Cloudy With A Chance of Brain - Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth

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Adopting FinOps, with Joe Daly, Head of Community at the FinOps Foundation

2022-03-2543:08

Joe 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 C...

Security in the cloud, with Joe Pindar, Founder of FreshSecurity.

2021-11-1755:35

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 change...

Buying cloud your way, with James Mitchell of Strategic Blue.

2021-10-2042:33

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 de...

Weathering turbulence, with Edinburgh Airport's Digital Team

2021-09-2132:07

Aviation 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 ...

Taming complexity in the cloud, with Kylie Fowler of ITAM Intelligence

2021-08-1848:28

In 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 technolog...

Understanding cloud costs, with Ashley Hromatko, Snr FinOps Manager at Pearson

2021-07-2037:35

Cost 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...

Going Serverless, with the Burning Monk

2021-07-2056:50

Yan 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 ...

Human Centric Innovation, with David Cairns, Head of Innovation at Fujitsu

2021-07-2046:25

Welcome 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 cau...

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Cloudy With A Chance of Brain - Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth