BriefingsDirect Podcasts

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 for IT operators, but now new tools and methods are making composability and automation better options than ever. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Here to help us learn more about the advancing role and impact from IT automation is Frances Guida, Manager of HPE OneView Automation and Ecosystem Product Management at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The interview is conducted by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

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 its business andquality of service at the same time. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Stay with us as we learn now how StoredTech adopted Bitdefender Cloud Security for Managed Service Providersto dramatically improve the security of their end users -- and develop enhanced customer loyalty. Here to discuss the role of the latest Bitdefender security technology for making MSPs more like security services providers is Mark Shaw, President of StoredTech in Raleigh, North Carolina. The interview is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: Bitdefender.

The next BriefingsDirect healthcare insights discussion explores ways to improve the total patient experience -- including financial considerations -- using digital technology. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy.  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 Experience, at Northwell Health in metro New York; Julie Gerdeman, CEO at HealthPay24 in Mechanicsburg, Penn., and Jennifer Erler, Cash Manager in the Treasury Department at Fairview Health Services in Minneapolis. The panel is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: HealthPay24.

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. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. To learn more about attaining agility by the latest EA approaches, we are now joined by our panel, Mats Gejnevall, Enterprise Architect at minnovate and Member of The Open Group Agile Architecture Work Group; Sonia Gonzalez, Forum Director of the Architecture Forum at The Open Group; Walters Obenson, Director of the Agile Architecture Framework at The Open Group, and Łukasz Wrześniewski, Enterprise Architect and Agile Transformation Consultant. The panel is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: The Open Group.

Interarbor Solutions' Briefings Direct: Unique B2B informational podcasts that offer the value of objective perspectives from leading industry analyst Dana Gardner. Briefings Direct delivers actionable knowledge on the latest enterprise IT subjects to those who need to know the most about the business of IT now.

Interarbor Solutions' Briefings Direct: Unique B2B informational podcasts that offer the value of objective perspectives from leading industry analyst Dana Gardner. Briefings Direct delivers actionable knowledge on the latest enterprise IT subjects to those who need to know the most about the business of IT now.

Interarbor Solutions' Briefings Direct: Unique B2B informational podcasts that offer the value of objective perspectives from leading industry analyst Dana Gardner. Briefings Direct delivers actionable knowledge on the latest enterprise IT subjects to those who need to know the most about the business of IT now.

Interarbor Solutions' Briefings Direct: Unique B2B informational podcasts that offer the value of objective perspectives from leading industry analyst Dana Gardner. Briefings Direct delivers actionable knowledge on the latest enterprise IT subjects to those who need to know the most about the business of IT now.

Interarbor Solutions' Briefings Direct: Unique B2B informational podcasts that offer the value of objective perspectives from leading industry analyst Dana Gardner. Briefings Direct delivers actionable knowledge on the latest enterprise IT subjects to those who need to know the most about the business of IT now.

Interarbor Solutions' Briefings Direct: Unique B2B informational podcasts that offer the value of objective perspectives from leading industry analyst Dana Gardner. Briefings Direct delivers actionable knowledge on the latest enterprise IT subjects to those who need to know the most about the business of IT now.

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 standardization, both public and private sector organizations are now making the cloud journey a steppingstone.

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 next-generation hybrid IT estate.

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 series examines the rapidly evolving containers innovation landscape.

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 capability to optimize and automate workloads to exacting performance and cost requirements.

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.