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Techzine Talks on TourCyber resilience needs to move beyond 'not if, but when'What if our fundamental approach to security needs rethinking? In this conversation with Tia Hopkins, Chief Cyber Resilience Officer at eSentire, we explore why resilience has become the industry's latest buzzword—and why it demands more than just lip service.One of the mantras Hopkins doesn't particularly care for when it comes to cyber resilience is the "not if, but when" mentality that dominates security discussions every now and again. Her suggestion is to shift more from mere acceptance to acknowledgment. This may sound like a subtle distinction, but is still very powerful. It keeps teams vigilant ra...2025-05-0726 minTechzine Talks on TourCisco wants to use AI to defend AI at machine scaleCisco made a swath of announcements at RSAC 2025 Conference. Unsurprisingly, several of them had something to do with AI. We sat down with Cisco's Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel to have a conversation about where he and Cisco thinks things are going.When we spoke to Patel last year, he was quite optimistic. The use of AI in security solutions was going to mean that the defenders would, at least temporarily, get the upper hand. Between last year and now, a lot has happened, especially in the field of AI. The big question n...2025-05-0125 minTechzine Talks on TourHumans aren't the weakest link, they're a critical security layerSecurity awareness is a thing of the past. Rather, the term and what it stands for are things of the past. It just doesn't cover the actual challenge organizations need to address. We need to be talking about Human Risk. At least, that's what Perry Carpenter, Chief Human Risk Management Strategist at KnowBe4, thinks we should do. We were happy to oblige and learn more about it and ask him all kinds of questions about it too. When Carpenter says "awareness doesn't change behavior," he's not being controversial. He's sharing an insight that has reshaped h...2025-04-3030 minTechzine Talks on TourThree decades of Check Point (and cybersecurity): a conversation with Gil ShwedToday we have a rather special guest on Techzine Talks on Tour. During Check Point's recent CPX conference in Vienna, we sat down for a 20-minute conversation with Gil Shwed, co-founder of Check Point and widely regarded as the inventor of the firewall. We asked him about the past 30+ years, the present and about the future for Check Point and the broader cybersecurity industry. Gil Shwed, co-founder and now Executive Chairman of Check Point Software Technologies, talks about how he conceptualized network security technology in 1990, years before the World Wide Web existed. He recognized early t...2025-04-2221 minTechzine Talks on TourMuleSoft meets AI: Powering the Agentforce revolutionWhat happens when integration meets artificial intelligence? In this conversation with Andrew Comstock, Senior Vice President and General Manager of MuleSoft, we explore the evolving role of integration in powering the AI revolution at Salesforce and beyond.Despite being acquired by Salesforce six years ago and growing into a multi-billion dollar enterprise, MuleSoft maintains its platform-agnostic DNA. Surprisingly, Salesforce isn't even MuleSoft's number one integration target (though it ranks a close second), demonstrating the platform's continued commitment to serving diverse enterprise ecosystems.The conversation delves into "MuleSoft for Agentforce," a groundbreaking solution transforming...2025-04-1420 minTechzine Talks on TourAI without ethics will never truly serve humanityA slight change of pace, or at least of topic, this week in Techzine Talks on Tour. We sit down with Reggie Townsend, VP of Data Ethics at SAS to talk about the important but not always easy topic of ethics and AI. Townsend offers his and SAS's perspectives on what it means to build AI that truly serves humanity. "My job is to make sure that wherever our software shows up, we help people to thrive," in his own words.BiasThe conversation tackles several topics around the e...2025-04-0832 minTechzine Talks on TourCisco wants a (big) piece of the AI pie and doubles down on computeCisco gradually rolls out a complete ecosystem of solutions, both software and hardware, for the AI age. We discuss the objectives Cisco has in the compute space with Jeremy Foster, SVP and GM for Cisco's compute organization.Cisco's compute business appeared to be in de doldrums a couple of years ago. That is, it appeared to coast along without a very clear objective. Cisco didn't make a lot of big announcements around UCS either, as far as we can remember.This has changed fundamentally over the past year or so. Cisco wants to...2025-03-2422 minTechzine Talks on TourAfter SASE and Unified SASE, there's Sovereign SASE: what is that?Sovereign SASE emerges as the new frontier in secure access solutions, addressing the critical balance between cloud convenience and regulatory compliance. Nirav Shah, SVP Products and Solutions at Fortinet, unveils how this innovation allows organizations to maintain control over their sensitive data while still benefiting from the operational simplicity that made SASE attractive in the first place.The journey from traditional SASE through unified SASE to today's sovereign model reflects a market responding to real customer needs, particularly in highly regulated industries. Financial services, healthcare providers, and government entities can now implement modern security frameworks while keeping...2025-03-1015 minTechzine Talks on TourEmbracing sustainability in data Center modernizationThe episode focuses on the evolving landscape of sustainable data center modernization, with insights from HPE’s Pascal Lecoq on the importance of efficient IT practices, liquid cooling technologies, and the role of software in maximizing sustainability. Key discussions include the balance between public cloud and on-prem solutions, strategies for improving energy consumption, and the growing trend of modular data centers.• Overview of HPE's sustainability initiatives • Comparing public cloud and on-prem data center efficiencies • The role of software in optimizing energy consumption • Quick wins for enhancing data center sustainability • The impact of liquid cooling systems...2025-02-2029 min
Techzine TalksZonder culturele diversiteit was Oracle Cloud Infrastructure er niet geweestVeel grotere bedrijven lijken tegenwoordig af te stappen van zaken zoals diversiteit en inclusie. Bij Oracle staan ze er compleet anders in, horen we van Afiena van den Broek, HR Senior Director Nederland en Stefan Diedericks, Global Partner Enablement Leader bij het bedrijf. Zij zien heel veel voordelen van teams die niet bestaan uit allemaal dezelfde 'elementen'. OCI zoals we het nu kennen was er bijvoorbeeld niet gekomen zonder cultureel diverse teams.Culture & Inclusion, zoals Oracle het noemt, zal belangrijk blijven. Organisaties en datgene wat ze maken en produceren, worden er beter van, is het...2025-02-1042 minTechzine Talks on Tour2025 won't be about AI, but about secure AIAI and cybersecurity seem to go hand in hand. That is, much physical and virtual ink has been spilled over the impact AI had and has on security solutions, as well as on how attackers use AI for bad purposes. But what about the security of the AI organizations use every day? We talk about this with Ric Smith, President - Product, Technology, & Operations, at SentinelOne in a conversation we recorded at AWS re:Invent. At the end of the day, a large chunk of any discussion about AI security is also about cloud security. M...2025-01-2828 minTechzine Talks on TourDynamic AI workloads require dynamic power solutionsTechzine Talks on Tour is back after the holidays with a new episode. This one is about how to make sure data centers in the AI age. We attended the Vertiv: Driving Innovation event recently and talked about the implications of AI workloads on how to power data centers. Data centers play a vital role in the development and the deployment of AI. Most discussions about this topic focus on the IT side of things, but there's also a different side to this story. How do you make sure AI gets the power it wants a...2025-01-1328 minTechzine Talks on TourTransforming customer service and sales with AI agentsIn this episode, we explore the role of AI agents and their transformative potential in customer service and sales. At the AgentForce World Tour in Amsterdam, we spoke with Susan Emerson, Senior Vice President of AI at Salesforce. She shared insights on how AI agents can enhance customer service operations while also helping sales teams improve their skills and performance.Learn how global leaders, such as Wiley, are leveraging AI agents to turn routine customer interactions into seamless, personalized experiences. Discover the cutting-edge integration of voice AI technology, set to launch early next year, which...2024-12-1724 minTechzine Talks on TourOpen source is at the heart of AI innovationWe recently attended the Ubuntu Summit, where Canonical showcased all of the innovation and other developments around Ubuntu. Open source in general and Ubuntu in particular have played and continue to play a vital role in the development of AI and ML. Learn all about this relationship in the latest episode of Techzine Talks on Tour.We sit down during the Ubuntu Summit with Andreea Munteanu, AI/ML & MLOps Product Manager at Canonical. She has a data science background, which gives her a different perspective on AI than more technology oriented people. During her time...2024-12-0939 minTechzine Talks on TourVMware bets big on sovereign clouds built on VCFSovereign clouds have been all the rage over the past years, especially in Europe. Public cloud providers and vendors focusing on private clouds alike talk about it a lot. One of the major players when it comes to private clouds, VMware also chimes in. During VMware Explore Europe we sat down with Rajeev Bhardwaj, who heads VMware's CSP business, to hear more about it. What makes it different and interesting for companies to go for this VCF-based sovereign cloud option? When it comes to sovereign clouds, it can get quite confusing very quickly. If all ki...2024-12-0234 minTechzine TalksZorgen over OT-security: we moeten industriële omgevingen beter beschermenUit recent onderzoek van Kaspersky blijkt dat het slecht gesteld is met de beveiliging van industriële omgevingen. Daar zijn op zich ook wel de nodige redenen voor aan te voeren. Toch wordt het nu toch echt tijd voor organisaties om hun OT-security beter op orde te krijgen. Wij praten hierover met Robert Sprenkels van Kaspersky en Patrick de Haan van Condor Carpets, een klant van Kaspersky.De aflevering van vandaag is best een bijzondere. Coen en Sander gaan in gesprek met Kaspersky en met een klant van het bedrijf. Dat laatste is vrij zeldzaam, o...2024-12-0236 minTechzine Talks on TourWhat is the role of storage in the modern tech landscape?For this episode of Techzine Talks on Tour we sat down with Patrick Smith, Field CTO EMEA at Pure Storage. Storage continues to evolve in a world where AI is the talk of the town. What exactly is the role of storage in the modern tech landscape? And how does Pure want to contribute to this? Find out now and listen to this brand new episode.Storage may not be as important for AI workloads as compute or networking is, calling it a commodity doesn't do it justice either. Patrick sheds some light on this...2024-11-2538 minTechzine TalksWat is goedkoper: on-premises, hybrid cloud of cloud only?Een vraagstuk dat bij menig organisatie leeft is: kiezen we nu voor een on-premises, hybride of cloud-only infrastructuur? Een keuze die niet altijd even eenvoudig te maken is, zeker niet als je rekening moet houden met allerlei externe factoren. Een van de belangrijkste factoren in deze discussie is de kosten, die mogen niet uit de hand lopen. Hier gaan we dieper op in, in deze aflevering van Techzine Talks.Coen en Sander gaan in gesprek met Sandor Warmerdam. Hij is Senior Cloud Economist bij Nutanix en spreekt dagelijks met (potentiële) klanten over hoe hun infrastructuur het e...2024-11-1838 minTechzine Talks on TourAdam Evans explains how Salesforce keeps its AI on a leashSalesforce is one of the fastest innovators in the SaaS AI space. They started with a prompt builder early in 2024. During Dreamforce they launched Agentforce to build your own automated AI Agents. In February of 2025 major expansions are planned, adding voice capabilities to agents, coaching your sales team with an agent and the expansion to many more countries. How can Salesforce move so fast and make sure its AI doesn't hallucinate?For this episode of Techzine Talks on Tour, we talk to Adam Evans, SVP of Product for the Salesforce AI Platform. Salesforce combines many d...2024-11-1321 minTechzine Talks on TourNetApp solves new challenges to data infrastructure at the platform levelNetApp is all in on what it calls its Intelligent Data Infrastructure. More than just a fancy sounding name, it includes various fundamental components that are necessary to have to support the latest AI workloads and to combat the data silos that continue to plague organizations. Creating a robust platform approach is the way forward for all data and storage vendors. What makes NetApp's platform special? And why should NetApp be in a good position to be successful in this market? Hear all about it in this new episode of Techzine Talks on Tour.For...2024-11-0129 min
Techzine Talks on TourUnlocking AI in SaaS: Brian Chess on the transformation of NetSuiteAI is rapidly transforming SaaS solutions. We talked to Brian Chess, the AI lead at NetSuite, about leveraging AI technology to improve the NetSuite platform. We discussed creating models, using RAG, prompting and the challenges of using AI models. We talk about the AI features they have developed and the challenges they encoured.In this episode of Techzine Talks on Tour we talk to Brian Chess, SVP Technology and AI at Oracle NetSuite, who went through a remarkable journey from a software developer in 1999 to leading AI initiatives today. Brian shares his firsthand experiences and insights into...2024-10-2518 minTechzine Talks on TourThe SOC of the future: what is it and is it for everyone?During this year's edition of .conf, Splunk's annual conference, we sat down with James Hodge, Chief Strategic Advisor for #Splunk EMEA. One of the main themes of #splunkconf24 was 'The SOC of the future'. That message shone through in many topics of conversation during the show. So we thought it would be interesting to have a conversation with James about this, to try and get beyond the slick marketing messages and get some insights into what this SOC of the future actually is, and what that means for organizations.In our chat, we talk about...2024-10-1827 minTechzine Talks on TourThreat hunting is very important, but also very frustrating: how can AI help?Both junior and senior security analysts encounter frustrating challenges with threat hunting, making it hard to really make it an integral part of daily SOC operations. How can we make things easier and less ad hoc for them? We sit down with Albert Caballero and Adriana Corona from SentinelOne to discuss this in depth. At its recent OneConnect event in the Benelux, representatives from #SentinelOne gave keynotes on different topics that relate to each other in different ways. On the one hand there was a keynote from Albert Caballero, Field CISO at SentinelOne, about #threathunting...2024-10-0333 minTechzine Talks on TourHow do you innovate for a future you can't entirely predict?The title of this episode of Techzine Talks on Tour is a (perhaps somewhat rhetorical) question Don Schuerman, the CTO of #Pegasystems asks the audience during #PegaWorld Inspire, Pega's annual flagship event. Sander sat down with him at the show to discuss how statistical AI and GenAI can help find an answer.During this conversation, Don and Sander discuss many facets of what drives #innovation. For example, the outcome of some research suggests that GenAI not only helps generate hype for #GenAI, but also causes an increase in adoption for 'good old-fashioned' statistical AI. In...2024-09-1824 minTechzine TalksHet 'open multi-cloud tijdperk' is begonnen volgens Oracle: wat houdt dat in?De cloud is volop in beweging. Dat was vorige week tijdens Oracle #CloudWorld in Las Vegas ook weer heel erg duidelijk zichtbaar. Wij waren erbij en bespraken aan het einde van die week de stand van zaken met Wilfred Scholman van Oracle. Wil je weten hoe de multi-cloud er in 2024 uitziet, ook vanuit Nederlands perspectief, luister dan naar deze aflevering. Tijdens Oracle CloudWorld ging het uiteraard veel over #AI. Wat ons betreft waren alle aankondigingen en sessies daarover weliswaar interessant, maar niet het belangrijkste. Dat was zonder twijfel de aankondiging dat #Oracle en #AWS na...2024-09-1628 minTechzine Talks on TourPrevention is better than cure, but is that even possible in cybersecurity?Keeping bad guys out is always better than trying to detect breaches after they have happened. Many security vendors seem to have given up on that idea, however. That is, there's a lot of focus on an 'assume breach' attitude nowadays, not so much on 'assume our defenses will hold'. There are a lot of reasons why this is the case, reasons we have gone into at length in earlier episodes of this podcast series. But what does a prevention-first mindset look like in 2024? Listen to this episode of Techzine Talks on Tour to find out. 2024-09-0432 minTechzine Talks on TourFrom encryption to exfiltration: how do you secure and protect your data?Organizations invest $200 billion globally in IT security. However, data breaches and ransomware attacks are still rampant. How can that be? What does this say about the impact of all those investments? We discuss these and other topics with Filip Verloy, Field CTO at Rubrik, one of the big players in this space. At RSA Conference earlier this year, we recorded a number of episodes for our relatively new Techzine Talks on Tour podcast series. Data security is without a doubt one of the big themes for organizations to get right. As is the case for v...2024-08-2640 minTechzine Talks on TourMaking enterprise software smarter and more effective with AIEvery software company globally is focusing on integrating AI into its solutions. ServiceNow has built one of the biggest platforms and workflow engines today. We talked to Pat Casey, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of DevOps at ServiceNow, to learn how ServiceNow is building AI into its platform. ServiceNow has chosen to unify its AI team into a single technology group, ensuring AI will not be the next add-on but a core component of the ServiceNow platform. Casey takes us through the transformative impact of this alignment and how organisations can enhance workflows...2024-08-1327 minTechzine Talks on TourThe evolution of ERP with generative AI technologyEnterprise Resource Planning (ERP) can be very complex and time-consuming. A lot will change with the introduction of generative AI; processes can be easily automated and made more efficient. We see the introduction of LLMs for analyzing data and processes and even offering solutions for upcoming problems. In this Techzine Talks episode, we talk to Nicky Tozer, vice president of Oracle NetSuite.Tozer gives insights into NetSuite's innovations, like text-enhance, which streamlines the creation of sales orders, customer campaigns, and support reports, offering substantial time savings. Learn from real-world implementations like Bloom and Wild, who...2024-08-0119 min