It’s About Data — A Podcast from dbInsight & Halfpipe Systems
New insights, expert conversations from the world of data and analytics.
It’s About Data is the topical straight talking podcast about data, AI, analytics “and whatever else we feel like talking about.”
With episodes running 15 - 20 minutes, we get straight to the point. Reformed data scientist Matt Housley and veteran industry analyst Tony Baer – often joined by guests from the data community – deliver their takes on current ideas, trends, vendor strategies, and technology developments impacting the data world. Episodes range from the topical (The “Snowbricks” rivalry between Databricks and Snowflake) to the strategic (the implications of MCP for agentic AI).
Regularly scheduled episodes debut on YouTube, LinkedIn and Spotify every Wednesday at noon ET, but we also interrupt this program to broadcast special episodes when major headlines break.
Podcast Archive
🎙️ Ep 17: @NVIDIA Shatters the Market Cap Record
July 16, 2025
Nvidia just hit a record market capitalization of $4.2 trillion.
We interrupt our summer lull to give our hot take. #nvidia #generativeai #deeplearning
🎙️ Ep 16: Oracle Database@AWS
July 9, 2025
We're joined by guests Mehul Shah and Kambiz Aghili to discuss Oracle Database@AWS.
What do broadening multi-cloud partnerships mean for customers and cloud architects?
🎙️Ep 15: Major Themes of 2025 H1
July 2, 2025
Tony and Matt follow up the previous episode's review of first half announcements with a discussion of major themes for the year to date.
Acquisitions, rebundling the modern data stack, data products, interop and the future of engineers in an #artificialintelligence driven industry.
🎙️Ep 14: Data News Recap — H1 2025
June 25, 2025
Tony and Matt review vendor news from the first half of 2025.
In short: agents, agents, agents. #aiagents #enterpriseai #cloudcomputing #datawarehousing
🎙️Ep 13: Data + AI Summit 2025
June 18, 2025
Matt and Tony discuss the 2025 edition of @Databricks' annual shindig in San Francisco.
#postgres #iceberg @snowflakeinc #airealism
🎙️Ep 12: DuckLake (with Ryan Boyd)
June 11, 2025
Ryan (cofounder @motherduckdb) joins Tony and Matt to discuss the recent release of DuckLake, a combined table format and data catalog released by the @duckdb foundation. #datawarehouse #dataanalytics #iceberg #duckdb #podcast