Heavy Strategy
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From technology to workplace culture, from geopolitical trends to economics, Heavy Strategy debates pivotal questions in enterprise IT. Hosts Johna Till Johnson & John Burke bring their technical expertise, analytical acumen, and contrasting viewpoints to discuss complex topics of interest to IT leaders. Frequently irreverent and always thought-provoking, these are the conversations you wish you could have at the leadership table. Tune in and join the think tank, where unanswered questions are better than unquestioned answers.
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HS131: Cybersecurity Strategy: Defending Against AI
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May 05, 2026 |
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HS130: Wait, AI Doesn’t Secure Itself? Developing an AI Security Strategy
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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HS128: Planning for an AI Bubble Burst
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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HS129: Achieving Operational Excellence
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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HS127: You’re Not Thinking About Your Network the Way You Should (Sponsored)
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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HS126: AI Everything, AI Everywhere, AI All At Once
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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HS125: How to Choose an IT Hiring Service
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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HS124: Administration DDoS on AI Regulation
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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HS123: What Can You Stop Worrying About in 2026?
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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HS122: Insider Threats in the Age of AI
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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HS121: Digital Security Teammates: From Fantasy to Operational Reality (Sponsored)
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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HS120: Eight New Year’s Resolutions for 2026
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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HS119: Securing 2026: How AI, Quantum, and the AI-Powered Browser are Driving Enterprise Defense (Sponsored)
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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HS118: Bricking the Company – Discussing Existential Threats with Leadership
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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HS117: Environmental, Social and Governance Initiatives: What That Means for Your Organization (Sponsored)
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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HS116: Nth-Party Risk May Put You on the (Block) Chain Gang
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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HS115: Cyber-Risk Assessment and Cybersecurity Budgeting: You’re (Probably) Doing It Wrong
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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HS114: In or Out? Deciding Which IT Functions to Bring In or Push Out
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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HS113: Bad Tech Romance: Five Signs You’re In an Abusive IT Relationship
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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HS112: Standardizing NaaS Service Definitions
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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HS111: When Someone Makes Your Cloud Service Go Poof!
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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HS110: Cryptocalypse Soon! The CRQCs Are Due Sooner Than We Thought
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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HS109: Is AI a Purchase or a Hire?
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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HS108: Keeping the (IT) House Clean to Avoid the Plague
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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HS107: Your (Late) New Years Resolution: Follow Your (Amended) Strategy
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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HS106: Planning for the Epochalypse
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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HS105: How to Train Your Unicorn: Thoughts on Ops Architects
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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HS104: How Long Should Your Planning Horizon Be?
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May 20, 2025 |
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HS103: Why IT Is Like Ultimate Frisbee
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May 06, 2025 |
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HS102: IT’s Role In AI (Sponsored)
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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HS101: Time for a Cybersecurity Spring Cleaning?
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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HS100: Lead Without Lying: The (Radical) Strategy of Honesty
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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HS099: From CLI to CFO: Translating Complex Network Data into Clear Strategic and Financial Insights (Sponsored)
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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HS098: Just Following Orders?
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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HS097: Build A Strategy, Not Just A Project Plan
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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HS096: Corporate Foresight and How to Get It
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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HS095: The Journey to a Self-Healing Network: Intelligence, Agents, and Complexity (Sponsored)
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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HS094: How Risky Is Your Organization’s AI Strategy?
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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HS093: Strategic Trust-Building Among Ops, Engineering, Architecture – and Leadership
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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HS092: Make a Plan…and Change It!
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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HS091: The Game Has Changed: Security Strategy After Salt Typhoon and the Pager-Bomb Hack
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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HS090: AI Regulations: What You Don’t Know CAN Hurt You!
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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HS089: Return to the Office: What’s Next?
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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HS088: Combating Analysis Paralysis
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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HS087: Alkira’s Multi-Cloud NaaS Bridges Networking and Security (Sponsored)
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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HS086: [Next] Highlights: Drone to Titan, and More!
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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HS085: The Perfect and the Good (Enough)
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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HS084: Straight Talk from Cisco’s CIO (Sponsored)
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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HS083: Why Protocols Fail: Russ White’s Perspective on Effective Architecture
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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HS082: Citizen Coders: Boon Or Bane?
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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HS081: What’s Your Strategic Plan for AI Infrastructure?
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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HS080: Top Mistakes In Developing and Executing Technology Strategies
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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HS079: Big Rock, Best-in-Breed, or Ecosystem: What’s the Best Vendor Procurement Strategy?
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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HS078: Is It Time To Dump Microsoft?
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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HS077: Should IT Lead or Follow?
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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HS076: Greg’s Finale
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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HS075: How to Ask Questions
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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HS074: Geek Speak to Biz Talk
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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HS073: Failure and Resilience
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May 28, 2024 |
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HS072: Making Distributed Work Successful
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May 21, 2024 |
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HS071: The Real Numbers Behind the Return To Office Myths
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May 07, 2024 |
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HS070: Living on the Edge: The Present Future of Edge Architecture
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Day Two Cloud: The Duality of Enterprise AI
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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HS069: Regulating AI
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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HS068: What’s the Point of Having a Tech Strategy?
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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HS067: The Right People to Have on Your Tech Strategy Team
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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HS066: The Holy Grail: A Functioning Tech Strategy
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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HS065: Calculating the Value of Telco AIOps (Sponsored)
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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HS064: Mastering the Art of Strategy and Architecture with Pocket Change
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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HS063: What’s On Our Minds
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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HS062: Questions On Being Service-Oriented
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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HS061: What is IT Training or Education
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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HS060: Power Micro-Generation for Data Center
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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HS059: Cognitive Load and Platforms
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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HS058: Are We Pausing The Technology Cycle?
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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HS057: Technical Debt
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Heavy Strategy 56: FU to the Followup
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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HS055: Cloud Is Not The Only Future
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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HS054: Matching IT and Corporate Culture
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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HS053: IT Facilities in 2023
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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HS052: Professional Liability and Qualified Design
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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HS051: Things I Wish I’d Known Back When
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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HS050: The Tech Job Debacle
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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HS049 Evanescent vs Enduring IT
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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HS048 Using Personal Product Branding To Be Better Paid Technology Engineer
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May 23, 2023 |
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HS047: Architect/Engineers/Operations, Career Progression and Liability
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May 02, 2023 |
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HS046 What Do We Do About China ?
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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HS045 Seize Opportunities for Modern IT Operations with VIA (Sponsored)
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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HS044 Is Digital Transformation Bollocks ?
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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HS043 Is The IT Team In The Service, Project or Product Business
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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HS042 Is ChatGPT Coming For Your Job
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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HS041 Intelligent Network Automation With BackBox – Sponsored
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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HS040 Top Mistakes Technology Strategists Make
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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HS039 Operating an Enterprise Architecture Function
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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HS038 What is Enterprise Architecture And How To Plan For It
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Heavy Strategy 037 – Metaversing The Office is More Than One Thing
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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HS036 Cyberstupid – Can We Stop Doing Dumb IT Security
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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HS035 Quiet Quitting Hustle Culture
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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HS033 Getting real about LEO Space Networking
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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HS034 Introducing Graphiant Stateless Cloud WAN – Sponsored
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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HS032 Mentors and Leadership
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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HS031 Kolide and Honest Security
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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HS030 Can Low Code Fit Your IT Strategy
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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HS029 Do You Want A Strategic Vendor ?
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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HS028 – Do’s and Don’ts of Selecting Technology Provider
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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HS027 Broadcom and VMware – What’s Gonna Happen?
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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HS 026 So You Want to Develop A Technology Strategy ?
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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HS025 Did You Know Your IT is a Crime Scene ?
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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HS 024 – Is Shadow IT a Good Thing
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May 26, 2022 |
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HS 023 Horrors and Hurdles of Hybrid Work
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May 17, 2022 |
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HS022 Top Mistakes Customers Make Dealing With Vendors
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May 04, 2022 |
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HS020 Are Operational and Technical Debt Complementary
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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HS021 The Great Realisation Not Great Resignation
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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HS019 Questions on Corporate Technology Strategy
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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HS018 API Management is a Configuration Problem
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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HS017 The Role of Standards in a Conflicted World
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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HS016 Team Structure for Technology Teams
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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HS015: Targeting in IT Marketing – Who and When
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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HS014 Software Defined Infrastructure – New Build or Not ?
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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HS013 SaaS Solutions – What Does the Customer Lose ?
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Heavy Strategy 012: Professional Development in Infrastructure Technology
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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HS011 Can We Survive IT Supply Chain Disruption
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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HS010 Budgeting for Cybersecurity
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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HS 009 The Metrics of IT Security
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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HS 008: Five Core Issues for IT Architects in 2021
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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HS007: Distributed Work and Return To Office Strategies
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May 24, 2021 |
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Heavy Strategy 006 – Renting your Hyperconverged Stack, Wrong or Right
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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Heavy Strategy 005 – Infection Handling Open Source In Enterprise IT
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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Heavy Strategy 004 – Is Kubernetes A Thing
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Heavy Strategy 003 – The Impact of DPUs, SmartNICs on IT Infrastructure Decision Making
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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Heavy Strategy 002 – Is Microsoft VMware’s Biggest Threat ?
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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HS001 – Detecting Hype in 5G Marketing
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Oct 20, 2020 |