Complexity with Dev Ops

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 ...

7 Essential Components of a Data Governance Program

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 inte...

Cloud and the Foundation for a Successful Digital Workforce

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 l...

Achieving Secure and Simplified Success in the Cloud

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.

How to Accelerate Your Software Development to New Speeds

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.

How to Accelerate Your Software Development to New Speeds

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.

The Challenges Surrounding Today's Modern Infrastructure

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 Top Components for Having a Successful Strategic Cloud Deployment

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 ...

Supply Chain Attacks and IoT Devices – Know How to Limit Your Risk

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 ...

Securing IoT Devices and the New “Smart” Normal

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?

Securing IoT Devices and the New “Smart” Normal

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?

How IoT Technology Is Helping Businesses Get Back to Work Safely

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 ...

Network Virtualization of the Future: All You Need to Know About NSX

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.

How to Get Started with Digital Transformation

“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, peo...

How To Achieve a New and Improved App Environment

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

Preparing your E-Commerce Site for the Holiday Shopping Season

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.

The Future of Cloud and Data Analytics

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.

Critical Cloud Conversations: Imposter Syndrome, the Cloud Mindset, and Why Empowering Failure Is Vital to Success

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 un...

How is Cloud Security Like a Pinball Machine?

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 lea...

Why the Cloud Journey Must Be Transformational

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 ...

The Big Data Theory: The Peculiar World of IoT

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 t...

Optimizing End User Experience in a BYOD World

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 lead...

Ins and Outcomes: The Data Journey - Insight, Prediction and Recommendation

Ins and Outcomes: Managed Services in 2025

Ins and Outcomes: Securing Your Journey to the Cloud

Ins and Outcomes: From the Data Center to the Cloud

Building a Secure Digital Workspace

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 strate...

Why Are IT Leaders Making the Shift Toward IT Services?

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 expe...

The Critical Condition of Healthcare IT

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 h...

Overcoming 5 Challenges Associated with Future-Proofing Your Enterprise Network

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 ...

6 Guidelines for Crafting a Charter for Your Business Transformation

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....

3 Keys to Web Application Security

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...

Moving Beyond Passwords with Risk-Based MFA

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 t...

Boost Your Data Strategy With Unstructured Data

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 onc...

A Tale of Two Data Center Strategies: Hyperconverged vs. Composable

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 com...

The Curious Case of Hybrid IT: 5 Things to Avoid

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 y...

Reducing Data Loss Risk with DLP

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 ...

A Crash Course in Securing Your Data

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 ...

A Guide to the Multi-Cloud Data Management Challenge

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 b...

Taking SIEM to the Next Level

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 l...

Down with Dark Data: Your Strategy for Intelligent Data Management

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 unders...

Zero Trust Architecture: Debunking Myths

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...

Flex Your IT Super Powers with Virtualization

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 appl...

Roadmap to Digital Transformation by 2020

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 trans...

Convergence versus Hyperconvergence: Which Horse Should You Back in the Race to Storage Modernization

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...

How IT Simplification can Strengthen and Secure Your Healthcare Brand

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 you...

The Future of IoT Relies on Cybersecurity

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 challen...

UNIX Isn’t Dead: Debunking the Myth and Discovering the Value of UNIX

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 i...

Machine Learning: How to Reap the Benefits and Avoid the Risks

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 p...

How to Make Hyperconvergence a Smooth Operation

Sponsored by: Dell EMC 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 fini...