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FinOps has become a thing over the past four to five years as enterprises began to grip on their cloud spending across the board from infrastructure to SaaS software. FinOps was a long time coming and built on pioneering work a decade ago to bring cloud economics into view.

Now we face a new era in FinOps as enterprises ramp up their spending on AI infrastructure services and applications. What is the state of FinOps in an era of AI?

Hyoun Park, CEO and Principal Analyst at Amalgam Insights joins Leonard Lee of neXt Curve to discuss his insights and key findings from FinOpsX and Databrick Data & AI Summit 2025.

Hyoun and Leonard hit on the following topics:

➡️ FinOpsX and Databricks Data & AI Summit 2025 (3:07)
➡️ The State of FinOps (4:39)
➡️ Cloud Migration Behaviors Today (8:29)
➡️ NeoCloud FinOps and Economics (12:07)
➡️ Databricks Data & AI Summit 2025 (17:30)
➡️ Shift from AI, AI, AI to Data and Good Ole' Analytics (17:43)
➡️ Rolling Your Own Model is Passe (22:45)
➡️ Where Do We Land With FinOps and AI Next Year? (24:35)

Connect with Hyoun on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/hyounpark. You can also follow him at www.amalgaminsights.com. Also, check out his podcast, "This Week in Enterprise Tech"

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After two extremely dense and informative days of Cisco's analyst program at Cisco Live! 2025 which too place in San Diego, Leonard Lee of neXt Curve and Mirabel Lopez of Lopez Research sat down in the analyst forum plenary ballroom to tape what was supposed to be a greeting video to Jo Peterson, a mutual friend who has been on the neXt Curve podcast. Hi, Jo!

The analyst relations team at Cisco put on a fantastic program this year to give analyst the opportunity to engage with the Cisco executives who were amazingly generous with their time. Mirabel and Leonard provide share highlights from two-days of session, roundtables, 1-on-1 briefings, and announcement-packed keynotes.

Mirabel and Leonard hit on the following topics:

➡️ Everyone is talking about AI. How is Cisco talking about it? (2:20)

➡️ Network and security convergence (4:00)

➡️ Platformization - the value and the challenges for Cisco (6:18)

➡️ Balancing of consolidation and integration on the road to pjatformization (9:21)

➡️ The great hope and the great threat of agentic AI (12:05)

Connect with Mirabel Lopez on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/maribellopez. You can also follow her on X at @mirabellopez, and at www.lopezresearch.com.

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Jim McGregor of TIRIAS Research joined neXt Curve to cover the first half of another action-packed month in the world of semiconductors and accelerated and non-accelerated computing on the neXt Curve reThink Podcast series, Silicon Futures. The duo also shared their thoughts on IBM THINK 2025, CadenceLIVE 2025, and other events of note in the first half of May.

This episode covers the follow topics:

➡️ Highlights and key takes from CadenceLIVE 2025
➡️ Jim's recap of IBM Think 2025
➡️ Highlights and key takes from Google I/O and Microsoft Build 2025
➡️ Highlights and key takes from COMPUTEX 2025 and Dell Tech World
➡️ Highlights of May 2025 including HUMAIN and AI Middle East
➡️ Celebrating 40 years of Qualcomm!

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Check out Karl and his research at Cambrian AI Research LLC at www.cambrian-ai.com.

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Jim McGregor of TIRIAS Research and Karl Freund of Cambrian-AI Research joined neXt Curve to cover the first half of another action-packed month in the world of semiconductors and accelerated and non-accelerated computing on the neXt Curve reThink Podcast series, Silicon Futures. The trio also shared their thoughts on IBM THINK 2025, CadenceLIVE 2025, and other events of note in the first half of May.

This episode covers the follow topics:

➡️ Highlights and key takes from IBM THINK 2025 according to Jim (3:23)
➡️ Jim's recap of Intel Direct Connect and TSMC Symposium 2025 (11.27)
➡️ Highlights and key takes from CadenceLIVE 2025 (17:30)

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Check out Karl and his research at Cambrian AI Research LLC at www.cambrian-ai.com.

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Jo Peterson, cloud and security thought leader and VP of Cloud and Security at Clarify360 joins Leonard Lee of neXt Curve to exchange notes on what they thought were highlights and key takes from RSAC Conference 2025 which took place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. They also discuss the newly published "The State of SaaS Security: Trends & Insights for 2025-2026" report by The Cloud Security Alliance.

Jo and Leonard hit on the following topics:

➡️ What is on Jo's mind from RSAC 2025 (2:34)
➡️ The specter of shadow AI (5:05)
➡️ The Cloud Alliance SaaS Security Report 2025 (5:24)
➡️ Shadow AI and shadow IT are related (9:02)
➡️ Agentic AI is not your daddy's minivan AI (10:50)
➡️ What is your security posture? DSPM + AI-SPM (15:27)
➡️ Letter to the Board: Give your CISOs more money! (17:39)
➡️ Cyber risk and attacks get more sophisticated with AI (21:04)

Connect with Jo on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/jopeterson1

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Jim McGregor of Tirias Research joined Leonard Lee of neXt Curve to recap March and April 2025 in the world of semiconductors and accelerated and non-accelerated computing on the neXt Curve reThink Podcast series, Silicon Futures. Jim and Leonard share their thoughts on the state of this semiconductor industry in light of a volatile pair of months that saw the starting of a global tariff regime instituted by the White House that has roiled the markets and industries and trade relations with the U.S. face unprecedented uncertainty. What are the implications on the semiconductor industry and the global electronics supply chain as the tumult continues?

This episode covers:

➡️ Global tariffs and its impact on the global electronics industry (3:19)
➡️ Jim's impression and takes from Embedded World 2025 (34:45)
➡️ Edge AI and the diffusion of AI accelerates (39:22)

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Bob Carver, cybersecurity thought leader and CEO of Cybersecurity Boardroom, joins Leonard Lee of neXt Curve and Debbie Reynolds of Debbie Reynolds Consulting LLC on the reThink Podcast to talk about the cybersecurity priorities for consumers and enterprises for 2025. This is the first time for Bob on the show. Debbie and Leonard were anxious to get a sense of what is top of mind for Bob as he look forward into the year and beyond as AI-infused and -augmented cybersecurity threats and attacks challenge us all.

Bob, Leonard, and The Data Diva hit on the following topics:

• How Bob got started in cybersecurity (2:00)
• Top security concerns according to Bob (5:20)
• The problem with smarter and more capable infostealers (8:00)
• What do you get when you combine AI with cybercrime? (10:58)
• The future of cybersecurity - AI versus AI (14:30)
• Introducing Agent Smith (15:50)
• Deepfakes, the other exponential cybercriminal enabler (16:50)
• The biggest cybersecurity challenge: awareness and hyperbole (22:34)
• Bob's view on solutions for consumers and enterprises (25:32)
• Micro-segmentation: obscuring for security (27:31)
• Privacy, an important factor in cybersecurity and trust (32:50)
• The consumer and enterprise mindset shifts needed (38:50)

Connect with Bob Carver on LinkedIn and at www.cybersecurityboardroom.com

Connect with Debbie Reynolds at www.debbiereynoldsconsulting.com

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Karl Freund of Cambrian-AI Research, Jim McGregor of Tirias Research, and Dave Altavilla of HotTech Vision and Analysis joined Leonard Lee of neXt Curve at the Virgin Hotel in Las Vegas to recap ‪@Intel‬'s Vision 2025 event.

This episode covers:
➡️ Key impressions of the Intel Vision 2025 event.
➡️ The "New Intel" strategy of Lip-Bu Tan, Intel's new CEO.
➡️ Intel's AI strategy from a data center perspective.
➡️ 18A upon which Intel's hopes and future leadership hang.
➡️ Intel's less than compelling AI strategy and vision.
➡️ The diversity of AI and the heterogeneous present and future of AI compute.
➡️ The incremental Intel vibe of Vision 2025.
➡️ The fate of Intel Foundry - Killing the rumor.
➡️ The state of Intel's DCAI (Data Center & AI) business.
➡️ Intel Vision 2025 in a word.

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Check out Dave Altavilla and his research at www.hottech.com.

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