The Ravit Show

I had a chance to attend and cover SHIFT by Commvault in New York last week. I just spoke to Tim Zonca, VP of Product Marketing at Commvault, to talk ResOps, Keynote takeaways and more. What we covered • ResOps in one line and why it matters now • How the Unity Platform turns resilience into daily practice across cloud, SaaS, and on-prem • Synthetic Recovery and what it does to RTO and incident pl...

Most companies think they have a backup problem. What they really have is a recovery problem. I spent the day at Commvault SHIFT, on the ground talking to customers, partners and the Commvault team. I also spoke with Darren Thomson, Field CTO at Commvault, for a focused chat on what they announced and what it means in the middle of real attacks and real pressure on IT teams. In the interview, we g...

From SHIFT by Commvault New York, I sat with Christopher Mierzwa on culture, clarity, and execution!!!! What you will get • Real takeaways from his panel • Why people, mindset, and culture decide security outcomes • Practical advice for leaders, CISOs, and CIOs Highlights • Culture beats tools when pressure hits. If teams do not trust each other, runbooks stall. • Mindset sets the tone. Treat inci...

Stop chasing tools. Start fixing decisions. I spoke to Stephen Sciortino, CEO and Founder of Database Tycoon LLC, at Small Data SF by MotherDuck. Clear takeaways for anyone running or advising a data team. What we covered• The real shift from his Brooklyn Data days to independent consulting• Early signals a team will win vs signs they are in trouble• How AI is changing expectations and what must s...

Real-time data is no longer a future problem. At Small Data SF by MotherDuck, I sat down with David Yaffe, Co-Founder & CEO at Estuary, to talk about what has changed in the world of data streaming!!!! A few years ago, real-time data was something most teams put on their “later” list. Expensive. Hard to scale. Too complex for most use cases. But as David shared, that story has shifted fast. He...

Small Data. Real outcomes. I covered MotherDuck’s Small Data SF in person and spoke to my long-time connection with Colin Zima, CEO of Omni, to cut through the AI noise in BI. We focused on what actually moves the needle for teams today. Here is what we got into: • Where AI is creating real BI value Practical wins that ship now, not hype cycles • Flexibility vs governance How Omni gives analysts r...

Small Data is having a big moment!!!! I covered Small Data SF by MotherDuck in person and sat down with Brittany Bafandeh, CEO at Data Culture. We talked about the real blockers to impact and how teams can move faster with the data they already have. Here is what we got into: When it is not a data problem - Brittany walked through a case where dashboards, pipelines, and new tools were not the fix....

Most companies say they are “doing AI.” Very few are actually ready for it. In my new episode of The Ravit Show, I sat down with Simon Miceli, Managing Director, Cisco, who leads Cloud and AI Infrastructure across Asia Pacific, Japan, and Greater China. He sits right where big AI ambitions meet the hard reality of networks, security, and technical debt. This conversation builds on my earlier episo...

These are some of the most exciting times to be in AI. And some leaders are not just watching the shift. They are building it. Excited to share, I sat down with Jeetu Patel, President and Chief Product Officer at Cisco, for a conversation I have been wanting to do for a long time. Cisco is right in the middle of AI, networking, security, and data, and this interview felt like a front row seat to h...

Gartner has named K2view a Visionary in the 2025 Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, and they have moved up inside the Visionary quadrant. This is a big signal for anyone who cares about data and AI in the enterprise. I had to cover this news in person and what better place than my friend, Ronen Schwartz’s home in Palo Alto, talking to him about what this actually means. We did not just spe...

Some conversations shift how you think about the future of AI. This one did. I just sat down with David Flynn, Founder and CEO of Hammerspace, to talk about something enterprises rarely discuss openly: the real engine behind AI is no longer compute. It is data. We went deep into why NVIDIA’s AI Data Platform has become the blueprint for modern AI architecture and why Hammerspace is emerging as the...

AI doesn’t fail because of GPUs. It fails because of data. I had a blast chatting with Jeff Echols, Vice President, AI and Strategic Partners at Hammerspace, from NVIDIA GTC in Washington. We talked about the part of AI nobody is fixing fast enough: getting data to GPUs at the speed the GPUs need it. Jeff breaks down what makes the Hammerspace AI Data Platform different from traditional AI storage...

AI in the public sector isn’t a pilot anymore. It’s running in the real world. Check out my conversation from NVIDIA GTC in Washington with Robin Braun, VP AI Business Development, Hybrid Cloud at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Russell Forrest, Town Manager of Town of Vail. This one is important because it’s about AI for cities, not just AI for big tech. I had a blast interviewing both Robin and...

Public sector AI is moving fast. The big question is how to build it the right way. I had a blast chatting with Andrew Wheeler, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Fellow and Vice President at Hewlett Packard Labs and HPC & AI Advanced Development at NVIDIA GTC in Washington, DC. We talked about: * How HPE helps agencies build and scale sovereign AI ecosystems * Why the public sector is a core focus fo...

AI ROI is now the real test. I got a chance to chat Joe Corvaia, SVP Sales at DDN at NVIDIA GTC in Washington. This one is for CEOs and exec teams who are being pushed to “do AI” but still can’t show a return. We started with a simple question. Why are some companies actually getting ROI from AI while others are still stuck in pilots. Joe was very direct on what separates the ones who are scaling...

I have seen a lot of AI demos this year. Very few make hard, messy work feel simple. Next week I am going live with Sarah McKenna, CEO of Sequentum, for an AI Magic Wand Launch Celebration on The Ravit Show. What is happening - We are going to walk through how Sequentum is using AI to change web data work. Not slides. Actual product. Here is what we will get into during the show: - AI Magic Wand (...

Think Mumbai was electric. India’s AI build-out just moved into a higher gear. I sat down with Sandip Patel, Managing Director, IBM India & South Asia at IBM’s Mumbai office. We unpack what Think Mumbai means for teams building with AI, hybrid cloud, and data at scale. What stood out and why it matters: IBM and airtel partnership • Aim: give regulated industries a safe and fast path to run AI...

Flink Forward Barcelona 2025 was not just about streaming. It was about what comes next for enterprise AI. I sat down with Qingsheng Ren, Team Lead, Flink Connectors & Catalogs at Ververica, and Xintong Song, Staff Software Engineer at Alibaba Cloud, to talk about something that could change how enterprises build AI systems in production: Flink Agents. Flink Agents is being introduced as an op...

Real time is getting simpler. At Flink Forward, I sat down with Josep Prat, Director, Aiven. We discussed about Aiven and Ververica | Original creators of Apache Flink® new partnership and what it unlocks for data teams!!!! What we covered: • Why this partnership makes sense now and the outcomes it targets • Fastest ROI use cases for joint customers • How Aiven and Ververica split support, SLAs, a...

Flink Forward Barcelona 2025 was a big week for streaming and the streamhouse. I sat down with Jark Wu, Staff Software Engineer at Alibaba Cloud, and Giannis Polyzos, Staff Streaming Architect at Ververica, to talk about Apache Fluss and what is coming next. First, a quick primer. Fluss is built for real-time data at scale. It sits cleanly in the broader ecosystem, connects to the tools teams alre...

How does PlayStation run real time at massive scale. I sat down with Bahar Pattarkine from PlayStation the team to unpack how they use Apache Flink across telemetry and player experiences. What we covered: -- Why they chose Flink and what problem it solved first -- Running 15,000+ events per second, launch peaks, regional latency SLOs, and avoiding hot partitions across titles -- Phasing the move...

#EVOLVE25 London was a clear signal that Big Data is entering its third era, and it is about outcomes, not buzzwords. I sat down with Sergio Gago, CTO, Cloudera and we went straight to the shift everyone is feeling. This era is defined by convergence. The work now is to bring on-prem and cloud together so teams can move fast, stay compliant, and keep costs in check. That is where the real AI wins...

Sovereign cloud in Europe just moved from idea to action. At EVOLVE London I sat down with Christopher Royles from Cloudera. Cloudera has been named a launch partner for the new AWS European Sovereign Cloud, and we unpacked what this means for builders, leaders, and regulators across EMEA. Here is what we covered in the interview I am publishing next: - What “sovereign by design” means in practice...

Live from POSSIBLE by Teradata with Sumeet Arora, Chief Product Officer. had a blast chatting with him about five things: Trends. New announcements. Data and AI trends inside the enterprise. Real use cases. What is next for the industry. New announcements -- - Autonomous Customer Intelligence. Turning customer signals into timely actions across the journey. - NewtonX research on AI for customer ex...

WOW! It was so nice to meet the man himself and even interview him on The Ravit Show at Possible 2025, Steve McMillan, President and CEO of Teradata. Getting this time on camera felt special. We kept it human and future focused: - His favorite Possible moment and what it revealed about the crowd - The one belief he hopes people take home and act on - When ideas strike for him, morning or night - T...