Cloudbusting Podcast

Let’s talk about today’s Cloud Trends! In this episode, Dave and Jez are joined by Carla Arend, a lead analyst for IDC’s (International Data Corporation) European cloud research. IDC and Cloudreach recently partnered in interviewing over 610 IT leadership professionals across North America and Europe to learn their thoughts on cloud modernization topics.This discussion summarizes some of the most interesting finds, including how digital leaders feel about public cloud being essential for their organization along with the reasoning for investing in digital transformation.  Cost savings no longer appears to be the primary driver.  Listen to the episode for a summary of the research findings and check out our Cloud Trends page for a fully readout on the research.

The cloud skills gap is a well recognized reality, but are we having the right conversation to solve it?  Let’s change the narrative - Are the skills needed today going to be the skills needed tomorrow? Join us as we talk with Sally Eaves, Chair of Global Cyber Trust and CEO of Aspirational Features, to discuss the talent challenges many companies are facing today.  

The expectations of not only consumers are changing, but the expectations of employees are changing.  Find out what areas employers should focus on offering to their workforce.

Michael Davis, CEO and Founder at Merek Security Solutions, walks us through his journey to building his business around mindfulness and cybersecurity.  Michael uses proven mindfulness directives and exercises to best align Information Security posture for clients, taking a proactive vs. reactive approach to cybersecurity for business continuity. 

Find out about how mindfulness in the corporate world can connect to an improved security posture. And get the answer to what ‘digital pausing’ is along with how many times more likely you are to experience a cyberattack if not using multi-factor authentication.  Listen in to learn more.

Join Jez as he runs us through a recap of the 2022 Cloud Trends and alludes to our impending ebooks and podcasts set to publish around the research that went into these predictions imminently! This episode takes a bit of a break from our regular topic-based discussions.  Instead, we recap the Cloudy Cliffhangers from our Cloud Trends-based boothcasts at AWS re:Invent 2021 as we look ahead to release the IDC research behind the Cloud Trends.  If you want to re-listen to any of the specific trend podcasts with our cloud enterprise guests, go to the podcasts posted from Dec 1 - 6, 2021. 

What an episode!  What are containers, anyways? This episode provides an overview of not only containers, but Kubernetes, something called GitOps and Azure Arc.  Have a listen as Steve Buchanan, Principal Program Manager at Azure, defines this all for us. He tells us why GitOps is becoming the center of the universe and names some great resources on where to go to learn more about all of these topics.

This episode, Jez and Dave are joined by Michael Krigsman, publisher of CXOTalk, for a discussion on the impact the customer has on digital transformation.  Michael emphasizes why thoroughly understanding your customer puts you in a better place to create effective products and implement ideas that ultimately result in closing sales. The more data you have on your customers, the better customer experience can be created, and the pandemic revealed many examples of this. 

Give this episode a listen to find out why Michael transitioned from consulting into the podcast space and more about his thoughts on business disruption in the world today.

In our second episode of the new season, “Cloud Migrations, What Have We Learned?” Marc Weaver joins the Cloudbusting team for a lively talk about Cloud Migrations. Marc was named one of 2020’s “Top 20 Cloud Influencers” and in 2021 he was recognized as a top influencer in cloud computing by Simplilearn, the world’s #1 online bootcamp.

Today, Marc is an AWS cloud migration expert and top-ranked AWS solutions architect who founded the company “databasable,” after 15 years experience working for large financial institutions in London, Sydney and New York. 

Join our hosts Dave and Jez as they leap into and unravel cloud migration archetypes while taking a detour through data centers, databases and close with the beloved Ten Second Recommendations. 

The new season of Cloudbusting starts with “Gaming and the Cloud” as our team chats with Theo Priestley, technology evangelist, futurist and creator of the Metanomic Engine™.

Theo is also founder of Carbon Based Lifeforms whose Project Gateway, a sci-fi open-world MMO (massively multiplayer online),  looks to redefine what it means to create virtual worlds.

Join Dave and Jez as they chat about Web3, Metaverse and Gaming-as-a-Service among other topics. It’s a special episode complete with a Cloudy Cliffhanger and in-depth history of gaming with a twist. 

This Cloudbusting podcast season finale, "A How-To Guide for Digital Product Launches," features Todd Kiehn, Sr. Vice President, Product Management at GTT. Kiehn shares his insights on bringing products to market and, together with our team, takes a deep dive into product development as a discipline.

Listen in as this episode explores the big challenges beyond the general mechanics of product development into the art and balance of speed to market versus product quality. Finally, it's our Holiday Edition with special TSRs. Happy New Year! 

This week the Cloudbusting Podcast Team meets with renowned Futurist and Humanist, Gerd Leonhard, "one of the most influential people in Europe," for Episode #125 "The Future of Technology and Humanity."

Listen in and find out why The Wall Street Journal called Gerd "one of the leading Media Futurists in the World" and Wired Magazine appointed Gerd #88 of the top 100 influencers  in Europe.

Leonhard has written 5 books including the best-selling ‘Technology vs Humanity" and his films on the future of technology and humanity, digital transformation and artificial intelligence have reached millions of viewers.