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Packet Pushers

Deep analysis on IT Infrastructure - one topic, one show. Strong opinions, loosely held.

Episodes

20 of 148 episodes

HS147: Architecting Infrastructure to Meet Your AI Ambitions (Sponsored)

Many a IT professional is having the AI football tossed to them, “We need to implement in house AI, go do it”. If this is you, w...

42:43Oct 20, 2026

HS146: Costly Choices and Forced Dollars – Thanks AI

Sometimes IT is forced to spend money to do nothing. It might be the cost of evaluating the products and services you don’t end up deploying...

35:22Oct 13, 2026

HS145: The Economics and Architecture of AI Factories (Sponsored)

What is an AI Factory, and why would an enterprise want to invest in one? Johna and John are joined by guests Thierry Pienaar of HPE and Kau...

45:04Oct 6, 2026

HS144: Next-Generation Data Centers: The Rules Are Changing, How Should Your Strategy Change?

In-house data centers are a hot topic again! Companies of all sorts are repatriating cloud workloads. Many want to ramp up in-house AI devel...

37:03Sep 29, 2026

HS143: Why We Don’t Believe in Self-Healing AI (Sponsored)

Everyone is talking about autonomous AI for network operations. But in critical infrastructure, is removing the human really the right goal?...

36:24Sep 22, 2026

HS142: The Blueprint for Automated Network Operations (Sponsored)

In this sponsored episode, Ronny Wolf of BlueCat Networks joins Johna and John to explore the importance of API-first architecture. They als...

37:52Sep 15, 2026

HS141: EA vs AI

What does Enterprise Architecture (EA) mean when AI is everywhere in the stack? Enterprise Architecture is about nailing down relationships...

41:57Sep 1, 2026

HS140: 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...

42:27Aug 18, 2026

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...

33:58Aug 4, 2026

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...

30:56Jul 21, 2026

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?...

38:23Jun 30, 2026

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...

50:41Jun 23, 2026

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...

31:08Jun 16, 2026

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...

32:38Jun 2, 2026

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...

49:56May 26, 2026

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...

36:28May 19, 2026

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...

34:48May 5, 2026

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...

37:41Apr 21, 2026

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?...

34:25Apr 10, 2026

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...

39:35Apr 7, 2026