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 89: How has COVID-19 accelerated digital transformation?
October 20, 2020 10:27 - 46 minutes - 106 MBMark 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.
Episode 88: Building a Hybrid Cloud Strategy
October 06, 2020 12:23 - 38 minutes - 88.1 MBJohn 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.
Episode 87: Compliance or commitment? Guiding your team through complex change
September 08, 2020 09:16 - 48 minutes - 67 MBChange 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.
Episode 86: Cloud Transformation Stories: Leveraging IOT and the cloud at Key2Act
August 18, 2020 04:00 - 45 minutes - 103 MBWe 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.
Episode 85: The business value of diversity
August 04, 2020 09:14 - 33 minutes - 46.6 MBDiversity 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.
Episode 84: A deep dive into change leadership
July 21, 2020 11:46 - 37 minutes - 51 MBLeadership 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.
Episode 83: Blockchain 101
July 14, 2020 14:53 - 35 minutes - 80.9 MBOliver 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.
Episode 82: Transformation sprints - Solving big transformation problems quickly
July 09, 2020 17:01 - 37 minutes - 84.8 MBIn 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. Subscribe to the Cloudbusting newsletter here: https://cldr.ch/388FZR
Episode 81: Are you ready for the rise of the citizen developer?
July 07, 2020 16:13 - 33 minutes - 77.2 MBIn 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. Subscri...
Episode 80: Providing psychological safety in tough times
July 02, 2020 16:39 - 35 minutes - 81.1 MBThe 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. Subscribe to the Cloud...
Episode 79: Applying Conway's Law to cloud adoption
June 30, 2020 15:29 - 25 minutes - 59.1 MBChristian 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.
Episode 79: Applying Conway's law to cloud adoption
June 30, 2020 15:29 - 25 minutes - 59.1 MBChristian 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.
Episode 78: Protecting your organization from DDoS attacks in the cloud
June 25, 2020 16:25 - 32 minutes - 74.3 MBPaul 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.
Episode 77: Edge Computing 101 - Should you be living life on the edge?
June 23, 2020 12:11 - 39 minutes - 89.4 MBThe 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.
Episode 76: An introduction to FinOps and cloud economics
June 18, 2020 14:52 - 29 minutes - 68.2 MBIn 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.
Episode 76: An introduction FinOps and cloud economics
June 18, 2020 14:52 - 29 minutes - 68.2 MBIn 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.
Episode 75: How does AWS help transform organizations?
June 16, 2020 12:59 - 23 minutes - 20.9 MBIn 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.
Episode 74: Behavioural empowerment and transformation
June 11, 2020 16:35 - 30 minutes - 68.8 MBIn 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...
Episode 73: Don't be a lizard...be data-led
June 09, 2020 16:19 - 25 minutes - 57.5 MBIn 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.
Episode 72: The growing potential of spatial security
June 04, 2020 15:18 - 30 minutes - 70.6 MBIn 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.
Episode 71: Cloud Adoption Insights - The state of the cloud
June 02, 2020 13:24 - 37 minutes - 86.9 MBIn 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. Download the report here: https://cldr.ch/45yL2b
Episode 70: How is technology helping traditional retail respond to COVID-19?
May 28, 2020 15:55 - 34 minutes - 79.7 MBIn 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...
Episode 69: Technical debt & business continuity
May 26, 2020 08:54 - 24 minutes - 56 MBIn 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.
Episode 68: Digital experience - It's a priority, not a fad!
May 21, 2020 14:54 - 25 minutes - 58.9 MBIn 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.
Episode 67: Keeping fit in the cloud
May 19, 2020 13:46 - 27 minutes - 62.9 MBOn 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.
Episode 66: How do you reach cloud velocity?
May 14, 2020 14:22 - 31 minutes - 72.2 MBJonathan 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 t...
Episode 65: The benefits of using fluid teams
May 12, 2020 15:40 - 29 minutes - 67.4 MBIn 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 w...
Episode 64: The past, future and present of remote working
May 07, 2020 14:31 - 33 minutes - 77.7 MBIn 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 re...
Episode 63: Organizations in crisis: Overcoming threat rigidity
May 05, 2020 17:03 - 30 minutes - 69.2 MBWhen 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...
Episode 62: How do you lead at speed?
April 30, 2020 13:36 - 29 minutes - 67.1 MBThe 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.
Episode 61: How will COVID-19 change the way we work?
April 28, 2020 15:23 - 31 minutes - 72.9 MBIn 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-firs...
Episode 60: FinTech in lockdown
April 23, 2020 15:14 - 25 minutes - 57.5 MBIn 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.
Episode 59: How can application modernization and containers help your business respond to crisis?
April 21, 2020 15:41 - 28 minutes - 65.9 MBIn 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.
Episode 58: How does understanding business processes help with crisis response and recovery?
April 16, 2020 16:02 - 24 minutes - 55.8 MBOver 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...
Episode 58: How does understanding business processes help with crisis response and recovery
April 16, 2020 16:02 - 24 minutes - 55.8 MBOver 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...
Episode 57: Modernizing your approach to cloud security
April 14, 2020 16:19 - 25 minutes - 57.7 MBIn 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 SR...
Episode 56: Remote working teams need psychological safety
April 09, 2020 17:08 - 21 minutes - 49.9 MB"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, ...
Episode 55: The cybersecurity challenges of COVID-19 business continuity
April 07, 2020 15:10 - 24 minutes - 55.2 MBThe 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.
Episode 54: Is it time to accelerate cloud migration?
April 02, 2020 15:57 - 22 minutes - 51.3 MBCOVID-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.
Special Episode: Our response to COVID-19 - Accelerated Continuity Services
March 31, 2020 17:06 - 33 minutes - 75.8 MBThe 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-platfor...
Episode 53: Welcome to 'Chaos'
March 26, 2020 14:59 - 21 minutes - 49.2 MBIn 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...
Episode 52: How to be a remote working leader
March 24, 2020 17:18 - 19 minutes - 45 MBThe 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.
Episode 51: COVID-19: Adjusting to a new world
March 20, 2020 16:02 - 20 minutes - 47.2 MBIn 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.
Episode 50: The cloud Triple Crown
March 13, 2020 11:08 - 46 minutes - 105 MBIn 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'?
Episode 49: Don't believe the hype: An anti-futurist take on AI
March 10, 2020 08:54 - 37 minutes - 84.9 MBIn 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.
Episode 48: The risks and opportunities of moving an investment bank to the cloud
March 03, 2020 09:07 - 32 minutes - 73.8 MBPeter 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.
Episode 47: Technology and the evolution of customer experience in the hospitality industry
February 25, 2020 05:00 - 48 minutes - 111 MBTechnology 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.
Episode 46: What is the current state of cloud adoption?
February 18, 2020 05:00 - 46 minutes - 106 MBIn 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)
Episode 45: There is strength in psychological safety
February 11, 2020 10:23 - 40 minutes - 92.2 MBThe 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 you...
Episode 44: The challenges of enterprise cloud security
February 04, 2020 10:26 - 52 minutes - 121 MBCybersecurity 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?