HS141: EA vs AI
What does Enterprise Architecture (EA) mean when AI is everywhere in the stack? Enterprise Architecture is about nailing down relationships...
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20 of 142 episodesHS140: AI and Technical Debt – Boon or Bane?
Does AI increase or reduce technical debt? Join Johna Johnson and John Burke as they discuss how to make strategy in environments in which A...
HS139: When “One Cloud to Rule Them All” is NOT the Answer: Regionalization
IT folks spent a lot of time in the last 20 years creating globe-spanning infrastructures that maximize performance while minimizing the num...
HS138: When “One Cloud To Rule Them All” Is NOT the Answer: Repatriation for AI and more
Some enterprises are finding reasons to pull back from a cloud-first IT strategy and run workloads in on-premises data centers. John and Joh...
HS137: Did AI Turn “Everybody Codes” into “Nobody Codes”?
“Everybody codes” was an enterprise buzzword. In this era of AI vibe-coding and single-use coding, should everyone code? Should anyone code?...
HS136: How AI Is Changing Enterprise Software Development (Sponsored)
AI can generate working code quickly. Building reliable software to run infrastructure platforms is still a multi-year engineering challenge...
HS135: AI Spyware in Chrome Spotlights Attractions of DaaS
VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) and Desktop as a Service (DaaS) have been arriving “real soon now” for the past couple of decades. Will...
HS134: Dodging the AI Iceberg: Midcourse Corrections
By now most organizations have AI strategies (among their other tech strategies). But how do you know when it’s time to make a midcourse cor...
HS133: Approaching Zero…Trust (Sponsored)
Most enterprises have some kind of zero trust strategy, but a lot of them could be better described as good intentions rather than active pr...
HS132: Heart of Glasswing
How can enterprise IT folks prepare for the age of Mythos? Anthropic says its Claude Mythos model is so much better at finding software vuln...
HS131: Cybersecurity Strategy: Defending Against AI
Enterprise strategists need to worry about securing their environments against AI-powered attacks. John and Johna discuss what cybersecurity...
HS130: Wait, AI Doesn’t Secure Itself? Developing an AI Security Strategy
Your enterprise better have a cybersecurity strategy for AI. But where to start? Everywhere! Securing AI means securing all the AI layers an...
HS128: Planning for an AI Bubble Burst
How should you shape your IT strategy around the possibility–or is it probability–that the AI economy is a true bubble and will burst soon?...
HS129: Achieving Operational Excellence
The best strategy in the world won’t succeed if a team falters operationally. But what is operational excellence, and what does it take to a...
HS127: You’re Not Thinking About Your Network the Way You Should (Sponsored)
Mav Turner, Chief Product Officer at Kentik, joins John Burke and Drew Conry-Murray for an in-depth conversation on the importance of deep v...
HS126: AI Everything, AI Everywhere, AI All At Once
At CES in January, NVIDIA, AMD, Siemens and others spun elaborate tales of a world suffused with AI: AI in the cloud, AI at the desktop, AI...
HS125: How to Choose an IT Hiring Service
Every employer knows to conduct background checks. However, conducting background checks on IT professionals requires an extra layer of veri...
HS124: Administration DDoS on AI Regulation
The recent U.S. Executive Order 14365, Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence, is the administration’s latest atte...
HS123: What Can You Stop Worrying About in 2026?
Are there some things that can come off your strategic planning radar for IT and cybersecurity in 2026? If you ask AI, you’ll get some surpr...
HS122: Insider Threats in the Age of AI
Leaders may shy away from thinking about insider threats because it means assuming the worst about colleagues and friends. But technology ex...