The Ravit Show

Breaking down trust in AI, not just talking about it. I just sat with Manisha Khanna, Global Product Marketing Leader for AI at SAS, to unpack the SAS–IDC Data and AI Pulse. The core theme is simple. Trust drives ROI. Key takeaways: - Trustworthy AI leaders outperform because they do the basics well. Data lineage, access control, model monitoring, and clear ownership. - Order matters. Fix data qua...

Agents are here. Governance decides who wins. I just published my interview with my friend Marinela Profi from SAS. Marinela breaks down agentic AI in a way leaders can use today. Clear. Practical. Actionable. What we covered: - What makes agentic AI different and why enterprises should care - Autonomy levels, decisioning, orchestration, and the human-AI balance - Where teams go wrong: hype vs rea...

AI without observability is guesswork. I har a blast chatting with Patrick Lin, SVP and GM of Observability at Splunk on The Ravit Show. We get straight into how teams keep AI reliable and how leaders turn telemetry into business results. What we cover: • .conf25 updates in Splunk Observability • AI Agentic Monitoring and AI Infrastructure Monitoring • How a unified experience with Splunk AppDynam...

I sat down with Jeff Baxter, NetApp to discuss about the announcements from INSIGHT to go deep on the new announcements today and why they matter for teams building with AI. We covered what this means in practice for customers. The NetApp AI Data Engine moves data to the right place at the right time, manages metadata, lineage, and versioning so work is reproducible, and adds AI powered ransomware...

Ransomware is getting faster. Your recovery needs to be faster. I had a blast chatting with Ryan Howard from BMC Software AMI Security on building cyber resiliency for mainframe environments. Simple, practical, and focused on what actually works in the real world. What we covered: * What cyber resiliency really means for mainframes * The core controls that matter: prevention, detection, isolation,...

What happens when AI agents become your teammates on the mainframe? I sat down with Anthony DiStauro from BMC on The Ravit Show to explore how agentic AI is moving from hype to real work. We unpacked the building blocks, the use cases, and what this shift means for teams who keep mission-critical systems running. Highlights we covered: - The teammate you didn’t hire: where agents plug in first acr...

What if your mainframe could talk back and guide the fix? I spoke to Liat Sokolov, Product Manager for AI solutions and an AI Evangelist at BMC Software. We explored how teams move from manuals and dashboards to real conversations with the platform. Liat breaks down why “guided resolution” beats “just answers” by giving the next right step in context, cutting time to recovery and reducing errors....

What happens when enterprise-grade AI visualization meets on-prem reality? I sat down with Leo Brunnick, Chief Product Officer at Cloudera on The Ravit Show, to talk about a major shift: bringing Cloudera Data Visualization to on-prem environments. We got deep into: -- Why now? What pushed Cloudera to extend this capability beyond the cloud -- How AI Visual and natural language querying are finall...

During GraphSummit London, Neo4j put $100M to become the default knowledge layer for agentic systems. I spoke with Sudhir Hasbe, President & Chief Product Officer at Neo4j to break it down. What we covered * The $100M push. Why Neo4j is betting on graph as the knowledge layer for agentic systems * Graph Intelligence. Turning disconnected data into explainable context your agents can trust * Au...

I had a blast at GraphSummit by Neo4j yesterday in London. I spoke to Michael Hunger on The Ravit Show and we went deep on Neo4j’s $100M GenAI push and what it means right now. Neo4j Aura Agent: Create Your Own GraphRAG Agent in Minutes — https://bit.ly/3KTjxlJ We discussed about these developments in the interview • How this investment helps teams move past stalled pilots and get real results on...

I had a blast at Neo4j's GraphSummit in London. I also got a chance to speak with Jesús Barrasa, AI Field CTO about the following topics -- - Customer Use Cases, - Challenges Enterprise Leaders Face - New Book about Graphs and more#Neo4j #GraphSummit #Infinigraph #GenAI #AgenticAI #GraphIntelligence #TheRavitShow

AI at massive scale needs a graph engine that does not blink at 100 TB. Enter Infinigraph. I had a blast at GraphSummit, London, I spoke to Ivan Zoratti, VP Product Management, Neo4j to dig into the Infinigraph announcements and what they unlock for real workloads. What we covered * What Infinigraph is and who needs it now * Property sharding in plain terms. How data spreads across nodes without l...

When someone builds the foundation of modern streaming, every insight counts. At Data Streaming Summit 2025, I spoke with Sijie Guo, Co-founder and CEO of StreamNative, about how real-time data is reshaping the way companies move and act on information. Sijie shared how StreamNative continues to evolve Apache Pulsar’s mission — giving teams the ability to process, store, and serve data in motion w...

Real-time data isn’t just fast—it’s collaborative. At Data Streaming Summit 2025, I spoke with Rayees Pasha, CPO, RisingWave, a key partner of StreamNative, about how streaming ecosystems are evolving together instead of in silos. Rayess shared how RisingWave’s real-time database helps teams run complex analytics directly on live data, and how their partnership with StreamNative brings true intero...

Real time without the noise. At Data Streaming Summit 2025, I spoke to Matteo Merli, Co-founder and CTO at StreamNative. We talked about why streaming matters now and what his team is building to make data in motion simple, scalable, and open. Matteo expects the next 12 months to be about streaming meeting AI in practical ways. Think instant enrichment, faster feedback loops, and agents that act s...

From the floor of Data Streaming Summit 2025, I had the chance to sit down with Ashwin Raja from Motorq, a StreamNative customer, to talk about the real-world impact of streaming. Ashwin shared how his team turns live vehicle signals into immediate decisions, where waiting even a few minutes is not an option. Batch systems couldn’t keep up, so Motorq leaned into StreamNative to build reliable pipe...

AI that can actually help you build. I had a blast interviewing Vojta Tuma, Field CTO at Keboola, on The Ravit Show, we discussed AI assistants and MCP for data engineering! Here are a few key takeaways — • MCP turns a chatbot into a teammate. It can use tools, call APIs, and take actions. That is why it matters for engineers. • New workflows open up. You can sketch a pipeline in conversation, run...

Last week at BDL, we caught up with my friend Pavel Dolezalžal, co-founder at Keboola - and let me tell you, this conversation was a ride. We started with Keboola Agents, which are already live and helping data teams debug pipelines, document, and automate safely inside a governed platform. Then Pavel dropped the big news: An open-source, conversational ETL pipeline generator - Osiris. You literal...

I’m at Big Data London and just wrapped a conversation with Jordan Burger, Applied AI Lead at Keboola. He’s focused on building AI that data teams can trust in production, and he’s one of the builders behind Keboola Data Agents. Here’s what we got into: * Why a full data platform matters when AI needs real context, not just a few tables * The lifecycle context agents need that standalone tools nev...

Speed to insight wins. If analytics does not move faster than the business, it gets ignored. I caught up with the amazing Deborah from Alteryx at Big Data London to talk about what is working right now. We spoke about — • The floor is hands on this year. Fewer slides, more real builds • Alteryx One fits that mood. One place to prep, analyze, automate, and share so teams move faster • Customers are...

Orchestration is where AI work meets reality. If it fails, everything slows. I caught up with Luke Lipan, Sales Leader for North America at Kestra, to get the view from the field. Here’s the signal: Execs start with risk and reliability. Is it visible. Is it repeatable. Teams love open source to move fast. Scale, support, and ownership tip them to enterprise. Security and governance are not add-on...

Declarative beats duct tape. I spoke to Eddie Jaoude, Lead Education Engineer at Kestra at the Big Data London, to unpack how teams actually ship with modern orchestration. Here is the flow we covered: * Why defining workflows declaratively changes the game for developers coming from Python DAGs * How teams adopt Kestra step by step without a risky forklift migration * Using the Playground in Kest...

Everyone is racing to build AI. Almost no one is securing it end to end. I sat down with Vidya Shankaran, CISSP, Field CTO, Commvault and we talked about the real picture. AI risk is not just about models. It is about data, access, and clean recovery. Most teams are missing the biggest gaps. We covered: • The top AI security threats right now and where teams underestimate risk • The AI stack no on...

A candid conversation with Navin Budhiraja, CTO and Head of Products at Vianai Systems, Inc. on The Ravit Show in Palo Alto. From Bhilai to Palo Alto. Navin topped the IIT entrance exam, studied at Cornell, and led at IBM, AWS, and SAP. We sat down to talk about building AI that enterprises can actually use. What we covered: - Vianai’s mission and the hila platform: why it exists and the problem i...

Stop moving data. Start shipping models. I sat down with Molly Presley from Hammerspace and David A. Chapa from Hitachi Vantara to unpack the new Hitachi iQ M Series and how it pairs with Hammerspace for real GenAI work. What we cover • Running AI on data where it lives across sites and clouds • One global namespace so teams stop copying data back and forth • Flexible GPU choices that fit your bud...