Life in the Cloud

When issues arise with current software systems, investing in a new setup can be a no-brainer. The challenging part becomes what questions to ask before investing.

We have the Corporate Engineering Program Manager at Checkr, Inc., Brian Martinek, join us on this episode of Life in the Cloud. Checkr pioneered the first API for background checks. Then exploding demand from companies like Uber and Lyft led to dramatic growth.

Why has the frequency of security breaches in healthcare risen recently? What can be done to prevent cyberattacks?

In this episode of Life in the Cloud, the Head of IT Security at Hint Health, VuDang Tran, teaches us more about the healthcare space.

“What kind of company would be a good candidate to use GCP?”

From Amazon Web Services to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Carly Wild has served in the cloud space for 14 years. Working as a Partner Sales Manager, Carly joins this episode of Life in the Cloud to give us a more in-depth look into GCP.

Carly takes us back to GCP’s origins, and how GCP began with their storage solution back in 2008. She offers up that the services and tech have been around as long as Google.

How is technology shaping the future of PreK–12 instruction?

In this week’s episode of Life in the Cloud, Kris Reddy interviews his friend Nick Gardner, the Executive Director of Watershed Collaborative. Nick shares his founder story and provides enlightenment on the VTS space.

VTS, or Visual Thinking Strategies, is an education model formulated for museums. Now, Nick and Watershed are working to transform the classroom through the usage of VTS.

What if there were an untapped trillion dollars of value within an industry?

McKinsey Quarterly makes that claim in their recent quarterly article, titled Cloud’s trillion-dollar prize is up for grabs.

Demonstrated from the start of the article, the value of cloud computing is still at the tip of the iceberg. CEO of Moderna, Stéphane Bancel gives credit to the cloud for their development of a Covid vaccine.

How much viewership do Facebook and Google’s platforms add to news agencies? If the news agencies want a piece of the pie – is there any motivation other than wanting more money?

In this episode of Life in the Cloud, Jake Jorgovan and Kris Reddy review a Wall Street Journal article. The article outlines new legislation in Australia. Now, Facebook and Google have to pay local Australian news companies to post their content.

Francois Gouelo continues the conversation on this episode of Life in the Cloud.

What is there to like and dislike in entrepreneurship? What would you have done differently?

Francois speaks and reflects on the evolution as his entrepreneurial life has unfolded. "Everything that you have to do to steer the business forward is what's fun and fascinating."

Fascinated by the structure of building a business, Francois Gouelo saw his path in life. With classes on entrepreneurship in his last semester, he forewent graduate school. He experienced a real-world problem and envisioned the solution.

In this episode of Life in the Cloud, host Kris Reddy interviews his friend. The Founder and CEO of Enso Connect, Francois shares the story behind his company.

To be able to censor the president of the United States, that’s a powerful institution. “Where exactly do we draw the line between free speech versus speech that needs to be stopped?”

In this episode of Life in the Cloud, Jake Jorgovan and Kris Reddy discuss a recent article from the Wall Street Journal. Referenced below, the authors of the article propose a solution to big tech’s power on censorship.

When and why did MSPs first begin? How have they developed, and where are they headed?

In this new episode of Life in the Cloud, host Kris Reddy discusses with Jake Jorgovan, reviewing how demand for MSPs took off as companies started outsourcing their IT aspects, from network monitoring to cybersecurity, and now to the cloud. As IT demands and complexities have increased, so has the MSP's business structure.