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Ep 65 | The Vibecoding Liability: How Unchecked AI Can Kill Cloud ROI

Cloud computing promised efficiency, scalability, and reliability. But as AI workloads grow more complex, many enterprises are learning the hard way that these promises don’t come automatically. In this episode of The AI Forecast, Paul Muller sits down with Linthicum Research founder David Linthicum to talk through the real state of hybrid cloud strategy and enterprise architecture in the age of cloud computing and AI.

New: Ask your data anything, and get clear answers in seconds

You know that moment. You open your dashboards, and something in the numbers looks off. Revenue is trending down, the pipeline feels lighter, or your campaigns aren’t delivering the results you expected. You can see the numbers, but you need to understand what’s happening and whether this is a short-term fluctuation or an early signal of something bigger. So you start digging. You move between dashboards, compare time periods, cross-reference metrics, and pull in context from different teams.

AI Doesn't Know Your Industry. Spotter Does.

We launched Spotter with one goal: give every enterprise team their own analyst—an agent that reasons through business complexity, validates its own outputs, and surfaces answers you can actually act on. The response from customers made one thing clear: the ThoughtSpot foundation works. Teams trust Spotter, because it doesn’t only rely on an LLM to reconstruct your business logic on the fly—a process that produces different answers depending on how a question is phrased.

ClearML Launches Platform Management Center to Bring Financial Clarity to Enterprise AI Infrastructure

At GTC 2026, ClearML announced the general availability of its Platform Management Center, an administrative dashboard purpose-built for IT administrators and AI platform leaders managing multi-tenant ClearML deployments at enterprise scale. Available under the ClearML Enterprise plan, it gives cluster admins a single place to monitor every tenant’s activity, resource usage, and costs while protecting the privacy of tenant workloads and data.

Kafka Migrations Need More Than a Replicator

Jonas Best & Patrick Polster Kafka migrations are one of the riskiest infrastructure projects a platform team can take on. Miss a dependency and a downstream app starts reprocessing events it already handled leading to breaking SLAs and eroding trust with application teams. Migrate without visibility and you risk a major production issue. The instinct is to reach for a replication tool and call it done. But replication is only one piece of the puzzle.

Lenses 6.2 - Trusting Agents to build & operate event-driven applications

At Lenses, our goal has always been to help organizations get the most out of their streaming data. We started with visibility into the Apache Kafka, moving up to the part that drives value, the application layer and now the Agentic layer. Lenses 6 moved us into a multi-Kafka world, as increasing, our clients aren’t just running on one type of Kafka anymore, and as sovereign cloud becomes increasingly topical (no pun intended) this is only increasing.

Your AI agent is one misconfigured MCP server away from leaking production data.

2025 was vibe coding. 2026 is Agentic Engineering - and the security rules haven't caught up. AI agents now have direct access to your databases, your APIs, your Kafka clusters. The protocol giving them that access is MCP. And most teams have no idea how exposed they are. We are fixing this problem with OAuth 2.1.

Legacy VM Footprints are Holding Back Digital Transformation

Enterprises in 2026 are under increasing pressure to modernize applications, adopt hybrid cloud architectures, and streamline operations—but their expanding and aging VMware footprints have become a major obstacle. As VMware licensing models evolve and operational costs climb, reducing or restructuring this footprint has become just as critical as adopting new platforms.

How CARIAD Powers Software-Defined Vehicles with Real-Time Data Streaming | Life Is But A Stream

45 million vehicles, 90 markets, 12+ iconic brands, each with its own data silos, standards, and infrastructures. In this episode, Chetan Alatagi, Solution Architect reveals how they transitioned from fragmented legacy ETL silos to a Unified Data Ecosystem—a global data streaming highway that turns vehicle telemetry into real-time value.

Now is the Time for Higher Education Institutions to Master Data Lineage

In today's state, local, and education (SLED) environments—especially higher education—budgets are under constant scrutiny, and the demand for data excellence is constant. That means doing more with fewer resources. One high-impact change to your data workflows that can transform the quality of your data and AI while lowering costs is automating and documenting data lineage.