Cloudbusting Podcast
200 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsJoin Jez & Darren 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, an Eviden business.
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Episode 124: Google’s Sustainability Initiatives
December 07, 2021 11:00 - 43 minutes - 101 MBIn 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.
LIVE from AWS re:Invent: Cloud Trend Bonus Episode
December 06, 2021 13:40 - 28 minutes - 39.2 MB“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.
LIVE from AWS re:Invent: Cloud Trend #5
December 06, 2021 13:37 - 38 minutes - 52.4 MBCloud 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 le...
LIVE from AWS re:Invent: Cloud Trend #3
December 02, 2021 23:00 - 27 minutes - 38.2 MBThe 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 possibili...
LIVE from AWS re:Invent: Cloud Trend #6
December 02, 2021 21:09 - 34 minutes - 48.3 MB"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 expe...
LIVE from AWS re:Invent: Cloud Trend #4
December 02, 2021 13:00 - 23 minutes - 32.5 MBEpisode 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 ...
LIVE from AWS re:Invent: Cloud Trend #2
December 02, 2021 11:00 - 21 minutes - 29.5 MBThe 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.
LIVE from AWS re:Invent: Cloud Trend #1
December 01, 2021 13:57 - 25 minutes - 36 MBThis 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...
Episode 123: The Developer-Led Landscape
November 23, 2021 11:00 - 41 minutes - 95.5 MBThis 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.
Episode 122: Careers in the Cloud, Get in the Game!
November 16, 2021 11:00 - 36 minutes - 84.8 MBThis 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!”
Episode 121: How to Get Value from the Cloud
November 09, 2021 11:00 - 45 minutes - 104 MBAs 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."
Episode 120: Digital Leadership and Getting Sh*t Done!
November 02, 2021 10:00 - 35 minutes - 81.1 MBMaggie 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.
Episode 119: The Tech Talent Shortage
October 27, 2021 12:36 - 44 minutes - 102 MBThis 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
Episode 118: Build, Buy or Both? - Taking a Modular Approach to Creating Innovative Outcomes Using AWS Solutions
October 18, 2021 12:58 - 31 minutes - 72.2 MBJohn 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.
Episode 117: Modernization the Healthcare Sector pt 2: BUPA’s Transformation
October 12, 2021 17:53 - 45 minutes - 103 MBThe 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 episo...
Episode 116: Cloud Adoption in the SE Asian Market
October 05, 2021 11:06 - 36 minutes - 84.1 MBThis 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.
Episode 119: The Tech Talent Shortage
September 28, 2021 13:13 - 44 minutes - 102 MBThis 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
Episode 115: The Future of Consumer Retail Experiences
September 21, 2021 16:58 - 36 minutes - 84.8 MBThis 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.
Podcast Episode 115: The Future of Consumer Retail Experiences
September 21, 2021 16:58 - 36 minutes - 84.8 MBThis 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.
Episode 114: Building Digital B2B Products on Google Cloud Platform
September 14, 2021 15:36 - 53 minutes - 122 MBThe 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
Episode 113: The Race To The Edge is Here!
June 17, 2021 12:38 - 38 minutes - 89.1 MBThis 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.
Episode 112: Modernization in the Healthcare Sector
June 15, 2021 08:50 - 39 minutes - 53.9 MBThis 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.
Episode 111: Big Opportunities in Big Data
June 08, 2021 09:52 - 37 minutes - 86 MBThis 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.
Episode 110: A Smarter Way to Modernize Your Applications
June 01, 2021 09:59 - 43 minutes - 59.5 MBThis 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.
Episode 109: People Before Tech With Duena Blomstrom
May 25, 2021 09:58 - 43 minutes - 101 MBDuena 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.
Episode 108: What Is Ransomware and How Can You Protect Your Business?
May 18, 2021 10:05 - 41 minutes - 57.1 MBPaul 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.
Episode 107: A Smarter Approach To Cloud Migrations
May 11, 2021 14:46 - 43 minutes - 59.5 MBThis 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.
Episode 106: Leadership Lessons For The Post-Pandemic World
May 04, 2021 12:44 - 45 minutes - 103 MBThis 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.
Episode 105: Cloud Cost Optimization Best Practices With Google Cloud
April 27, 2021 09:14 - 34 minutes - 78.3 MBThis 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.
Episode 104: The Impact of Open Technology on Digital Strategies in 2021
April 20, 2021 09:31 - 38 minutes - 52.8 MBThis 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.
Cloud Trends 2021: Don't Just Migrate, Modernize!
April 13, 2021 09:26 - 38 minutes - 88.7 MBIn 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.
Episode 103: How to Support High Performing, Hybrid Working Teams
April 07, 2021 16:47 - 50 minutes - 115 MBIt 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.
Cloud Trends 2021: The Rise of Adaptable Organizations!
March 30, 2021 10:21 - 49 minutes - 113 MBStewart 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 organiza...
Cloud Trends 2021: Technology Conversations at Board Level
March 23, 2021 10:39 - 33 minutes - 46.3 MBBen 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.
Cloud Trends 2021: Next-Level Robustness
March 16, 2021 10:06 - 42 minutes - 57.7 MBThis 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 disruptio...
Episode 102: Move Over Multi-Cloud. Why Should You Adopt A Poly Cloud Strategy?
March 09, 2021 10:42 - 37 minutes - 85.9 MBGordon 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.
Cloud Trends 2021: Continuity Driven Transformation
March 02, 2021 16:05 - 36 minutes - 82.4 MBThis 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.
Episode 101: Understanding the Value of Diverse Organizations
February 23, 2021 11:22 - 39 minutes - 90 MBRichard 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...
Cloud Trends 2021: The Modernization Era is Here!
February 16, 2021 17:12 - 38 minutes - 88.2 MBOver 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.
Episode 100: DevOps deep dive with Gene Kim
February 09, 2021 10:37 - 1 hour - 87.8 MBWe 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.
Episode 99: What does a successful data & analytics strategy look like?
January 06, 2021 11:49 - 34 minutes - 47 MBIouri 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.
Episode 98: What is Kubernetes?
December 29, 2020 13:11 - 38 minutes - 52.7 MBIn 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.
Episode 97: No-hype guide to enterprise AI
December 15, 2020 12:52 - 42 minutes - 98.3 MBSenior 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.
Episode 96: What does the future hold for VMware?
December 08, 2020 11:11 - 39 minutes - 54.4 MBThis 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.
Episode 95: What is DevSecOps? And how do you scale it in a complex organization?
December 01, 2020 12:57 - 43 minutes - 59.1 MBWe 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.
Episode 94: Cloud Skills: Why your organization needs a cloud education program
November 24, 2020 12:48 - 36 minutes - 50.6 MBThis 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...
Episode 93: Digital Transformation in the Manufacturing Industry
November 17, 2020 11:00 - 34 minutes - 47.7 MBThis 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.
Episode 92: The Director Of Digital Change & Culture
November 10, 2020 13:14 - 42 minutes - 57.9 MBThis 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 tr...
Episode 91: How to be futureproof
November 03, 2020 09:56 - 39 minutes - 54.9 MBMinter 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 con...
Episode 90: Does Serverless = Cloud 2.0?
October 27, 2020 14:12 - 41 minutes - 93.9 MBMarcia 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.