The CloudTweaks Podcast

Performing an Active Directory migration to the cloud can be quite an ordeal, with so

many elements that need to match up precisely. And this must be done seamlessly

and with no disruption to the people who rely on Teams, SharePoint and other

solutions to help them carry on with their work. Mark Rochester is a cloud

architect. He joined host Steve Prentice to discuss some of the finer points of

conducting a migration, and what he is looking for in BitTitan’s new

MigrationWiz Active Directory Migration Solution.

While organizations remain focused on trying to extract more insight and value out from their data, they are trying to use services in multiple clouds. This becomes a challenge: data is sprawled everywhere, and that can negatively impact competitiveness. It requires a rethinking of how to architect for the public cloud, and Derek Pilling, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer at Faction, has the solution.

A conversation with Leah Troscianecki, Principal Product Marketing Manager for Veeam, covering Microsoft Azure Solutions, and Michael Cade, from the Veeam Field CTO office, specializing in Cloud Native.

Building a proactive backup strategy involves many different internal groups and constantly evolving technologies, all standing on the shifting sands of business in this new era. Leah and Mike speak to us from the floor of the Veeam-On 2023 conference in Miami, and they share their wisdom on who is responsible for backup strategies, the challenges and benefits of relocation, and the evolving role of the sysadmin.

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A conversation with David Anandraj, manager of Product Management for the ecommerce segment of BCM One. People like to think that everything we do is text based and that phones have much less value. But as David Anandraj says, “when it matters, you call and when you call, you want to reach someone.”

It’s time for AWS to become opinionated about handling its customers. With API costs

increasing crazily, CloudFix CEO Rahul Subramaniam says now is the time for AWS

to step up and advise.

A conversation with Rahul Subramanyam, CEO at CloudFix and CTO at ESW Capital. AWS is huge, but it’s not perfect. Because of its size and its approach to innovation there are many areas that need tweaking and fixing. CloudFix is a company that originally started just to fix one company’s problems with AWS, and then discovered that many more organizations needed their help.

A conversation with David Dymko, Director of Engineering for Cloud Native Development at Vultr.com

If you work with virtual machines and or Kubernetes, and if you have some questions about how you can make it work better for your organization, or what the current best practices are, or how to understand it, you’ve come to the right place.

A conversation with Ryan Pollock, VP Product Marketing and Developer Relationships for Vultr.com

Everyone knows who the big players are in the cloud business. But sometimes, they’re too big, especially for SMBs. Sometimes what is needed is a more personal touch, without the enormous scale. Ryan Pollock has worked with the Silicon Valley big players, and his experiences there have helped him devise a better solution.

A conversation with Aleksandras Šulženko – Product owner at Oxylabs.io

In a global economy where change happens by the second, one of the best ways to keep up with industry information, including your competitors, is to collect, review and analyze publicly available data in as close to real time as possible. This is why you need to know more about data scraping.

NoSQL is becoming the must have for organizations needing to manage data in ways that traditional relational databases were just not designed for. What has the industry media been saying about it? Matthew Groves product marketing manager at Couchbase joins host Steve Prentice to look at a few selected media stories about NoSQL.