The ITPro Podcast is a weekly show for technology professionals and business leaders. Each week hosts Rory Bathgate and Jane McCallion are joined by an expert guest to take a deep dive into the most important issues for the IT community. New episodes premiere every Friday. Visit itpro.com/uk/the-it-pro-podcast for more information, or follow ITPro on LinkedIn for regular updates.
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Our Define Tomorrow podcast focuses on the latest technical insights covering the modern workspace, hybrid cloud and security.
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Better Together: Customer Conversations – a series where customers, partners, and thought leaders discuss solving business challenges with SAP Business Technology Platform. Hear from your peers and join in the inspiring conversations.
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Cloud Therapy with AeroComInc.com | Elevate your IT career! | Weekly discussions on how to navigate business cloud technology.
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Enlightening information on the latest business cloud technology that will elevate your career in IT. Every week, we bring in experienced engineers and experts from various business cloud service providers to discuss tactical tips that IT professionals can use to improve their company's profit... through the cloud. From VoIP to IaaS to WAN, this show will give you the information that you never have time to learn... and that your boss wants to hear.
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August rundown: Are AI job losses a fantasy?
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In a recent episode of the podcast, we discussed the potential for AI to actually replace developer jobs. This is a complicated issue, as one has to consider both the accuracy of outputs – how well LLMs can code – as well as what execs think it can do. Well, AWS CEO Matt Garman has weighed in this month, calling replacing devs with AI “the dumbest …
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Classic episode: How can we support CISOs better?
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This episode was first published on 13/10/23. The role of chief information security officer is among the most important in any firm. CISOs shoulder a heavy burden, with responsibility for protecting their company’s data, infrastructure, and associated assets. As the tech stack has grown, so too has the pressure on those in the role. CISOs have to …
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Every now and then, international law enforcement announces a stunning takedown of a cyber crime group. Typically realized in the form of website shutdowns, in which the National Crime Agency logo is emblazoned across the dark web site of would-be hackers, these are powerful PR moves to show that cyber crime doesn’t always pay – and the seriousness…
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For years, we humanities graduates have been told variations of the following message: you’re better off learning to code, because we’ll always need developers but writers will go the way of the dodo. But advances in AI since 2022 have put this to the test. While human writers are no doubt being forced to compete with AI-written content, developers…
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July rundown: Salt Typhoon and SharePoint scares
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As the old saying goes, it never rains but it pours. And, seeing how we’re based in the UK, it would be fitting that the month this most accurately described in 2025 so far has been July. In the past four weeks, two almighty security stories have broken, with far-reaching implications for the tech sector and beyond. First, we learned that the China…
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Ransomware payments could soon be a thing of the past in the UK – at least that’s the hope of new controls and mandatory reporting requirements to prevent ransomware from inflicting damage on UK businesses. Under government proposals, public bodies and operators of critical national infrastructure would be banned from paying up when they’re hit by …
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We need to talk about operational technology
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Cyber attacks can feel a layer detached from the real world. Yes, businesses frequently see IP stolen, get frozen out of systems, or have data wiped by malicious actors. But if you haven’t got your finger on the pulse, cyber attacks can also fail to register in your day to day. But there are instances where cyber attacks come crashing into the live…
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SPECIAL EDITION: Future-proofing AI infrastructure
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As organizations race to train more and more advanced AI models, as well as deploy existing models at scale, an enormous amount of time and money is being invested in expanding AI infrastructure. All around the world, data centers are becoming more and more important, bringing data and computing power together to get the most out of AI workloads. B…
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Google Cloud Summit London 2025: Practical AI deployment
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The level to which firms are already using AI varies according to technological maturity, strategic focus, and on an industry by industry basis. But what’s clear is that from the smallest to the largest businesses, the landscape is already shifting. We’ve spoken about AI agents on the podcast before – the promise of autonomous AI activity – but it’…
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This episode was first broadcast on 20 September 2024. When people talk about the environmental impacts of data centers, normally the discussion focuses on energy usage. It’s something we’ve talked about at several points this year already, with reference to growing efforts to house AI workloads in green data centers that run on renewable energy to…
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SPECIAL EDITION: The evolution from robots to agents
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If you’re looking to adopt AI right now, you’ll likely have heard the term ‘AI agents’. These systems can complete complex tasks autonomously, without user input. But no doubt some of the audience will be thinking: “haven’t we heard this before?” Indeed, robotic process automation and software robots have been available since the turn of the centur…
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June rundown: 2,000 missing devices and why threat groups are being renamed
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June has been another busy month for IT and technology news. Whether it’s new naming conventions for cybercriminal groups, Britain’s big tech potential, and national security concerns over lost government devices, we’ve got a lot to unpick. ITPro’s news editor Ross Kelly and reviews editor Bobby Hellard step in for Jane and Rory this week to chew t…
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Are reasoning models fundamentally flawed?
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AI reasoning models have emerged in the past year as a beacon of hope for large language models (LLMs), with AI developers such as OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic selling them as the go-to solution for solving the most complex business problems. However, a new research paper by Apple has cast significant doubts on the efficacy of reasoning models, go…
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SPECIAL EDITION: Data integration for open table formats
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Any modern enterprise generates reams of data, which can be difficult to correctly store, process, and use without the right approach. This has become even more important in the face of AI. Before any leader can begin implementing AI across their workflow, they must first ensure they’ve prepared data at the right scale – and across its entire lifec…
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RSAC Conference 2025: The front line of cyber innovation
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In the fast-changing world of cybersecurity, IT leaders have to keep up with evolving threats and new technologies to stay ahead of attackers. With nation states lending a hand to threat groups with more pointed aims than ever before, alongside the double-edged sword of greater AI adoption in cybersecurity, there’s never been a more worrying – and …
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We’re past the peak cloud hype of the 2010s and now well into the era of cloud maturity. But even as businesses have come to terms with multi-cloud and hybrid cloud models, new considerations have arisen, such as the growing push for cloud sovereignty and regional data center demand. AI has put additional pressure on firms to figure out exactly wha…
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Java celebrates its 30th birthday and more Microsoft developer layoffs
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May has been a busy month for news in the IT world, with cyber attacks hitting retailers across the UK and Microsoft laying off over 800 developers. In this episode of the ITPro Podcast, Jane is joined by news and analysis editor Ross Kelly to discuss three of the most significant news stories of the past month and wish Java a happy 30th birthday. …
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Dell Technologies World 2025: All in on AI
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Dell Technologies World has just come to a close in Las Vegas and there is no doubt that the company is – in its own words “all in on AI”. From laptops to services, data center infrastructure and partnerships, everything is being led by AI. What this means in practice for IT decision makers and business leaders can sometimes be hard to divine, howe…
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Classic episode: What’s the future of data storage?
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This episode was first broadcast on 22 March 2024. As technological innovations happen, it can be easy to forget that even the most complex systems rely on large networks of basic infrastructure to operate. At the most fundamental level, all tech products rely on effective data storage But this is easier said than done. Each byte of data has to be …
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What do you do when you want to get your enterprise data into a usable format? And how can you make better use of the data you already use, through the likes of analytics, AI, and even quantum computing? All these questions and more have been front and center at SAS Innovate 2025, the data and analytics veteran’s annual conference held in Orlando, …
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RSAC Conference 2025: AI and quantum complicate security
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RSAC Conference 2025 has been full on, with cybersecurity experts from all over the world descending on San Francisco to share trends, data, and announcements. This year, ITPro has been providing both remote and on the ground coverage from the event, across talks covering topics such as AI security and threat actor methodology. In this episode, Jan…
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April rundown: MITRE frights and Microsoft launches Recall (again)
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April has been a busy month for tech news – we recorded this episode with a week left in the month, but there’s already so much to discuss. A major upset in the international database for tracking vulnerabilities had some in the cybersecurity field stunned – until a last minute U-turn. Elsewhere, AWS is the latest hyperscaler to roll back on data c…
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Putting small language models under the microscope
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We’ve spent the past few years discussing large language models, the huge AI models that power a lot of the generative AI tools that have dominated the headlines. But small language models are also possible – and rapidly growing in popularity. What benefits do these tiny AI models offer, and how much use will they get in the coming months and years…
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Google Cloud Next 2025: Targeting easy AI
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Las Vegas has been taken over by Google Cloud this week, with Google Cloud Next 2025 in full flow. There have already been a number of headline grabbing announcements: we've seen the launch of a powerful new AI accelerator chip by the name of Ironwood, huge updates to Google Cloud's security capabilities, and new agentic AI development kits for ent…
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When something goes wrong with IT at work, chances are you’ll be asked to submit a service ticket. This is a tale as old as time – see a problem, submit a ticket, wait for the service desk to come to your help. But all this could be set for change. Advances in technology have opened the door to software problems being detected and remediated automa…
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