5.21.24 | 19:59 mins | Application modernization

Transforming Your Timelines

Modernizing IT systems is a huge achievement. But digital transformation isn’t about reaching the finish line. It’s about reaching for the horizon.

5.07.24 | 17:43 mins | Application modernization

Transforming Your Priorities

It can be hard to know the full outcome of your choices. Many factors affect outcomes—but keeping track of your priorities makes everything clear.

4.23.24 | 23:35 mins | Application modernization, storage

Transforming Your Database

Databases are rarely the stars of digital transformation. But the database tools you choose have implications beyond the databases themselves.

4.09.24 | 19:36 mins | Application modernization, security

Transforming Your Secrets Management

We’ve been taught not to share our secrets. When it comes to large-scale systems, that thinking has to change. But maybe only a little bit.

3.26.24 | 20:10 mins | Application modernization, security

Transforming Your Identity Management

Modern systems have a lot of components to log into. How do you sort the legitimate users from the potential intruders?

12.19.23 | 21:54 mins | Automation and management, partners

You Can't Automate The Fire

Is there such a thing as too much enthusiasm for automation? Probably not. But it can be difficult to unify an organization with strong opinions.

Vincenzo Sposito shares how Discover harnessed its teams’ passions to build a unified automation solution—while preserving debate and experimentation.

10.31.23 | 19:16 mins | Automation and management, partners

You Can’t Automate The Difficult Decisions

The tensions between security and operations and developer teams are the stuff of legend. DevSecOps is trying to change that, and automation is a big part of making it possible. But automation alone can’t overcome entrenched behavior.

Joylynn Kirui shares how Microsoft is helping shift security considerations to the left—and alleviating the headaches that process can bring. Because in the long run, everyone is better off with better security.

10.17.23 | 17:04 mins | Automation and management, partners

You Can’t Automate Collaboration

No single person can automate a whole company’s IT. Even most teams would need some help. But it’s also not likely you can immediately get everyone to automate their own work right away. So how do you get it done?

Sudheer Kumar Donthineni explains how Ulta Beauty makes the most of its small team of 3 automation experts. Through the power of collaboration, they’re able to make significant progress with automation—and help their employees grow.

10.3.23 | 18:06 mins | Automation and management, partners

You Can't Automate Expectations

Establishing consistent automation habits helps keep those skills sharp and gets the systems set up promptly. But getting to that point takes time. And even when automating processes becomes second nature, you can still overlook potential pitfalls.

Joshua Bradley of Cox Edge describes what it’s like managing the expectations teams and stakeholders may have about automating infrastructure. The systems may be more complex. Timelines may be longer. And even when you leave detailed instructions, users may still make mistakes. It just means you need to keep adjusting until you get it right.

9.19.23 | 17:40 mins | Automation and management

You Can’t Automate Cultural Change

Making automation work takes more than just writing the scripts. And it’s most effective when it becomes a habit rather than a one-off project. But building habits and changing culture is no easy task.

Eduardo Krumholz and David Linthicum of Deloitte help their clients internalize automation as part of their workflows. They share their strategies to help their customers make that transition successful—and overcome reluctance to change.

9.05.23 | 16:40 mins | Automation and management, partners

You Can't Automate Buy-In

World Wide Technology (WWT) helps organizations set up their tech infrastructure. But they also have to do it for themselves. It’s a lot to juggle with their ambitious goals for growth. Automation is helping them get to where they want to go—but it took them a few years to find a solution the team bought into. 

Corey Wanless and Jason Kayser share what WWT wanted to achieve with automation, the challenges they faced, and how it helped the people of WWT come together.

02.21.23 | 32:30 mins | Artificial intelligence, partners

Hayden Wolff, NVIDIA: Shaping Extended Reality Through AI

The idea behind extended reality, or XR, is immersion. That can be a hard standard to meet when dealing with a visual interface. As an intern at NVIDIA, Hayden Wolff stepped up to tackle a thorny challenge, and with some assistance from natural language processing (NLP), the company’s Project Mellon is changing the way we look at the design process.

02.07.23 | 25:24 mins | Integration, partners

Neesha Godbole, MuleSoft: Communicating the Value of Connecting Systems

Connecting tools and systems yields all sorts of benefits. What can be tricky is knowing exactly what those benefits are-especially emergent ones. Neesha Godbole, a Partner Account Manager with MuleSoft, shares how mapping the benefits of joint projects is about finding more than the sum of the parts. But it doesn’t make a difference if you can’t communicate the value to customers.

01.24.23 | 32:01 mins | Application modernization, partners

Markie Duby, Dynatrace: Challenges In Solutions Engineering

Change may seem exciting for some. But for those who are moving from one platform, or one technology, to the next, it can be a daunting, anxiety-filled experience. For Dynatrace’s Markie Duby, keeping empathy at the center of one’s work is crucial for building trust and for collaborating with customers as they adapt to an industry that never stops moving.

01.10.23 | 24:52 mins | Containers, partners

Matt Quill, F5: Scaling For Complexity With Container Adoption

When it comes time to move to the cloud, the concerns can be many. Companies are increasingly security conscious, and success depends on applications being reliable. There’s also the need for agility, to adjust to changes in the market. F5’s Matt Quill tells Burr how planning carefully and collaboratively can address challenges while building pivotal internal relationships.

12.13.22 | 28:33 mins | Application modernization, partners

Ben Darnell, Cockroach Labs: Avoiding Failure In Distributed Databases

Ever been so frustrated with the options available that you build your own? Ben Darnell, Chief Architect and Co-Founder of Cockroach Labs, shares how his dissatisfaction with distributed databases led to the creation of CockroachDB. To build a distributed database that not only plans for but expects failures, they needed to implement the Raft consensus algorithm. Getting it up and running was a tough technical challenge. But the result was an incredibly resilient database.

11.29.22 | 31:23 mins | Open source

David Duncan, Amazon Web Services: Aligning With Open Source Principles

It’s one thing to talk about your open source principles. It’s another entirely to build them into your workflows. How does a large company like Amazon Web Services actually make it work? David Duncan, Sr Manager Partner Solutions Architect at AWS, explains that being open with partners and customers throughout the development process is key. He talks about ensuring there are no one-way doors, and how collaboration helps to produce a better experience for OpenShift on AWS as well as combining the power of the Cloud Control API with Ansible automation.

11.15.22 | 29:22 mins | Edge computing, partners

Sandeep Sharma, Tech Mahindra: Rethinking Networks In Telecommunications

Success in telecommunications relies on bridging the tangible with the intangible. It isn’t just the availability of software, or the speed of a network: It is the blend of network services and physical infrastructure necessary to deliver an end-to-end experience between datacenters and customers. Sandeep Sharma, Vice President of Tech Mahindra, gives us a history of networks, how they’ve changed, and how companies are meeting increasingly complex market demands.

11.01.22 | 33:54 mins | Artificial intelligence, partners

Ryan Loney, Intel: Bringing Deep Learning to Enterprise Applications

There are a lot of publicly available data sets out there. But when it comes to specific enterprise use cases, you’re not necessarily going to be able to find one to train your models. To realize the power of AI/ML in enterprise environments, end users need an inference engine to run on their hardware. Ryan Loney takes us through OpenVINO and Anomalib, open toolkits from Intel that do precisely that. He looks specifically at anomaly detection in use cases as varied as medical imaging and manufacturing.