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Dave Rubinstein, Editor in Chief of IT Ops Times, discusses AI agentic architecture with Rodric Rabbah of Postman. Rabbah introduces Astro AI, a platform for managing AI agents, emphasizing the need for visibility and control in AI systems. He explains agentic architecture as a non-deterministic distributed system, highlighting the challenges organizations face in deploying and trusting AI. Rabbah stresses the importance of training, governance, and protocols to prevent AI from causing unintended consequences. He also notes the cost and practicality of using in-house models versus expensive external ones, advocating for a balance of AI, APIs, and data with robust guardrails.

Dave Rubinstein, Editor in Chief of IT Ops Times, discusses with Becky Trevino, Chief Product Officer at Flexera, the challenges organizations face in managing AI spending and ensuring value. Trevino explains the shift from traditional cloud and SaaS pricing to outcome-based pricing, driven by the rise of AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude. She highlights the need for organizations to revert to traditional metrics like cycle time and business outcomes to measure AI's effectiveness. Trevino emphasizes the importance of aligning AI investments with business goals and using tools like FinOps to manage costs effectively, comparing AI agents to temp workers that incur ongoing costs.

Dave Rubinstein and Christopher Robinson discussed the sustainability gap in open source package registries, which poses a threat to software supply chains. Robinson highlighted the exponential rise in compute costs and security demands, exacerbated by AI and malware proliferation. The Open Source Security Foundation formed a working group to address these issues, focusing on security technologies and community challenges. Robinson emphasized the need for responsible download practices and financial support for critical registries.

In this episode, Dave talks with Elad Koren, VP of Product Management at Palo Alto Networks, about how organizations rushing to implement AI without thinking about the security implications that can arise from that.Among the topic they discuss are:--The risk of proliferating unvetted agents-- How vulnerabilities are being weaponized-- What organizations can do to improve their security postures.

In this episode, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses AI in the Security Operations Center with Jimmy Mesta, co-founder and CTO at RAD Security. Among the topics addressed are:How AI amplifies existing SOC strengths rather than inventing new capabilities from scratch?Why foundational elements, like signal hygiene, clear workflows, and documented context, must be in place before a SOC can benefit from AI.Lessons from past SIEM and SOAR deployments that security teams should apply to avoid repeating the same mistakes with AI in the SOC.The steps SOC leaders should take now (e.g., cleaning alerts, mapping workflows, documenting incidents) to ensure AI becomes leverage instead of liability.

In this episode, Dave interviews J.R. Storment, executive director of the FinOps Foundation about some of the challenges related to managing AI spend.They discuss:The mismatch between increased spending on AI and a lack of clarity on that spendSimilarities and differences with managing cloud spendHow AI can actually be used for tracking AI spending

In this episode, Dave interviews Austin Parker, director of open source at Honeycomb and a member of OpenTelemetry's governance committee.They discuss: The increase in OpenTelemetry maintainers this yearHow prevalent OpenTelemetry has become across the cloud native ecosystemAI's impact on the need for observability 

In this episode, Dave interviews Jason English, director and principal analyst at Intellyx, who attended KubeCon last week. He shares what he learned from the event, the latest trends in cloud-native computing, and where he sees the industry heading. 

In this episode, Dave interviews Jeff Collins, CEO of WanAware, about the company's recent ITAM survey.They discuss: The growing confidence gap between IT and other areas of the business on ITAM data accuracyHow "ghost assets" are becoming more of a concernThe most surprising finding of the report

In this episode, Dave interviews Brendan Hannigan, CEO and co-founder of Sonrai Security, about privilege management in the cloud.They discuss:The current state of privileged access management (PAM)WALLy, Sonrai Security's PAM AI agent Why traditional privilege management is insufficient in dynamic cloud environments 

This episode was sponsored by Penguin Solutions.In this episode, Jenna interviews Rudy de Anda, head of strategic alliances at Penguin Solutions, about the benefits of using VMs and containers together.They discuss: Why VMs and containers go well togetherChallenges of making this convergence happenUse cases where VMs and containers are better off separateThis conversation is based on a recent webinar, which can be found here: https://assets.itopstimes.com/penguin-solutions-webinar-september-2025

In this episode, Jenna interviews Itiel Shwartz, CTO and co-founder of Komodor, about the company's recent Enterprise Kubernetes Report.They discuss:Why a majority of Kubernetes outages are a result of recent system changesWhy it's taking so long to respond to incidentsHow to reduce the percentage of over- and under-provisioned workloadsRead the full report here: https://komodor.com/resources/komodor-2025-enterprise-kubernetes-report/

In this episode, Jenna interviews Anant Bhardwaj, CEO and founder of Instabase, about what factors to consider before purchasing an AI tool.They discuss:Why it's important to start with the problem you have and work backwardsMaking sure agentic AI fits in with the rest of the existing systemsPlanning for long-term useThis episode originally aired on 8/29/2026 on What the Dev? 

In this episode, Jenna interviews Rick Spencer, general manager of Business Critical Linux at SUSE, to talk about the state of open source enterprise Linux one year after CentOS reached EOL.They discuss:The history of CentOS that led to EOLAdvice for navigating the current Linux landscapeThe OpenELA organization and what it's brought to the community

In this episode, Dave interviews Avi Freedman, CEO of Kentik about network intelligence. They discuss: The talent gap in network intelligenceHow network monitoring has evolved from the days of 24/7 staffed NOCsThe dynamic nature of applications is causing network configurations to be outdated

In this episode, Dave interviews Andi Gutmans, VP and general manager of Data Cloud at Google.They discuss:How AI can help with data managementHow AI tools have matured and are now more accessible for late adoptersThe work Google is doing with AI 

In this episode, Dave interviews Idit Levine, founder and CEO of solo.io, about kagent, a framework for running agents in Kubernetes. They discuss:Why kagent was createdWhat led solo.io to open source the project and donate it to the CNCFDifficulties with deploying AI agents in large organizations

In this episode, Jenna speaks with Krishna Sai, CTO of SolarWinds, about operational resilience.They discuss:How AI is impacting operational resilienceWhat other trends are affecting itHow to improve resilience

This episode originally aired on 4/29/25 on What the Dev?, our podcast for software developers. In this episode, Jenna interviewed Dean Coclin, senior director of Industry Strategy at DigiCert, about the recent vote by the CA/Browser Forum to shorten the lifespan of TLS certificates to 47 days by 2029. They discuss:The schedule for the changes and the gradual increments lifespans will shorten byThe rationale behind shortening certificate lifetimesHow to start preparing for changesRead an article based on this episode here: https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/preparing-for-tls-certificate-lifetimes-dropping-from-398-days-to-47-days-by-2029/

In this episode, Dave interviews Nadav Eiron, SVP of cloud engineering at Crusoe, about the challenges of transitioning AI from research into production.They discuss:The high cost and expertise requirements for working with LLMsThe need for better tooling and abstractions The significant power requirements for AI infrastructure 

In this episode, Dave interviews Mark Thacker, senior manager for product management for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. They discuss:Post-quantum cryptography algorithms"Harvest now, decrypt later" practicesAssessing the risk of quantum computing

In this episode, Dave interviews Dan Ciruli, senior director of product management at Nutanix (and ex-Googler), about the history of Kubernetes. They discuss:What was going on at Google that led to the creation of KubernetesThe importance of getting the industry to agree on a non-vendor-specific way of deploying workloadsInitial concerns from VM vendors about being replaced by containersThe story behind Kubernetes' name and logo

In this episode, Dave Rubinstein interviews William Morgan, CEO and founder of Buoyant, the company behind the open source project Linkerd.They discuss:What's new in Linkerd 2.18What service meshes areWhy Buoyant brought Linkerd to the CNCF

This episode originally aired July 19, 2024, but it's still relevant today as we figure out how to meet the demands AI is placing on the power grid. In this episode, ITOps Times editor-in-chief Dave Rubinstein interviews Jason Carolan, chief innovation officer at Flexential, about the increased energy demands created by AI. Jason believes nuclear energy might be the solution to meeting the growing power needs. Key talking points include:Why there's increased demand on the grid nowThe role nuclear power could playThe challenges to taking a nuclear approachFiguring out where to put new nuclear plants 

In this episode, David Rubinstein interviews Jeremy Edberg, CEO of DBOS, about the current state of serverless.They discuss:Why serverless adoption has stagnatedThe complexity of serverless architectureWhat needs to change to increase adoption

In this episode, Jenna Barron interviews Andrew Shikiar, CEO and executive director of FIDO Alliance. They discuss the state of passkey adoption in the industry today and how organizations can prepare for adopting them.Key talking points include:Why passkeys are more secure than passwordsHow widespread their adoption is Ways organizations can prepare for broader passkey adoptionVisit Passkey Central for more resources on passkeys: https://www.passkeycentral.org/home Read transcript here: https://www.itopstimes.com/itsec/qa-the-state-of-passkey-adoption/

In this episode, David Rubinstein interviews Ajit Sancheti, general manager of next generation SIEM at CrowdStrike, about why legacy SIEMs are struggling to keep up with the speed and sophistication of modern threats.They discuss:The limitations of legacy SIEMsWhat factors are prompting the need for new solutionsThe role of AI in next-gen SIEMs

In this episode, Dave Rubinstein interviews Andrew Rynhard, founder and CTO of Sidero Labs. They discuss:How operating system architecture plays a role in the complexity of managing distributed KubernetesThe importance of avoiding accidentally introducing unnecessary complexityTalos Linux, and how it helps reduce complexity 

In this episode, we speak with Gerald Combs, director of open source at Sysdig, and Loris Degioanni, founder and CTO of Sysdig. They both co-created Wireshark and are now releasing a new tool called Stratoshark for inspecting cloud-native environments.We discuss: What the technology landscape looked like when they created Wireshark in the 90sWhy they created StratosharkThe connection between the two toolsThe future of StratosharkYou can learn more about Stratoshark and get a demo of it at SharkFest'25 in Richmond, VA from June 14-19. Register here: https://sharkfest.wireshark.org/sfus/

In this episode, we interview Scott McCarty, senior principal product manager of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, about what we can look forward to in 2025 when it comes to containers. Key talking points include:Cross-platform use cases for containersBending containers to do more for usAn overview of bootc and how it fits into the future of containers

In this episode, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein interviews Taylor Dolezal, head of ecosystem at the CNCF, about the organization's recent Technology Landscape Radar report. Recorded the week following KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, the conversation covers: The key findings from the reportThe different levels of project maturity at the CNCFThe importance of interoperability Note: This will be the final episode of Get With IT released in 2024. We'll be back in early January 2025! 

In this episode, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein interviews Tobi Knaup, VP and general manager of cloud native at Nutanix. They discuss how AI is driving innovation in Kubernetes, and also how AI adoption is driving people to Kubernetes. 

In this episode, ITOps Times editor-in-chief David Rubinstein interviews Ayah Bdeir, senior strategic advisor at Mozilla, about the Open Source Initiative's (OSI) effort to define Open Source AI.Key talking points include:Why there's a need to have a definition for open source AIThe controversy over how to classify training dataMozilla's collaboration with OSI on this work Open Source AI definition: https://opensource.org/osd This episode originally appeared on our other podcast What the Dev?, where we cover topics related to software development. 

In this episode, Jenna Barron, news editor of ITOps Times, interviews Jim McGann, vice president of strategic partnerships at Index Engines, a company that detects data corruption from ransomware. They discuss:What Cybersecurity Awareness Month is and why it's celebratedThe biggest security threats IT teams are dealing with todayHow IT teams can stay up-to-date on the latest security threatsResources: CISA's Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2024 Guide

What do Taylor Swift concerts and Black Friday have in common? Both events can overwhelm systems when those platforms are built on legacy technology. Join David Rubinstein, editor-in-chief of ITOps Times, as he talks with guest Spencer Kimball, CEO of Cockroach Labs, about using cloud technology and planning to make sure massive spikes in traffic don't swamp your systems. 

Quantum computers may one day be able to break our current data encryption algorithms, so quantum researchers today have been researching new algorithms that could be used that can withstand these advanced computers.Recently, NIST approved the first three of many such algorithms, and IBM Research developed two of those. So, for this episode, we spoke with Vadim Lyubashevsky, a cryptography researcher at IBM Research, about these algorithms.Key talking points include:Why quantum computers will be able to break our current algorithmsWhat's unique about the new algorithmsThe benefits of having multiple algorithms approvedIBM's research in the quantum spaceFurther resources: Video: Shor's AlgorithmVideo: The Knapsack ProblemIBM blog post: Expanding the quantum-safe cryptography toolbox

In this episode we interview Sitaram Iyer, VP of emerging technologies at Venafi, about Google's proposed change to shorten TLS server certificate validity to 90 days.We discuss: The rationale behind shortening the validity timeframeWhat impact this would have on IT teams and organizationsPotential security downsides of a shorter certificate windowHow companies can prepare for shorter certificates

In this episode (rebroadcast from earlier this year), ITOps Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein talks about observability data with Nick Heudecker, senior director, Market Strategy & Competitive Intelligence at Cribl.They discuss:The difference between data observability and observability dataWhy observability feels like too broad of a termCribl's approach to a customizable data infrastructure

This episode of Get With IT was originally recorded and published in June for our other podcast, What the Dev?, and since it's a topic that ITOps teams will be interested in too, we are rebroadcasting it here. Enjoy!In this episode, Jenna Barron, news editor of ITOps Times, interviews Andrew Tunall, head of product at Embrace, a mobile observability company. They talk about:What it takes to get mobile observability rightThe challenges companies might face when trying to get observability into mobile appsOpenTelemetry's role in mobile observability Access Embrace's open source mobile observability SDKs here: https://github.com/embrace-io

In this episode, we spoke with Tushar Katarki, senior director of product for Red Hat's GenAI Foundation Model Platforms Portfolio, about some of the issues companies may run into when trying to implement generative AI. Key talking points include: The rush to AIChallenges companies run intoThe human factor of AI implementation and use

In this episode, ITOps Times editor-in-chief David Rubinstein interviews Keith Babo, head of product at Solo.io, about how platform engineering teams manage the underlying infrastructure needed to build their platforms. They discuss:What goes into enabling self-service capabilities in a safe and secure wayWhy mTLS is an important piece of the puzzleAdvice for new platform teams on best practices for getting started successfully Transcript: https://www.itopstimes.com/itops/qa-how-platform-engineering-teams-manage-infrastructure-and-security/ 

In this week's episode, ITOps Times editor-in-chief David Rubinstein interviews Kai Wombacher, product manager at Kubecost, a company that provides cost monitoring for Kubernetes. They discuss: How sometimes we forget about the environmental effects of softwareCost-cutting measures go hand in hand with reducing environmental impactThe open source project OpenCost and how it can be used to tackle the issue

In this episode, ITOps Times editor-in-chief Dave Rubinstein is joined by Randall Degges, head of developer relations and community at Snyk. They discuss: How C-Suite execs are dramatically underestimating the risk of using AI toolsSecurity issues in generative AI outputs How AI can amplify problems in bad code Partial transcript: https://www.itopstimes.com/itsec/qa-the-disconnect-between-the-c-suite-and-it-practitioners-on-ai-readiness/ 

In this episode, David Rubinstein, editor-in-chief of ITOps Times, interviews Wayne Scott, regulatory compliance solutions lead at Escode, about software escrow, which is a practice that helps ensure continuity of service when companies shut down or remove their product. They talk about: What software escrow is and what role it plays in risk managementHow to assess software escrow deals Owning the risks of using SaaS productsUpcoming regulations related to business continuityTranscript: https://www.itopstimes.com/itops/qa-software-escrows-role-in-business-continuity-planning/

In this episode, ITOps Times editor-in-chief Dave Rubinstein interviews Jason Carolan, chief innovation officer at Flexential, about the increased energy demands created by AI. Jason believes nuclear energy might be the solution to meeting the growing power needs. Key talking points include:Why there's increased demand on the grid nowThe role nuclear power could playThe challenges to taking a nuclear approachFiguring out where to put new nuclear plants Transcript: https://www.itopstimes.com/itops/qa-is-nuclear-energy-the-key-to-meeting-the-demands-of-ai-workloads/ 

In this episode, David Rubinstein, editor-in-chief of ITOps Times interviews Chas Clawson, field CTO at Sumo Logic, about the security information and event management (SIEM) market following recent mergers and acquisitions (IE LogRhythm merging with Exabeam, Palo Alto Networks acquiring IBM's QRadar portfolio, Cisco acquiring Splunk, etc).They discuss:Why this consolidation of the SIEM market has been happeningHow AI will impact the SIEM marketHow SIEM tools today enable better collaboration

In this episode, David Rubinstein interviews Nick Rieniets, field CTO at Kasada, about the prevalence of bots on the internets. Key talking points include: The impact of bots on different industriesHow can we tell what's real and what a bot?Are CAPTCHAs actually effective in stopping bots?

ITOps Times news editor Jenna Barron speaks to Chris Aniszczyk, CTO of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), about the history of the Kubernetes project, which celebrated its 10 year anniversary this month.They discuss:What the container landscape looked like back in 2013 when the idea for Kubernetes first came about at GoogleHow the CNCF was formed to be the home for KubernetesWhy the Kubernetes community has been able to remain so diverse and healthyThe most significant events in Kubernetes historyWhat's next for the projectReferenced in the episode: https://www.cncf.io/reports/kubernetes-project-journey-report/ If you prefer to read this interview, here is an abridged version: https://www.itopstimes.com/kubernetes/kubernetes-at-10-where-it-began-and-where-its-going/

David Rubinstein, editor-in-chief of ITOps Times, speaks with Mehdi Daoudi, co-founder and CEO of Catchpoint, about how AI can help close the talent gap in ITOps. Key talking points:The areas that have the biggest talent gapsHow to utilize AI to deal with challenges associated with a lack of available talentBeing cautious about throwing AI at every problemWhere companies are seeing the most ROI on AI investments

In this episode we speak to John Leon, VP of partnerships at Apiiro, about ASPM.Key talking points:What is ASPM?How tools like SAST and DAST fit into an ASPM strategyUsing ASPM to make developers more efficient The future of ASPM