Dana Gardner

Analyst Dana Gardner hosts conversations with the doers and innovators—data scientists, developers, IT operations managers, chief information security officers, and startup founders—who use technology to improve the way we live, work, and play.

Where the Rubber Meets the Road: How Users See the IT4IT Standard Building Competitive Business Advantage

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Dana Gardner: Hi, this is Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions, and you’re reading BriefingsDirect. Our next IT operations strategy panel discussion explores how the IT4IT™️ Reference Architecture for IT management creates demonstrated business benefits – in many ways, across many types of organizations.

Since its delivery in 2015 by The Open Group, IT4IT has focused on defining, sourcing, consuming, and managing services across the IT function’s value stream to its stakeholders.

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Who, if Anyone, is in Charge of MultiCloud Business Optimization?

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The next BriefingsDirect composable cloud strategies interview explores how changes in business organization and culture demand a new approach to leadership over such functions as hybrid and multi-cloud procurement and optimization.

We’ll now learn from an IT industry analyst about the forces reshaping the consumption of hybrid cloud services and why the model around procurement must be accompanied by an updated organizational approach — perhaps even a new office or category of officer in the business category.

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How hybrid cloud deployments gain traction via Equinix datacenter adjacency coupled with the Cloud28+ ecosystem

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The next BriefingsDirect hybrid cloud advancement interview explores how the triumvirate of a global data center hosting company, a hybrid cloud platform provider, and a global cloud community are solving some of the most vexing problems for bringing high-performance clouds to more regions around the globe.

We will now explore how Equinix, Microsoft Azure Stack, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)’s Cloud28+ are helping managed service providers (MSPs) and businesses alike obtain world-class hybrid cloud services.

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WANTED:
A Better Way to Manage and Optimize Hybrid Cloud Economics

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]IT leaders face complex choices when it comes to their cloud options. Literally, hundreds of thousands of services are available — and each business must decide what choice is best in terms of performance and price points. For the enterprise, a hybrid cloud environment is now the norm, which increases complexity even more. Given all of this complexity, many businesses are finding that their multi-cloud deployments are out of control and waste is rampant.…

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Big Data Meets HCI–How South African Insurance Provider Gives Developers the Royal Treatment

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]How an insurance innovator built a modern hyperconverged infrastructure environment that rapidly replicates databases to accelerate developer agility.

Dana Gardner: Hello, and welcome to the next edition of the BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer podcast series. I’m Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions, your host and moderator for this ongoing discussion on digital transformation success stories. Stay with us now to learn how agile businesses are fending off disruption — in favor of innovation.…

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Inside Story on HPC’s Role in Bridges Strategic Reasoning Research Project at CMU

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Transcript of a discussion on how Carnegie Mellon University researchers are advancing strategic reasoning and machine learning capabilities using the latest in high performance computing. 

Dana Gardner: Hello, and welcome to the next edition of the BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer podcast series. I’m Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions, your host and moderator for this ongoing discussion on digital transformation success stories.…

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