Let’s Solve IT! Podcast

AI was supposed to make work easier. So why are companies racing to cut people before the results even exist?    In this episode of Let’s Solve IT!, NetApp’s Matt Brown sits down with Dave Blodgett, VP, Global Head of Infrastructure, to unpack the uncomfortable truth behind AI hype, skyrocketing infrastructure costs, and the growing fear that “productivity” is becoming corporate code for layoffs. ...

What if your biggest security vulnerability isn’t a hacker, but your support strategy?   In this episode of Let’s Solve IT!, Matt Brown sits down with Mike Eubanks, Senior Director of IT Operations at NetApp, to explore why reactive IT support is becoming a growing business risk. From technical debt and aging infrastructure to ransomware and expanding attack surfaces, they discuss why proactive op...

The technology industry is facing an ever-increasing supply chain crisis, and AI is rapidly making it worse. What started as a hardware shortage is now forcing enterprises to rethink storage, data center capacity, procurement strategy, and whether their infrastructure is truly prepared for the next wave of demand.   In this episode of Let’s Solve IT!, Matt Brown speaks with NetApp Technical Evange...

AI is no longer just a productivity tool. It is quickly becoming one of the biggest operational, security, and governance challenges enterprises have faced since the rise of the cloud.  In this episode of Let’s Solve IT!, Matt Brown speaks with NetApp IT Director of Enterprise Architecture and AI, Paul Carau, about the uncomfortable reality many technology leaders are now facing: Employees are ado...

Are your technology investments driving developer productivity—or just adding complexity?  In this episode of Let’s Solve IT!, Matt Brown sits down with Mekka Williams, Director of Innovation and Solutions and co-host of The STEMINISTS podcast, to unpack one of the biggest disconnects in modern IT: the gap between investment and impact.  They explore why more tools don’t always lead to better outc...

It sounds extreme, but it’s not as far off as you might think.  In this episode of Let’s Solve IT!, Matt Brown talks with Ralph Renne, Sr. Director, Workplace Experience, to break down what’s really happening behind the scenes: massive increases in power demand, the shift to water-cooled environments, and why most data centers aren’t built for what’s coming next.    In this episode, you’ll learn: ...

Why do so many ERP transformations derail careers at the highest level?  It’s not the technology.  It’s everything else.    In this episode of Let’s Solve IT!, Matt Brown sits down with NetApp CIO Hem Nerkar to confront one of the most uncomfortable truths in enterprise IT: ERP transformations don’t start by failing systems—they start by breaking the people leading them.  Because what looks like a...

AI budgets are blowing up. Hardware prices are all over the place. And executives want ROI yesterday.  So here’s the real question nobody wants to say out loud: How are you supposed to afford the tech and the people to run it?  In this week’s episode of Let’s Solve IT!, host Matt Brown and Stephan Stelter, NetApp Manager, Solutions Engineering, confront the tension IT leaders feel every day: innov...

AI is everywhere — recording meetings, transcribing conversations, summarizing discussions, and storing more data than ever before. But as AI-powered productivity tools become the norm, how do organizations protect themselves from growing security and legal risk?    In this first episode of Let’s Solve IT!, host Matt Brown sits down with NetApp CISO Gavin Guttersen to explore a sobering reality: A...