The CloudFirst Podcast: Recent Episodes

Rich Froble, Phil Harbour, Danny Keating, Biju Thomas

Data Intensity talks with leading architects and engineers about everything there is to know in the cloud universe. Cloud technology, vendor platforms, application management, licensing, migration, data analytics and reporting, mobile solutions, partners, best practices, latest trends, and stories...all are covered in this show. Episodes feature industry experts, including Biju Thomas, Oracle ACE Director and Global Director of Data Intensity's Oracle Practice.

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Listen to our roundtable event and learn about key topics such as:​

  • Regulatory and Economic Considerations
  • Workload Analysis and Designing for Public Cloud
  • Change Management and Speed-of-Business
  • Global Regulatory Compliance
  • Availability, Scalability, and Security

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Interested in best-practice Oracle workload strategy? Are you aware of the cloud-licensing implications? Hear from leading experts regarding how to optimize your Oracle workloads with the right cloud, licensing costs/savings, and services...and maximize your Oracle investments in the process.

Listen to Oracle ACE Director and Data Intensity Global Oracle Practice Director Biju Thomas with Data Intensity Software License Solutions VP Paul Buckley in this unique, first-of-a-kind on-demand event for Australia & New Zealand. Product Management VP Rich Froble hosts. Oracle users in the United States and United Kingdom also are invited to watch.

Data Intensity is a full-stack full-lifecycle Oracle expert. An Oracle Partner with over 20 years of experience, Data Intensity is best placed to offer the most suitable Oracle workload cloud, licensing, and services solutions.

Data Intensity also is cloud-agnostic, so our experts find the best cloud for your specific workloads, whether Oracle Cloud Instructure, Microsoft Azure, or AWS.

Listen to this podcast to learn about our Safe-Switch migration methodology and our Total Cost of Ownership Transformation Assessment for Oracle workloads, presented and managed by our experts.

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Listen to our virtual roundtable, “Extracting the True Value of your Oracle Exadata Investments — a Customer's Perspective,” and:​

  • Understand Tesco’s key business challenges and why Exadata was critical to their needs.
  • Understand the managed solution that led to Tesco’s success​.
  • Understand the lessons learned and key insights to carry forward in executing your Exadata strategy.

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Watch Oracle Workload Cloud-Strategy Innovation: A Customer Perspective, and:

  • Benefit from listening to real-world customer perspectives
  • Learn to evaluate current workloads against cloud services capabilities
  • Understand how to assess your licensing and support options
  • Discover how to map workloads to modern cloud platforms for optimal performance, security, and reliability.

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Ventureforth is a cloud mobile SaaS software leader that provides critical software solutions for essential workers in industries across the globe. Ventureforth has been building mobiles solutions for and partnering with Oracle for over 25 years, helping increase productivity and accelerate workflows. 

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Data Intensity's Darryl Griffiths, Procurement and Applications Solution Specialist and Jason Howard, Sales Director from ARCivate, talk with Danny Keating about the adaptive benefits of migrating and upgrading Oracle E-Business Suite.  

ARCivate is an important Data Intensity partner, Orace gold partner, and provider of dynamic, SaaS-based Invoice Automation, Expense Processing and Supplier Portal solutions. In this episode, Jason discusses case studies illustrating how their flexible tailored solutions and consultancy services improve financial governance and efficiency.

To learn more, go to: 

http://www.arcivate.com

https://www.dataintensity.com/

Visit the Speakers at:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonehoward/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/darryl-griffiths-738740/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/danny-keating-98499941/

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Andrei Zaichikov, Microsoft's Data Modernization Global Black Belt in EMEA, talks with Data Intensity's Danny Keating and Phil Harbour about managing Oracle database migration to Azure, focusing on signups and analytics workloads. Among the topics covered include signups, analytics, Spark, ETL workloads, and other complex migrations.

Find the speakers on LinkedIn:

Andrei Zaichikov: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zaychikov/

Danny Keating: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danny-keating-98499941/

Phil Harbour: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-harbour/

Visit Data Intensity to learn more about Safe-Switch: https://www.dataintensity.com/solutions/safe-switch-methodology/

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Host: Danny Keating, Global Alliances & Solutions Sales Director, Data Intensity

Guest: Alicja Kucharczyk, EMEA Global Black Belt Specialist, Microsoft

Guest: Biju Thomas, Global Oracle Practice Lead, Data Intensity

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Danny Keating is your podcast host and Data Intensity's Global Azure Alliance Lead.

Lauren Kopec is Data Intensity's Functional Managed Services Director.

Rich Froble is Vice President of Solutions and Product Management for Data Intensity.

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Reach the contributors:

Sri Hari on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sri-hari/

Phil Harbour on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-harbour/

Danny Keating on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danny-keating-98499941/

Learn more about Data Intensity's Azure Safe-Switch:  https://www.dataintensity.com/solutions/oracle-to-azure-migration-solutions/

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In this first episode of the CloudFirst podcast, our Global Azure Alliance Lead and host Danny Keating talks with Kellyn Pot-Vin-Gorman, Oracle to Azure SME Engineer at Microsoft, and Biju Thomas, Data Intensity’s Oracle Practice Lead. You’ll hear them discuss the reasons to shift workloads in whole or in part to the Azure cloud, and numerous planning issues that accompany such projects.

They’ll talk about why the different types of migrations, the pitfalls, and most importantly, the opportunities to optimize workload efficiency as database technology continues to change. The future is an interesting and complicated place, so take a guided tour with the CloudFirst podcast.

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The CloudFirst Podcast is where you can hear today's experts discuss cloud network technology and tactics that can drive your business. If you want to know more about migrating data and applications, managing licenses, designing a multi cloud or hybrid solution, working with Oracle, Azure, AWS and private cloud environments, and what the future holds, check out the CloudFirst Podcast. Listen on Apple, Spotify, and anywhere you get your podcasts. Sponsored by Data Intensity.