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IT leaders, are you ready to turn strategy into results? Welcome to Let’s Solve IT!, the podcast designed exclusively for IT decision-makers who are ready to tackle today’s toughest challenges head-on. If you’re facing IT challenges, you’re not alone.
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Ep. 14 - Are you bringing a dull knife to your data strategy? (opens the original)
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A strong data strategy isn’t built when the project begins; it’s built in the preparation that comes before it. In this episode of Let’s Solve IT!, Matt Brown is joined by Spencer Hamons, Executive Architect at NetApp, who explains why organizations must measure, classify, and understand their data before investing in infrastructure. The discussion covers how to identify hot, warm, and cold data, why storage performance matters more than ever as SSD prices rise, and how telemetry and observabili
Ep. 13 - The hypervisor Odyssey: Are you letting a good crisis go to waste? (opens the original)
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The hypervisor landscape is changing. Licensing costs are rising. AI is reshaping enterprise IT. For many organizations, it feels like two major waves colliding at once. In this episode of Let’s Solve IT!, Matt Brown sits down with Spencer Sells, Vice President of Global Technology Alliances at NetApp, to discuss why today’s virtualization disruption shouldn’t simply be viewed as a cost crisis—it should be viewed as an opportunity. Drawing inspiration from The Odyssey, they explore how IT leader
Ep. 12 - Is zero downtime becoming your biggest cybersecurity risk? (opens the original)
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What happens when cyber vulnerabilities can be discovered and exploited faster than your organization can safely deploy a patch? In this episode of Let’s Solve IT!, Matt Brown welcomes back Gavin Guttersen, NetApp CISO, to discuss how AI-powered cyber models are transforming the threat landscape. They explore why traditional patching timelines may no longer be fast enough, how years of accumulated security debt are increasing organizational risk, and why the long-standing expectation of zero dow
Ep. 11 - Are you spending your precious tokens on trash? (opens the original)
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Is your AI delivering business value, or are you just paying to generate expensive garbage? In this episode of Let’s Solve IT!, Matt Brown talks with Cecile Kellam, NetApp Senior Solutions Architect, about why successful AI initiatives depend on more than good prompts. They discuss the importance of clean, relevant, secure data; why data ownership and custodianship must involve the business; and how organizations can avoid wasting tokens, budget, and trust as AI projects move from pilot to produ
Ep. 10 - Is AI a Technical Wave or a Cultural Tsunami? (opens the original)
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Technology isn’t the biggest obstacle to AI adoption. People are. In this episode of Let’s Solve IT!, Matt Brown talks with Hem Nerkar, NetApp Senior Vice President and CIO, about why AI adoption is fundamentally a cultural transformation, not just another technology rollout. They discuss how CIOs can overcome fear, build trust, align leadership, and create an environment where employees feel empowered to experiment, learn, and embrace AI as part of their daily work. You’ll hear: Why AI represen
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