The mission of the AI+ITOPS Podcast is to discuss the struggles faced by ITOps — such as digital transformation and the need to keep IT services "always on" — and explore how AI/ML, AIOps, Application Performance Management (APM), and other ITOps and DevOps technologies can help.
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Episode 11: Exploring Distributed Tracing
Featured Guest: Andrew Tunall, GM, New Relic Serverless & Emerging Cloud Services
Posted October 26, 2020
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Episode 10: The Promise of Emerging Technology
Featured Guest: Prem Naraindas, CEO of Katonic.ai
Posted October 5, 2020
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Episode 9: The Impact of the Pandemic on IT Teams
Featured Guest: Sean McDermott, President and CEO, Windward Consulting Group
Posted September 28, 2020
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Episode 8: The Real Benefits of AIOps
Featured Guest: Michael Olson, Director of Product Marketing at New Relic
Posted September 21, 2020
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Episode 7: The Future of APM, AIOps and Observability
Featured Guest: Will Cappelli, Field CTO of Moogsoft and former Gartner Research VP
Posted September 14, 2020
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Episode 6: Taking AIOps to the Edge
Featured Guest: Mark Thiele, Co-Founder and CEO of Edgevana
Posted September 8, 2020
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Episode 5: AIOps Hype vs. Reality
Featured Guest: Bhanu Singh, SVP of Engineering and DevOps at Opsramp
Posted August 31, 2020
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Episode 4: The Right Data, Right Time, Right Insights
Featured Guest: IBM Fellow Mac Devine, VP & CTO Strategic Customer Success, Watson Cloud Division of IBM
Posted August 24, 2020
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Episode 3: Technology Is Hard - People Are Harder
Featured Guest: Cloud Computing Pioneer Mike Kavis, Managing Director at Deloitte Consulting
Posted August 17, 2020
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Episode 2: AIOps, Open Telemetry, Observability, and More
Featured Guest: Jonah Kowall, CTO of Logz.io and former Gartner Research VP
Posted August 10, 2020
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Episode 1: An Insider's Look at EMA's AIOPS Research
Featured Guest: Dennis Drogseth, VP at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA)
Posted August 3, 2020
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About the Podcast Host
The AI+ITOPS Podcast is hosted by Andy Thurai of The Field CTO (TheFieldCTO.com). Thurai is an accomplished IT executive, strategist, advisor and evangelist with 25+ years of experience in executive, technical and architectural leadership positions at companies such as IBM, Intel, BMC, Nortel and Oracle; he advises many start-ups; and he is a Steering Committee Member for AIOps Exchange. He has been a keynote speaker in many major conferences, as well as host of many webcasts, podcasts and video chats. He is a regular Forbes contributor, and has written 100+ articles on emerging technology topics for publications such as Forbes, AI World, VentureBeat and Wired. Andy Thurai can be reached on Twitter at @AndyThurai, LinkedIn, or his website at www.TheFieldCTO.com.
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The Holiday Season means it is time for APMdigest's annual list of Application Performance Management (APM) predictions, the most popular content on APMdigest, viewed by tens of thousands of people in the IT community around the world for more than a decade. Industry experts offer thoughtful, insightful, and often controversial predictions on how APM, AIOps, Observability, Open Telemetry, and related technologies will evolve and impact business in 2022 ...
As organizations strive to advance digital acceleration efforts, outpace competitors, and better service customers, the path to better, more secure software lies in AIOps. As DevOps teams continue to adopt progressive delivery models and the volume of production deployments and configuration changes sees even more growth, here are a few of the things that your DevOps teams should keep in mind, as they look to make the most of their IT toolkits via AIOps ...
In the old days of monolithic architectures, IT operations teams could manage service-disrupting incidents themselves. But these architectures have evolved, and the systems our digital economy relies on today are too complex and produce too much data for human operators to monitor, let alone fix. Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) solutions automate system monitoring and remediation strategies to help DevOps and SRE teams ensure that services and apps are continuously available ...
As global and emerging technology trends continue to drive the network to evolve at an accelerated pace, we wanted to better understand the current trends and challenges these teams face. As a result, LiveAction conducted a survey of networking professionals that on average manage more than 500 networking devices at organizations with more than 600 employees. Let's dive into four of the key insights revealed in this report ...
Thanks to pandemic-related work-from-home (WFH) and digital/mobile customer experience initiatives, employees and users are more distributed than ever. At the same time, organizations everywhere are adopting a cloud-first or cloud-smart architecture, distributing their business applications across private and public cloud infrastructures. Private data centers continue to be consolidated, while more and more branch offices are connecting to data centers and the public cloud simultaneously. Maintaining application performance for distributed users in this increasingly hybrid environment is a significant challenge for IT teams ...
In a world where constant change is becoming routine, Gartner said that infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders must shift their traditional focus from efficiency to one of adaptive resilience. I&O leaders must re-imagine how they manage their talent, their platforms and operations, if they want to dynamically and quickly exploit new opportunities ...
The holidays are almost upon us, and retailers are preparing well in advance for the onslaught of online consumers during this compressed period. The Friday following Thanksgiving Day has become the busiest shopping day of the year, and online shopping has never been more robust. But with supply chain disruptions limiting merchandise availability, customer experience will make the difference between clicking the purchase button or typing a competitor's web address ...
The 2021 holiday season will be an inflection point: As the economy starts to ramp up again while the country still grapples with the pandemic, holiday shopping will be the most digital holiday season in history by a long shot ... The work must begin months before, as organizations learn from the year prior and take steps to improve experiences and operations, fine-tune systems, plug in new data sources to enrich machine-learning algorithms, move more workloads to the cloud, automate, and experiment with new tech. These efforts culminate in "API Tuesday" ...
Most (83%) of nearly 1,500 business and IT decision makers believe that at least 25% of their workforce will remain hybrid post-pandemic, according to the Riverbed | Aternity Hybrid Work Global Survey 2021. While all indicators signal hybrid work environments are the future, most organizations are not fully prepared to deliver a seamless hybrid work experience ...
The results of the 2021 BMC Mainframe Survey highlight the consistent positive growth outlook as seen in recent years, with 92 percent of respondents viewing the mainframe as a platform for long-term growth and new workloads, and 86 percent of extra-large shops expecting MIPS (millions of instructions per second) to grow in the coming year. This is not surprising, considering the disruptive nature of the modern digital economy ...
