2020
Lessons From The Covid-19 Surge In Remote Work
Insight was featured in this Forbes article. According to research from Insight, only 24% of IT leaders said their organizations experienced no downtime, and 44% experienced downtime of more than two weeks.
Read MoreLearnings From Our Mass Experiment in Remote Work
Mark Wavle is the national lead for Agile Enablement Services on Insight Enterprises’ Digital Innovation team and is featured in Dice Insights with his most recent byline article. Great talent lives all over—not just commuting distance from a company’s headquarters. Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, many teams knew that flexible working policies can be important factors in recruiting and retaining top teammates. Hybrid-distributed teams—where some members are remote—were increasingly common. Now, every member of a team who can work from home is working from home.
Read MoreWhat Worked And What Didn't: Three Ways Businesses Will Be Forever Changed
President and CEO of Insight, Ken Lamneck is featured in Forbes with his most recent byline. The Covid-19 pandemic thrust the world into uncertainty, but as we begin to return to "the new normal," we're starting to take note of more permanent changes to the ways we work and live. The immediate changes, like the shift to remote work, were made in a reactive state. Today, however, we find ourselves with the opportunity to be reflective, where we're rethinking our architectures and considering the best ways to move forward, keeping safety and efficiency top-of-mind.
Read MoreTwo Boring Tasks that IT Teams Should Prioritize to Save Time and Money
Delaying IT modernization projects is one way to save money in these uncertain times, but that also can slow down digital transformation efforts. A better investment of time and effort is taking time to complete boring but important tasks that often get pushed down the priority list. John O'Shaughnessy, an infrastructure architect and senior consultant at Insight Enterprises, has two recommendations for IT departments who want to boost efficiency and lower costs.
Read MoreHow the Marketing Evolution is Driving Business Resiliency
Amy Protexter, Senior Vice President, North America Marketing at Insight, discussed the Marketing landscape in our current reality. In a conversation with Cisco's Michelle Chiantera, Amy unearthed many unique challenges that marketers face as we ease into a changed world, and highlighted areas of opportunity that we can embrace.
Read MoreAdvice From 15 Transformative CEOs
Ken Lamneck, Insight CEO was featured in this Forbes article. “At the core of everything is the growing importance of data and bandwidth to empower business and insulate it from any major disruptions. The intelligent edge is emerging as a crucial enabler, particularly as IoT grows and latency shrinks thanks to 5G. There’s more than 16 billion connected devices today, and that number is estimated to triple in the next five years alone. Everything is turning intelligent, data will continue to decentralize, and now is the time to get a grip on how you collect and analyze it in order to run smarter.”
Read MoreAnnouncing the Canada 2020 IMPACT Award Winners!
Microsoft Canada has recognized 16 partners across Canada (including Insight) for their achievements in delivering transformative solutions that have an impact in their communities. The 2020 IMPACT Award winners were announced during the Microsoft Inspire Digital event.
Read MoreMicrosoft Canada Congratulates the Winners of its 2020 IMPACT Awards
Microsoft Canada has recognized 16 partners across Canada (including Insight) for their achievements in delivering transformative solutions that have an impact in their communities. The 2020 IMPACT Award winners were announced during the Microsoft Inspire Digital event.
Read MoreUnderinvesting in Innovation Set Businesses Back in the Pandemic. But it’s not too Late to Embrace Change.
Stan Lequin, vice president and general manager of Digital Innovation at Insight wrote a byline article in Medium.com. He says, "If the past several weeks have taught us anything, it’s that the COVID-19 pandemic is not behind us. In fact, it’s clear that we’re in it for the long haul, with global cases now reaching close to 15 million and hot spots re-emerging across the country."
Read MoreHere are the Arizona Companies With the Most Women on Boards
While women are still far from having an equal voice in boardrooms, they have made strides in the last year. According to MSCI, an independent research firm that develops global equity indexes, 20 percent of directors were women in 2019, up from 17.9 percent in 2018. Insight was among the Arizona-based companies‘ boards of directors that are made up of at least 25 percent women, according to Women on Boards’ 2020 Gender Diversity Index.
Read MoreExpert Series: The Wave of the Future? Hybrid Staffs, High-Tech Sensors and at-Home IT
As businesses struggle to return to the workplace following the rise of COVID-19, many are unsure how to establish a new normal — and remain productive and profitable — without putting their employees in harm’s way.
Read MoreMultidisciplinary Team Builds Smart, Safe Testing Pods for COVID-19 Powered by Azure
Unprecedented times call for unprecedented partnerships. That’s true of the collaboration between a progressive architect, a media and entertainment entrepreneur, one of North America’s largest builders, and a technology partner, to conceive of a creative solution to a global problem. They’re building portable pods that provide contactless COVID-19 testing. That idea gelled with a multidisciplinary team that adeptly applied Microsoft solutions. After less than two months, the result is the Citizen Care Pod, which is powered by Azure IoT, Azure Cognitive Services, and boundless ingenuity in pursuit of a common goal.
Read MoreIT Bridging the Gap for Business in the New Normal
Today, every organization is considering how to become more digitized and automated. These trends already were occurring before the coronavirus, but now they’ve escalated to the point that every business needs to be thinking like a technology company. The cloud, the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence, among other modern technologies, present unlimited ways to make workplaces smarter, more agile and even safer, especially now as governments reopen work and public places.
Read MoreInsight, Intel Hold $150,000 Makeover Contest for Businesses Slowed by Aging Tech
Insight has partnered with Intel on a national $150,000 Connected Workplace Makeover Contest that will award three organizations each with $50,000 worth of new Intel powered technology upgrades and services addressing critical needs to their business.
Read MoreKen Lamneck on Managing the Pandemic
Insight has taken an integrated approach to how we solve our clients’ IT challenges, where the core purpose isn’t solely focused on the technology but in finding transformative solutions that help the business run smarter overall. That includes helping clients modernize their operational processes and the mindsets of how their workers interact with the technology to ensure they get the most out their IT investments.
Read MoreThe CIO’s Return to the Workplace Playbook
IT executives will face unique challenges when employees begin returning to the workplace. Here are seven key questions every CIO must answer in devising their optimal plan, featuring Insight's Mike Gaumond, senior VP and general manager, Connected Workforce.
Read MoreOvercoming the Top 3 Analytics Adoption Challenges
Analytics is key to making smart business decisions, but not every analytics adoption project succeeds. And the more significant the project, the greater the obstacles. Featured in this TechTarget article, Steve Strohl, senior managing consultant for digital innovation services at Insight, was working with a large U.S. manufacturing firm on an analytics adoption project when he ran into a massive data problem.
Read More5 Digital Transformation Strategies Embracing the New Normal
In the coming months and years, the ability to quickly adapt to changing demands will be critical to business survival. Fortunately, there are ways to begin digitizing iteratively to achieve impactful outcomes. While the driving factors behind transformation may have shifted, digital transformation strategies and best practices for planning, implementing and managing it ultimately remain the same.
Read MoreGoing Lean: How Vendor Consolidation Creates Big Gains
There are clear and overwhelming benefits to vendor consolidation—but there are also existing misgivings and concerns about consolidating. The white paper “Driving Business Value Through Vendor Consolidation” digs deeper into the current pain points of SPVM professionals and uncovers key benefits of vendor consolidation supported by industry research.
Read MoreDell’s Rahul Tikoo: Latest Commercial PCs Are The Industry’s Most Intelligent, Sustainable And Secure
Alex Valenzuela, Insight's director of strategic alliance with Dell, participated in an interview about AI in Dell’s latest PCs in which he appears at the 3:50 mark of the video.
Read MoreThe CEO Show Radio Interview With Ken Lamneck
Insight CEO, Ken Lamneck's radio interview aired on "The CEO Show," where he discusses what organizations should be thinking about in the post-COVID-19 world and the applications of Insight's Detection and Prevention solution.
Read MoreValley Tech Giant Implements Platform to Help Detect Symptoms, Prevent Spread of Viruses
Insight is featured in this article for its activation of the Insight Connected Platform for Detection and Prevention solution at its warehouse distribution and integration centers in Hanover Park, Illinois, and Lewis Center, Ohio. The solution will soon be installed at 13 total Insight locations across North America, including the company’s corporate headquarters in Tempe, Arizona. Insight Connected Platform draws from Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities for applicable uses across all industries.
Read MoreGen 2 Intel Optane Memory Modules Claim Bandwidth Boost
Juan Orlandini, chief architect for the cloud and data center transformation division at IT consultancy Insight Enterprises, said in-memory databases such as SAP HANA are becoming more important and more common, but 4.5 TB of DRAM can be cost prohibitive. He said Optane PMem modules give users a huge amount of RAM space at a fraction of the cost.
Read MoreTechnology Promises a Safer Return to Work, But Don't Forget the (Virtual) Human Touch
This Forbes byline by Ken Lamneck, Insight CEO, features commentary on the return to work. The innovations we've seen emerge from the COVID-19 crisis have been truly amazing. Technology is playing an important role in helping us tackle this health crisis and adjust how we live and work each day. But, as always, it is not a silver bullet. It has to be deployed thoughtfully and with people top-of-mind.
Read MoreRedefining Normal — and Returning to Innovation
Matt Jackson, vice president of Digital Innovation at Insight is featured in this Medium article. Even though the coronavirus crisis has many of us feeling like the world came to a grinding halt, the reality couldn’t be further from the truth when it comes to tech. On the contrary, the pandemic has hastened changes that were already underway. In short, there isn’t a “new normal” — there is no longer a normal at all. Embracing this continuous change and understanding how to use it to your advantage is essential to thriving in this environment.
Read MoreGoogle Filestore Adds Elastifile Tech for High-Scale Tier
Juan Orlandini, chief architect in Cloud and Data Center Transformation at Insight was featured in this article. He said the consumption of cloud file services has been lower than the use of on- premises file storage largely because the developers who build applications in cloud-native format learned to write to object storage APIs. He said, by contrast, developers who write applications for on-premises systems grew with NFS and CIFS/SMB file services. As a result, the public cloud initially did not offer file services that were performant or scalable, and object storage consumption has tended to be limited in on-premises environments, he said.
Read MoreThe 'Citizen Care Pod' Could be the Newest Virus Testing Site -- and it's a Shipping Container
The Citizen Care Pod is a new initiative for COVID-19 smart screening and testing, combining intelligent technology with a modular design. Led by the Citizen Care Pods Corporation, the multi-disciplinary team, consisting of Toronto based WZMH Architects, PCL Construction, Insight Enterprises, and Microsoft, collaborated to bring the project from concept to reality in less than a month.
Read MoreWZMH Architects Designs Smart Screening and Testing Pod for COVID-19
The Citizen Care Pod is a new initiative for COVID-19 smart screening and testing, combining intelligent technology with a modular design. Led by the Citizen Care Pods Corporation, the multi-disciplinary team, consisting of Toronto based WZMH Architects, PCL Construction, Insight Enterprises, and Microsoft, collaborated to bring the project from concept to reality in less than a month.
Read MoreIT Modernization Yields Business Benefits Even in Early Stages: Survey
In The State of IT Modernization 2020, an IDG Research Services survey of 200 IT executives commissioned last December by Insight Enterprises’ Cloud + Data Center Transformation team, respondents that had completed 25% or less of their initial modernization objectives reported achieving business improvements in each of the eight categories measured.
Read MoreDesigned in Canada: Citizen Care Pod is a Smart, Modular Testing Unit for COVID-19
The Citizen Care Pod is a customizable unit outfitted with the capabilities to enable turnkey mobile COVID-19 testing in high-traffic business environments and communities with the goal of expediting testing, screening, and eventually vaccination on mass scale. A multi-disciplinary team of industry leaders led by Citizen Care Pods Corporation (which is co-founded by Carl Demarco and Zenon Radewych), WZMH Architects, and PCL Construction collaborated with Insight Enterprises and Microsoft to bring the Citizen Care Pod from concept to completion in less than a month.
Read MoreCoronavirus Impact Materialized the Linkage between IT Infrastructure and Business Continuity
The latest report by Insight Enterprises, titled “2020 Insight Intelligent Technology Pulse: The Impact of COVID-19 on Business Readiness” surveyed IT professionals across different industries. The study found that only 24% of organizations were able to adjust to a new environment with no downtime.
Read MoreCompanies Embrace Emerging Tech in Return-to-Office Prep
This CIO article features Stan Lequin on Insight's Detect and Prevent solution that is being implemented in our Hanover Park office to check people's temperatures in real-time.
Read MorePandemic Highlights Crucial Role of IT
Insight is featured in this article for its 2020 Insight Intelligent Technology Pulse: The Impact of Covid-19 on Business Readiness report. They found that only about a quarter of those surveyed said their companies were able to adapt to business changes from the pandemic with no downtime, and that more than half—56%—said they experienced about two weeks of downtime as they adjusted to remote working requirements and other challenges.
Read MoreIT Modernization Jumpstarts Business Transformation: Survey
In The State of IT Modernization 2020, an IDG Research Services survey of 200 IT executives commissioned last December by Insight Enterprises' Cloud + Data Center Transformation team, respondents that had completed 25% or less of their initial modernization objectives reported achieving business improvements in each of the eight categories measured. 65% had already achieved better quality of service.
Read MoreThe Link Between a Robust IT Infrastructure and Business Continuity
The pandemic has irrevocably changed the way businesses everywhere operate, crystallizing the link between a robust IT infrastructure and business continuity. This article features Insight's new survey the 2020 Insight Intelligent Technology Pulse, of surveyed IT professionals, only 24% of businesses were able to adapt to the new environment with no downtime, while 56% said 2 or fewer weeks of downtime.
Read MoreCOVID-19 Pandemic Underscores Importance of IT in Business Resiliency
This article features the 2020 Insight Intelligent Technology Pulse: The Impact of COVID-19 on Business Readiness report which further reveals that 46% of IT professionals felt extremely or very prepared to pivot to the new business landscape. Consequently, businesses could be more proactive about involving IT in contingency planning: 40% of survey respondents reported having to develop or refine business resiliency plans in response to the pandemic.
Read MoreSecuring WFH Collaboration and Web Conferencing Tools
Dean Gross leads Insight Enterprise’s Security and Compliance Technical Council, focusing on identity protection, information control and protection, attack prevention and detection, regulatory compliance (primarily GDPR), security management, and mobile app and device configuration. This byline by Gross, discusses as work-from-home policies have become increasingly common in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rising use of collaboration tools and web conferencing has emerged as a double-edged sword.
Read MoreHow to Make Offices More Healthful - Less Stressful
This Wall Street Journal article features Stan Lequin on Insight's smart technology that helps keep employees safe and healthy.
Read MoreHealthcare IoT's Next Steps Come into Focus
Insight was featured in this article for helping healthcare systems figure out where IoT would best work as part of a larger IT reconfiguration that aims to move from "an episodic care model to a value-based care delivery model." Featuring David Le Penske, director of healthcare and life sciences at Insight. With medical care becoming more complex and fewer doctors in the U.S. medical system, healthcare "cries out" for remote care driven by IoT, he said.
Read MoreHow Healthcare Partners are Using IoT to Adapt With Agility
Providing a safe way to conduct COVID-19 screening and testing is crucial to getting patients’ vital medical help while preventing further spread of the virus. Microsoft partners Insight and PCL Construction, have joined forced with Camillion and WZHM Architects to augment technology and create the Citizen Care Pod, a Smart Screening and Testing Pod (SSTP), equipped with AI and IoT technologies.
Read MoreOpex Payment Model Gains Strength as COVID-19 Pandemic Lingers
Insight Chief Architect, Juan Orlandini is featured in this article by Channel Partners on how the economic challenges of the pandemic could give new life to the opex payment model.
Read MoreMoving to the Cloud Too Fast Wastes Time and Effort
Insight Infrastructure Architect and Sr. Cloud Consultant, John O'Shaughnessy, discuses Insight's IDG survey and the high cost of not having a cloud-migration plan. The IDG conducted survey for Insight Enterprises, The State of IT Modernization 2020 report also found that defining a successful cloud strategy requires a lot of trial and error. Sixty-four percent of organizations that have made progress with IT modernization initiatives have switched from an all-private or all-public cloud strategy to a hybrid approach.
Read MoreElectronics Company Avnet Leads Fortune 500 List of Best Arizona Earners
Insight moves up on Arizona's list of Fortune 500 companies as the fourth most successful company, according to annual revenue. Nineteen Arizona companies appear on the Fortune 1000 this year.
Read MoreMeeting the Challenges of Today and Tomorrow with Azure AI
A self-service kiosk solution for banking that uses Insight Digital Innovation vision, speech, and language services for a more intuitive customer experience is highlighted by Microsoft among a group of Azure AI partner solutions.
Read MoreIntel Announces 2020 US Partner of the Year Awards for Excellence in Accelerating Innovation
Intel named Insight as its 2020 U.S. Partner of the Year for Innovation during the Intel Partner Connect virtual conference held May 20-21. The Intel Partner of the Year awards honor partners demonstrating excellence in technology innovation, go-to-market strategizing, sales growth and marketing.
Read MoreIntel CEO Bob Swan To Partners: 'You Can Count On Us'
Jeff Dodge also provides partner commentary on Intel CEO Bob Swan's Partner Connect keynote address on how the channel has been impacted by the pandemic. Dodge explains that demand is rapidly rising for IoT solutions that help organizations adapt to the new business climate and reclaim a sense of normalcy.
Read MoreIntel IoT Programs 'Key' for Post-COVID-19 Digital Transformation
In CRN coverage of Intel Partner Connect, Jeff Dodge, director of national solutions for Digital Innovation, shares how Intel is supporting Insight's Connected Platform for Detection and Prevention to curtail the spread of viruses in work and public places. As part of Intel's Market Ready Solutions program, "we've already seen initial connections (for Connected Platform) with retail clients and other clients that Intel has brought us through their own business development capability," says Dodge.
Read MoreCustomers Expand IT Capabilities for Business in the New Normal
The pandemic has sparked new directions as clients look to build IT capabilities for unique business problems. In this feature focusing exclusively on how Insight is helping organizations adapt, Mike Gaumond, SVP and GM of Connected Workforce, says new opportunities have emerged in areas spanning remote collaboration, digitization and IoT. Looking ahead, he expects many changes will be permanent. "For years, we have been advocating remote work, and now more corporations are embracing it."
Read MoreFive Tips For Maintaining Business Continuity Amid Changes
In his latest Forbes article, Insight CEO Ken Lamneck shares that current events have forced the business world to confront the evolution of the dispersed workforce and the growing availability of new technologies that enable a work-from-anywhere model. However, maintaining business continuity is easier said than done in volatile conditions. He offers tips to overcome these challenges and build resiliency to prepare for future disruptions.
Read MoreSmart City Solutions
Insight's partnership with public-safety technology provider Genetec has enabled a smart-cities platform that can proactively protect the population, receive alerts in real-time and quickly make informed decisions when time is of the essence. The platform helps public safety agencies accelerate digital transformation to provide a unified view of operations and access to live data that is critical to community safety.
Read MoreThe 50 Biggest Companies in Arizona
Insight ranks among Arizona's top 30 employers, according to a Zippia total employee count. The rankings do not take into account the addition of PCM teammates, which brought Insight's teammate total to around 11,000 people.
Read MoreDevOps from Home: What Can We Learn from the Cloud-Savvy?
Brandon Ebken, CTO, Digital Innovation, explores the obstacles and flexibility of DevOps in a remote environment. These days, IT professionals should be making the case to their organizations to not let investments in improved technology infrastructure completely fall by the wayside. Modernizing, incrementally or otherwise, can support the business and help an organization weather a future crisis with less disruption.
Read MoreNetApp, Iguazio Build Joint Tech To Accelerate AI Deployments
Juan Orlandini, Insight chief architect for Cloud + Data Center Transformation, discusses the benefits of NetApp joining its flash storage, cloud and AI capabilities with Iguazio's Data Science Platform. "Data architects and data scientists ... in the past were forced to be experts in storage and compute, and were really working two jobs, working with the data and making sure the data is available fast enough. With Iguazio and NetApp, if I'm an infrastructure person, I can provide the APIs to the software side and let them do their jobs. And we at Insight can do this for our clients."
Read MoreIDG Survey: Only 25% Have Completed Initial IT Modernization Goals
Only one in four enterprises pursuing IT modernization initiatives have completed their initial objectives, yet even those in the earliest stages of the journey are reaping measurable benefits that are driving business transformation, according to Cloud + Data Center Transformation's “The State of IT Modernization 2020" survey.
Read MoreCDN Top 100 Solution Provider Customer Success Stories
Insight Canada is featured on the Channel Daily News Top 100 Customer Success Awards. ICA worked with Apple to develop an easy-to-use app for an artificial heart manufacturer to detect irregularities after a transplant. Insight addressed the needs of the client and its patients by recommending the iOS platform to enable faster diagnosis, intuitive technology for elderly patients and cost-effective leasing.
Read MoreWorld Changing Ideas Awards 2020: North America Finalists and Honorable Mentions
Insight Enterprises (NASDAQ:NSIT), the global integrator of Insight Intelligent Technology Solutions™ for organizations of all sizes, was recognized with three honorable mentions in Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards.
Read MoreNavigating the Rapid Transition to Remote Learning in Ed Tech Systemics
VP of Insight Public Sector, Scott Friedlander, discusses the future of EdTech with Education Talk Radio.
Read MorePartners Donate Technology, Services to Pandemic Relief
Among organizations helping to battle the coronavirus, Insight is featured in this TechTarget article for its partnership with Vivli, a nonprofit data sharing and analytics platform, to develop a COVID-19 data sharing portal.
Read MoreNew Insight IoT Platform Solves Universal Challenges Across Industries
Insight Digital Innovation launches the Connected Platform to simplify implementation and management of integrated smart solutions for any industry. “Connected Platform is IoT made easier for the table-stakes areas of business that organizations are constantly looking to improve. We’re providing immediate core functionality that can be quickly customized to enhance how you manage your people, your locations, your assets, and your alerting and reporting,” says Jeff Dodge, director, Digital Innovation.
Read More6 Ways to Optimize Your Innovation Spend
Innovation is key to organizational growth, yet most companies shortchange innovation initiatives when it comes to budgeting. CIOs should consider asking vendors and partners to work with their own IT teams on developing innovative ideas into features or products as a joint investment. Jeff Shumway, CIO at Insight, has put this approach into action.
Read MoreIs Your Printer Your Weak Security Link?
Today, the printer may be the most vulnerable piece of equipment in the office; yet, it often gets less security attention or protection than other devices accessing the network. This can open a company to serious security problems, according to Jason Rader, national practice director of security services at Insight. "Given their storage capabilities, printers also contain enormous (and often sensitive) data, which includes every document that's been printed or sent via that printer," he said. In addition, because printers are connected to company emails, a hacker can gain access to the information and email it to him or herself.
Read MoreA Trial Run in Remote Work: Tips and Tricks From the Field
Insight CIO, Jeff Shumway comments on the work-from-home lifestyle, as our current situation offers a glimpse into the future of work. Much of the workforce has been thrust into a brave new world: working from home. Remote work comes with new hurdles, which may include reduced or more difficult access to IT support, as well as novel challenges to maintaining a schedule and productivity. This article shares a few tips and tricks remote workers can take to minimize technological disruptions and maintain their physical and mental health.
Read MoreHow to Get More Value Out of Cloud Services
Without taking advantage of native cloud services, performance optimization and automation capabilities for enterprise systems are limited. In this eWEEK article, Scott Cameron, principal architect Insight C+DCT, outlines steps that organizations can take to minimize cloud overhead, optimize cloud management and make the most of their cloud journey.
Read MorePodcast: How IT Can Enable A Remote Workforce
Hear Insight national director of network and cloud security, Jason Rader on the Defrag This, a podcast for conversations on IT security and the remote workforce. Some of us embrace the work from home culture, while others dread it. But there is a lot IT can do to minimize issues and distractions from a WFH culture. We’ve all rapidly expanded remote work capabilities as a matter of necessity. But what security considerations may have been overlooked? Rader discusses remote work security issues and how IT can continue to mature its approach.
Read More4 Relationships IT Leaders Can't Overlook
Mark Wavle, Insight Digital Innovation senior architect, writes that there are a few key stakeholders beyond the customary leaders of an organization that IT needs to build strong relationships with to ensure every business is a technology business at heart: technology users, vendors, and the risk and compliance team. But perhaps most important is understanding your own strengths, weaknesses and needs.
Read MoreIT Modernization: The Backbone Of Business Transformation
Insight CEO Ken Lamneck's latest Forbes article discusses the importance of building IT modernization into long-term plans and why businesses must be systematic in their approach. Drawing upon findings from Cloud + Data Center Transformation's 2020 IDG survey on "The State of IT Modernization," he provides five key guidelines to keep transformation initiatives moving forward with a purpose.
Read MoreInsight's de Sousa on Her New European Role
Emma de Sousa, Insight's current senior vice president of the United Kingdom business and EMEA marketing, reveals to CRN what obstacles she anticipates in her new role starting next year as president of the company’s EMEA business.
Read MoreHow Managed Service Providers are Dealing With the Covid-19 Pandemic
In this New Statesman Tech article, Insight CEO Ken Lamneck says that as employees are working remotely, there is far more need from his company’s customers for user support. “The number of calls for this has gone up substantially because even though some of the larger companies would still have people on site for certain positions, with this situation the majority of their workers are working from home and they have different capabilities to connect in from their homes,” he says.
Read MoreHow Channel Partners Can Support Coronavirus Research With Folding@Home
Juan Orlandini says anyone with a computer or server should consider lending idle compute resources to research efforts against the novel coronavirus — a relatively simple task that his company, Insight Enterprises, has been doing for a little over a week. The effort is made possible by Folding@Home, a distributed computing application first developed at Stanford University 19 years ago that is now being used to direct underutilized CPU and GPU resources to help develop potentially life-saving therapies for COVID-19 from across the world.
Read MoreEdge Computing is the Next Growth Area for MSPs, Says Insight Enterprises CEO
In this New Statesman Tech profile piece on Insight, CEO Ken Lamneck explains that businesses increasingly seek managed support as they delve into hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The need for managed services will continue to expand as the intelligent edge creates a new dimension to computing, and Insight has devised a Connected Platform to make managing the complexities of the edge more palatable.
Read MoreEvery Business is a Technology Business
Steve Dodenhoff, president, Insight North America was featured in a Phoenix Business Journal article. He discusses how each year, Insight fields a comprehensive survey to understand how our clients feel about the opportunities and challenges of leveraging technology to grow their businesses. For the past few years, one thing has been clear: Today, every business is a technology business.
Read MoreWhen Organizations Halt or Walk Away from IT Modernization
Network Computing featured Insight's IDG report on the state of IT modernization, commissioned by Insight in a recent article. Though some 67% of respondents indicated that IT modernization was core to the launch of their business transformation objectives, many organizations also admitted they put a stop to some of their plans last year.
Read MoreWhat's Behind Today's IT Infrastructure Modernization Strategies?
IT modernization has a lot of moving parts, however it often involves deploying, adopting and/or upgrading on-premises, cloud and edge platforms, and then optimizing and integrating those platforms. Insight's "The State of IT Modernization 2020" report was featured in this article along with its findings on only 25% of respondents meeting their initial IT infrastructure modernization goals. Challenges to success included establishing new governance strategies, as well as defining, optimizing and integrating the data platforms these policies were meant to govern.
Read MoreTop Embedded Analytics Examples in Enterprise Applications
Ken Seier, chief architect of data and AI at Insight, is quoted in this TechTarget article about how analytics provide better customer satisfaction. "When you go to your banking portal, you can get charts and graphs to help you understand your banking," said Seier on discussing how embedded analytics drive customer satisfaction. End users increasingly want more from their applications. If they see a data dashboard, they want to be able to work with the data with the press of a button.
Read MoreInsight Enterprises Acquires vNext: Executive Perspectives
Insight last week acquired French Microsoft cloud partner vNext, a move that will help Insight’s ability to guide its EMEA clients’ digital transformation initiatives, including consulting and implementation services.
Read MoreInnovations Push Business to the Edge in 2020
Advancements in the past year laid the groundwork for new technology at home, in the office, and especially at the edge in 2020. Matt Jackson, Insight Digital Innovation vice president, says that as edge devices become more intelligent, organizations increasingly will move to a hybrid cloud/edge approach, creating operational efficiencies, improved safety mechanisms, and ultimately limitless business opportunities.
Read MoreMoving to Multi-Cloud? Time to Rethink Identity, Access Management
Except for a few mission-critical processes that will remain on-premises because they require intense oversight and control, much of an enterprise’s workloads and data soon will be spread across multi-cloud environments. Insight Cloud + Data Center Transformation provides tips to eWeek on instituting the right identity and access management strategy to protect from threats and ensure that the right users have access to the right information when they need it.
Read MoreSurvey Finds IT Modernization Efforts Reap Significant Benefits
When it comes to the state of IT, few questions weigh more substantially on the minds of CIOs and other business-technology leaders than the degree of success they see in their digital transformation efforts, and foundational to that is their efforts to modernize their technology stack. Insight's new survey on IT modernization finds that despite 59% of respondents reporting moving forward with their modernization efforts, 41% said they have delayed or abandoned those efforts.
Read MoreOnly 25% of Businesses Have Reached IT Modernization Goals
CIO Dive highlights key results from the Insight-commissioned 2020 IDG survey. Delays in IT modernization are pervasive across businesses, the study finds. By the time 2020 began, 59% of companies were lugging an IT backlog from 2019, a delay 90% of business leaders say could negatively impact revenue in one to five years.
Read MoreInsight UK Boss Lands EMEA Top Job
Insight has revealed forthcoming changes in its senior European management team, with a shuffling of executives that will have an impact on its UK leadership. With Emma de Sousa taking leadership of Insight EMEA starting in 2021, the company sees her as someone who builds high-performing teams, delivers results and has a strong knowledge of both Insight and its activities in the EMEA region.
Read MoreModernizing Small And Midsize Business: Good For Them, Good For Tech
IT experiences at growing small and midsize businesses aren't always given their due, says Insight CEO Ken Lamneck. He digs into what these companies say are their greatest tech needs, adding that solution providers need to look for the areas where there are mutually beneficial opportunities for collaboration.
Read MoreRachael Bertrandt on Being an Insightful Leader
There are human stories behind every business, and Profile Magazine shares how Insight's Rachael Bertrandt rose from a small town in Wisconsin to become Insight's global corporate controller and principal accounting officer. She says global companies need to be mindful of cultural differences: “At Insight, our company culture is extremely important to every one of us as a part of what we do as an organization, which makes for a common language in our global organization. We can then build from there.”
Read MoreInsight Enterprises CEO: Edge Computing ‘Still In Very Early Innings’
CRN provides highlights of Insight's fourth quarter and FY19 earnings call, in which CEO Ken Lamneck says that Insight sees the edge as leading the way for clients to move forward with the cloud. "As things move more and more to the edge with technologies like AI and IoT, that will drive a significant amount of hardware that we haven't seen in the past."
Read MoreSaaS, PaaS, IaaS: The Differences Between Each and How to Pick the Right One
When thinking about migrating to the cloud, these are three core models to choose from. Sridhar Vasudevan, senior principal strategist of C+DCT strategies at Insight is featured on what each model of the cloud does and which one is right for your business. There are three prevailing cloud service models: Infrastructure-as-a -Service (IaaS); Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS); and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). All provide a layer of abstraction to service users building application systems, according to Vasudevan.
Read MoreEight Arizona Companies Make the Grade on 2020 LGBTQ Equality Rankings
Insight was among the eight Arizona companies on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2020 Corporate Equality Index in a measurement of LGBTQ inclusive business practices. Insight increased its score from 60% to 70% this year through initiating resource group, Insight Stands Out that supports LGBTQ employees, families, and community advocates. Featured in Insight's 2020 Corporate Citizenship report, it promotes a “highly visible and inclusive work environment” and offers volunteer opportunities centered on LGBTQ diversity.
Read MoreIoT Makes Houston Schools Safer
Insight is helping educators in Houston by implementing Internet of Things (IoT) technology to improve school safety. Insight contributes a suite of products known as Connected Safety that tracks safety sensors such as cameras, physical and virtual “panic buttons,” and noise and gunshot-triggering devices. The software also communicates outward to sensors such as smart LED bulbs and smart digital displays. Using these, a school can create a primary and secondary radius around an event to enhance situational awareness and help communicate evacuation plans.
Read MoreSee Which Arizona Public Companies saw the Biggest 2019 Stock Price Gains
Of the 33 Arizona-based companies with market capitalization of $50 million or more, Insight was among the public companies that saw the biggest 2019 stock price gains, according to information provided by Bloomberg News and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Read MoreAgile Teams Wish Their Leaders Knew These 5 Truths
Steady leadership when tackling complex challenges enables teams’ delivery, users’ delight, and an organization’s overall success. Mark Wavle, Insight Digital Innovation national lead for Agile Enablement Services, explains how leaders can get in the way of agile teams and limit their success. He provides five truths to consider whether an organization is guilty of these roadblocks.
Read MoreSMBs Grappling With Digital Transformation Initiatives
SMBs are eager to embrace digital transformation, but many encounter challenges when trying to implement new technology. The new Insight 2020 Technology Report calls out where mid-market and small businesses are running into obstacles. "Many companies perform a lift and shift. They simply take their existing applications and port them to the cloud. In those cases, they do not take advantage of any of the modernization features available in the new environment," says Joe Clinton, Insight Central Region Sales Director.
Read MoreDigital Workplaces Mean More Than Instant Messaging
It's hard to imagine an industry today in which the participants are not required to launch innovative products and services for their customers more quickly than ever. Collaboration across teams with diverse backgrounds has been found to accelerate this innovation, but how do you enable this in today's workforce? In this guest column for Forbes, Insight CEO Ken Lamneck delves into the benefits of a digital workplace.
Read MoreDell Technologies Partners Tap Into Cross-Selling Strategy
Insight was mentioned in this article on its partnership with CoreView, a SaaS management platform for Office 365, to support businesses in the Italian market.
Read MoreQ&A: Identity & Access Control in a Multi-cloud Environment
In an exclusive interview, Insight Cloud Security Architect Richard Diver tells Digital Journal the rise of multi-cloud is complicating identity and access control. "Standards are different across the platforms, so it is important that we find solutions that can bridge the gaps and bring uniformity to the way we operate the disparate environments. Identity access management, cloud access security broker, cloud workload protection platform and cloud security posture management platforms are all key to building this new multi-cloud strategy."
Read More5G is Poised to Transform Manufacturing
Kim Knickle, retail industry specialist for digital innovation at Insight, is featured in this article by Network World. 5G wireless holds much promise for manufacturing facilities, largely for its speed and low latency, so a few early adopters are buying into the technology, but it’s pervasive use in factories is still years off.
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