This week’s guest is Vittorio Viarengo, vice president of cross-cloud services at VMware, food blogger, musician and more! Vittorio is a long-time cloud leader and was behind the influential “Journey to the Cloud” campaign in his first tour at VMware.

We hit a range of topics including Vittorio’s early introduction to software, his career arc, and how he ties together such vastly different concepts as tech, performing music, and promoting a very successful blog on baking. Finally, we’ll hear some great nuggets of advice from a truly thoughtful leader.

Vittorio can be found at: 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vittorioviarengo/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CareAndKickButt

VMware Blog: https://blogs.vmware.com/multi-cloud/author/viarengov/

Viva la Focaccia (in Italian): https://vivalafocaccia.com/

This week's guest is Jeff Mitchell, Principal Technical Program Manager in Microsoft's Worldwide Customer Success organization. We cover his upbringing and entrance into the high-tech space. We explore the skills needed to excel - hint it is not tech related and some of his passion projects. And Joey's mom gets a helpful hint!

We discover the meaning of the term "Yellow Field", uncover a great new business idea for powered beach carts, get tech support for Microsoft Powerpoint, and more! Oh, and lots of cloud insights that will be valuable no matter where you are on your journey.

You can find Jeff at:

Jeff's book - Microsoft Public Cloud Services – Setting up your business in the Cloud

Twitter: @JeffMitchellFL

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/JeffMitchell

In this week's episode, we spend some time with Charlie Roy, a practitioner in the space. Charlie  has been a Technology and Information Security leader with over 25 years of experience - his current position is Chief Security Officer and VP of Infrastructure for Berkshire Hathaway Shoe Holdings. In this episode, we cover aspects of employee security awareness and education. Not just the why but, more importantly, the how. How do you build talent from within? We discuss some current headlines and trends and get his point of view. His approach ties back to his core ethos, where it all begins -from the heart.

This week we welcome Bernard Golden, one of the ten most influential persons in cloud computing according to Wired. In this episode we learn a lot more about Bernard and how he got to this point in his career, discuss the state of the cloud market including the big three "AMG" (Amazon, Microsoft, Google), and more.

Bio: Bernard Golden is an Executive Technical Advisor at VMware. Previously, Bernard was VP of Cloud Strategy for Capital One and  in the past held senior roles at Enstratius and ActiveState Software - two early cloud startups that were acquired. Bernard is a prolific writer, and authored Amazon Web Services for Dummies,  one of the best-selling cloud computing book of all time!

Contact Info

Twitter: @bernardgolden

bernard-dot-golden at gmail com

In our inaugural episode of Cloudless, we have the fortune to have Lori Mac Vittie as our guest. We'll learn Lori's origin story for her love of technology which led to her career and current position as a distinguished engineer in the CTO's office at F5 Network. Lori has had an incredible career and is a well-known author, speaker and all-around cloud and enterprise expert. She holds an M.S. in Computer Science and particularly strong opinions about cheese and gaming systems.

In this fun-filled and engaging episode we learn about her early days in technology that led her to where she is today, and we hear about recent trends in application repatriation from the cloud and more. 

You can find Lori at

Twitter: @lmacvittie

https://www.f5.com/authors/lori-macvittie