How Work from Anywhere Holds the Secret to Unlocking Once-Hidden Productivity and Creativity Gems

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Squid Game is back—and this time, the knives are out. In the thrilling Season 3 premiere, Player 456 is spiraling and a brutal round of hide-and-seek forces players to kill or be killed. Hosts Phil Yu and Kiera Please break down Gi-hun’s descent into vengeance, Guard 011’s daring betrayal of the Game, and the shocking moment players are forced to choose between murdering their friends… or dying. Then, Carlos Juico and Gavin Ruta from the Jumpers Jump podcast join us to unpack their wild theories for the season. Plus, Phil and Kiera face off in a high-stakes round of “Hot Sweet Potato.” SPOILER ALERT! Make sure you watch Squid Game Season 3 Episode 1 before listening on. Play one last time. IG - @SquidGameNetflix X (f.k.a. Twitter) - @SquidGame Check out more from Phil Yu @angryasianman , Kiera Please @kieraplease and the Jumpers Jump podcast Listen to more from Netflix Podcasts . Squid Game: The Official Podcast is produced by Netflix and The Mash-Up Americans.…

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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?

The next BriefingsDirect workspace innovation discussion explores how a bellwether UK accounting services firm has shown how consistent, secure, and efficient digital work experiences lead to heightened team collaboration and creative new workflows.

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To learn more about the ways that distributed work models fuel innovation, please welcome our guests, Chris Madden, Director of IT and Operations for Kreston Reeves, LLP in the UK, and Tim Minahan, Executive Vice President of Business Strategy and Chief Marketing Officer at Citrix. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

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How Work from Anywhere Holds the Secret to Unlocking Once-Hidden Productivity and Creativity Gems

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How The Open Group Portfolio of Digital Open Standards Supports Digital Business Transformation Journey 40:06

51 weeks ago40:06

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The next BriefingsDirect enterprise architecture (EA) discussion explores how a comprehensive portfolio of open standards and associated best practices powerfully supports digital business transformation. As companies chart a critical course to adopt agility using artificial intelligence (AI)-driven benefits, they need proven and actionable structure to help deepen customer relationships, improve internal processes, and heighten business value outcomes. Accordingly, this latest BriefingsDirect interview explores how The Open Group Portfolio of Digital Open Standards instructs innovation internally to match the demands of a rapidly changing, increasingly competitive, and analytics-intensive global marketplace. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes . Read a full transcript or download a copy. Joining us to explore how to strategically architect for ongoing disruption and innovation is our expert guest, Sonia Gonzalez , Digital Portfolio Product Manager at The Open Group . The discussion 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 .…

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Make AI Adoption a Strategic, ROI-Focused, and Sustainable Transformation, Says HPE 42:34

1 year ago42:34

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The next BriefingsDirect expert interview podcast explores best practices for deploying artificial intelligence (AI) with a focus on sustainability and strategic business benefits. As AI rises as an imperative that impacts companies at nearly all levels, proper concern for efficiency around energy use and resources management has emerged as a key ingredient of success -- or failure. It’s becoming increasingly evident that AI deployments will demand vast resources -- energy, water, skills, and upgraded or wholly new data center and electrical grid infrastructures. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Stay tuned to learn why factoring the full and long-term benefits — accurately weighed against the actual costs — is essential to assuring the desired business outcomes from AI implementations. Only by calculating the true and total expected costs in the fullest sense can businesses predict the proper fit-for-purpose use for large deployments of AI systems. Here to share the latest findings and best planning practices for sustainable AI is John Frey , Director and Chief Technologist of Sustainable Transformation at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) . The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner , Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions . Subscribe to the podcast . Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise .…

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How a Minnesota Law Firm Brings Mission Critical Security to Myriad Mobile Devices 30:46

1 year ago30:46

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The next BriefingsDirect mobile devices security and privacy discussion examines how a new balance needs to be struck between giving users at the remote edge all the productivity they want, while protecting the most sensitive information. Listen to the podcast . Subscribe to it on iTunes . Read a full transcript or download a copy. Stay here to learn how a Minnesota law firm puts the power of diverse mobility to widespread use and keeps confidential and regulated data under strict control. Here to share his story of how to guide small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to the edge and back safely is Mark Hatfield, IT Director at Jeff Anderson & Associates , and IT Infrastructure and Security Consultant at Hatfield Engineering Corp. , both in St. Paul, Minnesota. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner , Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Listen to the podcast . Subscribe to it on iTunes . Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: Bitdefender .…

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How IT Security Teams Do More with Less When Economies Rapidly Change 27:44

2 years ago27:44

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The next BriefingsDirect IT security best practices discussion examines how a leading German home builder has adjusted to a major economic market disruption. Germany’s home building demand has recently reversed, putting pressure on builders to reduce IT costs while remaining secure. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes . Read a full transcript or download a copy. Stay tuned here to learn how a large, distributed workforce can be best supported by IT -- even as business conditions change and budget requirements lead to broad consolidation. Here to share how an efficient security team helps the shift from managing surging growth to optimizing around necessary contraction is Johannes Hammen , Information Security Officer at DFH Gruppe in Simmern, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. The discussion 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 .…

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How Accounts Payable Automation and Agility Drive Long-Term Business Productivity 27:31

2 years ago27:31

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The next BriefingsDirect business modernization discussion focuses on how optimizing and automating accounts payable (AP) functions gives businesses improved insights and levers to better transform. We’ll examine how improved control and management over cash flow, payables, and related fiduciary functions elevate overall financial situational awareness. Via adoption of intelligent automation, such new awareness -- and the greater efficiency it produces -- will further support the expected consolidation and convergence of financial operations within the typical office of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes . Read a full transcript or download a copy. Here to show how and share his insights as a business operations efficiency veteran and expert is our guest, Jason Kurtz , Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Basware . The discussion 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: Basware .…

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How Dashboard Analytics Bolster Security and Risk Management Insights Across IT Supply Chains 34:37

2 years ago34:37

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The next BriefingsDirect security enhancement discussion examines how innovative managers are increasingly benefiting from interactive dashboard analytics. The resulting actionable knowledge elevates security situation awareness to the higher order value of overall business risk assessment and mitigation. Learn how Bruce Auto Group has gained such deep insights -- not only into how its distributed apps, systems, and data are secured, but also into the hidden risks that can develop across entire IT and data services supply chains. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes . Read a full transcript or Download a copy. Here to share his story on how to elevate IT security to a mission-critical value of comprehensive risk mitigation and overall business resiliency is Paul Jobson , Director of Marketing and IT Strategy at Bruce Auto Group in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. The discussion 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 .…

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How WFH Accelerated IT and Security Transformation at Global Publisher HBG 32:32

2 years ago32:32

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The next BriefingsDirect security innovations discussion examines how the rapid shift to remote work has accelerated a rethinking of security and IT processes at a New York-based publishing organization. Rearchitecting the security posture of a business means adjusting work patterns and IT in ways that both reduce risk and heighten performance. But the trick is to do so without alienating workers -- wherever they may be -- and maintaining strong productivity. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes . Read a full transcript or download a copy. Here to share her story on how to digitally transform a traditional business structure, reduce risk factors, and preserve a highly creative culture is Heidi Holmes , Senior Director of Information Technology Services at Hachette Book Group (HBG) in New York. The discussion 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 .…

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Why today’s hybrid IT complexity makes 'as a service' security essential 24:33

2 years ago24:33

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Amid rapidly growing IT security costs and the added complexity of distributed workforces, the challenges facing IT services providers are clearly outrunning past practices. That’s why more automation, integration, and acquiring security “as a service” are in hot demand. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes . Read a full transcript or download a copy. Stay with us now as the next BriefingsDirect security innovations discussion examines how Heartland Business Systems is seeking such new ways and new partners to ensure that security incidents are kept in check across a variety of hybrid IT services and scenarios. Here to share his story of increasingly embracing security-as-a-service Jason Nuss , Vice President of Cloud Services at Heartland Business Systems (HBS) in Little Chute, Wisconsin. The discussion 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 .…

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For UK MSP, Optimizing Customer Experience is Key to Successful Security Posture and Culture 34:55

2 years ago34:55

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For managed service providers (MSPs), making the IT infrastructure as invisible as possible isn’t just a “nice-to-have" — it's also elemental to delivering the best customer experience. Securing IT for these tech services and support users is no different. The less complexity and interference with productivity from the underlying security apparatus — the better. The next BriefingsDirect security innovations discussion examines how Scottish MSP Grant McGregor Ltd. has taken the customer experience imperative to new heights — even as its users move increasingly to hybrid IT models. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes . Read a full transcript or download a copy. Here to share their story of better managing the security experience as a means of enhancing the overall IT services value are David Lawrence , Co-Founder and Director of IT Support Services and Advice at Grant McGregor in Edinburgh, and Paul Sinclair , Head of IT Service at Grant McGregor. The discussion 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 .…

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Defending the Perimeter Evolves into Securing the User Experience Bubble for UK Cancer Services Provider 29:11

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An underappreciated aspect of enhancing IT security is the impact on an end user’s comfort and trust in the services provided. In the case of health care services and support, making the patient feel welcome and safe can be a game-changer as they seek access to needed services and care. The next BriefingsDirect security innovations discussion examines how Macmillan Cancer Support in the United Kingdom (UK) places the ease of use and sense of security in the services provided as a top IT -- and community service -- requirement. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes . Read a full transcript or download a copy. Here to share their story on how to develop and deliver a cloud-ready security bubble around all users, their activities, and the sensitive data they share is our guest, Tim O’Neill , Head of Information Security at Macmillan Cancer Support in London. 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 .…

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A-Core Concrete Sets a Solid Foundation for Preemptive Security 30:03

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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. As a prime example, that’s another way that A-Core Concrete shines. Listen to the podcast . Find it on iTunes . Read a full transcript or download a copy. Today’s BriefingsDirect security innovations discussion examines how A-Core Concrete has created a security culture that relies on centralized administration, proactive insights, and rapid remediation to successfully assure that the whole company operates at peak performance. Here to share the story of how to best balance resilient security with the efficient use of human capital and resources is Andy Black , Chief Information Officer (CIO) at A-Core Concrete Specialists Inc. , in Salt Lake City. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner , Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Listen to the podcast . Find it on iTunes . Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: Bitdefender .…

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Hybrid Work is the Future, and Innovative Technology Will Define It 41:18

3 years ago41:18

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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. And the technology tools and solutions — many designed for an earlier in-office era — are not necessarily up to the task. The perceptions and preferences of bosses and workers alike are in a seemingly unending transition. Nothing quite seems fit for the new, still-to-be-defined purpose. So, what is the eventual end-state of hybrid work? Will the process of finding it provoke new forms of innovation, opportunity, and technological success? Or will productivity and work-life balance suffer amid a period of tension, power plays, and years of seesawing trial and error approaches to hybrid work? Stay with BriefingsDirect to explore here the drivers and opportunities to get the future of hybrid work right -- perhaps sooner rather than later. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes . Read a full transcript or download a copy. To learn more about what makes hybrid work move to an arc of opportunity, and not wallow in a trough of complexity and confusion, please welcome Amy Haworth , Founder and CEO of Nobody Makes it Alone , and Tim Minahan , Executive Vice President of Strategy at Citrix . The conversation 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: Citrix .…

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How Deep Observability Forms the Gift that Keeps Giving for Hybrid IT Security, Performance, and Agility 41:39

3 years ago41:39

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For those tasked with delivering unwavering performance of their apps and data, there have never been more unknowns to account for and manage. That’s because today’s hybrid clouds and mixed-network environments come with a multitude of dynamic variables -- and an unprecedented degree of complexity. Yet modern digital business demands that the entire constellation of these far-flung cloud services, resources, and application constituent parts coalesce perfectly. The end result must be real-time and always-on user experiences that delight, and business transactions that are both highly secure and never fail. Bridging the gap between such daunting complexity and awesome performance and security requirements means gaining the best visibility into all aspects of the hybrid- and multi-cloud continuum. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes . Read a full transcript or download a copy. Watch the video . Stay with us as BriefingsDirect explores the ways that deep observability moves past the limitations of metrics, events, logs, and traces to deliver far richer and faster data-driven insights. By exploiting these new means of pervasive deep observability, the highest levels of security, performance, and agility can be attained by nearly any business and organization. To learn how, please welcome Bassam Khan , Vice-President of Product and Technical Marketing Engineering at Gigamon . 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. View the video . Sponsor: Gigamon .…

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How Deep Observability Powers Strong Cybersecurity and Network Insights Across Complex Cloud Environments 31:34

3 years ago31:34

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The growing prevalence of complex multi- and hybrid-cloud environments has opened a Pandora’s Box of unseen risks around security and performance. But unlike when IT and network operators had the tools and access to track their own internal systems and data, the mixed-cloud model of today is much harder to know and secure. Pandora’s Box is open but observing what’s going on in and around it is cloaked by inadequate means to gain actionable insights amid all the distributed variables. Enter deep observability and its capabilities, which are designed to provide rich access to multi-cloud and mixed-network behaviors. Such observations and data gathering can be analyzed to rapidly secure end-to-end applications and protect sensitive data. Stay with BriefingsDirect as we explore the latest advances around deep observability, and show how a neutral deployment approach for observation technology spans more infrastructure and services to best protect and accelerate digital business success. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes . Read a full transcript or download a copy. To learn how deep observability puts cloud chaos and hard-to-know risks back under control, BriefingsDirect welcomes Shane Buckley , President and CEO of Gigamon . The discussion 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: Gigamon .…

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HPE Accelerates its Sustainability Goals While Improving the Impact of IT on the Environment and Society 28:21

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As businesses worldwide seek to maximize their value to their customers and communities, the total value equation has expanded to now include the impact on sustainability for the environment . The ways that companies, along with their partners, suppliers, and employees best manage and govern their resources and assets speaks volumes about their place among peers. And it allows them to take a leadership position as stewards and protectors of the future. The sooner the world’s industries develop a commitment to reach a net-zero carbon emissions posture, for example, the better for everyone in gaining environmental sustainability. Stay with us as BriefingsDirect examines how Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has newly accelerated its many programs and initiatives to reduce its carbon emissions, conserve energy, and reduce waste -- including far earlier net-zero dates and more impactful emission-reduction milestones. Listen here how HPE’s newest living progress report provides a blueprint for other organizations in and outside of the HPE orbit to also hasten and improve their sustainability efforts. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes . Read a full transcript or download a copy. Here to share the latest on HPE’s plans and goals for broad and lasting sustainability is John Frey , Chief Technologist, Sustainable Transformation at HPE. The discussion 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: Hewlett Packard Enterprise .…

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It’s Official—Flexible and Remote Work are Here to Stay, Say Empowered Employees 32:44

3 years ago32:44

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The world’s office workers have more clout and influence now than ever over where and how they do their jobs. Those who have worked from home and want to continue are spurring on their employers to do more than just embrace hybrid work. They’re seeking to reinvent the very nature of employment. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes . Read a full transcript or download a copy. Stay with BriefingsDirect as we explore new research into how innovations such as contingent labor exchanges and intelligent workspaces are changing the future of work forever. To learn more about how flexible work models are the new normal for workers and businesses alike, please welcome Andrew Bartolini , Founder and Chief Research Officer at Ardent Partners in Boston, and Tim Minahan , Executive Vice President of Business Strategy at Citrix , in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The discussion 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: Citrix .…

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How Low-Code Development has Entered a Maturity Spurt Thanks to New Process-Oriented Capabilities 28:46

3 years ago28:46

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Closing the gap between the applications and services a company needs -- and the ones they can actually produce -- has long been a missing keystone for attaining digital transformation. For increasingly software-driven organizations, the speed by which developers produce the needed processes, data flows, and business transactions has been much too slow for much too long. Fast-forward to the pressing new requirements of pervasively digital business in 2022, and it’s abundantly clear that something has to change. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes . Read a full transcript or download a copy. Stay with us now as BriefingsDirect explores the latest capabilities and burgeoning strengths of Low-Code software development. To learn how the current maturity of Low-Code development will revolutionize the delivery of essential business applications, please join Matt Calkins , Founder and CEO of Appian in Reston, VA. 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: Appian .…

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When it Comes to API Security, Expect the Whole World to Be Testing Your Mettle, Says Twitter CISO 30:40

4 years ago30:40

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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 organically adopted technologies like APIs are adversely impacting their businesses -- until something like the Log4j and Log4shell vulnerabilities have run amok. Stay with us now as we explore how API-intensive and API-experienced businesses are bringing maturity to their APIs’ protections through greater observability, tracing, and usage analysis. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes . Read a full transcript or download a copy. To learn how Twitter , a poster child for business-critical API use, makes the most of APIs by better knowing and managing them across their full lifecycles, we’re joined by several guests to discuss the latest in API maturity: Please welcome Rinki Sethi , Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Twitter , and Alissa Knight , recovering hacker and partner at Knight Ink . The discussion 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: Traceable AI .…

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2022: The Year Technology and New Work Models Come Together to Enable Continuous Innovation 39:16

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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 ? How will technology, both tactically and strategically, improve the ways businesses operate and enable employees to remain productive and content , regardless of where they are? Stay with us as we explore the ways work continues to be reinvented while -- at the same time -- digital technologies enhance and disrupt the means through which we all collaborate and operate in our jobs. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes . Read a full transcript or download a copy. To learn more about the ways that 2022 will set the stage for the next decade of innovation and work adaptation, BriefingsDirect sat down with Christian Reilly , Vice President and Head of Technology Strategy at Citrix , and Tim Minahan , Executive Vice President of Business Strategy at Citrix. The discussion 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: Citrix .…

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How Houwzer Speeds Growth and Innovation for Online Real Estate by Gaining Insights into API Use and Behavior 26:56

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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. So how did streamlined and cost-efficient home-brokerage-enabler Houwzer construct a resilient application programming interface (API)-based platform as the heart of its services integration engine for buying and selling real estate online? Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes . Read a full transcript or download a copy. To gain the inside story of how Houwzer makes the most of APIs and protects its user data while preventing vulnerabilities, BriefingsDirect sat down with Greg Phillips , Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Houwzer . The discussion 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: Traceable AI.…

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Working the Great Resignation--How Employers Can Transform Things to their Advantage 36:13

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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 . Stay with BriefingsDirect as we explore new research into why one of the tightest labor markets the world has ever seen means an end to business as usual. We’ll explore ways that the shifting expectations of employees may lead to a transformation of employment -- that can work to everyone’s advantage . Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes . Read a full transcript or download a copy. To learn more about the transition to a healthier and more sustainable environment for employee well-being and satisfaction, please welcome Amy Haworth , Senior Director of Employee Experience at Citrix , and Melissa Swift , U.S. and Canada Transformations Services Leader at Mercer . The discussion 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: Citrix .…

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The Open Group Marks 25 Years of Working Together to Make Successful Standards 39:13

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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. Beginning with a focus as the publisher of the single UNIX specification technical standard and steward of the UNIX trademark, the organization has grown to more than 850 members in over 50 countries -- and it leads the field and technology standard services, certifications, research, and training. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes . Read a full transcript or download a copy. Stay with us as BriefingsDirect explores how standards like UNIX and TOGAF evolved to transform business and society by impacting the world as a digital adoption wave swept over human affairs during the past quarter century. Here to commemorate The Open Group’s achievements and reminisce about the game-changing, earth-shattering, and culture-evolving advances of standards-enabled IT, are Steve Nunn , Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at The Open Group; David Lounsbury , Chief Digital Officer (CDO) at The Open Group, and Jim Hietala , Vice President Business Development and Security at The Open Group. The panel discussion 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 .…

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How More Industries Can Cultivate a Culture of Operational Resilience 40:35

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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. By predefining root causes and implementing advance responses, many businesses can create a culture of safer and sustained operations. Listen to the podcast . Find it on iTunes . Read a full transcript or download a copy. To learn more about the many ways that businesses can reach a high level of assured business availability despite persistent threats, please welcome Steve Yon , Executive Director of the EY ServiceNow Practice , and Andrew Zarenski , Senior Manager and ServiceNow Innovation Leader at EY . The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner , Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solution. Listen to the podcast . Find it on iTunes . Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: ServiceNow and EY .…

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How FinTech Innovator Razorpay Uses Open-Source Tracing to Manage Fast-Changing APIs 38:39

4 years ago38:39

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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. Thankfully, an open-source project to advance the sophisticated distributed tracing and observability platform called Hypertrace is helping. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes . Read a full transcript or download a copy. Stay with us here as BriefingsDirect explores the evolution and capabilities of Hypertrace and how an early adopter in the online payment suite business, Razorpay , has gained new insights and deeper understanding of their overall services components. To learn how Hypertrace discovers, monitors, visualizes, and optimizes increasingly complex services architectures, please welcome Venkat Vaidhyanathan , Architect at Razorpay in Bangalore, India, and Jayesh Ahire , Founding Engineer at Traceable AI and Product Manager for Hypertrace . The discussion 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: Traceable AI .…

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Traceable AI Platform Builds Usage Knowledge that Detects and Thwarts API Vulnerabilities 39:23

4 years ago39:23

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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 . Stay with us here as BriefingsDirect explores a new platform designed from the ground up specifically to define, manage, secure, and optimize the API underpinnings for so much of what drives today’s digital businesses. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes . Read a full transcript or download a copy. To learn more about how Traceable AI aims to make APIs reach their enormous potential safely and securely , please welcome Sanjay Nagaraj , Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Co-Founder at Traceable AI . 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: Traceable AI.…

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How HPE Pointnext Complete Care Transforms Edge-to-Cloud Support to Enable Business-Wide Outcomes 33:45

4 years ago33:45

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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. That’s the market driver behind a new pan-IT services offering from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Pointnext Services called HPE Pointnext Complete Care . The all-inclusive approach moves past product-based experiences of support to an all-IT-environment-wide experience. It both reaches back to provide legacy and product support and extends to the intelligence-driven and proactive optimization of all digital business services. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes . Read a full transcript or download a copy. The next BriefingsDirect Voice of Tech Services Innovation series interview examines how HPE Pointnext Services has developed this solution to satisfy the broad new definition of complete IT tech support. To learn more about bringing what amounts to a warm blanket of support across the entire IT environment please welcome Gerry Nolan , Director of Operational Services Portfolio at HPE Pointnext Services . 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: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Pointnext Services.…

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How to Migrate Your Organization to a More Security-Minded Culture – From Development to Production to Partners 28:46

4 years ago28:46

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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? Why, with all the tools and investment, are businesses still regularly being held up for ransom or having their data breached? To what degree are behavior, culture, attitude, and organizational dissonance to blame? Listen here as BriefingsDirect probes into these more human elements of IT security with a leading chief information security officer (CISO). Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes . Read a full transcript or download a copy. To learn more about adjusting the culture of security to make organizations more resilient, please welcome Adrian Ludwig , CISO at Atlassian . 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: Traceable.ai .…

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Citrix Research Shows Those ‘Born Digital’ Can Deliver Superlative Results if Business Leaders Know What Makes Them Tick 37:08

4 years ago37:08

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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 ? Does the awareness gap extend to an even more profound disconnect between how today’s younger generations think and those more likely to be in the leadership positions in businesses? Do the bosses really get their entry-level cohorts? And what, if any, impact has the COVID-19 pandemic had in amplifying these perception and cognition gaps? Stay with us as BriefingsDirect explores new research into what makes the Born Digital generation tick. And we’ll also unpack ways that the gap between those born analog and more recently can be closed. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes . Read a full transcript or download a copy. To learn more about the paybacks and advantages of understanding and embracing the Born Digital Effect , please welcome Tim Minahan , Executive Vice President of Business Strategy and Chief Marketing Officer at Citrix , and Amy Haworth , Senior Director of Employee Experience at Citrix. The discussion 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: Citrix .…

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How Financial Firms Blaze a Trail to New, More Predictive Operational Resilience Capabilities 45:37

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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. It’s no longer just a task for IT and security managers but has become top-of-mind for line-of-business owners, too. Stay with us now as BriefingsDirect explores new ways that those responsible for business processes specifically in the financial sector are successfully leading the path to avoiding and mitigating the impact and damage from these myriad threats. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes . Read a full transcript or download a copy. To learn more about the latest in rapidly beefing-up operational resilience by bellwether finance companies, BriefingsDirect welcomes Steve Yon , Executive Director of the EY ServiceNow Practice , and Sean Culbert , Financial Services Principal at EY . The discussion 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: ServiceNow and EY .…

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API Security Depends on the Novel Use of Advanced Machine Learning and Actionable Artificial Intelligence 28:46

4 years ago28:46