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Techstrong TV March 16, 2026

Brian Yaskulka — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:10:12 +0000

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AI’s Impact on AppSec and the Google Cloud API Leak: Steve Boone of Checkmarx joins Alan Shimel to discuss how AI-driven coding assistants are transforming the SDLC into an “agentic delivery lifecycle,” and why incidents like exposed Google Cloud API keys highlight the urgent need for better API visibility and AI-assisted vulnerability prioritization. Neurosymbolic AI and the Future of Coding: Binny Gill, CEO of Kognitos, explains how neurosymbolic AI combines natural-language interfaces with deterministic logic—enabling enterprises to keep humans in control while AI agents execute complex workflows without hallucinations. Agents + Apps + Chat: Richard Riley and Dion Hinchcliffe explore Microsoft’s vision for agentic business transformation, where AI agents serve as interfaces, logic layers and decision engines across enterprise workflows. Reality Check Ep. 3 – AI in Retail: Dave Nicholson and Adam Gelnick examine how AI and digital platforms are reshaping retail—from the legacy of brick-and-mortar stores to competition with e-commerce giants like Amazon. Cloud Discipline for On-Prem NetOps: Ahmed Abutaleb explains how Nokia designed a next-generation data center network using NetOps principles—leveraging Kubernetes-based platforms and open-source tooling to deliver cloud-like automation and consistency on-premises. NVMe to Cloud with Hammerspace: Chad Smith of Hammerspace demonstrates how the platform unifies distributed storage across data centers and clouds—using capabilities like Data Assimilation and Tier-0 NVMe pooling to ensure AI workloads always access data where compute resources are available.

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Prediction Markets, AI Drones and the Future of Cloud Computing

Taylor Yaskulka — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:02:39 +0000

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On Techstrong Gang, Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Stephen Foskett, Garima Bajpai and Blake Hendricks break down three major stories shaping tech right now: how prediction markets can start influencing the outcomes they are supposed to forecast, why Ukraine is offering battlefield data to drone partners to train AI models, and the latest cloud computing insights coming out of Tech Field Day.

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Neurosymbolic AI and the End of Traditional Coding

Paul — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:00:55 +0000

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As the honeymoon phase of generative AI wears off, enterprises are realizing that a highly creative, probabilistic model isn't exactly what you want managing your core financial systems. Binny Gill, CEO of Kognitos, argues the solution is "neurosymbolic AI," an approach that marries the natural language interface of modern AI with the rigorous, deterministic logic of traditional software. By forcing the AI to "write down" its plans in plain English before execution, organizations can put a human firmly in the driver's seat, ensuring these powerful agents follow standard operating procedures to the letter—without hallucinating or burning through expensive tokens.

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The AI Industrial Revolution: Securing the Factories of the Future

Paul — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:00:27 +0000

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While we're all playing with AI chatbots on our laptops, a much more dangerous and exciting revolution is happening out in the dirt, grime, and mission-critical reality of industrial networks. Cisco’s VP of Product Management for Cisco's Industrial IoT Connectivity Portfolio, Samuel Pasquier, joins Techstrong TV to discuss their 2026 State of Industrial AI report, revealing how "physical AI" and machine vision are rapidly transforming everything from manufacturing floors to power grids. But as Pasquier explains, giving autonomous robots and connected machines a mind of their own means organizations are now facing a terrifying skills gap as they scramble to secure an exponentially growing attack surface.

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Techstrong TV March 13, 2026

Brian Yaskulka — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:08:10 +0000

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The Future of Mainframe Modernization: Robin Macfarlane, CEO of RR Mac Associates, discusses how enterprises can modernize mission-critical mainframe environments by integrating DevOps tooling like Git and Visual Studio Code while preserving decades of institutional knowledge. AI Security & Governance: Ryan Jones of Microsoft and Fernando Montenegro examine how organizations can safely scale agentic applications using Microsoft Power Platform governance features such as managed environments, adaptive risk models and lifecycle controls. Inside the Bell Labs Reliability Model: Mitch Ashley and Scott Robohn break down how operational discipline, automation and AI-driven monitoring—pioneered by Nokia Bell Labs—can push data center fabrics toward five-nines availability. Tech Field Day News Rundown: Tom Hollingsworth and Chris Grundemann cover major developments including IronCurtain AI Assistant from Niels Provos and enterprise analytics updates like Qlik Answers. Humanity’s God Complex: Are We Building Beyond Our Control?: In this episode of Shimmy Says, Alan “Shimmy” Shimel explores humanity’s twin obsessions: creating intelligence in our own image and escaping mortality through technology. From AI consciousness and superintelligence to digital afterlives and mind uploading, these trends reveal something profound about human nature — and where we may be headed. Storage Efficiency for the AI Era: Scott Shadley from Solidigm discusses the immense storage demands of next-generation AI infrastructure, highlighting ultra-high-capacity SSDs and collaborations with VAST Data to support large-scale GPU clusters built around platforms like NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GB300.

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Musk’s Macrohard Under Scrutiny | AI Closes the Coding Gap | Identity Crisis in the Cloud

Taylor Yaskulka — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:56:19 +0000

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On Techstrong Gang, Mike Vizard, Tracy Ragan, Jack Poller, Jon Swartz and Guy Currier break down three major stories shaping tech right now: Musk’s Macrohard project amid growing legal scrutiny, a new report showing lower-performing software engineering teams are benefiting more from AI, and why identity now sits at the center of cloud security risk as AI agents raise the stakes.

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The Future of Mainframe Modernization

Paul — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:00:16 +0000

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We always hear about the cloud and AI, but the truth is that the mainframe is still the beating heart of the global financial system, and it isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Alan sat down with Robin Macfarlane, President and CEO of RR Mac Associates, to discuss the realities of mainframe modernization and how we can bring the next generation of developers into the fold using modern DevOps tooling like Git and VS Code without losing decades of critical legacy knowledge. It's a fascinating conversation about balancing the unmatched reliability of "big iron" with the inevitable push toward agile pipelines and cautious AI adoption, so you definitely want to check this one out.

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Techstrong TV March 12, 2026

Brian Yaskulka — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:02:05 +0000

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Taming the Observability Data Explosion: Ronit Belson and Erez Rusovsky, co-founders of Sawmills, introduce an agentic telemetry platform designed to shift observability left—reducing runaway data volumes and controlling observability costs as AI-generated code accelerates software development. From CLI to NetOps: Ahmed Abutaleb explains how Nokia modernized its data centers using Nokia SR Linux and Nokia Event-Driven Automation, moving from manual CLI-driven operations to automated NetOps practices with stronger traceability and drift control. Standardizing the Agent-to-Human Connection: Zachary Hanif of Twilio discusses the new A2H (Agent-to-Human) open-source protocol, designed to ensure AI agents request verifiable human consent before executing actions in regulated environments. Future of Agents & Apps: Ryan Cunningham and Daniel Newman outline Microsoft’s vision for connecting apps, agents and interfaces through Microsoft Power Platform, enabling organizations to build and govern intelligent applications at scale. Agents of Dev Podcast Ep. 13: A deep dive into how development teams are adapting tooling, architecture and governance to manage AI-driven software development and agentic workflows. Closing the AI Trust Gap: Experts examine the conditions required to deploy trustworthy AI systems—including operationalized security controls, verifiable reasoning, and carefully calibrated human-in-the-loop oversight for agentic workload

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Humanity’s God Complex: Are We Building Beyond Our Control? | Shimmy Says

Taylor Yaskulka — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:17:25 +0000

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What if the biggest technology races today aren’t separate — but mirror images? In this episode of Shimmy Says, Alan “Shimmy” Shimel explores humanity’s twin obsessions: creating intelligence in our own image and escaping mortality through technology. From AI consciousness and superintelligence to digital afterlives and mind uploading, these trends reveal something profound about human nature — and where we may be headed.

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LeCun’s $1B Bet and the Dark Side of Chatbots

Taylor Yaskulka — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:54:10 +0000

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In this episode of Techstrong Gang, Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Gina Rosenthal, Fred Wilmot and Jon Swartz dive into the stories shaping the AI and enterprise technology conversation right now. The gang starts with AI’s growing public-relations problem as sentiment around the technology becomes more complicated and more skeptical. From there, the panel breaks down Yann LeCun’s reported $1 billion push around world models and superintelligence, and what that signals about where the next major AI race may be headed. They also examine troubling new research suggesting AI chatbots can act as “accelerants for harm” in the planning of violent attacks, raising fresh questions about safeguards, responsibility and model behavior in high-risk scenarios. Finally, the conversation turns to IT operations, where a new survey finds that many teams are still struggling with visibility despite continued investment in monitoring and observability platforms. The result is a sharp discussion on whether enterprises are actually getting the clarity they were promised.

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IBM DB2 Genius Hub, AI Observability and the Future of IT Modernization

Taylor Yaskulka — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:23:12 +0000

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In this episode, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin examine how IBM’s DB2 Genius Hub is designed to streamline database management and reduce the time spent on root cause analysis. The conversation expands into the broader challenges of IT modernization, the rapid adoption of AI across enterprise environments, and the growing need for observability-native architectures. They also break down a four-step model for understanding AI agent behavior and discuss how AI observability and FinOps are evolving as critical disciplines for managing intelligent systems at scale. As enterprise infrastructure becomes more dynamic, organizations will need better visibility, stronger governance, and more adaptive operating models to stay in control.

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Standardizing the “Agent-to-Human” Connection

Paul — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:00:47 +0000

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The AI agent revolution is here, but handing over the keys to the kingdom means nothing if we can't establish a verifiable trail of consent. Twilio’s Head of AI, ML, and Data, Zachary Hanif, joins me today to discuss their launch of A2H (Agent-to-Human), a groundbreaking open-source protocol designed to standardize how autonomous agents ask us for permission. As organizations push these agents out of the experimental "sandbox" and into highly regulated production environments, Hanif explains why "conversation plus consent equals trust"—and why without it, agentic autonomy is going to hit a very hard ceiling.

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Techstrong TV March 11, 2026

Brian Yaskulka — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:53:06 +0000

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Akka’s 20-Year Journey to Agentic AI: Tyler Jewell, CEO of Akka, explains how the company’s distributed systems framework—built over two decades—now underpins the rise of agentic AI, enabling scalable, self-contained AI systems capable of orchestrating complex enterprise workflows. Enhanced Day-2 NetOps: Nokia IT leader Ahmed Abutaleb details how Nokia SR Linux and Nokia Event-Driven Automation transformed operations through network-as-code, digital twins and AI-assisted root-cause analysis—shifting teams from reactive firefighting to predictable, automated operations. Customer Success at Scale: Microsoft executive Clay Wesener shares how enterprises such as Wells Fargo are modernizing regulated workflows using Copilot Studio and Microsoft Power Apps, providing a blueprint for deploying intelligent applications across complex organizations. AI as an Agent of Change in the Mainframe: BMC Software discusses how AI-driven automation is evolving toward autonomous agents that continuously learn and optimize operations while maintaining transparency, trust and human oversight. Utilizing AI Podcast Ep. 17: A discussion on how enterprises are applying AI across operations, development and infrastructure—highlighting practical lessons from early real-world deployments. Agentic AI and SaaS Pricing Models: Analysts explore how autonomous agents and multi-agent orchestration could reshape SaaS licensing—potentially shifting pricing from per-user models toward agent-based or outcome-driven consumption frameworks.

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AI Has a PR Problem | OpenAI’s Promptfoo Deal | Why Cybersecurity Still Struggles to Retain Women

Taylor Yaskulka — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:04:49 +0000

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On Techstrong Gang, hosts Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard and Mitch Ashley are joined by guests Jon Swartz and Teri Robinson to break down three major stories shaping the AI and cybersecurity conversation. The panel examines AI’s growing image problem as public sentiment turns more skeptical, OpenAI’s move to acquire Promptfoo to strengthen security testing for AI agents, and why cybersecurity still struggles to retain and elevate women into leadership roles.

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Responsible AI Adoption Strategy with Barracuda Networks CIO Siroui Mushegian

Taylor Yaskulka — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:03:19 +0000

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AI is transforming enterprise operations—but adopting it responsibly is more important than ever. In this episode of Utilizing AI, Stephen Foskett, Jon Swartz, and Olivier Blanchard are joined by Siroui Mushegian, CIO of Barracuda Networks, to discuss how organizations can integrate AI safely and effectively into daily operations. The conversation covers Barracuda’s people-powered approach to AI, including secure deployment, governance frameworks, employee upskilling, and managing change during AI transformation. Listeners will learn practical strategies for balancing innovation with security, ensuring AI adoption drives real business outcomes. Whether you’re moving beyond AI pilots or scaling operations, this episode offers actionable insights for implementing AI responsibly while empowering your workforce. Learn more on Barracuda's website here.

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The Prompt Injection Peril and Why AI Agents Are Your Network’s Newest Vulnerability

Paul — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:00:51 +0000

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We are blindly handing over the keys to the kingdom to AI agents, and as Mend.io Field CTO Amit Chita joins us today, it’s clear that the "indirect prompt injection" threat is no longer theoretical—it's a critical boardroom risk. While organizations rush to give chatbots the ability to delete files or rewrite databases, adversaries are targeting these very agents as the new path of least resistance into enterprise networks. Mend.io's new System Prompt Hardening solution is stepping in to enforce the missing multi-layered guardrails, ensuring that your AI doesn't accidentally read a malicious tweet and burn down your entire production environment.

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Akka’s 20-Year Journey to the Heart of Agentic AI

Paul — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:00:31 +0000

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While the rest of the world is just waking up to the realities of "agentic AI," Akka CEO Tyler Jewell joins us today to explain why his company has actually been building the foundation for it for the last 20 years. From powering systems that handle 2 billion users daily to deploying highly regulated AI platforms for global giants like Manulife, Akka's distributed systems framework is moving from open source obscurity straight into the C-suite. We’re moving beyond "personal productivity" chatbots and into a world of "self-explaining and self-contained" AI swarms, where solving the cognitive overload of the modern developer means redefining the architecture of the enterprise itself.

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When Data Centers Fail: Outages, AIOps, Burnout & Observability | Techstrong Gang

Taylor Yaskulka — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 03:54:40 +0000

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When a data center dominoes, every sysadmin feels it. In this episode of Techstrong Gang, the panel digs into the real-world meltdowns IT teams are fighting today, from aging infrastructure and budget pressure to AI tools that promise help but can also introduce new operational risk. The conversation breaks down what actually triggers modern outages and why blaming “human error” often oversimplifies the deeper technical and organizational failures at play. The gang also explores the evolving playbook for incident automation, observability and LLM copilots, along with the culture shifts shaping IT teams under constant pressure. The episode also features a rapid-fire look at AI pump-and-dump activity, the ongoing data center crunch and a preview of Shimmy Says. Panel: Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Jon Swartz, Fred Wilmot, Gina Rosenthal, Anne Ahola Ward Explore more episodes of Techstrong Gang on Techstrong.tv and stay up to date on AI, cybersecurity, infrastructure and enterprise technology.

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OpenAI vs Anthropic Drama, AI Phone Scams & MWC Networking | TSG Ep. 1032

Taylor Yaskulka — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 03:40:58 +0000

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The AI industry’s latest drama continues. In this episode of Techstrong Gang, Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Jon Swartz, Mitch Ashley, Teri Robinson and Andi Mann unpack the newest twist in the artificial intelligence soap opera involving OpenAI and Anthropic. The panel then turns to a growing cybersecurity concern: scammers inserting fraudulent phone numbers into AI-generated search overviews to trick unsuspecting users. Finally, the gang explores the latest networking and infrastructure innovations unveiled this week at Mobile World Congress (MWC), where vendors are pushing artificial intelligence deeper into telecom networks and edge infrastructure. From AI industry rivalries to emerging fraud tactics to telecom innovation, this episode highlights how quickly the AI landscape is evolving.

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The Agile Advantage: SMBs are the True Proving Ground for AI

Paul — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:44:18 +0000

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While large enterprises boast massive budgets for AI experimentation, small and medium businesses (SMBs) are quietly using agility to their advantage by rapidly adopting AI tools to solve real-world operational bottlenecks. Ben Schreiner, AWS's Head of AI and Modern Data Strategy Business Development, argues that this democratization of AI is finally leveling the playing field, allowing nimble SMBs to punch above their weight class by creating agency-level content and scaling their workforce without simply throwing human capital at every problem. But as we enter an era where managers oversee both people and autonomous agents, organizations of all sizes must learn to build strict, trackable guardrails to ensure these eager digital assistants don't accidentally wander out of their designated lanes

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Techstrong TV March 10, 2026

Brian Yaskulka — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:04:00 +0000

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The AI Legal Minefield: Dr. Ilia Kolochenko, CEO of ImmuniWeb, warns that treating AI as infallible—especially for penetration testing or legal contracts—creates major legal and security risks, emphasizing the need for human oversight in AI-driven security and compliance workflows. Infusing Intelligence into the Modern Mainframe: BMC Software explores how generative AI can augment mainframe operations by reducing repetitive developer tasks, capturing institutional knowledge and applying hybrid AI techniques to deliver explainable, actionable insights. The Agile Advantage: SMBs as AI Proving Grounds: Ben Schreiner of Amazon Web Services explains how small and midsize businesses are rapidly adopting AI to overcome operational bottlenecks—while emphasizing the importance of guardrails as managers begin supervising both people and autonomous agents. Security Boulevard Podcast Ep. 22: Analysts from The Futurum Group argue that enterprises must adopt “observability-native” architectures to monitor and control autonomous AI systems before failures cascade across the enterprise AI supply chain. Agentic Business Transformation: Bryan Goode of Microsoft and Mitch Ashley discuss the shift from traditional systems of record to agentic business applications powered by Microsoft Dynamics 365, Copilot Studio, and Microsoft Power Platform, enabling AI agents to proactively drive outcomes and automate decisions. Taming Data Estate Chaos for AI: Hammerspace introduces its global data platform that disaggregates data from storage infrastructure, using a unified metadata-driven namespace to eliminate silos and accelerate AI data pipelines across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

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The AI Legal Minefield: Why You Still Need a Human Behind the Wheel

Paul — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:00:09 +0000

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We are in a gold rush of AI-generated code, but as ImmuniWeb CEO Dr. Ilia Kolochenko makes clear on Techstrong TV, the idea of "perfect AI" is a dangerous illusion. Dr. Kolochenko—who uniquely navigates the intersection of cybersecurity and complex cyber law—warns that because LLMs are trained on vulnerable open-source data, relying solely on AI for penetration testing or legal contracts is the fastest way to end up in court. We’re facing a watershed moment in application security where AI must be used for "intelligent automation," but if you take the human expert out from behind the wheel, you're setting yourself up for an unrecoverable crash.

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Techstrong TV March 9, 2026

Brian Yaskulka — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:47:45 +0000

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The Hybrid Identity Crisis: Bob Bobel, CEO of Cayosoft, explains why enterprises stuck between Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID face growing security risks. With ransomware increasingly targeting legacy identity systems, Cayosoft is focused on unified management, real-time monitoring, and rapid forest recovery to protect hybrid environments. The Digital Slate: Reinventing the Enterprise for AI: Israel Forst, CEO of Valiantys, argues that organizations must rethink end-to-end processes from scratch to compete with AI-native companies—moving beyond pilot programs to enterprise-wide operational transformation. Can Legal Teams Keep Up with AI Risk? On Reality Check, Dave Nicholson and Bill Price examine how legal teams must evolve into strategic partners—addressing vendor accountability, indemnification, data privacy, and the governance challenges created by AI hallucinations. The Circus at CISA Continues: On Shimmy Says, Alan Shimel analyzes the latest controversy surrounding leadership at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, alongside workforce pressures and the surprising absence of major U.S. cyber agencies at RSA Conference. AI Cluster Design, Automation, and Visibility: Cisco experts outline reference architectures and automation strategies to simplify GPU cluster design, improve deployment speed, and deliver end-to-end visibility—ensuring AI infrastructure isn’t limited by network inefficiencies. Agentic Automation in Practice: Tiffany Treacy of Microsoft and Keith Kirkpatrick explore how apps, agents, and chat are converging to enable supervised autonomous systems, multi-agent orchestration, and human-in-the-loop governance for enterprise productivity. Cisco’s Vision for AI-Era Networking: Kiran Ghodgaonkar details how Cisco is evolving its networking portfolio—across routing, switching, wireless, and management platforms—to meet the demands of AI-driven applications and data consumption.

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Why Platform Engineering is the New AI Super Superhighway | Platform Engineering Show Ep 12

Paul — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:39:35 +0000

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While you were busy navigating the hype, AI just got real—transforming from a toy into a high-octane production tool that’s currently scaring the daylights out of the security world. Joining Alan today is Luca Galante, and they are breaking down why Q1 2026 is officially the year of the tech singularity, where "citizen developers" and a flood of AI agents are 1,000x-ing the pressure on our internal developer platforms. If you aren't turning your "bumpy dirt road" infrastructure into an eight-lane superhighway with solid golden paths and automated guardrails right now, you’re not just lagging behind—you’re about to be replaced by someone who is

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The AI Industrial Revolution: Building for the Tech Singularity | The Platform Engineering Show Ep 11

Paul — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:37:01 +0000

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Alan and Luca Galante discuss the upcoming KubeCon in Atlanta, the growth of the “House of Kube” community event, and the evolving role of platform engineering in the cloud-native ecosystem. They explore how enterprise adoption of cloud-native technologies has matured, with events now drawing more senior, business-focused audiences. The conversation highlights the intersection of AI and platform engineering, framing it as the next industrial revolution that could accelerate enterprise innovation and reshape the workforce. Alan and Luca conclude by emphasizing the importance of embracing AI and automation while previewing community gatherings that will continue these discussions at KubeCon.

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