IT Infrastructure as a Conversation

What does it really take to build the infrastructure powering the AI economy? While much of the conversation around artificial intelligence focuses on models, applications, and breakthroughs, far less attention is given to the physical foundations making it all possible. Behind every AI workload sits an enormous amount of infrastructure, from power generation and cooling systems to land acquisitio...

What happens when AI workloads begin to overwhelm the network infrastructure originally designed for human browsing and SaaS consumption? In this episode of IT Infrastructure as a Conversation, I’m joined by Jamie Pugh from Globalgig to discuss why enterprise connectivity is rapidly becoming one of the biggest blind spots in the AI era. While much of the industry conversation focuses on GPUs, mode...

What if the biggest problem in AI-powered commerce isn’t the AI at all, but the data feeding it? In this episode of IT Infrastructure as a Conversation, I spoke with Tarun Chandrasekhar, Chief Product Officer at Syndigo, about the hidden infrastructure powering modern commerce and why product data has suddenly become one of the most strategic assets inside every retail and consumer brand. As AI sh...

In this episode, I’m joined by Imran Nino Eškić and Boštjan Kirm from HyperBUNKER, two leaders whose perspective has been shaped by more than 50,000 real-world data loss and ransomware cases. This is not a conversation about theoretical security models or another incremental backup feature. It’s a discussion about what actually survives when production systems, identity layers, and cloud replicas...

What happens when the infrastructure your business depends on becomes too complex, too expensive, or too slow to recover when something goes wrong? In this episode of Infrastructure as a Service, I sit down with Tvrtko Fritz to talk about how EuroNAS has evolved from “NAS for the masses” into a platform helping organizations simplify storage, virtualization, backup, and scale-out infrastructure. W...

What does “infrastructure” mean when your data stays exactly where it is, yet suddenly behaves like a graph? I met Weimo Liu, CEO and co-founder of PuppyGraph, during an IT Press Tour presentation, and I wanted to bring his story to Infrastructure As A Conversation because this is a data infrastructure conversation at its core. Weimo’s pitch is simple to say and harder to pull off: keep a single c...

When does automating tasks stop being enough, and when does infrastructure itself need to become a shared conversation across teams? In this episode of IT Infrastructure as a Conversation, I’m joined by Peter Sprygada, Chief Architect at Itential, for a deep and refreshingly pragmatic discussion about how infrastructure operations have evolved from scripts and isolated automation into something fa...

What happens when someone who helped shape the early days of virtualization returns to the field to lead a new era of secure, flexible computing? At IGEL’s Now & Next event in Frankfurt, I sat down with Peter Goldbrunner, Regional Vice President for Central Europe, to explore how his decades of experience at Citrix and Nutanix are helping drive IGEL’s transformation into a software-focused sec...

In this episode of IT Infrastructure as a Conversation , I sit down with Bill Hineline, Field CTO at Chronosphere, to talk about something every IT leader has wrestled with at some point, observability. Bill has spent more than 25 years in the industry, including leading observability at United Airlines, so he knows firsthand what happens when data collection turns from helpful to overwhelming. We...

In this episode, I’m joined by Michael Wu of Phison Electronics, recorded shortly after our meeting on the IT Press Tour in Silicon Valley. Michael takes us inside Phison’s latest breakthrough: the aiDAPTIV+ platform and its integration with StorONE’s ONEai solution. Together, they’re reshaping how enterprises think about AI training, inference, and data sovereignty. Michael explains how aiDAPTIV+...

How can organizations protect their most valuable asset, data, while unlocking its full potential through AI-driven insights? That is the question I explored on the IT Press Tour in Silicon Valley during a face-to-face conversation with Sanjay Poonen, President and CEO of Cohesity. In this episode, Sanjay shares how Cohesity evolved from reinventing backup and recovery to leading the market in dat...

In this episode of Infrastructure as a Conversation , I’m joined by Tommi Kannisto, founder of Storadera , a cloud storage company based in Estonia that’s quietly building a smarter, simpler alternative to hyperscalers like AWS. We dive into how Storadera has engineered its own storage software from scratch to deliver secure, S3-compatible cloud storage with a unique hyper-converged architecture....

What if running databases in Kubernetes could be as simple as spinning up a container—without cloud lock-in or complexity? In this episode of IT Infrastructure as a Conversation , I’m joined by Tamal Saha, founder of AppsCode, a company rethinking how we manage data on Kubernetes. We met during the IT Press Tour in London, and this conversation dives deep into how AppsCode is tackling one of the m...

In this episode of IT Infrastructure as a Conversation , I sit down with Thomas Bak, CEO of Auwau, fresh from our meeting at the IT Press Tour. We explore how his journey from running a managed service provider to founding Auwau led to the creation of CloudTility — a self-service, multi-tenant portal built for modern data protection and storage needs. Thomas unpacks how CloudTility helps MSPs and...

On this episode of IT Infrastructure as a Conversation , I explore a fresh approach to one of the oldest headaches in enterprise IT: migrating legacy databases without breaking everything. My guest is Jacek Migdał, co-founder and CEO of Quesma, a startup tackling the messy reality of old data stacks, rigid licensing, and costly, high-risk migration projects. Jacek shares how Quesma’s database gate...

In this episode of IT Infrastructure as a Conversation , recorded live at the IT Press Tour, I caught up with Raju Datla, CEO of Fabrix.ai, to talk about a shift that could redefine how IT operations are managed. Formerly known as CloudFabrix, the company has evolved with a sharper focus on what it calls agentic AI: technology that works alongside humans to make smart, controlled decisions at scal...

Is AI Infrastructure Broken? A Candid Conversation with Volumez AI adoption is accelerating, but most enterprises are still stuck in the pilot phase. Cloud costs keep climbing, GPUs go underutilized, and data pipelines struggle to keep pace. If AI is the future, why is the infrastructure built to support it so often stuck in the past? In this episode, recorded live in Silicon Valley during the IT...

Behind every seamless digital experience is an infrastructure team working hard to keep systems scalable, responsive, and resilient. In this episode of IT Infrastructure as a Conversation , I’m joined by Jesmar Cannaò, COO of ProxySQL on the IT Press Tour, We explore the story behind one of the most trusted open source tools in database management today. What began as a side project born from the...

In a world where business users expect instant insights from tools like Power BI and Tableau, few stop to consider the heavy lifting happening behind the scenes. Dashboards may look simple, but the infrastructure powering them often involves layers of complex data engineering, expensive queries, and frustrating delays. This mismatch is what Nicolas Korchia, Co-founder and CEO of Indexima, calls th...

As AI agents begin to influence how businesses operate, there's growing urgency around building infrastructure that supports their complexity without adding new risks. In this episode of IT Infrastructure as a Conversation , I speak with Alexander Alten, Co-Founder and CEO of Scalytics, about the architecture powering the next generation of AI and machine learning systems. Alexander’s journey incl...

Could sustainable IT hold the answers to rising infrastructure costs and environmental pressure? In this episode, recorded live during the IT Press Tour in Malta, we speak with François Machacek, an IT veteran with nearly thirty years of experience and a strong focus on digital sustainability. Now part of the team at EasyVirt, François is helping organizations measure and reduce the environmental...

What does long-term data preservation really require in a digital-first world where technology changes faster than it can be archived? In this episode of IT Infrastructure as a Conversation , recorded during the IT Press Tour in Malta, we explore a fresh perspective with Antoine Simkine, co-founder of DigiFilm Corporation. Antoine’s background is nothing short of extraordinary. Having produced dig...

What if the future of enterprise storage wasn’t locked behind expensive licenses and proprietary ecosystems? In this IT Infrastructure as a Conversation episode, recorded during the IT Press Tour in Silicon Valley, we explore how TrueNAS is reshaping expectations in enterprise storage. Brett Davis, Executive Vice President, shares the TrueNAS story—from its roots in Berkeley Unix and FreeBSD to be...

What happens when enterprise storage finally catches up with the needs of AI-driven workloads and hybrid cloud architectures? In this premiere episode of IT Infrastructure as a Conversation , recorded during the IT Press Tour in Silicon Valley, I sat down with David Flynn, CEO of Hammerspace, to unpack how his team is rethinking the foundations of enterprise data storage. As businesses grapple wit...