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The Opportunity for OpenShift Infrastructure

Today we tackle the generational infrastructure shift that’s keeping IT leaders awake at night: OpenShift virtualization adoption. We dig deep into why organizations are struggling to migrate from traditional VM-focused infrastructure to Kubernetes-managed infrastructure. We explore the real hurdles blocking this transition and unpack the strategic positioning that matters when you’re moving to container-orchestrated infrastructure. This isn’t about dumping everything into Kubernetes and calling it done, we examine what it really takes to use Kubernetes as your infrastructure abstraction layer while navigating the operational realities that make or break these migrations.

Transcript: otter.ai/u/IY2Y0a4aFN99ILg9da…?utm_source=copy_url

OpenShift Install

Today we dive deep into the mystery of Kubernetes installation, specifically OpenShift installation. We help explain why Kubernetes installs look so weird compared to traditional operations, install processes, and where are the playbooks? Where are the scripts? Are the runbooks describing all the steps you need to take? All of it seems to be missing, and in this podcast, we explain why.

Transcript: otter.ai/u/J802BlcVs3K_OU8B5K…?utm_source=copy_url

AI Export Controls Work?

We discuss whether or not AI export controls work, but we take a really interesting twist because what we talk about is manufacturing. What we talk about is innovation, and it’s not whether or not you can control AI chips, but what does it actually take to build innovative product? That’s where we really have challenges on export and controls. There’s military manufacturing and goods, and that’s part of what this AI embargo is about. We really talk about how challenging it is to actually build truly innovative manufacturing and what the barriers are.

Transcript: otter.ai/u/k6Thp-TOfwKc_RjXHC…?utm_source=copy_url

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Container Driven Architecture

In this episode, we continue our dive into the changing architecture of IT infrastructure and look at how containers and container platforms are changing. We also look at the fundamental nature of what people want to buy, accelerated by VMware Broadcom, making virtualization platforms much less attractive, and the shifting landscape here. This is work that is based on a presentation that I’ve been giving around the shift towards open shift virtualization and Kubernetes in general.

Transcript: otter.ai/u/BnYKzI0zzOLqqWi45v…?utm_source=copy_url

HA Troubleshooting [Tech Ops]

This episode of the TechOps series goes into high availability troubleshooting. Not just high availability, not just troubleshooting, but actually talking through what it takes to manage and maintain and fix HA systems. This is part of a longer discussion we’ve been having and so there’s some really interesting ideas in the middle of these discussions that I hope will shape your thinking as you build high availability systems, diagnostics and troubleshooting for people who are in high availability very complex environments.

Transcript: otter.ai/u/wM__4w1YIzZnhVdgLu…?utm_source=copy_url

References:
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Is 2025 even harder than we expected?

We review 2025 predictions today and dig into why I think this year is going to be both boring and terrifying for a lot of enterprise IT leaders. That, of course, spans Amazon, Reinvent storage, VMware, AI, and Agentic AI – we run the gamut on what is coming and why this is actually going to be a very challenging year.

Transcript: otter.ai/u/H6UvLC-r2zmBO9A5jf…?utm_source=copy_url

Reference: zenoh.io by ZettaScale

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