The Digital Decode

While the notion of Zero Trust has been around for a long time, as a principle it’s really only about ten years old.


Recently on The Digital Decode, we had a conversation with Wolfgang Goerlich, the Advisory CISO for Duo Security, all about Zero Trust. We talked about:
- What is Zero Trust and why is it such a big deal?
- How today’s market is responding to the Zero Trust movement.
- How you can begin to implement Zero Trust in your organization.
- How Duo is pushing adoption of Zero Trust across the IT Security industry.


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The notion of a secure perimeter is broken forever. Networks now encompass thousands of devices around the globe.


Recently on The Digital Decode, we’re focusing on all things networking architecture in a conversation with two Presidio network experts:
- Ant Lefebvre, Senior Core Solutions Architect
- Campbell Mac Innes, Senior Solutions Architect


What we talked about:
- What’s changed in networking in the last six years
- The new demand for intent based networking
- Cloud architecture & security solutions


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Since 2020, everyone has fled to the cloud. And rightly so — it’s the most dynamic and versatile place for delivering business value.

Recently on The Digital Decode, we’re focusing on Intel in the cloud in a fantastic conversation with Ashley Rodrigue, Cloud Partner Manager at Intel, and Mark Vaughn, Sr. Director, Strategic Technology Group and Integrated Services Group at Presidio.


What we talked about:
- Cloud adoption since 2020 has been more about value than tech
- Balancing cost management with performance
- 2 stunning cloud transformation stories


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“It depends” is a favorite phrase of both cybersecurity practitioners and lawyers.


It does depend on the incident as to who you phone first, but your lawyer may well need to be that person.


Recently on The Digital Decode, Dave Trader (CyberSecurity Practice Lead at Presidio) chatted with Jennifer Beckage (Founder at Beckage) about securing legal advice before, during, and after a cybersecurity incident inevitably occurs. This Podcast was brought to you by Cisco Secure.


What we talked about:

- The 2 common and worst incident responses

- Why communication during an incident is so key

- Data laws and OFAC

- Where the CISO sits and who infosec should report to

- The best teachers: practice and experience


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Would you spend 37 consecutive hours on the phone to ensure your healthcare customer can provide uninterrupted care to patients?


Of course. And you’d be rightly proud of doing it.


In this episode, host Raphael Meyerowitz, Vice President, Office of the CTO, speaks with two Presidio SDMs about the ins and outs of their role: Shelia Byrne, Regional Service Delivery Management Lead, and Loris Schuring, Service Delivery Manager.


What we talked about:

- SDMs are conduits & orchestrators

- The importance of relationships in building trust

- Cloud and IT as a Service

- The responsibility shift from the client to managed services


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The power is in the data. The data is the lifeblood of the virtual machine.


Recently on The Digital Decode, host Raphael Meyerowitz, Vice President, Office of the CTO, chatted with two experts: Matt McEntee, National Partner Technical Manager at Pure Storage, and Eric Bursley, Enterprise Architect at Presidio.


They covered FlashStack, automation, VMware cloud foundation, and PURE1 — and how each affects customers.


What we talked about:

- FlashStack, automation, VMware cloud foundation, and PURE as a Service

- How each of the above affects customers


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The collaboration space hasn’t always offered a seamless transition for millions of work-anywhere employees.


Its recent transformation has been nothing less than astounding.


In a recent Digital Decode podcast, Raphael Meyerowitz, Vice President, Office of the CTO, speaks with two Presidio veterans about collaboration and connecting people:


Matthew Rehm is Senior Director of Software Solutions at Presidio, and Bill Fix is Senior Consulting Architect Team Lead at Presidio.


Raphael talked with Matt and Bill about...

-Positive changes the pandemic has brought to collaboration technologies

-The 3 waves of collab tech and forecasting for the fourth

-Why collaboration is magical (i.e., user impact)


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Organizations everywhere are tasked with doing more with less. More scalability in less time. More connectivity with less proximity. More insights with fewer data.


Trying to meet all of these needs without creating a hyper-complex IT monster is next to impossible. Or, is it?


In today’s episode of The Digital Decode, Vice President, Office of the CTO, Raphael Meyerowitz, chats with Presidio Engineering Director, Sam Clements, explains how Meraki’s simplicity inspires organizations to reach higher. Plus, he talks about…


- Why some of the largest retailers in the world use Meraki

- Ways Meraki improves connections to SaaS applications

- What zero-touch deployment really means

- How Meraki’s API serves homegrown apps


Check out Sam’s blog at sc-wifi.com.


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Were you at Cisco Live? We heard about the future of work and digital resiliency, among many other announcements that caught our attention.

On our first episode of The Digital Decode, Vice President of the Office of the CTO, Raphael Meyerowitz, interviews three distinguished engineers about their take on Cisco Live and the latest Cisco news:

- Sam Clements, Engineering Director, Office of the CTO, Mobility at Presidio

- Paul Giblin, Enterprise Architect, Distinguished Engineer at Presidio

- Maybelyn Plecic, Distinguished Engineer at Presidio

What they talked about:

- DevNet as an extension of Cisco’s education arm

- Cloud, AWS, and enterprise networking

- Taking an AI approach to WebEx integrations

- Connectivity mediums under a programmability lens

- Wi-Fi 6 and innovation
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The expertise of a solutions architect with 30 years of experience (20 as a CCIE) is no light matter. When one with such authority and experience tells you all the things you can accomplish with Cisco’s Intersight, you pay very close attention.

In this episode, we interview Randall Scheffer, Senior Solutions Architect at Presidio, about all things Intersight:
What we talked about:


- Why you need to embrace hybrid

- IWO, or Intersight Workload Optimizer

- How the forthcoming Intersight Manage Mode will change the game

Resources we mentioned during the podcast:

- Register for event referenced at 23:30
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