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AI+ITOPS Podcast Episode 10: Prem Naraindas

The AI+ITOPS Podcast Episode 10 guest is Prem Naraindas, CEO of Katonic.ai.


Prem Naraindas is an experienced technology executive and public speaker with over 17 years of experience having enterprise-level accomplishments with a passion to drive customer engagements to successful outcomes from start to finish. Through the course of his career, Naraindas has led transformational initiatives for clients in areas such as application development and maintenance, business process outsourcing, engineering services, R&D, innovation and infrastructure. He has over 4 years of experience on Enterprise Blockchain and was responsible for delivering over 20 Proof of Concepts and has successfully envisaged that led to production implementation of one of world’s first enterprise blockchain application. Previous to founding Katonic, he served as Global Blockchain Offering Director at DXC Technology and Luxoft, and Business Development Manager at Tata Consultancy Services.

In this episode, Prem Naraindas discusses how emerging technologies can make life better for ITOps.

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The Latest

Part 4 outlines the challenges enterprise face when adopting AI observability. The main challenge is that AI complexity compounds at every stage of maturity. LLM-based applications introduce new behavior, dependencies, and quality considerations, while Agentic AI adds further failure modes as systems make decisions and take actions ...

Part 3 reports on the current state of AI observability. Most experts agree: enterprises are moving faster with AI than they are with the operational discipline needed to run it safely ...

When discussing AI Observability, one of the first questions that arises: Is this just an extension of traditional observability or is this a whole new type of tool? Part 2 compares traditional observability with AI observability ...

In this extensive 14-part series that will post over the next three weeks, experts across observability and AI will provide insight and opinions on the need for AI Observability, the challenges, the benefits, the current state, and predictions for the future ...

Amid rising complexity, organizations are moving quickly toward agent-driven operations: AgenticOps, according to The Impact of Agentic AI on Network Operations, a new report from Cisco ...

AI, automation, and enterprise software give organizations an extraordinary amount of leverage. Work that once required hours can happen in minutes. Information buried across systems can be analyzed almost instantly. Complex workflows can be coordinated across teams with far less manual intervention. That leverage creates a temptation to start with the technology ...

Everyone wants to talk about models. Compute clusters. Benchmark scores that climb a fraction of a point and make headlines anyway. It's an easy conversation to have because it's measurable. But it's also increasingly beside the point ...

For more than a decade, the default infrastructure play has been simple. Move more workloads to the cloud, retire on-premises gear and treat the data center as a cost to shrink. That logic held while public cloud offered near-limitless capacity at predictable prices, and AI demand is now testing both halves of that assumption ...

Most enterprise IT leaders can tell you exactly how many applications are running across their organization. They can surface a dashboard showing telecom spend by region, pull a report on SaaS license utilization, or call up a real-time view of mobile device inventory. The data is there, and IT leaders have largely delivered on the promise of visibility. Yet, in most organizations, that visibility has not translated into business value ...

Government agencies are largely misjudging their level of AI governance as the technology permeates their organization, according to Racing to Deploy: How Public Sector AI Adoption is Moving Faster Than the Foundations Needed to Support It, a new report from SolarWinds ...

AI+ITOPS Podcast Episode 10: Prem Naraindas

The AI+ITOPS Podcast Episode 10 guest is Prem Naraindas, CEO of Katonic.ai.


Prem Naraindas is an experienced technology executive and public speaker with over 17 years of experience having enterprise-level accomplishments with a passion to drive customer engagements to successful outcomes from start to finish. Through the course of his career, Naraindas has led transformational initiatives for clients in areas such as application development and maintenance, business process outsourcing, engineering services, R&D, innovation and infrastructure. He has over 4 years of experience on Enterprise Blockchain and was responsible for delivering over 20 Proof of Concepts and has successfully envisaged that led to production implementation of one of world’s first enterprise blockchain application. Previous to founding Katonic, he served as Global Blockchain Offering Director at DXC Technology and Luxoft, and Business Development Manager at Tata Consultancy Services.

In this episode, Prem Naraindas discusses how emerging technologies can make life better for ITOps.

Click here for a direct MP3 download of Episode 10 - Express Version

Click here for a direct MP3 download of Episode 10 - Full Interview

The Latest

Part 4 outlines the challenges enterprise face when adopting AI observability. The main challenge is that AI complexity compounds at every stage of maturity. LLM-based applications introduce new behavior, dependencies, and quality considerations, while Agentic AI adds further failure modes as systems make decisions and take actions ...

Part 3 reports on the current state of AI observability. Most experts agree: enterprises are moving faster with AI than they are with the operational discipline needed to run it safely ...

When discussing AI Observability, one of the first questions that arises: Is this just an extension of traditional observability or is this a whole new type of tool? Part 2 compares traditional observability with AI observability ...

In this extensive 14-part series that will post over the next three weeks, experts across observability and AI will provide insight and opinions on the need for AI Observability, the challenges, the benefits, the current state, and predictions for the future ...

Amid rising complexity, organizations are moving quickly toward agent-driven operations: AgenticOps, according to The Impact of Agentic AI on Network Operations, a new report from Cisco ...

AI, automation, and enterprise software give organizations an extraordinary amount of leverage. Work that once required hours can happen in minutes. Information buried across systems can be analyzed almost instantly. Complex workflows can be coordinated across teams with far less manual intervention. That leverage creates a temptation to start with the technology ...

Everyone wants to talk about models. Compute clusters. Benchmark scores that climb a fraction of a point and make headlines anyway. It's an easy conversation to have because it's measurable. But it's also increasingly beside the point ...

For more than a decade, the default infrastructure play has been simple. Move more workloads to the cloud, retire on-premises gear and treat the data center as a cost to shrink. That logic held while public cloud offered near-limitless capacity at predictable prices, and AI demand is now testing both halves of that assumption ...

Most enterprise IT leaders can tell you exactly how many applications are running across their organization. They can surface a dashboard showing telecom spend by region, pull a report on SaaS license utilization, or call up a real-time view of mobile device inventory. The data is there, and IT leaders have largely delivered on the promise of visibility. Yet, in most organizations, that visibility has not translated into business value ...

Government agencies are largely misjudging their level of AI governance as the technology permeates their organization, according to Racing to Deploy: How Public Sector AI Adoption is Moving Faster Than the Foundations Needed to Support It, a new report from SolarWinds ...