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.

IT Ops Query is a technology podcast hosted by Informa TechTarget, with 88 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #86

  Red Hat's Lightwell reflects new agentic AI security urgency

  Aug 20, 202626 min

  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. In the past three months, the two companies have been part of multiple efforts to shore up open source software security and supply chains. However, in many ways, the longstanding issues in the industry with open source sustainability and cybersecurity diligence are bigger than even multiple large IT vendors. Will the scope and scale of agentic AI security risks finally be what forces systemic change? Featuring: Brian Gracely , senior director of portfolio strategy, Red Hat In today's episode, we'll cover: The state of industry debate about open-weight models Agentic AI's effect on open source's "tragedy of the commons" Lightwell's approach to OSS security What enterprise IT leaders should know about open source sustainability and security going forward And more! References: Red Hat and IBM, Chainguard take on OSS security risk Cisco agentic AI security push faces enterprise trust gap Open source software's tragedy of the commons To learn more about software development and platform engineering, check out Search IT Operations . To watch clips from our podcast, subscribe to our YouTube channel, @EyeOnTech .

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  Episode #85

  New research lab proposes fresh approach to data intelligence

  Aug 13, 202615 min

  Imagine if, instead of building knowledge graphs mapping the relationships and semantic meaning behind raw data ahead of time, networks of AI agents could build their own, instantly. That's what DFT Labs, a new venture of a company called HeyDonto, proposes, along with a new set of benchmarks that gauge not just how well AI models predict the next token, but how well they actually understand and preserve data context. HeyDonto's co-founder, CTO and chief researcher sits down with IT Ops Query to discuss his work, and its industry-wide implications. Featuring: Dr. Reza Nehzati , CTO and co-founder, HeyDonto In today’s episode, we’ll cover… Data Field Theory, a new approach to how AI systems learn Potential AI compliance implications with self-updating systems How quantum physics can inform data intelligence And more! References: Google unveils data cloud purpose built for agentic AI Insightsoftware unifies semantic layer, governance to aid AI Streaming specialist Confluent aims to drive rise of ‘contextual AI’ To learn more about software development and platform engineering, check out Search IT Operations . To watch clips from our podcast, subscribe to our YouTube channel, @EyeOnTech .

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  Episode #84

  Ex-Google indie researcher analyzes AI code security gaps

  Aug 6, 202640 min

  Recent research by an independent AI safety and security research lab, TheWeatherReport.ai, by MIT research affiliate and former Google senior manager of cloud AI safety and security, showed that AI code security gains are not keeping pace with functionality gains between generations of frontier models. He talks through the implications of these findings, how IT organizations can protect themselves, and his outlook for how AI safety and security will continue to develop. Featuring: Ilya Kabanov , founder, TheWeatherReport.ai In today’s episode, we’ll cover… What surprised Kabanov about changes in AI code security The pros and cons of prompts, deterministic rules and "human-in-the-loop" for AI code security AI safety and security in the wake of the OpenAI / Hugging Face incident And more! References: OpenAI models escape containment, hack Hugging Face AgenticOps for infrastructure faces a deterministic dilemma Cisco agentic AI security push faces enterprise trust gap Capability without security: measuring the functionality-security gap in AI-generated code To learn more about software development and platform engineering, check out Search IT Operations . To watch clips from our podcast, subscribe to our YouTube channel, @EyeOnTech .

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  Episode #83

  HashiCorp co-founder warns of AI risk, social media dystopia

  Jul 30, 202633 min

  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 CTO of HashiCorp, the answers to these questions and how people approach technology -- especially social media and AI -- will determine whether we face dystopia or a healthy society. In this candid conversation, Dadgar shares his concerns about the risks of AI, including overreliance on convenience and the importance of having clear intentions with technical tools rather than following the latest buzzwords. Featuring: Armon Dadgar, co-founder and CTO, HashiCorp In today’s episode, we’ll cover… The "Wall-E economy": Is social media the new cigarettes? The pitfalls of "frictionless addiction" in business Similarities between cloud and AI adoption trends Dadgar's best-case scenario for the future of tech And more! References: Nvidia adopts OpenBao, open source fork of HashiCorp's Vault IBM Bob AI coding agent ships, HashiCorp AIOps previewed IBM Apptio deepens FinOps ties with HashiCorp Terraform To learn more about software development and platform engineering, check out Search IT Operations . To watch clips from our podcast, subscribe to our YouTube channel, @EyeOnTech .

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  Episode #81

  HPE exec reflects on VMware migrations, CloudOps and AIOps

  Jul 16, 202628 min

  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 acquired by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) in 2023. Now, he's an SVP & GM overseeing parts of HPE's CloudOps Software Suite and GreenLake hybrid cloud platform. In this episode, Kunaparaju details the company's recent free licensing deal for Broadcom/VMware refugees, the evolution of AIOps in the agentic era, and HPE's broader ambitions in enterprise AI infrastructure. Featuring: Varma Kunaparaju , SVP & GM, HPE CloudOps Software & Platform In today’s episode, we’ll cover… AIOps, AgenticOps and the state of autonomous infrastructure management HPE Morpheus VME pricing after year 1 How HPE's AI networking strategy will affect its hybrid cloud products And more! References: More VMware customers jumping ship as contracts wind down Virtualization alternatives and AI: Lessons from HPE Discover HPE customers say the key to integration success is communication AgenticOps for infrastructure faces a deterministic dilemma To learn more about software development and platform engineering, check out Search IT Operations . To watch clips from our podcast, subscribe to our YouTube channel, @EyeOnTech .

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