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NEC-NAKIVO VM Backup Appliance

With the ever growing amounts of data in virtualized environments, today’s organizations are faced with the frequent need of storage infrastructure expansion and are increasingly looking for efficient storage optimization and reliable data protection of their rapidly expanding data. To achieve complete data protection for virtualized environments, look for a data protection solution that can reduce VM backup size by up to 95% while securing your virtual environment from disasters, data corruption, and data loss. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Veniamin Simonov and Nicholas Cerrone to gain their perspectives on Data Protection for Virtual Machines. Veniamin is the Director of Product Management at Nakivo and Nicholas is the National Channel Sales Manger for IT at NEC.
25 Minutes

NEC-NAKIVO VM Backup Appliance

With the ever growing amounts of data in virtualized environments, today’s organizations are faced with the frequent need of storage infrastructure expansion and are increasingly looking for efficient storage optimization and reliable data protection of their rapidly expanding data. To achieve complete data protection for virtualized environments, look for a data protection solution that can reduce VM backup size by up to 95% while securing your virtual environment from disasters, data corruption, and data loss. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Veniamin Simonov and Nicholas Cerrone to gain their perspectives on Data Protection for Virtual Machines. Veniamin is the Director of Product Management at Nakivo and Nicholas is the National Channel Sales Manger for IT at NEC.
25 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Recovery Based Pricing

Across the technology spectrum, more vendors are moving away from established pricing models to alternatives based on performance and overall value. The backup and recovery market is now entering a new era to address the industry value proposition on data recovery…not backup. The Recovery License Model introduces a clear pricing differentiator based on recovery that provides both immediate and long-term value to the customer on a significant scale. So, to gain a competitive edge, select a cloud storage pricing model that does not makes it hard to predict the price you are actually signing up for. Outlook Series' Michael Lippis interviews Eran Farajun to gain Asigra's perspective on cloud storage pricing models. Eran is an Executive Vice President with Asigra.
30 Minutes

IT Event Correlation and Analysis

IT event correlation and analysis tools improve operations productivity and minimize trouble shooting by consolidating events from devices, applications and even other tools. Effective ECA can also prevent event storms and false positives. Top solutions in this space enable IT operations to discover topology relationships, and to automate event correlation and root cause analysis without a lot of customization. To gain a competitive edge, look for a solution that leverages Business Dashboards to provide a real-time, end-to-end perspective on your information infrastructure, its health, and its effect on the business-critical services that it supports. We interview Brian Lett to gain EMC's perspective on IT event correlation and analysis. Brian is the Senior Product Marketing Manager at EMC's Infrastructure Management Group.
71 Minutes

Scalable Enterprise Servers

IT managers are facing infrastructure challenges that include costs, energy, change and productivity. Whether for memory hungry virtualization solutions , compute intensive databases, or high availability for mission-critical business, IT managers must have the flexibility to scale and configure servers for their unique datacenter requirements. To gain a competitive edge, look for a solution that incorporates supercomputer and mainframe-inspired features that provide a faster response time and improved system performance. Top solutions in this space offer increase speed, workload performance, reliability and security with higher memory and less energy consumption. We interview Mike Mitsch to gain NEC's perspective on Scalable Enterprise Servers. Mike is the VP of IT platform products at NEC.
20 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

Controller-less Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi is going through a fundamental and generational change. Enterprises want the mobility and productivity of Wi-Fi with the scale, performance, resilience, and ubiquity of the Internet. You shouldn't have to 'make-do-and mend' your wireless infrastructures; nor do you have to invest in 'odds on' systems just to get what you need. But, controller-based WLANs were designed for an era when there was insufficient processing power in Access Points to distribute intelligence. The controller-less approach distributes all control functions and data forwarding to smart APs. This is similar to how routers in the Internet function. So, to simplify cloud based Wi-Fi, more and more organizations are choosing to leverage a controller-less wireless LAN. We interview Devin Akin to gain Aerohive Networks' perspective on Enterprise Wi-Fi. Devin is the Chief Wi-Fi Architect at Aerohive Networks.
29 Minutes

Virtualization: Doing More with Less

Virtualization helps reduce datacenter operating expenses and increases the availability of critical business systems. However, many IT teams still think that it is not advisable to deploy application and server virtualization technology together. To the contrary, server and application virtualization are complementary and they often should — be combined, not only to amplify the capabilities of the respective technologies but to achieve greater positive impact to IT and your business. Sure, the benefits of server virtualization in early generation products were often offset by performance and complexity tradeoffs, but technology has now come to market that makes virtualization simple and economically feasible for key infrastructure components. We interview Simon Crosby to gain Citrix's perspective on the role of high availability and management in virtualization. Simon is the is the CTO of Citrix's Virtualization and Management Division.
43 Minutes

VDI Drives High Performance Desktop

While Desktop Virtualization Infrastructure puts the desktop into the data center, it is not a panacea for desktop delivery. Moreover, VDI is not just a PC equivalent. Rather, it works best as part of a comprehensive Desktop Delivery approach which focuses on the most efficient way to get applications to the end user and meet business and IT needs. Furthermore, Desktop Delivery proposes the dynamic assembly of a ‘new and pristine’ high performing desktop with a personalized set of applications and settings every time a user logs on. VDI is a key enabling component for application delivery overall, and by applying it with a broader context, you can gain significant advantages over the traditional desktop environment. We interview Sumit Dhawan to gain Citrix's perspective on virtual desktop infrastructure.
Sumit is a VP of product marketing at Citrix.
43 Minutes

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