An outstanding presentation not only relays the message in the intended way, it also stays with the audience a long time. In this Gestalt IT Tech Talk recorded at the Mobility Field Day event in California, Keith Parsons shares tips on how to give better technical talks. Instead of fixating on the pitch, Keith tells presenters to work on a compelling story. In this talk, he shares the secret formula to make presentations impactful. Learn how to connect with the audience and deliver the most effective presentation.

An integral component of the zero-trust architecture is microsegmentation. In this Gestalt IT Tech Talk, Tom Hollingsworth and Tim Bertino talk about how organizations can tighten their defenses and build secure networks in an increasingly perilous digital environment. Segmentation not only shrinks down the attack surface, and but at a micro-level, it also affords the ability to enforce zero trust at the most granular level. Watch this Gestalt IT Tech Talk to learn how companies can enforce a zero-trust framework with network segmentation.

KubeCon has steadily gained traction in the IT community over the years. In this Gestalt IT Tech Talk, Stephen Foskett and Michael Levan dig into the nuances that make KubeCon a conference like no other. The broad appeal of the event owes to the community-centric approach of the organizers. First and foremost, KubeCon is an event of the practitioners. Guests are given all the opportunity to learn and network. Additionally, it supports a multi-vendor ecosystem giving every attending company an even playing field to showcase their expertise. Watch this Gestalt IT interview to know the key attractions of KubeCon.

Qlik’s rebranding is more than a new look, it’s a statement. Data analytics has penetrated businesses in all sectors. But it is increasingly important as the foundation of real-world AI use cases. When armed with versatile tools like Qlik, enterprises show greater confidence in their ability to examine and understand data, and those reported to have higher concentrations of analytics achieve faster outcomes and better bottom lines. Qlik’s updated look besides triggering the desired psychological reaction, reflects the positive experience that it promises. But more importantly, its repositioning shows a commitment to furthering the advantage and potential of data and AI to all businesses.

Kubernetes is said to be the go-to tool for all of IT. In this Gestalt IT Tech Talk, host Stephen Foskett and delegate Jon Hildebrand strike at the heart of this myth. Kubernetes is a stellar orchestration and management platform for containerized applications. It brings to offer a host of automation capabilities that are essential for many organizations. But before diving headfirst into it, it is important to take a moment to appreciate where it’s true value lies, and what things it cannot do. Watch the Tech Talk to know how Kubernetes can enhance application management processes, and why it is not the magic remedy people think it to be.

DevOps, if adopted right, can end years of productivity issues in IT. In this Gestalt IT Tech Talk recorded at the Cloud Field Day event in California, Stephen Foskett and Matthew Allford talk about the realities of DevOps adoption. Missteps on the part of administration often leads to failure, and development of even more silos. To integrate DevOps organically, developers and operations must get a taste of the outcomes. This will convince them that there’s value in collaborating and creating, and that it can lead to faster problem solving. In this Tech Talk, learn how companies can encourage and facilitate a DevOps culture within organizations.

Data sovereignty is one of the burning issues of our time. In this Gestalt IT Tech Talk recorded at the Cloud Field Day event, host Stephen Foskett, and Nathan Bennet drilled down to the bottom of it, and explained who should be worried about meeting the sovereignty requirements. With stricter rules imposed every day, CISOs are struggling to keep up. Hear how Bennett, a long-time associate in the cloud industry, defines data sovereignty. Find out how this approach fits the evolving cloud operating model.

There is a growing consensus that security needs to shift left in the software development lifecycle. In this Gestalt IT Tech Talk recorded at the Information Security Summit in Cleveland, Stephen Foskett, and Leon Adato of Kentik dissect the meaning of “shift left”. The path to shift left is through fostering true collaboration between software development and IT operations. By elevating security in the early phases of software development lifecycle, complex vulnerabilities can be corrected before they amplify into attack vectors. Additionally, low-quality codes can be improved for better security. Learn how companies can integrate this philosophy into their development pipeline to maximize the efficiency of debugging.

This article follows Ben Young’s journey of building a chatbot web interface for Veeam knowledge base using retrieval-augmented generation. RAG is an AI framework for providing extra context to large language models for fine-tuning the responses. Give the article a read at Gestalt IT, or watch the Ignite Talk here on the website.

In this article, Sulagna Saha discusses data-driven enterprise Wi-Fi monitoring and optimization led by Cisco. Cisco has partnered with an ecosystem of device vendors to draw extended intelligence about client environments without using an agent. Read about it at Gestalt IT or watch Cisco’s presentation from the Mobility Field Day event here at the website.