Two Irish Guys Discussing Software

In this environment-first episode, Origina Founder and CEO Tomás O'Leary is joined by This Spaceship Earth Co-Founder Tim Rumage, Free ICT Europe Foundation Executive Director Jan Hoogstrate, and Procurement Consultant and Business Advisor Richard Beaumont for a discussion on who wins and who loses when hardware and software get replaced too early in enterprise-level businesses. The Right to Repair applies everywhere. Save money — and the earth — by using the tools your company already has to succeed. For more information on the Empower 2023 event, visit: https://www.origina.com/empower-2023 This Spaceship Earth: https://thisspaceshipearth.org/ FreeICT Europe: https://www.freeict.eu/ FreeICT US: https://freeict.org/

Andy Nagalewski, Director of Supplier Management at Sainsbury's, joins Tomás O'Leary and Hari Candadai to discuss the innovative ways Sainsbury's strikes a balance between pressures on budget and resources and the drive of digital initiatives to continually improve upon customers' experiences. Plus, industry news related to the Silicon Valley Bank fallout, the proliferation of AI, and several other hot topics.

Steve O'Donnell, veteran Enterprise CIO and CTO, and author of “What Every CIO Wants,” joins Brendan Walsh and Hari Candadai to discuss the common vendor and budget roadblocks trying to detour your IT roadmap progress and how to stay on track. They also talk about the significant changes in the updated 2023 IBM International Passport Advantage Agreement, legal maneuvering and other megavendor tactics including IBM, and other software industry news.

Tomás O'Leary and Hari Candadai talk about the latest moves made by software mega vendors, including Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM, and the signals to watch regarding job cuts and economic trends in 2023. Plus, they'll discuss the idea of being a “healthy skeptic” when driving your innovation agenda, and how this mindset can steer your IT roadmap decisions based on what you need, rather than on what software vendors demand.

Tomás O'Leary, Brendan Walsh, and Hari Candadai review the big — and not as big, but still interesting — stories of 2022 in the software world. From Microsoft to IBM, from software audits to defense contracts, and many topics in between. Plus, they'll dig a bit deeper into recently announced price increases, courtesy of IBM, and how CIOs, SAMs, and procurement teams may best navigate such drastic changes.

Join Tomás O'Leary and Hari Candadai as they review the newest Gartner Market Guide on Third-party software maintenance (TPSM) and the growth outlook on the TPSM market. Discover why Gartner believes organizations are well-served by the quick wins offered by third-party support partners, and how these strategic relationships result in long-term savings and renewed focus on digital transformation initiatives.

Join Tomás O'Leary, Hari Candadai, and special guest Vinnie Mirchandani, for a discussion on the ways companies are changing how they approach IT roadmap decisions that free up time, people and money. It's a big shift in the software status quo as Fortune 500 companies stem vendor overspending and refocus funds toward reviving and accelerating digital transformation initiatives that set their companies up for a bright future.

Join Tomás O'Leary and special guest Hari Candadai as they look back on previous predictions of mainframe relevance and how the latest industry news indicates a long road ahead. Then, dive a bit deeper into the current state of the IBM Z mainframe and how companies may benefit from a renewed outlook on how they're supported.

In this episode, Tomás O'Leary shares a conversation he had with Tom Goodwin, speaker, author, and futurist, where they discuss the impact that transformation has on our digital world, and why some regulations and boundaries are a good thing when it comes to innovation, growth, and empowering organizations in technological advances.

For our special Spring edition, join Tomás O'Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss the latest developments and news in the software and Big Tech world. This time they are joined by special guest Brad Veech, Sr. Director IT Sourcing at Walmart and the author of ‘Software: The Silent Killer of your Company's Budget: How to negotiate and manage your software portfolio without getting taken advantage of by your suppliers.' He will provide tips and tricks to help with the spring cleaning of your IT budget. You can find his book here: https://www.amazon.com/Software-negotiate-portfolio-advantage-suppliers/dp/0578331470

Join Tomás O'Leary and Rowan O'Donoghue as they discuss good news regarding earning results for Big Blue in Q4 after it completed the separation of Kyndryl, the ambitions for the metaverse after Microsoft bought Activision Blizzard, and the partnership between IBM, and SAP in the hopes to move legacy workloads to hybrid cloud. Special guest, Martin Biggs, Vice President and General Manager, EMEA, Spinnaker Support, who joins the conversation to discuss the biggest trends in the third-party software support and maintenance industry, what's the drive behind it, and challenges faced.

Join Tomás O'Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss the Big Blockbuster deal made by Microsoft, the two trends ahead for IBM in the year 2022, and more. This episode features a very special guest, Jim Gavin, former Irish Gaelic football manager, High Performance Coach and Keynote Speaker, who joins to discuss high performance and the key components and traits that make up a high-performance professional.

Join Tomás O'Leary and Brendan Walsh as they review the year 2021 and talk about the predictions going into 2022 from stock share prices to companies and the freedom of Right to Repair. Ben Lipczynski, Origina's head of security also joins to discuss the Log4Shell vulnerability, how it was discovered and what organizations can do to tackle the issue.

Join Tomás O'Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss cybersecurity and the current trends enterprises will face in 2022, IBM and its views on Third Party Support and maintenance and its Q3 showing gains in cloud revenue. Then, the ongoing race against Microsoft and Apple to be the most valuable company, Facebooks recent name change and Zuckerberg on the claims against Facebook being an attempt to "paint a false picture". Special guest: Graham Day, The Author of “Security in the Digital World: For the home user, parent, consumer and home office”, a book on low level, non-technical actions that help keep the reader safe online and in the digital world. You can find his book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Security-Digital-World-parent-consumer-ebook/dp/B0784ZDSMS

Join Tomás O'Leary and Rowan O'Donoghue as they discuss the latest right-to-repair news, Microsoft's perpetual license litigation, and IBM earnings, debt, and government survey. Then, Ben Lipczynski joins to explain how innovative technology can be used in nefarious ways, the government's role in identifying cyber-risk within its own agencies, and what types of security risks the average IBM software user is seeing and how to mitigate them.

Join Tomás O'Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss software product liability, the sweeping antitrust, anti-monopoly, and right-to-repair bills introduced in the US, and Lina Khan's appointment to Chairperson of the Federal Trade Commission. Then, Dan Shefet joins to explain why new legislation may not have the intended effect on existing monopolies, how companies are growing and protecting their market share with intellectual property rights, and where he is optimistic for real change to take place. Episode Guest: Dan Shefet Dan Shefet is a French Lawyer and owner of Cabinet Shefet. Shefet is focused on international law, including European law, and specializes in intellectual property law, IT law, and competition law. Shefet is well-known as the lawyer who took Google to court and won.

Join Tomás O’Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss the EMPOWER 2021 event, $314 billion in profits between a three-person Microsoft sales team, and a rejuvenated Micro Focus on the back of better sales execution. Then, Paul Lanigan joins to explain why large software companies can sometimes get away with poor service, what Audit, Bargain, Close has to do with Drive-By Selling, and what the skill sets of successful sales people are. Episode Guest: Paul Lanigan Paul Lanigan is the Managing Director of the Sandler Sales Institute. Paul has two decades of experience in the sales industry, and is known for his entertaining and educational training style. Paul also hosts the Sales Leadership Podcast.

Join Tomás O’Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss the naming of IBM’s spin-off, Kyndryl, software vendor earnings season and the Google vs. Oracle verdict. Then, Devin Mathews of ParkerGale Capital joins (20:20 mins) to explain why software vendors need to (but don’t) burn everything down every five years, whether big tech will be broken up at a federal level and why Microsoft stands out as an innovator among public companies. Episode Guest: Devin Mathews Devin Mathews is partner and founder at ParkerGale Capital. Devin has twenty years of experience investing in technology companies and helping management teams build their companies. Prior to ParkerGale, Devin worked at multiple venture capital firms.

Join Tomás O’Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss IBM's legal battles, vendor quarterly earnings results and surprises on the list of the most innovative companies in the world. Then, Eric Chiu of FisherITS joins (23:00 mins) to explain why vendors are addicted to software audits, a surprising new trend forming for customers that are audited and his take on what the world of mega vendors may look like in five years' time.

Join Tomás O’Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss mega-vendor profit margins, IBM's sale of Watson Health and the Facebook, Google and Microsoft legal battle brewing in Australia. Then, Fabian Geyrhalter of Finen joins to give a branding perspective on the consumer technology purchases of big mega-vendors, the perplexing situation NewCo finds itself in and how technology companies can take a note out of the Nike branding playbook.

Join Tomás O’Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss Cloud Paks, hospitals getting audited during the pandemic and IBM's latest earnings. Then, Eric Cunningham of PAAS Advisors joins to discuss the differences between large and small companies' pricing in a tough economy, what companies need to look at to walk away feeling they've received a great deal, and the Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt customers have with IBM.

Join Tomás and Brendan as they reminisce on the interesting guests who joined the podcast in 2020, their favorite news headlines throughout the year, a few IBM stories that never made the news and give their predictions on what they think will happen in 2021.

Join Tomás O’Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss Salesforce acquiring Slack, Google’s antitrust concerns and Europe’s right to repair. Then, Pamela Fulmer of Tactical Law Group joins to discuss why companies are paying millions they don’t owe in software license audits, what the Audit, Bargain, Close tactic is and why we could soon be looking at an Java audit bomb. Episode Guest Pamela Fulmer is Partner at Tactical Law Group and an experienced intellectual property litigator with nearly three decades of experience.

Join Tomás O'Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss IBM splitting itself into two companies, Zoom fatigue and the tangled web that Larry Ellison, Oracle and TikTok weave. Then, ModSecurity Core Rule Set expert Christian Folini and Origina CTO Rowan O'Donoghue join to talk about anticipating security risks with threat modelling, how to protect IBM enterprise software and security trends to keep an eye on for 2021. Rowan O'Donoghue is the Chief Technical Officer and co-founder of Origina, having worked closely with IBM software and other technologies for decades. Dr. Christian Folini is co-lead of the ModSecurity Core Rule Set project and author of the ModSecurity Handbook (2nd Edition).

Join Tomás O'Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss Zoom's impressive valuation over IBM, Snowflake's IPO and Oracle's purchase of TikTok. Then, IBM Z mainframe expert Paul Arnerich joins to chat about the history and current state of mainframe systems, their aging workforce and why companies aren't moving away from mainframes any time soon. Paul Arnerich is a respected IBM System Z consultant who has worked on every major platform in the IBM Mainframe/Enterprise offering. Paul has worked with System Z and its predecessors since the 1970s, consulting for some of the world's largest companies and training upcoming generations in the workforce along the way.

Join Tomás O'Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss Apple's $2 trillion valuation, IBM's legal trouble and Oracle's potential purchase of TikTok. Then, 'From Founder to CEO' podcast host and executive coach Todd Uterstaedt joins to chat about the anti-hero entrepreneurial theme behind his show, advice for CEOs in the early stages of their company and leadership cues that IBM might take from Microsoft.

Join Tomás O'Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss mega-vendor quarterly earnings, Salesforce eclipsing Oracle and legal action for household names. Then, intellectual property barrister Guy Tritton joins to discuss the landmark Google vs. Oracle case and what he believes the impact will be.

Join Tomás O'Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss IBM layoffs, Microsoft's open-source legacy and PricewaterhouseCoopers' call for more software license audits. Former crisis negotiator for the Scotland Yard and risk management professional Chris White joins to discuss the relationship between mega-vendors and clients, the lack of emotional connection in business relationships and how to measure trustworthiness.

Join Tomás O'Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss IBM's quarterly dividend boost, Zoom picking Oracle over AWS for its cloud provider and whether the software market is recession-proof in 2020. Futurist, author and speaker David Houle joins to discuss why we should stop using the word innovation and start using the word disruption, how mega-vendors might find themselves with an outdated business model in the 2020s, and why it's not about when the economy bounces back, but about how it'll bounce forward. Learn more about David Houle here: https://davidhoule.com/ Get David Houle's latest book here: https://www.the2020sdecade.com/

“IT used to be the department in the corner that fixed the laptops; now it’s the thread that underpins your entire business.” Martin Thompson from the The ITAM Review joins the podcast to talk about the ever-changing role of software asset management and IT asset management. We run through the role of SAM in a post-COVID-19 world and why it’ll be such a key area for organisations. Catch the highlights below. #sam #softwareassetmanagement #itam #itassetmanagement #costsavings

Two Irish Guys with Dr Umaima Haider discussing digital transformation, should everything be open source and what train to take from the station in these very challenging times! Learn about technologies that are becoming obsolete and how to take control of digital transformation.

The impact of the mega vendor restrictions on Procurement", ft internationally renowned Procurement Consultant and Business Adviser, Richard Beaumont. Understand how to reduce procurement spend, reduce supply chain risk and build innovation through great relationships.

'How the large software mega vendors market themselves vs the newer tech firms' ft Dan Ilett, award-winning writer for the Financial Times, the Economist Group, and several global publications. Dan specializes in marketing strategies and brand positioning. This episode focuses on big tech vendors around the world and what they are doing with their marketing strategies that can potentially damage their brands.

'Large corporations abusing their power' ft world-famous Dan Shefet, the man who defeated Google international, also an Individual Specialist to UNESCO, Adviser to the Council of Europe on the Internet Ombudsman. Dan is currently fighting worldwide for the creation of an ombudsman institution to secure an individual's right to have hate mails, their data and certain internet information violating human rights totally removed. Dan is famously known for obtaining an order from a French court directing Google to stop highlighting the defamatory sites in search results for his name.

Understand how to negotiate your proposed costs with your current vendor and make the most of your budget in 2020 ft Mark Bartrick, Global Software Vendor Negotiation Expert at Forrester Research.

This episode will be discussing ‘Rights & Entitlements' ft guest speaker Guy Tritton. IBM knows that SAMs are tight on time, leaving them unable to properly investigate the full details of licenses. They also know that most managers are relatively risk-averse when it comes to legal terminology. At Origina, we know IBM’s licensing rules inside out and can help you to discuss your entitlements and how you can reclaim control of your IBM software estate. Timeline------ 00:00 - 06:53 | Industry Topics 07:06 - 18:34 | Guy Tritton

This episode will be discussing ‘IBM forced upgrades & audits” ft guest speaker Daniel Begg. You may have an IBM infrastructure using IBM products, and your enterprise is running smoothly. Then you get hit with the news that IBM are discontinuing their software support for the applications you use. We want to educate the industry that there are many other options than IBM and your legacy application can be supported out of life without having to upgrade.

This episode will be dissecting our last campaign 'Don't Be That Guy' and exploring the ideas and the interpretation behind it.

Customers who use BigFix Inventory for tracking use of IBM in Cloud/virtualized environments are ok to use sub-capacity measurement. When BigFix moves to HCL it will no longer be an IBM product so will customers be able to continue to use BigFix inventory to track use or will they have to start to use ILMT standalone?

IBM selling off their legacy software products to HCL Technologies is recognized as the largest Indian IT acquisition to date. But how will this move affect IBM’s legacy clients? No notice was given of the deal, yet all these clients have a new vendor and no clarity of what’s going to happen with the development and support of these software assets. ‍

Is your company blindly spending potential budget dollars on complex IBM renewals? Many companies experience high spending on underused software. This overspending is due to lack of knowledge and an understanding of options. Common confusion across all staff and platforms is due to forced upgrades. This panic of confusion leads to late renewals at the end of the year, leading to careless overspending. Overcome this overspending by understanding your license entitlements and explore your options ahead of schedule.