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Insightful. Powerful. Actionable. Welcome to Lifting the Lid on Technology, a podcast series from Softsource vBridge giving you tech insights from the inside. Join us and New Zealand's leading IT vendors and experts to uncover current market trends and challenges.
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Who's watching the agents? (opens the original)
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1.3 billion AI agents are forecast within a couple of years. The population of India. But who is watching what they do? In this Episode of Lifting the Lid, Barry White and Philip Meyer dig into Agent 365 and Microsoft Cowork, the governancekeeping the agent world under control, and the harder questions about jobs and choice. Covered in this episode Agent 365 and agent observability, giving agents Entra IDs and Purview controls, the AWS data centre outage, Microsoft Cowork versus Claude, choice o
Why auto renew will save you money (opens the original)
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This episode is a practical one, and it could save you money. There's a change to licensing that could raise your monthly bill, and many businesses need to act quickly. In episode five, Barry White and Philip Meyer break down Extended Service Terms in plain language, with the context you only get from 35 years inside Microsoft. Covered in this episode What Extended Service Terms are, why the grace period is gone, auto renew and payment mechanics, how an annual deal can flip to monthly with an up
If AI can see all, it will tell all (opens the original)
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A student used their school AI LLM to show the salaries of every teacher. Is this an AI problem or a security problem? In episode four, Barry White and Philip Meyer take on confidentiality in the age of AI, and why the biggest risk is usually a helpful person, not a bad one. Covered in this episode The end of security by obscurity, accidental oversharing, Microsoft Purview and data security posture management for small business, classifying data as confidential by default, insider risk, and the
People Didn't Pilot Electricity (opens the original)
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People didn't pilot electricity. They adopted electricity. They didn't trial it for six months to see how it felt. They said, right, we're shutting down the steam engine and we're electrifying the business. In episode three, Barry White and Philip Meyer take a critical look at Copilot adoption and mindset, with the experienced talk of someone who spent 35 years inside Microsoft. Covered in this episode Free versus paid Copilot, security and governance, why AI is a business transformation and not
Data storage and the cloud repatriation (opens the original)
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The loss of information of businesses, the damage done to them, equates to the third largest economy in the planet. In episode one, Barry White sits down with Philip Meyer, 35 year Microsoft Veteran, now out on his own. They dig into the questions every New Zealand business is quietly asking about the cloud and AI. Covered in this episode Why New Zealand stays hybrid, data sovereignty and the ANZ government data centre, latency andtransactional workloads, the diluted promise of cloud scalability
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