The InformationWeek Podcast

Fintech Reckoning: Will Incumbents Pick In-house AI over Startups?

In this episode, Angela Friend, vice president of data science and AI with DailyPay; Adnan Masood, chief AI architect with UST; and John Lin, investor with F-Prime Capital, discuss how the spread of AI among incumbent financial institutions might affect their pursuit of innovation through startups.

Infrastructure Sustainability and the Data Center Power Dilemma

This episode brought together Juan Orlandini, chief technology officer, North America with Insight Enterprises, and Sandeep Chandna, chief sustainability officer with Tech Mahindra, to discuss how energy starved data centers are, whether ESG efforts can improve energy management among data centers, and whether sentiment led to the villainization of nuclear power in this equation.

Outage Bootcamp: How Resilient Is IT Infrastructure in 2024?

From CrowdStrike’s infamous bad update to cloud, network, and service failures, IT took its share of hits this year. How does it hold up going into the final quarter?

Have DevAIOps and AIOps Been Forgotten in the AI Surge?

In this episode, Camden Swita, head of AI and machine learning innovation at New Relic; Efrain Ruh, CTO for Europe with Digitate; and Paul Davis, field CISO, with JFrog, discuss ways enterprises work to leverage AI for more than dazzling consumers with conversational bots or content generation.

Are Chips, Storage, and Energy Availability Roadblocks to Innovation?

In this episode, Zachary Smith, board member with the Sustainable & Scalable Infrastructure Alliance; Aidan Madigan-Curtis, partner with Eclipse; and Ugur Tigli, CTO with MinIO, discuss whether the limits of chips, energy, and other materials may hinder innovation and if a point of inflection is on the horizon.

What NIST’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards Bring to the Table

In this episode, Anand Kashyap, founder and CEO of Fortanix; Kristin Milchanowski Gilkes, Ernst & Young’s global innovation quantum leader; Michael Osborne, CTO for IBM Quantum Safe; Omar Santos, distinguished engineer with Cisco; and Volker Krummel, post-quantum cryptography chapter lead for Utimaco discuss what enterprises should know to get their arms around NIST’s post-quantum cryptography standards.

The Search for Solid Hires Between AI Screening and GenAI Resumes

Do AI-generated job applications gum up the recruitment process for hiring managers by filling inboxes with dubiously written CVs?In this episode, Gretchen Jacobi, senior vice president of enterprise with General Assembly; Chris Camicas, head of engineering with DataDome; and Josh Bersin, CEO of The Josh Bersin Company, discuss what the AI component can mean for both hiring managers and job applicants that want to sort out the job market.

Is It Time to Rethink Reskilling Again Amid AI’s Growing Pains?

In this episode, Keatron Evans, vice-president of portfolio and product strategy with Infosec; Ramona Schindelheim, host of the Work in Progress podcast and editor-in-chief of WorkingNation; Prukalpa Sankar, co-founder of Atlan; and Ashok Reddy, CEO of KX, talk about the reskilling dilemma and where AI actually stands in its development as a tool for companies.

Are Enterprises Investing Too Much or Too Little in AI Now?

In this episode, John Lovelock, chief forecaster with Gartner; Steve Ross, director of cybersecurity with S-RM; Erin McFarlane, vice president of operations with Fairmarkit; Sree Mallikarjun, chief scientist and head of AI innovation with Reorg; and Ryan Johnson, chief product officer with CallRail, offer their insights on what is happening with AI investment, what enterprises are exploring, and what the expectations might be for the money put into the technology.

Cloud Strategy in the Wake of the CrowdStrike Outage

Was the cloud the perfect safe haven away from the massive IT outage attributed to CrowdStrike’s mishandled update to Microsoft Windows machines?The answer is complex and this episode speaks to some of the considerations organizations might make about their cloud strategies in the fallout of the outage that knocked out some 8.5 million devices more than one week ago.The nature of the cloud, and the options available through many providers, can offer some resources that enterprises want for continuity of operations and IT disaster recovery. This is not to ignore major services outages that cloud providers have faced in separate, unrelated incidences. Before organizations that stayed on prem and held out on migration rush to the cloud, John Raven, managing director of Microsoft Cloud transformation with TEKsystems, and Octavian Tanase, chief product officer with Hitachi Vantara, share insights on cloud strategy in this post-outage phase.