The experience economy, the ecosystem mandate, and why API design may be the key to competitive advantage

How do you compete in a world where the experience is everything, and no organization stands alone? In the not-so-distant past, enterprise executives had the “luxury” of just worrying about producing and delivering a great product. In today’s experience economy, it’s not so simple. The modern consumer and business customer demand an experience that is…

Rethinking Network Monitoring in a Work-from-Anywhere World

In 1921, William Butler Yeats wrote “the centre cannot hold,” describing a moment society reached a technological and social turning point. Fast forward roughly 100 years, and the world is in a similar state of transformation. Businesses across industries are decentralizing, as traditional, centrally-managed systems are giving way to distributed models accelerated by new technology.…

7 traits of inspirational IT leaders

All successful CIOs know how to instruct, motivate, energize, and even excite their teams. Yet only a relative handful of IT leaders can truly be described as inspirational figures, capable of leading their teams to goals that collegues at other enterprises can only dream about. CIOs who are purposefully positive and responsible, with a focus…

PGA of America swings for the public cloud

The PGA of America is building a world-class resort with multiple golf courses and retail shops near Dallas, due to be complete next year. That’s just one major drive under way by the nonprofit golf association, which is also delivering myriad tournaments and events, special services, and classes to its 28,000 members, a roster including…

SASE delivers secure modern working for IVE Group

The Modern enterprise needs to use tools that are secure, easy to access and maintain while supporting complex functions in a fast-moving business environment. One stand out need driving much attention is the need to provide secure modern working to users accompanied by a high quality user experience.  These two opposing forces typically create a…