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Digital Sovereignty
28 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
While expanding regulatory requirements have been pushing developments in digital sovereignty, increasing levels of geopolitical concerns are driving ...
Quantum CEO Series: Amir Naveh
21 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The next episode of our Quantum CEO series looks at the software development stack for quantum computing and how quantum software is developed. Co-fou...
Quantum CEO Series – Dr. Theau Peronnin
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The next in our Quantum CEO series looks at the nature of a fundamental element of quantum computing – the qubit. Dr. Theau Peronnin, cofounder and ...
Quantum CEO Series: Alan Baratz
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We kick off the next in our CEO series with a look at quantum computing. Alan Baratz is the CEO of D-Wave and he joins host Eric Hanselman to explore ...
Mobile World Congress Review
31 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
While the annual gathering of all things telecom might have been dampened by geopolitical impacts, Mobile World Congress was still a hotbed of everyth...
Putting Agents To Work
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We're well underway in the integration of agents into various enterprise workflows, but there are many questions about where and how they can be used ...
The RSAC Conference – Agents on The Loose
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The RSAC Conference, a major cybersecurity gathering in the spring, is coming up and the impacts of agents will be on full display. Scott Crawford, Br...
CEO Series: Technosylva With Bryan Spear
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Wildfires have grabbed the headlines recently and AI is being put to work to assess risk aid strategic planning in reducing events. The next in our CE...
CEO series: Agents and context with Douwe Kiela
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We continue our CEO series with Douwe Kiela, the CEO of Contextual AI, who is addressing the challenges of building effective agentic applications. Th...
CEO Series: AI and Supply Chains with Francisco Martin-Rayo
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The next in our series of discussions with CEO's of companies that are putting AI to work has Fransico Martin-Rayo of Helios discussing the agricultur...
CEO Series Kick Off: AI and Energy Markets with Sean Kelly
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We're kicking off a new series of discussions with CEO's of companies that are putting AI to work to tackle complex problems. Sean Kelly of Amperon jo...
AI data
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
There are such significant changes going on in how data is managed and in how AI manages data, that it's not always clear which requirements are drivi...
The NRF conference
03 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The National Retail Federation's annual NRF conference has become a showplace for the latest technology, as well its core retail foundations. Sheryl K...
Agentic AI Use Cases
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The choice of use cases in AI has a significant impact on achieving on project outcomes. The latest results of the 451 Research Voice of the Enterpris...
A Wild Earnings Season
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We're just out of the recent earnings season and we've seen a wild range of results and some interesting implications. Melissa Otto CFA, head of S&P G...
The Agentic Enterprise
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
For the 250th episode, we're looking a bit further forward to explore what enterprises should be thinking about as they look to put agentic capabiliti...
AWS re:Inforce conference
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This year's AWS re:Inforce conference was larger and fueled by greater agentic capabilities. Part of the 451 Research team that was at the conference,...
SC25 Supercomputing conference
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Supercomputing has shifted from an esoteric and exotic part of technology to much more mainstream, mostly driven by AI. The massive amounts of computa...
Security and Observability
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The worlds of IT security and operations are being pulled together and AI is a catalyst that's making it happen. The focus on observability that's bee...
Context Engineering
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As organizations have worked to leverage the power of AI in interacting with large language models, they've invested in prompt engineering to generate...
The Big Picture Reports
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The latest Big Picture reports are out and cover a wide range of topics from financial markets to supply chains and onward to technology and AI. Two o...
Agentic Customer Experience
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the holiday shopping season gets into full swing, this year thoughts are turning to agents and the changing role of AI in commerce. Sheryl Kingston...
Money 20/20
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One of the biggest banking and payments conferences, Money 20/20, has wrapped up and the enthusiasm for all things stablecoin has continued. Jordan Mc...
Open Compute Project Summit
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The equipment that fills data centers is evolving rapidly, driven by the need to fulfill the seemingly insatiable appetite of AI applications. The Ope...
Security Gravity
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There are many ways to frame conversations around cyber security. They can take on many aspects of security, ranging across the technical to the human...
Is there an AI bubble?
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The enthusiasm for AI has been impressive and it's leading to the inevitable questions about whether or not all of it is warranted. Melissa Otto CFA, ...
Stablecoins
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The world of cryptocurrencies has seen no shortage of upheaval, but regulatory clarity that has arrived with recent legislation has created opportunit...
Industrial Metaverse
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Some might think that the metaverse has been a passing technology fad, but rumors of its demise are greatly exaggerated. While the language may have s...
HR Tech
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Managing the capabilities of an organization's workforce is challenging in the best of times, but the current upheaval created by AI technologies ente...
Data Migration
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Getting data to where it's needed has always been an infrastructure challenge, but the scope and scale of the problem has become much more acute as da...
AI Infrastructure
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To get to the benefits that AI offers, organizations have to address their technology infrastructure in ways that are much broader than historical app...
Broadcom VMware Explore Conference
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The annual gathering on infrastructure virtualization that is the VMware by Broadcom Explore conference has wrapped up and there are important takeawa...
Data Integration for AI
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can you have too much data for an AI application? In the mad dash to collect the raw material for AI applications, it can be tempting to pull in as mu...
The ONUG Tech Community
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The typical process of deploying technology has been one of enterprises designing infrastructure around vendor capabilities. The Open Networking Users...
Black Hat and DefCon
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The annual "security summer camp" that is made up of the Black Hat and DefCon conferences is just past and the security analyst team, Scott Crawford, ...
FinTech Advances
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The FinTech market has seen considerable upheaval in activity and valuations. But spring may be coming to the funding winter that FinTech has seen and...
The Creator Economy
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While advertising is a fundamental part of business, the creator economy has become a fundamental part of advertising. Analyst Zach Ciampa joins host ...
Advertising and Tech
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Advertising is fundamental part of business and it's one that has been buffeted by the impacts of technology in both the path to markets and the manag...
Managed Security Services
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Effective security management has never been simple and the expanded threat landscape enhanced by AI has only widened the gap between defenders and at...
Kagan Media and Telecom Summit
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The annual Kagan Media and Telecom Summit in New York is in the books and it not only covered a lot of market activity, but it was also surrounded by ...
Security for MCP
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) specification has helped to accelerate access to a wide range of data sources for AI applications. But there are ques...
Context Around MCP
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Linking generative AI models to the agents that are going to use them now has a standard for queries, the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Suddenly all s...
Developer Experience and Automation
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Developer experience is one of the areas where AI applications are showing significant return on investment, but there are significant hurdles to over...
FinOps – Managing Cloud and AI Costs
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Managing IT costs has always been challenging and the FinOps movement is working to tackle this problem. Analysts Jean Atelsek and Melanie Posey retur...
Datacenter Slowdown?
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A set of questions are being asked about whether the velocity of datacenter build outs is wavering. Analyst Dan Thompson returns to the podcast to exp...
Personal Data
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the rush to build out AI applications, a full understanding of the dynamics of personal data management can be difficult to achieve. As we kick off...
Risk to Resilience
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Around the globe, municipalities are facing a set of challenges managing the impacts of more extreme weather, while addressing aging infrastructure an...
AI and Storage
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With all of the drama associated with AI, it's easy to miss the need to understand the foundations that deliver the data that is the raw element from ...
Technology at the NAB Show
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The annual NAB Show delivered a more fully digital ecosystem when it convened in Las Vegas this year. While traditional broadcast technologies are sti...
Rugby Season and Media Rights
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The game of Rugby is having a moment on the global stage. It's attracting investment and growing its fan base and audiences. The Six Nations competiti...
RSA Conference Preview
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The annual RSA Conference on information security is coming up and it arrives during a very active security market. Analysts Garrett Bekker, Dan Kenne...
KubeCon and Cloud Native
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cloud native patterns and open source developments were on display at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe conference. The biannual gathering was showi...
AI and Privacy
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The many impacts of AI extend across business and consumer interests and issues around privacy are some of the broadest. Analyst Paige Bartley returns...
NVIDIA GTC Bursts at the Seams
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's come a long way from its game developer roots and the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2025 edition was so well attended, it was straining ...
M&A in 2025
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The M&A markets are in a tough situation. Transactions are harder to get done and exits just not happening. To sort out where this is all going, Scott...
Satellite Market Perspectives
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The arrival of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite capabilities is changing broadband market dynamics as it increases capacity and improves performance. M...
Datacenters and Energy Markets in Europe
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The demand for power driven by datacenter expansion is a global challenge and European markets are responding with some interesting aspects. With ther...
Smart Spaces
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So much of the world around us is sensing and controlling with data, but it's not often coordinated. Smart spaces technologies put that data to work a...
Mobile World Congress preview
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mobile World Congress, the annual gathering of telecom industry players, has expanded to embrace a broad range of technology and this year's event wil...
NVIDIA quarterly earnings
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Of the many companies that are part of the AI wave, NVIDIA has been at the core of AI infrastructure and a darling of the markets. Their performance i...
Agentic AI Impacts
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The next phase of the AI wave is the arrival of agentic AI – where agents can take action on a user's behalf. That's enough of a big deal, but when ...
Ethical AI Data
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ethical concerns about the use of AI have to start with training data. Too often, the primary concern is simply generating sufficient data, rather tha...
NRF conference shows AI challenges and rewards
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The National Retail Federation conference (NRF) launches just as retailers are cleaning up from the holiday shopping season. This year there was a foc...
Consumer Electronics at CES
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The annual technology fest that kicks off of the year, the CES conference (formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show), showcased the latest cons...
Women's Sports and Media Rights
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sports media are in the middle of a significant transition, as streaming media companies compete with traditional linear broadcasters. The Netflix dea...
Tech Futures in the New Year
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the old Danish proverb goes, it is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future, but we're going to kick off the New Year with an exp...
Drones Everywhere
31 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mysterious lights are seen in the sky above New Jersey, throwing many into a panic. Is this the current concern about drones or the War of the Worlds ...
Ethical AI
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the rush to deliver data to AI projects, it's all to easy for teams to pull data that's most easily accessible, without given consideration to its ...
Data pipelines for AI
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Enterprises are wrestling with delivering data to fuel their AI efforts, hitting roadblocks around data security and privacy concerns and sifting thro...
Managing Third Party Risk
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Much of business success depends on successfully managing risk, but that includes not only those aspects under direct control, but also the risks in r...
Datacenter Markets
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The excitement swirling around AI often obscures the infrastructure that makes it possible. Since long before AI was at the forefront of technology di...
The Big Picture Reports
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The annual Big Picture Reports are out and they span the breadth and depth of our research areas, including capital markets, commodities, commerci...
Insights from Money 20/20 US
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fresh from the 12th annual Money 20/20 US conference, Jordan McKee and McKayla Wooldridge return to the podcast to discuss all things FinTech with hos...
Technology Demand Indicator
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There is continuing positive sentiment among technology buyers, a trend that's continued for a fourth quarter. Sheryl Kingstone and Liam Eagle return ...
Sports Media
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As the seasons shift gears, there's activity happening off the playing fields with sports media deals that are getting teams on their feet. Analysts S...
Payments and Security
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As the payment industry works to address security and fraud, they're moving beyond being consumers of security technology and becoming acquirers. Mast...
Human Resources Technology
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If your view of the technology that drives the human resources end of business is mostly hiring, firing and time off management, your head would have ...
Cloud Native Application Security
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As cloud-based infrastructure becomes a larger part of enterprise portfolios, there's greater focus on securing it effectively. Analyst Mark Ehr joins...
Datacenter and Energy Innovation Summit
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The energy impacts of technology have been a concern for some time, but the rapid growth of AI has added additional pressure and speculation about the...
B2B Payments Technology and Markets
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're all familiar with consumer payments technology in its various forms, but business transactions have a different set of requirements and a very d...
Consumer Tech Evolution
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The primary exposure to advances in technology for most is in the consumer world. Phones, video and gaming are driven by the latest innovations, but h...
Dreamforce Preview
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The flagship event for Salesforce, its Dreamforce conference, returns to San Francisco and some of the 451 Research analyst team who will be there joi...
Exploring Broadcom VMware
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The annual VMware Explore conference kicked off in Las Vegas in a new situation with the company now being part of Broadcom, after its acquisition. 4...
Total Available Markets
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To predicate a business decision on the risk and potential reward, it's important to understand the size of the reward. Correctly estimating the Total...
Lighting Up Fiber
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Connectivity had been having a moment through the pandemic, but the urgent need for high-performance interconnection has rolled back a bit and fiber ...
Datacenters and Energy Utilities
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The soaring estimates for energy demand are impacting utilities, datacenters and the companies that rely on both of them. Sustainability targets are ...
Kagan Media Summit
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For the first time since the pandemic, the Kagan Media and Telecom Summit was back in person in New York, with a packed agenda looking at topics rangi...
The Cloud Price Index
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With larger portions of IT budgets being consumed by cloud, there's a greater imperative to understand the nature of price, value and availability of ...
Datacenters and AI
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Generative AI is having far reaching impacts on datacenters and new data shedding light on the nature and extent of the impacts. Analysts Melissa Ince...
Challenges in Critical Infrastructure Security
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There's substantial cybersecurity risk in critical infrastructure and addressing it is a complex problem that involves regulatory and private sector e...
Metaverse Advances
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rumors of the demise of the metaverse have circulated widely, but the latest revenue numbers and market activity are showing that it's recovering from...
Open Source Innovation
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Over a decade ago, Marc Andreessen said that software was eating the world and today we could easily say that open source is eating the software world...
Phishing Deep Dive
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While most of us have a basic understanding of phishing, the email attack tactic that's been with us for years, attack techniques and the attacker com...
IT Buying Sentiment Stays Positive
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
IT buying sentiment has remained positive in the latest edition of the 451 Research Tech Demand Indicator study. It showed a strong start to 2024, but...
Concerns About Fraud Drive AI Investment
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Recent study results are identifying where AI is being put to work and how customers and end users are reacting to its use. Sheryl Kingstone, head of ...
Corporate Language Analysis in Pride Month
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sentiment analysis is a common use case for large language models in generative AI and we're kicking off Pride Month with a discussion of a recent stu...
AI's Impact on Datacenter Power
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The power required to fuel the wave of generative AI use could be massive, but there are many factors that will determine when the crest of that deman...
AI Data Strategies
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As organizations push to realize the benefits of AI, they are increasingly challenged to deliver the necessary data to fuel their initiatives. While m...
Bonus Episode: RSA Conference Special Report
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this special report from the RSA Conference, we hear from seven of the team who were there at the event. It's a set of quick takes on the latest tr...
FinOps and Battle for Cloud Costs
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The flexibility and adaptability of cloud-based infrastructure brings great value to enterprises, but most have been wrestling with managing cloud cos...