Tag Archives: Technology
October 2016
September 2016
Daniel Faurlin, Director, Solution Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise
Daniel Faurlin is Director, Solution Marketing, in the Network Division of Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise. Daniel is responsible for positioning, communicating and educating internal and external clients, on the value proposition of ALE solutions in the Transportation and Healthcare verticals. He has worked in start-ups, small to large enterprise businesses, in a variety of leadership roles. Daniel is an Electrical Engineering graduate from Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada.
1. What do you hope the audience will learn from this webinar?
You can build one network infrastructure with one private network for each department enabling department agility and security, while providing support for IoT.
2. What discussions do you look forward to having with the audience?
Are they looking at expanding or replacing their network infrastructure and have they considered a Pay per Use model?
3. What do you enjoy most about your role?
My role enables me to talk to people in various industries with diverse backgrounds and experience, about their networking challenges, which gives me an opportunity to discuss what ALE has to offer.
4. How did you get into the industry?
I got into the tech industry right out of college and haven’t looked back since.
Join Daniel in the Alcatel-Lucent webinar to discuss ‘Optimized Care Pathway Begins with an Intelligent Network Infrastructure‘. Register now!
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Dan Matthews, CTO, IFS
As the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at IFS, Dan’s responsibilities encompass researching, formulating, and communicating the strategic direction of IFS Applications. Dan leads the Research & Strategy unit, which includes IFS Labs. He also manages IFS’s technical partnerships with Microsoft, Oracle and other players. Dan is a frequent speaker at IFS and industry events.
Since joining IFS in 1996, Dan has held a number of positions within the company, including software engineer and project manager. In his IFS career, Dan has been the driving force behind major projects such as the development of the innovative IFS Enterprise Explorer user interface, the IFS Touch Apps, a series of cloud-based smartphone apps for the enterprise, and IFS’s move to the cloud.
Dan Matthews is a graduate from the Linköping Institute of Technology, where he studied computer software and software engineering. While still at university, Dan founded his own software development company, which he left to pursue a career at IFS.
Outside of the workplace, Dan pursues his hobbies of carpentry and cross-country skiing.
1. Why did you decide to do a webinar with Business Review Webinars?
This is our third time around I believe. We had quite a good turn out the first couple of times so continuing with a winning concept.
2. What is your favorite thing about presenting to a live audience?
Actually it is the opportunity to get and answer questions. Having this interaction, which you can only have with a live audience, makes it much more interesting for me, and I believe for the people listening in as well.
3. What are you looking forward to explaining to the audience?
What it means to take a pragmatic approach to the Internet of Things. There is so much hype around this topic that someone needs to look at the practicalities of going from talking about IoT to doing something and getting some benefit back.
4. Where is your favourite place in the world and why?
There has to be two answers to this. One place is home. That’s where I have my family and my own little piece of this world—the place I can just be. The second is Melbourne, Australia. It’s relaxed, small enough to get around on foot, fantastic climate.
5. What do you do in your leisure time to relax?
I build stuff. Mainly things like walls, stairs, sheds and things around the garden. Best thing so far was building a Swedish “lusthus” (yes, it means lust house). If you don’t know what they look like just google some pictures.
Join Dan, along with speakers from IDC an Microsoft as they discuss the ‘Top 3 Questions to Address When Planning for IoT‘. Register now!
Moving Data Security to the Centre of the Business
by Jon Collins, Senior Technology Consultant at Inter Orbis
A couple of weeks ago, I was lucky enough to speak to Clément Cazelot at Intralinks, about the role of data security in the digital world. As I ruminate on our discussion, I can’t help wondering how the message would be received. After all, it’s not as if we haven’t spoken about data security before.
Some of the topics may seem familiar — the fact that a company’s electronic boundaries are no longer impenetrable (if they ever were), for example. The Jericho Forum was set up in 2004 to promote the idea of de-perimeterisation; the organisation folded in 2013 when it was clear this had become the norm.
And as for data being a strategic business asset, well, that takes me back to a meal of senior security people I attended a good few years ago. All agreed with the premise, if only the business felt the same.
Or what about the fact that security doesn’t have to be seen as an unwelcome cost, but as a ‘business enabler’? This counterpoint to security’s frequent struggle for funds has been around ever since I was an IT manager, as far as I know, and probably longer.
So, what gives? Are we destined to trot out the same messages for the next few decades, as part of a continued attempt to squeeze paltry security funding out of a disinterested budgetary stone? While this may be true, bigger events are afoot.
Over a mere handful of years, technology’s role has morphed. Even as the Jericho Forum was staking its claim, Nicholas Carr was presenting the popular fiction that IT had commoditised and could no longer be the basis of competitive advantage.
Of the former, he may have been right: tech has become an intrinsic element of our post-millennial existence. Even electric toothbrushes contain tiny processors, simply because they are the cheapest option.
But, the latter point. IT is not only a source of business advantage; rather, it has become the primary source, driving innovation and engagement across every industry. While the term ‘digital transformation’ may lack definition, business leaders around the world are changing their strategies accordingly.
It is this change of emphasis that trumps all previous statements about the role of security. If data really is the new oil, its protection becomes paramount. In the digitally enabled business, security cannot be considered as a bolt-on. It is an inherent part of business success.
So yes, sure, let’s keep talking about where security fits, about how to encrypt data and architect systems to minimise technical, and therefore business risk. But let’s also recognise that if data is moving to the centre of business strategy and execution, then so must its security.