The Enterprise AI Show

Can AI Agents be held Accountable?

20 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

SUMMARY: As AI Agents are being brought into complex, regulated workflows, we explore the importance of accountability and accuracy, and how platforms...

Enabling AI Governance for M365

17 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

SUMMARY: As AI agents become embedded in everyday work, Microsoft 365 governance is no longer a back-office compliance exercise. it’s the “tractio...

An AI Market Analysis, May 2026

13 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

SUMMARY: RIP Reasoning, hello The Enterprise AI Show. We do a point-in-time analysis of the AI market for May 2026, across 11 major categories. SHOW:...

AI, Data Centers, and the Power Crunch

10 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

SUMMARY: We  explore one of the most overlooked bottlenecks in the AI boom: energy and infrastructure and  why power availability is becoming the li...

AI News of the Month for April 2026

06 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

SUMMARY:  Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, Software Defined Talk and Failover Media) discuss the biggest AI news stories f...

The 2026 AI Draft

03 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

SUMMARY: Draft guru Brandon Whichard (Software Defined Talk) joins us for the inaugural AI Draft, where we predict the next year of AI winners, losers...

Halt & Retool: Rewriting Software Development in the Age of AI Agents

29 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

SUMMARY: Exploring how to fully embrace AI-driven, agent-based software development, resulting in dramatically increased productivity and faster featu...

The Zero-CVE Mirage: Hardening Software in the Age of AI Attacks

26 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

SUMMARY: How software development is rapidly evolving in the age of AI and automation. Matt Moore shares how his team is rethinking secure software su...

The Grid’s Breaking Point: Can AI Save the Infrastructure It’s About to Crash?

22 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

SUMMARY: How real-time power flow optimization at the edge is helping data centers and the electrical grid handle surging AI energy demands more effic...

Getting Shadow IT under control

19 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

SUMMARY: Shadow AI is growing much faster than known AI adoption across businesses. How can IT teams get Shadow AI under control?GUEST: Uri Haramati, ...

Is Coding a Solved Problem?

15 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

SUMMARY: Have we reached a point where coding is a solved problem? And if so, what are the downstream effects on companies that need software to diffe...

Understanding RAG Systems

12 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

SUMMARY: The RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) pattern is one of the most frequently used to augment LLMs with context-specific information. Let’...

AllStacks (temp)

08 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

SUMMARY:  Discover how AI is transforming software development and what it means for engineering leaders. GUEST: Jeff Keyes, Field CTO at AllStacks ...

AI SRE for Complex Systems

05 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

SUMMARY: With the explosion of AI-generated code and applications, the modern SRE requires an AI-native approach to managing complex systems. GUEST: ...

The Future of Service belongs to Self-Improving AI

01 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

SUMMARY:  Today’s episode is all about a transformation happening in customer service—one that’s moving us from static systems and scripted wor...

AI News of the Month for March 2026

29 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

SUMMARY:  Brian (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, Software Defined Talk and Failover Media) discuss the biggest AI news stories from the ...

Living the Claude-centric Life

25 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

SUMMARY: Brandon Whichard shares his journey into AI with a focus on Claude, exploring how it transforms productivity, coding, and daily workflows. Th...

Three Thoughts from NVIDIA GTC 2026

22 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

SUMMARY: Brian digs into Jensen’s NVIDIA GTC 2026 keynote and highlights three things - accelerated computing for everything, the complexity of the ...

Kagenti - A Kubernetes Control Plane for AI Agents

18 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

SUMMARY: Morgan Foster talks about the Kagenti project, which enables an AI Agentic agnostic framework for security, authentication, identity and zero...

Code Red

15 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

SUMMARY: Brian talks about the rapidly expanding gap between people and companies that augment their work with AI and those who are making AI the cent...

Inside OpenClaw and Open Source Innovation

11 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

SUMMARY: Sally O’Malley (Principle Software Engineer @RedHat, Maintainter @OpenClaw) talks about her early experiences of immersing herself into Ope...

Understanding NeoClouds with Crusoe

08 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Erwan Menard - SVP Product Management @Crusoe talks about… SHOW: 1008SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1008 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: SPONSORS:VENT...

What is an AI Agent?

04 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

OVERVIEW: Welcome to The Reasoning Show! We dig into one of the foundational building blocks of modern Generative AI, the AI Agent. So what is an AI A...

AI & Cloud News of the Month - Feb 2026

28 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This episode marks the transition from The Cloudcast to The Reasoning Show, focusing more on AI and cloud topics. Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brando...

How The Cloudcast is changing in 2026?

25 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron and Brian discuss how The Cloudcast will be changing going forward, signaling an industry shift from Cloud Computing to AI.  SHOW: 1005SHOW TRA...

What's Your Token Budget?

22 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This episode explores the evolving economics of AI development, the rising costs associated with AI agents, and the implications for businesses and de...

Evaluating AI Models in 2026

18 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron and Brian review some of the latest AI model releases and discuss how they would evaluate them through the lens of an Enterprise AI Architect. ...

Three AI Rooms to be a Fly on the Wall in 2026

15 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

As we move into Q1 2026, Brian talks about 3 rooms where he'd like to be a fly on wall to see the blueprints of significant AI companies shaping ...

What do we wish we knew about the next 3 years of AI?

11 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron and Brian explore the evolving landscape of AI over the next three years, discussing its economic implications, political influences, technologi...

The Economics of Software Developers

08 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

If someone walked into your office today and asked you to build a framework for how to value software development, what would you think about it? SHO...

The Future of Enterprise Software?

04 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Are we ready to move into an era of wild predictions about where the future of Enterprise software is headed in 2026 and beyond? SHOW: 999SHOW TRANSC...

The Rise of Digital Sovereignty

01 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

We take a listener question about digital sovereignty, tariffs and UK/EU independence from large US cloud providers, also Brian reaches out to the Mel...

AI & Cloud Trends for January 2026

28 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron Delp (@aarondelp), Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from Ja...

10 Questions about what Cloud 2.0 might look like

25 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Following on the discussion of the Cloud 1.0 to Cloud 2.0 transition, we explore what that future cloud might look like. SHOW: 996SHOW TRANSCRIPT: Th...

The Cloudcast Playbook - Lessons from 1000 Shows

21 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

After 1000+ shows of The Cloudcast, when critical lessons have we learned about the industry, our our journey, and tips for anyone in tech. SHOW: 995...

It's the beginning of Cloud 2.0

18 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

15 years ago, when we started The Cloudcast the definition of cloud was pretty clear cut. But now in 2026, the rules are all different and a new era o...

RAG That Survives Production

14 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

SHOW: 992SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #992 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - &...

20 Years of OSS Databases

07 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Zairsev (@PeterZaitsev, Founder of @Percona) talks about the history of OSS databases, and how AI is reshaping the demands on modern databases. ...

AI & Cloud Trends for December 2025

04 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron Delp (@aarondelp), Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from De...

Cloud and AI Predictions for 2026

31 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron and Brian make some bold predictions for the 2026 Cloud and AI markets, as well as reviewing the biggest issues going into 2026.  SHOW: 989SHOW...

The Craziest Year (so far) comes to a close

28 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A lot changed in the world of Cloud and AI this year. And then it changed some more, and some more, and so more. The only constant was change. SHOW: ...

2025 State of AI in Review

24 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron and Brian review the Year in AI, hand out AI awards, and discuss the biggest AI trends from 2025. Maybe a few predictions will be made as well.S...

How AGI will change Everything, Everywhere

21 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If an AGI falls in the woods and nobody can define it, did it actually fall? This week we make an exact prediction of when AGI will happen, and the 10...

2025 State of Cloud in Review

17 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron and Brian review the Year in Cloud, hand out Cloud awards, and discuss the biggest cloud trends from 2025. Maybe a few predictions will be made ...

Will there be a market for expert AI agents?

14 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How difficult will it be to train and build an AI Agent that has expertise in a given domain? Will it happen in the next year, or 3 years or 10 years?...

How AI is evolving Enterprise Infrastructure

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dan McConnell (Senior VP Product Management at @HitachiVantara) talks about how Enterprise infrastructure is having to evolve to keep up with the data...

The Future of PaaS

07 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's been nearly a decade since the last evolution of the PaaS platform, but AI has the potential to reshape and evolve this value concept. Let&a...

AI & Cloud Trends for November 2025

03 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from November 2025.SHOW: 981SHOW...

Things to be Thankful for

30 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As the Thanksgiving weekend passes, let's look at some technology things that we're thankful for and excited about. SHOW: 980SHOW TRANSCRIP...

Time Series for AI

26 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SHOW: 979SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #979 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - &...

After NVIDIA's Latest Earnings

23 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Once again NVIDIA had a record earnings quarter (Q3FY26), but the strength of their on-going success will be dependent on many factors that may or may...

Shadow AI

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SHOW: 977Rohan Sathe (@rssathe, CEO @NightfallAI) discusses the rise of Shadow AI, where employees unknowingly leak sensitive corporate data through g...

Rational and Irrational AI numbers

16 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is the current level of AI funding and investment rational or irrational? Is it possible that it’s both at the same time? Let’s look at some numbe...

2025 State of APIs

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

James Higginbotham (@launchany) discusses the evolution of API usage across developers, modern applications and APIs. SHOW: 975SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The C...

All the new AI stuff all at once

09 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the history of technology era changes, things tend to change slowly at first, and then quickly all at once. We’ve now reached the beginning of th...

AI & Cloud Trends for October 2025

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from October 2025.SHOW: 973SHOW ...

Is Amazon the new Cisco?

02 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Patterns in technology tend to eventually repeat themselves (or at least rhyme), and Amazon is beginning to repeat some of the patterns of Cisco from ...

AI Data Analytics

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Soham Mazumdar, CEO @WisdomAI_inc, discusses how organizations can break free from the "drowning in data but starving for insights" paradox ...

Does Your AI Project Need Help?

26 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Why are 95% of AI projects struggling to create positive ROI, according to a recent MIT study? Do businesses need help getting those first few AI proj...

The Intersection of Cybersecurity and AI

22 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Monzy Merza (@monzymerza, CEO/Founder @Crogl) talks about build a next-generation Enterprise SOC by leveraging AI to stay ahead of Cybersecurity threa...

Something's Gotta Give on AI Economics

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when the biggest technology trend is built on economics that don't make any sense when viewed end-to-end? Eventually, some aspect ha...

Agentic AI Coding & Predictive Software Quality

15 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Animesh Koratana (@akoratana, Founder of @playerzero_ai) discusses how agentic AI is transforming software quality assurance through predictive code s...

The 5-10-85 Reality of Enterprise AI

12 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Three years since the launch of ChatGPT, what does the landscape of Enterprise AI look like today? What’s working, what’s struggling and what’s ...

Using AI Reasoning to Prevent AI Scams

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Alan Lefort (CEO, @StrongestLayer) discusses how LLM-powered reasoning is transforming phishing security from reactive pattern-matching to predictive ...

Will Cloud Providers start acquiring SaaS?

05 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As cloud matures, could the hyperscale cloud providers start looking to acquire SaaS providers to build out a bundled application portfolio? Or are th...

AI & Cloud Trends for September 2025

01 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from September 2025.SHOW: 963SHO...

The AI Awkward Years

28 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Between the bold predictions, VC economics, and rising usage-patterns are stories of limited ROIs, undefined use-cases and associated job losses. AI i...

AI Agents for Unstructured Data

24 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Stephan Donze (@sdonze CEO @AODocs), discusses the enterprise unstructured data crisis, where 80% of business data remains untapped due to legacy syst...

Two Obseervations about Smart People and AI

21 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How is it possible that smart people both love and hate AI? Does it matter how smart you are, or just how you interact with AI? SHOW: 960SHOW TRANSCR...

The Return of Bare Metal?

17 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Todd Robinson, Founder and President of OpenMetal.io, discusses the resurgence of bare metal infrastructure driven by AI workloads, digital sovereignt...

Exploring Oracle Cloud's Evolution

14 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How did Oracle Cloud (with OpenAI) suddenly command the news cycle, with a chance to potentially overtake much larger clouds in a few years? Let’s e...

Kubernetes-native Continuous Testing

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ole Lensmar (@olensmar, Founder/CTO at @TestKube_io) discusses how Kubernetes-native testing platforms are designed to address limitations in traditio...

Where is the Android of AI?

07 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Apple’s iPhone had the Android ecosystem, but where is the Android of AI going to come from to challenge the OpenAI/NVIDIA duopoly? Let’s explore ...

AI & Cloud Trends for August 2025

03 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) Aaron Delp (@aarondelp) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from Aug...

Every Week Feels like an AI Gartner Hype Cycle

01 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From extreme ups to startling downs, every week can feel like the peak of expectations and the trough of disillusionment for AI.  SHOW: 954SHOW TRANS...

The Modernization of FinOps

27 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Amit Kinha - Field CTO @DoITInt | FinOps Foundation Board Member discusses how the relationship between technology and financial accountability has ev...

Transitioning from the Cloud era to the AI era

24 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As we begin to transition from the Cloud era to the AI era, what types of changes can we expect to see happen in the market, within our businesses, an...

Looking back on Industry Market Leaders

21 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After a very long roadtrip, let’s explore the lessons we can learn from some of the greatest business models in tech and how or if they apply to the...

Kubernetes in the Era of GPUs

20 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Haseeb Budhani (@haseebbudhani, CEO @rafaysystemsinc) discusses the evolution from traditional DevOps to platform engineering and what "Enterpris...

Enterprise AI Platforms

13 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Shay Levi (@shaylevi2, CEO @UnframeAI) & Larissa Schneider (COO @UnframeAI) discuss the complexities of building an enterprise-grade AI platform. ...

The beginning of Cloud 2.0 is here

10 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Are we beginning to see the dawn of a 2nd phase of Cloud Computing, as AI begins to become a workload that impacts every aspect of the previous era of...

AI & Cloud Trends for July 2025

06 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) Aaron Delp (@aarondelpt) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from Ju...

Is AWS entering their Hybrid phase?

03 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The hardest thing for any growing company to do is manage the transition from hypergrowth to the dual tracks of growth and stability. AWS is entering ...

Improving AI Through Data Quality

30 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Elliot Shmukler (@eshmu, Co-Founder/CEO @anomalo_hq) talks about the impact of data quality on AI, how unstructured data can be improved, and how moni...

How will Businesses react to AI Agent success?

27 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If the AI Agent hype ends up being real, how will businesses manage AI Agents from the perspective of people vs. non-people? SHOW: 944SHOW TRANSCRIPT...

Building Private GenAI stacks

23 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Luke Marsden (@lmarsden, CEO @HelixML) talks about Private GenAI. What is it? Why do you need it? We also discuss integration into CI/CD pipelines, th...

Should you join an AI Startup?

20 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If the rewards of a startup are only going to the founders and AI researchers, then what incentives are there for all the other roles? Has AI broken t...

Is Cursor having their Docker moment?

16 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard) discuss the big changes happening around AI developer-assistants, across Cursor, Windsurf,...

The Importance of Early AI Adoption

13 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the Enterprise, there is a spectrum forming of aggressive adopters and passive resistors to AI usage. While there are no best practices yet, C-suit...

Data Pipelines with Apache Airflow

09 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Julian LaNeve (@JulianLaneve, CTO @astronomerio) discusses data pipelines, Apache Airflow, Astronomer’s managed offering, and the benefits of data p...

A Mid-Year Cloud Check-In

06 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As we get to the mid-point of 2025, let’s take a look at where the cloud is - what’s doing well, what’s going through some changes, and what mig...

AI & Cloud Trends for June 2025

01 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from June 2025.SHOW: 937SHOW TRA...

AI-Native Applications vs. AI Add-On Applications

29 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As AI evolves into the Enterprise, will we see greater uptake of AI-native applications or AI add-on applications? Briandon Whichard (@bwhichard) and ...

Trustworthy AI Agents

25 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tanmai Gopal (@tanmaigo, CEO/Founder @HasuraQL) discusses the importance of reliability and trustworthiness for both generative and agentic AI. We dis...

The Rapid Change of Cloud Dynamics

22 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Are the dynamics of the hyperscale cloud providers changing? Will the leaders of the last decade continue for the next 3-5 years, or the next decade? ...

Expanding AI Agents with MCP Servers & API Platforms

18 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Simon Yu (Co-Founder @SpeakeasyDev) discusses the rise of MCP servers, API integration into AI systems, including SDK generation, and the emergence of...

Father's Day and First Jobs

15 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As Father's Day rolls around, we explore some tales from people taking on their first professional jobs, and how those lessons can relate to mana...

The State of Cloud Native for 2025

11 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tobi Knaup (@superguenter, VP/GM of Cloud Native @Nutanix) talks about the evolution of the cloud-native ecosystem, the intersection of AI and Kuberne...

There Ain't Gonna Be Any Middle Anymore

08 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As we try and predict the future, we explore the possibilities of technology augmenting or replacing the middle of the bell curve. What has history ta...

AI & Cloud Trends for May 2025

04 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from May 2025, including Google ...