BriefingsDirect Podcasts

By Dana Gardner

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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.

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BriefingsDirect Podcasts episodes:

02.12.2024
How a Minnesota Law Firm Brings Mission Critical Security to Myriad Mobile Devices
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...
01.18.2024
How IT Security Teams Do More with Less When Economies Rapidly Change
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....
11.13.2023
How Accounts Payable Automation and Agility Drive Long-Term Business Productivity
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...
09.28.2023
How Dashboard Analytics Bolster Security and Risk Management Insights Across IT Supply Chains
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...
07.11.2023
How WFH Accelerated IT and Security Transformation at Global Publisher HBG
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...
04.24.2023
Why today’s hybrid IT complexity makes 'as a service' security essential
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...
03.30.2023
For UK MSP, Optimizing Customer Experience is Key to Successful Security Posture and Culture
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...
03.01.2023
Defending the Perimeter Evolves into Securing the User Experience Bubble for UK Cancer Services Provider
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...
01.25.2023
A-Core Concrete Sets a Solid Foundation for Preemptive Security
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...
09.28.2022
Hybrid Work is the Future, and Innovative Technology Will Define It
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...
09.13.2022
How Deep Observability Forms the Gift that Keeps Giving for Hybrid IT Security, Performance, and Agility
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...
08.23.2022
How Deep Observability Powers Strong Cybersecurity and Network Insights Across Complex Cloud Environments
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...
06.22.2022
HPE Accelerates its Sustainability Goals While Improving the Impact of IT on the Environment and Society
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...
03.11.2022
It’s Official—Flexible and Remote Work are Here to Stay, Say Empowered Employees
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...
02.14.2022
How Low-Code Development has Entered a Maturity Spurt Thanks to New Process-Oriented Capabilities
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...
01.12.2022
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. IT leaders know they’re benefiting from APIs -- internal, via third parties,...
12.14.2021
2022: The Year Technology and New Work Models Come Together to Enable Continuous Innovation
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 --...
12.01.2021
How Houwzer Speeds Growth and Innovation for Online Real Estate by Gaining Insights into API Use and Behavior
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...
11.01.2021
Working the Great Resignation--How Employers Can Transform Things to their Advantage
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...
10.27.2021
The Open Group Marks 25 Years of Working Together to Make Successful Standards
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...
10.26.2021
How More Industries Can Cultivate a Culture of Operational Resilience
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...
10.19.2021
How FinTech Innovator Razorpay Uses Open-Source Tracing to Manage Fast-Changing APIs
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,...
10.01.2021
Traceable AI Platform Builds Usage Knowledge that Detects and Thwarts API Vulnerabilities
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...
09.09.2021
How HPE Pointnext Complete Care Transforms Edge-to-Cloud Support to Enable Business-Wide Outcomes
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...
08.30.2021
How to Migrate Your Organization to a More Security-Minded Culture – From Development to Production to Partners
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...
06.24.2021
Citrix Research Shows Those ‘Born Digital’ Can Deliver Superlative Results if Business Leaders Know What Makes Them Tick
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...
06.22.2021
How Financial Firms Blaze a Trail to New, More Predictive Operational Resilience Capabilities
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 --...
06.04.2021
API Security Depends on the Novel Use of Advanced Machine Learning and Actionable Artificial Intelligence
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...
05.05.2021
Making APIs Secure Demands Tracing and Machine Learning to Rapidly Limit Damage from Attacks
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...
04.21.2021
Rise of Broad Reliance on APIs Brings Novel Vector for Security Concern and Need for New Defenses
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...
04.19.2021
Creating Business Advantage with Technology-Enabled Flexible Work
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...
04.16.2021
Disaster Recovery to Cyber Recovery--The New Best Future State
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...
04.13.2021
Rethinking Employee Well-Being Means Innovative New Support for the Digital Work-Life Balance
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,...
03.29.2021
How HPE Pointnext Tech Care Changes the Game for Delivering Enhanced IT Solutions and Support
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...
03.09.2021
How Work from Anywhere Holds the Secret to Unlocking Once-Hidden Productivity and Creativity Gems
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...
03.04.2021
How to Gain Advanced Cyber Resilience and Recovery Across Digital Business Workflows
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...
02.18.2021
How HPE Pointnext ‘Moments’ Provide a Proven Critical Approach to Digital Business Transformation
The next edition of the BriefingsDirect Voice of Innovation video podcast series explores new and innovative paths for businesses to attain digital transformation. Even as a vast majority of companies profess to be seeking digital business transformation, few proven standards...
02.16.2021
How Global Data Availability Accelerates Collaboration and Delivers Business Insights
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...
02.10.2021
How Consistent Data Services Deliver Simplicity, Compatibility, and Lower Cost
This BriefingsDirect Data Strategies Insights discussion series, Part 2, explores the latest technologies and products delivering common data services across today’s hybrid cloud, distributed data centers, and burgeoning edge landscapes. New advances in storage technologies, standards, and methods have changed...
02.05.2021
How Storage Can Help You Digitally Transform in a Hybrid Cloud World
The next BriefingsDirect data strategies insights discussion explores how consistent and global storage models can best propel pervasive analytics and support digital business transformation. Decades of disparate and uncoordinated storage solutions have hindered enterprises’ ability to gain common data services...
01.14.2021
How Capgemini Optimizes Contingent Workforce Agility Using SAP Fieldglass
The next BriefingsDirect digital business innovation discussion explores the growing importance of contingent workforces. As more businesses look to external workforces and services to satisfy their skills and information technology (IT) needs, the ability to manage those workers and services is lagging. Even...
12.21.2020
The Future of Work is Happening Now Thanks to Digital Workplace Services
Businesses, schools, and governments have all had to rethink the proper balance between in-person and remote work. And because that balance is a shifting variable -- and may well continue to be for years after the pandemic -- it remains...
12.10.2020
Why Customer Experience Management Has Never Been More Important or Impactful
The next BriefingsDirect digital business innovation discussion explores how companies need to better understand and respond to their markets one subscriber at a time. By better listening inside of their products, businesses can remove the daylight between their digital deliverables...
12.07.2020
How to Industrialize Data Science to Attain Mastery of Repeatable Intelligence Delivery
Businesses these days are quick to declare their intention to become data-driven, yet the deployment of analytics and the use of data science remains spotty, isolated, and often uncoordinated. To fully reach their digital business transformation potential, businesses large and...
11.30.2020
How Transforming Source-to-Pay Procurement Delivers Agility and Improves Outcomes at Zuellig Pharma
The next BriefingsDirect intelligent procurement discussion explores the rationales and results when companies transform how they acquire goods and services. By injecting intelligence, automation, and standardization into the source-to-pay process, organizations are supporting even larger digital business transformation efforts. Stay...
11.25.2020
Here to Stay, Remote Work Promises to Deliver New Levels of Engagement, Productivity, and Innovation
The way people work has changed more in 2020 than the previous 10 years combined -- and that’s saying a lot. Even more than the major technological impacts of cloud, mobile, and big data, the COVID-19 pandemic has greatly accelerated...
11.20.2020
How the Journey to Modern Data Management is Paved with an Inclusive Edge-to-Cloud Data Fabric
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of Analytics Innovation discussion focuses on the latest insights into end-to-end data management strategies. As businesses seek to gain insights for more elements of their physical edge -- from factory sensors, myriad machinery, and across field operations --...
10.29.2020
COVID-19 Teaches Higher Education Institutes to Embrace Latest IT to Advance Remote Learning
Like many businesses, innovators in higher education have been transforming themselves for the digital age for years, but the COVID-19 pandemic nearly overnight accelerated the need for flexible new learning models. As a result, colleges and universities must rapidly redefine...
10.20.2020
The Path to a Digital-First Enterprise is Paved with an Emergence Model and Digital Transformation Playbook
The next BriefingsDirect digital business optimization discussion explores how open standards help support a playbook approach for organizations to improve and accelerate their digital transformation. As companies chart a critical journey to become digital-first enterprises, they need new forms of...
10.12.2020
How The Open Group Enterprise Architecture Portfolio Approach Enables the Agile Enterprise
The next BriefingsDirect agile business enablement discussion explores how a portfolio approach to standards has emerged as a key way to grapple with digital transformation. As businesses seek to make agility a key differentiator in a rapidly changing world, applying enterprise architecture...

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BriefingsDirect Podcasts episodes:

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

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

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

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

How WFH Accelerated IT and Security Transformation at Global Publisher HBG

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

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

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

A-Core Concrete Sets a Solid Foundation for Preemptive Security

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How More Industries Can Cultivate a Culture of Operational Resilience

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Making APIs Secure Demands Tracing and Machine Learning to Rapidly Limit Damage from Attacks

Rise of Broad Reliance on APIs Brings Novel Vector for Security Concern and Need for New Defenses

Creating Business Advantage with Technology-Enabled Flexible Work

Disaster Recovery to Cyber Recovery--The New Best Future State

Rethinking Employee Well-Being Means Innovative New Support for the Digital Work-Life Balance

How HPE Pointnext Tech Care Changes the Game for Delivering Enhanced IT Solutions and Support

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

How to Gain Advanced Cyber Resilience and Recovery Across Digital Business Workflows

How HPE Pointnext ‘Moments’ Provide a Proven Critical Approach to Digital Business Transformation

How Global Data Availability Accelerates Collaboration and Delivers Business Insights

How Consistent Data Services Deliver Simplicity, Compatibility, and Lower Cost

How Storage Can Help You Digitally Transform in a Hybrid Cloud World

How Capgemini Optimizes Contingent Workforce Agility Using SAP Fieldglass

The Future of Work is Happening Now Thanks to Digital Workplace Services

Why Customer Experience Management Has Never Been More Important or Impactful

How to Industrialize Data Science to Attain Mastery of Repeatable Intelligence Delivery

How Transforming Source-to-Pay Procurement Delivers Agility and Improves Outcomes at Zuellig Pharma

Here to Stay, Remote Work Promises to Deliver New Levels of Engagement, Productivity, and Innovation

How the Journey to Modern Data Management is Paved with an Inclusive Edge-to-Cloud Data Fabric

COVID-19 Teaches Higher Education Institutes to Embrace Latest IT to Advance Remote Learning

The Path to a Digital-First Enterprise is Paved with an Emergence Model and Digital Transformation Playbook

How The Open Group Enterprise Architecture Portfolio Approach Enables the Agile Enterprise