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IT Ops Query
This podcast distills the signal from the noise about enterprise IT digital transformation and operations in the era of Agile, DevOps and distributed applications. Interviews feature expert guests in conversation with IT journalism veteran Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer at Informa TechTarget.
Episodes
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IBM TechXChange: what's new and what's ahead for IBM Automation
Following IBM’s acquisition of HashiCorp, company leaders including Tyler Lynch stepped into new roles at IBM. In this interview, Lynch breaks down IBM's…
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Hitachi Vantara exec reflects on AI's "storage paradox"
The world has undergone a "great storage squeeze" over the last year, as memory shortages have driven up storage prices across all markets. The pinch is felt…
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Data center cooling now a hot topic
Data centers and their resource demands on surrounding communities have become national political news as AI infrastructure grows. Meanwhile, the industry's…
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Unstructured data: the missing link in AI context engineering
Komprise has amassed $85 million in funding and multiple patents for its metadatabase, which lends structure to unstructured data. Data processing is…
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Data centers in the AI era: upheaval and innovation
IT Ops Query caught up with an AI infrastructure development executive from a global cooling and air-conditioning manufacturer at the Yotta 2026 conference in…
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Architect proposes stronger "cages" for agentic AI governance
A recent whitepaper by the founder of a fledgling think tank identifies three common failure modes in agentic AI governance, chief among them the idea that AI…
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Splunk Agent Observability makes its official debut at .conf 26
Splunk .conf 26 in Denver was the coming-out party for the Cisco subsidiary's Agent Observability tool, which combines continuous behavior evaluation with…
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Ex-HashiCorp CEO's startup seeks '2.0 moment' in AI governance
About a year after leaving HashiCorp following its acquisition by IBM, Dave McJannet is back with a proposed infrastructure substrate for the next platform…
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Beth Pariseau reviews top themes from VMware Explore
VMware Explore 2026 carried a noticeably different energy than in previous years, according to attendees. Beth Pariseau was on the ground at the conference and…
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VMware Explore: Broadcom CPO answers private AI questions
VMware Cloud Foundation, VCF AI Services, VMware Private AI Cloud, VMware AI Factory, Tanzu, vDefend…what's the difference? Where's Nvidia in all this? What's…
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Beth Pariseau Sits Down with Tech News This Week to Talk NVIDIA
NVIDIA has been in a few major headlines in the last week. In this episode, we explore the company's latest financial results and strategic moves that have…
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Exec who built Nvidia DGX pivots to sovereign AI
After building and running Nvidia's DGX AI supercomputing service for nearly six years, Stephan Fabel left the AI infrastructure giant in April to take on the…
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Red Hat's Lightwell reflects new agentic AI security urgency
Red Hat and its parent company, IBM, have been among the most vocal advocates for an open ecosystem to mitigate the new risks emerging in the agentic AI era…
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New research lab proposes fresh approach to data intelligence
Imagine if, instead of building knowledge graphs mapping the relationships and semantic meaning behind raw data ahead of time, networks of AI agents could…
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Ex-Google indie researcher analyzes AI code security gaps
Recent research by an independent AI safety and security research lab, TheWeatherReport.ai, by MIT research affiliate and former Google senior manager of cloud…
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HashiCorp co-founder warns of AI risk, social media dystopia
How many hours did you spend on social media today? Have you sent an AI note-taker to a meeting instead of attending? According to Armon Dadgar, co-founder and…
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New CloudBees CEO sets sights on AI governance and observability
Moritz Plassnig, appointed CEO of Jenkins commercial steward CloudBees last month, succeeds Anuj Kapur, who steered the company to revenue growth…
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HPE exec reflects on VMware migrations, CloudOps and AIOps
Varma Kunaparaju had a front-row seat to the first generations of AIOps tools based on machine learning as the co-founder and CEO at OpsRamp, which was…
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Block broadens goose's loop with Builderbot for AI agents
Block, the company behind Square, Cash App, Afterpay, Tidal and various bitcoin projects, rolled out a new layer of AI agent orchestration internally this…
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AWS VP breaks down agentic news from AWS Summit New York
Amazon Web Services launched five new agentic AI services during its AWS Summit New York conference this week, all geared toward helping enterprise…
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Agentic AI security in the age of Mythos
This week, Anthropic shipped its first public release of a large language model, Fable 5, based on its Mythos 5 frontier model. Mythos has been a hot topic of…
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What's new and what's coming for Cisco AI infrastructure
Enterprises are grappling with growing AI infrastructure demands, including substantial growth in network traffic generated by AI agents, increasingly complex…
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Cisco Cloud Control & more from Cisco Live North America 2026
At Cisco Live North America 2026, updates were unveiled that aim to reshape how enterprises approach network management and security, including Cisco Cloud…
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From Unix to NemoClaw: system design connects past to future
A computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon who is also the CEO, co-founder, and chairman of the board at a tech company has a uniquely multidimensional…
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Digesting Dell Technologies World AI automation news
How can enterprise IT buyers choose among the plethora of AI automation tools now on the market from major vendors? Can they trust AI agent-driven…
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Digging into details on Dell AI Factory's 5,000 customers
During Dell Technologies World this week, Dell touted that its AI Factory with Nvidia has shipped to 5,000 companies in a little over two years. TechTarget…
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Red Hat distinguished engineer unpacks "The Agentic Paradox"
Can enterprises replace costly cloud-hosted models with self-managed, open-weight AI models to reduce AI inference costs? What are the consequences if they…
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Red Hat Summit 2026 news highlights
TechTarget senior news writer Beth Pariseau breaks down the major themes at Red Hat Summit in Atlanta, including private AI, sovereign AI, infrastructure…
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SEI taps IBM for agentic AI growth
The financial services company's CTO of platforms and applications explains why the firm chose IBM Consulting for a project to expand agentic AI beyond IT…
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IBM Think: Bob AI coding agent, HashiCorp AIOps and more
Informa TechTarget senior news writer Beth Pariseau and analyst Jason Andersen break down the top news at IBM's Think conference this week, including the…
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Observability becomes the linchpin of AI development
An observability company CEO discusses the shifting requirements – and growing role -- for such tools in AI development. From Shahar Azulay's point of view…
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Google's Agentic Data Cloud extends AI data management
Greetings from fabulous Las Vegas! Informa TechTarget's Beth Pariseau catches up at Google Cloud Next with Andi Gutmans, VP and GM of Data Cloud at Google…
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Intuit AI chief looks beyond the SaaSpocalypse
As the dust settles on Tax Day 2026, Intuit's chief AI officer envisions not a SaaS apocalypse but a SaaS transformation enabled by AI agents, with an emphasis…
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AI pilot to (Microsoft) Copilot: the state of enterprise AI
As chief technology and innovation officer at IT consulting and services company Avanade, Aaron Reich sits at the intersection of enterprise AI adoption trends…
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How Capital One scaled serverless computing
Serverless computing is nothing new, but it's poised for major growth, according to recent market research. This week's guest has had a front-row seat to that…
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Cisco incubator proposes Internet of Cognition for AI agents
Outshift by Cisco published a whitepaper titled "Scaling out Superintelligence" in January that suggests that new standard network layers will be required for…
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Mainframe modernization: Where AI wins and fails
There are two sides to the mainframe modernization coin, according to Asa Kalavade, vice president of AWS Transform, an agentic AI service that modernizes…
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The "observability tax," AI and the SaaSpocalypse
"I would love there to be a SaaS apocalypse" in observability – that's the spicy take from Ari Zilka, CEO at data pipeline engine startup MyDecisive.ai, and a…
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AI, jobs and billionaires: Former Googler issues warnings
Tom Chi has played many roles inside and outside the tech industry, including serving as head of Google X, where he helped develop Google Glass and…
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CoreWeave neocloud makes AI pitch to enterprises
Corey Sanders, Senior Vice President of Product at neocloud provider CoreWeave, leads product strategy and execution for the company. His mission: Gain…
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Microsoft's Brendan Burns on the future of AI infrastructure
Microsoft corporate vice president and Kubernetes project co-founder Brendan Burns envisions a long-term transition in the industry from declarative…
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Ex-Googler joins Crusoe Cloud, neocloud of Stargate fame
Erwan Menard spent six years at Google, where he most recently worked as director of product management for Google's Cloud AI services. Six months ago, he left…
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IBM Watsonx Orchestrate and the state of AI agent platforms
Suzanne Livingston is vice president at IBM, overseeing product management for the watsonx Orchestrate AI agent platform. She says enterprises must strike…
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Kelsey Hightower's advice for platform engineers as AI looms
Renowned public speaker, industry commentator, technologist and open source ambassador Kelsey Hightower describes himself as an AI skeptic, but warns that…
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Last year in AWS with Corey Quinn
Last year in AWS with Corey Quinn To paraphrase David Letterman, this next guest needs no introduction, at least for many people in the cloud computing world…
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Tales from the trenches of software supply chain security
Brett Smith, distinguished software developer at AI and data management software and services company SAS, has spent nine of his 13 years with the company…
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AI data management and governance take center stage in 2026
You might recognize Rob Strechay from his appearances on TheCube livestreaming videos during industry conferences, but he's worn many hats in the industry over…
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Behind the scenes with AIOps in Salesforce Hyperforce
As it rolled out AI and AIOps, Salesforce shunned the cloud repatriation route and instead expanded its public cloud presence with Hyperforce. Paul…
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'Back to the Future' with self-hosted bare metal
Rob Hirschfeld is the CEO and co-founder of RackN, founded in 2014, focused on "addressing the messy challenge of operating at scale in physical data centers,"…
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JFrog ML CTO on enterprise AI software supply chain security
Yuval Fernbach has more than a decade of hands-on experience in the realm of data and machine learning, and served as the co-founder and CTO of Qwak from 2020…
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ServiceNow AI maven on AI agent evolution
Enterprise service management platform vendor ServiceNow has been one of the most assertive in the industry in developing its AI agent products over the past…
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Cloud-native platform engineering in the enterprise
The director of engineering for a Fortune 20 automotive company shares his thoughts on the latest in cloud-native technologies for platform engineers during…
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CNCF Surveys highlight cloud-native AI connections
Bob Killen, senior technical program manager at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), shares highlights from two survey reports released this week…
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Oracle's Sudha Raghavan on AI's infrastructure renaissance
Oracle senior vice president Sudha Raghavan manages all expansions and new buildouts for some of the world's largest infrastructure platforms supporting GPU…
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How GitHub Code Quality connects to AppSec
It's our first on-location episode! At GitHub Universe, Katie Norton, Research Manager for IDC's DevSecOps and software supply chain security practice…
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Splunk exec on AI observability's "double-edged sword"
Patrick Lin from Splunk discusses how observability extends beyond IT, highlighting its importance in improving business decisions, customer support, and…
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Cribl CEO talks AI data management, MCP and AI bubble
Observability and security company Cribl has had a front-row seat to the rise of generative AI, AI agents, and their impact on data management in IT. The…
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Atlassian Rovo AI grows to 3 million monthly users
What a difference six months makes: after adjusting its product pricing and bundling in April during its Team 25 US conference, Atlassian now says adoption for…
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AWS VP plans Amazon Bedrock Agents observability and more
The leader of search, observability, and cloud operations at Amazon Web Services outlines her strategic perspective on monitoring AI agent systems such as…
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Dancing with AI: AI risks, rewards and the evolution of SREs
Experienced IT practitioners offer their predictions for how AI will change observability, the role of the site reliability engineer and incident management…