Podcast appearances and mentions of mike kavis

In this LinkedIn Live episode of the On Cloud Podcast, Deloitte's David Linthicum and Mike Kavis make their predictions on what's next for cloud in 2024.

What happened in cloud in 2023? Generative AI was the biggest event, but there were other trends, too, like resiliency, FinOps, talent, and repatriation.

In this episode, Mattias Fridström is meeting with Mike Kavis, Chief Cloud Architect at Deloitte Consulting, author of Accelerating Cloud Adoption & Architecting the Cloud, and host of The On Cloud podcast. Learn about: The impact of COVID-19 in the cloud spaceSustainability in the datacenter marketIf there's a need for more cloudsCloud at the edgeMike's authorship The development of the cloud market and telecoms in general over the next years

In this episode, Mattias Fridström is meeting with Mike Kavis, Chief Cloud Architect at Deloitte Consulting, author of Accelerating Cloud Adoption & Architecting the Cloud, and host of The On Cloud podcast. Learn about: How Mike became one of the pioneers in the cloud industryWhether cloud has become a mainstream solutionBest advice to someone that wants to start using the cloudMajor mistakes companies do when moving to the cloudIf people really understand connectivity to the cloud (and do they need to?)The trend towards major cloud providers touching the connectivity space

As cloud moves into its second decade, there are still growing pains. In this episode, David Linthicum and Mike Kavis discuss cloud's most pressing issues and offer solutions. Leveraging cloud for innovation, multi-cloud complexity, a talent shortage, and slowing cloud migration are the top challenges. The solutions? Focusing on value delivery, aligning business needs with technology, changing organizational culture, and realizing that slowing down isn't necessarily such a bad thing.

Observability is the new buzzword in cloud, and many people confuse it with monitoring, but it's so much more. In this episode, Mike Kavis talks with Erez Barak, VP of Product Development at Sumo Logic, about observability—what it is, how it helps organizations deal with cloud complexity, and how it's helped by (and helps) AI. To implement observability successfully, however, a new IT operating model that removes silos and fosters collaboration is absolutely essential.

Music and IT may seem to be at opposite ends of a spectrum, but in reality, they have much in common if you know where to look. In this episode, Mike Kavis talks with Matt Davis, staff infrastructure engineer at Blameless, about how practice methods in music can aid in building great SRE teams and site reliability in general. According to Matt, it's all about how you practice for the real thing: If your practices are good, and you can improvise, your SRE performance will top the charts.

The 2021 “Accelerate State of DevOps” report from Google is out! In this episode, Mike Kavis talks with Google's Nathen Harvey and Deloitte's Manoj Mishra about the report's most compelling findings. Among them: DevOps and SRE are complementary; successful SRE equals knowing your customer; documentation is critical, but it should be organic; and there's a newly-announced “Reliability” metric. The group also discusses customer satisfaction and the new “Release Management” role in DevOps/SRE.

What's in store for cloud in 2022? A distributed, edge-based cloudscape that's more cost effective, and growing at such pace that talent is at a precious premium. In this episode, David Linthicum and Mike Kavis look ahead at cloud's 2022. Their insights? More cloud architectures will include federated containers, companies will compete ferociously over top talent, movement to the edge will continue, and FinOps will enable organizations to understand and govern their cloud spend more effectively.

 The past year has been pivotal for cloud. Adoption is growing, but many organizations have growing pains. In this episode, David Linthicum and Mike Kavis look back at 2021 and spotlight four prevalent trends that are shaping cloud today—and tomorrow. According to David and Mike, they are: greater multicloud adoption, an increased focus on CloudOps, enhanced cost-consciousness, and the realization that cloud deployments require the right people and processes to succeed.

Cloud app delivery runs on tight timelines. Unfortunately, other organizational processes, like procurement or legal, often create workflow bottlenecks that hobble the software delivery process. In this podcast, Mike Kavis and guests, Chris Young and Mattia Battiston, discuss teams, workflow, and value delivery. Their advice: IT and business must work collaboratively to manage change, identify and clear bottlenecks, and understand where value lies to optimize workflow.

AIOps is being embraced by savvy companies to help them build—and operate—better apps, faster. In this podcast, Mike Kavis and Constellation Research's Andy Thurai discuss how companies can use AIOps to reduce IT complexity and deliver better products. Andy cautions that the onus is on the enterprise to assuage employees' fears and get management buy-in for a successful AIOps implementation.

Deloitte Consulting Managing Director Mike Kavis focuses on the human side of digital transformation rather than technology. He talks about the organizational mindset that is needed to ensure a smooth transition to the cloud.

Traditionally, software testing has been firmly planted in the staging process, so as not to disrupt in-production systems and functionality. However, by testing in staging only, developers may miss issues that only occur with live systems. In this episode, Mike Kavis and Split.io’s Talia Nassi discuss how savvy software companies are breaking tradition and moving their testing process from staging to production.

Value-stream mapping isn’t just about eliminating work, it’s about looking at processes across the organization, finding bottlenecks, and then using a team approach to understand and remove them—in other words, it’s about finding the value in workstreams. In this episode of the podcast Mike Kavis and guest, Visible Value Stream Consulting’s Steve Pereira, talk value-stream mapping—why it works, how to get started, and what it should look like long term.

Cloud is revolutionary, but at some companies, cloud deployments don’t revolutionize their IT outcomes. Why? Because they don’t change their IT culture. To realize more success with cloud, it’s essential to change culture along with technology. In this episode of the podcast, Mike Kavis and guest, Deloitte’s Jon Smart, discuss how companies can change their IT culture to achieve more success with cloud. Jon’s take is that companies can build, “better value, sooner, safer, happier,” by discovering anti-patterns that provide headwinds to cloud success, fixing those, and building a culture of psychological safety that reduces fear and focuses on outcomes, communication, and teamwork.

When digital transformation initiatives struggle, the blame often gets assigned to the technology implementation. However, in many cases, it’s actually more of a people than a technology issue. Fear of change often plays a critical role in project failures. In this episode of the podcast, Mike Kavis and guests, Jeffrey Fredrick and Douglas Squirrel, discuss barriers to digital transformation success and how fear of change can hobble success and set the project team—and company—up for failure. Their solution is to reduce fear—and promote collaboration—by understanding what motivates people, embracing differences, building trust, and modeling behavior that produces positive changes.  

With a shift to cloud, it’s crucial for organizations to re-evaluate how they approach security—specifically how they evaluate risk. It’s always been critical to take a proactive, predictive approach, but with cloud that criticality is magnified because of the distributed nature of cloud computing. In this episode of the podcast, Mike Kavis and guest, Trend Micro’s Mark Nunnikhoven, discuss evaluating risk in the cloud. Mark’s take is that, while cloud is more secure because of its shared-responsibility model, predicting the likelihood and type of security events is still incredibly difficult. He also argues that, even with the application of AIOps to bolster predictive capabilities, humans still need to interpret model results and make final decisions on which actions to take.    

Over his decades of experience, Mike Kavis from Deloitte, has seen a lot of successful, and successful cloud implementations. One clear lesson - technology is easy, but people are hard. Mike discusses how innovation has to be more than just implementing technology and tools. Successful enterprises have to break down the old silos and rethink their culture, rather than merely adopting technology layered over legacy processes and approaches to collaboration.

There is an enormous and growing interest in the use of artificial intelligence in operations (AIOps). The reason: AIOps systems alert you when there’s something wrong, or even have the systems heal themselves. With such capabilities, companies can move from a reactive to a proactive stance, spotting problems in the making and preventing them from happening at all. In this podcast, Joe McKendrick, industry analyst at RTInsights and Mike Kavis, Chief Cloud Architect, Deloitte Consulting, discusses AIOps and more.

If you lift & shift to the cloud or move things back from the cloud to on-premise you most likely didn’t understand cloud and how it can help you transform your business and organization. A bold statement but very much true so as we learn in our conversation with Mike Kavis, Chief Cloud Architect at Deloitte.Mike (@madgreek65) has been in technology for 35+ years and was an early adopter of cloud technology as early as 2007 when AWS only had about 6 APIs. He has launched several startups and is now helping organizations to rethink what cloud means for them!Listen in to this podcast and learn why organizations fail if they don’t understand that cloud is about agility, it’s a platform for innovators and that traditional IT teams have to transform into internal cloud providers that provide services to their development teams for them to deliver better business value faster.Mike also runs his own podcast – you may want to listen in to the episode he recorded with Andi on Speeding up Digital Transformation with Cloud Native.https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikekavis/https://twitter.com/madgreek65https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/consulting/articles/digital-transformation-requires-a-cloud-native-mindset-cloud-computing-cloud-value-devops-noops-aiops-software-development-business-value.html

If you lift & shift to the cloud or move things back from the cloud to on-premise you most likely didn’t understand cloud and how it can help you transform your business and organization. A bold statement but very much true so as we learn in our conversation with Mike Kavis, Chief Cloud Architect at Deloitte.Mike (@madgreek65) has been in technology for 35+ years and was an early adopter of cloud technology as early as 2007 when AWS only had about 6 APIs. He has launched several startups and is now helping organizations to rethink what cloud means for them!Listen in to this podcast and learn why organizations fail if they don’t understand that cloud is about agility, it’s a platform for innovators and that traditional IT teams have to transform into internal cloud providers that provide services to their development teams for them to deliver better business value faster.Mike also runs his own podcast – you may want to listen in to the episode he recorded with Andi on Speeding up Digital Transformation with Cloud Native.https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikekavis/https://twitter.com/madgreek65https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/consulting/articles/digital-transformation-requires-a-cloud-native-mindset-cloud-computing-cloud-value-devops-noops-aiops-software-development-business-value.html

As DevOps matures, and the “shift-everything-left” philosophy gains ascendancy, there’s a movement to automate all—or most—phases of testing. However, there are some critical functions that may resist automation. In fact, contrary to the “automate-everything” impetus, human testers won’t ever go away. Indeed, human testers need to be more involved, and earlier in the development process. In this podcast, Mike Kavis and guest, Angie Jones, discuss the human aspect of testing and how humans add significant value by assessing the system as a whole, helping developers design better code, and determining the level of testing automation that should occur. Angie also shares the testing automation matrix she has developed. Finally, they cover testing of machine learning algorithms—ways to help prevent or reduce bias and make algorithms more effective, and the emerging field of visual testing, which uses humans to ensure that graphics-heavy apps function and appear as designed.

Join host Mike Kavis as he sits down with Jayne Groll, co-founder and CEO of the DevOps Institute, to talk about DevOps--what it is and isn't--and the critical skillsets needed for success. Mike and Jayne also discuss change management, and how the human element plays a crucial role in helping companies use DevOps to transform both IT and the enterprise value stream. Finally, they engage in a lively debate about what a DevOps Engineer is--or whether they even exist.

Join host Mike Kavis and guest Charity Majors of Honeycomb as they talk about the control theory concept of observability--what it is and how to use it to make developing and monitoring massively complex, cloud-based systems more efficient and effective. They discuss how observability relies on collaboration and shared responsibility--as well as an "all-hands-on-deck" attitude to get things done, and done right. Charity also gives her perspective on chaos engineering and why you don't need to practice it until you know what you're doing without it.

Join host Mike Kavis and guest Rob Hirschfeld, founder and CEO of RackN, as they discuss Edge computing—taking a deep dive into how edge computing works, applications of Edge technologies for business issues, how it’s changing the IT infrastructure and how it’s complementing the cloud computing landscape. They also take a look at the future of Edge computing and how it will revolutionize both IT and industry.

Tune in to David Linthicum and Mike Kavis as they deep dive into the announcements from re:Invent such as AWS Quantam Ledger DB, Timestream, Managed Blockchain, Security hub, and Outposts and many more and what these solutions can mean for the Enterprise. Learn more about the pros and cons of private vs. public vs. hybrid cloud solutions, what Enterprises should be thinking about when assessing cloud solutions, and what role AWS may play in this space. Disclaimer: As referenced in this podcast, “Amazon” refers to AWS (Amazon Web Services).

Join host Mike Kavis and guest Jeff Dowds, Chief Technology Officer at Vanguard, as they discuss how cloud enables innovation and continuous delivery of value to customers, and Vanguard’s own journey to the cloud.  Organizations can also learn more about having the right operating model in place and the importance of continuous mission alignment.

Join David Linthicum and Mike Kavis with Deloitte luminaries, Bill Briggs and Ken Corless, as they recap the first day announcements and sessions from the 2018 AWS re:Invent conference. Learn more about the latest predictions in cloud computing, trends that organizations should pay attention to, and how they relate to the announcements coming out of the event. Disclaimer: As referenced in this podcast, “Amazon” refers to AWS (Amazon Web Services).

Tune in to host Mike Kavis as he discusses the five “dirty words” of continuous improvement with guest J Paul Reed. Learn more about how these five words – Root Cause Analysis, The Five Whys, Human Error, Counterfactuals, and Best Practice – can be counterproductive to CI/CD and ways enterprises can think about these things differently on their continuous journey of learning and improvement.

Tune in to host Mike Kavis and guest Damon Edwards as they discuss how Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) works, some of the common benefits, and why it is important to define an SRE model specific to your organization. Learn how SRE’s shared responsibility model and feedback mechanisms can help organizations gain control and enable the operations, development, and business teams to work together.

Join host Mike Kavis and guest Andi Mann to learn more about NewOps and how it optimizes on the existing DevOps model. Understand how observability, metrics, and visualization techniques can help identity patterns and detect anomalies that development and operations teams can use to solve problems quickly.

Join host Mike Kavis and guest Anders Wallgren as they discuss the importance of metrics and how high performing organizations embrace the use of this data to avoid future pitfalls. Learn more about the role SRE, human capital management and organizational change management can have in creating a healthy organization and ultimately a successful product.

Join host Mike Kavis and guest Brian Gracely as they discuss the evolving cloud technology landscape as we come out of GoogleNext 18. Learn how organizations can choose the right technologies based on enterprise needs while balancing the need to co-exist with their legacy systems / investments.

Tune in to host Mike Kavis and guest Mark Thiele as they discuss the role of Edge Computing and how it can be leveraged in conjunction with the Cloud. Learn how Enterprise technology consumption is poised to increase by 2022 and the importance of the human equation when considering new technologies in relation to the Cloud.

Join host Mike Kavis as he speaks with Tino Tereshko, Product Manager for BigQuery at Google Cloud, as they discuss the latest happenings around BigQuery. Learn about use cases, success stories and the anticipated evolution of BigQuery tools and technologies.

Get real about cloud technology with Mike Kavis on the Architecting the Cloud podcast. We’re talking about what’s new in cloud, how to use it, and why with people in the field who have done the work.

CTP's Robert Christiansen and Mike Kavis describe how to maximize the value of your AWS initiative. From building a Minimum Viable Cloud to establishing a cloud robust security and compliance posture, we walk through key client success stories and lessons learned. We also explore how CTP has helped Vanguard, the leading provider of investor communications and technology, take advantage of AWS to delight customers, drive new revenue streams, and transform their business. Session Sponsored by: CTP