The Ravit Show

Cloudera and AWS Partnership is extraordinary!!!! At AWS re: Invent, I stopped by the Cloudera booth to sit down with Michelle H., who leads Global Alliances and Channels worldwide for Cloudera. She sits right at the intersection of Cloudera, AWS, and the customers who are trying to move faster with data and AI. A few highlights from our conversation • Cloudera x AWS as a strategic bet This is not...

At AWS re: Invent this month, I spoke to one and only Ed Huang, Co-Founder and CTO of TiDB, powered by PingCAP, to talk about something many teams are quietly struggling with. The last few years in data were all about unbundling. - One database for transactions. - One for analytics. - One for vectors. That worked when workloads were separate. But AI changed the rules. As Ed put it, today the same...

Big companies do not switch databases unless something is broken. At AWS re: Invent I spoke to Max Liu, Co-Founder and CEO of TiDB, powered by PingCAP, and Bo Liu, Head of Online Infrastructure at Pinterest, to talk about why teams like Pinterest are moving core systems back to SQL with TiDB. This was a deep, honest conversation about scale, reliability, and where databases are headed next. We cov...

Most cloud conversations ignore one simple truth. AI only moves as fast as your connectivity. At AWS re:Invent, I spoke to Ed Baichtal, Principal Engineer at Equinix, to talk about what actually sits underneath modern cloud and AI architectures!!!! A few takeaways from the conversation - Equinix operates more than 270 data centers worldwide and acts as the physical home for servers, networks, and...

Developers are not just writing code anymore. They are starting to run a virtual team. At AWS re:Invent, I had a conversation with Jemiah Sius, VP, Market Strategy and Developer Relations, from New Relic about how AI is changing the day-to-day life of developers. This was one of those chats that makes you pause and rethink how software will be built very soon. Here is what stood out -- Agentic AI...

Fantastic catching up with Camden Swita, Head of AI at New Relic at AWS re:Invent last week to discuss the biggest changes in the world of Agentic AI over the last year! We talked about how New Relic is connecting the dots at AWS re:Invent with major announcements including: - The Security RX agent, an AI agent that automates the process of finding and remediating security vulnerabilities in runti...

Most companies want AI agents talking to their customers. Very few have the data to back it up. I had a blast chatting with Ali Behnam, Founder of Tealium on The Ravit Show at AWS re:Invent. If you work with customer data or AI, this one is worth watching. Tealium helps organizations bring customer data together in one place and use it in real time across marketing, product, and AI use cases. I ke...

Most mainframe challenges today are not caused by broken systems. They are caused by disappearing knowledge. Senior experts are retiring. Documentation is incomplete or outdated. And newer team members are expected to operate some of the most critical systems in the enterprise with very little context. In Part 1 of this podcast, we focus on where the AI journey really begins. - Why mainframe teams...

I had a blast chatting with Anthony Anter, DevOps Evangelist at BMC Software on The Ravit Show and this one goes deep into a topic many enterprises are struggling with quietly. Mainframe modernization. Not tools. Not hype. Real ground reality. We started with a simple but uncomfortable truth Tony writes about Before you even think about converting code, explain what you already have. That single l...

AI is moving fast. But the data foundations underneath it are not. That is the core theme of my latest interview with Rajan Goyal, Founder and CEO of DataPelago on The Ravit Show, recorded at their office in Mountain View. Here is what we unpacked -- Why now - Three shifts are colliding at once. Hardware acceleration is now mainstream. Generative AI has changed how data is created and consumed. Da...

AI pilots are not the story anymore. The real story is who can turn AI into everyday, reliable work. Here at AWS re:Invent, I had the chance to sit down with Arvind Jain, Founder and CEO of Glean, for a conversation I have wanted to do for a long time!!!! We spoke about why so many enterprises are stuck in pilot mode and what actually has to change for AI to move from experiments to real impact on...

The future of reliability is not one tool. It is a team of agents working together. At AWS re:Invent, I had a chat with Francois Martel, Field CTO at NeuBird.ai, to talk about how AI is changing the way developers and SREs handle reliability in the real world. Here are the key takeaways from our conversation -- Coding agents are becoming the front door to AI Tools like GitHub Copilot and Cursor ar...

Frontline healthcare is where AI either proves itself or stays a buzzword. At AWS re:Invent, I sat down with Max Mosky from TouchPoint Support Services, a Qlik customer working across more than 650 healthcare facilities!!!! Max and his team support the people who are closest to patients. I wanted to understand how they are using data and AI to make life easier for frontline staff, not harder. We s...

Where your data lives will decide what AI you can run tomorrow. On The Ravit Show at AWS re:Invent, I spoke to Jessica DuBois, Senior Director for the AWS partnership at Qlik. Jessica is right at the center of how Qlik and AWS work together for customers. We spoke about - Her role in leading the Qlik x AWS partnership and how that work shows up for customers in real projects - How she describes th...

At the AWS re:Invent in Vegas, I spoke to Christopher Powell, CMO at Qlik. We last spoke at Qlik Connect 2025 in Florida, so this was a good moment to step back and look at what has changed since then. In our conversation, we covered - What Chris and the Qlik team have been focused on since Qlik Connect and how priorities have evolved through the year - The announcements from AWS re:Invent that st...

At AWS re:Invent I spoke to Woon Ho Jung, CTO for Cloud Native at Commvault, to talk about how they are helping AWS customers protect more than just one type of workload We spoke about how they started with BackTrack for S3 and now support DynamoDB and Apache Iceberg, and what real problem that solves when your data is spread across so many services! For teams who are new to Apache Iceberg on AWS,...

AI workloads do not fail where people expect. They fail where resilience was never designed in. At AWS re:Invent, I spoke with my friend Michael Fasulo, Senior Director for Portfolio, AI Resilience and ResOps, Commvault to understand where AI systems on AWS are actually breaking and what teams should do differently. This conversation was practical and grounded in what customers are seeing today. W...

Winning AWS Storage Partner of the Year does not happen by accident. It happens because real customers see real value. Commvault did it!!!! At AWS re: Invent, I spoke to John Drake, Head of WW AWS Storage Data Protection at AWS, and Elliot Hujarski, VP, Global SaaS GTM at Commvault, to talk about how this partnership actually works behind the scenes. We spoke about • What it took for Commvault to...

At Microsoft Ignite last week, one theme kept coming up in every hallway conversation: SRE teams are exhausted. Right in the middle of that, I sat down with Francois Martel, Field CTO at NeuBird.ai, to talk about how they are trying to change that story together with Microsoft. NeuBird is working closely with Microsoft to bring Hawkeye, their AI SRE assistant, into the Azure world. Instead of givi...

30 people. Over $1B valuation in six months. And a clear signal that AI chat alone is no longer enough. I just sat on The Ravit Show with Wen Sang, Co-Founder & COO of Genspark. Genspark is building an all-in-one AI workspace where AI agents do the actual work. Not just answers, but finished outputs. Slides, sheets, websites, designs, inbox management, and more, all in one place. In this conve...

I’m here at Microsoft Ignite!!!! Excited to cover every announcement on ground. Before the big keynotes, I sat down with Shireesh Thota, VP of Azure Databases at Microsoft, for an exclusive conversation that sets the stage for what’s coming. We talked about how Microsoft is redefining databases for the AI era, moving beyond just compute to focus on data power as the real foundation of AI. Shireesh...

Are enterprise agents finally ready for prime time at scale in the enterprise world? At Microsoft Ignite, I sat down with the one and only Jay Parikh, Executive VP, Microsoft, to understand how Microsoft is actually building the full foundation for enterprise grade agents, not just talking about it. In our conversation, we went deeper into what “any agent, anywhere, at any scale” really means for...

Last week at Microsoft Ignite, I finally got to interview the man himself, Arun Ulag, President, Azure Data, Microsoft. I have known Arun for years. He is one of the best in the data and analytics space, and meeting him in person was so good. I have a new friend!!! This was not a surface level chat. We went straight into the big announcements and what they unlock for customers: • The real takeaway...

Agentic AI does not matter if it stays in slides. What matters is whether it can run safely in production. After AWS re:Invent, I sat down with Hemant Mohan from Amazon Web Services (AWS) for a follow up conversation focused on agentic AI and the AWS and IBM partnership. This discussion was less about announcements and more about what actually changes for enterprises now. Here is the core of what...

Healthcare runs on data. Most of it is still unstructured!!!! I had a great conversation on The Ravit Show with Lyle McMillin, AVP of Product Management at Hyland, where we went deep into how healthcare organizations are turning unstructured content into real decisions. A few points that stood out to me: - Most healthcare data is unstructured. In many organizations, it is close to 80 percent. This...