The Ravit Show

AI conversations are everywhere, but what stood out to me in my chat with Harmeen Mehta from Equinix at Google Cloud Next '26 was how grounded their approach is. They did not start with big external announcements. They started inside. Harmeen shared a simple idea. If AI is going to change how a company works, it has to show up in how employees work first. Not as a side experiment, but as part...

Just wrapped a great conversation with Woon Ho Jung, CTO - Cloud Native, Commvault, at Google Cloud Next 2026 and this one hit a nerve. Everyone is talking about multi-cloud, AI pipelines, and scaling data. But almost no one is talking about what’s quietly breaking underneath it all. Data protection. We got into what’s really happening inside enterprises today. Teams assume replication and retenti...

AI sounds exciting… until you actually try to use it inside a company. That was my biggest takeaway from my conversation with Michael Fasulo from Commvault at Google Cloud Next '26 on The Ravit Show. Everyone wants AI, but when it comes to real deployment, things break. Data is messy, systems are disconnected, and trust is missing. The gap is not ambition, it is readiness. One line that stayed...

AI agents sound exciting. But my conversation with A. Ravi M., CIO at Box at Google Cloud Next '26 on The Ravit Show was not about excitement. It was about risk. We are moving from AI that answers to AI that acts. And that shift introduces a completely new set of challenges. Not just accuracy, but control, access, and accountability. Ravi pointed out that most enterprises are not struggling wi...

Everyone is talking about AI agents, but after my conversation with Ben Kus, CTO at Box at Google Cloud Next 2026 on The Ravit Show, one thing became very clear. Agents are useless without "context". #boxpartner Ben kept coming back to that word. Not just data, not just models, but context. In an enterprise setting, context means understanding the full picture around your data. Who creat...

BREAKING: Kore.ai launches Artemis — a new generation Agent Platform for enterprise AI I just sat down with Prasanna Arikala at their San Francisco office right after this launch. And here’s what stood out. For years, most enterprises have been stuck in the same loop: -- Build AI pilots -- Struggle to productionize -- Lose control over governance -- Start over Artemis is Kore.ai’s answer to that p...

AI infrastructure conversations usually stay very technical. But my chat with , Santosh Erram, VP Partnerships DDN at Google Cloud Next '26 on The Ravit Show went in a different direction. He kept bringing it back to one thing. Business value. Yes, compute is growing. Yes, GPUs are everywhere. But that is not the real bottleneck anymore. Data is. If you cannot move it fast, access it easily, a...

AI is moving fast, but after my conversation with Alex Bouzari, Co-Founder and CEO at DDN, at Google Cloud Next '26, one thing became clear. The bottleneck is no longer the model. It is the infrastructure behind it. Alex broke it down in a very real way. Today’s AI systems are powerful, but the way data moves through them is still inefficient. You train these large models, but when it comes to...

The man, the legend, CTO of Qlik, Sam Pierson. Always love chatting with him and this time I asked him some hard questions. I like the depth of this conversation. Thanks Sam for always being such a great sport and sharing some enterprise gaps in the Data & AI World :)#data #qlik #ai #qlikconnect #theravitshow

I had the chance to discuss key takeaways with Mike Capone, CEO of Qlik at Qlik Connect 2026 on The Ravit Show. What made this conversation stand out was how real it felt. No hype, no buzzwords. Just a clear view of where things are actually going. The shift is happening fast. We are moving from AI that gives answers to AI that takes action. And that sounds simple, but when you unpack it, it chang...

Spent time at Qlik Connect this week and one thing became very clear to me. Everyone is talking about AI, but very few are talking about what actually makes AI work. I had a great conversation with Sean Stauth and Kyle Jourdan from Qlik, on The Ravit Show and we went beyond the usual AI hype. What stood out to me is that most teams are not failing at AI because of models. They are getting stuck on...

AI is not the problem. The foundation is. That’s exactly what we unpacked in this conversation with Bruno BILLY and Rahul Bakhshi at APGAR On Air. Here’s what stood out for me. Most organizations are pushing hard on AI. But the data underneath is still fragmented, inconsistent, and not ready for scaleAnd that’s where things breakIn this conversation, we go deep on- What a real data foundation actu...

Another solid conversation from Qlik Connect 2026. This time with Gregory Pierce, MBA from Amazon Web Services (AWS), and we went deep into what it actually looks like to build data and AI systems at scale. What I liked about this discussion was how practical it was. There is always a lot of talk about cloud and AI, but this was more about how teams are actually making it work. We talked about the...

Another great conversation from Qlik Connect 2026. I sat down with Christopher Powell, and this one was all about customers. Not in a generic way, but what it actually means when you see real use cases in action. What stood out was how much focus Qlik is putting on customer stories. When you hear how teams are actually using data in their day to day work, it just clicks. It is not theory anymore....

I got a chance to sit with Charlie Farah at Qlik Connect on The Ravit Show and this was one of those conversations that makes you pause and rethink how we look at data and analytics today. We often talk about tools, platforms, and the next big thing in AI. But what stood out to me in this conversation was how different regions are evolving at different speeds, especially across APAC versus the US...

Most teams do not lose because of lack of talent. They lose because of decisions. At Qlik Connect, last week, I had a great conversation with Andreas Hadelöv, Assistant General Manager and Lead Analyst at Malmö Redhawks on The Ravit Show, and what stood out was how disciplined their approach to data is. This is a team competing in Sweden’s top ice hockey league with one of the lowest budgets, so t...

What if the biggest shift in data security is happening where most teams aren’t even looking? I was at the RSA Conference at the NetApp booth, and had a great conversation with Gagan Gulati, SVP/GM of Data Services at NetApp, that really got me thinking. For years, we’ve focused on visibility like dashboards, alerts, and detection. But the real shift is moving from detecting risk to actually block...

“Your next employee might not be human… and your security strategy isn’t ready for it.” At RSAC, I spoke to Tom Gillis, SVP & GM of Infrastructure & Security Group at Cisco on The Ravit Show, and the conversation quickly moved beyond the usual AI hype into something much more real. We talked about agentic AI not just as a tool, but as a system that can act on its own, make decisions, and o...

Most security conversations at RSAC start with visibility. This one did not. I was at the Commvault booth, which by the way is set up like a full wrestling ring, and I sat down with the José Gomez Field CTO Security to talk about something that feels much more real right now. Control. Not dashboards. Not alerts. Actual control over who is accessing data in real time. What stood out to me in this c...

I did not expect to walk into a wrestling ring at RSAC conference. But that is exactly what Commvault built at their booth. And after my conversation there, it made complete sense. I spoke to Michelle Hartley Graff and Michael Fasulo from Commvault right in the middle of that ring, and we got into what this partnership actually means beyond the announcements with Microsoft. Here is the reality I k...

Just wrapped up a conversation with Vidya Shankaran, CISSP from Commvault here at RSAC, and honestly, this one made me pause and rethink a few things. We talk a lot about resilience, threat detection, and now AI data. But what stood out to me is how the conversation is shifting from just “can you recover” to “can you recover clean”. That’s a big difference. With Vidya, we went deep into what’s act...

Building AI for the real world is a very different problem than building AI for text. I sat down with Steve Xie, Founder & CEO of Lightwheel on The Ravit Show, to break down what it actually takes to train systems that operate in the physical world. Steve’s journey from Peking University to Columbia University, and then into leadership roles at Cruise, NVIDIA, and NIO, gives him a unique lens...

Just walked through the Lightwheel booth at #NVIDIAGTC and this is one of those moments where you realize physical AI is moving much faster than most people think. I got a booth tour by Jonathan Stephens, Chief Evangelist at Lightwheel, and what stood out immediately is how deep their approach goes. This is not just simulation for the sake of simulation. This is about building real-world intellige...

Everyone is building AI agents… but very few are talking about the biggest blocker: fragmented data. I sat down with Ravi Marwaha, Chief Product & Technology Officer at Arango, on The Ravit Show to unpack what’s really going on beneath the surface. This was not a typical “AI hype” conversation. We went deep into why agents that are supposed to reason, decide, and act are still struggling in re...

Just wrapped a great conversation with Ravi Marwaha on-site at NVIDIA GTC. We talked about what Arango is building and why it is starting to show up more in serious enterprise conversations. If you have not come across them yet, worth a look: https://arango.ai/ What stood out to me was how they are thinking beyond just being “another database company” and leaning into something much bigger around...