Keith Townsend, principal of The CTO Advisor, takes his latest venture on the road — The CTO Advisor Flying Cloud. For three months, he’ll talk in-person with other innovators in over a dozen U.S. cities from his new 27-foot Airstream. Join Cloud Talk for a discussion about his journey, the future of hybrid cloud and edge computing. Special Guest: Keith Townsend.
The private equity sector is focusing on how technology can be leveraged to add value. Discussing how this trend sees both technology and technologists being embraced by the sector is Alex Agran, CIOO, Endurance and host of the Private Technology Podcast. Special Guest: Alex Agran.
DataOps is the new term on the tech block. But don’t make the mistake of thinking it’s merely DevOps for data. The role is actually a vital one for organizations that want to live on the leading-edge of the modern tech world — where real value is extracted from enterprise data and delivered to where it will have the greatest impact. Special Guest: Nihar Gupta.
Technology can bring people together and solve problems worldwide, but every region has its own unique challenges and opportunities. Latin America is the focus of the latest Cloud Talk. Rackspace Technology Vice President and General Manager for Latin America Rodrigo Martineli discusses how to bring innovation and accelerate business transformation in Latin America and how his new Spanish-language podcast, Multi Nube Al Extremo, will make a difference. Special Guest: Rodrigo S. Martineli.
No one in 1990 could have predicted the direction IT would take. Today, it’s all about a highly collaborative culture focused on solving critical business problems with innovative ideas, rather than merely maintaining hardware. Simon Bennett, CTO – EMEA at Rackspace Technology™ joined Cloud Talk to discuss the big changes in technology that are upending traditional ways. Special Guest: Simon Bennett.
The leading demand of companies today is to innovate — from the technologies they use to the products and services they create. But innovation requires significant changes in the role of IT teams. Hear Josh Pruitt, VP of Public Cloud at Rackspace Technology speak to this issue and deliver actionable insights.
A Zero Trust approach needs to be applied to everything — including people, devices, code and solutions. In this episode of Cloud Talk, Rackspace Technology security expert Gary Alterson explains how you can adopt a Zero Trust framework to strengthen your security against the bad guys. Special Guest: Gary Alterson.
Microsoft partnerships CTO David Totten shares his crystal-ball view of the future of technology from his perspective. More specifically, he answers the question: Where is Microsoft headed now? Join Cloud Talk for a discussion about the future of tech innovation. Special Guest: David Totten.
It’s always been a challenge to know when something is wrong with a pet. This is where technology can really make a difference. Jacob Zuppke, COO, AutoPets and Patrick Husting, Founder & CEO, The Equestrian App, join Cloud Talk for a discussion about the tech behind the pet industry. Special Guests: Jacob Zuppke, Juliana Chapman, and Patrick Husting.
In this episode of Cloud Talk, CTO of Rackspace Technology APJ, Emma Pudney, discusses the evolution of the technology innovation — from infrastructure to modernization. She shares her perspective on how, thanks to the modern cloud, companies are no longer shackled by their own limitations. They can embrace true innovation thanks to a robust toolbox of cloud native apps available to everyone. Hear about “cool” innovations underway at several companies, what it's like for women in tech, and advic...
In this episode of Cloud Talk, Rackspace Technology CTO Jeff DeVerter and Microsoft Partner Technology Strategist Kent Kingery tackle the buzzwords that bug them the most. By tearing down the hype and misunderstanding around DevOps, distributed cloud, the edge, serverless and plenty more, the discussion brings their original meanings – and purposes – back to the surface. Special Guests: Heather Ferguson and Kent Kingery.
Security is a constant battle. You must do everything right all the time, but a threat only needs to get past your defenses once. In this episode of the Cloud Talk podcast, Rackspace Technology security expert Gary Alterson draws on 25 years of industry experience to explain how threats have changed and outlines vital security steps that can help keep your company safe — now and into the future. Special Guest: Gary Alterson.
Since the advent of the Internet, there’s been an abundance of disruptive companies try to claim their piece of the musical industry pie. Discussing how technology has changed the music industry on this episode is guitarist Thom Pankhurst, producer Steve Dady and entertainment industry attorney Barry Shrum. Special Guests: Barry Shrum, Steve Dady, and Thom Pankhurst.
Private cloud remains an important aspect of an effective cloud posture. But it might not be how you remember it. This episode of Cloud Talk goes in-depth with three IT leaders to explore the history of private cloud, how it has evolved and where it’s going.
AI & U is a new podcast by Rackspace Technology all about AI. Listen in on the first episode with Joe Davison, Research Engineer at Hugging Face. Joe joins host Mark McQuade for a chat about one of the hottest topics in AI: Natural Language Processing. Be sure to subscribe to AI & U if you enjoy this episode! https://aiandu.fireside.fm/ Special Guest: Mark McQuade.
Host Jeff DeVerter walks us though how he used technology during winter storms in Texas to troubleshoot freezing pipes and power outages.
The promise of RPA may be bright. But to start solving problems with RPA, you need to understand the data chain in your organization. In the latest Cloud Talk episode, Rackspace Technology CTO of EMEA Simon Bennett and host Jeff DeVerter discuss the principles that need to be considered before deploying RPA. Special Guest: Simon Bennett.
Love is in the air! Doug Lieberman with Dell Technologies, Matthew Juliana with AWS, Rohit Kelapure with Google and Kent Kingery with Microsoft join host Jeff DeVerter this Valentine’s Day to discuss which tech trends they’re loving most these days. Special Guests: Douglas Lieberman, Kent Kingery, Matt Juliana, and Rohit Kelapure.
Due to the complexity of IT transformation, an expansive list of cloud service providers has emerged. To discuss the cloud ecosystem and the role of partners on a cloud journey, Paul Croteau, Channel Field CTO, Rackspace Technology, joins host Jeff DeVerter on the latest episode of Cloud Talk. Special Guest: Paul Croteau.
The way we farm is damaging the planet, and now there’s a movement to re-engineer the industry. To dig into the world of agtech and regenerative agriculture, we invited Lew Moorman, Co-Founder of Scaleworks and Soilworks Natural Capital, and Sarah Nolet, Founder of AgThentic, on to Cloud Talk. Resources Allan Savory: How to fight desertification and reverse climate change (https://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_fight_desertification_and_reverse_climate_change#t-1215349) AgThentic (https:/...
Robot Process Automation (RPA) has the potential to transform professions and businesses. On the latest Cloud Talk, Rajesh Radhakrishnan, EVP of Intelligent Automation & Digital Workforce Solutions at Automation Anywhere, joins Jeff DeVerter, CTO at Rackspace Technology, for a deep dive into RPA. Special Guest: Rajesh Radhakrishnan.
What are the main talking points from Re:Invent 2020? In the latest episode of Cloud Talk, four experts from Rackspace Technology breakdown the recent announcements from AWS and give their opinions on which developments are the most interesting. Special Guest: Taylor Bird.
How can businesses drive digital transformation, reduce development costs and increase overall efficiency? We revisit this "best of" episode of Cloud Talk with Scott Guthrie, EVP of Cloud + AI at Microsoft this week. Jeff and Scott discuss the shift towards low-code technology and how it's enabling people everywhere to innovate in new ways. Special Guest: Scott Guthrie.
There's no way to fully prepare for a world-shattering event like a global pandemic, but there are ways to effectively manage the changes it brings. We revisit this "best of" episode of Cloud Talk with Rackspace Technology CEO Kevin Jones this week. Listen in for a look back on how Rackspace Technology adapted to, and accelerated out of, the COVID-19 pandemic. Special Guest: Kevin M. Jones.
Cloud Talk has covered a lot of ground over the last six months, with topics including recovering from a major cyberattack to leading through a pandemic. Here’s a special episode with a selection of the best bits from Season 1. Special Guests: Juan Riojas, Kathy Kersten, Kevin M. Jones, Lara Indrikovs, Peter Coffee, Pontus Noren, Tolga Tarhan, and Tye Hayes.
Ethical design has been one of the most discussed topics in IT this year. But how do you create well-rounded, successful and ethical products at the same time? Mike Rastiello and Heather Ferguson join Jeff DeVerter on the Cloud Talk podcast for an episode about ethics in product management. Special Guests: Heather Ferguson and Mike Rastiello.
Amazon Web Services, the industry-leading cloud services company was making a simple capacity upgrade to Kinesis the day before Thanksgiving when the event triggered an OS front-end capacity glitch, which created a ripple effect that crashed the system for almost one day. The result was thousands of companies down for several hours just before Black Friday, the busiest online shopping day of the year. In this Cloud Talk podcast episode, the host and two Rackspace Technology™ experts discuss why ...
Which tech trends should you be exploring right now? Two CTOs discuss the most important tech trends for the end 2020 and early 2021, unwrapping the contents of The Rackspace Technology Trends Viewpoint e-book. Special Guest: Tolga Tarhan.
Linguists have been analyzing language with computers for seventy years, but it’s only recently through deep learning that we are seeing the full potential of Natural Language Processing (NLP). In this episode of Cloud Talk, Jeff DeVerter is joined by three data science and AI experts to deep dive into NLP. Special Guests: Carla Margalef Bentabol, Mark McQuade, and Spyro Ananiades.
When’s the right time to sell or spin off a company? When should you embrace technology and when should you discard it? These are questions cloud-native pioneer and Cloudreach founder Pontus Noren has wrestled with during his more than 20 successful years in the industry. This latest Cloud Talk charts a journey from Swedish schooling and a love for the Commodore 64 home computer, through stints at Ericsson, Nokia and Cisco, to his defining work revolutionizing organizations by way of cloud-nativ...
