Get With IT

In this episode, Jenna Barron interviews Andrew Shikiar, CEO and executive director of FIDO Alliance. They discuss the state of passkey adoption in the industry today and how organizations can prepare for adopting them. Key talking points include: Why passkeys are more secure than passwords How widespread their adoption is  Ways organizations can prepare for broader passkey adoption Visit Passkey...

In this episode, David Rubinstein interviews Ajit Sancheti, general manager of next generation SIEM at CrowdStrike, about why legacy SIEMs are struggling to keep up with the speed and sophistication of modern threats. They discuss: The limitations of legacy SIEMs What factors are prompting the need for new solutions The role of AI in next-gen SIEMs

In this episode, Dave Rubinstein interviews Andrew Rynhard, founder and CTO of Sidero Labs. They discuss: How operating system architecture plays a role in the complexity of managing distributed Kubernetes The importance of avoiding accidentally introducing unnecessary complexity Talos Linux, and how it helps reduce complexity 

In this episode, we speak with Gerald Combs, director of open source at Sysdig, and Loris Degioanni, founder and CTO of Sysdig. They both co-created Wireshark and are now releasing a new tool called Stratoshark for inspecting cloud-native environments. We discuss:  What the technology landscape looked like when they created Wireshark in the 90s Why they created Stratoshark The connection between t...

In this episode, we interview Scott McCarty, senior principal product manager of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, about what we can look forward to in 2025 when it comes to containers.  Key talking points include: Cross-platform use cases for containers Bending containers to do more for us An overview of bootc and how it fits into the future of containers

In this episode, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein interviews Taylor Dolezal, head of ecosystem at the CNCF, about the organization's recent Technology Landscape Radar report.  Recorded the week following KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, the conversation covers:  The key findings from the report The different levels of project maturity at the CNCF The importance of interoperability  Not...

In this episode, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein interviews Tobi Knaup, VP and general manager of cloud native at Nutanix. They discuss how AI is driving innovation in Kubernetes, and also how AI adoption is driving people to Kubernetes. 

In this episode, ITOps Times editor-in-chief David Rubinstein interviews Ayah Bdeir, senior strategic advisor at Mozilla, about the Open Source Initiative's (OSI) effort to define Open Source AI. Key talking points include: Why there's a need to have a definition for open source AI The controversy over how to classify training data Mozilla's collaboration with OSI on this work  Open...

In this episode, Jenna Barron, news editor of ITOps Times, interviews Jim McGann, vice president of strategic partnerships at Index Engines , a company that detects data corruption from ransomware.  They discuss: What Cybersecurity Awareness Month is and why it's celebrated The biggest security threats IT teams are dealing with today How IT teams can stay up-to-date on the latest security thr...

What do Taylor Swift concerts and Black Friday have in common? Both events can overwhelm systems when those platforms are built on legacy technology.  Join David Rubinstein, editor-in-chief of ITOps Times, as he talks with guest Spencer Kimball, CEO of Cockroach Labs, about using cloud technology and planning to make sure massive spikes in traffic don't swamp your systems. 

Quantum computers may one day be able to break our current data encryption algorithms, so quantum researchers today have been researching new algorithms that could be used that can withstand these advanced computers. Recently, NIST approved the first three of many such algorithms, and IBM Research developed two of those. So, for this episode, we spoke with Vadim Lyubashevsky, a cryptography resear...

In this episode we interview Sitaram Iyer, VP of emerging technologies at Venafi, about Google's proposed change to shorten TLS server certificate validity to 90 days. We discuss:  The rationale behind shortening the validity timeframe What impact this would have on IT teams and organizations Potential security downsides of a shorter certificate window How companies can prepare for shorter ce...

In this episode (rebroadcast from earlier this year), ITOps Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein talks about observability data with Nick Heudecker, senior director, Market Strategy & Competitive Intelligence at Cribl. They discuss: The difference between data observability and observability data Why observability feels like too broad of a term Cribl's approach to a customizable data in...

This episode of Get With IT was originally recorded and published in June for our other podcast, What the Dev? , and since it's a topic that ITOps teams will be interested in too, we are rebroadcasting it here. Enjoy! In this episode, Jenna Barron, news editor of ITOps Times, interviews Andrew Tunall, head of product at Embrace, a mobile observability company.  They talk about: What it takes...

In this episode, we spoke with Tushar Katarki, senior director of product for Red Hat's GenAI Foundation Model Platforms Portfolio, about some of the issues companies may run into when trying to implement generative AI.  Key talking points include:  The rush to AI Challenges companies run into The human factor of AI implementation and use

In this episode, ITOps Times editor-in-chief David Rubinstein interviews Keith Babo, head of product at Solo.io, about how platform engineering teams manage the underlying infrastructure needed to build their platforms.  They discuss: What goes into enabling self-service capabilities in a safe and secure way Why mTLS is an important piece of the puzzle Advice for new platform teams on best practic...

In this week's episode, ITOps Times editor-in-chief David Rubinstein interviews Kai Wombacher, product manager at Kubecost, a company that provides cost monitoring for Kubernetes.  They discuss:  How sometimes we forget about the environmental effects of software Cost-cutting measures go hand in hand with reducing environmental impact The open source project OpenCost and how it can be used to...

In this episode, ITOps Times editor-in-chief Dave Rubinstein is joined by Randall Degges, head of developer relations and community at Snyk.  They discuss:  How C-Suite execs are dramatically underestimating the risk of using AI tools Security issues in generative AI outputs  How AI can amplify problems in bad code  Partial transcript: https://www.itopstimes.com/itsec/qa-the-disconnect-between-the...

In this episode, David Rubinstein, editor-in-chief of ITOps Times, interviews Wayne Scott, regulatory compliance solutions lead at Escode , about software escrow, which is a practice that helps ensure continuity of service when companies shut down or remove their product.  They talk about:  What software escrow is and what role it plays in risk management How to assess software escrow deals  Ownin...

In this episode, ITOps Times editor-in-chief Dave Rubinstein interviews Jason Carolan, chief innovation officer at Flexential, about the increased energy demands created by AI. Jason believes nuclear energy might be the solution to meeting the growing power needs.  Key talking points include: Why there's increased demand on the grid now The role nuclear power could play The challenges to taki...

In this episode, David Rubinstein, editor-in-chief of ITOps Times interviews Chas Clawson, field CTO at Sumo Logic, about the security information and event management (SIEM) market following recent mergers and acquisitions (IE LogRhythm merging with Exabeam, Palo Alto Networks acquiring IBM's QRadar portfolio, Cisco acquiring Splunk, etc). They discuss: Why this consolidation of the SIEM mar...

In this episode, David Rubinstein interviews Nick Rieniets, field CTO at Kasada, about the prevalence of bots on the internets.  Key talking points include:  The impact of bots on different industries How can we tell what's real and what a bot? Are CAPTCHAs actually effective in stopping bots?

ITOps Times news editor Jenna Barron speaks to Chris Aniszczyk, CTO of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), about the history of the Kubernetes project, which celebrated its 10 year anniversary this month. They discuss: What the container landscape looked like back in 2013 when the idea for Kubernetes first came about at Google How the CNCF was formed to be the home for Kubernetes Why the...

David Rubinstein, editor-in-chief of ITOps Times, speaks with Mehdi Daoudi, co-founder and CEO of Catchpoint, about how AI can help close the talent gap in ITOps.  Key talking points: The areas that have the biggest talent gaps How to utilize AI to deal with challenges associated with a lack of available talent Being cautious about throwing AI at every problem Where companies are seeing the most R...

In this episode we speak to John Leon, VP of partnerships at Apiiro, about ASPM. Key talking points: What is ASPM? How tools like SAST and DAST fit into an ASPM strategy Using ASPM to make developers more efficient  The future of ASPM