Episodios

  • HS113: Bad Tech Romance: Five Signs You’re In an Abusive IT Relationship

    HS113: Bad Tech Romance: Five Signs You’re In an Abusive IT Relationship
    Sep 30 2025
    Sure, some days you hate your job. But how do you know when an IT position has gone from being run-of-the-mill annoying to truly toxic? And what do you do about it? Johna Johnson and John Burke are joined by Sandy Miller, a pseudonym for a CIO at a major global company who talks about... Read more »
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    41 m
  • HS112: Standardizing NaaS Service Definitions

    HS112: Standardizing NaaS Service Definitions
    Sep 16 2025
    Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) promises enterprises the ability to set up and configure connectivity and network security with a couple of clicks. But for NaaS to truly transform enterprise networking, one thing has been missing: standards. Enter Mplify (formerly the Metro Ethernet Forum), a non-profit focused on standardizing NaaS service definitions. Mplify’s CTO, Pascal Menezes, joins Johna... Read more »
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    38 m
  • HS111: When Someone Makes Your Cloud Service Go Poof!

    HS111: When Someone Makes Your Cloud Service Go Poof!
    Sep 2 2025
    The modern enterprise is built on cloud, with most organizations using SaaS for their “horizontal” work horse layers, such as communications, conferencing, HR, and payroll. That makes the enterprise entirely dependent on the good-faith execution and good-will delivery of the cloud providers. Those providers have a huge economic incentive to reliably deliver software – but... Read more »
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    38 m
  • HS110: Cryptocalypse Soon! The CRQCs Are Due Sooner Than We Thought

    HS110: Cryptocalypse Soon! The CRQCs Are Due Sooner Than We Thought
    Aug 19 2025
    Google now estimates that the specs for a Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computer (CRQC), which can break conventional public key encryption in a useful amount of time, are lower than they had previously estimated…by 95%. Given the breadth and pace of advancement in quantum computing, this makes the advent of the CRQC likely to happen years... Read more »
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    23 m
  • HS109: Is AI a Purchase or a Hire?

    HS109: Is AI a Purchase or a Hire?
    Aug 5 2025
    Is adding AI to your environment a software purchase? Or is it more like hiring an employee? Heavy Strategy’s John Burke and Johna Johnson debate whether AI should be treated as just another application you buy and use, or be handled like an employee you’re bringing on staff (complete with background and reference checks, training... Read more »
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    32 m
  • HS108: Keeping the (IT) House Clean to Avoid the Plague

    HS108: Keeping the (IT) House Clean to Avoid the Plague
    Jul 22 2025
    Whether it’s CNAME records pointing to dead endpoints or abandoned cloud storage buckets still mentioned in the makefile or Chef recipe, seemingly innocuous bits of infrastructure that don’t get cleaned up can turn into serious security threats. (Both of these examples are taken from real-life attacks, BTW). When and how and who within IT should... Read more »
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    24 m
  • HS107: Your (Late) New Years Resolution: Follow Your (Amended) Strategy

    HS107: Your (Late) New Years Resolution: Follow Your (Amended) Strategy
    Jul 1 2025
    Here we are, a bit more than halfway through the year. How’s your execution against your strategy going? Roiled by the economy? Disrupted by tariffs? Thrown off by staff retirements? If you built a proper technology strategy in the first place, driven by the business strategy, then no matter what is happening don’t ignore it,... Read more »
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    32 m
  • HS106: Planning for the Epochalypse

    HS106: Planning for the Epochalypse
    Jun 17 2025
    IT teams deal with technology lifecycle issues all the time–including Y2K, which enterprises across the world grappled with for years. The Epochalypse, or Year 2038 Problem, is similar. Specifically, some Linux systems’ date-time counters will go from positive to negative at a specific date in 2038, potentially wreaking havoc on embedded systems and any other... Read more »
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    28 m