While the global economy slows down, network security spending continues to be robust as business and IT leaders seek to protect corporate assets, thus avoiding a major distraction when market focus is needed most. Recent analyst numbers suggest that data loss can result from myriad corporate security vulnerabilities. It’s getting harder to protect a company's intellectual property as the modern concept of work is based upon anywhere and anytime electronic collaboration and the borderless enterprise. Nasrin Rezai, Senior Director of Information Security for Cisco Systems is my guest as we discuss PPT or People, Process and Technology as the strategy to mitigate data from being lost or stolen from your company. To understand best practices of data loss prevention, you need to listen to this podcast

Green initiatives, governmental requirements, work-home lifestyle changes, business expense controls, reduced real estate requirements, business continuity - all these concerns add up as strong motivation for business and IT leaders to drive enterprise-wide mobility initiatives. Now more than ever, the value gained through the mobile enterprise is being embraced as executive management seeks operational cost reduction and increased productivity. Joe Ghory, Marketing Manager at Riverbed Technology is my guest as we discuss best practices to deliver corporate value though a mobile workforce. If your firm's initiatives are cost reduction and increased productivity then listen to this podcast.

Over the last 20 years, business and IT leaders have been distributing IT infrastructure to the branch and mobile employee environment. However, the past decade has demonstrated a trend in the need to consolidate distributed IT infrastructure back to the data center in order to cut costs and gain more security and control. With data centers being consolidated and virtualized, central applications perform poorly when accessed via branch office or mobile networks. By adding application optimization and acceleration technology to branch and mobile users, IT leaders gain the economic efficiencies afforded by data center consolidation without the pain of poor branch and remote application performance. Bob Gilbert, Director of Marketing at Riverbed Technology is my guest as we discuss strategies to reduce corporate operational spend through data center, branch and mobile networking. If you’re centralizing branch and mobile users applications for then you need to listen to this podcast.