Explain IT

By Softcat

This is Explain IT, a show for IT professionals by IT professionals; offering insight, knowledge, experience and opinion on a variety of enterprise tech topics. With new episodes out regularly, follow... more

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The podcast currently has 94 episodes available.

Explain IT episodes:

July 06, 2021 Return to the Office (but not returning to the old ways)
In this episode, we will be talking to Graeme Watt CEO at Softcat, Rob Parkinson CIO at Softcat and Dean Gardner Softcat’s Field Chief Technology Officer. We will be discussing Returning to the office and if this is something businesses are planning, taking into consideration the many factors. What are those considerations and how could those decisions impact your business and the employee experience? We are going to look through the Softcat lens and aim to share some of our own thinking on return to the office.
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46min
June 15, 2021 Data Management for the Multi-Cloud
In this episode, we will be talking to Don Foster Commvault’s Global VP for Sales Engineering and Matt Watts, NetApp’s Chief Technology Evangelist. We will be discussing the 4th industrial revolution now, a data revolution. Organisations are a-massing more and more data with an increasing appetite into this data providing value and being under increasing compliance and regulatory pressures. On top of this customers are wrangling with how to operate a multi-cloud environment, in which their data plays a key role. In this podcast we want to explore this challenges from a number of different perspectives to shine a light on this part of the industry and provide guidance on how to navigate it successfully.

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46min
May 18, 2021 The Evolution of Security with Palo Alto Networks CTO and founder, Nir Zuk
In this episode, we will be talking to the co-creator of one of the key components of modern IT security, the next gen firewall. We will also be discussing how the industry has changed over the last 15 years, the key areas of security that you should be focusing on today, and how it’s decided what the next developments in security will be.
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37min
April 27, 2021 Sustainability in IT
In this episode, we take a look at what sustainability in IT looks like at the moment, why it’s so important, as well as ways in which different areas of the IT industry can work towards becoming more sustainable; and finally, as always, we’ll be taking a look into the future, and trying to understand what goals the industry should be working towards, and how we might get there. We look at how the channel as a whole can become more sustainable, from customer to reseller to distributor to manufacturer.

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43min
April 13, 2021 A look at the IT industry with Sanjay Poonen
In this very special episode of Explain IT, Zac was joined by a very special guest, none other the VMware's COO, Sanjay Poonen, as well as Explain IT regular, Dean Gardner. This episode takes a broad look at some of the key challenges and trends in the industry today, including: the long lasting impacts of the pandemic on the industry and wider society, how technology will evolve over the next 5 years, and the many ways organisations can be a driving force for positive change.

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31min
April 06, 2021 Bringing company culture to remote working
In this episode, host Zac Abbott is joined by guest from Softcat and Google to talk about organisational culture. We take a look at what organisational culture is, why it's so important as a way to differentiate yourself from the competition, how you can go about bringing that culture to a remote workforce (including the technologies to do it) and finally how we might see the culture of organisations develop in the future. This is a can't miss episode for anyone looking to enhance their remote working culture!
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32min
March 16, 2021 Women In Technology
This episode is all about women in technology. We talk about what impacts having greater diversity in the industry has, the journey’s that our guests have had to becoming a senior woman in tech, what it’s like to be a woman in tech at the moment and throughout the pandemic, and how the industry can evolve.
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33min
March 02, 2021 The next step in remote working
In the second episode of our Remote Working deep dive mini series, we're talking about how organisations can move beyond the basic model of remote working, and take the remote user experience to the next level. We explore not only the key technologies that can be used, but also the way in which leaders can demonstrate best practices in the way we work remotely, allowing for greater user freedoms, and accommodating different working patterns. Finally, we take a look at what remote/hybrid working could look like in the future.
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37min
February 09, 2021 Securing the remote workforce
In the first episode in our remote working deep dive mini-series, we're taking a look at what new threats security teams are facing in a remote world, how they can start to address these challenges, and what the future of end user security will look like as remote working continues to dominate the way many organisations operate.
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38min
January 13, 2021 2021 Tech Predictions
Season 4 of Explain IT is now live! We're kicking this season off with a look at what's to come, with our 2021 Tech Predictions episode. It's a can't miss episode if you want to get ahead of the game and understand what will be heading your way over the next 12 months in the world of enterprise IT
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37min

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How many episodes does Explain IT have?

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