Cloudbusting Podcast

Adopting cloud can offer a way to address technical debt and revitalize your technology choices. If your cloud adoption goals include improving efficiency and optimizing performance, you can use this as a chance to refactor and modernize your existing applications, enhancing the value they provide your business. But how do you get started?  This week, we are joined by Alex Rhea (AWS - formerly Cloudreach) & Clark Whiteway (Cloudreach) to help us answer this question.

Way back in Episode 4 we discussed the benefits that public cloud could open up for your business. But how do you access those benefits? That is the conundrum that we are tackling this week, joined by Don Duet, a man who has overseen his fair share of transformation projects as Head of Technology Division at  Goldman Sachs and as a Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Co.

How do you work through and simplify large and complex business processes, whilst keeping everyone in your organisation on the same page?

In this episode, the team are joined by Chris Green and Craig Willis from Skore Labs, an online process discovery, insights, and improvement software platform.

They discuss why it is important to put people at the centre of change and how live workshops, that deliver instant insights, can help align an entire room full of people to work towards a common goal

What does it mean to be a truly adaptable organisation? In this very special episode of Cloudbusting, seven enterprise CIOs share insights from their individual cloud transformation journeys and discuss the pains and revelations of enabling innovation, changing leadership mindsets and adopting more agile and iterative methodologies.

How will your team change? How is the role of IT changing? How do you manage conversations with other leaders? What on earth is 'wagile'?

In this episode, Jez and Dave are joined by Bethann Cregg, Head of Software at Cloudreach, to discuss how Cloud Management Platforms (CMPs) can help enterprises migrate and operate optimally in the cloud.

They cover how platforms can provide the data to help with complex decision making, how cross-cloud support is becoming a must-have, and how we will soon reach the stage where such platforms can automagically optimize your cloud environment.

Every company claims to be ‘innovating’ in some way, shape or form, but are these ‘innovations’ actually useful and usable to their people and customers? In this episode, Jez and Dave are joined by Nicola Millard,  Head of Customer Insight & Futures, BT to discuss how enterprises should approach innovation and dig into the psychology of tech adoption.

In this episode, Jeremy Ward & Dave Chapman are joined by Wayne Phillips, AWS Worldwide Public Sector Partner Manager, and Pritesh Patel, Client Commercial Lead, Cloudreach. The team focus on the public sector and the influence that cloud technology is having on the way citizens interact with governments around the world.

Also, stay tuned for some consumer advice regarding your crippling caffeine habit and your use of old egg boxes.

Leadership coach Alistair Kidd returns to the Cloudbusting Podcast to discuss how systems thinking can help organizations overcome their transformation challenges. The team considers how building an organizational map can help identify problems and dynamics and how doing so can help leaders see their organization through a different lens.

In the second part of our Cloudreach special, the Cloudbusting team finds themselves amid the skyscrapers of New York City, joined by Cloudreach CEO, Aaron Painter.

First, we get an introduction to Aaron himself. Then, picking up the thread from the Founders podcast, Aaron discusses what it is like to lead Cloudreach while it is navigating the challenging terrain of hyper-scale growth. Finally Aaron shares his thoughts on where he sees the cloud industry going over the next ten years.

In Part One of our Cloudreach special the Cloudbusting team find themselves in the birthplace of the company - the Counting House Pub in the City of London - joined by co-founders James Monico and Pontus Noren. 

The founders discuss Cloudreach’s conception back in 2009. They then look back on the company's growth and the challenges they faced in the years following. Finally, they reflect on the acquisition by Blackstone in 2017.