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by Dana Gardner
Customer use stories and insights on cloud, hybrid IT and enterprise IT trends.
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Explore Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative’s Latest Fundraiser, the First Public Screening of Granite Orpheus, a New Independent Film
Explore the Colonial Theatre's resident company’s latest fundraiser, the first public screening of Granite Orpheus, a 70-minute independent film made entirely in New Hampshire. Starring Powerhouse co-founder Bryan Halperin, and produced and directed by John Hession and Rick Broussard of Concord,...
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Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative Presents Hunchback of Notre Dame at Laconia’s Colonial Theatre
Welcome to the Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative's latest Voice of the Actors Podcast. Stay with us now as we introduce and explore the Colonial Theatre's resident theatre company’s latest production opening on May 2, the epic musical extravaganza, The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Based on Victor…
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Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative Presents LOVE/SICK at Laconia’s Colonial Theatre
Welcome to the Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative’s latest Voice of the Actors podcast. Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative Co-Founder Bryan Halperin, along with Actor and Playwright John Cariani, join moderator Dana Gardner to explore the Colonial Theatre's resident company’s latest production…
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Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative Presents The Crucible at Laconia’s Colonial Theatre
Welcome to the Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative’s latest Voice of the Actors podcast. Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative Co-Founder Bryan Halperin, along with The Crucible actor Kenny Aber and Assistant Director Debbi Finkelstein, join moderator Dana Gardner to explore the Colonial Theatre's…
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How The Open Group Portfolio of Digital Open Standards Supports Digital Business Transformation Journey
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...
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Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative Presents Fiddler on the Roof at Laconia’s Colonial Theatre
Welcome to the Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative’s latest Voice of the Actors podcast. Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative Co-Founder Bryan Halperin, along with Fiddler on the Roof lead Joel Iwaskiewicz and Chava actor Emma Malloy, join moderator Dana Gardner to explore the Colonial Theatre's…
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HPE on Making AI Adoption a Strategic and Sustainable Business Outcome
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…
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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. Join the podcast now to learn how a Minnesota law firm…
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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. Stay tuned…
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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...
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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...
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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 in…
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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. Stay with us now as the...
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For UK MSP, optimizing customer experience is key to successful security posture and productivity
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…
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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 they seek access to needed services and care. The next...
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How 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 Specialists, which builds large and complex structures...
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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 remains an ongoing "work in progress." In the…
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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 an unprecedented degree of…
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How Deep Observability Powers Strong Cybersecurity and Network Insights Across Complex Hybrid 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 mixed-cloud model of today is much...
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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 best manage and govern their...
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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 embrace hybrid work. They’re seeking to reinvent the very nature of employment....
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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 the needed processes…
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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, and often outwardly...
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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 -- in 2021. Clearly, adjusting swiftly to persistent change and leveraging digital -- and...
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How Houwzer Speeds Growth and Innovation by Gaining Insights into APIs 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...
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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 whether the exit is due to the…
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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 of remarkable achievements in the technology standards arena…
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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 swiftly implement…
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How FinTech Innovator Razorpay Uses Open-Source Tracing and Observability 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,...
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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 adoption spree has...
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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 to support all…
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How to Migrate Your Organization to a More Security-Minded Culture
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...
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Citrix Research Shows Those ‘Born Digital’ Can Deliver Superlative Results
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...
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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 -- there’s been plenty to protect...
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API Security Depends on Advanced Machine Learning and Actionable AI
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...
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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...
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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 strategy protects business assets and processes wherever...
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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 savvy business leaders. The next BriefingsDirect...
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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 false sense of quick...
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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, there are also some significant...
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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 demanding higher-order value -- such as...
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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 time? The next BriefingsDirect workspace...
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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 the pandemic demand higher levels of...
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How HPE ‘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 or broadly accepted...
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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...
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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 essential that the underlying technology be especially…
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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 and their...
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