Restaurant owners and experts explain how the industry responded to the COVID-19 lockdown with technologies that keep them connected to customers. Two sisters, Shanny Covey and Deborah Mok, tell how they evolved their central California coast restaurants through the pandemic. [See the full post…]

New innovations can quickly become IT sweethearts, but what’s best for the business remains the overriding factor for deployment. The emergence of cloud native was born from developers needing to flexibly deploy resources and reconfigure them as needed. “That’s why [See the full post…]

In the real world, infrastructure is railroads, highways and power grids. In the digital world, infrastructure is servers, networks and data centers. Rajiv Ramaswami is a man of both worlds. He grew up on India’s national railway system, which employed [See the full post…]

Purpose-driven companies aren’t just important, they’re also a growing trend, says Bill Novelli, author of Good Business: The Talk, Fight, Win Way to Change the World. And in order to compete for talent and succeed in the world today, [See the full post…]

IT leaders are hungry for cloud native technologies but struggle to find expertise because Cloud Native is nascent. SUSE and Udacity team up to feed the need by creating courses to train the next wave of engineers. In this Cloud [See the full post…]

The COVID-19 pandemic proved that video conferencing could sustain businesses even if workers couldn’t work from their company’s office. It also peaked interest in VR, AR and other technologies that will shape the future of work. In this Tech Barometer [See the full post…]

For more than a year we’ve upended our daily lives and altered our behavior to avoid contracting the coronavirus. Post-vaccination, why are we uncertain and even anxious about taking off masks around other vaccinated people, sending our kids back to [See the full post…]

Tech innovations aren’t enough to keep companies ahead of the curve. Their stakeholders need to buy in to new approaches and skills, according to Brent Schroeder, CTO of SUSE.

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Automation technologies have evolved rapidly in recent years and they’re helping IT pros manage more things across their data centers. In this tech Barometer podcast interview, Rahul Kelkar, Global Head of Product Management at Digitate and Tarak Parekh, director of [See the full post…]

Partly as a result of cost-cutting necessities, but also to demonstrate how Nutanix software can anchor a global hybrid cloud, Wendy M. Pfeiffer, CIO at Nutanix, led her team on a transformative journey. The goal was to make IT easier, [See the full post…]

The pandemic wreaked havoc but it also revealed that investments in digital technologies helped keep many aspects going during lockdown and social distancing. In a Tech Barometer podcast segment, Professor Art Langer says technology will only become more important in [See the full post…]

Inspired by health technology from the age of five, Griffin Weber has pursued this passion both doggedly and joyfully. Now an associate professor of medicine and bioinformaticist at Harvard, Griffin spends his days doing what he loves, leveraging technology to [See the full post…]

Is returning to the workplace on the horizon? With COVID-19 cases falling and vaccination numbers rising, heading back to the office suddenly seems plausible. But how and when this can happen depends on a number of factors, including the effectiveness [See the full post…]

Companies that don’t innovate risk losing to others that learn, adapt to and adopt new data technologies, according to Columbia University professor and author Dr. Art Langer in the first of a two part Tech Barometer podcast series on leadership [See the full post…]

Closing out the 10-part Tech Barometer podcast series Journey to Cloud, Nutanix CIO Wendy Pfeiffer talks about step 10, having a hunger to progress. With so much pressure to perform everything right the first time requires teamwork set on continuous [See the full post…]

The ninth step in her journey to cloud at Nutanix, CIO Wendy M. Pfeiffer focused her IT team on saving space and money. She explains how moving to hybrid cloud helped Nutanix reduce electrical consumption and footprint.

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Matt Wilsey grew up wanting to serve.  He spent his early career in government working for both blue and red administrations, but was eventually lured back to where he grew up–Silicon Valley—to join the tech scene, and helped start and [See the full post…]

The COVID-19 vaccines offer promise for a brighter future but “we’re not out of the woods yet,” says Dr. Bob Wachter, Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSF. In a race against emerging variants, efficient vaccine distribution [See the full post…]

Almost every organization making headway with cloud computing struggles to mix different types of IT services in a way that effortlessly meets user needs. In this Tech Barometer segment, Wendy Pfeiffer, CIO of Nutanix, talks about how automation and continuous [See the full post…]

Amy Emerson, CEO of MAPS Public Benefit Corp. (MAPS), grew up in Kodiak, Alaska and fell in love with both animals and science as a child.  Later in life, when considering veterinary school, she realized that she loved [See the full post…]

As the Nutanix leadership torch changed hands in late 2020, co-founder and departing CEO Dheeraj Pandey interviewed his successor Rajiv Ramaswami in a podcast for company employees. In this version edited for the Tech Barometer, the two tech leaders discuss [See the full post…]

In the seventh segment of a 10-part Tech Barometer podcast series “Journey to Cloud,” Nutanix CIO Wendy Pfeiffer explains why it’s critical to measure and optimize performance in order to delight IT users.

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Stacy Feld had settled into a satisfying career in biotech business development when she accidentally found her way into a meeting with Genentech’s CEO and a tiny startup company called 23andMe. The moment sparked a sudden realization that [See the full post…]

In this 5th segment in a 10-part Tech Barometer podcast series, Nutanix CIO Wendy M. Pfeiffer talks about why creating a common, flexible IT infrastructure foundation – based on a hypervisor to virtualize and hyperconverged infrastructure to scale – is [See the full post…]

Nutanix CIO Wendy M. Pfeiffer talks about how a purpose-built platform reduces operating expenses by simplifying monitoring and maintenance tasks, in the 3rd of a 10-part Tech Barometer podcast series.

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