Explain IT
Hosted by Helen Gidney and Ashleigh Baker · Softcat
4.9from 21 ratings
- 101
- Episodes
- 31
- Transcribed
- 21
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
- 451K
- YouTube views
About Explain IT
This is Explain IT, a show for IT professionals by IT professionals; offering insight, knowledge, experience and opinion on a variety of enterprise tech topics. With new episodes out regularly, follow the podcast in your favourite app and you'll get notified with every new release. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Softcat
- Category
- business · news · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 14 Mar 2018
- Latest episode
- 29 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
31 of 101 episodes have a transcript.
29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Digital Workspaces: Balancing Security, Cost and User Experience
1 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Modernizing Infrastructure Without Starting from Scratch
30 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
The AI Reality Check: Enterprise IT & Infrastructure Insights from Dell Tech World 2026
Inside a recent episode
Digital Workspaces: Balancing Security, Cost and User Experience
Published 29 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] They're thinking of the most creative ways to get to social engineer and get into the user and into infrastructures. They're talking about farming now and decrypting later. They're taking a whole different wave about the challenge. So if we're not looking at the challenge in the same way and looking at the processes that help us navigate that, then we very much run the risk of falling behind the bad guys. There's got to be threat actors. We'll make it more professional. you're so right there about taking a well-rounded approach. You need to consider the technologies and the evolution of these technologies, but ensure that we're still keeping the human in the loop and ensure that we're also still thinking about cost, security, complexity, and assessing these things together to make sure that we're making the right decisions in the right points. […]
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Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Scott Manchester
- James Millington
- Mark Forster
- Sam Woodcock
- Pat Parrish
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 451,476
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 6 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 15 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 46 / 100
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- Quality
- 38
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 51
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Questions about Explain IT
Who hosts Explain IT?
Helen Gidney and Ashleigh Baker host the show. Published by Softcat.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does Explain IT take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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