The ITPro Podcast is a weekly show for technology professionals and business leaders. Each week hosts Rory Bathgate and Jane McCallion are joined by an expert guest to take a deep dive into the most important issues for the IT community. New episodes premiere every Friday. Visit itpro.com/uk/the-it-pro-podcast for more information, or follow ITPro on LinkedIn for regular updates.
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Join the brightest SolarWinds minds and IT industry influencers, as they cut through the jargon and give you the tools you need to grow and keep your tech knowledge razor-sharp. Come with questions—leave with actionable steps and practical insights. Have ideas for future episodes or topics? Tweet us @ SolarWinds using #TechPod.
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The Intrazone is a show about the Microsoft 365 intelligent intranet, taking you into the building blocks of your Microsoft 365 intranet. It's about how SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Yammer and more fit into your everyday work life – with the goal being to share and manage content, knowledge, and applications to empower teamwork throughout your organization.
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The Windows Insider Team is taking the podcast airwaves to share all things future of Windows, Insider community and beyond. Transcripts provided with each episode.
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This episode was first broadcast on 20 September 2024. When people talk about the environmental impacts of data centers, normally the discussion focuses on energy usage. It’s something we’ve talked about at several points this year already, with reference to growing efforts to house AI workloads in green data centers that run on renewable energy to…
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SPECIAL EDITION: The evolution from robots to agents
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If you’re looking to adopt AI right now, you’ll likely have heard the term ‘AI agents’. These systems can complete complex tasks autonomously, without user input. But no doubt some of the audience will be thinking: “haven’t we heard this before?” Indeed, robotic process automation and software robots have been available since the turn of the centur…
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June rundown: 2,000 missing devices and why threat groups are being renamed
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June has been another busy month for IT and technology news. Whether it’s new naming conventions for cybercriminal groups, Britain’s big tech potential, and national security concerns over lost government devices, we’ve got a lot to unpick. ITPro’s news editor Ross Kelly and reviews editor Bobby Hellard step in for Jane and Rory this week to chew t…
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Are reasoning models fundamentally flawed?
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AI reasoning models have emerged in the past year as a beacon of hope for large language models (LLMs), with AI developers such as OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic selling them as the go-to solution for solving the most complex business problems. However, a new research paper by Apple has cast significant doubts on the efficacy of reasoning models, go…
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SPECIAL EDITION: Data integration for open table formats
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Any modern enterprise generates reams of data, which can be difficult to correctly store, process, and use without the right approach. This has become even more important in the face of AI. Before any leader can begin implementing AI across their workflow, they must first ensure they’ve prepared data at the right scale – and across its entire lifec…
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RSAC Conference 2025: The front line of cyber innovation
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In the fast-changing world of cybersecurity, IT leaders have to keep up with evolving threats and new technologies to stay ahead of attackers. With nation states lending a hand to threat groups with more pointed aims than ever before, alongside the double-edged sword of greater AI adoption in cybersecurity, there’s never been a more worrying – and …
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The Mindset Shift: IT Operations to Security
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In this episode, hosts Sean Sebring and Chrystal Taylor engage with actual rock star Chris Greer, a Security Engineering Manager at SolarWinds, to explore the multifaceted world of cybersecurity. Chris shares his unconventional journey from being a musician to entering the IT field, emphasizing the importance of certifications and the mindset shift…
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We’re past the peak cloud hype of the 2010s and now well into the era of cloud maturity. But even as businesses have come to terms with multi-cloud and hybrid cloud models, new considerations have arisen, such as the growing push for cloud sovereignty and regional data center demand. AI has put additional pressure on firms to figure out exactly wha…
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After over seven years and more than 220 episodes, The Intrazone is taking a pause. In this special episode, host Mark Kashman reflects on the learnings, sharing gratitude for the best community in tech, and all the wonderful, insightful conversations. With heartfelt thanks to co-host Chris McNulty and producer Lisa Gray, Mark acknowledges the impa…
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In this episode of The Intrazone, Chris and Mark sit down with Sascha Fredrich and Markus Etzel from Bechtle to talk about their unique approach to modern collaboration. And when I say unique, I mean Microsoft Teams Rooms inside Volkswagen ID.Buzz EV vans—yes, rolling collaboration hubs (with hub caps); meetings on the move, proving that hybrid wor…
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Java celebrates its 30th birthday and more Microsoft developer layoffs
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May has been a busy month for news in the IT world, with cyber attacks hitting retailers across the UK and Microsoft laying off over 800 developers. In this episode of the ITPro Podcast, Jane is joined by news and analysis editor Ross Kelly to discuss three of the most significant news stories of the past month and wish Java a happy 30th birthday. …
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Dell Technologies World 2025: All in on AI
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Dell Technologies World has just come to a close in Las Vegas and there is no doubt that the company is – in its own words “all in on AI”. From laptops to services, data center infrastructure and partnerships, everything is being led by AI. What this means in practice for IT decision makers and business leaders can sometimes be hard to divine, howe…
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Classic episode: What’s the future of data storage?
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This episode was first broadcast on 22 March 2024. As technological innovations happen, it can be easy to forget that even the most complex systems rely on large networks of basic infrastructure to operate. At the most fundamental level, all tech products rely on effective data storage But this is easier said than done. Each byte of data has to be …
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Community and Collaboration: Lessons from Gaming
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This episode explores the intersection of gaming, particularly MMOs, and its impact on workplace dynamics. Dr. Melika Shirmohammadi and Mostafa Ayoobzadeh join hosts Chrystal Taylor and Sean Sebring to discuss their motivations for studying the positive aspects of gaming, the skills that can be transferred to professional environments, and the soci…
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What do you do when you want to get your enterprise data into a usable format? And how can you make better use of the data you already use, through the likes of analytics, AI, and even quantum computing? All these questions and more have been front and center at SAS Innovate 2025, the data and analytics veteran’s annual conference held in Orlando, …
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The Easter Bunny hopped and in SharePoint tech terms - the SharePoint Easter eggs were hoppin' into your Microsoft 365 tenants! This month's (eggs) updates include: Viva Connections cards in SharePoint agents, SharePoint eSignature for Microsoft Word, SharePoint quick steps to automate common tasks and workflows, new document library template: "Res…
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RSAC Conference 2025: AI and quantum complicate security
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RSAC Conference 2025 has been full on, with cybersecurity experts from all over the world descending on San Francisco to share trends, data, and announcements. This year, ITPro has been providing both remote and on the ground coverage from the event, across talks covering topics such as AI security and threat actor methodology. In this episode, Jan…
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April rundown: MITRE frights and Microsoft launches Recall (again)
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April has been a busy month for tech news – we recorded this episode with a week left in the month, but there’s already so much to discuss. A major upset in the international database for tracking vulnerabilities had some in the cybersecurity field stunned – until a last minute U-turn. Elsewhere, AWS is the latest hyperscaler to roll back on data c…
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Putting small language models under the microscope
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We’ve spent the past few years discussing large language models, the huge AI models that power a lot of the generative AI tools that have dominated the headlines. But small language models are also possible – and rapidly growing in popularity. What benefits do these tiny AI models offer, and how much use will they get in the coming months and years…
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Google Cloud Next 2025: Targeting easy AI
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Las Vegas has been taken over by Google Cloud this week, with Google Cloud Next 2025 in full flow. There have already been a number of headline grabbing announcements: we've seen the launch of a powerful new AI accelerator chip by the name of Ironwood, huge updates to Google Cloud's security capabilities, and new agentic AI development kits for ent…
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Monitoring, Observability, and Operational Resilience
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In this episode of SolarWinds TechPod, hosts Chrystal Taylor and Sean Sebring explore the key differences between monitoring and observability with guest Jeff Stewart, GVP of Product Management at SolarWinds. Observability goes beyond traditional monitoring, offering AI-driven insights and a holistic view of system health. Like understanding the an…
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When something goes wrong with IT at work, chances are you’ll be asked to submit a service ticket. This is a tale as old as time – see a problem, submit a ticket, wait for the service desk to come to your help. But all this could be set for change. Advances in technology have opened the door to software problems being detected and remediated automa…
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March Madness in SharePoint tech terms means the SharePoint team worked like mad to deliver a lot of great new tech: Create pages with Copilot in SharePoint, Viva Connections: New News experience, SharePoint agents: New usage reports, a new Table toolbar, annotation layout and tools for editing PDFs, approval workflows to any list or library, OCR f…
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SPECIAL EDITION: Harnessing unstructured data to fuel AI
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The rule that your AI is only as good as your data is now well understood, with businesses all over the world looking to modernize their data sources and infrastructure to make the most of AI products and services. But something that can be easily lost in these discussions is consideration of the exact format your data exists in at rest. Unstructur…
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March rundown: Four-day weeks and Nadella's AGI skepticism
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March is very nearly at an end and it’s been quite a month for diverging views in the industry. Satya Nadella, CEO at Microsoft, has spoken out against the tech sector’s apparent fixation on achieving AGI while comparing the potential for AI to the rise of Excel spreadsheets in business. The Microsoft chief has turned his attention to the material …
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Computer systems that can autonomously work on menial tasks have been the promise of technologists – and science fiction authors – for decades. While we’ve dabbled with the likes of robotic process automation and machine learning in the past, the arrival of advanced AI software has put these lofty ambitions back on the table. According to AI develo…
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There is so much to learn about Microsoft 365 Copilot, it helps to have someone translate Copilot into practical knowledge, tips, and tricks. We chat with TJ Devine, one of Microsoft's foremost experts in Copilot - to hear how it evolves AND how best to talk about it - to understand what you can do with AI in Microsoft 365. You'll hear TJ touch on …
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