DM Radio

Join this episode of DM Radio as host Eric Kavanaugh sits down with legendary keynote speaker and author Jim Harris to unpack why AI's real power depends on data. Explore how generative AI is transforming workflows through massive time savings, real-world use cases, and practical productivity gains - from real-time translation to enterprise decision-making. Learn why bespoke models, enterprise dat...

Join this episode of DMRadio to look back at 2025, a year defined by natural language automation, rapid upskilling, and intelligent orchestration across the enterprise. Host Eric Kavanagh interviews Binny Gill of Kognitos, John Munsell of Ingrain AI, and Peter Sprygada of Itential about how NLP-driven interfaces and coordinated automation changed the way people work. Hear what shifted, what scaled...

Join this DM Radio episode as Eric Kavanagh interviews David Flynn of Hammerspace and Mark Madsen of Third Nature. Together they dig into the latest breakthroughs in high-performance computing and data architecture, explore the rise of NVMe technology, Hammerspace's impressive IO500 benchmark results, and why Linux continues to anchor modern data platforms. Learn about the evolution from 2D to 3D...

Join this DM Radio episode with Sean Knapp of Ascend and Jack Smith of Syncari, as we explore how security must evolve in an AI-driven, real-time world. Discover why legacy TCP/IP approaches fall short as organizations push intelligence to the edge and leverage billions of sensors. Learn about the growing global maturity of cybersecurity and how industries are implementing shared standards and sec...

The hard truth about enterprise AI? According to industry research, some 88% of AI pilots never reach production. And by 2027, roughly 40% of AI projects may be canceled entirely. The problem isn't the AI models; it's the data. While organizations rush to implement generative AI, they're hitting a fundamental wall: AI agents can't deliver reliable business value without clean, governed, and contex...

How Do You Know If Your Enterprise Is AI-Ready? It starts with data. Can your enterprise architecture support AI workloads, RAG, or Agentic AI? For most, the answer is not yet. But with the right strategy, any data environment can get there. Then comes Governance. Do you have the right policies in place, the right people involved? Do you understand your use case well enough to know what success lo...

Live from Current in New Orleans, join this special episode of DM Radio exploring how Confluent is redefining the data foundation for the age of Agentic AI. Host Eric Kavanagh will interview Andrew Sellers, who will unveil Confluent Intelligence - a new way to deliver trusted, contextual data to AI systems in real time.  Then, Kamal Brar will join to discuss how streaming architectures built on Ka...

Dive into this episode of DM Radio, as host Eric Kavanagh joins experts from Cloudera and Hitachi to explore how enterprises are rethinking AI and data infrastructure amid rapid innovation. Manasi Vartak, Chief AI Architect at Cloudera, unpacks the concept of "Private AI" - enabling organizations to maintain full control over their data, models, and hardware while ensuring trust and governance. Ne...

Know your customer? Know your bad guy! The power of AI extends to both black hats and white, and with Generative AI now in the toolset, all bets are off. Bad actors can whip up pixel-perfect, fraudulent web sites in seconds to pilfer your username and password. They can mimic your spouse's voice to put you in a panic. And they can use Agentic AI to hide even the most brazen cases of money launderi...

The revolution has begun. AI will rewrite most major enterprise applications. Analytics will play a central role, but big questions remain. How can deterministic BI meld with probabilistic AI? How will fast-evolving AI systems be effectively governed? What's the secret to building trust in data and interactive dashboards in this new era? Register for this episode of DM Radio to learn how AI-enable...

When time-to-action requires very low latency, the immediacy of data visualization makes all the difference. Being able to analyze vast amounts of multi-dimensional data in real-time requires massive throughput, and an in-memory architecture designed to deliver instant insights at scale. Check out this episode of DM Radio to hear how advanced optimization techniques leveraging multi-core CPU, GPU,...

Join this episode of DM Radio, as host Eric Kavanagh dives into the emerging concept of "AI factories" with special guests Mark Madsen of Third Nature and Denise Muyco of Ravel. Together, they explore how modern data centers are being transformed to handle the massive compute demands of AI-balancing workloads, optimizing power usage, and rethinking infrastructure for the GPU era. From high-perform...

You can always build a better mousetrap. Data warehouses and lakes turn out to be overkill for many business teams. A new approach makes enterprise data readily available for last-mile transformations. In other words, don't build it until they come, then do so dynamically in minutes. Register for this DM Radio to learn how enterprise data from any database can be captured in an append-only log to...

The blessing and curse of today's data landscape is diversity. Hundreds of vendors, scores of databases, a dozen cloud providers and an infinite array of information architectures: That's the reality facing business analysts and engineers every day. But there is one foundational player that can help make sense of all these variations: the battle-tested ODBC and JDBC drivers! From enabling real-tim...

DevOps is undergoing a radical transformation, fueled by AI-driven platforms like Bolt, Lovable, Anthropic, OpenAI and others. They are seriously disrupting the market with agentic capabilities that can design, test, and deploy code at lightning speed. While the power of these tools is breathtaking, there are serious risks: quality, security, governance, intellectual property. As enterprises race...

Google built their trillion-dollar empire on keywords, but text is just a thin layer of abstraction that only ostensibly represents the real world. Video is a much different story! With video, modern algorithms from Gong, Otter, Read and other tools can ascertain a whole host of valuable dimensions: confidence of voice, engagement level, thoughtfulness of questions, clarity of answers. In other wo...

CDPs have long promised unified, personalized marketing, but legacy systems often create new data silos, slow implementation, and lock-in. Join this episode of DM Radio as host Eric Kavanagh interviews Adam Greco, Product Evangelist at Hightouch to explore a disruptive new approach: the composable CDP. By operating directly on top of the data warehouse and embracing a zero-copy, warehouse-native a...

Join this episode of DM Radio as host Eric Kavanagh speaks with Steve Sobel of Databricks and Anmol Madan of RadiantGraph. Discover how data and AI are driving a long-overdue transformation in the U.S. healthcare system, a sector that accounts for nearly 20% of the GDP. Learn how modern data architectures, real-time analytics, and AI-driven personalization are enabling healthcare organizations to...

The rise of Artificial Intelligence ignites age-old questions about ethics, responsibility, and the nature of decision-making. As AI systems become more embedded in daily life, shaping what we see, buy, and believe, the call for "Ethical AI" grows louder. But what does that really mean? Is it about aligning machine behavior with human values? Can reasonable professionals agree on a set of standard...

A major bank can ideate through a data product 100 times in a morning, to test new data for a Machine Learning engine. It can now refine a new model in a day, when it used to take six weeks! That's the kind of experimentation made possible by a governed, federated data architecture. Removing the bottlenecks to discovery helps organizations achieve a sea change in how analytics drives decision-maki...

Join this episode of DM Radio as host Eric Kavanagh welcomes back Eric Herzog of Infinidat to explore the intersection of cybersecurity, AI, and data storage economics. They dive into the escalating arms race between cybercriminals and enterprise defenders, highlighting how AI is being used on both sides.  Learn why storage is often the weakest link in cybersecurity strategies and how Infinidat's...

Dive into this episode of DM Radio as host Eric Kavanagh interviews Tapan Parekh of Convera about how fintech companies expertly navigate the growing complexity of global payment compliance. Discover why quality AI depends on quality data, especially in the highly regulated and complex fintech landscape. Learn how Convera manages payments across 200+ countries and 140+ currencies without holding a...

Live from the Databricks Data + AI Summit at the Moscone Center, this DMRadio episode kicks off with a high-energy segment featuring Ari Kaplan and a deep dive into the risks of handing proprietary data to public LLMs. The conversation explores safer alternatives like Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and the power of enterprise knowledge graphs to fuel private, secure AI solutions. Then we shi...

Join this episode of DM Radio as host Eric Kavanagh explores the critical — and timely — topic of AI governance. With expert guest Todd Henley of PaperKite.ai, the discussion dives into the rise of agentic AI, the implications of Salesforce's acquisition of Informatica, and the evolving data infrastructure landscape.  From the feeding frenzy around AI-ready data to the need for tighter process con...

Dive into this episode of DM Radio as host Eric Kavanagh interviews Sean Brehm and Dr. Moshik Cohen from Luceon about the complex world of global industrial surveillance. Learn how modern sensor networks — from satellites to radar systems — collect and process massive volumes of real-time data to detect and defend against emerging threats.  Sean and Moshik will explain the challenges of identifyin...