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 together
• Challenges of making this convergence happen
• Use cases where VMs and containers are better off separate

This 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 changes
• Why it's taking so long to respond to incidents
• How to reduce the percentage of over- and under-provisioned workloads

Read 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 backwards
• Making sure agentic AI fits in with the rest of the existing systems
• Planning for long-term use

This 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 EOL
• Advice for navigating the current Linux landscape
• The 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 intelligence
• How network monitoring has evolved from the days of 24/7 staffed NOCs
• The dynamic nature of applications is causing network configurations to be outdated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 management
• How AI tools have matured and are now more accessible for late adopters
• The 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 created
• What led solo.io to open source the project and donate it to the CNCF
• Difficulties 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 resilience
• What other trends are affecting it
• How 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 by
• The rationale behind shortening certificate lifetimes
• How to start preparing for changes

Read 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/