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What are the multiple levels of security that your business needs or should consider? Per Aberdeen, the business impact of security-related issues affecting the supply chain ranked behind only that of the global pandemic, product recalls, and reduction in customer demand. Join Derek E. Brink, CISSP, VP & research Fellow with Aberdeen and Nabila Coovadia Sr. Director SMB and Compute Product Marketing at HPE and learn more.

As SMBs adopt key new technologies like hybrid cloud and on-premise infrastructures designed for today’s on-demand business needs, they need infrastructure solutions that give them flexibility and cost controls while letting them get on the road to modernization as quickly as possible. Nabila Coovadia, Sr. Director of Compute and SMB Marketing and Jim Rapoza, VP & Principal Analyst for Aberdeen research discuss how to build an IT infrastructure with the flexibility to grow businesses.

Ransomware attacks have increased in volume and severity. In a world where all organizations depend on their critical applications for services, disruption and unplanned downtime are very costly. Joseph George VP Compute and industry Alliances with HPE and Andy Fernandez Senior Manager, Product Marketing at Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company share what can be done to protect your business and recover quickly.

Learn about the top challenges that disrupt modernization initiatives in a hybrid cloud and multicloud world and the leading strategies that organizations are following in order to boost reliability and increase uptime while modernizing their infrastructure. Jim Rapoza, VP & Principal Analyst with Aberdeen and Joseph George VP Compute and industry Alliances with HPE share their expertise.

These days, there’s a lot of discussion in the public square about “Zero-Trust” strategies for cybersecurity. As an over-arching trend for organizations of all sizes, there is a very strong interest in implementing the principles of “Zero-Trust” security. Derek E. Brink, CISSP, VP & Research Fellow with Aberdeen and Joseph George VP Compute and Industry Alliances with HPE discuss this topic and 5 key focus areas. 

Cloud computing is undergoing a huge transformation. Kubernetes and containers are changing how applications are created, many elements of technology infrastructure are moving to “as a service” and hybrid cloud is increasingly in importance. Jim Rapoza, VP & Principal Analyst for Aberdeen discusses how these changes are impacting the way that organizations look at their on-premises compute capabilities.

Hear attitudes, perceptions, and even misconceptions in the market when it comes to “the cloud” from a survey of 5,000 IT decision makers. Kevin Easterwood, Senior Director, HPE Americas Marketing shares how respondents think about the different cloud models.

What are the key areas to focus on when trying to figure out the crown jewels of your business and assessing cyber vulnerability?  Sunil James, Senior Director at HPE, Security Engineering shares insights including identifying risks, prioritizing risks and setting up a cyber risk mitigation and action plan.

The demand for healthcare is increasing and the key to success for the future of healthcare is putting the patient at the center.  Rich Bird, HPE Worldwide, Healthcare and Life Sciences Lead explains the importance of patients being able to take their data with them across the whole continuum of care from edge to cloud and how HPE can help.

Attracting and maintaining top talent can make or break a company. HPE Digital Learner, SMB Edition is a learning as a service subscription that delivers the right balance of technical training on HPE products with just the right mix of industry training. Listen to learn more from Lina Cardona, HPE Business Developer Education Services, and try it free for 7 days. Register at www.hpe.com/ww/digitallearnersmb.

The Edge is everywhere. It’s where commerce happens, where manufacturing happens, it’s even your car. And making the Edge work for your business is critical. Why? Start by listening to Bob Patterson, HPE Chief Strategist & Enterprise Architect, AI & IoT, discuss how to put compute and networking capabilities where you, as a SMB, need them most — at the edge.

Edge is the place where data from people, places, things, and their locations gets created. Hear from Anurag Agrawal, Founder and Head Analyst at Techaisle on how SMBs can gain time to value more quickly if data is computed and analyzed at the Edge. This faster time to value empowers distributed work, enables improved customer intimacy, and drives innovation.

Ronaldo Pinto, Director of HPE Pointnext Services, provides key insights on selecting a service provider.  SMBs are very particular in that individuals need to wear multiple hats, every minute not spent on the business is revenue lost, and every dollar counts. Let’s consider three key criteria when deciding on a service provider to help them manage what they have today while transforming for the future.

Shari Lava, WW SMB Research Director at IDC, explains how to accelerate new tech adoption by shifting to a digitally-enabled business strategy. Tech spending was expected to be 6% less for businesses of 1 to 9 employees in 2020. But by the end of the year SMBs of all sizes ended up spending just as much if not more than last year for technology.

Nick Dyer, HPE Storage Technologist, provides simple answers to complicated data storage questions about Hyperconvergence. 

Huy Tran, a reseller in the Chicago area, describes the challenges their customers are seeing and  how they are working with them to help through these challenging times. He also describes how the use of iLO server management software from HPE has really helped them to be able to better support these customers.

Brent Quick, Networking and Infrastructure Consultant with Intelligent Technologies discusses  how they are supporting their clients and reinventing the way they work in today’s new environment.

Jim Rapoza, Research Analyst for Aberdeen,  discusses a recent survey on how companies are reinventing themselves as they work to grow their business in this new digitally transformed world. 

Jim Rapoza, Research Analyst for Aberdeen,  discusses how businesses can assist their employees in reinventing the way they work leveraging the technology that is available today for working remotely.

David Rogers (Product Manager HPE StoreEver) and Andrew Dodd (Product Marketing Manager, Storage) discuss how storage is a key component being used by small businesses these days to help them as they reinvent the way they work in this new digital world. There are a number of different ways to tackle the same problems and in this podcast we take a look at a couple good ones that HPE can help you with.