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 now
• The role nuclear power could play
• The challenges to taking a nuclear approach
• Figuring 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 happening
• How AI will impact the SIEM market
• How 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 industries
• How 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 Google
• How the CNCF was formed to be the home for Kubernetes
• Why the Kubernetes community has been able to remain so diverse and healthy
• The most significant events in Kubernetes history
• What's next for the project

Referenced 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 gaps
• How to utilize AI to deal with challenges associated with a lack of available talent
• Being cautious about throwing AI at every problem
• Where 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 strategy
• Using ASPM to make developers more efficient 
• The future of ASPM

While we largely talk about AI's impact in the tech space at ITOps Times, the reality is that AI will impact nearly every discipline, from business to finance to education to journalism. The University of Maryland recently launched Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM) as a collaborative hub for AI research across different departments and subjects.

Hal Daumé III, AIM's inaugural director and a Volpi-Cupal Family Endowed Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, joins us in this episode to talk about AIM's formation, goals, and the role educators have in teaching students how to use AI to properly prepare them for the future workforce. 

In this episode, moderated by ITOps Times editor-in-chief David Rubinstein, Charles Araujo, author of The DX Report, and Alan Berkson, analyst at Intelligist Group, argue over whether ITSM is dead or not. HINT: It's not "really" dead, but it will be reimagined as new technologies (AI) emerge.

In this episode, ITOps Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein interviews Adam Gluck, CEO and founder of Copia Automation, about using DevOps practices in the manufacturing sector and how many of the principles transfer. 

In this episode, ITOps Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein discusses the current state of value stream in the industry and what organizations can do to improve their value streams. 

His guest is Laureen Knudsen, chief transformation officer at Broadcom.