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Evan Kirstel

Tech Transformation with Evan Kirstel: A podcast exploring the latest trends and innovations in the tech industry, and how businesses can leverage them for growth, diving into the world of B2B, discussing strategies, trends, and sharing insights from industry leaders!With over three decades in telecom and IT, I've mastered the art of transforming social media into a dynamic platform for audience engagement, community building, and establishing thought leadership. My approach isn't about personal brand promotion but about delivering educational and informative content to cultivate a sustainable, long-term business presence. I am the leading content creator in areas like Enterprise AI, UCaaS, CPaaS, CCaaS, Cloud, Telecom, 5G and more!

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    Reusable Identity: The Digital TSA PreCheck

    Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com The digital identity revolution is here, and it's transforming how we verify who we are online. In this fascinating conversation, Raj from Trua explains how their innovative approach to identity verification is creating what amounts to a "TSA PreCheck for the digital age" - a system where you verify your identity once and reuse it countless times without repeatedly sharing your sensitive personal information. As data breaches continue to plague major institutions and AI makes identity fraud increasingly sophisticated, our current approach of repeatedly collecting and storing personal information for every digital transaction has become unsustainable. Trua's solution combines verification of personal attributes with biometric confirmation to create a comprehensive "trust credential for life" that's continuously updated and verified. This approach is revolutionizing hiring processes across industries. Traditional background checks take 5-10 days and can only be conducted after a job offer due to regulations. With Trua, candidates obtain their credentials ahead of time, allowing for same-day hiring - a game-changer for high-turnover industries like restaurants and gig economy platforms. For high-assurance sectors like transportation, continuous screening provides ongoing safety verification that could prevent tragedies like the recent Florida Turnpike incident involving an unlicensed truck driver. Perhaps most exciting is Trua's potential to combat the chaos of AI-generated resumes flooding HR departments. By requiring a Trua ID with each application, employers can instantly verify that a real, verified person is behind each resume, dramatically improving the quality of applicant pools and helping qualified candidates stand out. Implementation is remarkably straightforward with no complex software to install. The system automatically handles compliance with relevant regulations, reducing burdens on HR teams and minimizing litigation risks. As we look toward a future where millions of jobs will be reshored to the US, having a reliable, efficient identity verification system will be essential for connecting qualified candidates with opportunities. Ready to bring order to your verification processes and accelerate your hiring timeline? Visit truainc.com to learn how you can implement this revolutionary approach to digital identity. Support the show More at https://linktr.ee/EvanKirstel

    26 мин.

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    AI isn't replacing accountants—it's turning them into strategic advisors.

    Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What happens when cutting-edge AI meets the traditionally conservative world of accounting? A revolution that's transforming how high-net-worth individuals and family offices manage their wealth. Meet Brian, CEO of Montreal-based Wealth Write-Up, who brings a fascinating perspective on how technology is reshaping investment accounting. Having implemented AI solutions across multiple industries for over a decade, he's now applying those lessons to the financial world with remarkable results. The numbers tell a compelling story: high-net-worth clients often generate over 100,000 financial transactions annually. Traditionally, processing this data required armies of accountants manually entering information—a process that could take months and cost upwards of $100,000 in professional fees. AI-powered solutions are dramatically reducing this burden while improving accuracy. But this isn't about replacing accountants; it's about elevating them. By automating routine tasks, accounting professionals can transform into strategic advisors who provide genuine value beyond compliance. They gain the time and tools to identify tax optimization opportunities, navigate cross-jurisdictional complexities, and help clients make informed decisions about their wealth. The timing couldn't be more critical. With the Great Wealth Transfer looming—where trillions will move from Baby Boomers to younger generations—sophisticated planning tools are essential. Modern accounting platforms aren't just tracking numbers; they're helping preserve legacies across generations. There's still skepticism, of course. One major client even included an explicit AI opt-out clause in their contract. But as Brian notes, the pressure for adoption isn't coming from technology vendors—it's coming from clients themselves who are experiencing AI in other aspects of their lives and demanding similar innovations from their financial advisors. Want to understand how financial technology is evolving beyond spreadsheets and manual processes? Listen now to discover what happens when accounting meets artificial intelligence. Support the show More at https://linktr.ee/EvanKirstel

    24 мин.

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    Building Enterprise-Ready AI Agents While Protecting Your Code

    Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Have you ever wondered how AI coding assistants could work in secure enterprise environments without sending your proprietary code to the cloud? That's exactly what Tabnine is tackling as an enterprise-first AI assistant that predates even GitHub Copilot. The secret to effective AI agents in enterprise settings isn't just raw model power—it's context. Tabnine creates a comprehensive "map" of your organization by connecting code repositories, documentation, configuration files, and project management tools. This enables their AI agents to understand the environment they're operating in, dramatically improving accuracy while reducing costs. As their representative explains, "Enterprise without context is meaningless." What makes Tabnine particularly valuable for industries like finance, automotive, and defense is its deployment flexibility. You can run it as a SaaS solution, in your virtual private cloud, or completely air-gapped on your own hardware—partnering with NVIDIA to ensure optimal performance across various GPU configurations. This means sensitive code never leaves your secure environment. The platform also addresses intellectual property concerns with built-in attribution and provenance tools that flag potentially non-permissive code generated by models. Combined with comprehensive audit logs, this gives organizations control over what AI agents can access and modify within their systems. Perhaps most importantly, Tabnine is helping to solve the delegation challenge—how do you know if AI-generated code actually does what you want? Their approach emphasizes breaking tasks into well-defined modules that humans can easily verify, providing rigorous specifications, and ensuring generated code follows organizational guidelines rather than some "platonic notion" of good code. While we've reached what they call a "code generation singularity," the "software engineering singularity" is still approaching.  Support the show More at https://linktr.ee/EvanKirstel

    21 мин.

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    Digital Workers: Saving Healthcare's Back Office

    Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Ever wonder why healthcare costs keep rising while hospitals struggle financially? The answer might lie in what Ananth Manivannan Founder @ Resolvd AI, calls "the swivel chair problem" – the countless hours healthcare professionals spend manually transferring data between systems instead of focusing on patient care. The journey behind Resolvd AI began in an ICU room, where Ananth watched nurses smuggle basic supplies like pillowcases between departments while his parent battled a brain tumor. This striking illustration of broken healthcare operations sparked a mission to fix the invisible workflows crippling hospitals from within. Today, Resolvd AI works with the very same hospitals that saved his parent's life. Healthcare's back office faces a perfect storm: growing mountains of unstructured data trapped in PDFs and faxes, critical knowledge that exists only in employees' heads, and staffing shortages that force existing teams to work 80-90 hour weeks. When leaders ask for the 7-10 additional staff members they desperately need, budget constraints make approval impossible. Meanwhile, revenue leaks through cracks in processes like surgical billing, where items used in operating rooms go uncharged due to overwhelmed manual workflows. Resolvds digital workers don't replace humans – they liberate them. By automating the repetitive tasks nobody wants to do, they allow clinical staff to focus on patients and give operations teams their weekends back. The system analyzes communication patterns, identifies process bottlenecks, and preserves institutional knowledge beyond individual employees. As one hospital executive put it, their biggest fear wasn't AI – it was "what happens when Sydney gets sick" and no one can process critical workflows. Support the show More at https://linktr.ee/EvanKirstel

    25 мин.

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    Defeating Data Gravity: How Hammerspace Powers AI Anywhere

    Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com The digital transformation journey toward AI implementation presents enterprises with a fundamental challenge: leveraging decades of data stored across disconnected silos. Unlike early AI pioneers who built purpose-designed infrastructure from scratch, most organizations must work with existing investments while meeting the unique demands of artificial intelligence workloads. Hammerspace tackles this challenge head-on by flipping the traditional "data gravity" paradigm. While IT has historically moved compute to where data resides, AI requires the opposite—bringing distributed enterprise data to GPUs and models that may exist elsewhere. Through an innovative approach that synchronizes metadata across environments, Hammerspace creates a unified data plane that makes information queryable and accessible without initially moving massive datasets. What sets this solution apart is its integration with Linux kernels, eliminating dependence on proprietary systems. When data movement becomes necessary, it happens intelligently at the file level, allowing organizations to selectively transfer only what's needed based on specific attributes rather than copying entire directories. This granular control preserves governance while dramatically reducing unnecessary data movement costs. The approach has gained significant traction, evidenced by Hammerspace's recent $100 million funding round led by Altimeter Capital—investors known for backing innovative technology disruptors like Uber, NVIDIA, and Meta. Even cloud providers with substantial GPU investments recognize the value of technologies that enable data access for AI workloads, marking a shift in how these platforms approach customer data. Looking toward future challenges, Hammerspace has launched the Open Flash Platform Initiative, bringing together industry partners to develop infrastructure solutions addressing the looming power and cooling constraints that threaten sustainable AI growth. By reimagining how data flows in the enterprise, Hammerspace is helping organizations transform existing information assets into fuel for AI innovation. Support the show More at https://linktr.ee/EvanKirstel

    19 мин.

  6. 27 АВГ.

    Why Companies Like Walmart Are Moving From Public Cloud to VCF

    Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com The private cloud revolution is gaining momentum, with VMware's Virtual Cloud Foundation (VCF) emerging as the platform of choice for enterprises seeking alternatives to public cloud. In this enlightening conversation with Vijay Ramachandran, who leads product management for core infrastructure at Broadcom, we dive deep into the transformative innovations unveiled at VMware Explore Storage technology has undergone remarkable evolution, with vSAN now featuring global deduplication that dramatically reduces costs. This software-defined approach, combined with high-performance capabilities, is driving organizations away from traditional hardware-based solutions. Meanwhile, the introduction of Virtual Private Clouds brings public cloud networking constructs on-premises, enabling sophisticated workload isolation without compromising control. Security takes center stage with breakthrough cyber resiliency features that deliver automated ransomware recovery for on-premises deployments. The continuous compliance monitoring capabilities replace outdated point-in-time audits, allowing organizations to maintain verifiable compliance postures around the clock. With end-to-end encryption and platform hardening, VCF creates a security foundation that many find superior to public cloud alternatives. Walmart's decision to standardize on VCF for their global edge and private cloud infrastructure validates the platform's enterprise readiness. This reflects a growing trend of organizations either repatriating workloads from public cloud due to cost concerns or developing new applications on-premises for greater control. The partner ecosystem continues to evolve, with service providers focusing on consultative engagements and technology partners like AMD, NVIDIA, Intel, and Canonical expanding integration possibilities. Looking ahead, Broadcom is doubling down on security innovations like online threat detection while working to bring feature parity between VM and Kubernetes workloads. The vision includes deeper integration with physical networking infrastructure, creating a unified experience rather than forcing customers to choose between physical and virtual implementations. In Vijay's words, VCF now beats public cloud on "cost, security, and control" – a powerful value proposition for organizations navigating their cloud journey. Ready to explore how VCF can transform your infrastructure strategy? Connect with us to learn how these innovations can help you build a more secure, cost-effective, and controllable cloud foundation. Support the show More at https://linktr.ee/EvanKirstel

    12 мин.

  7. 27 АВГ.

    How VMware and Broadcom Are Securing the Future of Private AI

    Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com The security landscape is dramatically shifting as organizations embrace private AI and cloud environments, creating new vulnerabilities alongside unprecedented opportunities. Umesh Mahajan VP & GM, Application Networking and Security Division, Broadcom pulls back the curtain on this evolving threat landscape where generative AI is democratizing attack capabilities: "suddenly machines can be used and anybody can become an attacker." Ransomware attacks don't appear from nowhere—they represent the culmination of methodical intrusions where attackers establish footholds through back channels before executing their final devastating blow. As VMware Cloud Foundation and Kubernetes-based private AI deployments become standard, Broadcom's security strategy centers on tight integration, ensuring WeDefend and AVI Load Balancer provide seamless protection without performance compromise. Modern security demands distributed approaches rather than centralized bottlenecks. Traditional physical firewalls and load balancers can't efficiently secure today's dynamic workloads without introducing latency and complexity. Meanwhile, enterprise IT teams face mounting pressures—infrastructure grows exponentially while staffing remains static. This reality drives Broadcom's focus on automation, simplification and intelligent assistance. Perhaps most exciting is how Broadcom harnesses AI itself as a security enabler, developing LLM-powered assistants that transform how teams troubleshoot problems and identify security gaps. These tools interpret natural language queries about runtime states, blocked traffic, and performance issues, while proactively identifying unused security features that could strengthen protection. For compliance-focused organizations, they've mapped capabilities to frameworks like NIST and developed air-gapped solutions for highly regulated environments. Ready to strengthen your security posture for the AI era? Explore how these innovations can protect your private cloud and AI environments while simplifying management, meeting compliance requirements, and keeping performance at its peak. Subscribe to hear more conversations with security leaders navigating today's most challenging threats. Support the show More at https://linktr.ee/EvanKirstel

    11 мин.

  8. 27 АВГ.

    Private Cloud's New Momentum

    Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Private cloud is experiencing a dramatic resurgence as organizations rethink their cloud strategies. Prashanth Shenoy reveals fascinating insights from their research spanning 1,800 global IT decision-makers: 53% are building new workloads on private cloud while a striking 70% are repatriating workloads from public environments. What's driving this shift? Security concerns top the list, particularly for regulated industries handling sensitive data that can't be exposed in public environments. Cost predictability follows closely behind, as organizations struggle with unexpected public cloud expenses and seek more transparent alternatives. The generative AI revolution adds another dimension, with companies needing controlled environments to develop AI applications using proprietary data. VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) sits at the center of this transformation. With over a million engineering hours invested, VCF 9.0 introduces capabilities that bridge infrastructure requirements with developer needs. The platform now includes native S3 object storage alongside traditional storage options and features expanded partnership with Canonical to bring Ubuntu OS - the leading AI and cloud operating system - directly into the platform. Developer experience remains paramount, with VMware working to eliminate the 20% of time developers typically spend navigating IT requirements. Through partnerships with NVIDIA and AMD for cutting-edge GPU support and large-scale deployments at organizations like Walmart, VMware demonstrates its commitment to powering the next generation of enterprise applications. Looking forward, cyber resilience and compliance capabilities will become increasingly central as organizations navigate complex security requirements in AI-driven environments. Want to experience the VMware community firsthand? Take a certification exam at VMware Explore and score yourself a pair of exclusive VMware sneakers! Support the show More at https://linktr.ee/EvanKirstel

    15 мин.
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Tech Transformation with Evan Kirstel: A podcast exploring the latest trends and innovations in the tech industry, and how businesses can leverage them for growth, diving into the world of B2B, discussing strategies, trends, and sharing insights from industry leaders!With over three decades in telecom and IT, I've mastered the art of transforming social media into a dynamic platform for audience engagement, community building, and establishing thought leadership. My approach isn't about personal brand promotion but about delivering educational and informative content to cultivate a sustainable, long-term business presence. I am the leading content creator in areas like Enterprise AI, UCaaS, CPaaS, CCaaS, Cloud, Telecom, 5G and more!

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