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The ITPro Podcast

The ITPro Podcast is a weekly show for technology professionals and business leaders. Each week hosts Rory Bathgate and Jane McCallion are joined by an expert guest to take a deep dive into the most important issues for the IT community. New episodes premiere every Friday. Visit itpro.com/uk/the-it-pro-podcast for more information, or follow ITPro on LinkedIn for regular updates.

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22:31

SPECIAL EDITION: Harnessing unstructured data to fuel AI

The ITPro Podcast ·

2025/03/31

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 and infrastructure to make the most of AI products and services.But something that can be easily lost in these discussions is consideration of the exact format your data exists in at rest. Unstructured data is especially important for AI and knowing where it fits into your AI strategy is essential. This doesn’t just mean knowing where it resides and

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21:00

March rundown: Four-day weeks and Nadella's AGI...

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2025/03/28

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 against the tech sector’s apparent fixation on achieving AGI while comparing the potential for AI to the rise of Excel spreadsheets in business. The Microsoft chief has turned his attention to the material benefits of AI, as we enter a crunch year for AI developers.Elsewhere this month, UK tech firms are being offered support with adopting a four-day week,

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33:58

How effective are AI agents?

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2025/03/21

Computer systems that can autonomously work on menial tasks have been the promise of technologists – and science fiction authors – for decades. While we’ve dabbled with the likes of robotic process automation and machine learning in the past, the arrival of advanced AI software has put these lofty ambitions back on the table.According to AI developers, new tools known as AI agents will free up workers as never before, with the ability to autonomously complete tasks based on pre-approved instructions

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28:24

Are most AI projects destined to fail?

The ITPro Podcast ·

2025/03/14

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 businesses seek to unlock productivity gains from AI, investment in the technology has continued to rise. All across the world, firms are buying AI products, undergoing digital transformation in preparation, or even fine-tuning AI to suit their bespoke use cases.But how much of this is going to pay off? And what do you do if your AI project fails on its

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33:19

Creating space for women in tech

The ITPro Podcast ·

2025/03/07

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 and historical and to focus on gender equality in our society.The tech sector still has a sizable gender divide, with only around one quarter of all tech roles held by women. Tech leaders need to enter into open dialogue over how to make tech careers more attractive to women and to empower women within their workforce.In this episode, Rory speaks to

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17:43

February rundown: Revenge quitting and Microsoft goes...

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2025/02/28

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 waves with Majorana 1, a first of its kind quantum chip that the tech giant says could open the door to usable quantum computers in years, not decades as previously thought.Elsewhere this month, Sam Altman made a series of public rebukes of Elon Musk, following an offer by a Musk-led consortium to purchase OpenAI for over $97 billion. And could the tech

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42:58

The new era of cyber threats

The ITPro Podcast ·

2025/02/21

The cybersecurity landscape gets more complicated every year, with emerging technologies such as AI and the shifting geopolitical landscape bringing extra chaos to any CISO’s desk.Though automated defense systems are a welcome feather in cap for any company, it’s not just the good guys who have access to the latest tools. Off-the-shelf frameworks to launch attacks are becoming more common and businesses can’t rely on any single service to be a silver bullet.What are the individual forces at play

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33:36

What is the EU's AI plan?

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2025/02/14

Years after first identifying the potential risks of AI systems, world leaders are having to balance concerns with an acknowledgment of the gains achievable through certain AI systems and nowhere is this more true than the EU.The Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris has seen a number of high-profile announcements made on EU AI investments, on both a continental and regional basis. But it’s also highlighted the distance the EU has yet to go for true international AI competition – up against

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20:22

Who wins out from DeepSeek's success?

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2025/02/07

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 not undergo the same rapid stock shocks as Nvidia, Microsoft, and others in the immediate aftermath of the DeepSeek R1 launch – the latter has actually seen a healthy surge in the past few weeks. Why is this? And who actually wins thanks to DeepSeek?In this episode, Rory speaks once again to ITPro’s news and analysis editor Ross Kelly to analyze who

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37:35

SPECIAL EDITION: Keeping data safe and flexible with...

The ITPro Podcast ·

2025/01/31

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 and data protection regulations, as well as emerging new regulations tied to AI, have been set on a collision course in recent years, with enterprises held to stringent regional laws that oversee how sensitive data can cross borders.One solution to this problem is sovereign cloud. But how do sovereign clouds actually work and how can firms such as

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31:27

January rundown: DeepSeek flips the script

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2025/01/31

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 January 2025 with the widespread impact of DeepSeek.To say the Chinese large language model has caused an upset in the market would be an understatement. Within days of its release, it wiped more than a trillion dollars off the US stock market, and sent big tech into a public spiral.But where did DeepSeek come from? And what does it mean for the

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28:16

Classic episode: How cyber attacks damage mental health

The ITPro Podcast ·

2025/01/24

This episode was first published 12 July 2024.Every business will, at some point, be impacted by cyber attacks. Companies task security teams to prepare the first line of defense against cyber attacks, and most have plans in place for the damage they leave behind – be it data loss, encryption by ransomware operators, or large-scale service disruptions.But something that often goes unremarked upon in the wake of cyber attacks is the psychological, human effects of cyber attacks. When the dust

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28:49

CES 2025: AI laptops and Nvidia’s tiny powerhouse

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2025/01/17

The Consumer Electronics Show has blown through Las Vegas, bringing – as always – a flurry of futuristic tech launches, promises, and some prototypes that will never see the light of day. But among the giant TVs and robotaxis, there were also some big moments for business tech.From the dependable rollouts of AI PCs to novel – and more powerful – devices, a number of announcements will have caught the eye of business leaders.In this episode, Jane and Rory talk to ITPro’s reviews editor Bobby Hellard,

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37:31

Can better connectivity boost rural business?

The ITPro Podcast ·

2025/01/10

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 can be patchy. Despite the UK’s high population density and relative lack of difficult terrain, rural connectivity remains an uneven picture. Many rural businesses are still struggling to receive fiber optic cables, let alone leverage 5G signals to keep up with the demands of modern business.Is UK connectivity improving? And how far have we still got to

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31:50

The trends we're watching in 2025

The ITPro Podcast ·

2025/01/03

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 sometimes unexpected developments – take ChatGPT in 2022, for example – it’s nevertheless possible to tease out trends from the year gone by that can influence the new one.For this new year’s edition of the podcast, Jane and Rory are joined by Dr John Honchell, IT industry analyst at Future B2B, to unpick the top trends from this year that will shape

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28:22

The 2024 that didn't happen

The ITPro Podcast ·

2024/12/27

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 predictions have gone the way of flying cars and the Metaverse? Which are delayed, perhaps permanently?In this episode, Jane is joined by Bobby Hellard, ITPro’s reviews editor, and Ross Kelly, ITPro’s news and analysis editor, to discuss three of the trends that failed to materialise this year: Intel’s AI dominance, a nuclear solution to data center energy

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18:07

December rundown: The dark side of Irish data centers

The ITPro Podcast ·

2024/12/20

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 ITPro Podcast, Jane is joined by news and analysis editor Ross Kelly to look back at some of the biggest stories from the month of December.Included in this episode:The US charges 14 members of a North Korean IT worker scamIreland has become a ‘data dumping ground’, says Friends of the EarthIs virtual reality the next frontier in software

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24:58

Has Google made a quantum breakthrough?

The ITPro Podcast ·

2024/12/13

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 stated that it had successfully completed calculations that would previously have been impossible using its new piece of hardware.In doing so, Google has taken shots at existing supercomputer infrastructure and driven excited chatter on social media – as well as worried posts about how the end of encryption is just around the corner. But how significant is

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37:16

Is OpenAI on a downward trend?

The ITPro Podcast ·

2024/12/06

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 founded as a non-profit with a mission to drive progress toward artificial general intelligence – aka a conscious machine – has led the pack of generative AI developers since it launched ChatGPT in 2022 and quickly became a household name.But in recent months, more and more questions have been raised about the viability of OpenAI in the long term. As some of

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27:28

November rundown: Supply chain scares and Google’s AI...

The ITPro Podcast ·

2024/11/29

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 – nor that attackers are taking an early Christmas break.In the past month, we’ve seen a slew of cyber incidents, ranging from high-profile exploits of Microsoft vulnerabilities to a ransomware attack on a supply chain software company integral to high-street brands.Elsewhere, Google CEO Sundar Pichai has hailed the strides his company has made with using AI

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