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Most people think great network engineers are defined by technical expertise. This episode challenges that idea. Because what Troy McDonald shows is that the real differentiator isn’t just technical skill—it’s the ability to translate complexity into clarity. From military operations to enterprise networks, one lesson keeps showing up.

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Your SIEM only holds a slice of your telemetry. Your data lake holds the rest. We'll show you how to use that to your advantage for investigations, threat hunting, and reporting. Why your data lake beats your SIEM for investigations – Your SIEM keeps a short window of expensive, filtered data. Your data lake keeps everything. When something goes wrong, that difference matters more than you think Threat hunting without the handcuffs – Hunting across months of data in a SIEM is painful and costly. We'll show you how a well-planned lake makes broad, deep searches practical and affordable.

Manchester is one of the UK’s leading tech ecosystems – but how did it get there? In this episode, Pulsant’s Wendy Shearer speaks with Katie Gallagher from Manchester Digital about Manchester’s rise as a powerhouse for UK tech, data sovereignty, innovation, talent and inclusive growth. Discover how the region has evolved from its strong industrial heritage into a thriving digital economy now home to major FTSE 100 companies and six unicorn businesses.

In this special episode of Agents of IT, the team dives into one of the biggest questions shaping enterprise AI right now: Is AI adoption moving faster than governance can keep up? Ari, Fran, Zach, and Ian break down the growing tension between agentic AI, automation, security, and oversight. From AI hallucinations and context overload to GRC challenges, shadow AI, and the future of AI governance roles, the conversation explores what enterprises need to consider as autonomous operations become reality.

In this workshop, Paul Jaffre will show you how to query Sentry’s telemetry using natural language with Seer Agent.

Watch the full SolarWinds Day 2026 event on-demand and discover how AI is transforming IT operations, observability, and incident response. In this exclusive event, SolarWinds CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna and product leaders unveil the company’s vision for Autonomous Operational Resilience—powered by AI, automation, and unified visibility across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

AI developer productivity, agentic workflows, and the lessons learned running engineering tools for 100,000+ software engineers at Google. John Montgomery, CCO at GitKraken, sits down with Asim Hussain, co-founder of Alterion AI and former Google VP of Engineering Productivity, to get real about what AI actually changes for engineering teams in 2025.

In this episode of the Kubernetes for Humans podcast, tech veteran Dave Aronchick shares his incredible journey from leading the Kubernetes and GKE projects at Google to co-founding Kubeflow and his current venture, Expanso.