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IT Infrastructure as a Conversation
by Neil C. Hughes
What does it really take to power the digital-first world we now live in? IT Infrastructure as a Conversation explores this question with purpose and insight. As part of the Tech Talks Network, this podcast focuses on the core systems that make digital transformation possible. From cloud and networking to data management, storage, and analytics, we speak with the leaders responsible for building and maintaining the foundations of enterprise technology. Each episode features thoughtful conversations with public sector innovators, enterprise architects, business technologists, startup founders and strategic thinkers. We examine how infrastructure decisions influence business outcomes, how to balance reliability with innovation, and why rethinking legacy systems does not have to mean massive cost or disruption. We also look at the cultural side of infrastructure. What happens when strategy meets operational reality? How do leaders inspire change in complex en
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Moving IT Service Management Beyond Tickets With Xurrent
What does it mean when an IT department meets every SLA, closes tickets quickly, and produces healthy reports, but employees across the business are still unhappy with the service they receive? In this episode of IT Infrastructure as a Conversation, I speak with Phil Christianson, Chief Product...
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Building a Lean AI Native Banking Platform With myTU
Does a modern banking platform need a large collection of microservices and separate engineering teams, or can a compact monolith offer greater reliability and speed? In this episode of IT Infrastructure as a Conversation, I speak with Tomas Navickas, co-founder and CTO of myTU, about the...
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Solving the $2,000 Per Hour GPU Problem With Lumen
What happens when an enterprise invests heavily in AI compute but cannot move data quickly enough to keep those expensive processors working? In this episode of Infrastructure as a Conversation, I speak with Jim Fowler, Chief Technology and Product Officer at Lumen, about why network performance…
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How EdgeBeam Wireless Uses ATSC 3.0 for One to Many Data Delivery
Could the TV towers we drive past every day provide part of the answer to rising wireless traffic and last-mile network congestion? In this episode of IT Infrastructure as a Conversation, I speak with Conrad Clemson, CEO of EdgeBeam Wireless, about using existing ATSC 3.0 broadcast infrastructure...
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Why Uptime Does Not Mean Your IT Infrastructure Is Healthy
What if the IT systems your business depends on every day are working perfectly, right up until the moment they are not? In this episode of IT Infrastructure as a Conversation, I speak with Chris Bruce, founder of Idextrus, about the hidden technical debt inside mid-sized companies, why uptime...
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How Gi21 Capital Sees The Next Wave Of AI Infrastructure Growth
What does it really take to build the infrastructure powering the AI economy? While much of the conversation around artificial intelligence focuses on models, applications, and breakthroughs, far less attention is given to the physical foundations making it all possible. Behind every AI workload...
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AI Workloads Are Changing Network Traffic, Is Your Infrastructure Ready?
Have we spent so much time talking about AI models, data, and agents that we've overlooked the networks carrying everything between them? In this episode of IT Infrastructure as a Conversation, I sit down with Jamie Pugh, CTO of Globalgig, to discuss why connectivity is becoming one of the most...
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From SD-WAN to AI Traffic: How Enterprise Networks Are Evolving
What happens when AI workloads begin to overwhelm the network infrastructure originally designed for human browsing and SaaS consumption? In this episode of IT Infrastructure as a Conversation, I’m joined by Jamie Pugh from Globalgig to discuss why enterprise connectivity is rapidly becoming one…
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Syndigo on Why AI Commerce Is Failing Without Better Product Data
What if the biggest problem in AI-powered commerce isn’t the AI at all, but the data feeding it? In this episode of IT Infrastructure as a Conversation, I spoke with Tarun Chandrasekhar, Chief Product Officer at Syndigo, about the hidden infrastructure powering modern commerce and why product…
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Why Infrastructure Needs A Survivability Layer: HyperBUNKER And The Shift To True Offline Recovery
In this episode, I’m joined by Imran Nino Eškić and Boštjan Kirm from HyperBUNKER, two leaders whose perspective has been shaped by more than 50,000 real-world data loss and ransomware cases. This is not a conversation about theoretical security models or another incremental backup feature. It’s…
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How To Simplify Storage, Virtualization, And Recovery At Scale
What happens when the infrastructure your business depends on becomes too complex, too expensive, or too slow to recover when something goes wrong? In this episode of Infrastructure as a Service, I sit down with Tvrtko Fritz to talk about how EuroNAS has evolved from “NAS for the masses” into a...
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PuppyGraph at IT Press Tour: Zero-ETL Graph Analytics on Your Existing Data
What does “infrastructure” mean when your data stays exactly where it is, yet suddenly behaves like a graph? I met Weimo Liu, CEO and co-founder of PuppyGraph, during an IT Press Tour presentation, and I wanted to bring his story to Infrastructure As A Conversation because this is a data...
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Why Infrastructure Complexity Is Still Being Underestimated
When does automating tasks stop being enough, and when does infrastructure itself need to become a shared conversation across teams? In this episode of IT Infrastructure as a Conversation, I’m joined by Peter Sprygada, Chief Architect at Itential, for a deep and refreshingly pragmatic discussion...
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Why the Endpoint Is Becoming the New Control Point for IT Leaders
What happens when someone who helped shape the early days of virtualization returns to the field to lead a new era of secure, flexible computing? At IGEL’s Now & Next event in Frankfurt, I sat down with Peter Goldbrunner, Regional Vice President for Central Europe, to explore how his decades of...
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Observability without Overload: Lessons from Chronosphere’s Field CTO
In this episode of IT Infrastructure as a Conversation, I sit down with Bill Hineline, Field CTO at Chronosphere, to talk about something every IT leader has wrestled with at some point, observability. Bill has spent more than 25 years in the industry, including leading observability at United...
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Phison Electronics and the Future of AI-Native Infrastructure
In this episode, I’m joined by Michael Wu of Phison Electronics, recorded shortly after our meeting on the IT Press Tour in Silicon Valley. Michael takes us inside Phison’s latest breakthrough: the aiDAPTIV+ platform and its integration with StorONE’s ONEai solution. Together, they’re reshaping…
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Cohesity’s Infrastructure Playbook for Cyber Recovery and Insights
How can organizations protect their most valuable asset, data, while unlocking its full potential through AI-driven insights? That is the question I explored on the IT Press Tour in Silicon Valley during a face-to-face conversation with Sanjay Poonen, President and CEO of Cohesity. In this…
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Can Estonia Compete with AWS? Storadera’s Tommi Kannisto Thinks So
In this episode of Infrastructure as a Conversation, I’m joined by Tommi Kannisto, founder of Storadera, a cloud storage company based in Estonia that’s quietly building a smarter, simpler alternative to hyperscalers like AWS. We dive into how Storadera has engineered its own storage software…
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Simplifying Stateful Workloads: The Rise of Kubernetes-Native Data Platforms
What if running databases in Kubernetes could be as simple as spinning up a container—without cloud lock-in or complexity? In this episode of IT Infrastructure as a Conversation, I’m joined by Tamal Saha, founder of AppsCode, a company rethinking how we manage data on Kubernetes. We met during…
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On-Prem, In Control: The Infrastructure Shift Toward Data Sovereignty
In this episode of IT Infrastructure as a Conversation, I sit down with Thomas Bak, CEO of Auwau, fresh from our meeting at the IT Press Tour. We explore how his journey from running a managed service provider to founding Auwau led to the creation of CloudTility — a self-service, multi-tenant...
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Fixing Legacy Data: How Quesma Reinvents Database Migrations and Insights
On this episode of IT Infrastructure as a Conversation, I explore a fresh approach to one of the oldest headaches in enterprise IT: migrating legacy databases without breaking everything. My guest is Jacek Migdał, co-founder and CEO of Quesma, a startup tackling the messy reality of old data...
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Fabrix.ai and the Future of Agentic AI for Enterprise IT
In this episode of IT Infrastructure as a Conversation, recorded live at the IT Press Tour, I caught up with Raju Datla, CEO of Fabrix.ai, to talk about a shift that could redefine how IT operations are managed. Formerly known as CloudFabrix, the company has evolved with a sharper focus on what…
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Is AI Infrastructure Broken? A Candid Conversation with Volumez
Is AI Infrastructure Broken? A Candid Conversation with Volumez AI adoption is accelerating, but most enterprises are still stuck in the pilot phase. Cloud costs keep climbing, GPUs go underutilized, and data pipelines struggle to keep pace. If AI is the future, why is the infrastructure built to...
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Rethinking Database Management with ProxySQL
Behind every seamless digital experience is an infrastructure team working hard to keep systems scalable, responsive, and resilient. In this episode of IT Infrastructure as a Conversation, I’m joined by Jesmar Cannaò, COO of ProxySQL on the IT Press Tour, We explore the story behind one of the…
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The BI Paradox: How Indexima Is Rebuilding Analytics from the Backend Up
In a world where business users expect instant insights from tools like Power BI and Tableau, few stop to consider the heavy lifting happening behind the scenes. Dashboards may look simple, but the infrastructure powering them often involves layers of complex data engineering, expensive queries,...
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Federated Learning: Rethinking AI Infrastructure with Scalytics
As AI agents begin to influence how businesses operate, there's growing urgency around building infrastructure that supports their complexity without adding new risks. In this episode of IT Infrastructure as a Conversation, I speak with Alexander Alten, Co-Founder and CEO of Scalytics, about the...
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How EasyVirt Is Redefining Sustainable IT Infrastructure
Could sustainable IT hold the answers to rising infrastructure costs and environmental pressure? In this episode, recorded live during the IT Press Tour in Malta, we speak with François Machacek, an IT veteran with nearly thirty years of experience and a strong focus on digital sustainability.…
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Why Film Could Be Key to Centuries-Long Data Preservation
What does long-term data preservation really require in a digital-first world where technology changes faster than it can be archived? In this episode of IT Infrastructure as a Conversation, recorded during the IT Press Tour in Malta, we explore a fresh perspective with Antoine Simkine…
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Is Enterprise Storage Due for a Shake-Up? How TrueNAS is Challenging the Status Quo
What if the future of enterprise storage wasn’t locked behind expensive licenses and proprietary ecosystems? In this IT Infrastructure as a Conversation episode, recorded during the IT Press Tour in Silicon Valley, we explore how TrueNAS is reshaping expectations in enterprise storage. Brett…
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Rewiring Enterprise Storage for AI and the Hybrid Cloud with Hammerspace
What happens when enterprise storage finally catches up with the needs of AI-driven workloads and hybrid cloud architectures? In this premiere episode of IT Infrastructure as a Conversation, recorded during the IT Press Tour in Silicon Valley, I sat down with David Flynn, CEO of Hammerspace, to...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
What does it really take to power the digital-first world we now live in? IT Infrastructure as a Conversation explores this question with purpose and insight.
As part of the Tech Talks Network, this podcast focuses on the core systems that make digital transformation possible. From cloud and networking to data management, storage, and analytics, we speak with the leaders responsible for building and maintaining the foundations of enterprise technology.
Each episode features thoughtful conversations with public sector innovators, enterprise architects, business technologists, startup founders and strategic thinkers. We examine how infrastructure decisions influence business outcomes, how to balance reliability with innovation, and why rethinking legacy systems does not have to mean massive cost or disruption.
We also look at the cultural side of infrastructure. What happens when strategy meets operational reality? How do leaders inspire change in complex en
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Neil C. Hughes
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