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Russell Smith hosts Petri Dish, a podcast for Microsoft system engineers and administrators looking to keep up to date with the latest trends in IT.
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Average audio length:
38 minutes
Guest interviews
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Video podcast
English
United Kingdom
22 episodes
since Dec. 9, 2025
episodic
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For years, organisations have trained employees to spot fraud by looking for suspicious emails, spelling mistakes, unusual links, and other obvious warning signs. But as attackers have started using AI, many of those indicators have lost their value.
In this episode of Petri Dish, I’m joined by Sh…
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Today on Petri Dish, I’m speaking to Bob Kelly, Chief Product Officer at Juriba, author, and the founder of two communities that helped shape how IT professionals learned their craft: AppDeploy and ITNinja.
We explore why organizations still struggle to turn technology change into business outcome…
In today's episode of Petri Dish, I’m joined by Giovanni Carraro, SVP, Global Strategic Alliances at Kyndryl. We discuss sovereign cloud but not just as a data residency checkbox. Kyndryl and Microsoft are expanding their collaboration around Kyndryl Sovereignty Solutioning and Microsoft Sovereign …
For years, cybersecurity teams have focused on keeping attackers out. But in today's AI-driven environments, the bigger challenge may be understanding what's happening after they get in. New research from ExtraHop shows that nearly half of organizations don't detect attacks until after data has alr…
AI agents can now write code, investigate incidents, and in some cases resolve IT problems before anyone is even aware there's an issue. But how close are we really to autonomous IT? In this episode, I sit down with Karthik Sj, Chief AI Officer at LogicMonitor, to explore how AI is moving beyond ch…
AI is changing almost every part of the tech hiring process, from how candidates tailor résumés and apply for roles to how employers screen, assess, and communicate with applicants. But as both sides lean more heavily on automation, the process risks becoming noisier, less personal, and harder to t…
Is your organization building real business value with AI or just putting on a show?
In this episode of Petri Dish, Russell Smith speaks with Troy Norcross, Fractional COO, Founder of SER Team, and AI governance advisor, about why so many enterprise AI projects fail to deliver meaningful results. I…
Finance wants to become more strategic, but IT has to provide the governed, trustworthy data foundation first.
In this episode of Petri dish, I'm talking to Brian Kobleur, who is Vice President of Ecosystems at Vena Solutions. We discusshow the humble Excel spreadsheet is still quite often the core…
AI agents are moving beyond simple productivity helpers and becoming autonomous workers across Windows, Microsoft 365, and enterprise systems.In this episode of Petri Dish, Russell Smith talks with Craig Birch, Principal Technologist at Cayosoft, about Microsoft’s AI agent announcements from Build,…
In this epsidoe of Petri Dish, we’re joined by Brian Alvey, CTO of WordPress VIP, the enterprise-grade CMS platform trusted by organisations like NASA, Salesforce, and major global publishers. Brian has been building on the web since the earliest days, bringing a rare mix of builder and operator ex…
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