There is a background story on how this podcast came about. Soon I will elaborate on this , but for now: please enjoy the content and keep an open mind.

Tune into: Composable Cloud  

2021 is just underway, but the word composable is already engaging in valiant efforts to become the it word (or IT word) of the year. Composable infrastructure, composable architecture, composable business, composable enterprise and yes, of course also Composable Cloud. If only because of the nice alliteration. The question is however how Composable Cloud will be defined or what true changes it will bring.

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Changes is the title track from an album of the same name by Dutch artist Ilse de Lange. Changes was launched during 2020 (between wave 1 and 2 of the 2020 pandemic) as part of a campaign to (virtually) penetrate the German market following her successful involvement  with the Eurovision song contest.

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Tune into: Cloud Distribution

2021 is just underway and Tiesto is once again topping the charts here. This time with a track called "the Business". So a good time to look at what the business in cloud in 2021 will be about.  For example, how will leading cloud providers be able to maintain their unprecedented growth rates during 2021?

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The Business is a 2020 song by the well known Dutch DJ, Tiesto. DJs, unlike cloud providers, started their industry by distributing other people’s products. Simply by playing records from third party artists. But the professional DJ scene quickly  pivoted towards  becoming full fledged music producers, that create and  control most of their content themselves. With one notable exception, namely the vocals. Singing voices are still largely sourced from third parties, such as in the case of “The Business” from James Bell, an artist better known as YAMI. But the brand, the recognition (and the revenue) has shifted away from the individual performing vocalist towards the DJ or orchestrator.

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To play the song, please click the below link in the show notes.

Tune into: Disruptive Change 

One day, when - with the benefit of hindsight -  we look back at  2020, we will likely remember it as a period of  unprecedented, tumultuous and continuous change. The type of change that makes you a bit nauseous and scared at the same time.  Like a rollercoaster ride, but a lot less predictable and with widely different outcomes and impacts per person, per industry and per country, even though we were essentially on the same ride.

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Rollercoaster is a song by Dutch artist Danny Vera, who during the traditional end of year Top 2000 competition, managed to displace incumbent powerhouses that occupied the lead spot for decades, such as Queen, The Eagles and Led Zeppelin. Already considered as a timeless classic when it was introduced in 2019, the song helped numerous people to cope with the rollercoaster life we got to know during 2020.   

https://open.spotify.com/track/1Xx7NsxXA91Jgt1fJ3NfNp  

Welcome to the trailer of the Tune into the Cloud Blogcast.

Podcasting is hot. Red hot. Some expect podcasting to shake up the media industry as fundamentally as cloud computing shook up the IT industry. So a podcast version of Tune into the Cloud, a music inspired cloud blog, seemed a no brainer.  Were it not for the fact that including specific songs in a podcast is not trivial from a legal and copyright perspective. I would go as far as to say it is still as complex as trying to build a business importing Karaoke machines and bundling them with popular local music on VHS tapes in the nineties (trust me , I tried).

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Music Clip:

https://open.spotify.com/track/08GOw3NsrJ0LsCCeyqzt3b?si=bfQgaMBeTwe9JL2JusZRnA

LINKS:

Notable Cloud Podcasts:www.thecloudcast.net/

Honourable mention: Cloud Computing Weekly Podcast (up to 2017) By David S. Linthicum

Gartner.com/en/podcasts/thinkcast

Used Podcast Platform :

Anchor.FM (production)

Anchor.FM (distribution)

Audacity (recording)

Social Media Policy of my Employer

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