Cloudbusting Podcast

This week Jez and Darren receive a special guest in Carla Arend who is IDC's Associate Vice President for Cloud Research in Europe. Carla and the team discuss the research results on the heals of the infobrief release which uncovers invaluable insights into the cloud native enterprise, sustainability in the clo*ud, the talent crisis, the role of the cloud in the connected world, the evolution of the CIO mindset and the financial quotient among other interesting topics discussed in this episode of Cloudbusting. It only takes a few flicks to fire up your favourite podcast app, press play and listen away.

Darren is on the spot this week with his two bosses on the show; Jez and Darren's client, Phil Parr, Cloud Platform Services Director at Unilever who graces our hot seat to tell us about Unilever's own story of migrating to the cloud. Yet another great transformation journey with its own unique tidbits we can all learn from. Fire up your favourite podcast app and listen away!

Welcome to this week's episode of CloudBusting! Our special guest, Sue Daley, Director of Tech Innovation at techUK joins Jez and Darren to explore the cutting-edge realms of future technologies. Join us as we delve into fascinating topics such as edge computing, open ecosystems, people skills, interoperability, data portability and many more topics on smart data, open banking and digital twin. Get ready for an insightful conversation that uncovers the transformative potential of these technological advancements. On your marks, get set, Go!

Welcome back to Cloudbusting! This week, Jez and Darren receive Tristan Gadsby, CEO of Alliants, the experts at enabling exceptional customer experiences in hospitality and retail. Together they dissect the topic around the added value that cloud generates which allows the delivery of seamless experiences to customers on one hand and drives intelligent business decision making on the other unlocking untapped revenue potential through the looking glass of clever unified data. A win-win-win all round. At your convenience, grab your air pods and give it a listen.

This week Jez and Darren receive Doug Drinkwater, Director of Strategy at HotTopics for a sit down to unpick the ever evolving role of the CIO and talk about the challenges faced in this role seen from the lens of a seasoned business technology journalist. Doug unveils what it takes to step into this role, the skill set required, whether personality traits matter and what background they need to make them successful in an ever changing business landscape. Podcast alert; it's Cloudbusting time! Bookmark it if you haven't yet and get listening.

This week, Jez and Darren receive Anthony Levy, Founder & Chairman of Circularity First and discuss the real issues surrounding the progress of sustainability globally by unveiling how manufacturing products from an age old consumerist perspective in mind means pussyfooting around tackling the crucial issues required to reduce humanity's carbon footprint on the planet. Is the short time to product obsolescence manufacturers build into their products, FOMO and data hoarding adversely contributing to stalling badly needed progress in sustainability for future generations to come? Find out in this episode among many more eye watering topics. It's podcast time, press play and listen away!

Darren's on the spot this week with his two bosses on the show; Jez and Darren's client, Phil Parr, Cloud Platform Services Director at Unilever who graces our hot seat to tell us about Unilever's own story of migrating to the cloud. Yet another great transformation journey with its own unique tidbits we can all learn from. Fire up your favourite podcast app and listen away.

This week the Cloudbusting crew, Jez and Darren get chatting with Andy Barraclough, founder & CTO of Voxpopme about ChatGPT, its unmatched AI capabilities and the different sectors it has the potential to disrupt in the future. Press Play and listen in on some invaluable tips, tricks and use case ideas for inspiration. Whether you haven't heard of ChatGPT or are on your way to becoming an expert, this is a one-of-a-kind episode you wouldn't want to miss!

Cloudbusting is back with a bang starting with the first season of the year. A very exciting line up of guest speakers awaits! In our first episode we welcome Blake Janelle, Director of Architecture at Liberty Mutual Insurance who joins Jez and Darren to talk about Liberty Mutual's modernization journey to the cloud. Blake takes us through an interesting journey starting from its early days covering their challenges, learnings and key milestones along the way and concludes with how it panned out for them today. Make sure to spare some time, grab your headphones and give it a listen!

Join Jez and Darren in the last episode of this season chat with Jeff Barr, Vice President and Chief Evangelist and listen to him talk about his illustrious career at AWS, his retreat with Jeff Bezos on brainstorming the birth of AWS, how re:Invent was launched, his views on where the cloud market is today and where it is going, and a bunch of anecdotes about his personal experiences at AWS. Get as close as you can to hear it from an Amazon veteran give us a real feel about the culture inside AWS and get to be the first in the know!

Straight talking John Finch, technology adviser to private equity funds & FSIs tells it how it is. Cloud FinOps, Cloud cost optimisation, cloud economics or the financial quotient, this challenge is not going away unless tackled from the ground up irrespective of the term applied to it. Join Darren, Jez and John to listen to them talk about this topic, providing the practical steps required to ensure that cloud cost is effectively brought under control at a micro level.

Darren, Jez and Mark Ross, Global Chief Architect at Atos round the circle by giving us a neat wrap up of the new offerings that AWS announced at re:Invent. More exciting functionality is coming our way to implement for our customers so fasten your seat belts and get listening as you'll hear it first here on Cloudbusting!

Decarbonizing digital assets directly impacts 2% of global energy consumption. But how can it help us impact the 98%? We believe climate action makes commercial sense, but it can’t happen without the cloud. Public cloud offers the opportunity to diminish carbon footprints for organisations to become sustainable. The sixth and last episode in the series of the cloud trends for 2023 features guest speaker Keisha Garcia, VP Digital Foundations Programmes at bp who discusses this pertinent topic of our time with Darren & Jez. Don't miss out on what promises to be an invaluable session on sustainability. AWS re:Invent is a learning conference hosted by Amazon Web Services for the global cloud computing community.

In 2022, over 50% of organizations reported the skills shortage to be severely impacting growth or posing an existential crisis to business. While organizations look to solve the problem with new academy programs, training incentives, and personal development time, we’ve barely scratched the surface. The fifth in the series of six cloud trends for 2023 is entitled The Talent Crisis featuring guest speaker Faye Ellis, Principal Training Architect - AWS at A Cloud Guru. Grab your earphones to listen to Darren & Jez together with Faye debate The Talent Crisis in technology. AWS re:Invent is a learning conference hosted by Amazon Web Services for the global cloud computing community.

Join Darren and Jez from the conference floor at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas as they continue to unveil the Cloud Trends for 2023 one at a time through a series of six live podcasts. The fourth in the series is entitled Evolution of the CIO with featuring guest Phil Le-Brun, Director, Enterprise Strategy at AWS. Tune in to hear them debate whether the role of the CIO is dead and what is required for technology leaders to elevate their business and financial acumen and align to business priorities and outcomes rather than only evaluating and managing technology. AWS re:Invent is a learning conference hosted by Amazon Web Services for the global cloud computing community.

This week the Cloudbusting team is in Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent, a learning conference hosted by Amazon Web Services for the global cloud computing community. Join Dave and Jez as they present Cloud Trends 2023 through a series of six Live podcasts, the third in the series is entitled The Financial Quotient featuring guest Andrew Hillier, Global Strategic Brands at IAS, Integral Ad Science. Tune in to hear them talk about how enterprises are navigating the reality of cloudflation in an increasingly cost-pressured world and how leaders need to increase their Financial Quotient (FQ) and implement cloud economics to drive accountability and alignment to business priorities if they are to manage rising costs.

This week the Cloudbusting team is in Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent, a learning conference hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS) for the global cloud computing community. Join Dave and Jez as they present “Cloud Trends 2023” through a series of six Live podcasts. The second in the series “The Cloud Native Enterprise” featuring guest Drew Firment, Chief Cloud Strategist at Pluralsight and addresses the cloud-native enterprise as an organization that has aligned business and technology teams to modernize not only its tech, but also its people, processes, and value chain to be more diverse, sustainable, agile, and secure.

Live from AWS’ re:Invent conference floor in Las Vegas this week is the Cloudbusting team receiving various expert guests to talk about our 2023 Cloud Trends in a series of 6 live podcasts. The first in the series is - Connected Worlds - featuring Simon Withers, Atos Global Head of Portfolio & Engineering, hosted by Jez and Darren and together unpick the opportunities that the connected worlds bring for large-scale industrial 5G and broad based IoT usage catapulting the connection of remote regions making meaningful strides toward operational efficiencies to drive decarbonization and sustainability efforts forward.

It's countdown time to re:Invent: Jez and Darren together with Mark Ross, Global Chief Architect AWS at Atos go through a preview session of what to expect at re:Invent and also provide some invaluable tips and tricks on what to wear, where to eat and how best to optimise one's use of time while there. If you're packing up to hit the Vegas strip, make listening to this episode of Cloudbusting an essential part of your prep time.

This week’s guest is Marcos Cadena, CTO & CDO of Jollibee Foods, owners of fast food brand Jollibee, the equivalent of McDonald’s in the Philippines and franchisees of Burger King and Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf among many other retail brands in Asia. Marcos makes the case for a data-driven enterprise, explains what makes it tick in the cloud and reveals the nucleus team required to start the transformation and become truly driven by intelligent data that drives clever decision making throughout the organisation.