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 AI
• The controversy over how to classify training data
• Mozilla'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 celebrated
• The biggest security threats IT teams are dealing with today
• How IT teams can stay up-to-date on the latest security threats

Resources: 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 algorithms
• What's unique about the new algorithms
• The benefits of having multiple algorithms approved
• IBM's research in the quantum space

Further resources:
Video: Shor's Algorithm
Video: The Knapsack Problem
IBM 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 timeframe
• What impact this would have on IT teams and organizations
• Potential security downsides of a shorter certificate window
• How 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 data
• Why observability feels like too broad of a term
• Cribl'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 right
• The challenges companies might face when trying to get observability into mobile apps
• OpenTelemetry'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 AI
• Challenges companies run into
• The 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 way
• Why mTLS is an important piece of the puzzle
• Advice 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/