BriefingsDirect Podcasts

The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Innovator discussion focuses on how advances in design enhance the total experience for IT operators. Stay with us now as we hear about the general philosophy and modernization of design, and how new discrete best practices are making usability a key ingredient of modern hybrid IT systems. To learn more about the latest in IT innovations, we're joined by Bryan Jacquot, Vice President and Chief Design Officer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

The next BriefingsDirect intelligent enterprise innovations discussion explores new ways that leading enterprises like McKesson Corp. are digitizing procurement and automating spend management. We'll now examine how new intelligence technologies and automation methods like robotic process automation (RPA) help global companies reduce inefficiencies, make employees happier, cut manual tasks, and streamline the entire source-to-pay process.

The next BriefingsDirect intelligent workspaces discussion explores how for 30 years Citrix has pioneered ways to make workers more productive, IT operators stronger, and a vast partner ecosystem more capable. We will now hear how Citrix is by no means resting on its laurels by charting a new future of work that abstracts productivity above apps, platforms, data, and even clouds. The goal: To empower, energize, and enlighten disaffected workers.

The next BriefingsDirect business intelligence (BI) trends discussion explores the growing role of data integration in a multi-cloud world. Just as enterprises seek to gain more insights and value from their copious data, they’re also finding their applications, services, and raw data spread across a hybrid and public clouds continuum. Raw data is also piling up closer to the edge -- on factory floors, in hospital rooms, and anywhere digital business and consumer activities exist.

The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Innovator podcast discussion explores the latest insights into hybrid cloud and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) strategies. Speed to business value and simplicity in deployments have been top drivers of the steady growth around HCI. IT operators are looking to increased automation, built-in intelligence, and robust security as they seek such turnkey appliance approaches. Stay with us now as we examine the rapidly evolving HCI innovation landscape.

The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer IT modernization journey interview explores how a global candy maker depends on increased insight for deploying and optimizing servers and storage. We’ll now learn how Ferrara Candy Company boosts its agility as a manufacturer by expanding the use of analysis and proactive refinement in its data center operations by bringing more intelligence to IT infrastructure. Stay with us to hear about unlocking the potential for end-to-end process and economic efficienc

The next BriefingsDirect healthcare finance insights discussion explores ways that healthcare providers can become more proactive in financial and cost transparency from the patient perspective. By anticipating rather than reacting to mandates on healthcare economics and process efficiencies, providers are becoming more competitive and building more trust and satisfaction with their patients -- and caregivers.

The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer discussion revisits the drive to define the “refinery of the future” at Texmark Chemicals. Texmark has been combining the best of operational technology (OT) with IT and now Internet of Things (IoT) to deliver data-driven insights that promote safety, efficiency, and unparalleled sustained operations.

The next edition of the BriefingsDirect Voice of the Innovator podcast series explores the latest developments in hybrid IT and datacenter composability. Bringing higher levels of automation to data center infrastructure has long been a priority for IT operators, but it's only been in the past few years that they have actually enjoyed truly workable solutions for composability.

The next BriefingsDirect enterprise management innovations discussion explores the role of the modern chief operating officer (COO) and how they are tasked with creating new people-first strategies in an age of increased automation and data-driven intelligence. We will now examine how new approaches to spend management, process automation, and integrated procurement align with developing talent, diversity, and sustainability.

The next BriefingsDirect healthcare insights discussion explores the shift medical services providers are making to improve the overall patient experience. Taking a page from modern, data-driven industries that emphasize consumer satisfaction and ease, a major hospital in the New York metro area has embarked on a journey to transform healthcare-as-a-service.

The next BriefingsDirect extreme use-case for high-performance computing (HPC) examines how the strictly governed redesign of Formula 1 race cars relies on data center innovation to coax out the best in fluid dynamics analysis and refinement. We’ll now hear how Alfa Romeo Racing (formerly Alfa Romeo Sauber F1 Team) in Hinwil, Switzerland leverages the latest in IT to bring hard-to-find but momentous design improvements. The goal: To produce cars that are glued to the asphalt and best slice through the air

The next BriefingsDirect intelligent solutions discussion explores how healthcare organizations are using the latest digital technologies to transform patient care and experiences. When it comes to healthcare, time is of the essence. Doctors and clinicians, once able to focus exclusively on patients, are now being pulled into administrative tasks. To give them back their precious time, innovative healthcare organizations are turning to a new breed of intelligent digital workspaces.

A discussion on how developers and IT operators can find newfound common ground around making hybrid cloud the best long-term economic value for their organizations.

A discussion on how new transparency on costs in healthcare provides both a step toward more educated choices as well as an opportunity to use technology to inform and instruct throughout increasingly complex payer-provider-patient processes.