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Ep. 163 - Enterprise Security Concerns
Next in Tech - April 17, 2024 12:08 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsEffectively managing information security for any enterprise can be a challenge, but airlines have to deal with the compounding effects of regulations in multiple domains, life safety issues and much more. Air New Zealand CISO, Phil Ross, joins host Eric Hanselman to discuss prioritizing cyberse...
Ep. 162 - The cloud native journey
Next in Tech - April 09, 2024 14:59 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWhile getting to a cloud native development pattern is a goal for most organizations, it can be a significant journey to transform both infrastructure and processes. Analyst Carl Lehmann joins host Eric Hanselman to explore the paths that can move enterprises forward. DevOps approaches can speed...
Ep. 161 - Payment technology in automotive
Next in Tech - April 02, 2024 16:39 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThe integration of payment technologies in the automotive realm offers interesting potential, but it has to be done with care to ensure customer experience meets expectations. FinTech’s move into the EV software ecosystem is a first step and analysts Beatriz Minamy and Sophia Furber join host Er...
Ep. 160 - AI use cases
Next in Tech - March 26, 2024 14:01 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWhile there is no end of generative AI discussion, it’s not often clear how it’s being used. Nick Patience and Alex Johnston return to explore the results of a recent study that digs into AI use cases with host Eric Hanselman. Projects are charging forward and concerns around data dominate. Gett...
Ep. 159 - KubeCon Preview
Next in Tech - March 19, 2024 13:27 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThe spring edition of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s KubeCon/CloudNativeCon is about to get underway and Jean Atelsek and William Fellows return to discuss what will be playing out in the sessions and on the exhibit floor with host Eric Hanselman. The next stage of licensing pull back f...
Ep. 158 - Mobile World Congress Review
Next in Tech - March 12, 2024 16:21 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThe curtain has come down on Mobile World Congress for 2024, but the repercussions are just beginning to settle out. Brian Patridge and Rich Karpinski join host Eric Hanselman to look at what happened at the Congress and how the implications are panning out. 5G advanced and 6G were being soft pe...
Ep. 157 - AI Investing
Next in Tech - March 05, 2024 13:10 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThe world of gen AI is complex, but the web of investments in both cash and infrastructure that are supporting the many AI companies is wildly intertwined. Analyst Melissa Incera returns to look at what these interrelationships mean with host Eric Hanselman. Typical investment priorities have be...
Ep. 156 - Connecting with Customers
Next in Tech - February 27, 2024 14:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDigital customer interactions are critical to business success. The effect on customer satisfaction can be dramatic, but the technology behind those interactions is often hidden. Raul Castañon Martinez joins host Eric Hanselman to look at Communications Platform and Contact Center as a Service (...
Ep. 155 - Mobile World Congress Preview
Next in Tech - February 20, 2024 23:46 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWhat has been the premier telecom conference has expanded to be a technology showcase for everything from IoT to AR/VR. Lynnette Luna, Julber Osio and Mohammed Hamza, part of the analyst team braving the 100,000 or so attendees converging on Barcelona, join host Eric Hanselman to discuss what th...
Ep. 154 - Supply chain is back
Next in Tech - February 13, 2024 15:22 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsMany thought that supply chain woes faded with pandemic concerns, but they’re back and with new dimensions. Analyst Mark Fontecchio returns to explore its cyclic nature and the challenges technological approaches are facing with host Eric Hanselman. Shippers and logistics firms are refocusing on...
Ep. 153 - Smart cities
Next in Tech - February 07, 2024 02:41 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWhile visions of smart cities might conjure up flying cars and robot delivery, the reality is that many are leveraging digitization today with significant impacts on a smaller scale. Analyst Zoë Roth looks at what’s going on today and the potential for the future with host Eric Hanselman. Digita...
Ep. 152 - Cyber Insurance
Next in Tech - January 30, 2024 17:47 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThe intersection of technology and financial markets in security is creating interesting dynamics. Analysts Thomas Mason, Dan Kennedy and Scott Crawford join host Eric Hanselman to dig into the complexities of cyber insurance and the technologies surrounding it. Insurers have struggled in the ra...
Ep. 151 - Network Security in Cloud
Next in Tech - January 23, 2024 21:52 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsSecurity in cloud-based infrastructure has different possibilities, but enterprises don’t always leverage cloud’s potential to improve security footing, particularly in networking. Quint Van Deman, senior principal within the office of the CISO at Amazon Web Services joins host Eric Hanselman to...
Ep. 150 - Technology in media production
Next in Tech - January 16, 2024 19:25 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsTechnology’s impacts are felt in many areas, including podcasts! We pull back the curtain a little with producers Darren Rose and Kyle Cangialosi joining host Eric Hanselman to look at the transformations that are driving media production. Concerns about deep fakes are all the rage, but the real...
Ep. 149 - Metaverse and Gen AI Collide
Next in Tech - January 10, 2024 20:13 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsIt might seem like generative AI has eclipsed the metaverse as a buzzy tech topic, but the two are intersecting in ways that are impacting autonomous vehicles and wealth of pursuits beyond gaming. Ian Hughes returns to the podcast to explore what this interaction is creating today and where it’s...
Ep. 148 - Media deals in the Premier League and NWSL
Next in Tech - January 02, 2024 16:14 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsA set of significant deals in sports media rights have just closed and Richard Berndes returns to explore their impacts with host Eric Hanselman. There’s a shifting mix of free-to-air, pay TV and streaming providers competing for the rights to air games. The English Premier League just settled a...
Ep. 147 - Chilling at the OCP
Next in Tech - December 19, 2023 18:15 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsIncreasing power densities in the devices that are populating datacenters are pushing their cooling capabilities to new technologies. Perkins Liu returns to dig into liquid cooling and progress at the Open Compute Summit with host Eric Hanselman. The OCP is working on extending its ecosystem eff...
Ep. 146 - Chiplets tackle semiconductor barriers
Next in Tech - December 15, 2023 14:48 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsAs semiconductor vendors wrestle with building more capable devices, they’re turning to innovations to manage cost, improve yields and get to market faster. Chiplets let them pull together the best capabilities from different processes and geometries and build better parts. John Abbott returns t...
Ep. 145 - The Big Picture on AI, water and datacenters
Next in Tech - December 06, 2023 15:48 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsMany aspects of technology are interlinked with energy, but there are even more complex interactions that are in play. Our annual Big Picture reports are out and Veronica Retamales Burford and Nick Patience join host Eric Hanselman to explore the connections between water, both its use in datace...
Ep. 144 - The Technology Demand Indicator
Next in Tech - November 28, 2023 16:46 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsVectors have an important property - they have both scale and direction. A new research product, the Technology Demand Indicator, offers this perspective in evaluating tech trends. Research Director Liam Eagle and Analyst Malav Parekh join host Eric Hanselman to discuss how it was developed and ...
Ep. 143 - AI security approaches
Next in Tech - November 22, 2023 17:31 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThere are significant concerns about the security of the various publicly accessible generative AI tools that are available. Many organizations have enacted outright bans on their use for fear of exposing sensitive data. There’s a path to access the benefits of these tools while managing the ris...
Ep. 142 - Customer experience shopping extravaganza
Next in Tech - November 15, 2023 15:11 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsAs the holiday shopping season kicks into high gear, customer experience becomes an even more critical part of retail. Sheryl Kingstone returns to discuss data from recent studies with host Eric Hanselman. Customers are expecting better integration of their online and in-person experiences and e...
Ep. 141 - Fintech trends, futures and Money 20/20
Next in Tech - November 07, 2023 18:23 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThere’s been rapid expansion in financial technologies and its adoption. Research director Jordan McKee joins host Eric Hanselman to look at trends and highlights from the Money 20/20 conference. Where cryptocurrencies played an outsized role in previous years, practical uses of blockchain capab...
Ep. 140 - The Great Data Migration
Next in Tech - October 31, 2023 13:49 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWith the ebb and flow of workloads to and from cloud, data doesn’t get the attention it should as a critical resource. Research director Henry Baltazar joins host Eric Hanselman to discuss the need for better data intelligence and results from the recent Voice of the Enterprise study. Gaps betwe...
Ep. 139 - 5G in IoT
Next in Tech - October 25, 2023 14:22 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThe excitement for 5G has waned after its initial rollout, but there is great promise that many of its capabilities will be put to work in Internet of Things applications. Rich Karpinski joins host Eric Hanselman to explore insights from the 5G Americas conference and look at impacts in the 5G a...
Ep. 138 - Technology in depth
Next in Tech - October 19, 2023 15:13 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsSo many of our perspectives on technology are driven by end user studies and numbers can be informative, but there can be much more to the story. The in-depth interviews that are part of much of the study work we do can offer nuance and Amy Hedrick, who manages this process, discusses the insigh...
Ep. 137 - Impressions of AI in Society
Next in Tech - October 12, 2023 15:14 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWhile the surge of interest in the last few months around generative AI might make this all seem new, we’ve been tracking attitudes about AI for a number of years and see interesting transitions in thoughts and perceptions of respondents. Sheryl Kingstone and Alex Johnston return to the podcast ...
Ep. 136 - AI and datacenter challenges at HCTS
Next in Tech - October 03, 2023 22:16 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsGenerative AI is creating many challenges in the infrastructure that supports it. Nick Patience and Dan Thompson return to discuss these impacts and what they’ll be talking about at the Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit with host Eric Hanselman. Significant increases in power demand are cr...
Ep. 135 - Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit is back!
Next in Tech - September 29, 2023 10:57 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsFor over 15 years, the Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit has been a forum for sorting out the complexities of digital infrastructure and this year it’s back in person and in New York City on October 10th. Brian Partridge and Kelly Morgan join host Eric Hanselman to talk about the latest in...
Ep. 134 - Observability and new operational models
Next in Tech - September 19, 2023 19:22 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsManaging complex application environments successfully requires not only insights into both application behavior and the infrastructure that’s supporting them but also the ability to correlate all of that data. Analyst Mike Fratto returns to the podcast to explore observability, an approach to e...
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