Best Modern Mainframe Podcasts (2025)

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#25-13 MVP Dagen - Julian Rasmussen 7:43

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Vi fortsetter MVP Dagen spesial med Julian Rasmussen fra Point Taken. Basert på erfaringer har Julian fokusert på hvordan man kan forbedre sikkerheten i Entra. Det er fort gjort å tenke at alt er bedre siden vi har flyttet til skyen, men stadig nye og skiftende trusler gjør at man må sørge for å holde både seg selv og sine systemer oppdatert. Julia…

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#25-12 MVP Dagen - Merethe Stave 11:50

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I dagens MVP Dagen 2025 spesial har vi vært så heldig og fått med oss Merethe Stave fra CloudWay. Kjernen til MVP programmet er deling av kunnskap, og med sin sesjonen "Økosystem for kunnskapsdeling og -bygging" treffer hun rett på tema. Hva kan vi gjøre for å hjelpe med å effektivisere hverdagen for brukerene, og hvordan skal vi skape interesse og…

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Mean time to shared understanding: Bridging the gap between citizen developers and developers 28:24

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Although the concept of the 'citizen developer' isn't new, with the rise of AI the relationship between those building software without much technical experience and seasoned software developers is becoming more significant. That's not to say there's conflict exactly, but there are often competing interests and demands — which can lead to tension, …

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#25-11 MVP Dagen - Kai Stenberg 7:11

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MVP Dagen 2025 nærmer seg og BlåSkjerm Brødrene har bestemt seg for å lage en spesial serie i den forbindelsen. I den første episoden av vi fått med oss Kai Stenberg fra Capgemini og podcasten "Teams Cast Away". Kai skal holde sessjonen "Kom i gang med å bygge autonome agenter" sammen med Knut Relbe-Moe, i tillegg til at han dukker opp på MVP Dagen…

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Organizational design and Team Topologies after AI 42:45

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Managing technological change in an organization — particularly a large and complex one — has always been challenging. But thanks to the rapid adoption of AI in all kinds of spheres, from knowledge management to software development to content creation, it's becoming more difficult than ever. How do you strike a balance between governance and safet…

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#25-10 Deep dive into the Microsoft Pluton chip 23:11

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In this episode of the Blue Screen Brothers podcast, fellow MPVs Alexander Solaat Rødland and Rob Quickenden, talks with Chauncey Larsen from Microsoft Surface team. They dive into the topic of Microsoft Pluton. Alexander kicks off the discussion by introducing the guests and mentioning the cliffhanger left by Frank. Chauncey, who is a technical na…

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#25-09 Windows 10 EOL Del 2 21:32

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I del 2 av Windows 10 EOL tar Alexander og Olav for seg bedrift/organisasjons eide Windows 10 maskiner. Kan det lønne seg å utvide med ESU, og hva vil det koste Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for Windows 10 | Microsoft Learn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Context engineering: Tackling legacy systems with generative AI 40:41

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Generative AI can be incredibly powerful when it comes to legacy modernization. Not only can it help us better understand a large, aging codebase, it can even help us reverse engineer a legacy system when we don't have access to the complete source code. Doing it, though, requires a specific approach that's being described as 'context engineering'.…

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#25-08 Windows 10 EOL Del 1 11:52

29d ago11:52

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Windows 10 fylte nylig 10 år, og dette ble feiret grundig av BlåSkjerm Brødrene Alexander og Olav. Den største bursdagspresangen fikk nok de som fortsatt klamrer seg til sin gamle maskin som ikke kan installere Windows 11, det er nå mulig å utvide levetiden. Windows 10 Consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program - Microsoft Support Hosted on A…

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Navigating AI opportunities at MYOB 57:23

2M ago57:23

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How should businesses go about actually navigating AI? It's one thing to strategize and generate new ideas, but what needs to be done to put it into practice in a way that's effective and commercially impactful? In this episode of the Technology Podcast, new host Nigel Dalton is joined by his Thoughtworks colleague May Xu — Head of Tech for Thought…

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Mainframe Modernization with AIOps: Insights from the Field 54:03

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GigaOm Field CTO Darrel Kent, BMC Technology Solutions Director Jeremy Hamilton, and BMC Principal Solution Marketing Manager for AIOps Nick Mears discuss the evolution of mainframe operations towards modernization, focusing on the integration of AIOps and generative AI as well as the drivers behind this shift, including business needs and technica…

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Caring about documentation in the LLM era (w/ Heidi Waterhouse) 39:19

2M ago39:19

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In an age of vibe coding and LLMs, do we really need to care about documentation? Do we need to spend time and energy producing it — time when we could just be shipping code? Of course we do; particularly if we want to communicate and share software with other humans. To discuss documentation in 2025, Technology Podcast host Lilly Ryan is joined by…

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Closing the Mainframe Expertise Gap with GenAI and AI Agents 36:18

2M ago36:18

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Intellyx Director and Principal Analyst Jason English, BMC Senior Manager of Product Management Liat Sokolov, and BMC Distinguished Engineer Anthony DiStauro explore the challenges organizations face in managing scattered institutional knowledge and how generative AI, specialized language models, and AI agents can bridge knowledge gaps, improve ope…

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Why the tech industry needs Expert Generalists (w/ Martin Fowler) 43:21

3M ago43:21

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The technology industry has embraced specialisms — not just in different fields or job roles, like web development or security, but even in terms of particular platforms or stacks. But are we losing something as every tech professional is forced to push themselves into increasingly smaller niches? Martin Fowler and Unmesh Joshi think so. They've be…

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How to Scale Data Infrastructure from Startup to Enterprise 38:12

3M ago38:12

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In this episode, David sits down with Nishant Raman, a seasoned data infrastructure expert, to explore the evolving world of data engineering, AI integration, and building scalable systems from the ground up. With experience across logistics, healthcare, and fintech, Nishant shares hard-won insights from years of building resilient, cost-conscious …

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The three new fallacies of distributed computing 46:56

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Back in 1994, Peter Deutsch and his colleagues at Sun Microsystems identified what they described as the "eight fallacies of distributed computing" — flawed assumptions that often get made when teams move from monolithic to distributed software architectures. In recent years, software architecture experts and regular writing partners Neal Ford and …

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MCP and SRE: Why the future of IT operations is agent-driven 28:33

3M ago28:33

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What if your AI agents could think more like IT operations staff — and less like tools? In this episode, we catch up with Zichuan Xiong, to explore the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — a powerful new way to give AI agents deeper awareness of the tools, information and history they need to work effectively in the operations space. Unlike traditional A…

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Unpacking Google I/O 2025 29:51

4M ago29:51

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Google I/O 2025 took place in May. It's always a great opportunity to find out how Google is trying to shape the industry agenda, but this year the predominance of Gemini meant the event was a chance to get a better look at how Google will play its hand in the AI market in the months to come. To dissect the headlines from this year's Google I/O and…

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Code, Cloud and Karate: The Unlikely Path to Cloud Architecture 40:21

4M ago40:21

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In this episode, David sits down with Masaru Hoshi, a cloud architect at Qlik, to explore his unexpected journey into cloud architecture, the cultural influences that shaped his career, and the evolving disciplines transforming enterprise technology today. Join as we discuss: Masaru’s path from developer to cloud architect and his open-source contr…

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Automating Mainframe Operations: Smarter, Simpler, Stronger 19:36

4M ago19:36

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BMC Senior Solution Engineer Steven Dzikowski, Senior Principal Solution Engineer Gilles Robert, and Principal Product Manager Paul Spicer discuss the critical role of automation in modern mainframe operations, addressing workforce challenges, the integration of automation with IT practices, and the future of automation with AI and machine learning…

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#25-07 Dag Nyrud fra Microsoft 27:08

4M ago27:08

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I dag har vi fått med oss Dag Nyrud fra Microsoft. Dag tar oss med på spennende ideer og løsninger som vil forme fremtiden på en helt ny måte. Vi diskuterer hvordan vi kan bruke teknologi som copilot agenter for å forbedre hverdagen vår. I tillegg vil vi snakke om Microsofts nye europeiske forpliktelser, som inkluderer utvidelse av datasenterkapasi…

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Accelerating mainframe modernization using generative AI 38:28

4M ago38:28

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Mainframe modernization is hard: there's a huge amount of complexity that needs to be understood before it can be effectively addressed. Generative AI, however, can be a particularly powerful tool for understanding mainframe legacy codebases, something we've been exploring with Mechanical Orchard while working together on its Imogen modernization p…

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How to Build an AI-Native Organization 43:06

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In this episode, David sits down with Peter Mattis, co-founder, CTO, and CPO of Cockroach Labs, to dive into the world of resilient databases, the evolution of AI in tech, and the journey of building a company that’s transforming how engineers approach scalability and performance. Peter shares insights from Cockroach Labs’ mission to create Cockroa…

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Exploring the fundamentals of software engineering 27:51

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You might think you know software engineering, but what are the really fundamental elements? What are the concepts, ideas and practices that are completely essential? What makes software engineering what it is? Thoughtworker Nate Schutta and Dan Vega are attempting to address those questions in their upcoming book with O'Reilly, The Fundamentals of…

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#25-06 Chip to cloud security 25:34

5M ago25:34

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Another episode recorded during the MVP summit in Redmond. In this episode fellow MPVs Alexander Solaat Rødland and Rob Quicken talks with Frank Buckles from Microsofts Surface Team, diving deep into the world of security from chip to cloud. They discuss the importance of integrating security at every level, from the silicon in devices to the firmw…

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Themes in Technology Radar Vol.32 38:41

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Thoughtworks Technology Radar Vol.32 was published at the start of April 2025. Featuring 105 blips, it offered a timely snapshot of what's interesting and important in the industry. Through the process of putting it together, we also identify a collection of key themes that speak to the things that shaped our conversations. This time, there were fo…

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We need to talk about vibe coding 36:53

6M ago36:53

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The term 'vibe coding' — which first appeared in a post on X by Andrej Karpathy in early February 2025 — has set the software development world abuzz: everyone seems to have their own take on what it is, how it's done and whether it's a bold new chapter in the history of programming or an insult to anyone that's ever written a line of code. Clearly…

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#25-05 Mainframes and cloud PCs 25:23

5M ago25:23

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I denne episoden tar Alexander med seg Anders Kristiansen (Storebrand) og Briand Sanderson (Microsoft) inn i den fascinerende verdenen av stormaskiner og nettsky-PCer. De diskuterer utviklingen av databehandling fra server-klient-modeller til skybaserte løsninger, og fremhever fordelene med sky-PCer når det gjelder tilgjengelighet, sikkerhet og eff…

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#25-04 Moderns security threat and plugins 18:54

5M ago18:54

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I denne Engelske episoden har Alexander fått med seg kollega Anders Kristiansen, og ikke minst Briand Sanderson fra Microsoft Anders, som er sikkehets MVP og jobber som sikkerhetsarkitekt i Storebrand, diskuterer viktigheten av sikkerhetssamsvar og risikoene forbundet med nettleserutvidelser og plugins. Briand, en salgsleder hos Microsoft, deler in…

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Infrastructure as code in 2025 29:07

6M ago29:07

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Nearly ten years after the first edition of Infrastructure as Code was published by O'Reilly, Kief Morris is publishing a third edition of the book. But why a new edition now? What's changed in technology and business over the last decade? Quite a lot, as it happens. To talk about what's new — both in the infrastructure world and in the book itself…

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Banking on the Future: Tackling FinServ Challenges with a Modern Mainframe 40:22

6M ago40:22

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Intellyx Principal Analyst and CTO Eric Newcomer leads a discussion with BMC Area Director Duncan Ash, BMC Sales Director Ted Bakon, and BMC Vice President of Solution Marketing Management Priya Doty, exploring the current trends, challenges, and transformations within the banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) industries. Key topics inc…

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How fitness functions can help us govern and measure AI 42:01

7M ago42:01

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AI is inherently dynamic: that's true in terms of the field itself, and at a much lower level too — models are trained on new data and algorithms adapt and change to new circumstances and information. That's part of its power and what makes it so exciting, but from a business and organizational perspective, that can make governance and measurement …

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The Game-Changing Benefits of AIOps for Modern Mainframe Operations 38:01

7M ago38:01

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BMC Director of Product Management Alan Warhurst and Field Chief Technology Officer Jeremy Hamilton discuss the current state of AIOps, its evolution, and its impact on mainframe operations. They explore the challenges faced by operations teams and the transformative role of AIOps in managing data complexity, optimizing resource usage, and preparin…

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The Future is Hybrid: 2025 Predictions for GenAI and Mainframe Transformation 40:45

7M ago40:45

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Led by Intellyx Director and Principal Analyst Jason English, BMC DevOps Evangelist Tony Anter, Principal Product Manager Liat Sokolov, and R &D Solutions Architect Anthony DiStauro discuss the evolving role of artificial intelligence in mainframe computing, focusing on how AI can enhance operations, improve performance management, and increase the…

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Architecture as code 43:28

7M ago43:28

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How can we better define and clarify architectures to ensure consistency and control? If, as Neal Ford and Mark Richards discussed on a recent episode of the Technology Podcast, software architecture intersects with many different facets of software development and delivery, what can we do to better manage architectures in a way that is adaptable a…