Welcome to Season 6 of Softcat's podcast, Explain I.T.

Every episode, our team of experts are here to talk tech in simple, jargon free language.

To launch season 6 of our podcast we're here to predict your tech for 2023. We'll be discussing what is on the cusp of revolutionising the world as

we know it. Basically, we’re attempting to show that don’t need to travel to Davos on an all-

expenses paid trip to provide tech insight to a general audience!

To share insights, podcast host Dean Gardner - Softcat’s Field Chief Technology Officer - is joined by a panel of Chief Technologists.

We welcome back Kerion Newsham, CT for Security, Tal Gandham. CT for Hybrid Infra and Data, Thomas Rowley, CT for

Networking & Connectivity and the leader of the illustrious pack Adam Harding, CT for Digital Workspace.

The tech hiring boom of covid appears to be no more. Why are so many big tech companies

making mass layoffs? Is there an opportunity for channel providers to support our customers if there are any

uncertainty? There's a lot to discuss...

If you have a burning question, or an opinion on our topics you'd like to share, send us an email to [email protected]

You can also get in touch with us through live chat or directly on WhatsApp. Text us or send a voice note to +447548759732.

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Today we are discussing key business developments that we’ve seen over the last 12 months with an eye clearly on the year ahead.

What is an Account Chief Technologist? Is tech the answer to every business problem? What do you envisage being priorities for many organisations?

To help answer these questions and much more, podcast host Dean Gardner is joined by a panel of Softcat’s Account Chief Technologists:

• James Seaman - working in Softcat's office of CTO
• Phillipa Winter - working in health care and central government
• Andy Lamb - working with corporate customers
• Dylan Foster Edwards - Technology Director for Softcat

This episode is hosted by Dean Gardner, Field CTO at Softcat.

If you have a burning question, or an opinion on our topics you'd like to share, send us an email to [email protected]

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It might be the end of the year, but we are certainly embarking on an era of unique challenges for us all to deal with. One thing is certain, there will be opportunities and advancements in technology and in this episode we tackle the lot.

To share insights, I am joined by our panel of Chief Technologists:

• Tal Gandhum
• Adam Harding
• Kieron Newsham
• Thomas Rowley

This episode is hosted by Dean Gardner, Field CTO at Softcat.

If you have a burning question, or an opinion on our topics you'd like to share, send us an email to [email protected]

You can also get in touch with us through live chat or directly on WhatsApp. Text us or send a voice note to +447548759732.

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Simple, jargon free language is the name of game on the Explain I.T podcast and this time, we're talking about the important subject of Higher Education.

As a follow up to our Integrated Care episode, this is another special episode. To share insights and answers this week are Rachel Clay (Softcat's Head of Education), Microsoft MVP Alex Pearce (one of Softcat's Account Chief Technologists) and regular podcast guest Adam Louca (Softcat’s Chief Technologist for Security).

As season 5's penultimate episode, a potential dramatic finale awaits, will this be Adam Louca's final episode on the show?

This episode is hosted by Dean Gardner, Field CTO at Softcat.

If you have a burning question, or an opinion on our topics you'd like to share, send us an email to [email protected]

You can also get in touch with us through live chat or directly on WhatsApp. Text us or send a voice note to +447548759732.

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Welcome to another episode of Softcat’s Explain IT podcast.

We are here to Explain IT. Our team of experts will be here to talk tech in simple, jargon free language. We’ll be discussing new trends and ideas as well as solutions to everyday problems in this fascinating and ever changing world of tech.

An edge towards cloud, dramatic huh?

To share insights and answers, regular podcast guest Adam Louca, Softcat’s Chief Technologist for Security joins us today. So does our very special guest, Author, Engineer and currently CTO at Cloudflare, John Graham-Cumming.

What is an edge location?

Are edge locations different from a Cloud platform?

Are datacentres closing or evolving into edge locations? 

Should edge be factored into an organisations IT strategy as cloud is today?

Join us as we answer these and much more on another episode of Explain I.T.

This episode is hosted by Dean Gardner, Field CTO at Softcat .

If you have a burning question, or an opinion on our topics you'd like to share, send us an email to [email protected]

You can also get in touch with us through live chat or directly on WhatsApp. Text us or send a voice note to +447548759732.

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Welcome to another episode of Softcat’s Explain IT podcast.

We are here to Explain IT. Our team of experts will be here to talk tech in simple, jargon free language. We’ll be discussing new trends and ideas as well as solutions to everyday problems in this fascinating and ever changing world of tech.

This is a special episode focussing on the health service in the UK, particularly integrated care. Why? It's a hot topic, the laws have changed and we have a new NHS plan which is driving integration. To help figure out the complex next steps we have gathered some esteemed colleagues from the NHS to talk about how we navigate the integrated care system and what the pros and cons are.

Our guests are:

Steven Killick, Associate Director for Design and Solutions at Surrey Borders NHS Trust

Geoff Wood, Deputy Director for ICT, Princess Alexandra Hospital

Daniel Hallen, Head of Digital Technology and Digital Urgent Emergency Care, NHS England

This episode is hosted by Dean Gardner, Field CTO at Softcat and the interview conducted by Phillipa Winter, Account Chief Technologist for the Public Sector.

If you have a burning question, or an opinion on our topics you'd like to share, send us an email to [email protected]

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Welcome to another episode of Softcat’s Explain IT podcast.

We are here to Explain IT. Our team of experts will be here to talk tech in simple, jargon free language. We’ll be discussing new trends and ideas as well as solutions to everyday problems in this fascinating and ever changing world of tech.

This is the third episode of our security trilogy and this time we're talking about cyber security espionage. The need for threat intelligence for business survival is absolutely critical. It is where data is collected, processed, and analysed to understand a threat actor's motives, targets, and attack behaviours. Threat intelligence enables us to make faster, more informed, data-backed security decisions and change their behaviour from reactive to proactive in the fight against threat actors.

This episode is hosted by Adam Louca, Softcat's chief technology officer. Adam is joined by Oliver Fairbank, head of analysis from Orpheus and Alex Lewis from Softcat's cyber services business team.

If you have a burning question, or an opinion on our topics you'd like to share, send us an email to [email protected]

You can also get in touch with us through live chat or directly on WhatsApp. Text us or send a voice note to +447548759732.

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Welcome to another episode of Softcat’s Explain IT podcast.

We are here to Explain IT. Our team of experts will be here to talk tech in simple, jargon free language. We’ll be discussing new trends and ideas as well as solutions to everyday problems in this fascinating and ever changing world of tech.

This is the second episode of our security trilogy as we talk zero trust. What is zero trust? How easy is it to adopt a zero trust strategy? Do you need to change your existing strategy to adopt this model? To help us answer those questions this week are Adam Louca, Softcat's chief technology officer, Rajeev Kapur, Director of I.T Engineering at Sophos and your host is Dean Gardner, Field CTO at Softcat.

If you have a burning question, or an opinion on our topics you'd like to share, send us an email to [email protected]

You can also get in touch with us through live chat or directly on WhatsApp. Text us or send a voice note to +447548759732.

Make sure you follow the ExplainIT podcast in all the usual places and join us on a fascinating journey through the wonderful world of tech. You can also find out more anytime you like at Softcat.com

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Welcome to another episode of Softcat’s Explain IT podcast.

We are here to Explain IT. Our team of experts will be here to talk tech in simple, jargon free language. We’ll be discussing new trends and ideas as well as solutions to everyday problems in this fascinating and ever changing world of tech.

In this episode, we’re discussing security in the multi cloud environment and why organisations need to look differently at securing a hybrid or multi cloud setup.

To discuss the complex and important issues we are joined by Ryan Sheldrake, field CTO at Lacework and Andy Schneider, CSO at Lacework and Adam Louca, Softcat's chief technology officer.

Your host is Dean Gardner, Field CTO at Softcat.

If you have a burning question, or an opinion on our topics you'd like to share, send us an email to [email protected]

You can also get in touch with us through live chat or directly on WhatsApp. Text us or send a voice note to +447548759732.

Make sure you follow the ExplainIT podcast in all the usual places and join us on a fascinating journey through the wonderful world of tech. You can also find out more anytime you like at Softcat.com

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Welcome to the latest episode of this new season of Softcat’s Explain IT podcast.

We are here to Explain IT. Our team of experts will be here to talk tech in simple, jargon free language. We’ll be discussing new trends and ideas as well as solutions to everyday problems in this fascinating and ever changing world of tech.

In this episode, we’re discussing the multi cloud complexity conundrum (it’s a mouthful). We delve into why organisations are finding themselves increasingly in the multi-cloud and discuss the drivers for this type of adoption. Are application and data specific strategies taking over from cloud first strategies and is that driving the use of multi-cloud? Can you develop, build and provision containers without multi-cloud? And how can we operate a multi-cloud when everything is running everywhere and anywhere? To answer those questions and much more I’m joined by Matt Larder, Softcat’s very own Head of Cloud; and Michael Cote, A lead technologist all the way from our friends at VMware.

Ask questions, send us an email to [email protected]

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