Cloudbusting Podcast

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.

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.

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.