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Tech Unlocking the Future of Work

May 13th, 2020 |
Tech Unlocking the Future of Work

During this shelter-in-place, there have been many feel-good moments of people collaborating with each other whether it’s working from home or personal stuff like having a Zoom party on doing online wine tastings. One of the unexpected story gems was [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: Tele-behavioral Health – Breaking Down Barriers and Stigmas at a Time of Escalating Need

May 4th, 2020 |
Tech Tonics: Tele-behavioral Health – Breaking Down Barriers and Stigmas at a Time of Escalating Need

For 20 years, advocates of telemedicine have been trying to break through to common usage. For all of modern human history, those with mental health challenges have held back from seeking treatment due to the stigma associated with doing so. [See the full post…]

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Jeanne Meister: Insights on the Effects of COVID-19 on Working from Home

April 28th, 2020 |
Jeanne Meister: Insights on the Effects of COVID-19 on Working from Home

Ten years ago Jeanne Meister co-authored a book entitled, “The 2020 Workplace“. In it, she didn’t anticipate a pandemic causing us to work from home. But the foundational ideas of remote working still apply and have been brought to the [See the full post…]

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Autodesk University’s Journey to Virtual Workstations

April 23rd, 2020 |
Autodesk University’s Journey to Virtual Workstations

Autodesk University is the flagship conference of the design software maker Autodesk. One of its most famous products is Auto-CAD, which is so data intensive it requires a workstation to run. The company used to set up a fleet of [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: Toby Cosgrove – Resilient, Dyslexic Physician-Innovator

April 20th, 2020 |
Tech Tonics: Toby Cosgrove – Resilient, Dyslexic Physician-Innovator

A brilliant and creative cardiac surgeon who went on to become the brilliant and creative CEO of the Cleveland Clinic for 14 years, Dr. Toby Cosgrove surprised many when he was invited back to his alma mater, Williams College, to give a convocation address. [See the full post…]

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Streaming Business Apps to Remote Workers During COVID-19

April 13th, 2020 |
Streaming Business Apps to Remote Workers During COVID-19

The coronavirus pandemic has modified the way the world works in what could be called the biggest ever work-from-home experiment. Ruben Spruijt, a senior technologist at Nutanix, explains how virtual desktop and desktop-as-a-service technologies are allowing IT departments to stream [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: Torrie Fields, The Business of Making Better Memories

April 6th, 2020 |
Tech Tonics: Torrie Fields, The Business of Making Better Memories

A childhood fraught with illness, loss and uncertainty drove Torrie Fields to an adulthood focused on making these experiences better for others.  Torrie sincerely believes that we are all here for a reason and that her reason to is help people have [See the full post…]

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Leadership is Everyone’s Business

April 2nd, 2020 |
Leadership is Everyone’s Business

Leaders are made, not born… and the era when the boss was always right and barked orders to the company’s worker bees has become obsolete. The work of Professor Jim Kouzes, and his collaborator Barry Posner, in the field of [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: Laurie Zephyrin, MD: Public Health as Destiny

March 23rd, 2020 |
Tech Tonics: Laurie Zephyrin, MD: Public Health as Destiny

Dr. Laurie Zephyrin was disappointed to learn that a less-than-rock-star voice was going to stand in the way of her career as a singer, but fortunately she locked onto her healthcare destiny in her teens.  A formative moment in high school set [See the full post…]

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The Global Semiconductor Market During the 2020 Pandemic

March 22nd, 2020 |
The Global Semiconductor Market During the 2020 Pandemic

Global semiconductor orders are one of the barometers of how the the computer industry is doing. Analysts look at the breadth of the market, including everything from the chips in IoT devices, automobiles, industrial appliclations like robotics, servers in data [See the full post…]

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Virtual and Augmented Reality in the Post-Coronavirus World

March 20th, 2020 |
Virtual and Augmented Reality in the Post-Coronavirus World

As the world retreats inside, it’s easy to wonder if the public’s adoption or consumption of immersive experiences and technologies could rise. Formats that are accessible on a smartphone, like 360 video and AR, could take on more importance in [See the full post…]

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Monica Kumar: Walking the Talk of Diversity in the Computer Industry

March 20th, 2020 |
Monica Kumar: Walking the Talk of Diversity in the Computer Industry

Diversity in employment has been an ongoing issue in the tech industry. According to Bureau of Labor statistics, women make up 26 percent of the computer industry workforce, down from 35 percent in 1990. Nutanix executive, Monica Kumar (SVP Marketing), [See the full post…]

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Perspectives on AI and Cloud in the Fight Against COVID-19

March 17th, 2020 |
Perspectives on AI and Cloud in the Fight Against COVID-19

It’s hard to tell how the cloud, machine learning, AI, etc., are having an effect in the fight against the coronavirus. In this segment, we chat with Dr. David Shaywitz, a Harvard-trained MD and research scientist in Silicon Valley who’s [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: Dr. Lynda Chin – Bringing AI to Medicine Through Infrastructure

March 9th, 2020 |
Tech Tonics: Dr. Lynda Chin – Bringing AI to Medicine Through Infrastructure

Taking on challenges is nothing new for Dr. Lynda Chin. It started with learning English well enough in a couple of years to graduate valedictorian of her high school, evolved to a distinguished career as a physician-scientist and then full professor [See the full post…]

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Destined to Redefine Databases

March 5th, 2020 |
Destined to Redefine Databases

For some people a job or a profession takes on a greater significance than just career. It becomes a life’s work. Bala Kutchibhotla has spent his life working, developing and innovating database technology. Follow the enterprise cloud tech revolution at [See the full post…]

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What if DevOps Changed How Every Business Runs?

February 25th, 2020 |
What if DevOps Changed How Every Business Runs?

DevOps typically refers to removing friction between developers (‘Dev’) who build software and operations people (‘Ops’) who have to run it. Mark Lavi’s definition goes much further. “It’s about removing the friction between developers and the customer,” said Lavi, Principal [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: Seth Feuerstein – Behavioral Health Entrepreneur Before It Was Cool

February 17th, 2020 |
Tech Tonics: Seth Feuerstein – Behavioral Health Entrepreneur Before It Was Cool

Seth Feuerstein’s grandfather was a physician and his parents were both attorneys, so naturally his parents thought he would become…a comedian!  While that didn’t come to be, he did end up as both a doctor and a lawyer who practiced [See the full post…]

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Let Cloud Find Answers So People Focus on Needs

February 6th, 2020 |
Let Cloud Find Answers So People Focus on Needs

People used to spend a lot of time finding answers, even to the toughest problems like the Theory of Relativity. But today, people put more focus on asking questions and turn to powerful software and cloud computing to find the [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: Sean Khozin, Attuned To Data Science

February 3rd, 2020 |
Tech Tonics: Sean Khozin, Attuned To Data Science

After escaping the revolution in Iran, Sean Khozin found his way to the United States, harmonizing his passion for patients and data into a career that’s led him into startups, the FDA, and most recently J&J, where he’s now Global [See the full post…]

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Make Computing Invisible Anywhere – Dheeraj Pandey Keynote and Walk and Talk

January 31st, 2020 |
Make Computing Invisible Anywhere – Dheeraj Pandey Keynote and Walk and Talk

In Copenhagen last fall, Nutanix held it’s European dot-NEXT conference. On day one at the first keynote, CEO Dheeraj Pandey talked about a concept with a lot of history at the company… 6 years ago his idea was: make infrastructure [See the full post…]

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Wake Up to Infinite Computing

January 22nd, 2020 |
Wake Up to Infinite Computing

“When you can’t count it, and you can consume it as much as you need it for your business, it becomes practically infinite,” said Holger Mueller, vice president and principal analyst of Constellation Research. In this Tech Barometer segment, Mueller [See the full post…]

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Inder Sidhu: Proactive Customer Service in the Subscription Era

December 20th, 2019 |
Inder Sidhu: Proactive Customer Service in the Subscription Era

Customer centricity becomes front and center when a company goes from the building to the scaling stage, according to Indir Sidhu, Executive Vice President of Global Customer Success and Business Operations at Nutanix. He’s leading the company’s customer service as [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: Jim Manzi, Pragmatic Analytics For Business

December 16th, 2019 |
Tech Tonics: Jim Manzi, Pragmatic Analytics For Business

A physics and math wonk from MIT, Jim Manzi figured out early in his career that he loved the application of pragmatic, quantitative approaches to solve pesky real-world business problems, including today, challenges faced by life science and healthcare organizations. Jim’s early [See the full post…]

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Ben Ravani: Path to Authentic Leadership

December 16th, 2019 |
Ben Ravani: Path to Authentic Leadership

What makes a better leader? It starts with being a better person, according to Ben Ravani, former Senior Vice President of Reliability Engineering at Nutanix. He talks about how mindfulness and the quest for authenticity are critical behaviors for a [See the full post…]

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Rise of Computing to Feed the Needs of Machines

December 6th, 2019 |
Rise of Computing to Feed the Needs of Machines

Jessica Groopman, technology analyst and founder of Kaleido Research, and Satyam Vaghani, VP IoT and AI for Nutanix discuss how the Internet of Things is growing beyond its infancy and into a phase that’s driving a whole new wave of [See the full post…]

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