Two Irish Guys Discussing Software
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
E41: Less Waste, More Budget, And Open Roadmaps
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this environment-first episode, Origina Founder and CEO Tomás O’Leary is joined by This Spaceship Earth Co-Founder Tim Rumage, Free ICT Europe F...
E40: Sainsbury’s Unique Supplier Program — Saving To Invest In Digital Initiatives
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andy Nagalewski, Director of Supplier Management at Sainsbury’s, joins Tomás O’Leary and Hari Candadai to discuss the innovative ways Sainsbury’...
E39: Keep Your IT Roadmap Free Of Vendor And Budget Roadblocks
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Steve O’Donnell, veteran Enterprise CIO and CTO, and author of “What Every CIO Wants,” joins Brendan Walsh and Hari Candadai to discuss the comm...
E38: The Power Of A Healthy Skeptic Mindset While Driving The Innovation Agenda
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tomás O’Leary and Hari Candadai talk about the latest moves made by software mega vendors, including Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM, and the signals to...
E37: Changes In The Software World In 2022, And The Impact To Be Felt In 2023
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tomás O’Leary, Brendan Walsh, and Hari Candadai review the big — and not as big, but still interesting — stories of 2022 in the software world....
E36: Save to Invest: Industry Analysts Identify Quick Wins in Cost Savings for IT Leaders
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join Tomás O’Leary and Hari Candadai as they review the newest Gartner Market Guide on Third-party software maintenance (TPSM) and the growth outlo...
E35: The IT Roadmap Mindset That’s Shaking Up the Status Quo
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join Tomás O’Leary, Hari Candadai, and special guest Vinnie Mirchandani, for a discussion on the ways companies are changing how they approach IT r...
E34: Revisiting The Plight Of The Mainframe
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join Tomás O’Leary and special guest Hari Candadai as they look back on previous predictions of mainframe relevance and how the latest industry new...
E33: Transformation And What’s Possible In The Post - Digital Age
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Tomás O’Leary shares a conversation he had with Tom Goodwin, speaker, author, and futurist, where they discuss the impact that tra...
E32: How Software Will Kill Your Budget
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For our special Spring edition, join Tomás O'Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss the latest developments and news in the software and Big Tech wo...
E31: Third Party Software Maintenance - Changing The Software World
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join Tomás O'Leary and Rowan O'Donoghue as they discuss good news regarding earning results for Big Blue in Q4 after it completed the separation of K...
E30: High Performance
20 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join Tomás O’Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss the Big Blockbuster deal made by Microsoft, the two trends ahead for IBM in the year 2022, and...
E29: The Year In Review And 2022 Predictions
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join Tomás O’Leary and Brendan Walsh as they review the year 2021 and talk about the predictions going into 2022 from stock share prices to compani...
E28: Cybersecurity Month 2021
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join Tomás O’Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss cybersecurity and the current trends enterprises will face in 2022, IBM and its views on Third...
E27: Avoiding A King's Ransom(ware)
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join Tomás O’Leary and Rowan O'Donoghue as they discuss the latest right-to-repair news, Microsoft's perpetual license litigation, and IBM earnings...
E26: Product Liability or Lack of Accountability?
25 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join Tomás O’Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss software product liability, the sweeping antitrust, anti-monopoly, and right-to-repair bills i...
E25: Software Sales: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join Tomás O’Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss the EMPOWER 2021 event, $314 billion in profits between a three-person Microsoft sales team, a...
E24: Do Software Vendors Consume More Than They Create?
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join Tomás O’Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss the naming of IBM’s spin-off, Kyndryl, software vendor earnings season and the Google vs. Or...
E23: The Mega-Vendor Decline
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join Tomás O’Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss IBM's legal battles, vendor quarterly earnings results and surprises on the list of the most i...
E22: Solving The Mega-Vendor Branding Crisis
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join Tomás O’Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss mega-vendor profit margins, IBM's sale of Watson Health and the Facebook, Google and Microsoft...
E21: How Much Is Too Much?
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join Tomás O’Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss Cloud Paks, hospitals getting audited during the pandemic and IBM's latest earnings. Then, Eri...
E20: 2020 Roundup
29 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join Tomás and Brendan as they reminisce on the interesting guests who joined the podcast in 2020, their favorite news headlines throughout the year,...
E19: Where Law Says Hello To The Software World
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join Tomás O’Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss Salesforce acquiring Slack, Google’s antitrust concerns and Europe’s right to repair. Then...
E18: The IBM Split
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join Tomás O'Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss IBM splitting itself into two companies, Zoom fatigue and the tangled web that Larry Ellison, Or...
E17: Is The Mainframe Dead?
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join Tomás O'Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss Zoom's impressive valuation over IBM, Snowflake's IPO and Oracle's purchase of TikTok. Then, IBM...
E16: Leadership Lessons for Mega-Vendors
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join Tomás O'Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss Apple's $2 trillion valuation, IBM's legal trouble and Oracle's potential purchase of TikTok. Th...
E15: Google v Oracle
29 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join Tomás O'Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss mega-vendor quarterly earnings, Salesforce eclipsing Oracle and legal action for household names...
E14: Hostage Negotiations
18 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join Tomás O'Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss IBM layoffs, Microsoft's open-source legacy and PricewaterhouseCoopers' call for more software l...
E13: The Future of the Mega-Vendors
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join Tomás O'Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss IBM's quarterly dividend boost, Zoom picking Oracle over AWS for its cloud provider and whether ...
E12: Changing Role Of SAM
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“IT used to be the department in the corner that fixed the laptops; now it’s the thread that underpins your entire business.” Martin Thompson ...
E11: How to deal with ageing technology in business and society today
30 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Two Irish Guys with Dr Umaima Haider discussing digital transformation, should everything be open source and what train to take from the station in th...
E10: The impact of the mega vendor restrictions on Procurement
26 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The impact of the mega vendor restrictions on Procurement", ft internationally renowned Procurement Consultant and Business Adviser, Richard Beaumont....
E9: How the large software mega vendors market themselves vs the newer tech firms
30 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
'How the large software mega vendors market themselves vs the newer tech firms' ft Dan Ilett, award-winning writer for the Financial Times, the Econom...
E8: Large corporations abusing their power
10 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
'Large corporations abusing their power' ft world-famous Dan Shefet, the man who defeated Google international, also an Individual Specialist to UNESC...
E7: Doing more with your IT budget in 2020
08 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Understand how to negotiate your proposed costs with your current vendor and make the most of your budget in 2020 ft Mark Bartrick, Global Software Ve...
E6: IBM Rights & Entitlements
09 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode will be discussing ‘Rights & Entitlements' ft guest speaker Guy Tritton. IBM knows that SAMs are tight on time, leaving them unable to ...
E5: IBM forced upgrades & audits
12 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode will be discussing ‘IBM forced upgrades & audits” ft guest speaker Daniel Begg. You may have an IBM infrastructure using IBM products...
E4: Don't Be That Guy
30 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode will be dissecting our last campaign 'Don't Be That Guy' and exploring the ideas and the interpretation behind it.
E3: The impact of the HCL/Bigfix deal on customers with ILMT?
28 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Customers who use BigFix Inventory for tracking use of IBM in Cloud/virtualized environments are ok to use sub-capacity measurement. When BigFix moves...
E2: How will IBM clients be impacted by Big Blues newest acquisition?
04 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
IBM selling off their legacy software products to HCL Technologies is recognized as the largest Indian IT acquisition to date. But how will this move ...
E1: Why do all IBM renewals happen at the end of the year?
13 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Is your company blindly spending potential budget dollars on complex IBM renewals? Many companies experience high spending on underused software. This...