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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

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

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

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

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 - 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

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

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

Decision Modeling Clarifies Analytics

The biggest challenge facing organizations adopting analytics is closing the gap between business value and analytics results. This is becoming increasingly serious as more organizations make investments in data mining, predictive analytics, data science, machine learning and all forms of analytics. Ensuring that these investments in analytics and analytic technology show a return means understanding how those analytics will impact business decision-making. Adopting decision modeling for analytics keeps the focus on business problems, revives lost projects and brings clarity to analytic problems - even ones long thought too hard. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews James Taylor to gain Decision Management Solutions' perspective on how to bring clarity to analytics projects with decision modeling. James is the CEO and Principal Consultant of Decision Management Solutions. 20 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

SAP ITOA Prevents Data Center Outages

IT departments are looking to better leverage the analytical capabilities used by business. But, IT professionals are finding that a fragmented view of partial operations can impede their ability to analyze root causes of data center incidents. So, resolve incidents effectively, IT needs to work with an analytic tool that gives a single view of all devices within IT from applications, to network devices, to servers. That would be anything that generates a syslog. While realtime monitoring and alerting are important, being interrupted because of a text message saying there’s a performance issue could be unwanted. Consequently, avoiding degradation or outages in advance could have material benefit to your organization. Michael Lippis interviews Angela Harvey to gain SAP's perspective on IT Operations Analytics or ITOA. Angela is a SAP Director of Solution Management for Big Data and Analytics. 7 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

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

Decision Modeling Simplifies Processes

Organizations make thousands of automated, operational decisions every week—from targeted pricing of products to satisfying regulatory mandates. How well they make these decisions drives their profitability, makes or breaks their reputation and determines what fines they must pay. How these decisions are made is one of a company’s most important assets. All too often these decisions are not explicitly managed, assessed or even visible to the company’s business experts. Instead they are buried in the company’s software code and policy manuals, where they are hidden from view and may even be contradictory. Decision modeling gives you the power to change this, to make your organization’s decisions transparent, agile and scalable. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews James Taylor to gain Decision Management Solutions' perspective on Decision Modeling. James is the CEO and Principal Consultant of Decision Management Solutions. 32 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

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

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

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

HP / Adallom - CASB

Organizations are increasingly deploying cloud applications for business functions such as email, collaboration and customer relationship management. The surge in enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) deployments, with the increasing volume and value of corporate data, presents new challenges for Chief Information Security Officers which include compliance, activity monitoring and access. Theses challenges are being addressed with automatic data classification and persistent encryption that automatically encrypts files when moving information in and out of the cloud or across platforms. So, to gain an edge, look for a Cloud Access Security Protection platform that enables organizations to audit activities performed in SaaS applications and develop intelligence to predict and protect from IT security issues. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Albert Biketi and Assaf Rappaport to gain their perspectives on Cloud Access Security. Albert is the general manager, HP Security, Atalla and Assaf is the Co-Founder & CEO at Adallom. 50 Minutes

HP / Adallom - CASB

Organizations are increasingly deploying cloud applications for business functions such as email, collaboration and customer relationship management. The surge in enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) deployments, with the increasing volume and value of corporate data, presents new challenges for Chief Information Security Officers which include compliance, activity monitoring and access. Theses challenges are being addressed with automatic data classification and persistent encryption that automatically encrypts files when moving information in and out of the cloud or across platforms. So, to gain an edge, look for a Cloud Access Security Protection platform that enables organizations to audit activities performed in SaaS applications and develop intelligence to predict and protect from IT security issues. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Albert Biketi and Assaf Rappaport to gain their perspectives on Cloud Access Security. Albert is the general manager, HP Security, Atalla and Assaf is the Co-Founder & CEO at Adallom. 50 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

WSI 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

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 Big Data & Hadoop

Almost every company today is faced with managing vast amounts of data from a variety of data sources. These range from traditional databases that manage transactional data generated by business applications, to enterprise data warehouses that facilitate deep analysis, to the Apache Hadoop Distributed File System that stores large volumes of mostly unstructured data that can be mined for new insights. There is value to be found in this data. The challenge for IT organizations is how to access and integrate relevant data for deeper insight. Michael Lippis interviews John Schitka to gain SAP's perspective on Big Data and Hadoop. John is a director of Big Data solutions marketing for SAP. 51 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

Citrix CloudPlatform

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

Heartland Secure

When your payment data is vulnerable, it’s like leaving the front door of your property unlocked. Thieves can come in, take what they want, and leave you economically and emotionally stressed. But unlike physical theft, cyber thieves are not just stealing from you—they are stealing from your customers, too. And this means your business's reputation can be ruined overnight, especially if the data theft incident makes the morning news. What’s more, due to standards set by the PCI Security Standards Council to prevent data theft, if cardholder data from your business is compromised and you’re caught in noncompliance, not only do you have to explain to your customers why you failed to secure their sensitive information, but also deal with sizable fines and penalties imposed by the card brands. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Bob Carr to gain Heartland Payment Systems' perspective on Credit/Debit Card Data Security. Bob Carr is the CEO at Heartland Payment Systems. 28 Minutes

Hightail File Sync & Share

The digital age promises businesses that there’s a better way to work. But in reality, the flood of new devices and apps that allow people to work however, whenever and wherever they want, often creates more problems. From users wanting to securely access and share files from anywhere, to IT departments needing to ensure confidential data isn’t exposed by the use of vulnerable consumer products, companies need a comprehensive file sharing solution that doesn’t devalue existing investments. Businesses need to overcome the file size, ease-of-use and mobile access limitations of email and FTP with a complete file sharing service that helps users work more effectively, while keeping IT happy. To gain a competitive edge, select a solution with enterprise-grade encryption and comprehensive controls that seamlessly integrates with existing user applications and IT systems. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Thyaga Vasudevan to gain Hightail's perspective on file sync & share. Thyaga is a Senior Director of Product Management with Hightail. 26 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

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

Virtual WLAN Controllers

A massive spike in BYOD, mobile users and new enterprise application deployments has created network congestion and complexity. These trends have severely restricted IT's ability to quickly respond and maintain network reliability. To meet this challenge forward thinking organizations are leveraging Virtual WLAN Controllers that enable cost-effective, flexible, reliable wireless deployments that help address BYOD and provide seamless integration of wired and wireless networks. To gain a competitive edge, look for a Virtual WLAN solution that provides controller clustering, in-service software upgrades, self-organizing adds, moves and changes, and local switching across the portfolio. Top solutions in this space do not require enterprises to have multiple islands of networks within their infrastructure and can instead have a common, unified end-to-end network for user access -- whether it's wired or wireless. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Tina Herrera to gain Juniper Networks' perspective on Virtual WLAN Controllers. Tina is a Director Enterprise Access Marketing at Juniper Networks. 22 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

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

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

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

BLU Acceleration for Cloud

Business leaders depend on data about business operations and the marketplace to differentiate their businesses from competitors. Identifying hidden relationships, patterns and trends in the era of big data can be a daunting task given the unprecedented volume, variety, velocity and veracity of data, in the face of higher demands for analytics. Organizations need faster insight and agility to create new business opportunities, increase operational efficiency and drive customer satisfaction. To be competitive today, your organization needs to speed up analytics and reporting through dynamic in-memory columnar processing. Look for a solution that leverages parallel vector processing, data skipping and actionable compression, so you can connect with the information you need at breakthrough speed. Michael Lippis interviews Leon Katsnelson to gain IBM's perspective on BLU Acceleration for Cloud. Leon is a Director for Cloud & Mobile at IBM Information Management. 29 Minutes

Increase eCommerce Sales

Information and intelligence gathered from a retailer’s eCommerce site can provide valuable insights into emerging shopping trends and help improve future eCommerce performance. However, many potential eCommerce purchases end up with abandoned shopping carts. With so much at stake, understanding customer buying behavior is critical. It is especially important for merchants to identify trends that can be applied to help boost profits and reduce online shopping cart abandonment. By having the ability to analyze data acquired online, retailers are able to pinpoint not only the areas that need improvement but also those that succeeded. To gain a competitive edge, select a strong Product Information Management solution to create better customer experiences, more streamlined internal processes across the enterprise, increased efficiency and profit. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Christophe Marcant to gain Stibo Systems' perspective on Master Data Management. Christophe is a VP Product Strategy at Stibo Systems. 35 Minutes

Encryption in the Cloud

The cloud represents a major change in the business model for IT delivery. Cloud benefits promise to be quite significant: for cloud customers, cost savings, and greater agility through on-demand capacity; for cloud providers, recurring revenues, global markets and attractive profits—if they can differentiate their services and innovate to keep ahead. Many organizations have already moved mundane activities and low-risk data to the cloud. Theoretically, of course, any process that runs elsewhere can run in the cloud. Businesses and governments are certainly attracted to the idea that they could achieve even greater savings were they to use the cloud for storage and processing of their more sensitive data. After all, sensitive business processes are likely to be the most expensive from an operational perspective and so this is where they have the most to gain. The big question, though, is how secure is the cloud and when is it safe to move more sensitive operations there? Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Richard Moulds to gain Thales e-Security's perspective on cloud security. Richard is a a vice president of strategy with Thales e-Security. 38 Minutes

WLAN Secure Access

When a customer walks into your store today, they are rarely alone. Most bring along their own personal shopping assistant – a smartphone or other wireless device. While your customers use their favorite digital gear to learn more about your products, compare offers or check reviews, you could be learning how to engage them in new ways. Now, that would make their experience inside your store something worth coming back for. Access to your wireless network is the key. But you need to offer it without overwhelming your IT resources, compromising your network security or risking non‑compliance with regulatory responsibilities. We interview Sameer Kanagala to gain Motorola's perspective on Secure Access for the bring your own device trend. Sameer Kanagala is a market development and solutions executive for the Wireless LAN Division at Motorola Solutions. 31 Minutes

SAP Predictive Analytics

Organizations are rapidly moving from reliance on business intelligence (BI) tools that provide a snapshot of the past to those that provide an accurate picture of the present and a prediction of future trends. Synthesizing massive amounts of historical data as well as up-to-the-minute live data interactions to determine the “next-best offer” or predictor is a difficult task. But companies need to tackle it if they want to meet their business objectives, which center around competitive advantage, cost savings, and greater revenues. The right analytics architecture will play a pivotal role in the success of predictive analytics, not only providing companies with current intelligence, but also helping them maximize their revenue potential during short windows of opportunity. We interview Tom Traubitz to gain SAP's perspective on Predictive Analytics. Tom is a director of solution marketing for the SAP Sybase IQ product line. 27 Minutes

Appliance Clustering

An enterprise cloud network is one that embodies the characteristics and capabilities that define public cloud services. These include being ‘elastic’, and the power to cost effectively scale the infrastructure. This is requisite for optimizing the delivery of web, mobile and cloud-based applications. Pay-As-You-Grow provides on-demand scalability up to the physical limit of a single appliance. But, what about situations where even greater capacity is required? The traditional response to has been to pursue forklift ADC upgrades to achieve substantially greater throughput. However, what’s really needed is the option to fully leverage multiple appliances as a single logical ADC, and thereby benefit from the resulting aggregate capacity. We interview Greg Smith to gain Citrix's perspective on Appliance Clustering. Greg is the Sr. Director of Product Marketing at Citrix Systems Cloud Networking Group. 25 Minutes

High Performance WLAN

Mobile device proliferation and the increasing use of video and remote collaboration are opening up opportunities for enterprises. Unfortunately, these opportunities also come at a time of an increasing demand for ubiquitous, always-on wireless service for mobile devices. Fortunately, comprehensive WLAN solutions can offer measurable advantages in provisioning, security, performance, reliability and management to address these new realities. To gain an edge, look for a solution that provides an advanced architecture that is designed specifically for mobility. Top solutions deliver high performance through a highly distributed, intelligent architecture that allows offloading of encryption, packet inspection and packet forwarding from centralized controllers to the access points. We interview Tina Herrera to gain Juniper Networks' perspective on Enterprise WLAN. Tina is a Senior Manager of Product Marketing at Juniper Networks. 24 Minutes

Bonjour Networking

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and the cosumerization of IT are a trend that is changing network architectures in almost every enterprise. With the increasing prevalence of Apple devices on both enterprise and education networks, it is necessary for the network infrastructure to be natively aware of Bonjour, Apple’s service advertisement and configuration technology. Bonjour (or Zero-Configuration Networking) is used to configure services like printing, file services, and remote display with Apple TV.
So, to gain a competitive edge, services such as AirPrint and AirPlay need to be usable across large, multi-subnet networks regardless of the underlying topology. We interview Abby Strong to gain Aerohive Networks' perspective on Bonjour Networking.
Abby is the director of Product Marketing at Aerohive Networks. 14 Minutes

Unwire Your Business with MDM

With enterprises mobilizing key business functions and allowing employees to work from anywhere via mobile devices, managing and securing these mobile environments has never been more critical. As the number of personally-owned mobile devices in the enterprise continues to grow, IT managers need a simple, automated way to quickly configure and secure those devices. So, to gain a competitive edge, look for a MDM solution that leverages end-user self-service portals, application management and a Telecom cost control capability. Now, the variety of mobile device types, networks and applications has increased scrutiny on IT. To address this problem focus on usability by leveraging a single mobility management console that provides a Web services API, (BI) reporting and TEM. We interview Bryan Whitmarsh to gain SAP's perspective on MDM. Bryan is a mobility solutions manger for SAP. 40 Minutes

SAP Business Analytics

Decision makers are swimming in information, yet they still struggle to really “know” their business. They cannot access relevant data easily, navigate it quickly, organize it meaningfully, or make decisions with any degree of certainty. Business analytics should enable everyone within an organization to achieve remarkable results. How? By enabling users to know every aspect of their business — relative to them; by enabling decisions to be made with confidence — balancing risk and opportunity; and by enabling users to act boldly — responding to events as they unfold, taking coordinated action, and learning and improving over time. As you look to purchase an analytics solution, consider whether it will do what you need and whether there are avoidable hidden costs. We interview James Fisher to gain SAP's perspective on Business Analytics. James is the VP of solution marketing, analytics at SAP. 34 Minutes

Project Collaboration Success

The most widely used technology tools for managing projects continue to be email, Word, and Excel. But collaboration and project management tools are being broadly implemented among many organizations. What if a project manager could better use the tools already available in their organization, or if they don’t exist, easily and cost effectively “rent” external systems to create a first rate project collaboration system? What would the value to the project team and key stakeholders be if this was simple and easy to setup and use with a noticeable increase in productivity? Fortunately, powerful business collaboration platform services with structured execution capabilities are within the reach of project managers and their organizations. We interview Arpan Shah to gain Microsoft's perspective on project collaboration. Arpan is the Director of Product Management for Microsoft Project. 18 Minutes

Cloud Performance

As the industry shifts from the “PC Era” to the “Cloud Era”, the role of IT is rapidly outgrowing its ability to own and manage all its own apps, infrastructure and devices. Consumerization is driving IT to deliver a mix of applications to a variety of user-owned devices. At the same time, IT is under going pressure to take advantage of increasingly ubiquitous and low-cost cloud computing capacity from external cloud and hosting providers. Until now, those goals have been difficult to achieve without compromising performance. We interview Greg Smith to gain Citrix's perspective on Cloud Performance. Greg is the Sr. Technical Marketing Director at Citrix Systems Cloud Networking Group. 28 Minutes

Wireless Fidelity

Wi-Fi networks are getting faster and smarter, but Wi-Fi administrators are still hampered by having minimal visibility into how well they are actually delivering what their users expect. Administrators don't typically have visibility into the performance level being provided to the Wi-Fi clients by the infrastructure, and their infrastructure only has limited ability to dynamically adjust to deliver the experience their users are demanding. Today's Wi-Fi administrators can only hope their clients are getting the planned level of performance – and that isn't good enough. So, to gain a competitive edge, look for a solution that leverages the ability to set SLA parameters per user group, to monitor SLA statistics in real-time and to take significant corrective action when and where needed. We interview Joel Vincent to gain Aerohive Networks' perspective on wireless fidelity. Joel is the director of Product Marketing at Aerohive Networks. 33 Minutes

Information Architecture Tooling

Improving enterprise alignment to enable better business intelligence and information management is a key challenge facing forward thinking companies. However, data architecture is no longer enough to create a connection between business and IT. To make that connection, many organizations are selecting a model-driven approach to improve business intelligence and Information Architecture. Top solutions in this space support alignment by leveraging an enterprise glossary and a user interface that can be completely customized by role. To gain a competitive edge, look for a solution that leverages metadata management with a 360 degree view of key information assets and an enterprise-wide impact analysis capability. We interview David Dichmann to gain Sybase's perspective on modeling and architectural tools. 35 Minutes

Cloud Based Identity Management

As companies continue to increase their usage of the cloud, and as the extended workforce expands, the importance of controlling who has access to what systems and how access is granted is imperative. It is important to have one single source of security for all information, applications and systems required by the organization’s extended workforce and supply chain. One source of security helps each organization in its effort to provision and de-provision users from various internal and external applications in an expedient manner to minimize risk. Companies have said that this is beneficial for high investment joint ventures. At the same time, organizations need to consider internal policies and external regulatory compliance issues and how they impact access to information and systems. We interview Dave Miller to gain Covisint's perspective on Cloud-based ID Management. Dave is the CSO of Covisint. 42 Minutes

Mobile Tagging

Mobile is the global mass communication medium—in the sense that it includes all the capabilities of its forerunners (print, radio, movies, TV & Web). If there is any doubt about where your business must go, one thing is certain: it must go mobile. Customers expect no less. Anything that makes instant access to relevant content cumbersome is about to become a deal spoiler. Consumers expect all media to be available on their mobile devices. And people want to access mobile content from any of their devices. Business leaders can choose to strengthen the connections between their brands and mobile consumers. More than that, you can choose to engage and entertain consumers through mobile media, and you can do it in immersive and measurable ways. We interview Brian Fleisher to gain Microsoft's perspective on Mobile Tagging. Brian is a Senior Director of Product Management and Business Development for Microsoft Tag. 25 Minutes

Cloud Networking

Leveraging the lessons learned by the companies that pioneered SaaS, and understanding the multi-tenant architecture that underlies successful SaaS offerings, can help professionals make informed decisions when evaluating cloud-based networking solutions based on a single-tenant, virtualized-tenant, and multi-tenant architecture. With single tenancy, vendors provide a single physical infrastructure, database and application stack per customer. With virtualized-tenancy architectures physical infrastructure may be shared but the vendor still provides a single database and application instance per customer. Multi-tenancy is a truly shared model, with a single infrastructure, database and application stack utilized by all customers. We interview Steve Woo to gain Aerohive Networks' perspective on Cloud Networking. Steve is a Senior Director of Product Management at Aerohive Networks. 32 Minutes

Social Logic

DM can deliver ROI but its adoption is limited by a steep learning curve. Business rules requirements need to be specific, clear and actionable. By doing so, business rules implementations converge quickly to high quality and accurate business rules, significantly reducing uncertainty and project risk. DM technologies provide agility; but you can make DM more Performance-Driven by leveraging business data and analytics in context at authoring time. A wealth of tacit knowledge resides in the heads of Customer Service personnel. The key to gaining a competitive advantage is capturing that tacit knowledge out of the collective. That tacit knowledge can then support Case Workers making manual decisions, providing insights on the impact of those decisions in real-time. We interview Carole-Ann Matignon to gain Sparkling Logic's perspective on social logic. Carole-Ann is CEO and Founder of Sparkling Logic. 44 Minutes

Gain Visibility & Control with EPM

Project and portfolio management helps organizations improve visibility and control across varied portfolios. Effective PPM solutions need to provide organizations of different sizes and maturity levels with the right tools to ensure that teams can successfully collaborate to deliver projects on time and realize their anticipated return on investment (ROI). Even departments within a large organization might have divergent PPM requirements. To stay competitive, select an EPM solution which provides executives, portfolio analysts, managers, and team members with productivity tools to effectively manage all work throughout its life cycle, and to ensure alignment with an organization’s business strategy. We interview Arpan Shah to gain Microsoft's perspective on Enterprise Project Management. Arpan is the Director of Product Management for Microsoft Project. 23 Minutes

Junos Pulse Mobile Security

For IT departments, mobile devices represent a new and vulnerable endpoint for threats distributed via email, text messaging, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and application downloads. Even worse, business data is at risk every time a device is lost or stolen. So, while smartphones help improve employees’ productivity, unprotected devices can mean loss or theft of valuable, confidential data and cause noncompliance with regulations such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) or Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). To meet the challenge, you need to leverage a Mobile Security Suite that offers enterprises and consumers a wide range of security features to protect various mobile devices. We interview Rich Campagna to gain Juniper Networks' perspective on the Junos Pulse Mobile Security Suite. Rich is a Director of Product Management in Juniper Networks Access & Acceleration Business Unit. 27 Minutes

Customer Intimacy

A wealth of data is in applications for order management, accounting and sales force automation. That data contains valuable customer insights, and more CIOs are looking to predictive analytics to uncover those insights. Furthermore, you cannot rely on selling and marketing to mass audiences the way you have in the past. Customers are asserting their individuality, and they want to engage in personal relationships that extend beyond the point of purchase, however and wherever those interactions occur. Today, a lot of digital noise is outside your organizations control. Few of those conversations are useful, but a few voices might determine the success or failure of your marketing campaigns, product development or operational efficiencies. We interview Erick Brethenoux to gain SPSS an IBM Company's perspective on customer intimacy. Erick is the VP of Corporate Development for SPSS an IBM Company. 47 Minutes

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