There have been many scams that have utilized the phone system to gain access to funds or personal information from hardworking individuals. One of the most prevalent scams that seems to persist in both Canada and the United States is the tax agency scam. The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and the Internal Revenue Agency (IRS) […]… Read More
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Innovation happens when companies go beyond the ordinary to transform the way people work and live. It requires incredible imagination, tenacious determination and the ability to reimagine IT to drive business growth.
Sure, you can email one another anytime. But is this really the best way to communicate with colleagues? Why does communication matter, and what’s the best way to approach others? This quick guide to workplace communication includes useful resources that you’ll find helpful, no matter what your business specialty.
Why do you need to communicate right now? What’s your purpose in having that conversation or meeting? Simon Sinek does an exceptional job of explaining exactly what makes the “Why” so important. Knowing the purpose of each communication can help you get your point across quickly, concisely, and in a way that will inspire others to get on board and take action.
Decide how best to communicate. Email might be best, or perhaps you need to have a face-to-face conversation. If you need to communicate with an entire team, ensure that you leverage the power of technology to streamline your employee communication and avoid confusion. Software such as Sapho makes it simple to send essential information, deliver insights, and so much more.
Optimism can boost performance and make every aspect of your workday better. We’re not suggesting that you see the world with rose-colored glasses – instead, we’d like to recommend that you seek a positive approach and use positive words when communicating with others. Inc.com offers sound advice for cultivating a workplace where optimism is more than just a buzzword.
Humor makes us seem friendly and approachable. It encourages others to open up, relax, and communicate freely. Of course, it’s important to use the right approach to humor in the workplace.
Who is involved? What communication style will they best respond to? Forbes notes that by demonstrating that you know your audience, you’ll earn respect, in turn making every aspect of your work life smoother.
Although there’s a school of thought that says the old adage “Praise in public, criticize privately” is wrong, Kim Scott of Radical Candor does an excellent job of outlining the importance of keeping criticism private. This post also explains how private criticism can lead to greater clarity.
Sure, it’s tempting to join the crowd and chat about others when they’re absent. Unfortunately, it’s pretty easy for the shoe to end up on the other foot – and when that happens, you’re suddenly the target of workplace gossip. Check out The Muse for some quick, easy tactics for avoiding workplace gossip. Not only will you seem more professional, avoiding gossip is a great way to be more trustworthy.
It takes very little effort to care for others as individuals, but a little bit of empathy goes a long way. Discussing empathy in the workplace, Forbes mentions that empathy drives motivation while enhancing productivity.
When people are bombarded with a steady stream of information, they tend to feel numb, and this means that critical elements can be lost in the shuffle. Have a goal for every message and conversation. It may seem difficult to be both personable and succinct, but with a little effort, you can master the art of getting to the point.
Really – listen to your colleagues. Active listening can help with clients, too; for example, it’s a well-known tactic for boosting sales. Everyone wants to be heard and when you listen, you’ll gain incredible insight and build rapport with others.
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Disclaimer: Due to a lack of originality over at Google, it’s difficult to anthropomorphize Google Assistant, so our story will be limited to Siri, Alexa and Cortana. Secondary Disclaimer: The horror begins now! As we hit Halloween, I couldn’t help but think about monsters and. Luckily, I have Greg Hyland and Glenn Kay’s magnificent Monster […]… Read More
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The Current State Of Cybersecurity 41% of total breaches in 2017 targeted the healthcare industry, making it the most popular target for breach attempts. Personally Identifiable Information (PII) combined with user credentials tops the percentage of breaches with 29% according
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This recognition, announced during the 2018 Red Hat North American Partner Conference, recognizes “the Red Hat partner with the most significant impact on the Red Hat business and who provides exceptional customer satisfaction for cloud infrastructure and solutions.” We are
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Earlier this year, we redesigned our hotel search experience so you can more easily explore and filter for hotels on your mobile device. We see that travelers love interacting with the new mobile features—so beginning today, we’re bringing the same modern look
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Kraken ransomware recently added the Fallout exploit kit as another means of reaching users and encrypting their information. Working with the Insikt group from Recorded Future, the McAfee Advanced Threat Research team found evidence that the authors of the ransomware had asked those behind Fallout to be added to the exploit kit. Fallout’s developers apparently […]… Read More
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It can be tempting to think that workplace innovation is a one-size-fits-all proposition. That at any given time, there’s one best way for people to work, so all you need to do is read the prevailing wisdom and then follow …
The UK Government Transformation Strategy 2017 to 2020 was published in early 2017, and since then Citrix has been working closely with a cross section of public sector orgnisations, …
Mac malware, or macOS malware, exists contrary to the popular belief that Apple’s operating system is immune to online threats. Cybersecurity researchers have been closely observing the threat landscape only to conclude that malware infections targeting Mac devices have increased in 2018. Is Apple Losing Its Grip? According to statistics, Mac malware increased by 270% […]… Read More
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Let’s start with a basic premise that the vast majority of the world’s workloads remain in private data centers. Cloud infrastructure vendors are working hard to shift those workloads, but technology always moves a lot slower than we think. That is the lens through which many cloud companies operate.
The idea that you operate both on prem and in the cloud with multiple vendors is the whole idea behind the notion of the hybrid cloud. It’s where companies like Microsoft, IBM, Dell and Oracle are placing their bets. These died-in-the-wool enterprise companies see their large customers making a slower slog to the cloud than you would imagine, and they want to provide them with the tools and technologies to manage across both worlds, while helping them shift when they are ready.
Cloud-native computing developed in part to provide a single management fabric across on prem and cloud, freeing IT from having two sets of tools and trying somehow to bridge the gap between the two worlds.
Red Hat — you know, that company that was sold to IBM for $34 billion this week — has operated in this world. While most people think of the company as the one responsible for bringing Linux to the enterprise, over the last several years, it has been helping customers manage this transition and build applications that could live partly on prem and partly in the cloud.
As an example, it has built OpenShift, its version of Kubernetes. As CEO Jim Whitehurst told me last year, “Our hottest product is OpenShift. People talk about containers and they forget it’s a feature of Linux,” he said. That is an operating system that Red Hat knows a thing or two about.
With Red Hat in the fold, IBM can contend that being open source; they can build modern applications on top of open source tools and run them on IBM’s cloud or any of their competitors, a real hybrid approach.
Microsoft has a huge advantage here, of course, because it has a massive presence in the enterprise already. Many companies out there could be described as Microsoft shops, and for those companies moving from on prem Microsoft to cloud Microsoft represents a less daunting challenge than starting from scratch.
Oracle brings similar value with its core database products. Companies using Oracle databases — just about everyone — might find it easier to move that valuable data to Oracle’s cloud, although the numbers don’t suggest that’s necessarily happening (and Oracle has stopped breaking out its cloud revenue).
Dell, which spent $67 billion for EMC, making the Red Hat purchase pale by comparison, has been trying to pull together a hybrid solution by combining VMware, Pivotal and Dell/EMC hardware.
You could argue that hybrid is a temporary state, that at some point, the vast majority of workloads will eventually be running in the cloud and the hybrid business as we know it today will continually shrink over time. We are certainly seeing cloud infrastructure revenue skyrocketing with no signs of slowing down as more workloads move to the cloud.
In their latest earnings reports, those who break out such things, the successful ones, reported growth in their cloud business. It’s important to note that these companies define cloud revenue in different ways, but you can see the trend is definitely up:
All of this is to say, there is a lot of money on the table here and companies are moving more workloads at an increasingly rapid pace. You might also have noticed that IBM’s growth is flat compared to the others. Yesterday in a call with analysts and press, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty projected that revenue for the hybrid cloud (however you define that) could reach $1 trillion by 2020. Whether that number is exaggerated or not, there is clearly a significant amount of business here, and IBM might see it as a way out of its revenue problems, especially if they can leverage consulting/services along with it.
There is probably so much business that there is room for more than one winner, but if you asked before Sunday if IBM had a shot in this mix against its formidable competitors, especially those born in the cloud like AWS and Google, most probably wouldn’t have given them much chance.
When Red Hat eventually joins forces with IBM, it at least gives their sales teams a compelling argument, one that could get them into the conversation — and that is probably why they were willing to spend so much money to get it. It puts them back in the game, and after years of struggling, that is something. And in the process, it has stirred up the hybrid cloud market in a way we didn’t see coming last week before this deal.
Back in August [2018], we released a new version of our virtualization solution: Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD) 7 1808 (formerly known as Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop). With it came a few changes, enhancements, and new features. For example, …
