In February 2021 Couchbase released the results of a survey that showed how developers play a key role in helping organizations meet their digital transformation goals despite facing significant challenges, including the disruptions caused by the Covid pandemic. Matthew Groves joins Steve Prentice to discuss the survey’s results and what they mean for the new normal.

Like so many other areas of technology, the database is changing. For a long

time we worked with relation databases and SQL, but the demands for

flexibility, security and speed are making it clear: legacy databases are not

up to the demands of modern applications. Matthew Groves, Product

Marketing Manager at Couchbase, discusses database sprawl, the

challenges of SQL, the ease of transition from relational to NoSQL, and where

to go to learn the code.

WordPress is a significant player in the global webspace, and tools like the WordPress toolkit allow businesses of all sizes prepare, stage, and maintain their websites, using the expertise and support of the global WordPress community. This episode of the CloudTweaks podcast chats with TJ Danklefs of cPanel and Angelo Giuffrida of VentraIP Australia about how even some very large companies choose WordPress, and what its benefits are in terms of security scalability and efficiency.

Why is cloud cost management so difficult? What are the main challenges in achieving cloud cost optimization? What are the principles of cost optimization that will help boost profits and benefit the planet? Why should I pay for a cloud governance tool when public cloud providers have alternatives that are free? Are there industry-specific challenges to cloud cost management? And what about its carbon footprint for the digital infrastructure – is it the modern day smokestack? These are the questions Steve poses to Asim Razzaq, CEO of Yotascale.

WordPress. For a lot of people this name might initially conjure up a place for amateur bloggers, almost a hobbyist site. But nothing could be further from the truth. As an open source web hosting platform, WordPress commands a significant proportion of the overall website marketplace, capable not only of hosting but of scalability, security and accountability, that are vital to small and medium sized enterprises, and on par or maybe even greater than that offered by Google or AWS. Join us for an in-depth discussion with guests, Tom Fanelli, CEO of Convesio, and technology guru Robert Jacobi.

Companies are wrestling with the idea of moving to the cloud, staying on-prem or finding a hybrid solution. Kash Shaikh, the new CEO of Virtana, looks at how the lockdown chaos of 2020 changed things for people, and what 2021 might bring.

The pressure to accelerate your company’s plans to move to the public cloud is substantial. But it should never be taken lightly. It’s a democratized world far away from the command and control of private data and security holes can come from users, work from home employees, even security people who don’t know what to look for. Chris Hertz from DivvyCloud has some thoughts about this.

Moving fully to the cloud is still a concern for many companies, but with millions of employees working from home, there’s an even greater need to migrate. Mark Kirstein, VP of Product for BitTitan shares his wisdom on the hows and whys of cloud migration.

With the global pandemic wreaking havoc on business and society, everything is changing. Ed Dryer, Senior Technology Strategist at Steadfast Networks, which specializes in Colocation, Managed Infrastructure as a Service and Network infrastructure, talks frankly about the role of customer service, work from home, cost management, SaaS, and the future of business and employment in this unprecedented era.

With the world focusing on the big three hyperscalers, there is still room – and much necessity for – more local cloud providers who are better suited to the country-specific data protection and privacy laws. CityNetwork CEO Johan Christenson shares his insights into cloud technology, lessons learned from COVID-19, and the impact of initiatives like GAIA-X.