Matt Gyde: Safeguarding data without restricting business
With a programmable infrastructure, it’s possible to automatically and instantly kill a compromised process and then restart it with a clean image. This can happen with no service interruption. The future of security is in programmable security controls driven by...
Joe Manuele: Team Dimension Data shows how to keep employees productive and engaged
Riders communicate with their coaches and doctors from anywhere. They can stay in touch with their families, and they can cheer each other on. This is how having technology tools of choice keeps everyone engaged in a highly distributed enterprise. In a mobile world...
Kevin Leahy: How data insights drive growth and improve customer experience
To leverage data, you need to filter it for business relevance, correlate it for context and meaning, structure it so people and processes can consume it, then add historical data into the mix and apply predictive analytics. Business models such as retail and finance...
Scott Gibson: Transformation needs to deliver business outcomes
Transforming customer experiences depends on understanding customer behaviour, trends, buying patterns, and how to use data to build experiences that influence customer preferences and behaviour. It also requires a fast and secure technology ecosystem that reliably...
Doug Ryder: The business of winning
For Team Dimension Data, technology plays a critical role in logistics management to make sure the right equipment and supplies arrive at the right locations at the right times for each rider. Team Dimension Data uses historical data and performance analytics to...
Stephen Green: Success depends on asking tough questions
Many companies run into tremendous complexities around connecting the applications they’ve moved to cloud with their on-premises landscape. The integrations are much tougher to achieve than they thought, and most of the automation must be rebuilt. When planning on...
Jeff Jack: Taking a business-led approach to network strategy
In the digital age, you can’t think of your network strategy as separate from your business strategy. There’s no such thing as a digital network strategy. In the digital age, there’s only business strategy built upon technology. Once you know your goals and your...
Gary Middleton: Bridging the digital transformation skills gap
Today’s programmable networks automate many of the routine network management tasks that engineers performed manually in the past. At the same time they introduce new functions and controls network managers have never had to deal with before. An important part of any...
Raoul Tecala: When moving to the cloud, don’t forget the network
Many organisations moving workloads to the cloud fail to ask the obvious questions of how end users will connect to those workloads, and how that will impact performance, security, and cost. Cost is important, but so are performance, security, scalability, agility,...
Lawrence Van Deusen: Workplace networks must evolve to support digital ambitions
The network has become the fabric that supports the modern digital workplace and a vast array of sophisticated applications and services. Investing in new technologies is becoming critical to delivering the kinds of experiences that employees expect, whether it’s in...
