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AI+ITOPS Podcast Reaches 10K+ Downloads

Andy Thurai
The Field CTO

When I started the AI+ITOPS Podcast with Pete Goldin, Editor and Publisher of APMdigest, just a few months ago, we wanted to do about 6 or so episodes, and have a few people listen in, give them some advice, engage with them regularly. We thought we will have about 1000 downloads/people listening and if we reached that goal of solving a pain point for 1000 people then we did our job.

Guess what?


The AI+ITOPS Podcast just hit the 10K + download mark early this month. Most people listen to entire episodes, and many engage with us by sending a note on LinkedIn, Twitter, a direct email asking questions, clarifications, strategy advice, product selection advice, etc. We took a break from the podcast series over the holidays as we got busy with lives and COVID-19, but new episodes will be coming soon.

Meanwhile, I want to post a quick blog saying "Thank you" for the overwhelming support we received. Especially some of the ideas for a future podcast, guest recommendations were genuine and top-notch.

Pete and I want to thank you all for the overwhelming support. We are humbled, honored, and will continue to work hard to bring the latest in expert commentary on AIOps, CloudOps, DevOps, ITOps, AI, ML in enterprises.

If you are an SRE, Ops person, DevOps person, and IT decision-maker, or an IT executive figuring out how to clean up this "operation digitization" that expedited your operations to go digital, without proper planning, please reach out to me. I am more than happy to help in any way I can.

As always, if you would like to be a guest on the podcast, or if you want to nominate someone to be a guest, or if you want us to cover a specific topic, or if you want to sponsor some episode(s) please feel free to reach out to us: APMdigest or The Field CTO.

Please continue to support by checking, bookmarking, listening, recommending, and socializing our podcasts. We thank you for your continued support.

More importantly, stay safe!

Andy Thurai is Founder and Principal of The Field CTO

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AI+ITOPS Podcast Reaches 10K+ Downloads

Andy Thurai
The Field CTO

When I started the AI+ITOPS Podcast with Pete Goldin, Editor and Publisher of APMdigest, just a few months ago, we wanted to do about 6 or so episodes, and have a few people listen in, give them some advice, engage with them regularly. We thought we will have about 1000 downloads/people listening and if we reached that goal of solving a pain point for 1000 people then we did our job.

Guess what?


The AI+ITOPS Podcast just hit the 10K + download mark early this month. Most people listen to entire episodes, and many engage with us by sending a note on LinkedIn, Twitter, a direct email asking questions, clarifications, strategy advice, product selection advice, etc. We took a break from the podcast series over the holidays as we got busy with lives and COVID-19, but new episodes will be coming soon.

Meanwhile, I want to post a quick blog saying "Thank you" for the overwhelming support we received. Especially some of the ideas for a future podcast, guest recommendations were genuine and top-notch.

Pete and I want to thank you all for the overwhelming support. We are humbled, honored, and will continue to work hard to bring the latest in expert commentary on AIOps, CloudOps, DevOps, ITOps, AI, ML in enterprises.

If you are an SRE, Ops person, DevOps person, and IT decision-maker, or an IT executive figuring out how to clean up this "operation digitization" that expedited your operations to go digital, without proper planning, please reach out to me. I am more than happy to help in any way I can.

As always, if you would like to be a guest on the podcast, or if you want to nominate someone to be a guest, or if you want us to cover a specific topic, or if you want to sponsor some episode(s) please feel free to reach out to us: APMdigest or The Field CTO.

Please continue to support by checking, bookmarking, listening, recommending, and socializing our podcasts. We thank you for your continued support.

More importantly, stay safe!

Andy Thurai is Founder and Principal of The Field CTO

The Latest

The enterprises that will define the next decade are not the ones that deployed the most technology. They are the ones who understood what their technology was actually doing. That distinction is not a philosophical point. It is the central operational challenge facing every organization that has spent the last five years modernizing at speed ...

AI is becoming the operating system of the enterprise. It acts as an invisible coordination layer that understands intent, connects systems, and executes work across complex SaaS environments. Previously, employees had to click through multiple systems — CRM, ERP, support tools, collaboration platforms — to complete a single task. Now, instead of navigating each application manually, they can simply state what they need to accomplish ...

In 2026, the cost of downtime or an outage is no longer just a technical inconvenience; it's a $600 billion wake up call for global businesses. As our digital ecosystems become  more interconnected, each touchpoint introduces new risks and multiplies the consequences when things go wrong. And the data is clear: aggregate downtime costs  for Global 2,000 companies have surged 50% since 2024, reaching a staggering $600 billion ...

Deloitte found that 74% of enterprises expect to deploy agentic AI solutions in the next 24 months. However, the rush to deployment is outpacing foundational work, though. Only 21% of enterprises have fully formed agent governance models in place. The result? AI agents deployed without guidance or governance begin to function as fragmented islands of complexity ...

Cloud spending is no longer viewed as a passthrough IT expense, but as a strategic financial lever that directly impacts innovation capacity, profitability and enterprise resilience, according to the CFO Cloud Cost Optimization Report from Azul ...

As AI moves from generating responses to performing actions, the need for trust increases exponentially. And as organizations enlist AI agents for increasingly sophisticated business processes, trust is going to be the single most important theme for spurring adoption. What can organizations do to build trustworthy AI agents? ...

I've spent a lot of time in the channel, and one thing I keep coming back to is this: a partner program is only as good as what it looks like in the field. Many programs look great on paper, but when a partner is in front of a customer navigating a complex hybrid environment or trying to make the case for AI-powered observability, the gap between what a vendor promises and what it actually delivers becomes very clear, very fast ...

Enterprises today operate in a real-time environment where uninterrupted access to trusted data has become a baseline expectation for users, applications and automated systems. Traditional DataOps models, built on manual effort and human triage, cannot keep pace with this always active demand. AI agents are emerging as the operational backbone, ensuring consistent data availability, reinforcing trustworthiness and enabling a level of scale that manual processes cannot achieve ...

For decades, trust in the digital workplace rested on familiar signals. We trusted faces on video calls, voices on the phone, and emails that appeared to come from people we knew. These cues felt human and intuitive. They anchored how decisions were made, approvals were granted, and access was authorized. AI-powered deepfakes have quietly broken that model ...

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