Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans

Cloud Wars analyzes the major cloud vendors from the perspective of business customers. In Cloud Wars Live, Bob Evans talks with both sides about these profoundly transformative technologies, and with monthly All-Star guests from across the business community about the trends impacting how the world lives, works, plays, and dreams. Visit https://cloudwars.com for more.

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Industry-Cloud Explosion: Ammirati on Innovation

The Big Themes: Taking a victory lap: When you look at those lists, these are technology companies that have figured out how to partner and work within the industry. New Carnegie Mellon masters program: I believe the first masters level joint business degree is to help students prepare to be a product manager. The enemy of my enemy is my friend: But the other part of that is true as well. There’s a lot of moving pieces on the chess board right now. Rockefeller breaking up Standard Oil: After the...

Jun 30, 2021•30 min•Ep. 232

Industry Clouds “Fantastic Opportunity!” – Oliver Bussmann

Oliver Bussmann is a world-renowned expert specializing on the intersection of technology and business with particular expertise in financial services, and is now CEO of Bussmann Advisory AG. Having been both a CIO and a COO, Oliver has held senior positions at UBS, SAP, Allianz, Deutsche Bank and IBM. I had a great chat with Oliver Bussmann, who's a strategic advisor and board member for corporations and software companies, as well as startups in fintech, payments, and blockchain. Having been C...

Jun 28, 2021•23 min•Ep. 228

Is Big Data Overhyped? Uphoff on Industry

The Big Themes: Why isn’t big data producing big insights? In our last episode we tee’d up the idea that while we have seen extraordinary advances in big data, data analytics and data science, it’s harder to find examples of extraordinary insights of the use of big data. How should business leaders factor human judgement: In his latest book, “Noise,” Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Prize winning economist suggests that the issue is about human judgement and not data. The era of augmented intelligence: ...

Jun 23, 2021•45 min•Ep. 231

CEO Cybersecurity To-Do List: Sadin on Digital

The Big Themes: Wake-up call for boards and C-Suites: What do we hear from victims? “We didn’t think we’d be a target.” In our emerging acceleration economy: Firms can’t afford the lost time, the lost revenue/added costs, the hit to reputation a successful attack causes. Firms must do six things well: Robust prevention, quick detection, defense in depth, keeping secrets secret, effective repair/restoration, and not keeping your eggs in one basket. Manage systemic risk, not just cybersecurity: If...

Jun 21, 2021•33 min•Ep. 227

Snowflake and Data Cloud Phenomenon: Foley on Data

The Big Themes: Fundamental and important to the model: Data lakes, data hubs, data warehouses, data marketplaces – that’s a lot of data. Snowflake has popularized the concept: Other vendors are latching onto it – you could argue it is kind of revolutionizing that whole model. Google announced Dataplex: A data fabric for integration, and they also announced an analytics hub for data sharing and analytics, and sharing insights into the data stream. A definition of cloud computing: Still holds up ...

Jun 17, 2021•32 min•Ep. 226

Next Gen HCM: Lohit Sarma, Lifion VP

The Big Themes: Where these two circles intersect: You could offer a core set of applications, and the ability for you to pick and choose some of these other applications that are available. We set up Lifion to build our Next Gen HCM: We had to build it not for just the up-market U.S. space, but we were also targeting U.S. HQ at MNCs and international companies. The numbers may vary: I’m just going to use that standard rule of thumb we follow is the 80/20 rule. Enterprise software is about 80% o...

Jun 16, 2021•23 min•Ep. 229

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