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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 view of how recent developments relate to historical system design principles. He shares that perspective in this interview, from how Nvidia's NemoClaw aligns with the hourglass concept of system security to how its focus on the file system mirrors a longstanding debate in comp...

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 infrastructure automation yet? Should they? Steven Dickens, CEO and principal analyst at HyperFrame Research, offers his answers to these questions and more from the show floor at Dell Technologies World.

Featuring: Steven Dickens, CEO and principal analyst, HyperFrame Research

In today’...

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 senior news writer Beth Pariseau catches up with Dell SVP Varun Chhabra to break down who those customers are, how they're counted, how their AI workloads have evolved, and how Dell expects the AI Factory market to look in the future.

Featuring: Varun Chhabra, senior vice presid...

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 don't? A distinguished engineer working on emerging technologies in Red Hat's office of the CTO discusses his team's quest to answer these questions and his outlook on the future of enterprise AI.

Featuring: Stephen Watt, Distinguished Engineer and Vice President, Office of the ...

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 teams to business stakeholders and to make sense of disparate tools.

Featuring: Zachary Womack, CTO, platforms and applications, SEI

In today’s episode, we’ll cover…

• Enterprise AI scaling challenges
• Cross-domain agentic automation
• AI governance considerations

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 general availability of the IBM Bob AI coding tool, a long-awaited tie-in with HashiCorp for AIOps now in public preview and updates to the Watsonx Orchestrate AI agent platform.

Featuring: Jason Andersen, principal analyst, Moor Insights & Strategy

In today’s episode, we’ll c...

An observability company CEO discusses the shifting requirements – and growing role -- for such tools in AI development. From Shahar Azulay's point of view, observability has evolved from a post-production downtime prevention system to "the source of truth for everything from code creation to shipping and testing code, remediation and production."

Featuring: Shahar Azulay, co-founder and CEO, Groundcover

In today’s episode, we’ll c...

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. This week, Google previewed a new Agentic Data Cloud: what does it mean for enterprise IT buyers? How does it slot in with the many other Google Cloud products rolled out and updated this week? Tune in to find out.

Featuring: Andi Gutmans, VP and GM of Data Cloud, Google

In toda...

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 on human-AI collaboration and predictive capabilities. In this interview, he shares data on the results of Intuit's AI strategy so far in millions of customers and transactions, cost savings, ROI and accuracy rates.

Featuring: Ashok Srivastava, senior vice president and chie...

As chief technology and innovation officer at IT consulting and services company Avanade, Aaron Reich sits at the intersection of enterprise AI adoption trends among IT vendors, enterprise clients and internal customers. He offers his insights on why so many enterprise AI deployments get stuck in the pilot stage, his advice on AI governance best practices and his predictions for how 2026 and 2027 will unfold.

Featuring: Aaron Reich...

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 growth both at AWS and Capital One, where he led the company's efforts to use serverless at scale and helped shape its Serverless Center of Excellence. In this episode, he discusses the pros and cons of serverless computing for enterprises, recent advances in adjacent technol...

Outshift by Cisco published a whitepaper titled "Scaling out Superintelligence" in January that suggests that new standard network layers will be required for AI agents and humans to work together at scale. It also began designing a distributed infrastructure to support those layers, which it calls the "Internet of Cognition," that helps agents and humans think together with a shared semantic context. In this episode, Guillaume de ...

There are two sides to the mainframe modernization coin, according to Asa Kalavade, vice president of AWS Transform, an agentic AI service that modernizes Windows, mainframe, and VMware environments. In late February, Asa wrote a blog post about misconceptions regarding AI and mainframe modernization that were revealed by work with more than 400 AWS Transform customers. In that post and during this episode's discussion, she explain...

"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 former exec at New Relic and Hortonworks. MyDecisive's open source software targets data management costs from observability vendors such as Datadog by reducing data at the source; it can also proactively alert on and take action on OpenTelemetry data as it comes in from ente...

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 self-driving cars. Now a founding partner at the environmentally focused venture capital firm At One Ventures, Chi has published a book, Climate Capital: Investing in the Tools for a Regenerative Future. The book offers dark warnings about the possible future of humans on Earth amid thr...

Corey Sanders, Senior Vice President of Product at neocloud provider CoreWeave, leads product strategy and execution for the company. His mission: Gain enterprises' trust for CoreWeave's AI cloud services. The challenge: slower-than-expected enterprise AI adoption so far and skyrocketing demand for AI infrastructure, including data center power and water resources.

Featuring: Corey Sanders, Senior Vice President of Product at CoreW...

Microsoft corporate vice president and Kubernetes project co-founder Brendan Burns envisions a long-term transition in the industry from declarative cloud-native infrastructure to intent-based infrastructure, facilitated by AI. In the short term, the impact of AI on enterprise infrastructure will be strongest in two major areas, according to Burns: reducing toil through automation and improving data summarization with natural langu...