7 Habits of Inspiring Tech Leaders: (5) Agent of Architecture

Have you ever tried to make a sand castle survive against the waves? I’ll admit, it can be fun for a while. The kids and I will build sand castles with extravagant moats and then create barriers between the lake and the castle. We’ll use driftwood, boards, more-sand, and… more sand. As fun as it […]

Ransomware vs. Zero Trust Security

Great conversation with Chris Blackburn and Laura Spence on Zero Trust security concepts. In this discussion we talked about how Zero Trust applies to complex environments, frequent blockers, and how to make progress.

Top 10 Ignite 2021 Spring Announcements

We had a great conversation on the Top 10 announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2021. We talked about Azure platform, data, AI, Viva, Power Platform, and others.

Best of Microsoft Ignite

I had a great time recording a webinar with Anthony Escobedo, Lwin Maung, Min Maung, and Steven Campbell on the best of Microsoft Ignite. We talked about IoT, data, productivity, Viva, Power BI, and many other topics.

Windows 10 Universal Print Not Showing Up

The team at Concurrency had made the transition to Zero Trust a couple years ago, with all laptops running Windows 10, Azure AD join, Intune managed, guest network joined, etc. The other day I had a reason to print a document, something that I haven’t done professionally in well over five years. Unfortunately, when searching […]

2021 North Stars with Brian Willson

I had a great opportunity to talk with Microsoft Vice President Brian Willson about the 2021 North Stars that every technology executive should be considering. We talked about each of these five North Stars:

Create digital lines of business
Deliver on new revenue or operational savings through AI
Get out of the datacenter business
Make substantive progress on Zero Trust
Measure and increase digital productivity

Windows Virtual Desktop De-Mystified

I had a great conversation with Brian Voelz this week on Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD). We discussed “why” WVD, moving off Citrix, and lessons learned. Brian did a great job diving into the details of each.

Nathan Lasnoski

Technology is at the heart of the transformation of modern society and business. I engage in innovation, artificial intelligence, disruption, and ethics under the lense that we only do this because people matter.

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