Zebra - Warehouse Modernization     Being well-connected and having visibility into all your assets, people, and processes at all times is crucial to having an integrated, productive, profitable, and compliant supply chain. Leading companies are leveraging forward-thinking fulfillment strategies to keep up with the growth of the on-demand economy. Augmenting workers with technology is sighted as the best way to introduce automation in the warehouse. To gain a competitive edge, look for a mobile computing, scanning, and printing solution which connects each operational area in your warehouse to give you the agility to realize transformational gains. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Darren Koffer to gain Zebra Technologies' perspective on Warehouse Modernization. Darren is a Product Portfolio Management Director of Warehouse Solutions at Zebra Technologies. 32 Minutes VMware Cloud Verified     Transforming your app portfolio for a multi-cloud, multi-device world, while enabling consistent operations that reduce cost and risk can be challenging. Identifying a provider that can deliver services with state of the art Cloud Infrastructure technology is key to achieving that mission. To gain a competitive edge, look for cloud provider that offers the greatest degree of interoperability across clouds. Michael Lippis interviews Jay Workman to gain his perspective on VMware Cloud Verified. Jay is the Senior Director of Cloud Partner Marketing with VMware. 11 Minutes IRI - Dark Data     In an information technology era in which both big data opportunities and privacy law exist and converge, there is a pressing need to discover, work with, and protect data hidden in unstructured files. A vast amount of collected or generated corporate and government data remains hidden in unstructured files, or so-called dark data repositories. To mitigate the legal, financial, and reputational risk of exposing personally identifiable information or (PII) in these often obscure files, and to comply with data privacy laws like the GDPR, firms need a way to rapidly locate and secure the PII in them. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Lisa Mangino to gain Innovative Routines International's perspective on dark data. Lisa is a Director of Data Software & Services at Innovative Routines International. 28 Minutes SAP Data Hub     Leading firms are building agile, data-driven pipeline applications that need to tap a single, logical data set representing their entire enterprise. To accomplish that task, those firms are leveraging all-in-one data orchestration solutions which distill business value from all data for operational excellence and digital expansion. To gain an edge, enterprises are utilizing technology which enables them to build, execute, orchestrate and govern flow-based pipelines, providing the maximum reuse of existing data developments while encompassing digital innovations. Michael Lippis interviews Amit Satoor to gain SAP's perspective on Data Orchestration. Amit is a Sr. Director of Product and Solution Marketing at SAP. 20 Minutes NEC - IaaS     No one likes infrastructure upgrades. Replacing new hardware is a costly, never-ending battle. But software upgrades, especially major ones, can entail even lengthier and more expensive projects. When it comes to dealing with today’s massive volumes of data—processing it, analyzing it and reporting on it— well not upgrading can be even more expensive. Often software upgrades introduce major changes. Whether by choice or due to changing technology, these changes affect not only existing features, but also the underlying data structures and platform. And almost certainly, the added features require newer, more efficient server hardware, memory and storage. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Mike Mitsch to gain NEC's perspective on Infrastructure as a Service. Mike is the Managing Director of Infrastructure as a Service at NEC Corporation of America. 25 Minutes Packaging Sustainability     In recent years, many companies have begun to consider converting their packaging machines from heat sealing to ultrasonic sealing technology. The idea of reducing film consumption by narrowing the seal width is a common driver toward ultrasonic sealing. Another is the understanding that an occasional lettuce leaf or piece of cheese that gets caught in the seal area will no longer present a problem because the ultrasonic system will seal right through the product. While these are good reasons to consider ultrasonic sealing, there are even greater benefits that can help you with your sustainable packaging initiatives. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Bill Aurand to gain Sonics & Materials' perspective on Packaging Sustainability with Ultrasonic Sealing. Bill is a Packaging Technology Manager at Sonics & Materials. 22 Minutes Micro Focus - Agile Enterprise     To become an agile enterprise, enterprise architects, portfolio managers, and other executives must gain insight into the status of each application in their portfolio, so they can make effective resource and investment decisions. And when a business decision is made, it must be pushed down into the application teams for implementation and tracked across its lifecycle, from its origins in strategy, through development, and into deployment and production. But each team is unique. Each may choose its own development methodology, application lifecycle management tools, and metrics to track. Some are moving to DevOps to increase agility. As a result, the information that feeds business decisions is difficult to obtain and is inconsistent across teams. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Victoria Voinigescu to gain Micro Focus' perspectives on Achieving an Agile Enterprise. Victoria is a Sr. Product Manager of Agile Portfolio and Lifecycle Strategy with Micro Focus. 26 Minutes PTC Manufacturing Apps     Today's manufacturing firms need to rapidly develop, deploy and extend apps and augmented reality experiences. Leaders are looking to unify data from enterprise business systems and the sensored physical world, and deliver user information and real-time insight in context for individual roles. To achieve Industrial Connectivity, you need to be empowered with the speed to unlock all data from your brownfield equipment and systems, and your Manufacturing Apps must be flexible enough to deliver that data to all persona in the factory or industrial setting. So, to gain a competitive edge, manufacturers need to leverage tools to dramatically simplify their digital transformation and accelerate time-to-value. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Aron Semle to gain PTC's perspective on Manufacturing Apps. Aron is a Director of Solutions Management at PTC. 31 Minutes AI Tackles Complex Networks     To manage complex networks IT teams need to turn to the power of artificial intelligence. For IT professionals, artificial intelligence (AI) has come to represent both an exciting field of opportunity as well as a potential complication. Although it’s only just begun to see real-world applications, it’s already clear that AI will change the tech landscape. And digital systems professionals that aren’t preparing for the impact that AI will have on their industries aren’t doing their job. What’s more, it’s become increasingly clear that AI won’t be restricted to just a few discrete verticals — it will take on mission-critical roles throughout the entirety of the global economy. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Tony Pugielli and Chris Voll to gain their perspectives on artificial intelligence in complex networks. Tony is a Manager of Systems Engineers at Turn-key Technologies and Chris is a Vice President Technical Services at Turn-key Technologies. 14 Minutes AI Tackles Complex Networks     To manage complex networks IT teams need to turn to the power of artificial intelligence. For IT professionals, artificial intelligence (AI) has come to represent both an exciting field of opportunity as well as a potential complication. Although it’s only just begun to see real-world applications, it’s already clear that AI will change the tech landscape. And digital systems professionals that aren’t preparing for the impact that AI will have on their industries aren’t doing their job. What’s more, it’s become increasingly clear that AI won’t be restricted to just a few discrete verticals — it will take on mission-critical roles throughout the entirety of the global economy. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Tony Pugielli and Chris Voll to gain their perspectives on artificial intelligence in complex networks. Tony is a Manager of Systems Engineers at Turn-key Technologies and Chris is a Vice President Technical Services at Turn-key Technologies. 14 Minutes IRI - Big Data Manipulation     Covering the topic of big data manipulation would not be complete without the perspective of IRI, The CoSort Company. Founded 40 years ago in 1978 to move mainframe sort users into open systems, IRI helped put on the map. Its CoSort utility is also widely used in data warehousing, database load acceleration, and data wrangling for analytics. CoSort’s expanding manipulation functions spawned compatible data migration, data masking, and test data products, and a modern data management platform called Voracity. IRI Vice President David Friedland has joined us for our interview on a topic central to us and the company, and we’re pleased to have him back on Outlook Series. 39 Minutes Kovair - Multi-Modal DevOps     Bi-Modal IT inherently means two teams, two processes, two sets of resources and two different ways of thinking, and somehow these converge in the end. Achieving agility with Bi-Modal IT comes at a cost for organizations, especially if silos continue to impede innovation, legacy back office systems and potential team conflicts continue to prevail. But does Bi-Modal IT solve things? Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Akshay Sharma to gain Kovair Software's perspective on Multi-Modal DevOps Development. Akshay is a Technical Advisor at Kovair Software. 18 Minutes IRI - Data Masking     We talk to David Friedland, the VP of Business Development at IRI. Short for Innovative Routines International, IRI is a data management ISV founded 40 years ago (in 1978) with its headquarters in Melbourne, Florida and support offices in more than 40 cities worldwide. IRI has been best known for its CoSort big data manipulation software, but more recently has been making its bones in the data protection market with its data masking product FieldShield, as well as a larger data lifecycle management platform that includes FieldShield, called Voracity. For the last 10 years, IRI’s ability to find and mask data in a fast, targeted way has earned it mentions or awards from the The Privacy and Data Security Law Journal and trade publications like CIO Applications, CIO Review, Computerworld, Corporate Vision, and DBTA Magazine, plus Research and Markets, Gartner, and The Bloor Group. 37 Minutes Micro Focus DevOps Suite     Businesses today are required to deliver software to their users at an ever-increasing pace, but at the same time, they must keep quality consistently high. The need to comply with corporate, industry and even government regulations, together with the demand for a superior user experience, leads organizations to adopt a holistic approach to application delivery. The application delivery toolset must include management, testing and monitoring, but crucially, these tools must be able to communicate with each other and provide visibility, transparency, and end-to-end traceability, and enable collaboration across the whole team and beyond. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews David Landsberg and Malcolm Isaacs to gain their perspectives on DevOps. David is the Director of Product Management, Application Delivery Management at Micro Focus and Malcolm is the Senior Solutions Marketing Manager at Micro Focus. 22 Minutes Micro Focus DevOps Suite     Businesses today are required to deliver software to their users at an ever-increasing pace, but at the same time, they must keep quality consistently high. The need to comply with corporate, industry and even government regulations, together with the demand for a superior user experience, leads organizations to adopt a holistic approach to application delivery. The application delivery toolset must include management, testing and monitoring, but crucially, these tools must be able to communicate with each other and provide visibility, transparency, and end-to-end traceability, and enable collaboration across the whole team and beyond. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews David Landsberg and Malcolm Isaacs to gain their perspectives on DevOps. David is the Director of Product Management, Application Delivery Management at Micro Focus and Malcolm is the Senior Solutions Marketing Manager at Micro Focus. 22 Minutes Software AG - GDPR Compliance     Enterprises are facing challenges in meeting the impending General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).  Starting on May 25, 2018, this European Union (EU) GDPR regulation mandates that all companies and institutions are legally bound to rules aimed at protecting personal data and for upholding the data privacy rights of individuals residing in the EU. The immense data stores, networked systems, business ecosystems and technologies that enable companies to serve their markets and customers, hold a vast amount of information that needs to be reined in. Few companies have the required oversight across their distributed data and processing activities and the insight into precisely what kind of data they house to be able to comply with GDPR rules. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Dr. Ulrich Kalex to gain Software AG's perspective on GDPR compliance. Ulrich is a Senior VP Product Management and R&D for Software AG. Ulrich is a Senior VP Product Management and R&D for Software AG..  35 Minutes Infratab - Cold Chain Monitoring     Food is wasted, flowers wilt, medicine is destroyed, and expensive resins are ruined. Every day, valuable commodities perish in the supply chain. Conventional tools for handling perishables are not doing the job. Today, necessitated by a global marketplace and stimulated by forecasts of food, ingredient and water shortages, changes are being made worldwide to better handle temperature-sensitive products. The changes, which have been years in the planning, are taking place throughout the entire supply chain, enabled by technological innovations that make global management of perishables affordable. Michael Lippis interviews Terry Myers to gain Infratab's perspective on Cold Chain Freshness Monitoring. Terry is the CEO of Infratab. 23 Minutes SAP - ITOA Real Time Insight     Almost everything in the data center generates log files, it’s not uncommon to see volumes of 100 million events per day. Those events are generated by servers, routers, applications, virtual machines, databases, and operating systems, among others. With this volume of data, it’s hard to pinpoint problems and correlate them across devices in real-time to address problems quickly. When an outage or performance issue does occur, teams work in parallel attempting to address the problem. Because teams typically use separate monitoring tools, it’s difficult to correlate events and quickly identify the root cause—and harder to predict issues before they impact users. Michael Lippis interviews John Schitka to gain SAP's perspective on leveraging IT Operations Analytics for Real Time Insight. John a Senior Director of Big Data Solutions Marketing for SAP. 40 Minutes Outthink Outages with IBM ITOA     Successful organizations are creating compelling consumer experiences that transform their interaction. Yet the complex technologies that support these experiences need to be continuously up and running in peak performance or even the most promising experience will ultimately fail. While traditional monitoring tools can help pinpoint problems to improve mean time to repair, cognitive capabilities can go deeper to improve mean time to know – to locate the root cause of a problem, to determine how it occurred and predict when it might occur again. Michael Lippis interviews Denny O'Brien to gain IBM's perspective on IT Operations Analytics or ITOA. Denny is the Program Director for IBM Operations Analytics offerings. 17 Minutes Supply Chains Go Beyond Recycling     The rise on global waste is driving organizations to leverage water-soluble direct thermal materials with their supply chains. In light of the recent leuco dye shortage, traditional non-dissolvable direct thermal materials have experienced considerable price inflation. The previous price hikes for commoditized direct thermal products has undoubtedly reduced the price premiums that are often associated with utilizing water-soluble technologies. Many businesses are now reconsidering this game-changing technology and are ready to take advantage of the many unique benefits that water-soluble materials have to offer. Now joining us to discuss – environmentally sustainable water-soluble paper-based materials is Jonathan Jakubowski. Michael Lippis interviews Jonathan Jakubowski to gain SmartSolve Industries perspective on environmentally sustainable water-soluble paper-based materials. Jonathan is a Director with SmartSolve Industries. 22 Minutes Kovair RESTful API     Currently, RESTful APIs for any enterprise application are being regarded as next generation to SOA architectures. Cloud based software and micro services are heavily delving into RESTful API. Therefore, it is important for organizations and their software platforms to open the Gateway of API for the future. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Bipin Shah to gain Kovair Software's perspective on RESTful APIs. Bipin is the CEO of Kovair Software. 20 Minutes Microsoft - Agile at Scale     Everything done around development — collaboration, testing, and customer feedback — has changed. Now, leveraging Agile in small teams is not unusual. But, when it comes leveraging Agile across hundreds of teams in a coordinated way, well that can be an eye opener. How are dependencies handled? How do the teams keep in sync? How does management stay in control, if hundreds of teams are autonomous? Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Aaron Bjork to gain Microsoft's perspective on Agile at Scale. Aaron is a Principal Group Program Manager working in Microsoft’s Visual Studio Cloud Services (VSCS) division. 29 Minutes Supply Chain Sustainability     The food waste and spoilage problem is a global challenge. To meet this challenge, firms need to prolong freshness at all points in the food supply chain. To gain a competitive edge, logistics firms are leveraging new technologies to enhance food safety as well as extended product shelf life. For example, game changing supply chain applications utilizing scaler wave technology are being put to work to reshape the entire produce industry. Michael Lippis interviews Rick Hassler to gain Natures Frequencies' perspective on Supply Chain Sustainability with the Food Freshness Card. Rick is the CEO of Natures Frequencies. 13 Minutes Kovair Intelligent DevOps     DevOps implementation poses a variety of challenges for organizations. Gaining seamless connectivity between the tools to be used for DevOps is a major one. Without cross-tool data syncing and real-time collaboration between Dev and Ops, it is difficult to achieve process continuity and automate the DevOps lifecycle. Once integrated, cross-tool data from development and operations tools become readily available to every project stakeholder for their use. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Bipin Shah to gain Kovair Software's perspective on Integrated DevOps. Bipin is the CEO of Kovair Software. 17 Minutes Informatica - Data Intelligence     Organizations use data to grow by gathering insights and mitigating risks. And, Hadoop has emerged as a scalable and efficient data platform for delivering big data analytics. But with the growing volume, variety, and velocity of data, organizations are struggling to effectively put their data to work. Now, traditional data management platforms can be expensive and challenging to scale to meet modern data needs. So, to gain an edge, look for a modern data management platform that enables quick use of more data sources and eliminates the risk of data issues in your big data analytics environment. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Murthy Mathiprakasam to gain Informatica's' perspective on Big Data Management. Murthy is a Principal Product Marketing Manager for Informatica's Big Data products. 21 Minutes SAP - ITOA     Most companies rely on diverse monitoring tools to support daily operations in their data centers. The result is a fragmented view of partial operations, which prevents users from gaining a holistic view of their operations. A fragmented view also impedes their ability to analyze root causes of data center incidents. To resolve incidents effectively, you need a comprehensive view and the tools to monitor your landscape. To gain an edge, select an ITOA solution that increases IT operational responsiveness by allowing your staff to focus on analyzing, detecting, and predicting incidents based on event log data, rather than just reacting. Angela is a SAP Director of Solution Management for Big Data and Analytics and John a Director of Big Data Solutions Marketing for SAP. 19 Minutes Windows Store for Business     Organizations are looking for better ways to deploy and acquire apps for Windows 10. Technology mangers need to extend their app reach to businesses, educational institutions and other organizations. Leveraging a store that works with line-of-business apps provides a competitive edge. LOB apps are custom to your company – they might be internal business apps, or apps specific to your business or industry. Developers should select a solution that provides an audience of large enterprises that can buy in bulk. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Jan Kalis to gain Microsoft's perspective on the Windows Store for Business. Jan is the Senior Product and Marketing Manager for the Windows Store for Business. 23 Minutes Microsoft - DevOps     Enterprises need to be customer centric and routinely reinvent themselves to deliver wining experiences. Software applications are key to competing in this arena, and providing software faster gives companies a significant advantage. However, faster delivery of applications is challenging for both Dev and Ops teams. Both must increase speed without compromising quality. So, to gain an edge, Dev and Ops teams must work together to find a common set of processes and tools that help them both. Now when it comes to Business Agility, look for a solution that provides monitoring and analytics capabilities to ensure that your applications are always available, performing, and succeeding. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Sam Guckenheimer to gain Microsoft's perspective on DevOps and Business Agility. Sam is the Product Owner of the Microsoft Visual Studio product line. 38 Minutes IBM - Weather Means Business     Our knowledge of the world grows with every connected sensor and device, but too often we are not acting on it, even when we know we can ensure a better result. To meet this challenge, companies are leveraging the Internet of Things and cloud computing which allow for collection of data from numerous sources. For example, IBM and The Weather Company are collaborating to accelerate the growth of one of the largest cloud-based applications in the world. The partnership enables enterprise clients and industry ecosystems to more easily integrate weather data – including rapidly updated forecasts – into their operations and decision-making. Once integrated with enterprise processes, weather data can be combined with data from supply chains, customer buying patterns and other sources to create more valuable insights. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Bryson Koehler and Mac Devine to gain their perspectives on Weather Means Business. Bryson is The Weather Company’s EVP, CTO & CIO and Mac is the VP & CTO of the Networking and Innovation Services area within the IBM Cloud division. 43 Minutes CloudBees - Continuous Delivery     Over the last 10 years, continuous integration brought tangible improvements to the software delivery lifecycle - improvements that enabled adoption of agile delivery practices. The software industry is now progressing to the next maturity phase with continuous delivery. With its flexible plugin architecture and numerous plugins, Jenkins is like the person who knows everyone and can work with everyone. Enterprises can utilize any existing tools - whether developed in-house or licensed from a commercial vendor - or bring in a new tool and know that Jenkins will work with it.  Jenkins bridges both sides of the development/operations divide, bringing both teams together and enabling collaboration between them. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Dan Juengst to gain CloudBees' perspective on continuous delivery. Dan is the Sr. Director, Product Marketing at CloudBees. 13 Minutes Kovair - iTM     Great products are the result of persistent development and rigorous testing. Enterprises demand a strategic approach to testing for quality, automation, predictability and cost reduction. Over time, software products and hence software projects have become extremely complicated and extensive due to comprehensive product functionalities, advanced level architectures and mammoth supported configurations. Today various factors like increasing pressure to develop high-quality software products, limited resources, shrinking development and deployment schedules, geographically distributed teams, and different tools across teams have become the greatest challenge for delivery of a quality product. This is also driving the need for enhancing the operational capabilities of the team. Bipin is the CEO of Kovair Software. 26 Minutes IoT Enhances Retail     More and more retailers are adopting the Internet of Things. And many of them believe IoT will be their most important technological initiative of the decade. Now, new technologies have changed the way shoppers interact with retailers. But, the shopping experience can be the retailer’s strategic differentiator. With the Internet of Things, retailers can leverage intelligence to make strategic, informed business decisions that improve customer loyalty and associate effectiveness while creating exciting experiences for their shoppers. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Shawn Harris to gain Zebra Technologies' perspective on how the Internet of Things is changing retail. Shawn is the Retail & Hospitality Industry lead with Zebra Technologies. 24 Minutes Zebra - Internet of Things     We live in a connected world, and technology is embedded in everything we do. Converting the physical to the digital allows you to know the location, motion and state of your assets, people and transactions. As enterprises look to data for actionable insight into their operations and processes, the Internet of Things comes to the forefront—contributing to the stream of data that organizations will store and mine. Harnessing this new wave of technology allows you to make more informed decisions and improve performance. Connecting your devices to robust cloud technology will allow you to capture and share mission-critical data—making the smart, connected enterprise a reality. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Philip Gerskovich to gain Zebra Technologies' perspective on Internet of Things and Enterprise Asset Intelligence. Philip is the Senior Vice President of New Growth Platforms with Zebra Technologies. 33 Minutes Kovair - Integrated ALM     Application development organizations exhaust resources on a multitude of siloed point function tools encompassing requirements management, testing, tracking and more. But, are you getting the most value out of these investments? Are you working with a consolidated picture or just the pieces of a puzzle? Integrating the tools in your software engineering environment can drive substantial savings in time and effort and ensure consistent quality. To deliver enhanced value to your customer, select a solution that provides greater synchronization between IT and your business. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Bipin Shah to gain Kovair Software's perspective on Integrated ALM. Bipin is the CEO of Kovair Software. 36 Minutes Citrix - CloudPlatforms     Businesses today are looking to reap the benefits of private clouds such as efficiency, flexibility, scalability and cost savings, and have come to realize that transforming IT to agile and efficient cloud services is a strategic priority – no longer a matter of if, but when… and how. Once the decision to move an IT environment to the cloud is made, the next logical questions businesses face are how to get there and where to start. To gain a competitive edge, determine which cloud solution is the best option not just for today but also for the future. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Blake Connell to gain Citrix's perspective on Cloud Platforms. Blake is the Director of Product Marketing for Citrix CloudPlatform.  28 Minutes Microsoft - App-V Integration     Application Virtualization (App-V) enables you to make applications available to end users without installing the applications directly on end user computers. It transforms applications into centrally managed services that are never installed and that don’t conflict with other applications. Through Citrix XenApp integration, joint customers can extend the benefits of Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack to reach a broader set of devices including lightly managed and non-Windows endpoints across local or wide area networks. With XenApp, App-V packages can now be delivered to lightly managed endpoint scenarios, even if the endpoint is not a member of the Microsoft Active Directory domain. As a result, new App-V use cases and access scenarios are enabled, including the delivery of applications to a consultant or for companies with Bring Your Own Computer (BYOC) initiatives. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Matthijs Gates and David Wagner to gain Microsoft's and Citrix's perspective on Application Virtualization Integration. Matthijs is a Senior Program Manager with Microsoft and David is a Product Manager with Citrix.  19 Minutes Greater Enterprise Value with GRC     Technologies implemented to meet operational needs bring tangible benefits to an organization with focused, tactical functions. These tools bring value to organizations due to the focus on the specific business challenge at hand and most often help achieve goals at the operations level. However, certain processes need to lead to greater enterprise value. Enterprise GRC programs should look for opportunities to remove Value Ceilings as much as possible to optimize business. While removing a Value Ceiling may require some work, the end result is increased value to the organization. In some cases, organizations will have to bore holes into that ceiling to get glimpses between the layers of their organization. In other cases, the ceiling can be removed completely and processes can continue up to the next higher level. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Steve Schlarman to gain RSA's perspective on Governance, Risk & Compliance. Steve is a GRC Strategist of IT and Security at RSA, The Security Division of EMC. 36 Minutes Application Fluent Unified Access   A decade ago, mobility for enterprise networks was viewed as a convenience, a way to provide those employees fortunate enough to have laptops with some ability to move about their workplace while remaining connected to the network. Today, however, wireless local-area networks (WLANs) have become mission-critical and enabling mobility has become vital to the enterprise. And with good reason: studies have shown that mobility-enabled workers are more productive, help to increase profits and are happier employees. What’s more, the definition of what constitutes a workplace has undergone a shift in recent years, as working from home becomes more common to both give employees more flexibility and to reduce corporate space requirements and their associated expense. The definition of enterprise mobility has also grown to reflect its importance. Beyond creating campus-wide Wi-Fi access, enabling a mobile enterprise means providing ubiquitous connectivity and simple access: employees – or any user in the network – are provided with quality access to whatever applications they need, anywhere, anytime, on any device. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Heitor Faroni and Joseph Raccuglia to gain Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise's perspective on Unified Access. Heitor is a Director of Solutions Marketing and Joseph is a Senior Director of Solutions Marketing both are at the Network Division of Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise. 28 Minutes SDN - One Size Does Not Fit All   Increasing agility and automation in the data center to optimize application delivery requires a complete, end-to-end, coordinated virtual infrastructure. This infrastructure will allow applications and the physical network to collaborate, thereby providing a high quality experience for users and enabling optimization of resources. The ideal solution should follow a SDN approach. This will allow it to bridge the gap between the network world and the newly virtualized compute world by defining a framework that uses standardized interfaces between applications and networks. Likewise, it should be flexible enough to leverage multiple methods, including OpenFlow, to provide direct access to all virtual and physical objects in the data center and enable manipulation of the forwarding plane of physical and virtual network devices, such as switches and routers. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Khurram Khawaja to gain Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise's perspective on SDN. Khurram Khawaja is a Director Product Management for the Data Center Product Portfolio at Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise. 30 Minutes Application Virtualization     Today’s organizations need powerful, flexible solutions to manage the devices and applications employees use every day. To meet this challenge, organizations are leveraging virtualization, management and security technologies to optimize their desktops. Application Virtualization is key to transforming applications into centrally managed services that are never installed and don’t conflict with other applications. IT professionals and end-users alike face challenges in today’s work environment. End-users speak many languages, are geographically dispersed and may not be connected to corporate networks at all times. IT must meet the needs of these users, and provide solutions that are fast, flexible and reliable. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Ronald Dockery and Matthijs Gates to gain Microsoft's perspective on Application Virtualization. Ronald is a Senior Product Manager and Matthijs is a Senior Program Manager, both are with Microsoft.  29 Minutes Micro Focus - DevOps     Software has become the most important tool for businesses to find, capture, and retain customers. Unlike a physical product, software can be changed quickly and often—and today, that’s exactly what customers expect. They can easily defect to a competitor offering a handy new feature—right after they leave a negative review about your company that could tarnish your reputation and drive away other potential users. Savvy businesses are using the rapid pace and malleability of software to drive more and more differentiation into the marketplace. They’re using instant feedback from users to continuously improve software. And increasingly, they’re doing this through DevOps. By ensuring close collaboration between developers and operations staff throughout the entire software development lifecycle, enterprises are becoming better at ensuring quality, maximizing speed, and reacting to—or even forecasting—market changes. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Ashish Kuthiala and Rafael Garcia to gain their perspectives on DevOps.Ashish is the Sr. Director of Marketing and Strategy at HPE DevOps and Rafael Garcia is the Director of R&D IT at HPE. 40 Minutes

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