The ITPro Podcast
Episodes
March rundown: RSAC and Arm's AGI CPU
27 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In March the clocks change, Spring begins to show its face, and many companies e...
Has Apple stolen the budget laptop market?
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Apple made waves at the start of March with the launch of the MacBook Neo, its first budget laptop. As RAM prices skyrocket, businesses are under pres...
SPECIAL EDITION: How AI is changing education
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most commonly-touted benefits of AI is its ability to cut down toil and give workers more time to focus on valuable tasks.Few professionals...
Tomorrow's fraud techniques
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Fraud has evolved leaps and bounds in the past few years, with new technology and more digitally-native businesses than ever providing the ideal attac...
Will AI hiring entrench gender bias?
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Women are still greatly underrepresented in STEM. The latest figures from the Women Tech Network show women only make up around 26-27% of the STEM wor...
February rundown: SaaS-pocalypse now?
27 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
February is the shortest month, but you wouldn’t know it from the sheer amount of news that’s broken in just the past 26 days.Amid growing fears o...
Going all-in on digital sovereignty
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Digital sovereignty has quietly become one of the most urgent requirements in the tech sector. Once a matter for policy debate, this is now a critical...
SPECIAL EDITION: Redefining risk management
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Risk management is a constant point of concern in the modern enterprise, with cybersecurity threats, compliance pressures, and financial leaps of fait...
Classic episode: We need to talk about operational technology
13 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was first published on 18 July 2025.Cyber attacks can feel a layer detached from the real world. Yes, businesses frequently see IP stolen...
The agentic identity crisis
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Identity controls in the enterprise have only become more complicated over the last few years. Initially, the focus was on IoT devices, which were exp...
January rundown: Amazon layoffs and the return of XPS
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
January is supposed to be a month full of new starts and potential, in which we try to embrace resolutions or set out our plans for the year ahead.But...
Building a secure payments strategy
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Every business wants its payments to process smoothly. Simply put, if you’re introducing friction into your payment processes, you’re making it ha...
SPECIAL EDITION: Mitigating bad bots
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
One of the major challenges of today’s environments is the rising tide of bots, with generative AI driving a new era of the technology.Bots have bee...
Are hyperscalers backing out of Net Zero?
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The environmental impact of AI is a growing area of study and one that businesses must begin to seriously consider.When you power a data center with c...
CES 2026: All in on AI hardware?
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The tech sector started this year with a bang at CES 2026, the annual event that brings together over 140,000 attendees to share the latest innovation...
Are AI cyber threats overhyped?
09 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We’re just over a week into 2026 but already, enterprise cybersecurity teams will be hard at work repelling attacks – and business leaders will be...
The trends we're watching in 2026
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
2025 has almost come to a close and the new year is right around the corner.At this time of year, it’s usual to reflect on the year and consider som...
The 2025 that didn't happen
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
2025 has almost come to a close and the new year is right around the corner.At this time of year, it’s usual to reflect on the year and consider som...
The future of threat detection
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cybersecurity teams are facing a double edged sword of challenges and opportunities. On the one hand, AI tools offer a great deal of autonomous workin...
TPUs: Google's home advantage
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the race to train and deploy generative AI models, companies have poured hundreds of billions of dollars into GPUs, chips that have become essentia...
On the ground at HPE Discover Barcelona 2025
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
HPE Discover Barcelona 2025 was in full swing this past week, with thousands of attendees descending on the Fira Barcelona to hear the latest news on ...
November rundown: CrowdStrike's insider threat
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As a business leader, you’d like to believe that your staff are entirely trustworthy. Effective enterprises run on workforce confidence – but in s...
Why do AI projects fail?
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It seems that everywhere you look these days, businesses are implementing AI features, tools, chatbots, and pilots. But researchers keep coming to the...
SPECIAL EDITION: Partnering to solve legacy cloud challenges
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The dream of every small-to-medium business is to harness one’s success and turn it into sustainable growth – expanding operations, hiring more wo...
Classic episode: Can better connectivity boost rural business?
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was first published on 10 January 2025.Anyone who works outside of a major city, or has ever tried to get work done while on a trip to a ...
Inside a cloud outage
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The end of October was punctuated with a series of major cloud outages, first at AWS and then at Microsoft, bringing a wide range of websites and busi...
SPECIAL EDITION: The trillion dollar services opportunity
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The global services market is expected to grow at 8% compound annual growth between now and 2028, representing a $1.7 trillion opportunity.But partner...
October rundown: AWS chaos and supercomputers surging
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Halloween! And what better way to mark the day than discuss one of the biggest horror stories of October?We are of course referring to the AWS ...
Has business hardware peaked?
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Business software is evolving faster than ever before, with advancements such as AI spurring developers to introduce new ways of working and interacti...
Dreamforce 2025: What's an agentic OS?
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
San Francisco has played host this week to one of the biggest tech conferences of the year, Salesforce Dreamforce. The stalwart event has seamlessly t...
Are AI PCs becoming the norm?
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The rise in popularity of generative AI has been centered largely around cloud AI, with popular chatbots and models accessed via API or dedicated webs...
Is vibe coding the future?
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As developers have embraced AI to a greater degree, many have hailed the rise of so called vibe coding, in which broad prompts are given to AI models ...
SPECIAL EDITION: Turning business data into business value
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In modern businesses, your data is your value. This is not a new concept, but it can be a struggle to understand where to start when it comes to harne...
September rundown: The UK becomes an AI playground
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The UK has immense AI potential, according to some of the biggest names in tech, with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang having described the region as being in ...
Getting a grip on digital identity
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Identity management in security has been a difficult issue for many years, but the arrival of AI and AI agents has only complicated this picture. ...
SPECIAL EDITION: Bridging the data disconnect
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial intelligence has made data more useful and accessible to businesses than ever, but if businesses want to get the most from their data they ...
Is all-photonics the future of networking?
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The flow of data is core to businesses all around the world – how much can be transmitted, and at what speed, is a fundamental aspect of IT systems ...
Let’s talk about digital sovereignty
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Digital sovereignty is an issue that has been bubbling away in the background of IT for some time but doesn’t often see the limelight. In this episo...
August rundown: Are AI job losses a fantasy?
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a recent episode of the podcast, we discussed the potential for AI to actually replace developer jobs. This is a complicated issue, as one has to c...
Classic episode: How can we support CISOs better?
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was first published on 13/10/23.The role of chief information security officer is among the most important in any firm. CISOs shoulder a ...
Can cyber group takedowns last?
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Every now and then, international law enforcement announces a stunning takedown of a cyber crime group.Typically realized in the form of website shutd...
Will devs lose their jobs to AI?
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For years, we humanities graduates have been told variations of the following message: you’re better off learning to code, because we’ll always ne...
July rundown: Salt Typhoon and SharePoint scares
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the old saying goes, it never rains but it pours. And, seeing how we’re based in the UK, it would be fitting that the month this most accurately ...
Can the UK ban ransomware payments?
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ransomware payments could soon be a thing of the past in the UK – at least that’s the hope of new controls and mandatory reporting requirements to...
We need to talk about operational technology
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cyber attacks can feel a layer detached from the real world. Yes, businesses frequently see IP stolen, get frozen out of systems, or have data wiped b...
SPECIAL EDITION: Future-proofing AI infrastructure
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As organizations race to train more and more advanced AI models, as well as deploy existing models at scale, an enormous amount of time and money is b...
Google Cloud Summit London 2025: Practical AI deployment
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The level to which firms are already using AI varies according to technological maturity, strategic focus, and on an industry by industry basis.But wh...
Classic episode: AI’s thirsty secret
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was first broadcast on 20 September 2024.When people talk about the environmental impacts of data centers, normally the discussion focuse...
SPECIAL EDITION: The evolution from robots to agents
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re looking to adopt AI right now, you’ll likely have heard the term ‘AI agents’. These systems can complete complex tasks autonomously,...
June rundown: 2,000 missing devices and why threat groups are being renamed
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
June has been another busy month for IT and technology news. Whether it’s new naming conventions for cybercriminal groups, Britain’s big tech pote...
Are reasoning models fundamentally flawed?
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI reasoning models have emerged in the past year as a beacon of hope for large language models (LLMs), with AI developers such as OpenAI, Google, and...
SPECIAL EDITION: Data integration for open table formats
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Any modern enterprise generates reams of data, which can be difficult to correctly store, process, and use without the right approach.This has become ...
RSAC Conference 2025: The front line of cyber innovation
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the fast-changing world of cybersecurity, IT leaders have to keep up with evolving threats and new technologies to stay ahead of attackers.With nat...
Where is the cloud headed?
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’re past the peak cloud hype of the 2010s and now well into the era of cloud maturity. But even as businesses have come to terms with multi-cloud ...
Java celebrates its 30th birthday and more Microsoft developer layoffs
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
May has been a busy month for news in the IT world, with cyber attacks hitting retailers across the UK and Microsoft laying off over 800 developers.In...
Dell Technologies World 2025: All in on AI
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dell Technologies World has just come to a close in Las Vegas and there is no doubt that the company is – in its own words “all in on AI”. From ...
Classic episode: What’s the future of data storage?
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was first broadcast on 22 March 2024.As technological innovations happen, it can be easy to forget that even the most complex systems rel...
SAS Innovate 2025: Pursuing pragmatic AI
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do you do when you want to get your enterprise data into a usable format? And how can you make better use of the data you already use, through th...
RSAC Conference 2025: AI and quantum complicate security
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
RSAC Conference 2025 has been full on, with cybersecurity experts from all over the world descending on San Francisco to share trends, data, and annou...
April rundown: MITRE frights and Microsoft launches Recall (again)
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
April has been a busy month for tech news – we recorded this episode with a week left in the month, but there’s already so much to discuss.A major...
Putting small language models under the microscope
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve spent the past few years discussing large language models, the huge AI models that power a lot of the generative AI tools that have dominated ...
Google Cloud Next 2025: Targeting easy AI
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Las Vegas has been taken over by Google Cloud this week, with Google Cloud Next 2025 in full flow. There have already been a number of headline grabbi...
Is the IT service desk dying out?
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When something goes wrong with IT at work, chances are you’ll be asked to submit a service ticket. This is a tale as old as time – see a problem, ...
SPECIAL EDITION: Harnessing unstructured data to fuel AI
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The rule that your AI is only as good as your data is now well understood, with businesses all over the world looking to modernize their data sources ...
March rundown: Four-day weeks and Nadella's AGI skepticism
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
March is very nearly at an end and it’s been quite a month for diverging views in the industry.Satya Nadella, CEO at Microsoft, has spoken out again...
How effective are AI agents?
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Computer systems that can autonomously work on menial tasks have been the promise of technologists – and science fiction authors – for decades. Wh...
Are most AI projects destined to fail?
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How much has your company invested in AI? Are you finding it a revolutionary technology, or still waiting for the promised gains to materialize?As bus...
Creating space for women in tech
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
International Women’s Day is here, a time for all those who care about women’s equality to celebrate the achievements of women both contemporary a...
February rundown: Revenge quitting and Microsoft goes quantum
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
February is the shortest month of the year – but that hasn’t stopped this month from being packed full of dramatic tech news.Microsoft has made wa...
The new era of cyber threats
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The cybersecurity landscape gets more complicated every year, with emerging technologies such as AI and the shifting geopolitical landscape bringing e...
What is the EU's AI plan?
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Years after first identifying the potential risks of AI systems, world leaders are having to balance concerns with an acknowledgment of the gains achi...
Who wins out from DeepSeek's success?
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the dust settles on DeepSeek, we’ve had the chance to see who walked away from the impact it had on the stock market unscathed.Apple and Meta did...
SPECIAL EDITION: Keeping data safe and flexible with sovereign cloud
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Every business has a bright future in the cloud, which is scalable and flexible to suit the needs of the modern enterprise. But rapid cloud adoption a...
January rundown: DeepSeek flips the script
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen, so the saying goes, and that is certainly true of the final week of...
Classic episode: How cyber attacks damage mental health
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was first published 12 July 2024.Every business will, at some point, be impacted by cyber attacks. Companies task security teams to prepa...
CES 2025: AI laptops and Nvidia’s tiny powerhouse
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Consumer Electronics Show has blown through Las Vegas, bringing – as always – a flurry of futuristic tech launches, promises, and some prototy...
Can better connectivity boost rural business?
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anyone who works outside of a major city, or has ever tried to get work done while on a trip to a more rural location, knows that rural connectivity c...
The trends we're watching in 2025
03 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
January is a time for planning, goal-setting, and looking to the future and here on the ITPro Podcast things are no different.While there are sometime...
The 2024 that didn't happen
27 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's now a Christmas tradition on the ITPro Podcast to look back at trends that were expected to dominate the year but then fizzled out.What predictio...
December rundown: The dark side of Irish data centers
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the last week before Christmas but while everyone else may be winding up for the festive season, the news never sleeps. In this episode of the ...
Has Google made a quantum breakthrough?
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Google announced that it had made a major step forward in quantum computing with its new quantum chip Willow. The AI and search giant state...
Is OpenAI on a downward trend?
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If one company can be said to have walked away the winner of the generative AI boom of the past few years, it’s OpenAI. The startup, which was found...
November rundown: Supply chain scares and Google’s AI code
29 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
November has come to a close, and the depths of winter are just around the corner. But that doesn’t mean events in tech are slowing down at all – ...
HPE Discover Barcelona: What’s the business benefit of supercomputers?
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
HPE’s annual European conference took place this week in Barcelona and the company’s focus is still firmly on AI. This is bolstered by its superco...
What DORA means for business
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to be secure in your sector? While every organization has its own cyber security policies, numerous pieces of legislation also set o...
October rundown: Can the four-day week work for tech?
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's that time of year when the clocks change and the nights draw in, the familiar starts to take on a new aspect as the shadows lengthen, and in the ...
Halloween special: Cybersecurity horror stories
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s All Hallows’ Day, and we’ve still got Halloween on the brain. It’s that time of year when we tell the scariest stories we can – and for...
SPECIAL EDITION: A pragmatist’s guide to AI
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Every organization has to prepare for the future to the best extent possible, whether that means modernizing one’s infrastructure or adopting cuttin...
Classic episode: Putting privacy-enhancing technologies to use
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was first broadcast 4 August 2023.As the economy has become increasingly dependent on data, companies have sought to make more profit fro...
How to sell cybersecurity without the FUD, ft. Breaking Through in Cybersecurity Marketing
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s not every day that cybersecurity marketing professionals get to speak to one another, compare notes, and come up with innovative solutions for ...
Enabling cloud migration at scale
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To fully embrace the benefits of the cloud, businesses have to distribute existing workloads across hybrid and/or multi-cloud environments. While the ...
Salesforce Dreamforce 2024: Delivering on AI hype
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to the companies leading the way in AI development, Salesforce might not be the first name that springs to mind. The veteran CRM provide...
SPECIAL EDITION: Why Open Banking from a bank?
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How much do you know about open banking? The practice allows companies to share choice information with third parties for the benefit of businesses, b...
September rundown: Hyperscalers go nuclear
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Energy usage in data centers is an increasingly Hot Topic, particularly with AI applications becoming more popular and widely used.While some organiza...
AI’s thirsty secret
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When people talk about the environmental impacts of data centers, normally the discussion focuses on energy usage. It’s something we’ve talked abo...
SPECIAL EDITION: Securing your business with education and training
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What’s the biggest cybersecurity threat your business faces right now? Hopefully, an answer springs to mind, along with a list of the solutions you ...
Cracking open insider threats
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cybersecurity teams face a constant battle of ensuring their company is shored up in the right places. Facing down increasingly sophisticated and pers...
Preparing for the quantum revolution
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Quantum computing is an exciting field of research that promises to revolutionize computing as we know it. Relying on quantum mechanics to process cal...
August rundown: Who's afraid of remote work?
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For many, August has been all about getting away on holiday – stepping back from your desk, and putting on your email out of office. But others have...
A quick update
16 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're on summer break for the next two weeks, but we'll be back at the end of the month for the rundown and back at full speed throughout September an...