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Altitude: The Unsung Heroes of Cloud Transformation
Altitude: The Unsung Heroes of Cloud TransformationEmbracing Multicloud Adoption and AI IntegrationIn this episode of Altitude, Woody is joined by Daniel Gaina, Senior Cloud Engineer at Cloudsoft, to discuss the nuances of transitioning to cloud infrastructure, the complexities introduced by multicloud adoption, and the impact of AI on productivity and job roles.Daniel's expertise stems from his role at Cloudsoft, a company focused on aiding customers in migrating, modernizing, and optimizing their services on AWS across various sectors from financial institutions to startups.The discussion kicks off by contrasting the automation and orchestration approaches of large enterprises and startups, shedding light on the challenges each face...
2024-06-0436 minCloudy With A Chance of Brain - Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth
Cloudy With A Chance of Brain - Bringing the Cloud Down to EarthAdopting FinOps, with Joe Daly, Head of Community at the FinOps FoundationJoe Daly, Director of Community at the FinOps Foundation, joins the pod to discuss his FinOps journey, tackling cloud molehills before they become mountains and his top picks for a Scottish FinOps playlist.This episode was recorded in late 2021 whilst Joe was in his previous role as Director of Cloud Optimization at Nationwide USA.As an accountant by training, Joe approaches FinOps from a financial, rather than developer, background and took his first FinOps related role as Manager of Cloud Cost Optimisation at Cardinal Health back in 2016 - showing...
2022-03-2543 minThe FS Club Podcast
The FS Club PodcastDigital Operational Resilience - Are You Ready?Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/32utMH5 With under 6 months to go until new FCA regulations governing Digital Operational Resilience come into force (March 2022), and with the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) on the horizon in 2023, can you be certain your complex IT estate is up to scratch? Join Cloudsoft's Vicky Glynn and Alasdair Hodge, as they discuss the complexity crisis facing technology teams in Financial Services, and how embracing continuous resilience can not only help you to meet regulatory requirements but also unlock new efficiencies in your technology teams...
2021-11-2447 minCloudy With A Chance of Brain - Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth
Cloudy With A Chance of Brain - Bringing the Cloud Down to EarthSecurity in the cloud, with Joe Pindar, Founder of FreshSecurity.November's guest is Joe Pindar,  Founder of FreshSecurity, who aim to provider a hacker's view of you and your business.And Joe really knows his stuff - kicking off his cyber security career at GCHQ, followed by stints at the National Crime Agency and Metropolitan Police, Joe has more insight than most into the range of threats in the cyber age.Joe talks to us about the kinds of attacks you should really be worried about, why cybercrime is sophisticated business, how the cloud has changed how we think about IT security and where the s...
2021-11-1755 minCloudy With A Chance of Brain - Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth
Cloudy With A Chance of Brain - Bringing the Cloud Down to EarthBuying cloud your way, with James Mitchell of Strategic Blue.Can you trade cloud like you trade coal?This month Aled and Alasdair are joined by Dr James Mitchell, founder and CEO of Strategic Blue. Strategic Blue specialise in cloud financial operations and partner with leading cloud vendors like AWS, Microsoft and Google to bring a commodity trading approach to cloud resale. A scientist by training, James’ journey to cloud was an unconventional one. From a PhD in DNA Nanotechnology to commodities trading and investing in green data centers, we delve into how James developed Strategic Blue’s unique approach, how it helps them offer bette...
2021-10-2042 minCloudy With A Chance of Brain - Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth
Cloudy With A Chance of Brain - Bringing the Cloud Down to EarthWeathering turbulence, with Edinburgh Airport's Digital TeamAviation has been particularly hard-hit by the covid-19 pandemic. Restrictions on travel and customer confidence saw passenger numbers at Edinburgh Airport, Scotland's busiest airport, drop by over 90%. Airports are complex, tech-rich environments with high security needs and IT estates which cover everything from Air Traffic Control towers and boarding card scanners to get you to Security to apps where you can pay for parking, or order food to your seat in the Departure Lounge. We caught up with Alec Hodgson, Head of Digital at Edinburgh Airport,  and Berit Jimmink, Digital Product Manager at Edinburgh Airport, about how t...
2021-09-2132 minCloudy With A Chance of Brain - Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth
Cloudy With A Chance of Brain - Bringing the Cloud Down to EarthTaming complexity in the cloud, with Kylie Fowler of ITAM IntelligenceIn this month's episode we talk to Kylie Fowler,  a leading consultant in the realm of IT and Software Asset Management, enabling companies to optimise their IT estate through best practice and maximise their investments in tech. Connect with Kylie on LinkedIn. Joining Alasdair is Cloudsoft's Vicky Glynn, who spoke alongside Kylie at the DIGIT Cloud First conference in June 2021. We wanted to continue the conversation around Cloud's promise of simplicity and the complex, hybrid technology world most organisations actually inhabit. Kylie, Vicky and Alasdair delve into this complex reality, and talk about how organisations c...
2021-08-1848 minCloudy With A Chance of Brain - Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth
Cloudy With A Chance of Brain - Bringing the Cloud Down to EarthGoing Serverless, with the Burning MonkYan Cui (aka Twitter's The Burning Monk) is goldmine of knowledge when it comes to Serverless Architectures. But what is Serverless? And where did the inspiration for his Twitter handle come from? Aled and Alasdair spoke to him to find out...To Yan going Serverless makes "all the sense in the world" and he has been an AWS Service Hero since 2018. With experience spanning e-commerce, streaming, gaming and social media platforms we had plenty to talk about!What kinds of applications are suited to serverless? How do you get started? And why should you consider...
2021-07-2056 minCloudy With A Chance of Brain - Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth
Cloudy With A Chance of Brain - Bringing the Cloud Down to EarthUnderstanding cloud costs, with Ashley Hromatko, Snr FinOps Manager at PearsonCost is often one of the main drivers for adopting the cloud, but it's not always plain sailing once you get there. Cloud bills are complicated, so it can be a challenge to understand where your money is being spent, never mind how to manage and optimise that spend to get the biggest bang for your buck! Luckily, our guest is here to help!  Ashley Hromatko, Senior FinOps Manager at Pearson, joins Aled and Alasdair to discuss cloud, costs and cultural change. Ashley is a founding member of and currently serves on the Technical Advisory C...
2021-07-2037 minCloudy With A Chance of Brain - Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth
Cloudy With A Chance of Brain - Bringing the Cloud Down to EarthHuman Centric Innovation, with David Cairns, Head of Innovation at FujitsuWelcome to the first episode of Cloudy With A Chance of Brain, the podcast where we bring the cloud down to earth.  As well as having an excuse to talk to interesting people in the industry, we want to create a space to bring together the cultural and technical aspects of cloud. We spoke to David Cairns, Head of Innovation at Fujitsu, back in April this year about the power of human centric innovation, why the cloud is the best place to play and the best technologies that have really caught his attention this year. David has b...
2021-07-2046 minDigital Matters
Digital MattersWhy Cloud Migration is more than just an IT initiative, with Cloudsoft's Aled Sage and Alasdair HodgeIn episode seven of gravity9’s Digital Matters podcast Partner Andy Ross talks with Cloudsoft’s  VP of Engineering, Aled Sage and Principal Engineer Alasdair Hodge about migration to the Cloud and why it isn’t just an IT initiative. A breakdown of the main Cloud offerings, including; AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Alibaba, and what differentiates them from one another. The key benefits to Cloud migration outside of IT and why it is an enabler for innovation and creativity. Why Cloud is an enabler and how start-ups are leveraging the benefits of Cloud to bring their idea...
2020-12-221h 01Serverless Transformation
Serverless TransformationIs Serverless Secure-Less? - Panel Discussion (Microsoft, Serverless Inc. & Cloudsoft)Maxime Rouiller (Microsoft), Gareth McCumskey (Serverless Inc.) & Aled Sage (Cloudsoft Corporation) and hosted by Ben Ellerby (Theodo)  Hosted by Theodo UK & Serverless Transformation  “From a security perspective, what concerns does Serverless eliminate from traditional serverfull architectures?”  “From a security perspective, what new concerns does Serverless introduce?” “If you’re a smaller company, would you adopt a Serverless microservice architecture?”  “There are several advantages to Serverless: i.e. cost, scalability, speed of delivery, ops reduction and potentially greener architectures. What is the main one for you and why?” Read the Blog: https://medium.com/serverless...
2019-11-2859 minDisruptive LIVE
Disruptive LIVE#TheCloudShow – S2E3- The Great Multi- Cloud DebateWe all accept that we all do a form of multi-cloud (i.e. we consume several cloud services in isolation – e.g. on your phone we use different social media, email, etc all separate clouds) – but that is not the point of this discussion. The point of the debate is whether it is realistic for organisations to run on two or more cloud services to run a business process or set of workloads. But which one is right, if at all? With guests Bill Mew, Founder @Mew_Era and Steve Chambers, COO @cloudsoft
2018-07-1728 minThe Cloudcast
The CloudcastThe Cloudcast #166 - Creating a Docker Cloud with ClockerBrian talks with Andrew Kennedy (@grkvlt) Senior Software Engineer at Cloudsoft about the creation of Apache Brooklyn, "Clocker", and a modern approach to building applications on clouds that span Docker containers, VMs, Bare Metal and multiple cloud environments (AWS, OpenStack, Softlayer, etc.). Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (www.nin.com)
2014-10-2226 minThe Cloud Computing Show
The Cloud Computing ShowCloud Computing Show #53Guests:James Watters, Group Manager, Ecosystem and Business Development, Cloud Application Platform - Cloud Foundry, VMware, http://www.vmware.comAdrian Cole, Chief Evangelist at Cloudsoft, http://www.cloudsoftcorp.comBrian Bulkowski, CEO, Citrusleaf, http://www.citrusleaf.net/Here is The Cloud Computing Show Episode #53 (mp3)[note backup server in use for this episode. thanks for download patience.]Host:Gary Orenstein, The Cloud Computing Show, http://www.thecloudcomputingshow.comTHANKS--------------To our unofficial sponsor http://www.virtacore.com/ for the gift basketYEAR...
2011-12-2000 minThe Cloud Computing Show
The Cloud Computing ShowCloud Computing Show #52Guests:James Watters, Group Manager, Ecosystem and Business Development, Cloud Applications Platform, VMware, http://www.vmware.comAdrian Cole, Chief Evangelist at Cloudsoft, www.cloudsoftcorp.comDerek Collison, CTO and Chief Architect, Cloud Applications Platform, VMware, http://www.vmware.comHere is The Cloud Computing Show Episode #52 (mp3)Host:Gary Orenstein, The Cloud Computing Show, http://www.thecloudcomputingshow.comROUNDTABLE TOPICS-------------------------VMware, VMworldCLOUD TIPS------------------Gary: http://www.nutanix.com/James: http://appfog.com/Derek: http://nodejs.org/...
2011-08-3000 min