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Enterprise Tech News EM360Tech

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By Alejandro Leal, Tudor Galos, Dana Gardner
| Enterprise Management 360
Infrastructure Management How AI Growth is Impacting Data Center Demand 4 min
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Work from Anywhere Trend Attracts More Well-Off People to the Lakes Region

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By Dana Gardner
| Business NH Magazine
LACONIA — Four-season resort areas like the Lakes Region are attracting more mobile workers willing to pay handsomely for their piece of the good life by the lakes and mountains. For those with the opportunity, many high-earning city jobs can be done from anywhere there's a connected personal computer. Those who already own a second home far from their residences in metro areas such as Boston can now stay in them for more than holiday vacations and weekend getaways — only now they get paid.
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Work from anywhere trend attracts more well-off people to the Lakes Region - for better or worse

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By Dana Gardner
| Laconia Daily Sun
LACONIA — Four-season resort areas like the Lakes Region are attracting more mobile workers willing to pay handsomely for their piece of the good life by the lakes and mountains. For those with the opportunity, many high-earning city jobs can be done from anywhere there's a connected personal computer. Those who already own a second home far from their residences in metro areas such as Boston can now stay in them for more than holiday vacations and weekend getaways — only now they get paid.
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How A-Core Concrete sets a solid foundation for preemptive security

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By Dana Gardner
| CloudTweaks Thought Leadership and Consulting
A special breed of company — even though it has a relatively small number of employees — does very big jobs with those lean and often distributed workforces. A perfect example of such a concentrated and efficient business is A-Core Concrete Specialists, which builds large and complex structures across the Western United States. When it comes to managing IT, the lean-and-mean mantra also holds true. The jack-of-all-trades requirements means that the IT leadership of it is often the head of security.
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Hybrid work is the future, and innovative technology will define it

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By Dana Gardner, Damian Ng, Tunio Zafer, Steve Prentice
| CloudTweaks Thought Leadership and Consulting
We’re all now part of a massive worldwide experiment about the very definition of work. Remote, in-office — or tightrope walking along some sliding scale between the two? How each business and each worker finds the next new work-life balance remains an ongoing “work in progress.” In the post-rapid adoption of remote work world — a full two and half years after the onset of COVID — there’s no definitive answer on which approach to hybrid work works best.
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Hybrid work is the future, and innovative technology will define it

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By Dana Gardner
| Medium
We're all now part of a massive worldwide experiment about the very definition of work. Remote, in-office - or tightrope walking along some sliding scale between the two? How each business and each worker finds the next new work-life balance remains an ongoing "work in progress." In the post-rapid adoption of remote work world - a full two and half years after the onset of COVID - there's no definitive answer on which approach to hybrid work works best.
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Inside Story of Building a Global Security Operations Center for Cyber Defense

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By Dana Gardner
| Spreaker
project. The moderator is Serge Bertini, Vice President of Sales and General Manager of the Canada Security Division at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). [Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise.] The next BriefingsDirect inside story examination of security best practices focuses on the building of a security operations center (SOC) for cyber defense.
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Citrix and HPE Team to Make Sense of the Core-Cloud-Edge Architecture

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By Dana Gardner
| Spreaker
Info One of the key elements of digital transformation is aligning core, cloud, and edge computing using the latest architectures and efficiencies. Yet new levels of simplicity are needed to satisfy all the requirements for both end users and IT operators. The next BriefingsDirect IT solutions ecosystem profile interview examines how Citrix and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) are specifically aligned to help bring such digital transformation benefits to a broad, global market. To learn more ...
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HPE and Citrix Team Up to Make Hybrid Cloud-Enabled Applications and Workspaces Simpler to Deploy

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By Dana Gardner
| Spreaker
Info As businesses of every stripe seek to bring more virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to their end users, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is proving a deployment back-end architecture of choice. Indeed, HCI and VDI are combining to make one of the more traditionally challenging workloads far easier to deploy, optimize, and operate. The next BriefingsDirect hybrid IT solutions ecosystem profile examines how the benefits of HCI are being taken to managed cloud, hybrid cloud, and ...
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Ryder Cup Provides Extreme Use Case for Managing the Digital Edge For 250K On-Site Mobile Fans

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By Dana Gardner
| Spreaker
Info The next BriefingsDirect extreme IT-in-sports use case interview examines how an edge-computing Gordian Knot is being sliced through innovation and pluck at a prestigious live golfing event. We will now explore how the 2018 Ryder Cup match between European and US golf players places a unique combination of requirements on its operators and suppliers. As a result, the IT solutions needed to make the Ryder Cup better than ever for its 250,000 live spectators and sponsors will set a new ...
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New Strategies Emerge to Stem the Costly Downside of Complex Cloud Choices

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By Dana Gardner
| Spreaker
Info The next BriefingsDirect hybrid IT management strategies interview explores how jerry-riggedapproaches to cloud adoption at many organizations have spawned complexity amid spiraling -- and even unknown -- costs. We’ll hear now from an IT industry analyst about what causes unwieldy cloud use, and how new tools, processes, and methods are bringing insights and actionable analysis to regain control over hybrid IT sprawl. Here to help us explore new breeds of hybrid and multicloud management ...
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Building the Intelligent Enterprise with Strategic Procurement and Analytics

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By Dana Gardner
| Spreaker
Info The next BriefingsDirect digital business innovation interview explores how the powerful combination of deep analytics and the procurement function makes businesses smarter and more efficient. When the latest data science techniques are applied to more data sets that impact supply chains and optimize procurement, a new strategic breed of corporate efficiency and best practices emerge. To learn how data-driven methods and powerful new tools are transforming procurement into an impactful ...
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Pay-As-You-Go IT Models Provide Cost and Operations Advantages for Northrop Grumman

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By Dana Gardner
| Spreaker
Info The next BriefingsDirect IT business model innovation interview explores how pay-as-you-go models have emerged as a new way to align information technology (IT) needs with business imperatives. We’ll now learn how global aerospace and defense integrator Northrop Grumman has sought a revolution in business model transformation in how it acquires and manages IT.
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When it Comes to API Security, Expect the Whole World to Be Testing Your Mettle, Says Twitter CISO

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By Dana Gardner
| Spreaker
Info Just as cloud computing initially seeped into organizations under the cloak of shadow IT, application programming interface (API) adoption has often followed an organic, inexact, and unaudited path. IT leaders know they’re benefiting from APIs -- internal, via third parties, and often outwardly exposed -- they just don’t know where they are, how much they support key services, and how they’re being used … or abused. As a result, developers and business architects alike don’t know how ...
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Manufacturer Gains Advantage by Expanding IoT Footprint from Many Machines to Many Insights

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By Dana Gardner
| Spreaker
The next BriefingsDirect manufacturing modernization and optimization case study centers on how a Canadian maker of containers leverages the Internet of Things (IoT) to create a positive cycle of insights and applied learning. We will now hear how CuBE Packaging Solutions, Inc. in Aurora, Ontario has deployed edge intelligence to make 21 formerly isolated machines act as a single, coordinated system as it churns out millions of reusable package units per month. Stay with us as we explore ...
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By Dana Gardner
| Spreaker
As a provider of both application development management and infrastructure outsourcing, Denmark-based NNIT needed a better way to track, manage and govern the more than 10,000 services across its global data centers. Beginning in 2010, the journey to better overall services automation paved the way to far stronger cloud services delivery, too. NNIT uses HP Cloud Service Automation (CSA) to improve their deployment of IT applications and data, and to provide higher overall service delivery ...
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By Dana Gardner
| Spreaker
It’s no secret that communication service providers (CSPs) are under a lot of pressure as they make massive investments in upgraded networks while facing shrinking margins and revenues from their eroding traditional voice or broadcasting businesses. Traditional operators understand that they must go beyond what they did before. They need to offer more compelling services to reduce churn and acquire new customers. But how to know what services customers want most, and how much to charge for ...
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SAP Ariba’s President Barry Padgett On Building the Intelligent Enterprise

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By Dana Gardner
| Spreaker
Info The next BriefingsDirect digital business innovation interview explores how critical business functions provide unique vantage points from which to derive and act on enterprise intelligence. These classic functions -- like procurement and supply chain management-- are proven catalysts for new value as businesses seek better ways to make sense of all of their data and to build more intelligent processes. Here to help us explore how businesses can best operate internally -- and across ...
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How MSPs Leverage Bitdefender’s Layered Approach to Security For Comprehensive Client Protection

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By Dana Gardner
| Spreaker
Solving security concerns has risen to the top of the requirements list for just about everyone, yet service providers in particular have had to step up their game. Just as cloud models and outsourcing of more data center functions have become more popular, the security needs, too, across cloud models have grown even more fast-paced and pressing. And as small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have turned to such managed service providers (MSPs) to be in effect their IT departments, they ...
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By Dana Gardner
| Spreaker
Info When applications are mission-critical, where they are hosted matters far less than keeping them operating smoothly. As many organizations face a ticking time bomb to modernize mainframe applications, one solution is to find a dependable, repeatable way to transition to a public cloud without degrading these vulnerable and essential systems of record. The next BriefingsDirect cloud adoption discussion explores the long-awaited means to solve the mainframe to cloud transition for essential ...
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Why Business Apps Design Must Better Cater to Consumer Habits to Improve User Experience

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By Dana Gardner
| Spreaker
Info The next BriefingsDirect technology innovation thought leadership discussion focuses on new user experience demands for applications, and the impact that self-service and consumer habits are having on the new user experience design. As more emphasis is placed on user experiences and the application of consumer-like processes in business-to-business (B2B) commerce, a softer side of software seems to be emerging.
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Capgemini and HPE Team Up to Foster Behavioral Change That Brings Better Cyber Security Across Application Lifecycles

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By Dana Gardner
| Spreaker
The next BriefingsDirect discussion explores improving cyber security in applications across their entire lifecycles. Such trends as the Internet of Things (IoT), hybrid cloud services, mobile-first, and DevOps are increasing the demands and complexity of the overall development process. Key factors to improving both development speed and security despite these new challenges include new levels of collaboration and communication across formerly disparate teams -- from those who design, to ...
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How Spain’s Mobile Experience Leverages HPE Location Services to Enrich the Museum Experience

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By Dana Gardner
| Spreaker
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer discussion hones in on an organization in Madrid, Spain called Mobile Experience. We're about to learn how they precisely track the location of individuals using mobile devices inside of large organizations, like a museum, and then apply that to an enriched mobile user experience. To learn how precise positioning in a store or resort – anywhere with WiFi – leads to fascinating new mobile business apps development and interactive user experience ...
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2016: The Year that Accounts Payable Becomes Strategic

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By Dana Gardner
| Spreaker
The next BriefingsDirect business innovation thought leadership discussion focuses on the changing role and impact of accounts payable (AP) as a strategic business force. We’ll explore how intelligent AP is rapidly transforming by better managing exceptions, adopting fuller automation, and implementing end-to-end processes that leverage connected business networks. As the so-called digital enterprise adapts to a world of increased collaboration, digital transactions, and e-payables management ...
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On the Path to a New Normal--Gain Insights and Reassurance Using Data and Artificial Intelligence

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By Dana Gardner
| Spreaker
Info The next BriefingsDirect Voice of AI Innovation podcast explores how businesses and IT strategists are planning their path to a new normal throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and recovery. By leveraging the latest tools and gaining data-driven inferences, architects and analysts are effectively managing the pandemic response -- and giving more people better ways to improve their path to the new normal. Artificial intelligence (AI) and data science are proving increasingly impactful and ...
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How REI Used Automation to Cloudify Infrastructure and Rapidly Adjust its Digital Pandemic Response

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By Dana Gardner
| Spreaker
Info Like many retailers, Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI) was faced with drastic and rapid change when the COVID-19 pandemic struck. REI’s marketing leaders wanted to make sure that their online e-commerce capabilities would rise to the challenge. They expected a nearly overnight 150 percent jump in REI’s purely digital business.
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How an SAP Ecosystem Partnership Reduces Risk and Increases Cost-Efficiency Around Tax Management

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By Dana Gardner
| Spreaker
Info The next BriefingsDirect data-driven tax optimization discussion focuses on reducing risk and increasing cost efficiency as businesses grapple with complex and often global spend management challenges. We’ll now explore how end-to-end visibility of almost any business tax, compliance, and audit functions allows for rapid adherence to changing requirements -- thanks to powerful new tools. And we’ll learn directly from businesses how they are pursuing and benefiting from advances in ...
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BriefingsDirect

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By Dana Gardner
| BriefingsDirect Podcasts
Just as cloud computing initially seeped into organizations under the cloak of shadow IT, application programming interface (API) adoption has often followed an organic, inexact, and unaudited path. IT leaders know they’re benefiting from APIs -- internal, via third parties, and often outwardly exposed -- they just don’t know where they are, how much they support key services, and how they’re being used … or abused.
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When it comes to API security, expect the whole world to be testing your mettle, says Twitter CISO

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By Dana Gardner
| Security Boulevard
When it comes to API security, expect the whole world to be testing your mettle, says Twitter CISO Just as cloud computing initially seeped into organizations under the cloak of shadow IT, application programming interface (API) adoption has often followed an organic, inexact, and unaudited path.
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BriefingsDirect

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By Dana Gardner
| BriefingsDirect Podcasts
Predicting the future took on a whole new degree of difficulty the past two years. And while we can’t always know what Mother Nature will throw our way, we can learn from what worked -- and what didn’t work -- in 2021. Clearly, adjusting swiftly to persistent change and leveraging digital -- and often virtual -- tools, environments, and processes were major benefits. Now, how will 2022 shape up as we extrapolate on the trends around shifting work models?
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BriefingsDirect

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By Dana Gardner
| BriefingsDirect Podcasts
Complexity and security challenges can hobble the growth of financial transactions for private-data-laden, consumer-facing software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. Add to that the need to deliver user experiences that are simple, intuitive, and personalized -- and you have a thorny thicket of software development challenges.
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BriefingsDirect

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By Dana Gardner
| BriefingsDirect Podcasts
The so-called great resignation has anywhere from half to two-thirds of U.S. workers looking for something other than their current situation. Whatever the percentage, there’s no question that workers across the board have and continue to quit in droves. And whether the exit is due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the culmination of decades of various trends, or some combination, the bottom line is that employers need to give workers better reasons to remain.
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BriefingsDirect

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By Dana Gardner
| BriefingsDirect Podcasts
Way back in 1996, when web browsing was novel and central processing still ruled the roost of enterprise IT, The Open Group was formed from the merger of the Open Software Foundation and X/Open. This October marks the 25th anniversary of remarkable achievements in the technology standards arena by The Open Group.
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BriefingsDirect

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By Dana Gardner
| BriefingsDirect Podcasts
In the last BriefingsDirect sustainable business innovation discussion, we explored how operational resiliency has become a top priority in the increasingly interconnected financial services sector. We now expand our focus to explore the best ways to anticipate, plan for, and swiftly implement the means for nearly any business to avoid disruption. New techniques allow for rapid responses to many of the most pressing threats.
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BriefingsDirect

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By Dana Gardner
| BriefingsDirect Podcasts
The speed and complexity of microservices-intense applications often leave their developers in the dark. The creators too often struggle to track and visualize the actual underlying architecture of their distributed services. The designers, builders, and testers of modern API-driven apps, therefore, need an ongoing and instant visibility capability into the rapidly changing data flows, integration points, and assemblages of internal and third-party services.
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BriefingsDirect

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By Dana Gardner
| BriefingsDirect Podcasts
The rapidly expanding use of application programming interfaces (APIs) to accelerate application development and advanced business services has created a vast constellation of interrelated services -- often now called the API Economy. Yet the speed and complexity of this API adoption spree has largely outrun the capability of existing tools and methods to keep tabs on the services topology -- let alone keep these services secure and resilient.
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BriefingsDirect

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By Dana Gardner
| BriefingsDirect Podcasts
Bringing broader awareness of security risks and building a security-minded culture within any public or private organization has been a top priority for years. Yet halfway through 2021, IT security remains as much a threat as ever -- with multiple major breaches and attacks costing tens of millions of dollars occurring nearly weekly. Why are the threat vectors not declining?
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BriefingsDirect

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By Dana Gardner
| BriefingsDirect Podcasts
Today’s diversity of hybrid IT models and environments demands that IT services and support accommodate more digital variables than ever. This burgeoning complexity and the fast-changing dynamics of digital businesses are pushing enterprises to seek a complete and holistic way to support all their technology -- from every edge to every cloud -- in one bold stroke.
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BriefingsDirect

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By Dana Gardner
| BriefingsDirect Podcasts
Self-awareness as an individual attribute provides the context to better understand others and to find common ground. But what about self-awareness of entire generations? Are those born before the mass appeal and distribution of digital technology able to make the leap in their awareness of those who have essentially been Born Digital?
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BriefingsDirect

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By Dana Gardner
| BriefingsDirect Podcasts
The last few years have certainly highlighted the need for businesses of all kinds to build up their operational resilience. With a rising tide of pandemic waves, high-level cybersecurity incidents, frequent technology failures, and a host of natural disasters -- there’s been plenty to protect against. As businesses become more digital and dependent upon end-to-end ecosystems of connected services, the responsibility for protecting critical business processes has clearly shifted.
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BriefingsDirect

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By Dana Gardner
| BriefingsDirect Podcasts
While the use of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) for IT security may not be new, the extent to which data-driven analytics can detect and thwart nefarious activities is still in its infancy. As we’ve recently discussed here on BriefingsDirect, an expanding universe of interdependent application programming interfaces (APIs) forms a new and complex threat vector that strikes at the heart of digital business.
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BriefingsDirect

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By Dana Gardner
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The burgeoning use of application programming interfaces (APIs) across cloud-native computing and digital business ecosystems has accelerated rapidly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Enterprises have had to scramble to develop and procure across new digital supply chains and via unproven business-to-business processes.Companies have also extended their business perimeters to include home workers as well as to reach more purely online end-users and customers.
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BriefingsDirect

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By Dana Gardner
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The clear and present danger facing businesses and governments from cybersecurity threats has only grown more clear and ever-present in 2021. As the threats from runaway ransomware attacks and state-sponsored backdoor access to networks deepen, too many businesses have a false sense of quick recovery using traditional business continuity and backup measures. That’s because the criminals are increasingly compromising vulnerable backup systems and data first -- before they attack.
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BriefingsDirect

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By Dana Gardner
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Thinking of IT security as a fortress or a moat around your compute assets has given way to a more realistic and pervasive posture. Such a cybersecurity perimeter, it turns out, was only an illusion. A far more effective extended-enterprise strategy protects business assets and processes wherever they are -- and wherever they might reach.
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BriefingsDirect

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By Dana Gardner
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As businesses plan for a future where more of their workforce can be located just about anywhere, how should they rethink hiring, training, and talent optimization? This major theme for 2021 and beyond poses major adjustments for both workers and savvy business leaders.
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By Dana Gardner
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The tumultuous shift over the past year to nearly all-digital and frequently at-home work has amounted to a rapid-fire experiment in human adaptability. While there are many successful aspects to the home-exodus experiment, as with all disruption to human behavior, there are also some significant and highly personal downsides.
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BriefingsDirect

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By Dana Gardner
| BriefingsDirect Podcasts
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of Innovation discussion explores how services and support for enterprise IT have entered a new era. For IT technology providers, the timing of the news couldn’t be better. That's because those now consuming tech support are demanding higher-order value -- such as improved worker productivity from hybrid services delivered across many remote locations.
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BriefingsDirect

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By Dana Gardner
| BriefingsDirect Podcasts
Now that hybrid work models have been the norm for a year, what’s the long-term impact on worker productivity? Will the pandemic-induced shift to work from anywhere agility translate into increased employee benefits -- and better business outcomes -- over time?
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How Global Data Availability Accelerates Collaboration and Delivers Business Insights

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By Dana Gardner
| The Startup
The next BriefingsDirect data strategy insights discussion explores the payoffs when enterprises overcome the hurdles of disjointed storage to obtain global data access. By leveraging the latest in container and storage server technologies, the holy grail of inclusive, comprehensive, and actionable storage can be obtained. And such access extends across all deployment models — from hybrid cloud, to software-as-a-service (SaaS), to distributed data centers, and edge. Listen to the podcast.
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How to Gain Advanced Cyber Resilience and Recovery Across the IT Ops and SecOps Divide

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By Dana Gardner
| The Startup
Cyber attacks are on the rise, harming brands and supply chains while fomenting consumer and employee distrust — as well as leading to costly interruptions and service blackouts. At the same time, more remote workers and extended-enterprise processes due to the pandemic demand higher levels of security across all kinds of business workflows.
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