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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Join the brightest SolarWinds minds and IT industry influencers, as they cut through the jargon and give you the tools you need to grow and keep your tech knowledge razor-sharp. Come with questions—leave with actionable steps and practical insights. Have ideas for future episodes or topics? Tweet us @ SolarWinds using #TechPod.
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The Windows Insider Team is taking the podcast airwaves to share all things future of Windows, Insider community and beyond. Transcripts provided with each episode.
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The Intrazone is a show about the Microsoft 365 intelligent intranet, taking you into the building blocks of your Microsoft 365 intranet. It's about how SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Yammer and more fit into your everyday work life – with the goal being to share and manage content, knowledge, and applications to empower teamwork throughout your organization.
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On the ground at HPE Discover Barcelona 2025
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HPE Discover Barcelona 2025 was in full swing this past week, with thousands of attendees descending on the Fira Barcelona to hear the latest news on the networking, servers, storage, supercomputing – and, of course, AI. It’s a pivotal time for the firm, as it consolidates its hardware partnerships and heralds a recent acquisition, while laying out…
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November rundown: CrowdStrike's insider threat
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As a business leader, you’d like to believe that your staff are entirely trustworthy. Effective enterprises run on workforce confidence – but in some cases, that trust can be misplaced. In November, CrowdStrike admitted one of its own employees had provided screenshots of internal systems to hackers in exchange for a sizable payout. Industry expert…
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It seems that everywhere you look these days, businesses are implementing AI features, tools, chatbots, and pilots. But researchers keep coming to the same conclusion about the benefits of enterprise AI adoption – that return on investment is slim to none. While this isn’t the case for every business, it’s certainly a worry that hangs over discussi…
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SPECIAL EDITION: Partnering to solve legacy cloud challenges
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The dream of every small-to-medium business is to harness one’s success and turn it into sustainable growth – expanding operations, hiring more workers, and delivering more value to a wider customer base. But achieving this in the modern enterprise environment requires as much focus on IT strategy as business strategy. Without the right approach to…
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Classic episode: Can better connectivity boost rural business?
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This episode was first published on 10 January 2025. Anyone who works outside of a major city, or has ever tried to get work done while on a trip to a more rural location, knows that rural connectivity can be patchy. Despite the UK’s high population density and relative lack of difficult terrain, rural connectivity remains an uneven picture. Many r…
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What does real work-life balance look like in tech? In this honest and funny conversation, Sean Sebring and Chrystal Taylor share stories from their sabbaticals, burnout moments, and how they learned to unplug — for real this time.
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The end of October was punctuated with a series of major cloud outages, first at AWS and then at Microsoft, bringing a wide range of websites and business applications offline. In the previous episode, we spoke about this in a reactive sense – the immediate customers impacted and the likely causes. But it's also important to break the problem down …
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SPECIAL EDITION: The trillion dollar services opportunity
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The global services market is expected to grow at 8% compound annual growth between now and 2028, representing a $1.7 trillion opportunity. But partners looking to seize on this opportunity face a slew of challenges. Establishing a services offering for customers demanding the scale of the cloud and complex technologies like AI is difficult without…
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October rundown: AWS chaos and supercomputers surging
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It’s Halloween! And what better way to mark the day than discuss one of the biggest horror stories of October? We are of course referring to the AWS outage, which on 20 October took down some incredibly notable websites and caused global disruption. It’s the latest, most severe example of why data centers are considered critical infrastructure – an…
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Business software is evolving faster than ever before, with advancements such as AI spurring developers to introduce new ways of working and interacting with the software layer. But by and large, business hardware has stayed much the same for the past decade. With a few notable exceptions, the laptops, desktops, and portables we use for work today …
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San Francisco has played host this week to one of the biggest tech conferences of the year, Salesforce Dreamforce. The stalwart event has seamlessly transformed from being all about cloud for the best part of 20 years to being heavily AI focused in the past two years. What can we learn from the pronouncements – and contradictions – being delivered …
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In this special mini episode of SolarWinds TechPod, hosts Chrystal Taylor and Sean Sebring sit down again with Matai Wilson to unpack the latest AI innovations announced during SolarWinds Day. Discover how SolarWinds is building the future of autonomous IT operations, from proactive remediation and Root Cause Assist (RCA) to an Agentic Framework th…
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The rise in popularity of generative AI has been centered largely around cloud AI, with popular chatbots and models accessed via API or dedicated websites. But with the right hardware, AI models can also be run on-device – and PC manufacturers are rushing to fill this niche. AI PCs are quickly becoming the norm for new product lineups, with special…
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As developers have embraced AI to a greater degree, many have hailed the rise of so called vibe coding, in which broad prompts are given to AI models to produce refined code that's actionable and in many cases deployable. But vibe coding also comes with risks, because by its very nature it's more of a hands-off activity. It decreases the degree to …
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SPECIAL EDITION: Turning business data into business value
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In modern businesses, your data is your value. This is not a new concept, but it can be a struggle to understand where to start when it comes to harnessing your data effectively. Unstructured data, which can be generated in massive quantities before it ever produces value, can be especially difficult to handle. But if this task is completed correct…
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September rundown: The UK becomes an AI playground
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The UK has immense AI potential, according to some of the biggest names in tech, with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang having described the region as being in a “Goldilocks circumstance” due to its strong AI ecosystem and rich academic history. This month, the US tech ecosystem made its first significant contribution to recognizing this reality with tens of…
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Identity management in security has been a difficult issue for many years, but the arrival of AI and AI agents has only complicated this picture. In addition to human and machine identities, cybersecurity professionals now have to handle potentially 1000s of AI agent identities across MCP and API endpoints. How can businesses handle all of these co…
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Matai Wilson, Senior Director for Product Management at SolarWinds, joins TechPod to explore the evolving landscape of AI technology. The conversation delves into the challenges of building AI technology, the exciting future of AI in IT operations, and the upcoming features and tools SolarWinds is developing to enhance user experience and operation…
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SPECIAL EDITION: Bridging the data disconnect
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Artificial intelligence has made data more useful and accessible to businesses than ever, but if businesses want to get the most from their data they have to get it in a fit state to use. There’s a significant disconnect between IT specialists, CEOs, and other parts of the business when it comes to understanding what this means and how ready they a…
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Is all-photonics the future of networking?
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The flow of data is core to businesses all around the world – how much can be transmitted, and at what speed, is a fundamental aspect of IT systems ranging from cloud computing to the frontier of AI models. In data centers, the tech sector is focused on reducing latency, improving bandwidth, and reducing energy consumption to improve AI performance…
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Digital sovereignty is an issue that has been bubbling away in the background of IT for some time but doesn’t often see the limelight. In this episode of the ITPro Podcast, we’ve decided to change that. From sovereign clouds to AI, Jane McCallion and Ross Kelly dig into what digital sovereignty is, how it’s being used, and its relationship with AI,…
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It's CSOC o'clock! In this episode, we dive into the high-stakes world of cyber defense with the manager of cybersecurity operations at a critical infrastructure organization. From ransomware threats and zero-day exploits to the rise of nation-state-backed Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), our guest reveals how security teams manage 24/7 threats,…
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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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