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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.

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August 20, 2026Episode 8626 min

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. 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 .

August 13, 2026Episode 8514 min

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 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 .

August 6, 2026Episode 8439 min

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 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 .

July 30, 2026Episode 8332 min

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 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 .

July 23, 2026Episode 8232 min

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, profitability and product focus. Plassnig's mandate is to steer CloudBees into the agentic AI coding era, with a focus on providing cohesive AI governance across multiple models and coding tools. The vendor will also look to compress the feedback loop between production apps and development with expanded support for observability, an increasingly crucial requirement for CI/CD tools to keep pace with a glut of agent-generated code. Featuring: Moritz Plassnig , CEO, CloudBees In today’s episode, we’ll cover… Using CloudBees' release management experience to bust AI coding bottlenecks Assuaging enterprise AI sovereignty concerns A potential build or buy decision ahead for AI observability And more! References: CloudBees buys co-founder's AI test automation tools startup CloudBees scales its Jenkins CI, previews SaaS platform Another new CloudBees CEO faces fierce CI/CD tools rivalry 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 .

July 16, 2026Episode 8127 min

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 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 .

June 25, 2026Episode 8025 min

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 month called Builderbot. The new tool widens the agentic loop beyond a single codebase and application – the kind of thing its open source goose agent framework tends to handle -- to encompass more comprehensive workflows that include incident response. Block's head of AI capabilities offers his view on Builderbot's implications for AgenticOps at Block and what parts of it might become available to the open source community as it matures. Featuring: Brad Axen , head of AI capabilities at Block In today’s episode, we’ll cover… Builderbot vs goose The build vs buy decision that led Block to create Builderbot How SREs at Block already use Builderbot for incident management Axen's outlook on enterprise agentic AI And more! References: Datadog shops: AI incident management needs platform engineers Cisco Cloud Control unites AgenticOps for IT infrastructure SaaSpocalypse? Maybe not, but SaaS applications are changing How to use AI agents for infrastructure management 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 .

June 18, 2026Episode 7926 min

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 organizations keep pace with the speed of AI development, from emerging cybersecurity threats to technical debt. We caught up with the AWS vice president of agentic AI to discuss these updates, how AWS ensures quality and reliability for agentic AI systems through its AgentCore system and other tools, and how enterprises can get the most out of AI use. Featuring: Deepak Singh , vice president of Agentic AI, AWS In today’s episode, we’ll cover… Amazon Quick Autonomous Agents Agentic AI security auto-remediation with AWS Continuum Mobile support for AWS Kiro Release management for AWS DevOps AWS Transform continuous modernization * And more! References: AWS Kiro 'user error' reflects common AI coding review gap AWS AI IDE, AgentCore throw down gauntlets for Microsoft AWS AI Factories target hybrid cloud AI infrastructure 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 . * Editor's note: AWS Transform Zero Debt was renamed following this recording to AWS Transform continuous modernization.

June 11, 2026Episode 7829 min

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 discussion in the tech industry, given it excels at finding software vulnerabilities – making it both a potentially useful resource for defenders and a potential accelerant for attackers. Todd Thiemann, principal analyst at Omdia, shares insights from his research into identity management and data security for AI and how enterprise agentic AI security should meet the Mythos moment. Featuring: Todd Thiemann , principal analyst, Omdia In today’s episode, we’ll cover… Mythos 5, Fable 5 and their cybersecurity implications Fighting AI attacks with AI defenses Balancing the security risks of using AI and of being vulnerable to AI How AI governance might factor into AI ROI And more! References: Cisco agentic AI security push faces enterprise trust gap Identity security for AI agents: The proliferation challenge Omdia Research Report: AI Agents and Identity Security: How Enterprises Are Rewriting the Rules Anthropic's Mythos raises the stakes for security validation 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 .

June 4, 2026Episode 7718 min

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 network architectures and new frontiers in system design for reliability and resilience. Cisco's data center and internet infrastructure leader takes a deep dive into how large companies – including Cisco itself – are addressing these issues, and preparing for the next 6 months of rapid AI development. Featuring: Kevin Wollenweber , senior vice president and general manager of data center and internet infrastructure, Cisco. In today’s episode, we’ll cover… A new partnership with Quali for Stack Automation Building enterprise trust in AgenticOps AI infrastructure outlook over the next 6 months And more! References: Cisco Cloud Control unites AgenticOps for IT infrastructure Cisco Live 26: Networks the key in post-Mythos world Cisco: AI driving a 'network supercycle' 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 .