Podcasts about cloud service providers

Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn   https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com AFCEA'S TechNet Cyber conference held in Baltimore, Maryland was the perfect opportunity to sit down with Bryan Rosensteel, Head of Public Sector Marketing at Wiz.  Wiz is the “new kid on the block,” and it has had tremendous growth.  During the interview, Bryan Rosensteel shows how agentless approaches can improve visibility and assist with compliance.  We all know how complexity has infiltrated federal technology.  We have the usual suspect of Cloud Service Providers, hybrid clouds, private clouds, and, if that was not complicated enough, alt-clouds.  As a result, it is almost impossible to get a “bird's eye” visibility to provide cyber security. Two main ways have been proposed to secure this much-desired system's view. Agent.  One approach is to put a bit of code on each device, called an “agent” method.  It is good for granular control, but can slow down a scan and must be maintained Agentless.  Bryan Rosensteel from Wiz describes something called a “agentless” method to gain visibility into complex systems.  This method leverages infrastructure and protocols to accomplish the scanning objective much faster. Bryan Rosensteel states that in a world of constant attacks, this faster method allows for rapid updates to threats. Beyond better observation, an agentless method, like the one provided by Wiz, allows for compliance automation, continuous monitoring, and sets the groundwork for effective Zero Trust implementation.

Sebastian Pfeiffer, Managing Director @ Impossible Cloud NetworkSebastian Pfeiffer is the Senior Director of web3 Growth at Impossible Cloud Network, where he is responsible for developing and implementing the company's growth strategy. His focus includes designing decentralized business architecture, tokenomics, legal frameworks, and stakeholder alignment.Before joining Impossible Cloud, Sebastian was a Consultant at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), specializing in strategy development and execution for globally recognized companies across various industries, with a focus on social impact and industrial goods. He holds dual Master of Science degrees in Strategy and Corporate Development from Aalto University and Universität zu Köln.LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastian-pfeiffer/

Sebastian Pfeiffer, Managing Director @ Impossible Cloud NetworkSebastian Pfeiffer is the Senior Director of web3 Growth at Impossible Cloud Network, where he is responsible for developing and implementing the company's growth strategy. His focus includes designing decentralized business architecture, tokenomics, legal frameworks, and stakeholder alignment.Before joining Impossible Cloud, Sebastian was a Consultant at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), specializing in strategy development and execution for globally recognized companies across various industries, with a focus on social impact and industrial goods. He holds dual Master of Science degrees in Strategy and Corporate Development from Aalto University and Universität zu Köln.LinkedIn:⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastian-pfeiffer/

Alan Rozenshtein, Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School and Senior Editor at Lawfare, sits down with David Kris, founder of Culper Partners and the former Assistant Attorney General for National Security in the Obama administration, to talk about a new paper that David has published as part of Lawfare's ongoing Digital Social Contract series, entitled "A Data Proxy for Clients of Cloud Service Providers.”Kris argues that cloud storage offers significant benefits for security and efficiency, but many organizations may be hesitant to adopt it due to the risk of secret disclosure: the practice by which law enforcement can compel cloud service providers to turn over customer data while legally prohibiting them from notifying the customer. To address this concern, Kris proposes the appointment of a "data proxy," a highly trusted individual (like a retired federal judge) who would be contractually authorized to represent the organization's interests when it cannot represent itself due to a nondisclosure order.To receive ad-free podcasts, become a Lawfare Material Supporter at www.patreon.com/lawfare. You can also support Lawfare by making a one-time donation at https://givebutter.com/c/trumptrials.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

GenAI: Coming Soon to a Sector Near You Alkesh Shah views Generative AI (GenAI) as the beginning of the third major tech cycle of the past 50 years. Over the past 10 years, development of more powerful chips and a new neural network architecture has raised the upper bounds of storage and computation exponentially, consequently reducing the time and cost to train increasingly large models powering apps like ChatGPT. Alkesh expects GenAI to catalyze a revolution in corporate efficiency and productivity that will occur far more rapidly than past disruptive technologies, which investors anticipate. Alkesh surveyed 157 equity analysts and macro strategists on AI's financial and economic disruption. Survey responses indicate that enterprise AI implementation could boost S&P operating margins by 200bps over the next five years. AI beneficiaries will likely expand from Semis and Cloud Service Providers in the first wave; Tech Hardware, Software and Capital Goods in the second wave; and ultimately touch every sector globally.    You may also enjoy listening to the Merrill Perspectives podcast, featuring conversations on the big stories, news and trends affecting your everyday financial life.   "Bank of America" and “BofA Securities” are the marketing names for the global banking businesses and global markets businesses (which includes BofA Global Research) of Bank of America Corporation. Lending, derivatives, and other commercial banking activities are performed globally by banking affiliates of Bank of America Corporation, including Bank of America, N.A., Member FDIC. Securities, trading, research, strategic advisory, and other investment banking and markets activities are performed globally by affiliates of Bank of America Corporation, including, in the United States, BofA Securities, Inc. a registered broker-dealer and Member of FINRA and SIPC, and, in other jurisdictions, by locally registered entities. ©2024 Bank of America Corporation. All rights reserved.

Schneider Electric's David Abrahams Named New Chair of the iMasons Armed Forces Meeting Resources Group (MRG) The iMasons Armed Forces MRG is a strategic initiative formed to raise awareness of data centres in the military community, showcasing the industry's career opportunities, and educating the sector about the value that veterans can bring to mission-critical organisations. As Chair, David Abrahams will continue to champion the iMasons values and support for veterans seeking employment in technical, engineering and operational roles across digital infrastructure. His appointment reinforces Schneider Electric's long-term commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), and follows its recent announcement of the Veterans Transition Programme, alongside its mission to bridge the data centre skills shortage. Dealing with data centres in the military community Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, has today announced that David Abrahams, Key Client Manager, Cloud & Service Providers, Secure Power division, has been named the new Chair of the iMasons Armed Forces Meeting Resources Group (MRG). The iMasons Armed Forces MRG is a strategic initiative, formed to increase the number of military veterans, military spouses, guards, and reservists working in data centres and digital infrastructure. It helps to both raise awareness and showcase the industry's career opportunities for veterans, while informing and educating the data centre sector about the value that veterans can offer to mission-critical organisations. As its new Chair, David Abrahams replaces Mike Eytle, EMEA Regional Director, Datacentre Lease Construction and Fit-Out for Microsoft, and is appointed to lead alongside Lee Kirby, Executive Chair and Global Sponsor of the Armed Forces MRG, to build upon Mike's work - leading the initiative locally in the UK and Ireland (UK&I), and championing the iMasons support for veterans seeking employment in technical, engineering and operational roles. As a member of the Royal Air Force Reserves, David's ambition is to connect the iMasons with other industry Veteran Support Groups and bring together the digital infrastructure ecosystem to support veteran employment opportunities within the UK and Ireland. "The technology industry has a plethora of initiatives underway to help engage with graduates, apprentices and early talent, but is also calling out for highly experienced technical and operational personnel, who can provide a valuable contribution to the ever-growing data centre industry," said David Abrahams, Key Client Manager, Cloud & Service Providers, Secure Power Division, Schneider Electric. "Being appointed Chair of the iMasons Armed Forces MRG provides us with a valuable opportunity to give back to those who have served for King and country, while helping to address the skills shortage by building the data centre workforce of the future." AI and data centre skills shortages With the significant increase in demand for energy and data centre capacity, fuelled by the growth of artificial intelligence (AI), David's appointment aligns with Schneider Electric's mission to bridge the sector's skills shortage, which according to Uptime Institute, will require 300,000 full-time employee equivalents by 2025. To address this, the company already has several digital programmes in place, including the Schneider Electric University, a vendor-agnostic and CPD accredited professional development platform, which helps stakeholders upskill and stay up-to-date with the latest technology, sustainability, and energy efficiency initiatives. To date, the Schneider Electric University has delivered more than one million, free-to-attend courses to over 650,000 data centre, energy and sustainability professionals, and has more than 180 countries represented by its global user-base. Additionally, Schneider Electric recently announced its new Schneider Electric Training programme, c...

TWiGS host Chris Adams is joined by Asim Hussain the executive director of the GSF to talk about the recent hackathon hosted by the GSF : Carbon Hack 24. Asim goes through some of his favourite projects that featured work with the Impact Framework including some surprising choices! They also cover some interesting news from the world of cloud service providers and the new CSDDD developments. Asim also talks about how mushrooms are out and bread is in!

Telecom SaaS EvolutionThe Big Themes:Telecom SaaS defined: Telecom SaaS refers to a set of cloud-native services delivering business outcomes. Networks are evolving from traditional connectivity-focused structures to dynamic, capability-driven ecosystems. Telecom SaaS signals a transition from conventional telecommunication models to a more agile, business-focused paradigm.Security concerns: Nokia and its cloud partners have taken robust measures to address security concerns. Their approach includes stringent security reviews and privacy management, ensuring multiple layers of security for Telecom Saas. Nokia also undergoes accreditations and independent analysis. These steps help instill confidence in customers regarding software security.Shift to OpX model: In the Telecom SaaS transition, there's a shift from a CapEx to an OpEx model. This represents a significant change for an industry traditionally dominated by hardware-centric and CapEx-driven approaches. There are potential advantages to embracing an OpEx model, like lower total cost of ownership (TCO). But Nokia also has options to capitalize, if that's what the customer needs.The Big Quote: " . . . software-as-a-service demand is starting to move closer to the network in areas like security, the security applications . . . and then just network management. All of those types of applications have already started to move, as an extension of IT software-as-a-service, to be closer to the network and become what we've been referring to as Telecom SaaS . . . "

In this episode, hosts Rob and Stan explore the EU's Digital Operational Resiliency Act (DORA) with Dominic Brown, a cybersecurity expert. DORA addresses cyber threats to EU financial systems, emphasizing risk management, incident response, and third-party oversight. Dominic compares DORA to US regulations and advises organizations to build risk management teams and enhance cyber resilience before the 2025 deadline.Follow or subscribe to the show on your preferred podcast platform.Share the show with others in the cybersecurity world.Get in touch via reimaginingcyber@gmail.com

The Cynefin Framework sets out different lenses through which circumstances can be made sense of, from 'clear' through to 'chaos'!  As we have covered on previous episodes of the show (CR020 & CR003), it is very useful for helping frame and understand the shift to “digital”.This week, Dave, Sjoukje, and Rob talk to Rob England and Cherry Vu, who are Teal Unicorn and explore new ways of management, about the relevance of the Cynefin Framework in their work with organisations, the builds Rob and Cherry have made on it (with Dave Snowden!), and what results they have seen.  We also talk about ways to drive additional value from the Cloud.TLDR:01:00 Anti-Compentative UK probe into Cloud Service Providers 04:40 Cloud conversation with Rob England and Cherry Vu44:13 Three actions to unlock greater Cloud Value51:50 Celebrating Robs 21st birthday and a Corporate Rebels write up! Further ReadingTeal Unicorn books: https://tealunicorn.com/books/Cynefin Framework:  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cynefin-Weaving-Sense-Making-Fabric-World/dp/1735379905/ref=asc_df_1735379905/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=463023885319&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1138553241603419895&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9180995&hvtargid=pla-1000081345849&psc=1&mcid=d8fac6716c5d3c1f88cb07d2dcb423a3&th=1&psc=1 GuestRob England: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robenglandattwohills/Cherry Vu: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drcherryvu/HostsDave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/Sjoukje Zaal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjoukjezaal/Rob Kernahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-kernahan/ProductionMarcel Van Der Burg: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcel-van-der-burg-99a655/Dave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/SoundBen Corbett: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-corbett-3b6a11135/Louis Corbett:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-corbett-087250264/

Cloud Service Providers like Amazon and Google are building there own chips to eliminate the necessity of Nvidia H100 and other Nvidia AI solutions, is Nvidia doing the same by building its own Clouding Solutions? Time to buy Nvidia Stock?A portion of this video is sponsored by The Motley Fool. Visit https://fool.com/jose to get access to my special offer. The Motley Fool Stock Advisor returns are 504% as of 9/8/2023 and measured against the S&P 500 returns of 130% as of 9/8/2023. Past performance is not an indicator of future results. All investing involves a risk of loss. Individual investment results may vary, not all Motley Fool Stock Advisor picks have performed as well. I have a position in $NVDA $GOOG $MSFTSemiconductor Podcasthttps://www.fool.com/josenajarroDISCORD GROUP!! https://discord.gg/wbp2Z9STwitter: https://twitter.com/_JoseNajarroDISCLAIMER: I am not a financial advisor.  All content provided on this channel, and my other social media channels/videos/podcasts/posts, is for entertainment purposes only and reflects my personal opinions.  Please do your own research and talk with a financial advisor before making any investing decisions.

Cloud Service Providers like Amazon and Google are building there own chips to eliminate the necessity of Nvidia H100 and other Nvidia AI solutions, is Nvidia doing the same by building its own Clouding Solutions? Time to buy Nvidia Stock?A portion of this video is sponsored by The Motley Fool. Visit https://fool.com/jose to get access to my special offer. The Motley Fool Stock Advisor returns are 504% as of 9/8/2023 and measured against the S&P 500 returns of 130% as of 9/8/2023. Past performance is not an indicator of future results. All investing involves a risk of loss. Individual investment results may vary, not all Motley Fool Stock Advisor picks have performed as well. I have a position in $NVDA $GOOG $MSFTSemiconductor Podcasthttps://www.fool.com/josenajarroDISCORD GROUP!! https://discord.gg/wbp2Z9STwitter: https://twitter.com/_JoseNajarroDISCLAIMER: I am not a financial advisor.  All content provided on this channel, and my other social media channels/videos/podcasts/posts, is for entertainment purposes only and reflects my personal opinions.  Please do your own research and talk with a financial advisor before making any investing decisions.

In 2021, the federal government provided initiatives for a move to zero trust; after two years it is time to look at the progress agencies have made. Today's discussion includes federal experts who have made remarkable progress in the implementation of Zero Trust.  The group also includes an experienced subject matter expert from a large commercial organization, IBM. The conclusion from the short discussion is the value of taking into consideration many of the human aspects of implementing zero trust. This human aspect can be divided into three areas: strategy, design, and leveraging guidance from the federal government. Strategic concerns begin with understanding the nature of a zero-trust implementation.  As Wayne Rogers points out, one can't throw a switch and have zero trust just emerge from those bits and bytes.  He suggests a test pilot program, getting feedback, and then continuing until it is complete. When it comes to multiple cloud vendors, Wayne brings brilliant insight.  He looks back at traditional federal tech implementations, he observes that they were using a variety of vendors.  His suggestion is to apply the same strategy to cloud based zero trust.  Using multiple clouds yields benefits like resiliency and reducing cyber-attack vulnerability.  If one vendor gets attacked, your secondary provider will be available.  As far as reducing risk goes, he details an approach where you distribute the technology for Zero Trust among several Cloud Service Providers. For example, one can place SASE on one, ICAM on another, and storage on a third.  Although it can be complicated, he shows that it can increase speed drastically. IBM's Akiba Saeedi recommends that a federal manager should look at a transition to zero trust by focusing on use cases.  Take one implementation and examine it regarding disruption, privacy, and remote work.  She has seen success when working with several vendors on specific use cases.  All guests agreed a great place for guidance on a zero-trust transition is NIST's Center of Excellence on Zero Trust called the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, or NCCOE project.

In this episode of the Infrastructure Matters podcast, hosts Steven Dickens and Krista Macomber discuss recent cloud provider expansion, cloud growth announcements, and the implications for the market. They highlight the maturity of the cloud market, mentioning AWS's 12% growth in the current quarter and its positioning for AI-driven services. They delve into the complexity of cloud adoption, discussing cost considerations, private cloud growth, and the challenges of data management and observability across hybrid environments. They emphasize the need for nuanced perspectives on cloud benefits, acknowledging the trade-offs between simplicity and complexity in areas such as data resilience and security.  Topics include:  * Endor Labs a code and governance pipeline platform with an over subscribed Series A funding round of $70 Million * Recent earnings announcements from cloud service providers, AWS and Microsoft  * The impact of strong cloud adoption, indicating the continued expansion of the cloud market and competition. * Complexity and trade-offs for cloud adoption, and the implications for data resiliency and security

Nvidia stock earlier this year announced DGX Cloud, which seems to be competing against Microsoft Stock and Google Stock in Clouding Service Solutions, but is that really the case? At a recent Goldman Sachs Communications & Technology Conference, semiconductor investors get answers.A portion of this video is sponsored by The Motley Fool. Visit https://fool.com/jose to get access to my special offer. The Motley Fool Stock Advisor returns are 512% as of 8/2/2023 and measured against the S&P 500 returns of 135% as of 8/2/2023. Past performance is not an indicator of future results. All investing involves a risk of loss. Individual investment results may vary, not all Motley Fool Stock Advisor picks have performed as well. I have a position in $AMD $NVDA $MSFT $GOOGSemiconductor Podcasthttps://www.fool.com/josenajarroDISCORD GROUP!! https://discord.gg/wbp2Z9STwitter: https://twitter.com/_JoseNajarroDISCLAIMER: I am not a financial advisor.  All content provided on this channel, and my other social media channels/videos/podcasts/posts, is for entertainment purposes only and reflects my personal opinions.  Please do your own research and talk with a financial advisor before making any investing decisions.

In der Mittagsfolge sprechen wir heute mit Felix Schuster, CEO und Co-Founder von Edgeless Systems, über die erfolgreich abgeschlossene Seed-Finanzierungsrunde in Höhe von 5 Millionen Euro.Edgeless Systems hat eine innovative Open Source Sicherheits-Software entwickelt, mit der Cloud Security Workloads in die Cloud migriert werden können. Mit der Lösung wird die Cloud für Unternehmen zum sicheren Ort für sensible Daten. Mithilfe der neuen Technologie namens Confidential Computing schließt das Startup eine kritische Sicherheitslücke im Cloud-Computing. Die Daten können bei der Übertragung, im Speicher und bei der Verarbeitung verschlüsselt werden. So können weder Hacker noch Mitarbeitende im Rechenzentrum, Admins des Cloud Service Providers oder fremde Regierungen auf Daten zugreifen. Die lückenlose Sicherheit kann das Unternehmen über kryptographische Zertifikate nachweisen. Damit eignet sich die Lösung auch für Unternehmen und Institutionen, die mit besonders sensiblen Daten arbeiten, wie beispielsweise im Gesundheits- und Versorgungswesen, im öffentlichen Dienst oder im Finanzsektor. Zudem können deutsche Unternehmen ihre Anwendungen DSGVO-konform in die Cloud migrieren. Edgeless Systems wurde im Jahr 2020 von Felix Schuster und Thomas Tendyck in Bochum gegründet. Mittlerweile beschäftigt das Startup 20 Mitarbeitende und zählt u.a. Bosch, Intel und die Schweizer Börse SIX als seine Kunden.In einer Seed-Runde hat das Bochumer Startup nun 5 Millionen Euro unter der Führung von SquareOne eingesammelt. Zu den weiteren Kapitalgebern gehören u.a. die Business Angels Mirko Novakovic, Paolo Negri, Mathias Biilmann und Chris Back. Das frische Kapital soll dafür eingesetzt werden, die eigene Constellation-Plattform um weitere Funktionen zu erweitern. Zudem plant das Unternehmen, in den US-Markt zu expandieren. Zusätzlich baut Edgeless Systems sein Marketing- und Vertriebsteam aus, um Unternehmen über Confidential Computing aufzuklären und Fortschritte in der Technologie bekannt zu machen.

Melissa Massa is the Vice President of Sales at Lenovo, a multinational technology company specializing in designing, manufacturing, and marketing consumer electronics, personal computers, software, business solutions, and related services. She is an experienced sales executive with ten years of leading global and US sales teams in IT hardware, software, and services. Melissa is a trusted voice in the industry due to her in-depth knowledge of cloud providers and business transformation. She was nominated for the Women in IT Award in Silicon Valley, given the Hero Award by her CEO at Lenovo, and was a finalist for the Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology in 2021. In this episode… As an IT company, how can you increase your revenue? Have you considered hiring a sales and marketing expert to help?  For companies to thrive in any industry, they need sales professionals who understand the product and the market to help them make more sales. Having been a leader and sales executive in the IT space, Melissa Massa has gained knowledge and experience from helping companies succeed. She now shares how other firms can flourish by hiring a sales professional to help sales teams meet their goals.  In this episode of the Growth Fire podcast, Kevin Hourigan sits down with Melissa Massa, Vice President of Sales at Lenovo, to discuss how she helps Lenovo's Cloud Service Provider thrive as the VP of sales. Melissa talks about Lenovo and her role in the company, her go-to-market strategy, and Lenovo's approach to hiring, motivating, and retaining sales team employees.

THERE'S NOTHING MORE EXCITING THAN A NEW BEGINNINGOur very own Josh Wagner is back with fresh new content and in this episode, he discusses his transition to 2 new roles. First, as a first-time CRO, and second, being a partner in a VC firm. This brings us to his main topic for today, which is how he spent his first 30 days as a start-up CRO. Josh breaks down the first 3 things he did as a new CRO which heavily involves learning new things. Find out more in this latest episode of Love Selling Hate Sales. HIGHLIGHTS:JOSH: THE FIRST 3 THINGS I DID AS A CRO“The first thing I did as I came in was I just took a step back and listened. The second thing is I had to do a deep dive on the product, and the third is how am I going to sell this thing.”JOSH: THE BEST SOURCE OF FEEDBACK“The best feedback I got was picking up the phone and talking to people. It was amazing the things that I learned about what resonated with them when they did a demo. If they were confused about something, why was that? What was part of the process where things slowed down or stopped, it really started to give me a framework for how I'm going to redesign the sales process and think about it.”JOSH: LEARN THE PRODUCT“Learn the product inside it out. Learn it from your product, people learn it from developers unit from users really understand the ins and outs of the products and how it resonates to your different buyer types.” About Josh Wagner: Josh is a growth advisor and the host of the Love Selling Hate Sales podcast. He specializes in helping executives understand modern marketing and sales to drive growth in a scalable way.  To learn more about Josh and his work, follow the links below:Josh on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshwagneraz/Josh's Website: https://joshuadwagner.com/Love Selling Hate Sales: https://www.lovesellinghatesales.com/

How does the moniker Supercloud apply to how cloud providers are changing over time? Specifically when facing market pressures, trying to lock in, get bigger and become essential. Today we discuss the changing nature of service providers, specifically cloud providers. This topic has been coming up on Twitter, and I know you will find this conversation fascinating. It talks both about the hypothetical and very practical drivers behind concepts like supercloud. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/MjuLlkt2JO095bMgPHi-rqeaqi8 Image: https://www.pexels.com/photo/flying-airplane-in-the-sky-12846027/

Cloud Service Providers have no problem sharing with you the number of data centers they own, the flexibility of options, and the ease to start in the cloud. However, what is never overtly stated is that the federal technology manager is responsible for the security of their data if it is on the server down the hall or in the cloud. The conversational phrase is, “they are not on the hook for the security of your data.”  Today, we have several perspectives on understanding how to protect federal data in the cloud. Experts from three areas provide their views on data protection, standards, and working in a cloud environment. When it comes to protecting data in the cloud, Skip Bailey from the U.S. Census Bureau thinks that one needs to approach it strategically first. Each of the three main Cloud Service Providers has proprietary ways of handling aspects of data control. If you think you are going into a multiple cloud environment and plan or relying on one set of rules, you are mistaken. You will need staffing to support these multiple clouds. As in other endeavors, standards bodies can provide guidance that can assist in coming to terms with handling heterogeneous environments, in this case, varying cloud providers. Craig Hurter from the State of Colorado suggests that one should get comfortable with ISO specifications like the ISO 17789 as well as some of the general guidelines from the Cloud Security Alliance. That way, you can compare the terms of service for each Cloud Service Provider with whatever standards you choose. It seems likely that a multi-cloud world is where federal data lives. If that is the case, then it would behoove managers to be able to evaluate each Cloud Service Provider's capabilities. Each cloud may have options to allow control, the key is to understand how those cloud provider's proprietary offerings compare to commercial ones. Sterling Wilson suggests that you start with three questions. What happens if you delete data. How easy is it to deploy Multi-Factor Authentication? What about the security of data in transit? One concept that Craig Hurter brings up is the idea of architecting data storage in depth. The idea is that the initial system is solid, but, over time, something called “drift” takes place. Updates may not all be installed promptly; other maintenance can be delayed. What may happen is you can lose security over time, while still holding to the initial design specifications.  You may have “drifted” without knowing it.

In this week's episode of Hewlett Packard Labs Podcast “From Research to Reality”, Dejan Milojicic hosts five colleagues across HPC/AI business and Hewlett Packard Labs: Nic Dube, Paolo Faraboschi, Arti Garg, Ken Leach, and Rangan Sukumar. Together they present a point of view on heterogeneous computing and they issue a call for action. Outside of the embedded space, the computing industry is unprepared to deal with a flood of new, specialized and unconventional computing elements. They argue that the community needs to embrace a major shift to enable heterogeneity in an equitable, secure, and sustainable manner.  This shift has to cover every aspect of how we design systems, including platforms, interconnects, software, applications, and IO subsystems. With the increasing innovation in the accelerator space and several new accelerators entering the market, there currently is a matching and unjustified diversity in the systems built around them, software, and management stacks.  While in some cases system-level diversity is justified by a different computing paradigm, the community needs to avoid “gratuitous differentiation”, which does not add value to the diverse computing elements, complicates the integration process and application portability, and causes a multiplication of efforts that shifts engineering resource away from core technology.   As a result, end users are facing increasing difficulty in reusing a single application code base across different accelerators. Similarly, system integrators are facing increasing difficulty in incorporating accelerators in their products, and software developers in developing code that is portable across multiple heterogeneous computing elements. To overcome these problems and to encourage focused innovation in the accelerators space requires understanding the system-level differentiation points and providing a set of recommendations to all the participants in the ecosystem, including accelerator technology providers, system integrators, software developers, the open source community, as well as the end users in both the scientific community and the cloud service providers.  The goals of these recommendations would be to identify the areas to open vs those where innovation is welcome. This document motivates this point of view on this topic, but also represents a “call for action” for all the major players to work together and improve the landscape of heterogeneous computing. This is an important next step that will benefit the entire industry, and collectively improve the ability to achieve faster results and better reuse across accelerated systems.

In next week's episode of Hewlett Packard Labs Podcast “From Research to Reality”, Dejan Milojicic hosts five colleagues across HPC/AI business and Hewlett Packard Labs: Nic Dube, Paolo Faraboschi, Arti Garg, Ken Leach, and Rangan Sukumar. Together they present a point of view on heterogeneous computing and they issue a call for action. Outside of the embedded space, the computing industry is unprepared to deal with a flood of new, specialized and unconventional computing elements. They argue that the community needs to embrace a major shift to enable heterogeneity in an equitable, secure, and sustainable manner.  This shift has to cover every aspect of how we design systems, including platforms, interconnects, software, applications, and IO subsystems. With the increasing innovation in the accelerator space and several new accelerators entering the market, there currently is a matching and unjustified diversity in the systems built around them, software, and management stacks.  While in some cases system-level diversity is justified by a different computing paradigm, the community needs to avoid “gratuitous differentiation”, which does not add value to the diverse computing elements, complicates the integration process and application portability, and causes a multiplication of efforts that shifts engineering resource away from core technology.   As a result, end users are facing increasing difficulty in reusing a single application code base across different accelerators. Similarly, system integrators are facing increasing difficulty in incorporating accelerators in their products, and software developers in developing code that is portable across multiple heterogeneous computing elements. To overcome these problems and to encourage focused innovation in the accelerators space requires understanding the system-level differentiation points and providing a set of recommendations to all the participants in the ecosystem, including accelerator technology providers, system integrators, software developers, the open source community, as well as the end users in both the scientific community and the cloud service providers.  The goals of these recommendations would be to identify the areas to open vs those where innovation is welcome. This document motivates this point of view on this topic, but also represents a “call for action” for all the major players to work together and improve the landscape of heterogeneous computing. This is an important next step that will benefit the entire industry, and collectively improve the ability to achieve faster results and better reuse across accelerated systems.

About AaronI am a Cloud Focused Product Management and Technical Product Ownership Consultant. I have worked on several Cloud Products & Services including resale, management & governance, cost optimisation, platform management, SaaS, PaaS. I am also recognised as a AWS Community Builder due to my work building cloud communities cross-government in the UK over the last 3 years. I have extensive commercial experience dealing with Cloud Service Providers including AWS, Azure, GCP & UKCloud. I was the Single Point of Contact for Cloud at the UK Home Office and was the business representative for the Home Office's £120m contract with AWS. I have been involved in contract negotiation, supplier relationship management & financial planning such as business cases & cost management.I run a IT Consultancy called Embue, specialising in Agile, Cloud & DevOps consulting, coaching and training. Links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/AaronBoothUK LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronboothuk/ Embue: https://embue.co.uk Publicgood.cloud: https://publicgood.cloud TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: It seems like there is a new security breach every day. Are you confident that an old SSH key, or a shared admin account, isn't going to come back and bite you? 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That's risingcloud.com/benefits, and be sure to tell them that I said you because watching people wince when you mention my name is one of the guilty pleasures of listening to this podcast.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. So, when I went to re:Invent last year, I discovered a whole bunch of things I honestly was a little surprised to discover. One of those things is my guest today, Aaron Booth, who's a cloud consultant with an emphasis on sustainability. Now, you see a number of consultants at things like re:Invent, but what made Aaron interesting was that this was apparently his first time visiting the United States, and he started with not just Las Vegas, but Las Vegas to attend re:Invent. Aaron, thank you for joining me, and honestly, I'm a little surprised you survived.Aaron: Yeah, I think one of the things about going to Las Vegas or Nevada is no one really prepared me for how dry it was. I ended up walking out of re:Invent with my fingers, like, bleeding, and everything else. And there was so much about America that I didn't expect, but that was one thing I wish somebody had warned me about. But yeah, it was my first time in the US, first time at re:Invent, and I really enjoyed it. It was probably the best investment in myself and my business that I think I've done so far.Corey: It's always strange to look at a place that you live and realize, oh, yeah, this is far away for someone else. What would their experience be of coming and learning about the culture we have here? And then you go to Las Vegas, and it's easy to forget there are people who live there. And even the people who live there do not live on the strip, in the casinos, at loud, obnoxious cloud conferences. So, it feels like it's one of those ideas of oh, I'm going to go to a movie for the first time and then watching something surreal, like Memento or whatnot, that leaves everyone very confused. Like, “Is this what movies are like?” “Well, this one, but no others are quite like that.” And I feel that way about Las Vegas and re:Invent, simultaneously.Aaron: I mean, talking about movies, before it came to the US and before I came to Vegas, I was like, “Oh, how can I prepare myself for this trip?” I ended up watching Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. And I don't know if you ever seen it, with Johnny Depp, but it's probably not the best representation, or the most modern representation what Vegas would be like. And I think halfway through the conference, went down to Fremont Street in the old downtown. And they have this massive, kind of, free block screen in the sky that is lit up and doing all these animations. And you're just thinking, “What world am I on?” And it kind of is interesting as well, from a point of view of, we're at this tech conference; it's in Vegas; what is the reason for that? And there's obviously lots of different things. We want people to have fun, but you know, it is an interesting place to put 30,000 people, especially during a pandemic.Corey: It really is. I imagine it's going to have to stay there because in a couple more years, you're going to need a three block long screen just to list all of the various services that AWS offers because they don't believe in turning anything off. Now, it would be remiss for me not to ask you, what was announced at re:Invent that got you the most, let's call it excited, I guess? What got you enthusiastic? What are you happy to start working with more?Aaron: I think from my perspective, there's a few different announcements. The first one that comes to mind is the stuff of AWS Amplify Studio, and that's taken this, kind of, no-code Figma designs and turn into a working front end. And it's really interesting for me to think about, okay, what is the point of cloud? Why are we moving forward in the world, especially in technology? And, you know, abstracting a lot of stuff we worry about today to simple drag-and-drop tools is probably going to be the next big thing for most of the world.You know, we've come from a privileged position in the West where we follow technology along the whole of the journey, where now we have an opportunity to open this out to many more regions, and many more AWS customers, for example. But for me, as a small business owner—I've run multiple businesses—there's a lot of effort you put into, okay, I need to set up a business, and a website, and newsletter, or whatever else. But the more you can just turn that into, “I've got an idea, and I can give it to people with one click,” you'll enable a lot more business and a lot more future customers as well.Corey: I was very excited about that one, too, just from a perspective of I want to drag and drop something together to make a fairly crappy web app, that sounds like the thing that I could use to do that. No, that feels a lot more like what Honeycode is trying to be, as opposed to the Amplify side of the world, which is still very focused on React. Which, okay, that makes sense. There's a lot of front end developers out there, and if you're trying to get into tech today and are asking what language should I learn, I would be very hard-pressed to advise you pick anything that isn't JavaScript because it is front end, it is back end, it runs slash eats the world. And I've just never understood it. It does not work the way that I think about computers because I'm old and grumpy. I have high hopes of where it might go, but so far I'm looking at it's [sigh] it's not what I want it to be, yet. And maybe that's just because I'm weird.Aaron: Well, I mean, you know, you mentioned part of the problem really is two different competing AWS services themselves, which with a business like AWS and their product strategy being the word, “Yes,” you know, you're never really going to get a lot of focus or forward direction with certain products. And hopefully, there'll be the next, no-code tool announced in re:Invent in a few years' time, which is exactly what we're looking for, and gives startup founders or small businesses drag-and-drop tools. But for now, there's going to be a lot of competing services.Corey: There's so much out there that it's almost impossible to wind up contextualizing re:Invent as a single event. It feels like it's too easy to step back and say, “Oh, okay. I'm here to build websites”—is what we're talking about now in the context of Amplify—and then they start talking about mainframes. And then they start talking about RoboRunner to control 10,000 robots at once. And I'm looking around going, “I don't have problems that feel a lot like that. What's the deal?”Aaron: I think even just, like you said in perspective of re:Invent is like, when you go to an event like this, that you can't experience everything and you probably have a very specific focus of, you know, what am I here to do. And I was really surprised—again, my first time at a big tech conference, as well as Vegas and the US is, how important it was just to meet people and how valuable that was. First time I met you, and you know, going from somebody who's probably very likely interacted with you on Twitter before the event to being on this podcast and having a great conversation now is kind of crazy to think that the value you can get out of it. I mean, in terms of over services, and areas of re:Invent that I found interesting was the announcement of the new sustainability pillar, as part of the well-architected framework. You know, I've tried to use that before in previous workplaces, and it has been useful. You know, I'm hoping it is more useful in the future, and the cynical part of me worries about whether the whole point of putting this as part of a well-architected framework review where the customer is supposed to do it is Amazon passing the buck for sustainability. But it's an interesting way forward for what we care about.Corey: An interesting quirk of re:Invent—to me—has always been that despite there being tens of thousands of people there are always a few folks that you wind up running into again and again and again throughout the week. One year for me it was Ben Kehoe; this trip it was you where we kept finding ourselves at the same events, we kept finding ourselves at the same restaurants, and we had three or four meals together as a result, and it was a blast talking to you. And I was definitely noticing that sustainability was a topic that you kept going back to a bunch of different ways. I mean previously, before starting your current consulting company, you did a lot of work in the government—specifically the UK Government, for those who are having trouble connecting the fact this is the first time in America to the other thing. Like, “Wow, you can be far away and work for the government?” It's like, we have more than one on this planet, as it turns out.Yes, it was a fun series of conversations, and I am honestly a little less cynical about the idea of the sustainability pillar, in no small part due to the conversations that we had together. I initially had the cynical perspective of here's how to make your cloud infrastructure more sustainable. It's, isn't that really a “you” problem? You're the cloud provider. I can't control how you get energy on the markets, how you wind up handling heat issues, how you address water issues from your data center outflows, et cetera. It seems to me that the only thing I can really do is use the services you give me, and then it becomes a “you” problem. You have a more nuanced take on it.Aaron: I think there's a log of different things to think about when it comes to sustainability. One of the main ones is, from my perspective, you know, I worked at the UK Home Office in the UK, and we'd been using cloud for about six or seven years. And just looking at how we use clouds as an enterprise organization, one of the things I really started to see was these different generations of cloud and you've got aspects of legacy infrastructure, almost, that we lifted-and-shifted in the early days, versus maybe stuff would run on serverless now. And you know, that's one element, from a customer is how you control your energy usage is actually the use of servers, how efficient your code is, and there's definitely a difference between stringing together EC2 and S3 buckets compared to using serverless or Lambda functions.Corey: There's also a question of scale. When I'm trying to build something out of Lambda functions, and okay, which region is the most cost effective way to run this thing? The Google search for that will have a larger climate impact than any decision I can make at the scale that I operate at. Whereas if you're a company running tens of thousands of instances at any given point in time and your massive scale, then yeah, the choices you make are going to have significant impact. I think that a problem AWS has always struggled with has been articulating who needs to care about what, when.If you go down the best practices for security and governance and follow the white papers, they put out as a one-person startup trying to build an idea this evening, just to see if it's viable, you're never going to get anywhere. If you ignore all those things, and now you're about to go public as a bank, you're going to have a bad time, but at what point do you have to start caring about these different things in different ways? And I don't think we know the answer yet, from a sustainability perspective.Aaron: I think it's interesting in some senses, that sustainability is only just enter the conversation when it comes to stuff we care about in businesses and enterprises. You know, we all know about risk registers, and security reviews, and all those things, but sustainability, while we've, kind of, maybe said nice public statements, and put things on our website, it's not really been a thing that's, okay, this is how we're going to run our business, and the thing we care about as number one. You know, Amazon always says security is job zero, but maybe one day someone will be saying sustainability is our job zero. And especially when it comes down to, sort of, you know, the ethics of running a business and how you want that to be run, whether it is going to be a capitalistic VC-funded venture to extract wealth from citizens and become a billionaire versus creating something that's a bit more circular, and gives back as sustainability might be a key element of what you care about when you make decisions.Corey: The challenge that I find as well is, I don't know how you can talk about the relative sustainability impact of various cloud services within the AWS umbrella without, effectively, AWS explaining to you what their margins are on different services, in many respects. Power usage is the primary driver of this and that determines the cost of running things. It is very clear that it is less expensive and more efficient to run more modern hardware than older hardware, so we start seeing, okay, wow, if I start seeing those breakdowns, what does that say about the margin on some of these products and services? And I don't think they want to give that level of transparency into their business, just because as soon as someone finds out just how profitable Managed NAT gateways are, my God, everything explodes.Aaron: I think it's interesting from a cloud provider or hyperscaler perspective, as well, is, you know, what is your USP? And I think Amazon is definitely not saying sustainability is their USP right now, and I think you know, there are other cloud providers, like Azure for example, who basically can provide you a Power BI plugin; if you just log in with your Cloud account details, it will show you a sustainability dashboard and give you more of this information that you might be looking for, whereas Amazon currently doesn't offer anything like that automated. And even having conversations with your account team or trying to get hold of the right person, Amazon isn't going to go anywhere at the moment, just because maybe that's the reason why we don't want to talk about it: It's too sensitive. I'm sure that'll change because of the public statements they've made at re:Invent now and previously of, you know, where they're going in terms of energy usage. They want to be carbon neutral by 2025, so maybe it'll change to next re:Invent, we'll get the AWS Sustainability Explorer add-on for [unintelligible 00:15:23] or 12—Corey: Oh no.Aaron: —tools to do the same thing [laugh].Corey: In the Google Cloud Console, you click around, and there are green leafs next to some services and some regions, and it's, on the one hand, okay, I appreciate the attention that is coming from. On the other hand, it feels like you're shaming me for putting things in a region that I've already built things out in when there weren't these green leafs here, and I don't know that I necessarily want to have that conversation with my entire team because we can't necessarily migrate at this point. And let's also be clear, here, I cannot fathom a scenario in which running your own data centers is ever going to be more climate-friendly than picking a hyperscaler.Aaron: And I think that's sort of, you know, we all might think about is, at the end of the day, if your sustainability strategy for your business is to go all-in-on cloud, and bet horse on AWS or another cloud provider, then, at the end of the day, that's going to be viable. I know, from the, sort of, hands-on stuff I've done with our own data centers, you can never get it as efficient as what some of these cloud providers are doing. And I mean, look at Microsoft. The fact that they're putting some of their data centers under the sea to use that as a cooling mechanism, and kind of all the interesting things that they're able to do because they can invest at scale, you're never going to be able to do that with the cupboard beyond the desks in your local office to make it more efficient or sustainable.Corey: There are definite parallels between Cloud economics and sustainability because as mentioned, I worship at the altar of Our Lady of Turn that Shit Off because that's important. If you don't have a workload running and it doesn't exist, it has no climate impact. Mostly. I'm sure there are corner cases. But that does lead to the question then of okay, what is the climate sustainability impact, for example, of storing a petabyte of data and EBS versus in S3?And that has architectural impact as well, and there's also questions of how often does it move because when you move it, Lord knows there is nothing more dear than the price of data transfer for data movement. And in order to answer those questions, they're going to start talking a lot more about their architecture. I believe that is why Peter DeSantis's keynote talked so much about—finally—the admission of what we sort of known for ages now that they use erasure coding to make S3 as durable yet inexpensive, as it is. That was super interesting. Without that disclosure, it would have been pretty clear as soon as they start publishing sustainability numbers around things like that.Aaron: And I think is really interesting, you know, when you look at your business and make decisions like that. I think the first thing to start with is do you need that data at all? What's a petabyte of data are going to do? Unless it's for serious compliance reasons for, you know, the sector or the business that you're doing, the rest of it is, you know, you've got to wonder how long is that relevant for. And you know, even as individuals, we could delete junk mail and take things off our internal emails, it's the same thing of businesses, what you're doing with this data.But it is interesting, when you look at some of the specific services, even just the tiering of S3, for example, put that into Glacier instead of keeping it on S3 general. And I think you've talked about this before, I think cost the same to transfer something in and out of Glacier as just to hold it for a month. So, at the end of the day, you've got to make these decisions in the right way, and you know, with the right goals in mind, and if you're not able to make these decisions or you need help, then that's where, you know, people like us come in to help you do this.Corey: There's also the idea of—when I was growing up, the thing they always told us about being responsible was, “Oh, turn out the lights when you're not in the room.” Great. Well, cloud economics starts to get in that direction, too. If you have a job that fires off once a day at two in the morning and it stops at four in the morning, you should not be running those instances the other 22 hours of the day. What's the deal here?And that becomes an interesting expiratory area just as far as starting to wonder, okay, so you're telling me that if I'm environmentally friendly, I'm also going to save money? Let's be clear people, in many cases—in a corporate sense—care about sustainability only insofar as that don't get yelled out about it. But when it comes to saving money, well, now you've got the power of self-interest working for you. And if you can dress them both up and do the exact same things and have two reasons to do it. That feels like it could in some respects, be an accelerator towards achieving both outcomes.Aaron: Definitely. I think, you know, at the end of the day, we all want to work on things that are going to hopefully make the world a better place. And if you use that as a way of motivating, not just yourself as a business, but the workforce and the people that you want to work for you, then that is a really great goal as well. And I think you just got to look at companies that are in this world and not doing very great things that maybe they end up paying more for engineers. I think I read an interesting article the other day about Facebook is basically offering almost double or 150 percent of over salaries because it feels like a black mark on the soul to work for that company. And if there is anything—maybe it's not greenwashing per se, but if you can just make your business a better place, then that could be something that you can hopefully attract other like-minded people with.Corey: This episode is sponsored by our friends at Oracle Cloud. Counting the pennies, but still dreaming of deploying apps instead of, “Hello World” demos? Allow me to introduce you to Oracle's Always Free tier. It provides over 20 free services and infrastructure, networking, databases, observability, management, and security. And let me be clear here, it's actually free. There's no surprise billing until you intentionally and proactively upgrade your account. 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I have hopes, I have theories, but I just don't know.Aaron: I mean, even looking at Cloud as a concept, how long we've all worked with this now ranges probably from fifteen to five, and for me the last six years, but you got to think looking at the outages at the end of last year at Amazon, that [unintelligible 00:21:57], very close to re:Invent, that impacted a lot of different workloads, not just if you were hosted in us-west or east-1, but actually for a lot of the regional services that actually were [laugh]… discovered to be kind of integral to these regions. You know, one AZ going down can impact single-sign-on logins around the world. And let's see what Amazon looks like in ten years' time as well because it could be very different.Corey: Do you find that as you talk to folks, both in government and in private sector, that there is a legitimate interest in the sustainability story? Or is it the self-serving cynical perspective that I've painted?Aaron: I mean, a lot of my experience is biased towards the public sector, so I'll start with that. In terms of the public sector, over the last few years, especially in the UK, there's been a lot more focus on sustainability as part of your business cases and your project plans for when you're making new services or building new things. And one of the things they've recently asked every government department in the UK to do is come up with a sustainability strategy for their technology. And that's been something that a lot of people have been working on as part of something called the One Gov Cloud Strategy Working Groups—which in the UK, we do love an abbreviation, so [laugh] a bit of a long name—but I think there's definitely more of an interest in it.In terms of the private sector, I'm not too sure if that's something that people are prioritizing. A lot of the focus I kind of come across as either, we want to focus on enterprise customers, so we're going to offer migration professional services, or you're a new business and you're starting to go up and already spending a couple a hundred pounds, or thousands of pounds a month. And at that scale, it's probably not going to be something you need to worry about right now.Corey: I want to talk a little bit about how you got into tech in the first place because you told me elements of this story, and I generally find them to be—how do I put this?—they strain the bounds of credulity. So, how did you wind up in this ridiculous industry?Aaron: I mean, hoping as I explain them, you don't just think I'm a liar. I have got a Scouse accent, so you're probably predisposed towards it. But my journey into tech was quite weird, I guess, in the sense that when I was 16—I was, again, like I said, born in Liverpool and didn't really know what I wanted to do in the world, and had no idea what the hell to do. So, I was at college, and kind of what happened to me there is I joined, like, an entrepreneurship club and was like, “Okay, I'll start my own business and do something interesting.” And I went to a conference at college, and there was a panel with Richard Branson and other few of business leaders, and I stood up and asked the question said, you know, “I'm 16. I want to start a business. Where can I get money to start a business?”And the panel answered with kind of a couple of different things, but one of them was, “Get a job.” The other one was, “Get money off your parents.” And I was kind of like, “Oh, a bit weird. I've got a job already. You know, I would ask my parents put their own benefits.”And asked the woman with the microphone, “Can I say something back?” And she said, “No.” So, being… a young person, I guess, and just I stood back up and said, you know, “You're in Liverpool. You've kind of come to one of the poorest cities in some sense in the UK, and you kind of—I've already got a job. What can I really do?”And that's when Richard Branson turned round and said, “Well, what is it you want to do?” And I said, “I make really good cheesecakes and I want to sell them to people.” And after that sort of exchange, he said he'd give me the money. So, he gave me 200 pounds to start my own business. And that was just, kind of like, this whirlwind of what the hell's going on here?But for me, it's one of those moments in my life, which I think back on, and honestly, it's like one of these ten [left 00:25:15] moments of, you know, I didn't stand back up and say something, if I didn't join the entrepreneurship club, like, I just wouldn't be in the position I am right now. And it was also weird in the sense that I said at the start of the story, I didn't know what I wanted to do in my life. This was the first time that anyone had ever said to me, “I trust you to do something, and here's 200 pounds to do it.” And it was such a small thing, and a small moment that basically got me to where I am today. And kind of a condensed version of that is, you know, after that event, I started volunteering for a charity who—a, sort of, magazine launch, and then applied for the civil service and progressed through six to eight years of the civil service.And it was because of that moment, and that experience, and that confidence boost, where I was like, “Oh, I actually can do something with my life.” And I think tech, and I think a lot of people talk about this is, it can be a bit of a crazy whirlwind, and to go from that background into, you know, working with great people and earning great money is a bit of a crazy thing sometimes.Corey: Is there another path that you might have gone down instead and completely missed out on, for lack of a better term—and not missed out. You probably would have been far happier not working in tech; I know I would have been—but as far as trying to figure out, like, what does the road not taken look like for you?Aaron: I'm not too sure, really. And at the time, I was working in a club. I was like 16, 17 years old, working in a nightclub in Liverpool for five pounds an hour, and was doing that while I was studying, and that was almost like, what was in my mind at the time. When it came to the end of college, I was applying for universities, I got in on, like, a second backup course, and that was the only thing to do was food science. And it was like, I can't imagine coming out of university three years after that, studying something that's not really that relevant to a lot of industries, and trying to find a good job. It could have just been that I was working in a supermarket for minimum wage after I came out for uni trying to find what I wanted to do in the world. And, yeah, I'm really glad that I kind of ended up where I am now.Corey: As you take a look at what you want your career to be about in the broad sweep of things, what is it that drives you? What is it that makes you, for example, decide to spend the previous portion of career working in public service? That is a very, shall we say, atypical path—I say, as someone who lives in San Francisco and is surrounded by people who want to make the world a better place, but all those paths just coincidentally would result in them also becoming billionaires along the way.Aaron: I mean, it is interesting. You know, one of the things that worked for the civil service for so long, is the fact that I did want to do more than just make somebody else more money. And you know, there are not really a lot of ways you can do that and make a good wage for yourself. And I think early on in your career, working for somewhere like the civil service or federal government can be a little bit of that opportunity. And especially with some of the government's focus on tech these days, and investments—you know, I joined through an apprenticeship scheme and then progressed on to a digital leadership scheme, you know, they were guided schemes to help me become a better leader and improve my skills.And I think I would have probably not gone to the same position if I just got the tech job or my first engineering job somewhere else. I think, if I was to look at the future and where do I want to go, what do I care about? And, you know, you ask me, sort of, this question at re:Invent, and it took me a few days to really figure out, but one of the things when I talk about making the world a better place is thinking about how you can start businesses that give back to people in local areas, or kind of solve problems and kind of keep itself running a bit like a trust does, [laugh], if only that keeping rich people running. And a lot of the time, like, you've highlighted is coincidentally these things that we try and solve whether it's, like, a new app or a new thing that does something seems to either be making money for VCs, reinventing things that we already have, or just trying to make people billionaires rather than trying to make everyone rise up and—high tide rise all ships, is the saying. And there are a few people that do this, a few CEOs who take salaries the same as everyone else in the business. And I think that's hopefully you know, as I grow my own business and work on different things in the future, is how can I just help people live better lives?Corey: It's a big question, and it's odd in that I don't find that most people asking it tend to find themselves going toward government work so much as they do NGOs, and nonprofits, and things that are very focused on specific things.Aaron: And it can be frustrating in some sense is that, you know, you look at the landscape of NGOs, and charities, and go, “Why are they involved in solving this problem?” You know, one of the big problems we have in the UK is the use of food banks where people who don't have enough money, whether they receive benefits or not, have to go and get food which is donated just by people of the UK and people who donate to these charities. You know, at the end of the day, I'm really interested in government, and public sector work, and potentially one day, being a bit more involved in policy elements of that, is how can we solve these problems with broad brushstrokes, whether it's technology advancements, or kind of policy decisions? And one of the interesting things that I got close to a few times, but I don't think we've ever really solved is stuff like how can we use Agile to build policy?How can we iterate on what that policy might look like, get customers or citizens of countries involved in those conversations, and measure outcomes, and see whether it's successful afterwards. And a lot of the time, policies and decisions are just things that come out of politicians minds, and it'd be interesting to see how we can solve some of these problems in the world with stuff like Agile methodologies or tech practices.Corey: So, it's easy to sit and talk about these things in the grand sweep of how the world could be or how it should look, but for those of us who think in more, I guess, tactical terms, what's a good first step?Aaron: I think from my point of view, and you know, meeting so many people at re:Invent, and just have my eyes opened of these great conversations we can have a great people and get things changed, one of the things that I'm looking at starting next year is a podcast and a newsletter, around the use of public cloud for public good. And when I say that, it does cover elements of sustainability, but it is other stuff like how do we use Cloud to deliver things in the public sector and NGOs and charities? And I think having more conversations like that would be really interesting. Obviously, that's just the start of a conversation, and I'm sure when I speak to more people in the future, more opportunities and more things might come out of it. But I'd just love to speak to more people about stuff like this.Corey: I want to thank you for spending so much time to speak with me today about… well, the wide variety of things, and of course, spending as much time as you did chatting with me at re:Invent in person. If people want to learn more, where can they find you?Aaron: So yep, got a few social media handles on Twitter, I'm @AaronBoothUK. On LinkedIn is the same, forward slash aaronboothuk, and I've also got the website for my consultancy, which is embue.co.uk—E-M-B-U-E dot co dot uk. And for the newsletter, it's publicgood.cloud.Corey: And we will, of course, include links to that in the [show notes 00:32:11]. Thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me. I really do appreciate it.Aaron: Thank you so much for having me.Corey: Aaron Booth, cloud consultant with an emphasis on sustainability. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn with an emphasis on optimizing bills. And this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, whereas if you've hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice along with an angry comment that you will then kickstart the coal-burning generator under your desk to wind up posting.Corey: If your AWS bill keeps rising and your blood pressure is doing the same, then you need The Duckbill Group. We help companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. The Duckbill Group works for you, not AWS. We tailor recommendations to your business and we get to the point. Visit duckbillgroup.com to get started.Announcer: This has been a HumblePod production. Stay humble.

James Fox, Director, Enterprise Cloud, ProtivitiA report by the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (#AFME) and Protiviti outlines potential key regulatory barriers to the greater adoption of #cloudservices in #capitalmarkets and provides recommendations for policymakers, regulators, and #CloudServiceProviders (CSPs) to assist #banks with their adoption. Building Resilience in the Cloud finds that, while banks are increasing migration to the cloud and identifying solutions to address regulatory concerns, two solutions that are becoming increasingly proposed by policymakers - #portability and #multi-cloud strategies – may introduce further barriers to adoption. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence discusses the issues with James Fox, Director, Enterprise Cloud, of Protiviti

In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde discussed the context around the recent statement released on July 19 by the U.S., UK, NATO, Japan, Norway, and the EU that cast blame on China for recent massively disruptive cyberattacks; also why airline operators are now being increasingly targeted by cybercriminals; and finally the rising cybersecurity threats against cloud service providers.Please send questions, comments, and suggestions to bidemi@thebidpicture.com. You can also get in touch on LinkedIn, Twitter, the Clubhouse app (@bid), and the Wisdom app (@bidemi).

In today's Federal Newscast, the Pentagon is giving other cloud service providers to participate in new contract after it cancelled the JEDI Cloud project.

เทคโนโลยีการรับรู้ใบหน้า หรือ Face Recognition มีการใช้งานกันทั่วไปแล้วนะครับ จะปลด lock มือถือ เราสามารถใช้หน้าของเราแทนลายนิ้วมือได้นะครับ Technology นี้เราเอาไปใช้ประโยชน์ได้มากมาย วันนี้ คุณ กาย ณครินทร์ เลิศนามวงศ์ จะมาเล่าให้ฟังว่ากว่าจะเอามาใช้งานได้ในปัจจุบัน เค้าทำกันยังไง ติดตามได้ในตอนนี้ครับ คำถาม - Face Recognition กว่าจะมาถึงตอนนี้ มันถูกพัฒนามายังไง - ทางทฤษฎี เราจะต้องทำยังไงถึงจะรับรู้ใบหน้าได้ - เริ่มต้นกับ ​Face Recognition เราสามารถทำอย่างไรได้บ้าง - มี ​Cloud Service Providers เจ้าไหนบ้างที่ให้บริการ - จะเลือกใช้ open source หรือบริการจาก service provider ตัดสินใจยังไง - เราเอาเทคโนโลยีตัวนี้ไปทำอะไรได้บ้าง #MissionToTheMoonPodcast #TechMondayPodcast

เทคโนโลยีการรับรู้ใบหน้า หรือ Face Recognition มีการใช้งานกันทั่วไปแล้วนะครับ จะปลด lock มือถือ เราสามารถใช้หน้าของเราแทนลายนิ้วมือได้นะครับ Technology นี้เราเอาไปใช้ประโยชน์ได้มากมาย วันนี้ คุณ กาย ณครินทร์ เลิศนามวงศ์ จะมาเล่าให้ฟังว่ากว่าจะเอามาใช้งานได้ในปัจจุบัน เค้าทำกันยังไง ติดตามได้ในตอนนี้ครับ คำถาม - Face Recognition กว่าจะมาถึงตอนนี้ มันถูกพัฒนามายังไง - ทางทฤษฎี เราจะต้องทำยังไงถึงจะรับรู้ใบหน้าได้ - เริ่มต้นกับ ​Face Recognition เราสามารถทำอย่างไรได้บ้าง - มี ​Cloud Service Providers เจ้าไหนบ้างที่ให้บริการ - จะเลือกใช้ open source หรือบริการจาก service provider ตัดสินใจยังไง - เราเอาเทคโนโลยีตัวนี้ไปทำอะไรได้บ้าง #MissionToTheMoonPodcast #TechMondayPodcast

Have networks just become on-ramps to the internet interstate? As we ramp up for Networking Field Day 25, Tom and Co. dive into the topic of on-premises networks and their function in this cloud age on this episode of the On-Premise IT Roundtable Podcast. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Are Our Networks Just Becoming Cloud Service Providers?

In today's Federal Newscast, a new executive order from President Trump demands that cloud computing companies verify the identities of their customers.

Interviewgast ist J. Amadeus Waltz, Managing Director und Co-Founder der Firma Cloud Monsters. Das Unternehmen mit Standorten in Hamburg und München ist Salesforce-Partner. Im Gespräch unterhalten wir uns unter anderem über das EuGH Privacy Shield-Urteil und dessen Auswirkungen auf das Business der Cloud Monster als Partner eines amerikanischen Cloud Service Providers.

In this episode of the Virtual Coffee with Ashish edition, we spoke with Caleb Sima, VP - Security, Databricks Host: Ashish Rajan - Twitter @hashishrajan Guest: Caleb Sima - Linkedin @CalebSima In this episode, Caleb & Ashish spoke about What was your path into CyberSecurity? Bulletin Board vs IRC What is Cloud Security? Are security challenges harder or difficult between Enterprise vs Cloud built companies? What are the challenges for migrating from on-premise to cloud? What are your thoughts on IAM, Roles & VPCs? How many different tools did you need for visibility of vulnerabilities when moving to cloud? Should organisation’s look at Cloud Service Providers outside of Azure, AWS, GCP e.g Digital Ocean, OpenShift. How important is security culture and how do you see it be part of the success of an organisation? Has the view point changed since the last time you wrote the Do’s,Don’t & Myths of Startups Do you feel industry is adopting preferring more managed security services vs self customization For someone who is starting into CyberSecurity and would like to get to your role, what kind of skill set should they be focussing on? What about people with experience trying to get to a leadership role? ShowNotes and Episode Transcript on www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv Twitter - @kaizenteq @hashishrajan If you want to watch videos of this and previous episodes: - Twitch Channel: https://lnkd.in/gxhFrqw - Youtube Channel: https://lnkd.in/gUHqSai

It is a best practice for every cloud service provider (and more generally any company offering cloud services to end-users, such as an independent cloud software vendor) to operate a Web application called status page, through which to communicate in real time the status of their services to the end customers and users. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/stefanoscloud/message

In this episode I talk with Justin Giardina, (CTO) at iland. iland are one of the most innovative Cloud Service Providers in the world. This has been achieved by building their platform with usability and management as cornerstones. Justin and I talk about how iland's purpose built public API provides partners and customers with the ability to consume and manage their cloud services at scale with a focus on Infrastructure as Code. This API allows them to expose great technology platforms across 11 global locations offering IaaS, DRaaS, BaaS, Storage, Security and Compliance, and Office 365 backup. Technology Partners Mentioned VMware, Veeam, Zerto, Cassandra, Cisco, Nimble, Tenable, Trend Micro, HyTrust Web: https://www.iland.com API Swagger: https://api.ilandcloud.com Interested if being on #GTwGT? Register interest here: https://launch.gtwgt.com Music: https://www.bensound.com

How are financial firms and their regulators getting to grips with the rise of Cloud computing? As firms push ahead with their digital transition, more and more of their activity depends on Cloud Service Providers. Regulators have recognised the efficiency gains that using the Cloud can bring to firms, but they equally want to ensure that risks arising from this are well managed. Tune in to hear Tom Bigham and Suchitra Nair speak to Scott Martin about the trends that financial services firms should be watching today. Key questions How quickly has Cloud adoption been progressing in the financial sector? What are regulators doing to ensure that they can understand the risks arising from Cloud computing? Where can financial firms expect regulators to exercise the most scrutiny in assessing their Cloud transition plans? What is ‘concentration risk’ and how could it pose a challenge to financial sector stability?

IIF authors Brad Carr and Daniel Pujazon debrief our recent paper on Cloud Service Providers, and some of the potential regulatory treatments for the increasingly critical role they play in the financial system.

Most companies use Cloud Service Providers (CSP) when they move to Office365 for many reasons. However, most CSPs will retain high level access to your email and files and not every CSP has they same level of security practices. This epsiode talks about Microsoft's new mandatory rollout of multi-factor authentication on CSPs.  Be aware, be safe. Become A Patron! Patreon Page *** Support the podcast with a cup of coffee *** - Ko-Fi Security In Five Don't forget to subscribe to the Security In Five Newsletter. —————— Where you can find Security In Five —————— Security In Five Reddit Channel r/SecurityInFive Binary Blogger Website Security In Five Podcast Page - Podcast RSS Twitter @securityinfive iTunes, YouTube, TuneIn, iHeartRadio,

“Which CSP should we go with?” (We hear you ask!) In this episode, we take a deeper dive into the top 3 (+1) cloud service providers. What are their strengths? What does the cloud market look like? Is one enough for my organisation? 0:00 - Intros 2:40 - News - Is cloud good for humans? 9:09 - Cloudy Cliffhanger Question 12:59 - Amazon Web Services 21:25 - Microsoft Azure 28:48 - Google Cloud Platform 34:56 - Alibaba Cloud 39:22 - A multi-cloud approach? 44:17 - Cloudy Cliffhanger Answer

With 75M+ domain names under management, GoDaddy powers the world's largest cloud platform dedicated to side hustles and small businesses. As a SaaS provider, GoDaddy’s infrastructure needs to be high performing and highly secure, but invisible to customers. The company recently made a shift in IT infrastructure strategy, moving to hybrid cloud. GoDaddy’s VP of Infrastructure Engineering, Adnan Adil, stopped by to talk about what the company is learning in the early days of its hybrid cloud implementation and how a workload optimization strategy influenced their planning. By pivoting to hybrid cloud, GoDaddy will lower the TCO of its IT infrastructure, enable faster innovation, and be able to enter new markets quickly while maintaining a consistent customer experience. And because Intel powers many of the world’s data centers, GoDaddy can move to different cloud providers with ease and confidence. For more information about GoDaddy, visit GoDaddy.com. Learn more about the Intel workload placement affinity model here https://intel.ly/2fBLq0i Learn more about driving business growth with hybrid cloud here: intel.com/cloud Learn more how Intel enables Cloud Service Providers here: intel.com/CSP Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. *Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. © Intel Corporation

“How can we be better together? How can one plus one equal three?”   These are questions that Chris Mancebo, the Senior Manager of Global Strategic Alliances and Cloud Service Providers at Veritas Technologies, is constantly asking himself.   Chris joined us at Microsoft Inspire for this episode of Alliance Aces where we spoke about lessons learned, defining roles in partnerships, and the ever-important goal of alignment.

Compare the Cloud are peeling the layers back on the Cloud Industry. Answering the questions on the lips of both providers and customers – hosts Jez Back and David Organ will cover the latest trends and best interviews in this space. With guests – Jason Taylor, Think IT and Mark Mulvany, EMEA Hybrid Cloud Lead at Dell EMC.

With guests – Jason Taylor, Think IT and Mark Mulvany, EMEA Hybrid Cloud Lead at Dell EMC.

Alex Castrounis, author of AI for People and Business, and Zac Seigel discuss and compare cloud service providers, including service offerings, costs, performance, differentiators, strategies for choosing a provider, developer friendliness, and more! Please subscribe and leave a positive review if you like what you hear. You can also follow Alex Castrounis on Twitter at @innoarchitech, and signup for his newsletter at www.innoarchitech.com.

Raejeanne Skillern (@RaejeanneS), frequent Chip Chat guest and General Manager of Cloud Service Providers for Intel, stops by to talk about the digital services economy and to lay out Intel’s vision for disrupting the datacenter. The four pillars of the newly architected data center are silicon innovation (think customized silicon), moving away from the box model (pools of compute/storage/network resources with an orchestration layer), expedited service delivery, and monetizing data (realizing insight and value). For more information, visit www.intel.com/itcenter.

Brian talks with Rodney Rogers (Chairman/CEO of Virtustream) about offering Enterprise Class Cloud Services, Cloud API Religions, Cloud services in Emerging Markets, and the evolution of Cloud Service Providers developing technology.