Cloudbusting Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Join Jeremy & Dave as they explore what it means to Iive, work, and solve business challenges as a cloud-native organization. Focusing on transformation, leadership, ways of working, and emerging technology they explore how the cloud is underpinning a step-change in human experience. The Cloudbusting Podcast is brought to you by Cloudreach. www.cloudreach.com
This week Jez and Darren receive a special guest in Carla Arend who is IDC's Associate Vice President for Cloud Research in Europe. Carla and the team discuss the research results on the heals of the infobrief release which uncovers invaluable insights into the cloud native enterprise, sustainability in the clo*ud, the talent crisis, the role of the cloud in the connected world, the evolution of the CIO mindset and the financial quotient among other interesting topics discussed in this episode of Cloudbusting. It only takes a few flicks to fire up your favourite podcast app, press play and listen away.
Darren is on the spot this week with his two bosses on the show; Jez and Darren's client, Phil Parr, Cloud Platform Services Director at Unilever who graces our hot seat to tell us about Unilever's own story of migrating to the cloud. Yet another great transformation journey with its own unique tidbits we can all learn from. Fire up your favourite podcast app and listen away!
Welcome to this week's episode of CloudBusting! Our special guest, Sue Daley, Director of Tech Innovation at techUK joins Jez and Darren to explore the cutting-edge realms of future technologies. Join us as we delve into fascinating topics such as edge computing, open ecosystems, people skills, interoperability, data portability and many more topics on smart data, open banking and digital twin. Get ready for an insightful conversation that uncovers the transformative potential of these technological advancements. On your marks, get set, Go!
Welcome back to Cloudbusting! This week, Jez and Darren receive Tristan Gadsby, CEO of Alliants, the experts at enabling exceptional customer experiences in hospitality and retail. Together they dissect the topic around the added value that cloud generates which allows the delivery of seamless experiences to customers on one hand and drives intelligent business decision making on the other unlocking untapped revenue potential through the looking glass of clever unified data. A win-win-win all round. At your convenience, grab your air pods and give it a listen.
This week Jez and Darren receive Doug Drinkwater, Director of Strategy at HotTopics for a sit down to unpick the ever evolving role of the CIO and talk about the challenges faced in this role seen from the lens of a seasoned business technology journalist. Doug unveils what it takes to step into this role, the skill set required, whether personality traits matter and what background they need to make them successful in an ever changing business landscape. Podcast alert; it's Cloudbusting time! Bookmark it if you haven't yet and get listening.
This week, Jez and Darren receive Anthony Levy, Founder & Chairman of Circularity First and discuss the real issues surrounding the progress of sustainability globally by unveiling how manufacturing products from an age old consumerist perspective in mind means pussyfooting around tackling the crucial issues required to reduce humanity's carbon footprint on the planet. Is the short time to product obsolescence manufacturers build into their products, FOMO and data hoarding adversely contributing to stalling badly needed progress in sustainability for future generations to come? Find out in this episode among many more eye watering topics. It's podcast time, press play and listen away!
Darren's on the spot this week with his two bosses on the show; Jez and Darren's client, Phil Parr, Cloud Platform Services Director at Unilever who graces our hot seat to tell us about Unilever's own story of migrating to the cloud. Yet another great transformation journey with its own unique tidbits we can all learn from. Fire up your favourite podcast app and listen away.
This week the Cloudbusting crew, Jez and Darren get chatting with Andy Barraclough, founder & CTO of Voxpopme about ChatGPT, its unmatched AI capabilities and the different sectors it has the potential to disrupt in the future. Press Play and listen in on some invaluable tips, tricks and use case ideas for inspiration. Whether you haven't heard of ChatGPT or are on your way to becoming an expert, this is a one-of-a-kind episode you wouldn't want to miss!
Cloudbusting is back with a bang starting with the first season of the year. A very exciting line up of guest speakers awaits! In our first episode we welcome Blake Janelle, Director of Architecture at Liberty Mutual Insurance who joins Jez and Darren to talk about Liberty Mutual's modernization journey to the cloud. Blake takes us through an interesting journey starting from its early days covering their challenges, learnings and key milestones along the way and concludes with how it panned out for them today. Make sure to spare some time, grab your headphones and give it a listen!
Join Jez and Darren in the last episode of this season chat with Jeff Barr, Vice President and Chief Evangelist and listen to him talk about his illustrious career at AWS, his retreat with Jeff Bezos on brainstorming the birth of AWS, how re:Invent was launched, his views on where the cloud market is today and where it is going, and a bunch of anecdotes about his personal experiences at AWS. Get as close as you can to hear it from an Amazon veteran give us a real feel about the culture inside AWS and get to be the first in the know!
Straight talking John Finch, technology adviser to private equity funds & FSIs tells it how it is. Cloud FinOps, Cloud cost optimisation, cloud economics or the financial quotient, this challenge is not going away unless tackled from the ground up irrespective of the term applied to it. Join Darren, Jez and John to listen to them talk about this topic, providing the practical steps required to ensure that cloud cost is effectively brought under control at a micro level.
Darren, Jez and Mark Ross, Global Chief Architect at Atos round the circle by giving us a neat wrap up of the new offerings that AWS announced at re:Invent. More exciting functionality is coming our way to implement for our customers so fasten your seat belts and get listening as you'll hear it first here on Cloudbusting!
Decarbonizing digital assets directly impacts 2% of global energy consumption. But how can it help us impact the 98%? We believe climate action makes commercial sense, but it can’t happen without the cloud. Public cloud offers the opportunity to diminish
carbon footprints for organisations to become sustainable.
The sixth and last episode in the series of the cloud trends for 2023 features guest speaker Keisha Garcia, VP Digital Foundations Programmes at bp who discusses this pertinent topic of our time with Darren & Jez. Don't miss out on what promises to be an invaluable session on sustainability.
AWS re:Invent is a learning conference hosted by Amazon Web Services for the global cloud computing community.
In 2022, over 50% of organizations reported the skills shortage to be severely impacting growth or posing an existential crisis to business. While organizations look to solve the problem with new academy programs, training incentives, and personal development time, we’ve barely scratched the surface.
The fifth in the series of six cloud trends for 2023 is entitled The Talent Crisis featuring guest speaker Faye Ellis, Principal Training Architect - AWS at A Cloud Guru. Grab your earphones to listen to Darren & Jez together with Faye debate The Talent Crisis in technology.
AWS re:Invent is a learning conference hosted by Amazon Web Services for the global cloud computing community.
Join Darren and Jez from the conference floor at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas as they continue to unveil the Cloud Trends for 2023 one at a time through a series of six live podcasts. The fourth in the series is entitled Evolution of the CIO with featuring guest Phil Le-Brun, Director, Enterprise Strategy at AWS. Tune in to hear them debate whether the role of the CIO is dead and what is required for technology leaders to elevate their business and financial acumen and align to business priorities and outcomes rather than only evaluating and managing technology.
AWS re:Invent is a learning conference hosted by Amazon Web Services for the global cloud computing community.
This week the Cloudbusting team is in Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent, a learning conference hosted by Amazon Web Services for the global cloud computing community.
Join Dave and Jez as they present Cloud Trends 2023 through a series of six Live podcasts, the third in the series is entitled The Financial Quotient featuring guest Andrew Hillier, Global Strategic Brands at IAS, Integral Ad Science. Tune in to hear them talk about how enterprises are navigating the reality of cloudflation in an increasingly cost-pressured world and how leaders need to increase their Financial Quotient (FQ) and implement cloud economics to drive accountability and alignment to business priorities if they are to manage rising costs.
This week the Cloudbusting team is in Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent, a learning conference hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS) for the global cloud computing community.
Join Dave and Jez as they present “Cloud Trends 2023” through a series of six Live podcasts. The second in the series “The Cloud Native Enterprise” featuring guest Drew Firment, Chief Cloud Strategist at Pluralsight and addresses the cloud-native enterprise as an organization that has aligned business and technology teams to modernize not only its tech, but also its people, processes, and value chain to be more diverse, sustainable, agile, and secure.
Live from AWS’ re:Invent conference floor in Las Vegas this week is the Cloudbusting team receiving various expert guests to talk about our 2023 Cloud Trends in a series of 6 live podcasts.
The first in the series is - The Connected World - featuring Simon Withers, Atos Global Head of Portfolio & Engineering, and hosted by Jez and Darren who together unpick what the connected world means for us today and in the future.
It's countdown time to re:Invent: Jez and Darren together with Mark Ross, Global Chief Architect AWS at Atos go through a preview session of what to expect at re:Invent and also provide some invaluable tips and tricks on what to wear, where to eat and how best to optimise one's use of time while there. If you're packing up to hit the Vegas strip, make listening to this episode of Cloudbusting an essential part of your prep time.
This week’s guest is Marcos Cadena, CTO & CDO of Jollibee Foods, owners of fast food brand Jollibee, the equivalent of McDonald’s in the Philippines and franchisees of Burger King and Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf among many other retail brands in Asia. Marcos makes the case for a data-driven enterprise, explains what makes it tick in the cloud and reveals the nucleus team required to start the transformation and become truly driven by intelligent data that drives clever decision making throughout the organisation.
Day II at the Gartner Symposium Jez and Darren report on what they saw and heard covering new tech, how the future could look like in the metaverse, digital autonomous organisations, flying cars and so much more not to miss out on. Grab your earphones and press that play button.
Jez and Darren are in Barcelona at the Gartner Symposium finding out the latest and greatest in cloud world this week. Tune into part I of two episodes to hear about it all and be the first to be in the know.
In the hot seat this week, Jez and Darren receive Stuart Lemmon, Managing Director of ecoact, an atos company to learn about his endeavours to help clients cool off the planet. He explains in absolute clarity what sustainability is about, dives into humanity's greatest challenge yet and dissects what society at large can do to help limit earth's temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius before the end of this century.
In the hot seat this week, Jez and Darren receive Stuart Lemmon, Managing Director of ecoact, an atos company to learn about his endeavours to help clients cool off the planet. He explains in absolute clarity what sustainability is about, dives into humanity's greatest challenge yet and dissects what society at large can do to help limit earth's temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius before the end of this century.
Returning guest Paul Crichard, Chief Information Security Officer at Serco UK and Europe is back in the hot seat with Jez and Darren to unpack Security and debate whether ramping up security at all times is necessary, discuss the security required for remote working and reveal some interesting insights from hacker world. Another Cloudbusting episode not to miss so grab your earphones and listen away!
Returning guest Paul Crichard, Chief Information Security Officer at Serco UK and Europe is back in the hot seat with Jez and Darren to unpack Security and debate whether ramping up security at all times is necessary, discuss the security required for remote working and reveal some interesting insights from hacker world. Another Cloudbusting episode not to miss so grab your earphones and listen away!
Jez and Darren are going on a digital trailblazing adventure this week with Isaac Sacolick, StarCIO founder, digital transformation influencer, strategic advisor and author of his new book: Digital Trailblazer. The panel discuss what digital transformation is all about, what the end-to-end process of a digital transformation looks like and debate whether cost savings as a key driver alone is enough for organisations to migrate to the cloud. Certainly another Cloudbusting episode not to miss.
Jez and Darren are back to get into the weeds of cloudflation with this week's guest David Linthicum, Influencer and Chief Strategy Officer at Deloitte straight-talking his way into an abundance of insights, tackling the drivers that inflate the cost of cloud migrations and identifies what helps deflate them.
Jez and Darren are at it again this week with our guest speaker Simon Withers, Global Head of Cloud Portfolio & Engineering at Atos, picking the bones of cloud modernisation and tapping into the importance of FinOps in a recession challenged world.
In this week's episode Darren makes his return as podcast cohost and we welcome Chris Gabriel, Chief Strategy Officer at Sapphire to unpack recent research showing that 85M jobs will be unfilled by 2030 in cloud computing. The team take a hard look at how the industry has contributed to the problem, how old recruiting practices are hindering progress, and the need to reframe the perception of technical roles.
In this week's episode Darren makes his return as podcast cohost and we welcome Chris Gabriel, Chief Strategy Officer at Sapphire to unpack recent research showing that 85M jobs will be unfilled by 2030 in cloud computing. The team take a hard look at how the industry has contributed to the problem, how old recruiting practices are hindering progress, and the need to reframe the perception of technical roles.
We are so glad to be back with a brand new season of Cloudbusting! This week we welcome new co-host, Darren Bowling, a Senior Cloud Advisor at Cloudreach, and spend some time with Floor Bleeker, Group CTO at Accor. In this episode, Jez, Darren, and Floor discuss the evolving role of the CIO, how it's changed over the last few years, and what the future holds for CIOs looking to retain influence and relevance within their organisations.
We are so glad to be back with a brand new season of Cloudbusting! This week we welcome new co-host, Darren Bowling, a Senior Cloud Advisor at Cloudreach, and spend some time with Floor Bleeker, Group CTO at Accor. In this episode, Jez, Darren, and Floor discuss the evolving role of the CIO, how it's changed over the last few years, and what the future holds for CIOs looking to retain influence and relevance within their organisations.
In the final episode of the season, and part II of The Long Goodbye, the team welcome returning guest Holly Norman to discuss and recap our cloud trend predictions over the last few years. Each year at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, we record and release a set of trends episodes live from the show floor, so we wanted to take the time to review, dissect, and discuss what we've learned. The team draw on themes across our 2020, 2021, and 2022 trends including adaptable organisations, tech making it into boardroom conversations throughout the pandemic, and what it means to be a cloud native organisation.
We've got some sad news to share this week, Dave is leaving the pod! So to see him off in style, we've put together two very special final episodes - bringing back a few beloved guests, welcoming Dan Dan Producer Man back behind the mic, and having a look back at some industry trends and pod highlights throughout our time together.
In Dave's penultimate episode, the team are initially joined by Nelson Wootton, CEO of SaaScada, to discuss his experience in the industry and SaaScada's cloud journey over the last few years - namely, how the conversation around cloud adoption has shifted from "what if we?" to "how can we?".
We then welcome back two longstanding friends of the show for a second deep dive, Duena Blomstrom, CEO of People Not Tech, and Alastair Kidd, a Systemic Leadership Coach. Together the group reflect on how leadership styles and ways of working have evolved and shifted over the last few years, leaning in on psychological safety and the importance of focus on people throughout a transformation.
Why scissors? Find out why this week’s guest, Maggie Fox, took up interest in the scissor industry and is creating awareness around the history of the product. She describes the end to end manufacturing process and its intersection to cloud technology - “ancient process meets new technology.” Learn about how she became an entrepreneur by starting this very new business and how the cloud enabled her ramp up time to be so quick.
Listen in to see if you will be convinced your scissors should be as good as your knives?
Mark Ross, Lead Cloud Architect at Atos, joins the podcast to discuss the “Coaching Hub” at Atos and the importance of continuous education in retaining current employees. Find out why the coaching hub started and how employees transition through it during their tenure. He goes on to stress the importance of building a community and a cloud native culture to bridge the gap between online learning and real life. When employees engage with other like-minded individuals and apply their work to customer engagements, they gain the experience and confidence to go further in their continuous Cloud Education.
Interested in getting into the Cloud Industry? Mark remarks that anyone can do it, it just takes a good education program and the support of business leaders to upskill their teams.
This week, Jez and Dave are joined by Adam Carmel, Founder and CEO of Polly, a cloud native disruptor to the mortgage industry. In this episode, we discuss how cloud is enabling greater flexibility, faster and continuous deployments of new features, and faster time to market for Polly. Adam gives insight into how building a backend from scratch, maximizing customization for users, automating workflows, and leveraging cloud based analytics, machine learning and AI are all helping drive better ROI and benefits for customers.
During today’s episode, we discuss FinOps with our very own Head of FinOps at Cloudreach, Stephen Old. Stephen made an interesting segway into the tech and FinOps industry, which he covers in the first portion of the podcast.
Since his entry into the growing industry he’s learned quite a bit about the real definition of financial management of the cloud. He explains it’s more than just financial optimization. A true FinOps consultant should know what ‘good’ looks like and really help customers make decisions about their spending and the business value that can be extracted from metrics.
Dive into this episode to learn why FinOps is far from traditional IT Finance.
Maggie Fox joins us to further explore what we really mean by Digital Quotient - one of our 2022 Cloud Trends. Maggie is very experienced in the digital marketing space with credit for starting the first social media consultancy, Social Media Group, business advisor to many high-growth companies and a frequent speaker on digital transformation.
During this discussion with Dave and Jez, Maggie dives into the massive digital changes organizations experienced in 2020 and how company cultures were able to adapt and change quicker than ever before, setting the standard going forward that many projects that used to take months or even years to plan now have the expectation of being completed in a matter of weeks!
While we might still be coming up with the exact definition of digital quotient - we’re all experiencing it in our daily lives. Listen to this episode to hear why.
Jed Yueh joins us on the Cloudbusting podcast this week to discuss his journey towards engineering disruption through his previous and current companies. He goes into describing a wide variety of scenarios to our listeners on what it takes to disrupt the digital space in a big way and how he’s seen success using data. Using examples like TikTok, Snapchat and the like, he describes why these companies are so successful in their niche.
Find out what it means for a company to be carbon negative and not just talk about sustainability but take action. It’s no longer a trend to talk about the environment but time to take real action.
Of course, we wrap up the episode with some really interesting and personable ten-second recommendations this week. Any guesses on the latest sport to take over America?
What is the real difference between Automated Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)? This week, Dave and Jez are joined by returning guest, Phil Le-Brun, Enterprise Strategist at AWS, as they unpack data strategies, machine learning use cases, and some practical advice to get enterprises started on their data journey. Drawing on experience working with LexusNexus, Moderna, Formula 1 and more, Phil talks us through how these organizations have delivered better customer experiences through AI and ML.
If you’re looking to get started in the AI and ML space, listen in for Phil’s guidance on your next steps.
Is your enterprise just getting started on its cloud security monitoring journey? Hear from our guest and CEO of Panther Labs, Jack Naglieri, on some of the biggest challenges he sees in the data security space and even an example of a recent public data breach. Panther labs provides a cloud native threat detection platform that uses services to scale up workloads as needed by customer demands. He shares with us how he got his start at some of the leading silicon valley tech companies and where the idea and need for Panther Labs came from. Finally, he provides his view on how to implement a threat detection platform on a cloud environment and the benefits of this compared to traditional, off-the-shelf software.
Not sure where to get started? Jack provides advice on where to get started and precautions you can take today with your employees to ensure phishing, the easiest way to hack an environment, is prevented.
As the demand for software continues to outpace supply of people capable of delivering it, are DevOps and Agile methodologies making the situation worse?
Dave and Jez are joined by Tyler Jewell, Managing Director at Dell Technologies Capital and DevOps enthusiast, for a fascinating discussion on whether or not we're getting toogood at Agile and consequently making developers lives less efficient and more complex.
Let’s talk about today’s Cloud Trends! In this episode, Dave and Jez are joined by Carla Arend, a lead analyst for IDC’s (International Data Corporation) European cloud research. IDC and Cloudreach recently partnered in interviewing over 610 IT leadership professionals across North America and Europe to learn their thoughts on cloud modernization topics.This discussion summarizes some of the most interesting finds, including how digital leaders feel about public cloud being essential for their organization along with the reasoning for investing in digital transformation. Cost savings no longer appears to be the primary driver. Listen to the episode for a summary of the research findings and check out our Cloud Trends page for a fully readout on the research.
The cloud skills gap is a well recognized reality, but are we having the right conversation to solve it? Let’s change the narrative - Are the skills needed today going to be the skills needed tomorrow? Join us as we talk with Sally Eaves, Chair of Global Cyber Trust and CEO of Aspirational Features, to discuss the talent challenges many companies are facing today.
The expectations of not only consumers are changing, but the expectations of employees are changing. Find out what areas employers should focus on offering to their workforce.
Michael Davis, CEO and Founder at Merek Security Solutions, walks us through his journey to building his business around mindfulness and cybersecurity. Michael uses proven mindfulness directives and exercises to best align Information Security posture for clients, taking a proactive vs. reactive approach to cybersecurity for business continuity.
Find out about how mindfulness in the corporate world can connect to an improved security posture. And get the answer to what ‘digital pausing’ is along with how many times more likely you are to experience a cyberattack if not using multi-factor authentication. Listen in to learn more.
Join Jez as he runs us through a recap of the 2022 Cloud Trends and alludes to our impending ebooks and podcasts set to publish around the research that went into these predictions imminently! This episode takes a bit of a break from our regular topic-based discussions. Instead, we recap the Cloudy Cliffhangers from our Cloud Trends-based boothcasts at AWS re:Invent 2021 as we look ahead to release the IDC research behind the Cloud Trends. If you want to re-listen to any of the specific trend podcasts with our cloud enterprise guests, go to the podcasts posted from Dec 1 - 6, 2021.
What an episode! What are containers, anyways? This episode provides an overview of not only containers, but Kubernetes, something called GitOps and Azure Arc. Have a listen as Steve Buchanan, Principal Program Manager at Azure, defines this all for us. He tells us why GitOps is becoming the center of the universe and names some great resources on where to go to learn more about all of these topics.
This episode, Jez and Dave are joined by Michael Krigsman, publisher of CXOTalk, for a discussion on the impact the customer has on digital transformation. Michael emphasizes why thoroughly understanding your customer puts you in a better place to create effective products and implement ideas that ultimately result in closing sales. The more data you have on your customers, the better customer experience can be created, and the pandemic revealed many examples of this.
Give this episode a listen to find out why Michael transitioned from consulting into the podcast space and more about his thoughts on business disruption in the world today.
In our second episode of the new season, “Cloud Migrations, What Have We Learned?” Marc Weaver joins the Cloudbusting team for a lively talk about Cloud Migrations. Marc was named one of 2020’s “Top 20 Cloud Influencers” and in 2021 he was recognized as a top influencer in cloud computing by Simplilearn, the world’s #1 online bootcamp.
Today, Marc is an AWS cloud migration expert and top-ranked AWS solutions architect who founded the company “databasable,” after 15 years experience working for large financial institutions in London, Sydney and New York.
Join our hosts Dave and Jez as they leap into and unravel cloud migration archetypes while taking a detour through data centers, databases and close with the beloved Ten Second Recommendations.
The new season of Cloudbusting starts with “Gaming and the Cloud” as our team chats with Theo Priestley, technology evangelist, futurist and creator of the Metanomic Engine™.
Theo is also founder of Carbon Based Lifeforms whose Project Gateway, a sci-fi open-world MMO (massively multiplayer online), looks to redefine what it means to create virtual worlds.
Join Dave and Jez as they chat about Web3, Metaverse and Gaming-as-a-Service among other topics. It’s a special episode complete with a Cloudy Cliffhanger and in-depth history of gaming with a twist.
This Cloudbusting podcast season finale, "A How-To Guide for Digital Product Launches," features Todd Kiehn, Sr. Vice President, Product Management at GTT. Kiehn shares his insights on bringing products to market and, together with our team, takes a deep dive into product development as a discipline.
Listen in as this episode explores the big challenges beyond the general mechanics of product development into the art and balance of speed to market versus product quality. Finally, it's our Holiday Edition with special TSRs. Happy New Year!
This week the Cloudbusting Podcast Team meets with renowned Futurist and Humanist, Gerd Leonhard, "one of the most influential people in Europe," for Episode #125 "The Future of Technology and Humanity."
Listen in and find out why The Wall Street Journal called Gerd "one of the leading Media Futurists in the World" and Wired Magazine appointed Gerd #88 of the top 100 influencers in Europe.
Leonhard has written 5 books including the best-selling ‘Technology vs Humanity" and his films on the future of technology and humanity, digital transformation and artificial intelligence have reached millions of viewers.
In this week's episode, "Google’s Sustainability Initiatives," Jeff Sternberg, Technical Director, Applied AI at Google Cloud Office of the CTO, joins our Cloudbusting Podcast Team to chat about the COP26 Conference, carbon free versus net zero, sustainable finance and we get an update on Earth Engine from Google's Cloud Next '21 announcements.
“Security Implications of Cloud Trends” is a bonus segment to our annual Cloud Trends miniseries. Recorded LIVE from the Cloudbusting “Boothcast” at AWS re:Invent, in Las Vegas, our hosts are joined by Clarke Rodgers (AWS) Enterprise Security Strategist.
Cloud Trend #5, recorded LIVE from the Cloudbusting “Boothcast” at AWS re:Invent, in Las Vegas, is “The Talent Crisis” and features Cloudreahers Tara Tapper, Chief People Officer and Holly Norman Head of AWS Marketing. Together they offer insight into an industry-wide challenge that includes a lack of investment on the supply side as well as diversity issues for the tech sector in general.
As the cloud scales, the need for talent at all levels has risen exponentially, demanding the next level of recruitment, education and services. A cornerstone responsibility of all of us is to unlock potential from all backgrounds and unleash the next generation of cloud super stars.
The Cloudbusting Podcast team delivers another LIVE "Boothcast" from AWS re:Invent, in Las Vegas, with our very own Sammy Cheung, Cloudreach Principal Technical Advisor. Listen in as Sammy chats with Dave and Jez for Cloud Trend #3 “Living on the Edge.”
Scale ML models are using the power of Edge and Fog compute to drive new experience and functionality to areas the public cloud cannot easily reach. In turn, they are driving an important evolution in the application architecture possibilities of the cloud.
"Decarbonize yr Tech" is Cloud Trend #6 recorded LIVE from the Cloudbusting "Boothcast" at AWS re:Invent, in Las Vegas.
This episode welcomes guests Keisha Garcia, VP Digital Foundations Programs (bp) & Thomas Blood (AWS) Digital Innovation Leader. Get insight on Sustainability and Decarbonisation, find out how tech allows us to measure impact and also proactively do something about it. "Decarbonize yr Tech."
Optimizing consumption is no longer about simply managing your financial expenditure, but managing your wider impacts in real time. The call to action is clear and the services and tooling are now available to deliver granular control over carbon footprint. Net Zero is just the start
Episode 4 of 7 in our Cloud Trends 2022 miniseries is brought to you LIVE from the Cloudbusting "Boothcast" at AWS re:Invent, in Las Vegas.
In this segment, hosts Dave and Jez discuss characteristics of modern leadership and digital maturity in "Developing DQ" with Enterprise Strategist and former CIO, Phil Le-Brun (AWS).
Are your leaders thinking with a digital mindset? Your Digital Quotient is not just a measure of organizational maturity but, critically, of each leader’s ability to think and operate cloud natively.
The LIVE Cloudbusting “Boothcast” continues from AWS re:Invent, in Las Vegas, as Dave and Jez present “Cloud Trends 2022.”
Cloud Trend #2, is “AI/Data Driven Migration & Modernisation” and features Jonathan Allen (AWS), Director, Enterprise Strategy.
Use of AI/ML and historical data removes both time and cost from migration + modernization. Automation of these underlying basic tasks allows break through cloud innovation to happen faster and at scale.
This week the Cloudbusting team is in Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent, a learning conference hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS) for the global cloud computing community.
Join Dave and Jez as they present “Cloud Trends 2022” through a series of seven LIVE Boothcast. The first session, Cloud Trend #1, is “The Cloud Native Enterprise” featuring guest Jake Burns (AWS) Enterprise Strategist.
Business experimentation joining up with larger scale IT transformation is good, but it’s not enough. To break through to new levels of performance, both need to come together with the right level of ambition and culture.
This week's episode, "The Developer-Led Landscape," features Tyler Jewell, Managing Director at Dell Technologies Capital, who shares his top trends in DevOps and views on how DevOps and DevOps landscapes differ. Jewell also sheds light on causes for the growing tech talent shortage and the increasing imbalance of demand for solutions in the API economy.
This week, the Cloudbusting team is joined by Mike Pfeiffer, Founder and CEO of CloudSkills. Mike educates and advises individuals and teams on their Cloud and DevOps engineering journey using blended learning experiences. Listen in for career inspiration about cloud-native technologies and “Get in the Game!”
As a partner at McKinsey, James Kaplan helps major institutions in financial services, health care and manufacturing transform their technology capabilities. In this week's episode, Kaplan joins Jez and Dave for an insightful conversation about "How to Get Value from the Cloud."
Maggie Fox, Board Director Consultant, Smile.io (former COO), Global CMO and Digital Marketer shares her Five-Part Process for successful digital transformation. Whether it's your work or your customers, change is hard and you only get one shot at it. Maggie's five simple tips can help you get on the right path to digital transformation - and stay there.
This week's show explores challenges organizations face when recruiting tech talent, diversity and inclusion concerns within the tech industry and what some organizations are doing about it.
Featured Guest:
Michael Aghataher - Principal Partner Development Mgr - AWS Poonam Flammarion - Head of Talent Academy - Cloudreach
John Culkin, Solutions Architect, joins Jez and Dave to discuss utilization of AWS Solutions. Culkin talks about the genesis of AWS Solutions and how they were born out of a need to accelerate innovation opportunities through rapid prototyping and turning to the cloud as a mission critical resource.
The team’s healthcare journey continues with Diana Kennedy, Chief Technology Officer at Bupa, as they advance the conversation in "Modernization the Healthcare Sector pt 2: BUPA’s Transformation”
Listen in as they discuss technology adoption, digitizing at scale, the framework for transformation and the core pillars which underpinned their multi-faceted journey and a shift to a hyper-personalization platform.
Transitioning an industry disruption into an exemplary case study, this episode reflects the competitive resilience of forward thinking enterprises and the promise of digital transformation.
This week's episode centers around cloud adoption in the SE Asian market. Our guest, Bernd Nordhausen, a 30-year resident of Singapore, offers on-the-ground observations including data residency requirements, cloud unicorns and what's driving change in the expansively growing region.
This week's show explores challenges organizations face when recruiting tech talent, diversity and inclusion concerns within the tech industry and what some organizations are doing about it.
Featured Guest:
Michael Aghataher - Principal Partner Development Mgr - AWS Poonam Flammarion - Head of Talent Academy - Cloudreach
This week we are once again joined by Nikki Baird, VP Retail Innovation at Aptos. Nikki builds on her observations about the future of consumer retail experiences, from contactless shopping to a new “blended” digital purchase journey.
Join Jez and Dave as they explore some of the driving forces of omnichannel retail and technology challenges therein.
The new season of @Cloudbusting is out, featuring an “Ask the Expert” panel. Enjoy this episode’s lively discussion about Google Cloud, Building Digital B2B Products and more.
Our Guest Include:
• John Abel - Technical Director - Office of the CTO at Google
• Nelson Wootton - CEO SaaScada
• Dharmesh Ghedia - Senior Solutions Architect - Cloudreach
This week we are joined by Jo Peterson, VP of Cloud & Security at Clarify 360, and Maribel Lopez, Founder of Lopez Research for a deep dive into edge computing.
We discuss the business opportunities and innovations that are being driven by edge and speculate over the breakthroughs that will be made possible by layering edge with other technologies like Ai and 5G.
This week, the team is joined by Diana Kennedy, Group CTO at BUPA.
They discuss the impact of digital technology on healthcare organizations and how traditional organizations are starting to embrace change. They also consider how modernization in this sector is impacting patient experience, especially during the ongoing pandemic.
This week we are joined by Robin Sutara, Chief Data Officer at Microsoft UK.
Over the past year, enterprises have been finding new ways to leverage their data and overcome disruption by creating new, innovative products and experiences. Robin tells us about some of the great work that Microsoft customers have been doing to harness the value of their data.
This week we are joined by Cloudreach's Head of R&D, Chris Williams, to discuss what the future holds for application modernization in the cloud.
The team discusses the complexity and paradoxes of choice that enterprises face when they move and attempt to modernize in the cloud. Chris suggests how relying on software and automation will help organizations clearly identify modernization opportunities within their estate and continuously execute at the speed of innovation.
Duena Blomstrom returns to the show to speak about her new book: People Before Tech which focuses on the importance of psychological safety and teamwork in the digital age.
Duena discusses the concept of 'human debt' and the impact it is having on digital businesses. She also explains why psychological safety is essential for high-performing, agile teams.
Paul Crichard returns to the show to address some of the cybersecurity issues surrounding the recent Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack.
The team discusses how and why these attacks occur and suggest how organizations can be more cyber-aware and better protect themselves from malicious actors.
This week we are joined by Richard Robinson, Partner Migration Program Lead UKI at AWS.
The team looks at some of the key challenges and business drivers that enterprises are currently facing when approaching cloud migrations. They also discuss how these organizations can create a foundation for innovation and modernization by taking a 'smarter' approach to migration that leverages powerful assessment software, automation, and analysis of historical data.
This week we are delighted to welcome author, podcast host, and cloud computing pioneer, David Linthicum, to the show.
For most enterprises tackling cloud transformation, one of the biggest challenges is bridging the technical skills gaps that emerge. After a year of disruption, where demand for cloud talent has only accelerated, we explore how tech leaders can attract and retain the best people for their organization.
This week we are joined by Eric Lam and Pathik Sharma from Google Cloud to discuss cloud cost optimization best practices.
First, the team covers the importance of understanding how IT costs are managed in the cloud next to costs organizations face on-premises. They then discuss several ways organizations can optimize their cloud spend before recommending FinOps adoption as a way to create a culture of financial accountability.
This week we are joined by Amanda Brock, CEO at Open UK, for a discussion around the growing prominence of Open technologies in both corporate and governmental digital strategies.
We cover common misconceptions about Open Source and dig into how tech leaders should frame the use of Open when building their digital strategies.
In our final Trends 2021 episode, we are delighted to welcome Jake Burns, Enterprise Strategist at AWS and host of the Conversations With Leaders Podcast, to the show.
Our final trend focuses on the acceleration of digital transformation in a post-COVID world. The team debate whether enterprises in 2021 and beyond will be migrating to the cloud with a clearer idea of how and when they should modernize - rather than just virtualizing their infrastructure.
It has been over a year since COVID-19 forced the majority of us to work from home and significantly shift how we define the barriers between our personal and professional lives.
Duena Blomstrom (CEO of PeopleNotTech) joins us this week to discuss some of the key lessons she has learned over the past 12 months and suggest how leaders can best support and enable their teams in the new normal of hybrid working.
Stewart Fry, SVP of Digital Enterprise & Operations at bp joins us this week to discuss our fifth trend: Adaptable Organizations.
The COVID-19 pandemic forced many businesses to adapt, challenging them to rethink and restructure their organization to accelerate their digital transformation efforts. This looks set to continue through 2021 and beyond. But what does adaptability actually look like from an organizational perspective?
Stewart pulls some fascinating insights from bp's organizational transformation that demonstrate how even the largest, most complex organizations can adapt at scale.
Ben Shepherd, Chief Strategy Officer at London Stock Exchange Group joins us this week to explore the changing role of technology within a business and the growing influence of IT leaders.
The fourth episode in our trend series considers how vital IT became to business continuity when COVID-19 hit and whether it will cement its perception as a strategic business enabler - rather than a cost center.
This week Nikki Baird from Aptos Retail join us to cover our third trend: Next Level Robustness. During the pandemic, consumer digital has become essential, especially in the retail & groceries sector, where social distancing measures made online grocery shopping a lifeline for vulnerable people.
If consumer digital can be seen as critical infrastructure, we discuss how important it is for businesses to ensure they have robust, scalable digital platforms that can withstand future disruption.
Gordon Davey from SoftwareONE joins the team to discuss a poly cloud approach to cloud adoption and how it differs from prevailing ideas of multi-cloud.
Previously, the use of multiple cloud providers within an organization was framed as a way to avoid vendor lock-in and to achieve risk management and compliance goals. A poly cloud approach focuses on the targeted use of multiple cloud platforms, exploiting specific strengths for the functional benefit of particular use cases.
This week we are joined by Steffan Haas, Head of Infrastructure Steering at DB Schenker.
Continuing our Trends 2021 series, we discuss how many of the business continuity-led digital transformation initiatives triggered by the outbreak of COVID-19 last year will continue to accelerate over the next 12 months.
Steffan shares his insights from helping DB Schenker overcome the technical challenges of the pandemic and accelerating their cloud journey.
Richard Robinson (Partner Migration Program Lead UKI, AWS) joins us this week for another episode exploring the business value of diverse organizations.
Drawing from his academic studies as well as the work he is doing in his current role helping organizations adopt cloud, Richard discusses the three dimensions of diversity - inherent, acquired and neurodiversity.
He suggests that rather than just recruiting diversity, we should work on creating an inclusive and environment that provides equity and allows diverse mindsets, personalities and backgrounds to develop and flourish.
Over the past 10 years, we have noticed several eras of cloud distinguished by key adoption drivers, sponsors, and challenges. Cloudreach CEO, Brooks Borcherding, brings his wealth of experience in the cloud space to the team to chat through these eras and discuss if COVID-19 has proven to be the catalyst that will accelerate us into the Enterprise Modernization Era.
We are delighted to welcome Gene Kim as our guest on the 100th episode of the Cloudbusting Podcast.
Gene’s books have sold over 1 million copies — he is the author of the WSJ bestselling book “The Unicorn Project”, and was co-author of “The Phoenix Project,” “The DevOps Handbook”, and the Shingo Publication Award-winning “Accelerate”.
Gene tells us about his early career in IT, shares his fascination with high-performing IT organizations and outlines the 5 Ideals of DevOps.
Iouri Chapochnikov, VP Global Head of Data and Analytics at Accor, joins the team this week to discuss what makes a successful enterprise data & analytics strategy.
Iouri draws from his experiences leading teams at Accor and Criteo, identifying how different enterprises, with different objectives, approach their data & analytics strategy.
He also considers the challenges faced when building these strategies and the lessons he has learned along the way.
In this episode, we delve into the history, benefits, and use cases of Kubernetes. Who better to deliver K8 101 than Craig Box, co-host of the Kubernetes Podcast from Google.
Craig describes the origins of Kubernetes, stemming from Google's Borg system, and how the technology was made widely available for the wider developer community. He also outlines the benefits that the system can provide enterprises in the cloud.
Senior Cloud Architect, Dwayne Monroe joins the team this week to provide a no-hype guide to enterprise AI.
Often sold as 'snake oil', to businesses hoping to garner valuable insights from their data, AI and machine learning solutions very rarely provide the game-changing results that are expected of them. Among other insights, Dwayne suggests that organizations focus more on defining the problem space, and less on the sexy AI solution.
This week the team is joined by Duncan Epping, Senior Director & Chief Technologist at VMware.
After a brief history lesson on VMware, Duncan discusses VMware's cloud strategy and how they are helping customers work effectively using hybrid and multi-cloud models. He also discusses the steps the company is making to support customers who plan to adopt a cloud native approach.
We are joined by Nicolas Chaillan, Chief Software Officer for the US Air Force who helps us answer the question: What is DevSecOps?
Over the last couple of years, Nick and his team have been leading some exciting work helping scale DevSecOps within the complex world of the US Department of Defence. Here he shares some of his key insights and observations and suggests why DevSecOps will be critical for enterprises going forward.
This week we are joined by Faye Ellis, Senior Technical Instructor at training provider, A Cloud Guru.
Throughout her 20-year career in IT, Faye has embraced the challenge of upskilling as keeping up to date with the latest technologies had always led to the most interesting work.
In this episode, she shares the benefits of her own experiences as an engineer and architect but also discusses why it is important for organizations to understand their role in training their people to operate in the cloud effectively and securely.
This week, the team is joined by Peter Fretty, Technology Editor at Industry Week.
Peter outlines the impact that COVID-19 has had on manufacturing and the role technology is playing in helping businesses in this space adapt. He explains how cloud and other technologies like AI, analytics, IoT, and robotics are increasingly being used to optimize workloads and increase yields. He also asserts that technology won't replace human workers, but will support them collaboratively.
This week we are joined by Krys Burnette who describes her typical, day-to-day experience as a Director for Digital Change and Culture at a high-profile sporting brand.
Throughout her career, Krys has worked for many complex enterprise organizations, leading the cultural shifts required to realize their digital transformations. She shares some of her key insights on how to engage people and manage the mindset and behavior changes, providing some tips for leaders who are facing their own transformations.
Minter Dial joins the team this week to discuss what it means to be 'futureproof' and how to ensure your organization is prepared to change, adapt, and pass the test of time.
Throughout this episode, we cover Minter's 3 key mindsets: Meaningfulness, Responsibility & Collaboration. The author, filmmaker, speaker, and digital leader has sported a variety of hats during his career journey, all of which have contributed to these mindsets as well as his insights on leadership, strategy, and connecting with people.
Marcia Villalba, Developer Advocate at AWS, joins the team to discuss everything serverless. Bringing her rich experience and technical expertise on the topic, Marcia, helps us understand the distinctions and promises of a serverless approach. She suggests some enterprise use cases and also explains why serverless is considered by many as Cloud 2.0.
Mark Smith, General Manager of Microsoft Solutions joins us to discuss the impact that COVID-19 has had on digital transformation. Whether through embracing remote working and learning or adopting critical cloud infrastructure, businesses have had to adapt to stay operational. Mark shares some of his observations from the past six months and reflects on the changing role that technology will play in businesses going forward.
John Abel, Technical Director at Google Cloud, joins the team to chat about the different ways organizations are approaching Hybrid Cloud. Previously considered by many as a transitional cloud state, advances in technology over the past few years have potentially repositioned hybrid as an enduring strategic model for enterprises.
Change Architect Laura Copas joins the Cloudbusting team to discuss how transformational change works within organisations. Rather than viewing organisations as human cogs in a predictable machine, Laura suggests we should view them as organic, socially constructed systems. She says this starts by encouraging commitment through a shared purpose and common goal, rather than by demanding compliance.
We are joined by Dante Gabrielli, the CTO at Key2Act - an innovator in the building intelligence, field service and construction management market. Dante explains how Key2Act is leveraging the cloud and IOT to develop and scale new solutions for its customers.
Diversity is a crucial topic when considering modern organizational cultures and equal opportunities within the workplace. Nancy Speidel (from iSAW) joins Jeremy & Dave to share her observations on this subject from over 20 years of experience working within the IT industry. She suggests that we need to change the way we approach conversations about diversity by focusing on the business value that diverse voices, mindsets, and backgrounds can bring to organizations.
Leadership coach, Alastair Kidd returns to Cloudbusting to discuss change leadership and how, more often than not, organisational transformations require the leaders driving the change to transform as well. The team discusses examples of when they have had to deliver enterprise-wide transformation projects, what they have learned from those experiences, and the potential consequences if you don't change alongside your org.
Oliver Johnston-Watt (Blockchain Technology Partners) & Dan O’Prey (Digital Asset) join the team to discuss blockchain technology. They cover use cases and the growing impact the tech is having on how applications are developed and operated.
In this episode, the team is joined by Haydn Shaughnessy & Fin Goulding from Flow Academy to reveal how enterprises can solve big technology transformation problems quickly. They discuss the IT/Business divide and how this can be bridged by using lighthouse thinking and bringing agility into the business. They also cover how transformation sprints can be used as part of a generative approach to remodelling a firm.
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In this episode, we welcome Glen Robinson, National Technology Officer at Microsoft UK, to discuss the growing focus on low-code/no-code development platforms.
Glen identifies the potential benefits of using visual software development environments, where citizen developers can simply drag and drop components to build apps. He also discusses the impact this can have on enterprise transformation, and what can be achieved when innovation is enabled at the edges of an organization.
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The last time Duena Blomstrom (CEO of PeopleNotTech) joined us for a chat, we discussed the importance of leaders providing psychological safety for their teams as organizations absorb the impacts of COVID-19. Now, many of us are starting to consider life after the pandemic, facing what is likely to be a long and difficult recession. Duena returns to assert that this focus on PS needs to continue for the benefit of both the wellbeing and productivity of your people.
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Christian Nilsson, Global Head of Advisory at Cloudreach, joins the team today to discuss how Conway's Law applies to cloud adoption. Referring to the law, Christian suggests that systems reflect organizations and vice versa, supporting the notion that focusing on people, rather than tech, is a far more effective way of delivering transformation. Ultimately, adopting cloud is a chance to review your principles and operating model, not just how your applications are powered.
Paul Crichard, Security CTO at BT, once again joins the team - this time to discuss the threat of DDoS attacks. The team considers the impact of such an attack on an enterprise, ways organizations can mitigate risk and how the cloud era signals a new chapter in the arms race between security teams and malicious attackers.
The team is joined by Cody Bumgardner, Author of the book 'Making Sense of Edge Computing' to provide some insight into Edge as a computing paradigm and how it is related to cloud.
Cody discusses the laws of edge and talks through several use cases that demonstrate its importance now, as well as the role that it will play in the future.
In this episode the team is joined by Cloud Consultant, François Denis, to dive into the meaty topic of cloud economics. François compares pre-cloud, fixed, CapEx IT costs with the variable, OpEx costs in the cloud. He also discussed the adoption of FinOps as a cultural practice to help organizations bring financial accountability to their cloud spend.
In this episode, we are joined by John Culkin, Partner Solutions Architect at AWS. John draws upon his experience helping AWS's business consultant and advisory partners utilize the platform to execute cloud transformation and enable innovation for their clients. He covers the challenges leaders and organizations face, the technologies available, and the important role that certifications play in empowering employees.
In this episode, the team is joined by Katz Kiely, Founder & CEO of beep (the behavioural empowerment enterprise platform). beep is a decentralised, AI software that aims to help enterprises engage employees, and power a culture of innovation.
Katz discusses the positive impact that behavioural empowerment can have in driving efficiency and productivity - enabling people to solve organisational problems. She also tells us about Frontline Live, a platform she (and a group of volunteers) has launched during the COVID-19 pandemic that links PPE suppliers with frontline workers who need it.
In this episode, Rich Pilling, Service Line Leader for Data Insights & Resident Futurologist at Cloudreach, challenges our listeners to let go of their 'lizard brain' and be more data-led.
He discusses the pitfalls of organizations remaining process-led, leaving them unable to sense, respond, and adapt to a changing world. He then outlines how investing in being data-led provides you with the insights needed to make smarter, more informed, decisions.
In this episode, we welcome Jason and Ben from Whitecyber Security, a company that uses algorithms, AI and mobile device functionality to introduce location confirmation as a security authentication factor.
The team discusses the tech behind developing a solution that can locate a device to within centimeters. They also discuss other potential use cases for this innovative technology.
In this episode, we are joined by Cloudreach's Chris Bunch to take a glance at the state of enterprise cloud adoption - considering the latest trends, challenges and drivers that are influencing transformation programs in 2020.
As big fans of Flexera's annual 'State of the Cloud Report' we use the findings in their recently published 2020 Report as fuel for our discussion.
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In this episode, Caroline Baldwin, Editor at Essential Retail and host of the Retail Ramble Podcast, joins the team to chat about the role technology is playing in the retail industry's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Traditional retailers have had to rapidly adapt to a locked-down world, scaling up e-commerce operations and offering new, digital customer experiences. Will the sudden necessity for digital kill off the high street or will people still want tangible store experiences once lockdown is over?
In this episode, Barnaby Jeans (Senior Partner Development Manager at Microsoft) and Rob Duffy (Service Line Leader for Scaled Migrations at Cloudreach) join the team to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 on technical debt.
Initial crisis response has led to many organizations rapidly adopting new technologies to keep their business going. Barnaby and Rob suggest that now is the time to revisit some of those investments and consider more robust, long-term solutions in the cloud.
In this episode of Cloudbusting we are joined by Carl Uminski from digital experience agency, Somo, to discuss the influence that COVID-19 is having on customer expectations and digital experiences.
Carl considers how businesses can achieve true resilience by building an engaging digital touchpoint with customers that provides a seamless, end-to-end user experience. He also discusses how being a product-led organization is essential to achieving this.
On today's show, founder of Imaginactive Fitness, Adele Andersen joins Jez and Dave to discuss the role that technology is playing in keeping people fit and healthy during lockdown.
Adele shares the story behind her excer-tainment mobile app: Apocolypse Survival Training and the team considers the role technology will play in the fitness industry post-COVID-19.
Jonathan Allen, Director of Enterprise Strategy at AWS, is our guest for today's episode. After leading enterprise cloud transformation projects in previous roles, Jonathan now travels around the world helping AWS customers navigate their cloud journeys.
He joins Dave and Jez to share some of the insights presented in his new book: 'Reaching Cloud Velocity'. The book provides readers with leadership best practices for cloud transformation and highlights some powerful lessons learned from those who have gone before.
In this episode, Leahanne Hobson, Founder & CEO at Alinea Partners, joins Jez and Dave to share her experience of using fluid teams to help deliver a superior and tailored service for her clients.
Leahanne discusses the benefits of assembling the ideal skillsets on a job-by-job basis, where flexibility and empowerment are crucial and the focus is on outcomes rather than processes. She also discusses the challenges with scaling this approach, as well as the importance of recruiting a team with the right mindset.
In this episode, Nicola Millard, Principal Innovation Partner at BT, returns to the pod to continue our discussion around the impact of COVID-19 on working life and the technology we are using to continue collaborating at a distance. Nicola shares some insights from a recent White Paper she published ‘A Practical Guide To Successful Homeworking’. She makes some predictions about pre-COVID office etiquette. She also provides a glance at the Inverness Experiment - BT’s first experiment with remote working back in 1992 (Does anyone fancy a home video-phone the size of a small fridge?).
When organizations face a crisis, there is often a tendency for leaders to behave rigidly and increase the level of control over processes. When the crisis involves rapidly changing external factors, much like the current pandemic, this lack of flexibility can do more harm than good.
In this episode of Cloudbusting, the team is joined by Rhys Smith, a Principal Consultant at the McChrystal Group. Rhys explains how keeping your teams engaged and enabling autonomy can be a far more effective method of maintaining and improving productivity.
The current pandemic has amplified the pressure of making the right decisions at the right time. Sophie Devonshire (CEO at The Caffeine Partnership) joins Jez and Dave today to discuss the 'need for speed' in leadership decision making, as well as the importance of purpose when trying to engage your teams to follow your decisions. She also explains why momentum trumps perfection when it comes to innovating quickly.
In this episode of Cloudbusting, writer, speaker, and strategist, Lauren Razavi joins Jez and Dave to discuss the medium and long-term impacts that COVID-19 pandemic will have on the way people work.
Lauren predicts how business processes and cultures could change to accommodate more flexible, distributed workforces. She also suggests that we will stop thinking about job satisfaction in terms of work-life balance and instead consider work-life integration.
To what extent will remote-first work policies become the norm? Will we see more digital nomads who travel while they work? How could ultra-flexible working impact cities and urban policies?
In this episode, Jez & Dave are joined by Nelson Wootton, CEO at SaaScada to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on the FinTech sector. The team discusses the changing financial behaviors of consumers and businesses over this troubling period. They also predict how social distancing will influence invesment in the digital touchpoints of traditional, bricks-and-mortar financial institutions, whose digital experience has lagged behind emerging FinTech players.
In this episode, Jez and Dave are joined by Melika Golkaram, Hybrid Cloud Specialist at Google Cloud, to discuss the various services and architectures that can help your business enable scalability, flexibility, and agility to respond to changing demands. Melika explains how microservices and utilizing technologies like containers, Kubernetes and service meshes, can help your applications run securely, reliably and efficiently in times of uncertainty and crisis.
Over this challenging period, some businesses are having to scale back their transformation plans while others are being forced to accelerate change. But how do you successfully workshop and map the processes associated with these changes in the new normal of remote working?
In this episode, Jez and Dave are joined by Chris and Craig from process mapping solutions provider SKORE to discuss how processes and operating models are being impacted right now, and predict what they will look like post-pandemic.
In Episode 55 of the Cloudbusting Podcast, we discussed the cybersecurity threats that have emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the impact this is having on businesses and business continuity efforts.
This week, Jez and Dave are joined by Cloudreach Snr. Solutions Architect, Ronnie Andris, to discuss how organizations can rethink and modernize their implementation of cybersecurity in line with the current threat environment, using data-driven insights, automation, and lessons from SRE practices.
"Don't send your teams home with a laptop, a Jira and Slack account and a prayer!"
This quote from today’s guest, Duena Blomstrom (CEO of PeopleNotTech ), pretty much sums up the theme of the episode. Managing remote teams, especially during a pandemic, requires EQ focused leadership, where cultivating psychological safety is an imperative challenge. The team discusses what this particular brand of servant leadership looks like and the impact it can have on ensuring your people feel safe, secure and productive.
PeopleNotTech is offering an extended trial of its Psychological Safety Software, which helps leaders assess and support their teams.
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many businesses to rapidly adopt and scale technology to maintain business as usual operations. Against this backdrop, we have seen an increased number of attempted cyber-attacks from bad actors looking to exploit the inevitable vulnerabilities that emerge from such a situation.
In this episode, Jez and Dave are joined by BT Security CTO, Paul Crichard to discuss the current cyber landscape and what businesses can do to mitigate risk.
COVID-19 is causing unprecedented economic disruption, turning a business’s strength into weakness and weaknesses into the strengths almost overnight. In this episode of Cloudbusting, Jez & Dave are joined by Cloudreach's Rob Duffy to discuss how, rather than slowing down their cloud adoption initiatives, leaders could tackle some of their challenges by accelerating their cloud migration.
The COVID-19 pandemic has asked businesses to tackle a host of new, unexpected technical and organizational demands and learn how to operate in rapidly changing markets. Cloudreach is no exception.
In a one-off special episode, we turn the lens inward and discuss how we at Cloudreach have rapidly adjusted our service offering in response to the brand new challenges our customers are facing.
Our intention, since launching this podcast, has always been to avoid it becoming a sales-platform. In this case, we wanted to share our own pivot as a case study of a business sensing and responding to a difficult and fluid environment.
In previous podcasts, we have spoken at length about how large transformation projects expose leaders to, what the Cynefin Framework describes as, the 'Complicated' and 'Complex' domains of decision making. These can be summarised by dealing with 'known unknowns' and 'unknown unknowns'. In this episode, Jez and Dave are joined by leadership coach, Alastair Kidd to discuss how the situation of COVID-19 has forced many leaders into the 'Chaotic' domain, where immediate action is imperative to reestablish order.
The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged many businesses to scale up their remote working capabilities and embrace new tools and methods to ensure remote teams can collaborate effectively. In this episode, Jeremy and Dave are joined by a working-from-home pro, Richard Pilling, who provides some insights on how to be an effective and considerate leader to a remote team, especially during these challenging times.
In a series of mini-episodes, the Cloudbusting team will be addressing the COVID-19 pandemic and the various challenges that businesses are facing during these unprecedented times. In this episode, Jez & Dave are joined by Cloudreach's James Dunn to discuss what this new world looks like for digital businesses and IT organisations and explore how this evolving situation will require many leaders to adapt and change their thinking.
In this special, 50th episode of Cloudbusting, Jeremy & Dave are joined by Cloudreach President & COO, Brooks Borcherding. The team refers back to a blog Brooks wrote back in 2014 where he assesses the runners and riders in the world of cloud using the analogy of the famous series of thoroughbred horse races: The Kentucky Derby, The Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes. Will anyone win the cloud 'Triple Crown'?
In this episode, Jeremy and Dave are joined by self-styled anti-futurist, Theo Priestley to discuss the, often overhyped, technologies of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Theo brings his years of experience consulting and writing about technology adoption to discuss the possibilities of AI/ML and why businesses are considering adopting technologies that they aren't ready for.
Peter Richards returns to Cloudbusting to share his experiences of moving a large investment bank to the Cloud. Jeremy and Dave discuss the advantages and opportunities of adopting Cloud and dig into the challenges that come with securely transforming a large enterprise in such a highly regulated industry.
Technology is driving change in customer expectations across all sectors, especially in the hospitality industry. In this episode, Jeremy and Dave are joined by Hospitality Technology Consultant, James Harrison. The team discusses how the likes of Airbnb and technologies like video streaming platforms and voice assistants are impacting the way hotels serve their customers, from the booking experience to in-room entertainment.
In this episode, Jez and Dave are joined by James Dunn (Cloud Adoption Business Line Lead, Cloudreach) and Duena Blomstrom to discuss the current trends in enterprise cloud adoption. What percentage of enterprise workloads are in the cloud? Why are enterprises adopting cloud and what challenges are they facing? What role does Hybrid-Cloud have to play?
The team also discuss marketing buzzwords and why they need to die! (#transformation)
The idea of encouraging psychological safety in teams is becoming increasingly common, especially in organizations that are trying to adopt more agile working practices.
To many, the concept is viewed as another 'wellbeing' buzzword, keeping teams 'cozy' rather than 'competitive'. In this episode of Cloudbusting, Duena Blomstrom joins Jeremy and Dave to argue that the two are not mutually exclusive, and how encouraging PS in your team is actually key to creating an environment in which your people can thrive.
Cybersecurity is back on the agenda in this week's episode of Cloudbusting.
Jeremy and Dave are joined by Paul Crichard, Security CTO at BT, to discuss how enterprises should navigate the rapidly evolving complexity of the networking and security options of the various cloud platforms.
How has the core logic of security evolved? Can we view security as an enabler? How do we rethink security budgets?
The Cloudbusting team kick off a brand new season with an episode focused on the glamorous topic of technical debt.
Joined, once again, by Mark Simons, the team discusses why tech debt is a particularly acute issue in the world of cloud transformations. How can the impact of tech debt be mitigated? Can it ever be completely eroded? Is it a serious business problem?