Episodes
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Performing an Active Directory migration to the cloud can be quite an ordeal, with so
many elements that need to match up precisely. And this must be done seamlessly
and with no disruption to the people who rely on Teams, SharePoint and other
solutions to help them carry on with their work. Mark Rochester is a cloud
architect. He joined host Steve Prentice to discuss some of the finer points of
conducting a migration, and what he is looking for in BitTitan’s new
MigrationWiz Active Directory Migration Solution.
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While organizations remain focused on trying to extract more insight and value out from their data, they are trying to use services in multiple clouds. This becomes a challenge: data is sprawled everywhere, and that can negatively impact competitiveness. It requires a rethinking of how to architect for the public cloud, and Derek Pilling, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer at Faction, has the solution.
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A conversation with Leah Troscianecki, Principal Product Marketing Manager for Veeam, covering Microsoft Azure Solutions, and Michael Cade, from the Veeam Field CTO office, specializing in Cloud Native.
Building a proactive backup strategy involves many different internal groups and constantly evolving technologies, all standing on the shifting sands of business in this new era. Leah and Mike speak to us from the floor of the Veeam-On 2023 conference in Miami, and they share their wisdom on who is responsible for backup strategies, the challenges and benefits of relocation, and the evolving role of the sysadmin.
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A conversation with David Anandraj, manager of Product Management for the ecommerce segment of BCM One. People like to think that everything we do is text based and that phones have much less value. But as David Anandraj says, “when it matters, you call and when you call, you want to reach someone.”
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It’s time for AWS to become opinionated about handling its customers. With API costs
increasing crazily, CloudFix CEO Rahul Subramaniam says now is the time for AWS
to step up and advise.
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A conversation with Rahul Subramanyam, CEO at CloudFix and CTO at ESW Capital. AWS is huge, but it’s not perfect. Because of its size and its approach to innovation there are many areas that need tweaking and fixing. CloudFix is a company that originally started just to fix one company’s problems with AWS, and then discovered that many more organizations needed their help.
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A conversation with David Dymko, Director of Engineering for Cloud Native Development at Vultr.com
If you work with virtual machines and or Kubernetes, and if you have some questions about how you can make it work better for your organization, or what the current best practices are, or how to understand it, you’ve come to the right place.
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A conversation with Ryan Pollock, VP Product Marketing and Developer Relationships for Vultr.com
Everyone knows who the big players are in the cloud business. But sometimes, they’re too big, especially for SMBs. Sometimes what is needed is a more personal touch, without the enormous scale. Ryan Pollock has worked with the Silicon Valley big players, and his experiences there have helped him devise a better solution.
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A conversation with Aleksandras Šulženko – Product owner at Oxylabs.io
In a global economy where change happens by the second, one of the best ways to keep up with industry information, including your competitors, is to collect, review and analyze publicly available data in as close to real time as possible. This is why you need to know more about data scraping.
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NoSQL is becoming the must have for organizations needing to manage data in ways that traditional relational databases were just not designed for. What has the industry media been saying about it? Matthew Groves product marketing manager at Couchbase joins host Steve Prentice to look at a few selected media stories about NoSQL.
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In February 2021 Couchbase released the results of a survey that showed how developers play a key role in helping organizations meet their digital transformation goals despite facing significant challenges, including the disruptions caused by the Covid pandemic. Matthew Groves joins Steve Prentice to discuss the survey’s results and what they mean for the new normal.
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Like so many other areas of technology, the database is changing. For a long
time we worked with relation databases and SQL, but the demands for
flexibility, security and speed are making it clear: legacy databases are not
up to the demands of modern applications. Matthew Groves, Product
Marketing Manager at Couchbase, discusses database sprawl, the
challenges of SQL, the ease of transition from relational to NoSQL, and where
to go to learn the code.
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WordPress is a significant player in the global webspace, and tools like the WordPress toolkit allow businesses of all sizes prepare, stage, and maintain their websites, using the expertise and support of the global WordPress community. This episode of the CloudTweaks podcast chats with TJ Danklefs of cPanel and Angelo Giuffrida of VentraIP Australia about how even some very large companies choose WordPress, and what its benefits are in terms of security scalability and efficiency.
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Why is cloud cost management so difficult? What are the main challenges in achieving cloud cost optimization? What are the principles of cost optimization that will help boost profits and benefit the planet? Why should I pay for a cloud governance tool when public cloud providers have alternatives that are free? Are there industry-specific challenges to cloud cost management? And what about its carbon footprint for the digital infrastructure – is it the modern day smokestack? These are the questions Steve poses to Asim Razzaq, CEO of Yotascale.
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WordPress. For a lot of people this name might initially conjure up a place for amateur bloggers, almost a hobbyist site. But nothing could be further from the truth. As an open source web hosting platform, WordPress commands a significant proportion of the overall website marketplace, capable not only of hosting but of scalability, security and accountability, that are vital to small and medium sized enterprises, and on par or maybe even greater than that offered by Google or AWS. Join us for an in-depth discussion with guests, Tom Fanelli, CEO of Convesio, and technology guru Robert Jacobi.
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The pressure to accelerate your company’s plans to move to the public cloud is substantial. But it should never be taken lightly. It’s a democratized world far away from the command and control of private data and security holes can come from users, work from home employees, even security people who don’t know what to look for. Chris Hertz from DivvyCloud has some thoughts about this.
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Moving fully to the cloud is still a concern for many companies, but with millions of employees working from home, there’s an even greater need to migrate. Mark Kirstein, VP of Product for BitTitan shares his wisdom on the hows and whys of cloud migration.
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With the global pandemic wreaking havoc on business and society, everything is changing. Ed Dryer, Senior Technology Strategist at Steadfast Networks, which specializes in Colocation, Managed Infrastructure as a Service and Network infrastructure, talks frankly about the role of customer service, work from home, cost management, SaaS, and the future of business and employment in this unprecedented era.
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With the world focusing on the big three hyperscalers, there is still room – and much necessity for – more local cloud providers who are better suited to the country-specific data protection and privacy laws. CityNetwork CEO Johan Christenson shares his insights into cloud technology, lessons learned from COVID-19, and the impact of initiatives like GAIA-X.
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