Cloud Crunch

As we wrap up Season 4 of Cloud Crunch, we will discuss "Building a Center of Excellence for Machine Learning and AI: A Journey across HC, Insurance, and PE". This powerful and insightful conversation is led by the Director of Marketing, Michael Elliott, and co-host Fred Bliss, CTO of all things data at 2nd Watch. Our honored guest is Jason Mass, Executive Director of Data Insights for 2nd Watch.

With only two episodes left in Season 4, today we will discuss "What key things do I need to know about Snowflake and AWS?" We are joined by our lead host and Director of Marketing Michael Elliott, and co-host Fred Bliss, CTO of all things data at 2nd Watch. Our special guest is Jason Mass, Executive Director of Data Insights for 2nd Watch.

Welcome back to Cloud Crunch. Today's topic, "Barbarians At The Door". We will discuss the risk factors you need to be thinking about when it comes to securing your cloud. We are joined by our lead host and Director of Marketing Michael Elliott, and co-host Fred Bliss, CTO of all things data at 2nd Watch. Our honored guest is Jeff Collins, Solutions Manager for 2nd Watch.

In today's episode, we intend to discuss the world of Cyber Security Analytics and the "Cyber Security Risk Mitigation and Compliance Dashboard". We are joined by our lead host and Director of Marketing Michael Elliott, and co-host Fred Bliss, CTO of all things data at 2nd Watch. Our honored guest is Joey Brown, Senior Consultant for 2nd Watch.

Welcome back to Cloud Crunch. Today's topic, “Modern Cloud Operations – Managing a Cloud Native Environment.” Learn how managing the cloud has evolved, and what leadership needs to do now to adjust for the change. This conversation is led by our lead host and Director of Marketing, Michael Elliott. We are also joined by our honored guest Jeff McInnish – VP, Managed Cloud Services for 2nd Watch.

Welcome back to Season 4 of Cloud Crunch. We intend to cover "How to control AWS spend to enable innovation investment.” Discover what does it mean to control my AWS spend to invest in Innovation? Why did you go to the cloud in the first place, and what does this look like for client? This conversation is led by our lead host and Director of Marketing, Michael Elliott. We are also joined by our honored guest Mary Fellows– Practice Director, Cloud Economics for 2nd Watch.

Welcome to Season 4 of Cloud Crunch. In todays episode, we intend to cover “How to extract the most out of Reinvent”. Our goal is to educate both experienced and non experienced ReInvent attendees on how to extract the most out of reInvent. This inclues our experience from last year, what to expect from this year “before you go”, trends, and AWS. This powerful conversation is led by our host and Director of Marketing, Michael Elliott. We are also joined by our honored guest Lisa Culbert – Senior Marketing Manager for 2nd Watch.

As we wrap up Season 3 of Cloud Crunch, we will be discussing “What is driving Application Modernization? And the digital trends and business imperatives for the industry”. How can our listeners know if they are ready for these trends? What are some questions they can ask themselves? This powerful conversation is led by our CTO of all things data at 2nd Watch Fred Bliss, and Director of Marketing Michael Elliott. We are also joined by our honored guest Jesse Samm.

With only two episodes left, today's episode is centered around “Data ecosystem around Snowflake & private equity verticals” We will focus on, "What are the areas where you are seeing strong adoption of cloud-analytics solutions at Private Equity companies, and "What are typical use cases for advanced analytics at PE portfolio companies? This coversation is led by our CTO of all things data at 2nd Watch Fred Bliss, and Director of Marketing Michael Elliott. We are also joined by our honored guest Paul Corning – Practice Director, Private Equity.

Welcome back to Cloud Crunch. Today's episode, we will cover "What we learned from HIMSS – Now what, Innovations from HIMSS and beyond ". We will discuss one of the biggest Healthcare conferences of the year, HIMSS and our key takeaways. "This coversation is led by our CTO of all things data at 2nd Watch Fred Bliss, and Director of Marketing Michael Elliott. We are also joined by our honored guest Jim Anfield, Healthcare Practice Leader for 2nd Watch

Welcome back to Cloud Crunch. Today's episode, we will cover "How Snowflake Empowers You to Unleash Your Business". Snowflake, is a worldwide leader in cloud-computing and offers a cloud-based data storage and analytics service, generally termed "data-as-a-service. "This powerful coversation is led by our CTO of all things data at 2nd Watch Fred Bliss, and Director of Marketing Michael Elliott.

Last week on Cloud Crunch, we covered, "Dont Leave Out Your Data & Analytics Element when Migrating to the Cloud." Today we cover, "What is Business Intelligence" when migrating to the cloud. We are joined with our new co-host Fred Bliss, CTO of all things data at 2nd Watch and our honored guest for the second time, Evi Hatzopoulos.

Welcome back to a new season of Cloud Crunch. In todays episode, we intend to address many of the difficulties, and opportunities, of your evolution in the cloud. We are joined with our new co-host Fred Bliss, CTO of all things data at 2nd Watch and our guest Evi Hatzopoulos as we explore the topic "Dont Leave Out Your Data & Analytics Element when Migrating to the Cloud"

Covering the 5th and final strategy in our series on maximizing your cloud's value, cloud cost optimization expert, Jeff Collins, joins us today to examine our 7 Pillars of Cloud Cost Optimization. Find out how to apply these pillars to reduce your cloud spend without decreasing the benefits of your cloud environment.

When thinking about ways to maximize the value of your cloud, two important factors to consider are security and compliance. These strategies go hand-in-hand but are vastly different. Security and compliance expert, Ken Weinreich, joins us today to discuss ways security and compliance can improve your cloud use.

Today we dive into the second strategy you should consider using to maximize your cloud's value - accelerating application development with DevOps. Google Cloud DevOps expert and the Solution Manager Lead for App Modernization on GCP, Harish Jayakumar, joins 2nd Watch's own Joey Yore to talk about the power of brining applications to market faster and fully immersing your company in a DevOps transformation.

AWS Data Expert, Saunak Chandra, joins today's episode to break down the first of five strategies used to maximize your cloud's value - creating competitive advantage from your data. We look at tactics including Amazon Redshift, RA3 node type, best practices for performance, data warehouses, and varying data structures.

You migrated your applications to the cloud for a reason. Now that you're there, what’s next? How do you take advantage of your applications and data that reside in the cloud? What should you be thinking about in terms of security and compliance? In this first episode of a 5-part series, we discuss 5 strategies you should consider to maximize the value of being on the cloud.

When you’re considering moving to the cloud, it's important to take a personal examination of your goals for migrating, outside of the basic benefits achievable with the cloud. To maximize the value of the cloud, you have to make sure you’re moving for the right reasons. Today we discuss just that with our very own 2nd Watch CEO, Doug Schneider.

The promise of multi-cloud suggests enterprises should be able to run their applications and workloads in whichever cloud environment makes the most sense from a cost, performance or functionality perspective. But the reality of the situation can be very different in practice, as enterprises grapple with how best to make technologies created by competing suppliers play nicely together. Contributor and Analyst to Forbes, CBS interactive, Information Today, Inc., and RTInsights, Joseph McKendrick, joins today’s episode to give his perspective on the value of a multi-cloud strategy.

How are enterprises responding to the COVID 19 pandemic and how is it affecting their cloud usage? We take a look at 6 key findings from 2nd Watch’s “Enterprise Cloud Trends” survey and discuss what the survey indicates and what we ‘re seeing from our own clients.

If you’re trying to run your business smarter, not harder, chances are you’re utilizing data to gain insights into the decision-making process and gain a competitive advantage. Today we talk with data and AI/ML expert, Rui Costa at Google Cloud, about why and when to use cloud data offerings and how to make the most of your data in the cloud.

There's a new(ish) major player in cloud data management! 2nd Watch data and analytics experts, Sam Tawfik and Spencer Dorway, talk about practical data migration to Snowflake.

Adrien Sieg, Head of Data at McDonald’s Global Technology France, Christina Moss, Director of AWS Cloud Services at McDonald’s, and Mathieu Rimlinger, Director of Global Technology France at McDonald’s, talk about their latest technological advancements in the cloud and how McDonald’s is using data lakes to set customer expectations and improve satisfaction.

Michael Eshoo, Sr. Manager, WW AMS Specialist SA at AWS, joins us to talk about how customers are using AWS Managed Services (AMS). We look at the challenges these customers are facing and how they’re overcoming them to maximize the benefits they’re getting from AMS.

Welcome to Season 2 of Cloud Crunch! We're back and better than ever with all new topics, opinions and an all-star lineup of exciting industry expert guests. We kick off our first episode looking back at AWS re:Invent 2020 with Solutions Architect pro and re:Invent veteran, Joe Conlin. Being a 3-week event, there is a lot to cover, so get the scoop on what AWS announced, what we found exciting, and what you might've missed.

To get a better understanding of how organizations were prepared and continue to plan for the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as how IT leaders’ priorities and initiatives are shifting, IDG CIO conducted a COVID-19 Impact Study that indicated 3 major focus areas - cost control, improving IT operations, and redesigning business processes. We break these down and look at 7 initiatives you can take to enable your business objectives.

Managed DevOps sounds like an oxymoron, so why would someone consider it? Hear from our DevOps pro about the factors that contribute to companies stalling mid-DevOps Transformation and how a Managed DevOps strategy can help overcome that plateau.

What is the new normal for life and business after COVID-19, and how does that impact IT? We dive into the 5 strategic IT business drivers CXOs are contemplating now and the motivation behind those drivers. Read the corresponding blog article at https://www.2ndwatch.com/blog/five-strategic-business-drivers-cxos-contemplating-now/.

What are the top 5 challenges we see with clients when it comes to cloud optimization? We talk the future of cloud optimization and key best practices to achieve and maintain optimization.

What is a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE), and how can you ensure its success? Joe Kinsella, CTO of CloudHealth, talks with us today about the importance of a CCOE, the steps to cloud maturity, and how to move through the cloud maturity journey.

Data Engineering and Analytics expert, Rob Whelan, joins us today to dive into all things data lakes and data platforms. Data is the key to unlocking the path to better business decisions. What do you need data for? We look at the top 5 problems customers have with their data, how the cloud has helped solve these challenges, and how you can leverage the cloud for your data use.

Cloud compliance, cloud security...NOT the same thing. Victoria Geronimo, Security & Compliance Product Manager at 2nd Watch who also happens to have an internet law and internet policy background, joins us today as we look at how security, compliance, and state regulations affect architecting your cloud environment and the farther-reaching effects they have on business.

Stefana Muller, Sr Product Manager of DevOps at 2nd Watch, joins us today to talk about DevOps' place in cloud transformation. We examine ideal entry points into DevOps transformations, methodologies, secrets to a successful transformation, and the "impossible ask." We'd love to hear from you! Tweet Stefana (@stefanamuller) or email us at CloudCrunch@2ndwatch.com with comments, questions, and ideas.

We discuss VMware Cloud on AWS as a data center extension, for next-generation applications and Disaster Recovery, and virtual desktop solution, Horizon 7. VMware Cloud Partner Solution Architect, Frances Wong, joins us to get technical.

Farida Bharmal, Microsoft One Commercial Partner, joins us today to talk about Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF). We discuss the components of CAF including strategy, plan, ready, migrate, innovate, govern and manage, and where customers are struggling and how they're overcoming those challenges.

Today we welcome our first guest, Dusty Simoni, Sr Product Manager at 2nd Watch, to discuss hybrid cloud computing. We dive into what hybrid cloud is is, examples of hybrid, benefits, complexities, and how to get started. For this conversation, we look at hybrid cloud as on-premises infrastructure and public cloud - specifically around AWS, Azure and VMware - and exclude private cloud services.

We analyze the 5 most important lessons we've learned over the past decade from the point of view of how they affect a new cloud user as well as an advanced user or organization. We dive into governance, optimization, CCOE, mutli-cloud, talent, the knowledge gap, breaking down silos, scaling services, and the shared responsiblity model.

We recap AWS re:Invent 2019, giving you our top 5 takeaways, including AWS Compute Optimizer, Amazon EC2's support for Active Directory Authentication using Windows Accounts gMSA, how AWS Security Hub got smarter, EC2 Image Builder, and Amazon Outposts.

When did we first hear about AWS, the cloud starters? Where have we come since then? We dive into AWS price change trends, new service launches, how Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure came into the mix, and how it all affects you.

This podcast is intended to add value to any large enterprise that is planning on moving to, or is currently in the midst of moving to, the cloud. We will share our decade-long experience with listeners as well as current market trends, customer perspectives, thought leadership, partner landscape and third-party tools. We will dive deep and explore best practices as well as how customers like you are overcoming challenges including organizational transformation, job skills, changing role of IT professionals and future technologies: events, news and trends.

On our last episode of Cloud Crunch, we will discuss “The Importance and Benefits of a Datalake”. This powerful conversation is led by the Director of Marketing, Michael Elliott, and co-host Fred Bliss, CTO of all things data at 2nd Watch. Our honored guest is George Estrada, Principal Strategic Advisor - Credit Unions | Amazon Web Services.