MEAN TIME TO INSIGHT Podcast
APMdigest and leading IT research firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) are partnering to bring you MEAN TIME TO INSIGHT, a new podcast focused on network management.
The podcast is hosted by Shamus McGillicuddy, VP of Research, Network Infrastructure and Operations, at EMA.
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Episode 15 - DIY Network Automation
Posted June 26, 2025
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Episode 14 - Hybrid Multi-Cloud Network Observability
Posted May 29, 2025
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Episode 13 - Hybrid Multi-Cloud Networking Strategy
Posted April 25, 2025
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Episode 12 - Network Observability Solutions
Posted March 14, 2025
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Episode 11 - Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)
Posted November 8, 2024
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Episode 10 - Generative AI
Posted September 27, 2024
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Episode 9 - Network Observability Customer Support
Posted August 12, 2024
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Episode 8 - AutoCon Network Automation Conference
Posted July 12, 2024 Shamus McGillicuddy discusses AutoCon with the conference founders Scott Robohn and Chris Grundemann. AutoCon 2 - Denver CO - NOV 18-22, 2024 AutoCon 2 Call for Speakers AutoCon 2 Call for Sponsors Join Network Automation Forum Slack
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Episode 7 - Network Automation - Build or Buy?
Posted June 21, 2024
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Episode 6 - Network Automation
Posted May 17, 2024
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Episode 5 - Network Source of Truth
Posted April 19, 2024
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Episode 4 - Part 2: AIOps
Posted March 22, 2024
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Episode 4 - Part 1: Artificial Intelligence
Posted March 15, 2024
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Episode 3: Network Security
Posted February 16, 2024
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Episode 2: Remote Work
Posted January 19, 2024
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Episode 1: 2024 Network Management Trends
Posted December 15, 2023
Click here for a direct MP3 download of Episode 1 If you are a product vendor interested in sponsoring an episode of the MEAN TIME TO INSIGHT Podcast, contact Pete Goldin, Editor and Publisher of APMdigest. Click here for archive recordings of the AI+ITOPS Podcast
The Latest
Private clouds are no longer playing catch-up, and public clouds are no longer the default as organizations recalibrate their cloud strategies, according to the Private Cloud Outlook 2025 report from Broadcom. More than half (53%) of survey respondents say private cloud is their top priority for deploying new workloads over the next three years, while 69% are considering workload repatriation from public to private cloud, with one-third having already done so ...
As organizations chase productivity gains from generative AI, teams are overwhelmingly focused on improving delivery speed (45%) over enhancing software quality (13%), according to the Quality Transformation Report from Tricentis ...
Back in March of this year ... MongoDB's stock price took a serious tumble ... In my opinion, it reflects a deeper structural issue in enterprise software economics altogether — vendor lock-in ...
In MEAN TIME TO INSIGHT Episode 15, Shamus McGillicuddy, VP of Research, Network Infrastructure and Operations, at EMA discusses Do-It-Yourself Network Automation ...
Zero-day vulnerabilities — security flaws that are exploited before developers even know they exist — pose one of the greatest risks to modern organizations. Recently, such vulnerabilities have been discovered in well-known VPN systems like Ivanti and Fortinet, highlighting just how outdated these legacy technologies have become in defending against fast-evolving cyber threats ... To protect digital assets and remote workers in today's environment, companies need more than patchwork solutions. They need architecture that is secure by design ...
Traditional observability requires users to leap across different platforms or tools for metrics, logs, or traces and related issues manually, which is very time-consuming, so as to reasonably ascertain the root cause. Observability 2.0 fixes this by unifying all telemetry data, logs, metrics, and traces into a single, context-rich pipeline that flows into one smart platform. But this is far from just having a bunch of additional data; this data is actionable, predictive, and tied to revenue realization ...
64% of enterprise networking teams use internally developed software or scripts for network automation, but 61% of those teams spend six or more hours per week debugging and maintaining them, according to From Scripts to Platforms: Why Homegrown Tools Dominate Network Automation and How Vendors Can Help, my latest EMA report ...
Cloud computing has transformed how we build and scale software, but it has also quietly introduced one of the most persistent challenges in modern IT: cost visibility and control ... So why, after more than a decade of cloud adoption, are cloud costs still spiraling out of control? The answer lies not in tooling but in culture ...
CEOs are committed to advancing AI solutions across their organization even as they face challenges from accelerating technology adoption, according to the IBM CEO Study. The survey revealed that executive respondents expect the growth rate of AI investments to more than double in the next two years, and 61% confirm they are actively adopting AI agents today and preparing to implement them at scale ...

A major architectural shift is underway across enterprise networks, according to a new global study from Cisco. As AI assistants, agents, and data-driven workloads reshape how work gets done, they're creating faster, more dynamic, more latency-sensitive, and more complex network traffic. Combined with the ubiquity of connected devices, 24/7 uptime demands, and intensifying security threats, these shifts are driving infrastructure to adapt and evolve ...
