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Dana Gardner

Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions

Gilford, New Hampshire, United States

From a unique perch at the intersection of IT market analysis, online content production, and social influence, I deliver powerful digital business transformation insights.

After 20 years of tracking IT advances and disruption -- and 35 years of interviewing some of the smartest people in their fields -- the combination means the creation and exposure of compelling digital content on what works best as businesses struggle with transformation. That rich experience also generates process innovation and efficiency to produce a continuous stream of narratives – now at 650-plus over 12 years on how-to success stories – quickly and affordably.

But high-quality content on target and on budget alone are not enough in 2018 for meaningful business outcomes and impact. By adding my global social media audience of 17,700 Twitter and 163,800 LinkedIn followers to my sponsors’ audience and omnichannel marketing prowess, we together attain the needed distribution requirement of the modern influence equation.

Beginning as a journalist and editor in global technology industry news, over time I developed into a research and analysis specialist with practical insights into the rapidly advancing world of internet infrastructure and related software platforms. By 2005, I was eager to entrepreneurially apply this expertise by founding a project-based media concern, Interarbor Solutions, LLC, that pioneered a sponsored multi-media content development business model, specifically for social media distribution of IT success stories.

Today my competencies span the areas of content planning and production, penetrating interviews, marketing, and social distribution, along with technology and software productivity insights. Specifically, my services include market analysis, content strategy consulting, and rapid and steady full-service production of on target digital B2B content.

Contact me at (603) 528–2435, (617) 548–0564, dgardner@interarbor-solutions.com, and @Dana_Gardner.

Available For: Advising, Authoring, Consulting, Influencing, Speaking
Travels From: Boston
Speaking Topics: Cloud datacenter DX

Dana Gardner Points
Academic 0
Author 558
Influencer 1922
Speaker 0
Entrepreneur 0
Total 2480

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Company Information

Company Type: Individual
Minimum Project Size: Undisclosed
Average Hourly Rate: Undisclosed
Number of Employees: Undisclosed
Company Founded Date: Undisclosed
Media Experience: 40 years

Areas of Expertise

Agile 30.55
AI 30.62
Analytics 30.91
Big Data 30.79
Cloud 36.72
CRM 30.23
Culture 30.18
Customer Experience 30.28
Cybersecurity 30.77
Data Center 32.44
Digital Transformation 30.71
Emerging Technology 30.15
FinTech 30.18
Future of Work 30.35
HealthTech 30.32
Innovation 32.30
InsurTech 30.79
IoT 30.26
Marketing 30.10
Procurement 31.25
Retail 30.27
Supply Chain 30.11
Sustainability 30.51
RPA 33.19
Management 30.15
Ecosystems 30.55
Business Strategy 30.15
Smart Cities 32.08
COVID19 30.54
Business Continuity 30.56
Leadership 30.05
DevOps 33.96
Security 30.22

Industry Experience

Media
Professional Services

Publications

15 Article/Blogs
HPE accelerates its sustainability goals while improving the impact of IT on the environment and society
LinkedIn
June 22, 2022
The ways that companies, along with their partners, suppliers, and employees best manage and govern their resources and assets speaks volumes about their place among peers. And it allows them to take a leadership position as stewards and protectors of the future. The sooner the world’s industries develop a commitment to reach a net-zero carbon emissions posture, for example, the better for everyone in gaining environmental sustainability.

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Tags: AI, Cloud, RPA

It’s official—flexible and remote work are here to stay, say empowered employees
LinkedIn
March 14, 2022
The world’s office workers have more clout and influence now than ever over where and how they do their jobs. Those who have worked from home and want to continue are spurring on their employers to do more than just embrace hybrid work. They’re seeking to reinvent the very nature of employment.

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Tags: AI, Cloud, RPA

How API security provides a killer use case for ML and AI
LinkedIn
June 04, 2021
While the use of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) for IT security may not be new, the extent to which data-driven analytics can detect and thwart nefarious activities is still in its infancy.

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Tags: AI, Cloud, RPA

Securing APIs demands tracing and machine learning that analyze behaviors to head off attacks
LinkedIn
May 05, 2021
The burgeoning use of application programming interfaces (APIs) across cloud-native computing and digital business ecosystems has accelerated rapidly due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Enterprises have had to scramble to develop and procure across new digital supply chains and via unproven business-to-business processes. Companies have also extended their business perimeters to include home workers as well as to reach more purely online end-users and customers.

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Tags: AI, Cloud, COVID19

Rise of reliance on APIs brings new security vector -- and need for novel defenses
LinkedIn
April 21, 2021
Such a cybersecurity perimeter, it turns out, was only an illusion. A far more effective extended-enterprise strategy protects business assets and processes wherever they are -- and wherever they might reach.

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Tags: AI, Cloud, Cybersecurity

Creating business advantage with technology-enabled flexible work
LinkedIn
April 19, 2021
As businesses plan for a future where more of their workforce can be located just about anywhere, how should they rethink hiring, training, and talent optimization? This major theme for 2021 and beyond poses major adjustments for both workers and savvy business leaders.

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Tags: AI, Cloud, Business Strategy

Disaster Recovery to Cyber Recovery--The New Best Future State
LinkedIn
April 18, 2021
The clear and present danger facing businesses and governments from cybersecurity threats has only grown more clear and ever-present in 2021. As the threats from runaway ransomware attacks and state-sponsored backdoor access to networks deepen, too many businesses have a false sense of quick recovery using traditional business continuity and backup measures.

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Tags: AI, Cloud, Cybersecurity

Rethinking employee well-being means innovative new support for the digital work-life balance
LinkedIn
April 14, 2021
The tumultuous shift over the past year to nearly all-digital and frequently at-home work has amounted to a rapid-fire experiment in human adaptability.

While there are many successful aspects to the home-exodus experiment, as with all disruption to human behavior, there are also some significant and highly personal downsides.

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Tags: AI, Cloud, Innovation

How HPE Pointnext Tech Care changes the game for delivering enhanced IT solutions and support
LinkedIn
March 30, 2021
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of Innovation discussion explores how services and support for enterprise IT have entered a new era.

For IT technology providers, the timing of the news couldn’t be better. That's because those now consuming tech support are demanding higher-order value -- such as improved worker productivity from hybrid services delivered across many remote locations.

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Tags: AI, Cloud, COVID19

Work from anywhere unlocks once-hidden productivity and creativity talent gems
LinkedIn
March 10, 2021
Now that hybrid work models have been the norm for a year, what’s the long-term impact on worker productivity? Will the pandemic-induced shift to work from anywhere agility translate into increased employee benefits -- and better business outcomes -- over time?

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Tags: AI, Cloud, Data Center

How to gain advanced cyber resilience and recovery across the IT ops and SecOps divide
LinkedIn
March 04, 2021
Cyber attacks are on the rise, harming brands and supply chains while fomenting consumer and employee distrust -- as well as leading to costly interruptions and service blackouts.

At the same time, more remote workers and extended-enterprise processes due to the pandemic demand higher levels of security across all kinds of business workflows.

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Tags: AI, Cloud, Data Center

How HPE Pointnext ‘Moments'​ provide a proven critical approach to digital business transformation
LinkedIn
February 18, 2021
The next edition of the BriefingsDirect Voice of Innovation video podcast series explores new and innovative paths for businesses to attain digital transformation.

Even as a vast majority of companies profess to be seeking digital business transformation, few proven standards or broadly accepted methods stand out as the best paths to take

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Tags: AI, Cloud, Data Center

How consistent storage services across all tiers and platforms attains data simplicity, compatibility, and lower cost
LinkedIn
February 10, 2021
This BriefingsDirect Data Strategies Insights discussion series, Part 2, explores the latest technologies and products delivering common data services across today’s hybrid cloud, distributed data centers, and burgeoning edge landscapes.New advances in storage technologies, standards, and methods have changed the game when it comes to overcoming the obstacles businesses too often face when seeking pervasive analytics across their systems and services.

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Tags: Analytics, Cloud, IoT

How storage advances help businesses digitally transform across a hybrid cloud world
LinkedIn
February 05, 2021
Decades of disparate and uncoordinated storage solutions have hindered enterprises’ ability to gain common data services across today’s hybrid cloud, distributed data centers, and burgeoning edge landscapes.

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Tags: Cloud, Digital Transformation, Data Center

How Capgemini optimizes contingent workforce agility using SAP Fieldglass
LinkedIn
January 14, 2021
The next BriefingsDirect digital business innovation discussion explores the growing importance of contingent workforces. As more businesses look to external workforces and services to satisfy their skills and information technology (IT) needs, the ability to manage those workers and services is lagging.

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Tags: Cloud, Agile

181 Podcasts
Why today’s hybrid IT complexity makes 'as a service' security essential
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April 24, 2023
Amid rapidly growing IT security costs and the added complexity of distributed workforces, the challenges facing IT services providers are clearly outrunning past practices. That’s why more automation, integration, and acquiring security “as a service” are in hot demand. Subscribe to the podca

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For UK MSP, Optimizing Customer Experience is Key to Successful Security Posture and Culture
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March 30, 2023
For managed service providers (MSPs), making the IT infrastructure as invisible as possible isn’t just a “nice-to-have" — it's also elemental to delivering the best customer experience. Securing IT for these tech services and support users is no different. The less complexity and interference

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Defending the Perimeter Evolves into Securing the User Experience Bubble for UK Cancer Services Provider
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March 01, 2023
An underappreciated aspect of enhancing IT security is the impact on an end user’s comfort and trust in the services provided. In the case of health care services and support, making the patient feel welcome and safe can be a game-changer as they seek access to needed services and care.  The ne

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A-Core Concrete Sets a Solid Foundation for Preemptive Security
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January 25, 2023
A special breed of company -- even though it has a relatively small number of employees -- does very big jobs with those lean and often distributed workforces. A perfect example of such a concentrated and efficient business is A-Core Concrete Specialists, which builds large and complex structures a

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Hybrid Work is the Future, and Innovative Technology Will Define It
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September 28, 2022
We’re all now part of a massive worldwide experiment about the very definition of work. Remote, in-office — or tightrope walking along some sliding scale between the two? How each business and each worker finds the next new work-life balance remains an ongoing "work in progress." In the post-ra

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How Deep Observability Forms the Gift that Keeps Giving for Hybrid IT Security, Performance, and Agility
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September 13, 2022
For those tasked with delivering unwavering performance of their apps and data, there have never been more unknowns to account for and manage. That’s because today’s hybrid clouds and mixed-network environments come with a multitude of dynamic variables -- and an unprecedented degree of complexi

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How Deep Observability Powers Strong Cybersecurity and Network Insights Across Complex Cloud Environments
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August 23, 2022
The growing prevalence of complex multi- and hybrid-cloud environments has opened a Pandora’s Box of unseen risks around security and performance.  But unlike when IT and network operators had the tools and access to track their own internal systems and data, the mixed-cloud model of today is m

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It’s Official—Flexible and Remote Work are Here to Stay, Say Empowered Employees
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March 11, 2022
The world’s office workers have more clout and influence now than ever over where and how they do their jobs. Those who have worked from home and want to continue are spurring on their employers to do more than just embrace hybrid work. They’re seeking to reinvent the very nature of employment.

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How Low-Code Development has Entered a Maturity Spurt Thanks to New Process-Oriented Capabilities
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February 14, 2022
Closing the gap between the applications and services a company needs -- and the ones they can actually produce -- has long been a missing keystone for attaining digital transformation. For increasingly software-driven organizations, the speed by which developers produce the needed processes, data f

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When it Comes to API Security, Expect the Whole World to Be Testing Your Mettle, Says Twitter CISO
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January 12, 2022
Just as cloud computing initially seeped into organizations under the cloak of shadow IT, application programming interface (API) adoption has often followed an organic, inexact, and unaudited path.  IT leaders know they’re benefiting from APIs -- internal, via third parties, and often outwardly

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2022: The Year Technology and New Work Models Come Together to Enable Continuous Innovation
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December 14, 2021
Predicting the future took on a whole new degree of difficulty the past two years. And while we can’t always know what Mother Nature will throw our way, we can learn from what worked -- and what didn’t work -- in 2021.  Clearly, adjusting swiftly to persistent change and leveraging digital -- a

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How Houwzer Speeds Growth and Innovation for Online Real Estate by Gaining Insights into API Use and Behavior
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December 01, 2021
Complexity and security challenges can hobble the growth of financial transactions for private-data-laden, consumer-facing software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. Add to that the need to deliver user experiences that are simple, intuitive, and personalized -- and you have a thorny thicket of soft

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Working the Great Resignation--How Employers Can Transform Things to their Advantage
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November 01, 2021
The so-called great resignation has anywhere from half to two-thirds of U.S. workers looking for something other than their current situation. Whatever the percentage, there’s no question that workers across the board have and continue to quit in droves. And whether the exit is due to the COVID-

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The Open Group Marks 25 Years of Working Together to Make Successful Standards
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October 27, 2021
Way back in 1996, when web browsing was novel and central processing still ruled the roost of enterprise IT, The Open Group was formed from the merger of the Open Software Foundation and X/Open. This October marks the 25th anniversary of remarkable achievements in the technology standards arena by

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How More Industries Can Cultivate a Culture of Operational Resilience
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October 26, 2021
In the last BriefingsDirect sustainable business innovation discussion, we explored how operational resiliency has become a top priority in the increasingly interconnected financial services sector. We now expand our focus to explore the best ways to anticipate, plan for, and swiftly implement the

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How FinTech Innovator Razorpay Uses Open-Source Tracing to Manage Fast-Changing APIs
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October 19, 2021
The speed and complexity of microservices-intense applications often leave their developers in the dark. The creators too often struggle to track and visualize the actual underlying architecture of their distributed services. The designers, builders, and testers of modern API-driven apps, therefore

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Traceable AI Platform Builds Usage Knowledge that Detects and Thwarts API Vulnerabilities
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October 01, 2021
The rapidly expanding use of application programming interfaces (APIs) to accelerate application development and advanced business services has created a vast constellation of interrelated services -- often now called the API Economy. Yet the speed and complexity of this API adoption spree has larg

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How HPE Pointnext Complete Care Transforms Edge-to-Cloud Support to Enable Business-Wide Outcomes
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September 09, 2021
Today’s diversity of hybrid IT models and environments demands that IT services and support accommodate more digital variables than ever. This burgeoning complexity and the fast-changing dynamics of digital businesses are pushing enterprises to seek a complete and holistic way to support all their

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How to Migrate Your Organization to a More Security-Minded Culture – From Development to Production to Partners
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August 30, 2021
Bringing broader awareness of security risks and building a security-minded culture within any public or private organization has been a top priority for years. Yet halfway through 2021, IT security remains as much a threat as ever -- with multiple major breaches and attacks costing tens of millions

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How HPE Pointnext Complete Care Transforms Edge-to-Cloud Support to Enable Business-Wide Outcomes
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August 17, 2021

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Tags: Cloud, Data Center

Citrix Research Shows Those ‘Born Digital’ Can Deliver Superlative Results if Business Leaders Know What Makes Them Tick
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June 24, 2021

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Tags: Cloud, Digital Transformation, Leadership

How Financial Firms Blaze a Trail to New, More Predictive Operational Resilience Capabilities
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June 22, 2021

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Tags: Cloud, Business Continuity

API Security Depends on the Novel Use of Advanced Machine Learning and Actionable Artificial Intelligence
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June 04, 2021

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Tags: AI, Cloud

Making APIs Secure Demands Tracing and Machine Learning to Rapidly Limit Damage from Attacks
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May 05, 2021

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Tags: Cloud, Cybersecurity, Data Center

Rise of Broad Reliance on APIs Brings Novel Vector for Security Concern and Need for New Defenses
Briefings Direct
April 21, 2021
hinking of IT security as a fortress or a moat around your compute assets has given way to a more realistic and pervasive posture.

Such a cybersecurity perimeter, it turns out, was only an illusion. A far more effective extended-enterprise strategy protects business assets and processes wherever they are -- and wherever they might reach.

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Tags: AI, Cloud, Cybersecurity

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