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. Follow the enterprise [See the full post…]

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 biology but [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. Follow the enterprise cloud tech revolution at [See the full post…]

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 the best [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. Follow the enterprise cloud tech revolution at The Forecast by [See the full post…]

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

In the first of a 10-part Tech Barometer podcast series, Nutanix CIO Wendy M. Pfeiffer explains why creating a common foundation – based on a hypervisor to virtualize and hyperconverged infrastructure to scale – is the first step toward a [See the full post…]

A self-described “nerdy” kid from a working class family in a bedroom community of “The City,” on the South Shore of Long Island, Paul Bleicher trained as a physician-scientist, and was heading towards a career in academic medicine when he [See the full post…]

Rapid iteration that has become essential to technology innovation is something well defined in the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we [See the full post…]

Matthew Zachary, CEO of Offscrip Media  has had multiple careers despite the fact that he shouldn’t have had any.  He had studied to be a concert pianist and composer and conductor through college, but at the age of 21, on his [See the full post…]

Increasingly, employees and students reply on streamed applications rather than having apps run directly from their computer’s hard drive. In this video animation, learn how end user computing, a catch-all phrase, is changing as technologies like desktop as a service [See the full post…]

The effects of the coronavirus on technology will be studied for years to come. The ways people responded and new directions companies took are creating a new normal. IT leaders were forced to build more robust, resilient, secure data systems [See the full post…]

Kevin Lyman was once the world’s highest ranked Warlock in Worlds of Warcraft and a professional Halo2 player. But that wasn’t his original plan. In fact, growing up in New Jersey, Kevin always wanted to be a scientist, even before [See the full post…]

The ideas behind 5G got their start at NASA, which was seeking to improve space communication for satellites. As telcos roll out 5G networks with speeds of up to 10 gigs, the new wireless technology is poised to bring powerful [See the full post…]