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Dan Shelton

Head of Transformation Strategy

Dan Shelton is Head of Transformation Strategy at Zscaler. As an IT and infrastructure security executive with an extensive background in management and engineering and more than 20 years of experience, he has helped many large multifaceted global IT organizations navigate their transformation journey.

Security in the cloud
Zscaler Cloud Platform
7 Min read

Don’t Hire a “Network Complication Engineer”: Enterprise IT Requires Simplicity

Visit Zscaler CXO Revolutionaries to see more content like this. The purpose of digital transformation (and I’ve already commented on how I don’t particularly like this phrase) is enabling core business competenc...
bridging organizational divides to build a cloud-enabled enterprise
Zscaler Cloud Platform
6 Min read

How to Bridge Organizational Divides and Build a Cloud-Enabled Enterprise

This post also appeared on LinkedIn. Progressive enterprises are transforming infrastructure to become cloud-based. It seems straightforward: Remove legacy hardware and software, replace it with PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS, ...
a novel concept
Zscaler Cloud Platform
6 Min read

A Novel Concept: Enabling Companies To Do What They’re Supposed To Do.

This post also appeared on LinkedIn. As an F500-company leader and former management consultant, I’ve spent much of my IT professional career adapting enterprise infrastructure to meet “digital transformation” challen...
Zenith-astronaut
Events
3 Min read

Up Close and Way Beyond: Captain Scott Kelly Headlines Zenith Live

Beyond limits isn’t just the theme of this year’s Zenith Live cloud summit; it’s an homage to the resources we’ve all summoned this year in the face of global, social, professional, and economic challenges—some enormous ...
The best route to the cloud: SD-WAN and cloud security
Zscaler Cloud Platform
5 Min read

The best route to the cloud: SD-WAN and cloud security

In the modern world, enterprises are entering a place where they have legitimate uses for all types of networks—private line, Ethernet, satellite, DSL, broadband, and so on. As a result, companies have to become more sop...
Three Secrets to SD-WAN Success
Zscaler Cloud Platform
5 Min read

Three Secrets to SD-WAN Success

It’s no secret that business applications are moving out of the data center and into the cloud. In fact, more than 40 percent of business applications now reside in the public clouds according to RightScale. This migrati...
The huge cost of box-hugging IT
CIO Insights
5 Min read

The huge cost of box-hugging IT

Digital transformation has become a core goal for many enterprises around the world. But true digital transformation is much easier to talk about than to achieve. One prime reason for this is that there is no software or...
Goodbye to the digital grease-monkey: welcome to service-level IT
Zscaler Cloud Platform
5 Min read

Goodbye to the digital grease-monkey: welcome to service-level IT

In the era of digital transformation, IT teams have to re-orient themselves to a customer service model, where they serve those they work with rather than dictating to them. With so much productized software and IT solut...
How Office 365 migration changes the way businesses operate
Zscaler Cloud Platform
3 Min read

How Office 365 migration changes the way businesses operate

One of the most tragic things in the world of IT is when people adopt a new technology but don’t adopt a new way of working. The reason this is a problem is that almost every piece of enterprise software is much more tha...
The hidden organizational layers of the OSI stack
CIO Insights
4 Min read

The hidden organizational layers of the OSI stack

As a technology evangelist and Director of Product Management at Zscaler, I have the privilege of being really intimate both with our product and with the way our customers use it. And I had the good fortune last year to...

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