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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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Datadog AI researcher teaches time-series models new tricks
Ameet Talwalkar joined observability vendor Datadog in February to lead a new AI research lab at the company. He is also an Associate Professor at Carnegie…
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The good, the bad and the ugly of AI and observability
Steve Koelpin is a seasoned engineer and award-winning data strategist who specializes in observability, logging, and data pipelines at high scale. In his…
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Enterprises adapt to generative AI operations
Nancy Gohring is a senior research director at IDC, focused on big picture trends related to enterprise AI adoption, including business, organizational and…
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GenAI and business transformation
Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Torsten Volk says he spends so much time playing with generative AI tools that "if I used fewer, I'd get a lot more done."…
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Get ready to meet your new digital coworkers
One of the enterprise tech industry's most influential voices on all things AI, independent analyst Andy Thurai, says in a wide-ranging discussion that IT pros…
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Mitigating AI's unique risks
"AI is not just another technology layer; it's a distinct stack with its own complexities and risks," according to Coralogix CEO Ariel Assaraf. In this…
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StarTree founder positions Apache Pinot for AI observability
Kishore Gopalakrishna says that the observability market is ripe for disruption in the AI age, particularly at the storage and query layer. The former LinkedIn…
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LLMs vs AIOps: have we seen this movie before?
Gartner analyst Gregg Siegfried reflects on the previous generation of AIOps tools that never quite lived up to their "NoOps" promise, looks at how generative…
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The 'What-Ifs' of generative AI
Mark Tomlinson is senior director of performance and observability for digital payments provider FreedomPay. He previously worked for PayPal and also served as…
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Generative AI and the next AIOps frontier
Alois Reitbauer is chief technology strategist, head of open source and the leader of research at observability vendor Dynatrace. He is a contributor to CNCF…
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OpenTelemetry in the age of AI
The rise of generative and agentic AI is also OpenTelemetry's moment to shine – in an increasingly non-deterministic world, there's a lot to be said for a…
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Envisioning observability in 3D with knowledge graphs
What if you could see your application and infrastructure represented spatially instead of two-dimensional dashboard tabs, similar to atoms in a molecule or…
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Charity Majors on AI observability and a call to action for SREs
Charity Majors pioneered the term 'observability' as co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb.io, based on her experience building and managing distributed systems at…
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Trailer: IT Ops Query Season 3: Observability in the Age of AI
Multifaceted connection points are emerging between observability and AI, from monitoring and improving AI models themselves to observing the ways the behavior…
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2024 in review and 2025 predictions with Dan Lorenc
Sigstore creator, Chainguard CEO, OpenSSF TAC member and Season 1 guest Dan Lorenc returns to discuss the year in open source and security. Topics range from…
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The arc of SecOps is long, but bends toward improvement
S&P Global Market Intelligence principal research analyst Daniel Kennedy discusses what the results of his Voice of the Enterprise research project dating back…
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Back to the future in business resilience post-CrowdStrike
SecOps, developers and infrastructure ops teams are often encouraged to work more closely together within IT, but for one industry analyst, the CrowdStrike…
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Questioning shift left: changing tech and security roles
In October, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a report that's still generating buzz in the security world – it questioned the…
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Gen AI kicks multi-cloud security into overdrive
Doug Merritt was CEO of Splunk from 2015 to 2021 and led the company's transition from an on-premises software company to a cloud-based service provider. After…
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Airgaps over AI? Cyberdefense pro's tips and predictions
Robert Slaughter is CEO of Defense Unicorns, a defense tech startup specializing in Airgap software delivery in highly secure and sensitive environments in the…
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SecOps "where bits and bytes meet flesh and blood"
Joshua Corman is executive in residence for public safety & resilience at The Institute for Security and Technology (IST), a non-profit think tank based in the…
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Lessons from a "graybeard" in assessing cloud risk
Chris Steffen is vice president of research for information security at analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates. He previously held a variety of IT…
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Data, observability and the future of DevSecOps
Esteban Gutierrez is chief information security officer and vice president of information security at observability vendor New Relic. Previously, he was an…
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From Sony breach to CrowdStrike, IT Ops-SecOps rift deepened
Rich Lane is currently IT director at the City of Medford, Massachusetts, and has had a varied career in IT infrastructure and operations. He served as VP of…
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What SecOps pros can learn from Microsoft security overhaul
Melinda Marks is cybersecurity practice director for TechTarget's Enterprise Strategy Group analyst firm. Previously, she held a variety of roles in the IT and…
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Cloud security, AI giveth and taketh away
Kyler Middleton is senior principal software engineer at healthcare tech company Veradigm. She is also founder, owner, and CEO at 14ers Consulting, an IT…
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How KnowBe4 caught an impostor employee in 25 minutes
Brian Jack is chief information security officer and data protection officer at KnowBe4, a security awareness training software vendor based in Clearwater…
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Challenging the software security status quo
Kevin E. Greene is public sector CTO at OpenText Cybersecurity. Prior to his current role, Kevin worked at the MITRE Corporation supporting DevSecOps…
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SecOps and how it got that way, from AIX to AI
Christopher Crowley is an independent consultant and senior instructor at the SANS Institute, who has 20 years of experience managing and securing networks. He…
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Trailer: IT Ops Query Season 2: The State of SecOps
The number, magnitude and costs of cyberattacks have steadily escalated, year after year, for the last two decades as software has eaten the world. Fresh…
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Red Hat CentOS Stream vs HashiCorp BSL: the view from downstream
Josh Koenig and David Strauss are co-founders at Pantheon, a platform for building and operating websites. Josh is the chief strategy officer, and David is the…
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Weighing open source project funding options, from taxes to anarchy
Justin Warren is founder and principal analyst at PivotNine, a technology consulting and analyst firm based in Melbourne, Australia. Until 2023, he was a board…
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An open source security leader's call to action
Emily Fox has held multiple roles at household-name organizations in her 13-year IT career and is currently senior principal software engineer at Red Hat…
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Chainguard CEO's keys to open source software success
How is open source sustainability similar to the subprime mortgage crisis? And what can an episode of South Park teach us about open product business models?…
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Advocate seeks $1B for open source code project maintainers
Tobie Langel is Principal and Managing Partner at UnlockOpen, a consulting firm in Geneva that advises clients on working with the open tech ecosystem. Langel…
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Bruce Perens' Post-Open vision
Bruce Perens created the definition of open source and co-founded the Open Source Initiative in 1998. He has said in recent public interviews, however, that…
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Open source business models must evolve past "rug pulls"
Adam Jacob is CEO and co-founder of System Initiative, an infrastructure automation software startup that came out of stealth in 2023. Previously, he was…
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A Weaveworks post-mortem and the open core business model
Alexis Richardson co-founded a company in 2014 called Weaveworks, which created an open source GitOps project called Flux CD. In February, the company ceased…
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Linkerd's existential question about open source code
William Morgan is CEO at Buoyant, a company that sells commercial and SaaS support for the Linkerd service mesh project and employs all of its maintainers. In…
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Open source vs source available code and balancing freedom with sustainability
Chad Whitacre is head of open source at Sentry, an application and performance monitoring software maker that moved to a business source license for its…
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Trailer: IT Ops Query Season 1. Tech's Tragedy of the Commons
I'm Beth Pariseau, senior news writer at TechTarget, and this is IT Ops Query, a new podcast that distills the signal from the noise about enterprise digital…