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…]

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 [See the full post…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

Now that the world has been essentially ushered indoors, the integrity of internet and cloud to continue to serve all users is a question. Ray Wang, Principal Analyst, Founder, and Chairman of Silicon Valley-based Constellation Research joins us to talk [See the full post…]

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…]

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 [See the full post…]

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 [See the full post…]

It takes many skills and mental dexterity to manage business across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Known as EMEA, the vast region is rich with diversity and history, made up of multiple time zones, languages and cultures. Sammy Zoghlami, [See the full post…]

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.

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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…]

To most people outside the country, Italy evokes the delight of pizza and mandolins. But for Alberto Fiisetti and Christian Turcati, their country, which is steeped in tradition with a diverse mix of regional dialects and cultures, is a place [See the full post…]

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…]

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…]

“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…]

One way to move IT from a cost to a profit center is to examine the total cost of ownership (TCO), return on investment (ROI) and everything that it takes to run business solutions, according to Steven Kaplan, author of [See the full post…]

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…]

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…]

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 [See the full post…]

With the average annual cost of a data breach for a company about to exceed $4 million and the emergence of regulations like GDPR and the CCPA, businesses more than ever must prioritize data safeguards. “If you look at enterprises, [See the full post…]

We have never seen a time like this, where IT is being besieged on multiple fronts, according to Steven Kaplan, author of The ROI Story: A Guide for IT Leaders. On one side is the public cloud and on the [See the full post…]

It is important for developers to build up their own empathy in order to design APIs with a UX mindset. That makes APIs easier for other engineers to use more effectively, according to Kollivakkam Raghavan, Director of Engineering for Prism [See the full post…]

“In the early days, people had no idea what hyperconvergence was,” recalled Steven Poitras, principal solutions architect at enterprise software company Nutani. Hyperconverged (HCI) infrastructure combines compute, storage and networking in a single location, vastly simplifying data center operations that [See the full post…]