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Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Matt Bailey, DevOps consultant and founder of Merge Ready. Matt shares lessons from helping large regulated organizations in finance, healthcare, and government transform their DevOps practices, and explains why DevOps is an outcome rather than a toolchain.

The tech industry is literally a different place every six months right now. Renen Hallak, CEO of @VASTData breaks down what that actually means for the people building inside it. Full Uplink episode is up now on our channel.

See how to configure Harness so that OPA policies are evaluated in your infrastructure.

What does it take to succeed in networking when complexity is constantly increasing, and change never slows down? In this episode of Next-Gen Network Heroes, host Bob Slevin sits down with Troy (David) MacDonald, a network engineer at Blue Origin and former U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer, to explore a career that spans from infantry beginnings to designing and managing large-scale, mission-critical networks.

Most people think great network engineers are defined by technical expertise. This episode challenges that idea. Because what Troy McDonald shows is that the real differentiator isn’t just technical skill—it’s the ability to translate complexity into clarity. From military operations to enterprise networks, one lesson keeps showing up.

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Your SIEM only holds a slice of your telemetry. Your data lake holds the rest. We'll show you how to use that to your advantage for investigations, threat hunting, and reporting. Why your data lake beats your SIEM for investigations – Your SIEM keeps a short window of expensive, filtered data. Your data lake keeps everything. When something goes wrong, that difference matters more than you think Threat hunting without the handcuffs – Hunting across months of data in a SIEM is painful and costly. We'll show you how a well-planned lake makes broad, deep searches practical and affordable.

Manchester is one of the UK’s leading tech ecosystems – but how did it get there? In this episode, Pulsant’s Wendy Shearer speaks with Katie Gallagher from Manchester Digital about Manchester’s rise as a powerhouse for UK tech, data sovereignty, innovation, talent and inclusive growth. Discover how the region has evolved from its strong industrial heritage into a thriving digital economy now home to major FTSE 100 companies and six unicorn businesses.

In this special episode of Agents of IT, the team dives into one of the biggest questions shaping enterprise AI right now: Is AI adoption moving faster than governance can keep up? Ari, Fran, Zach, and Ian break down the growing tension between agentic AI, automation, security, and oversight. From AI hallucinations and context overload to GRC challenges, shadow AI, and the future of AI governance roles, the conversation explores what enterprises need to consider as autonomous operations become reality.