Cloud Podcasts – Livingstone Advisory

Episode 47 – Exploring the opportunities and pitfalls of new and emerging technologies in Australian local government

Rob Livingstone — Sun, 26 May 2013 02:30:41 +0000

This Episode is an audio recording of the presentation delivered by Rob Livingstone at the Future of Local Government 2013 Annual Summit, Rydges, Melbourne on Thursday 23rd May 2013

The Slides of the presentation are available here on Rob Livingstone’s Slideshare Channel

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Episode 46 – Cloud for Local Government

Rob Livingstone — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 10:31:31 +0000

Podcast Episode 46 – Cloud for Local Government – Recording of a presentation delivered to the Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV) one day Forum “Doing Business in the Cloud”. The presentation provided a context for cloud, opportunities and some of the key challenges including the seduction of being spoilt for choice, political reality, Governance and Standardisation and more.

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Episode 45 – Rob explores the role of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and systemic cloud risk with Archie Reed of HP

Rob Livingstone — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 23:00:19 +0000

Episode 45 – Rob explores the role of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) with Archie Reed, Chief Technologist and Strategist, Strategic Enterprise Services, Asia Pacific and Japan for HP. We explore the why, where and how of the CSA, and touch on key aspects of systemic risk in enterprise hybrid cloud

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Episode 44 – We explore the role of the Cloud Services Broker – Why, when, what, who and how? Wasn’t Cloud supposed to simplify IT?

Rob Livingstone — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 21:34:04 +0000

Episode 44 – Rob explores the various considerations relating to the function of Cloud Services Broker – NIST defines a Cloud Services Broker as “An entity that manages the use, performance, and delivery of cloud services, and negotiates relationships between Cloud Providers and Cloud Consumers.” What does it mean for your cloud implementation?

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Episode 43 – Disaster Recovery in your cloud, DR using cloud, Business Continuity, Insurance, and other considerations

Rob Livingstone — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 21:25:39 +0000

In this episode, Rob explores some of the key considerations relating to Disaster Recovery: In YOUR your cloud, DR using cloud, Business Continuity, Insurance, and other considerations.

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Episode 42 – Rob explores the role of Audit, Attestation and assurance in the cloud.

Rob Livingstone — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 07:48:00 +0000

Episode 42 – Rob explores the role of Audit, Attestation and assurance in the cloud. Topics include standards, forensics, public, private and internal cloud auditing, SAS70 and more.

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Episode 41 – Part 2 – How can a business be agile in responding to emerging technologies?

Rob Livingstone — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 23:00:41 +0000

Episode 41 – Part 2 – Rob and Dr Asif Gill explore the key considerations in how businesses can be agile in responding to emerging technologies. We explore Dr Gill’s Agile business transformation life cycle framework and discuss responsiveness, recognising change, influences of and interactions between project management, enterprise strategy and enterprise architecture plus more.

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Episode 40 – Part 1 – How can a business be agile in responding to emerging technologies?

Rob Livingstone — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 23:00:22 +0000

Episode 40 – Part 1 – Rob and Dr Asif Gill explore the key considerations in how businesses can be agile in responding to emerging technologies. We explore Dr Gill’s Agile business transformation life cycle framework and discuss responsiveness, recognising change, influences of and interactions between project management, enterprise strategy and enterprise architecture plus more.

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Episode 39 – CIO Summit Keynote address – Where Worlds Collide: Agile, Project Management, Risk and Cloud?

Rob Livingstone — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 23:19:39 +0000

This podcast is a recording of the presentation delivered by Rob Livingstone at the 2012 CIO Summit on the Gold Coast in Australia on the 29th August.

The new CIO is expected to be truly agile, deliver transformational value using new technology based services and have a deep understanding of, and engagement with the business – all whilst managing and mitigating risks. In addition to this, the CIO is also expected to be a ‘business partner’ in the real sense of the word. On top of these factors, Cloud is often seen in the eyes of business as a metaphor for timely change, and a convenient ‘get out of jail’ card in their push to lower IT cost, and collapse IT project lead times. In this context, ensuring the effective orchestration if the various ‘best practice’ methodologies and frameworks in the areas of agile application development, project management and risk management, all whilst managing the whole ‘Cloud’ discussion is not a trivial task.

In this presentation, Rob Livingstone explores the key systemic and technical risks associated with the concurrent adoption and management of agile application development methodologies, project management, hybrid cloud and mobile devices within the enterprise in today’s volatile environment.

He also suggests some practical approaches that CIOs, CTOs, CSOs and CFOs should be considering to successfully orchestrate this transition to a new engagement and delivery model of technology based services to the enterprise.

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Episode 38 – Keynote Address: Cloud-Mobile Convergence

Rob Livingstone — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 23:09:54 +0000

Episode 38 – Keynote Address: Cloud-Mobile Convergence: ITs Next Horizon, CISO’s Next Challenge – Delivered by Rob Livingstone at the Evolve.Cloud conference August 2012

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Episode 37 – Dave Aprey on systemic risk, balancing ‘legal’ vs. technical risk, concept of ambient cloud and much more….

Rob Livingstone — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:00:03 +0000

Episode 37 – Dave Aprey – Global VP Cloud Security at Trend Micro joins us again to discuss Systemic risk, balancing ‘legal’ vs. technical risk, concept of ambient cloud vs cloud concentrated in large data centres, hybrid, jurisdictional, legal, regulatory and much more

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Episode 36 – Case Study Part 2 – Scott Moller of Tracey Brunstrom & Hammond (TBH)

Rob Livingstone — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 00:00:19 +0000

Episode 36 – Part 2 – Join Rob Livingstone and Scott Moller – head of IT, of Tracey Brunstrom & Hammond (TBH) to discuss their recent Cloud implementation and how it has transformed IT service delivery and IT’s value to the organisation

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Episode 35 – Case Study Part 1 – Scott Moller of Tracey Brunstrom & Hammond (TBH)

Rob Livingstone — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 00:00:55 +0000

Episode 35 – Part 1 – Join Rob Livingstone and Scott Moller – head of IT, of Tracey Brunstrom & Hammond (TBH) to discuss their recent Cloud implementation and how it has transformed IT service delivery and IT’s value to the organisation

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Episode 34 – Hybrid Cloud, Agile and Project Management methodologies – CSO Breakfast – Sydney 26 July 2012

Rob Livingstone — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 00:00:06 +0000

Episode 34 – “Navigating the risks in implementing Hybrid Cloud, Agile and Project Management methodologies” Recording of Presentation delivered at CSO Breakfast – Sydney 26 July 2012.

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Episode 33 – Jason Wong – Head of IT at the Australian Museum

Rob Livingstone — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 04:00:17 +0000

Episode 33 – Join Rob Livingstone and Jason Wong – Head of IT at the Australian Museum in Sydney offering great insights on business engagement, shadow IT and how to approach the cloud

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Episode 32 – How Green is your Cloud? – Part 2

Rob Livingstone — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 22:00:14 +0000

Episode 32 – Part 2 – Join Rob Livingstone and Lee Stewart – Sustainability lead at Fujitsu Australia as we discuss Cloud, Green, due diligence, rating systems, carbon tax, sustainability and how to save money in your IT environment

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Episode 31 – How Green is your Cloud? – Part 1

Rob Livingstone — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 21:00:06 +0000

Episode 31 – Part 1 – Join Rob Livingstone and Lee Stewart – Sustainability lead at Fujitsu Australia as we discuss Cloud, Green, due diligence, rating systems, carbon tax, sustainability and how to save money in your IT environment

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Episode 30 – Dr Asif Gill on Cloud and Agile

Rob Livingstone — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 23:00:38 +0000

Episode 30 – Join Rob Livingstone and Dr Asif Gill to explore Agile development methodology, Cloud Computing and the how organisations can harness the potential of both approaches

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Episode 29 – Part 2 – Frank Soros of Stonewater Group – forces shaping IT careers

Rob Livingstone — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 11:00:28 +0000

Episode 29 – Part 2 -Join Rob Livingstone and Frank Soros of the Stonewater Group explore the forces shaping IT careers at all levels, and what those in the IT industry can do about it .

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Episode 28 – Part 1 – Frank Soros of Stonewater Group – forces shaping IT careers

Rob Livingstone — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 20:00:13 +0000

Episode 28 – Part 1 -Join Rob Livingstone and Frank Soros of the Stonewater Group explore the forces shaping IT careers at all levels, and what those in the IT industry can do about it .

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Episode 27 – Part 2 – Mark Toomey – CEO of Infonomics

Rob Livingstone — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 11:03:31 +0000

Episode 27 – Part 2 – Join Rob Livingstone and Mark Toomey – CEO of Infonomics – as we discuss enterprise Governance and Cloud, ISO standards, and responsibilities of Boards and Directors when it comes to Cloud computing

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Episode 26 – Part 1 – Mark Toomey – CEO of Infonomics

Rob Livingstone — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 23:42:06 +0000

Episode 26 – Part 1 – Join Rob Livingstone and Mark Toomey – CEO of Infonomics – as we discuss enterprise Governance and Cloud, ISO standards, and responsibilities of Boards and Directors when it comes to Cloud computing

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Episode 25 – Part 2 – Rob Livingstone & Simon Burke – CEO of IPscape on Cloud Due diligence.

Rob Livingstone — Sat, 26 May 2012 09:13:35 +0000

In Part 2 – Rob Livingstone and Simon Burke – CEO of iPscape, discuss the value of a well informed client, importance of sponsorship of Cloud from the top of the client organisation, the role of the CIO and IT Departments in the due diligence processes. Importance of having IT as part of the governance processes. IPscape is the leading Australian provider of Cloud based enterprise contact centre communications services.

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Episode 24 – Part 1 – Join Rob Livingstone and Simon Burke – CEO of IPscape on Cloud Due diligence.

Rob Livingstone — Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:23 +0000

In Part 1 – Rob Livingstone and Simon Burke – CEO of IPscape, discuss the maturing of due diligence processes that enterprises undertake before moving to the Cloud, key due diligence ‘hot spots’, and more. IPscape is the leading Australian provider of Cloud based enterprise contact centre communications services.

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Episode 23 – Rob Livingstone and Dave Aprey – Global VP Cloud Security at Trend Micro

Rob Livingstone — Sun, 13 May 2012 11:43:14 +0000

Episode 23 – Rob Livingstone and Dave Aprey – Global VP Cloud Security at Trend Micro discuss an extensive range of considerations for enterprise Cloud including risk, security, SaaS, IT skills, legal and much, much more.

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Episode 22 – Part 2 – Caroline Bucknell, General Manager of the CIO Executive Council – Cloud shaping IT careers

Rob Livingstone — Tue, 08 May 2012 06:09:33 +0000

Episode 22 – Part 2 – Rob Livingstone and Caroline Bucknell, General Manager of the CIO Executive Council in Australia explore How Cloud is shaping IT careers and possibly also the IT – Business engagement model.

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Episode 21 – Part 1 – Caroline Bucknell, General Manager of the CIO Executive Council – Cloud shaping IT careers

Rob Livingstone — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:25:18 +0000

Episode 21 – Part 1 – Rob Livingstone and Caroline Bucknell, General Manager of the CIO Executive Council in Australia explore How Cloud is shaping IT careers and possibly also the IT – Business engagement model

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Episode 20 – Cloud concepts and fundamentals for your Sales Teams.

Rob Livingstone — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 05:02:15 +0000

Episode 20 – Here we look at Cloud from the vendor’s perspective. When your sales teams reach out to clients, whether prospective, current or past, how do they handle the whole Cloud discussion? Are they fully across the whole Cloud paradigm, and can they address all the potential client considerations professionally? In this episode, Rob Livingstone explores some of the key considerations as a vendor.

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Episode 19 – Neil Shepherd and Rob continue discussing Data Centres and implications for Cloud

Rob Livingstone — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 03:00:43 +0000

Episode 19 – Neil Shepherd of Nutbrookgroup.com and Rob Livingstone continue on from episode 18 to discuss Data Centres and their locations, environmental and sustainability consideration, contractual risks with landlords, tenants, industry standards plus more – implications for public and private Cloud.

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Episode 18 – Introducing Neil Shepherd of Nutbrookgroup.com – Demystifying Data Centres in the Cloud

Rob Livingstone — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:00:47 +0000

Episode 18 – Rob Livingstone and Neil Shepherd of Nutbrookgroup.com explore the hidden challenges at the heart of all Cloud Computing – that is the Data Centre.

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Episode 17 – IBM Cloud Reference Architecture explored and NIST compared

Rob Livingstone — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:00:45 +0000

Episode 17 – IBM also published their version of a Cloud Reference Architecture. Here Rob Livingstone and Dr Asif Gill discuss and identify some key differences between IBM and NIST.

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Episode 16 – NIST Cloud Reference Architecture explored

Rob Livingstone — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:00:28 +0000

Episode 16 – NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) – a USA Federal Agency published a comprehensive Cloud Reference Architecture. Here Rob Livingstone and Dr Asif Gill discuss and identify some pros and cons.

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Episode 15 – Cloud Reference Architecture explored further

Rob Livingstone — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:00:42 +0000

Episode 15 – Importance of Cloud Reference Architecture – why, when, where. Ground Zero for Cloud and your business. Importance of the need to understand this BUSINESS framework.

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Episode 14 – Introducing Dr Asif Gill. Cloud Reference Architecture overview

Rob Livingstone — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:09:38 +0000

Welcome to episode 13 of the series ‘Navigating through the Cloud’ – This podcast series is associated with the book and website of the same name – all aimed at providing you with a vendor independent, real-world experience of enterprise Cloud computing in evergreen form. In this Episode we introduce Dr Asif Gill to the series – Dr Gill is a Cloud Expert with serious industry experience in both Cloud and Agile. We introduce the topic of Cloud Reference Architecture.

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Episode 13 – Cloud: What you need to know as a Finance Director

Rob Livingstone — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:00:21 +0000

Welcome to episode 13 of the series ‘Navigating through the Cloud’ – This podcast series is associated with the book and website of the same name – all aimed at providing you with a vendor independent, real-world experience of enterprise Cloud computing in evergreen form. In this episode we’re providing you with a recording of the recent presentation delivered by Rob at the 2nd Annual Future of Cloud Computing in Financial Services hosted by FST Media on both Sydney and Melbourne. Rob’s presentation was titled “Cloud computing: What you need to know as an Australian Finance Director“.

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Episode 12 – Public, private and hybrid clouds – a discussion

Rob Livingstone — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:00:55 +0000

Welcome to episode 12 of the series ‘Navigating through the Cloud’ – This podcast series is associated with the book and website of the same name – all aimed at providing you with a vendor independent, real-world experience of enterprise Cloud computing in evergreen form. In this episode we’re covering a listener question on factors to consider in your legacy data and how, why and when you could move it to the cloud.

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Episode 11 – Your legacy data and the Cloud

Rob Livingstone — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:00:57 +0000

Welcome to episode 11 of the series ‘Navigating through the Cloud’ – This podcast series is associated with the book and website of the same name – all aimed at providing you with a vendor independent, real-world experience of enterprise Cloud computing in evergreen form. In this episode we’re covering a listener question on factors to consider in your legacy data and how, why and when you could move it to the cloud.

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Episode 10 – The Cloud computing business model is still maturing

Rob Livingstone — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:00:00 +0000

Welcome to episode 10 of the series ‘Navigating through the Cloud’ – This podcast series is associated with the book and website of the same name – all aimed at providing you with a vendor independent, real-world experience of enterprise Cloud computing in evergreen form. In this episode we’ll be focusing on public cloud and discussing factors such as marketing and delivery misalignments, the risk-reward curve and cloud industry standards.

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Episode 9 – Democratisation of IT & Data sprawl

Rob Livingstone — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:00:02 +0000

Welcome to episode 9 of the series ‘Navigating through the Cloud’ – This podcast series is associated with the book and website of the same name – all aimed at providing you with a non-hyped, vendor independent, real-world experience of enterprise Cloud computing in evergreen form. In this episode we’re covering the phenomenon called ‘the Democratisation of IT’, and what it means for organisations, with specific reference to the risks of data sprawl’.

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Episode 8 – Some Cloud ROI (Return on Investment) considerations

Rob Livingstone — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 05:35:36 +0000

Welcome to episode 8 of the series ‘Navigating through the Cloud’ – This podcast series is associated with the book and website of the same name – all aimed at providing you with a non-hyped, vendor independent, real-world experience of enterprise Cloud computing in evergreen form. This episode covers a listener question on Cloud comparisons and some Cloud ROI (Return on Investment) considerations when moving to the Cloud.

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Episode 7 – Listener question and the Cloud transition ‘ready reckoner’

Rob Livingstone — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 23:00:59 +0000

Welcome to episode 7 of the series ‘Navigating through the Cloud’ – This podcast series is associated with the book and website of the same name – all aimed at providing you with a non-hyped, vendor independent, real-world experience of enterprise Cloud computing in evergreen form. This episode covers listener questions on Cloud, outsourcing and Hosting. We also discuss the 13 point ‘ready reckoner’ for you to transition from on-site to the Cloud.

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Episode 6 – Inversion of the business case and listener questions

Rob Livingstone — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 03:44:43 +0000

Welcome to episode 6 of the series ‘Navigating through the Cloud’ – This podcast series is associated with the book and website of the same name – all aimed at providing you with a non-hyped, vendor independent, real-world experience of enterprise Cloud computing in evergreen form. This episode covers listener questions on ‘everything-as-a-service’, and switching to the cloud plus a discussion of some of the factors in the business case for Cloud.

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Episode 5 – Cloud and business’ evolution, size and complexity and transitioning to, between and exiting the Cloud

Rob Livingstone — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 23:00:41 +0000

Welcome to episode 5 of the series ‘Navigating through the Cloud’ – This podcast series is associated with the book and website of the same name – all aimed at providing you with a non-hyped, vendor independent, real-world experience of enterprise Cloud computing in evergreen form. In this episode we’ll be covering Cloud and (a) What stage is your business’ evolution, (b) how big and/or complex is your business, and (c) transitioning to, between systems and exiting the Cloud.

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Episode 4 – Less obvious risks, some security and privacy considerations

Rob Livingstone — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:00:57 +0000

Welcome to episode 4 of the series ‘Navigating through the Cloud’ – This podcast series is associated with the book and website of the same name – all aimed at providing you with a non-hyped, vendor independent, real-world experience of enterprise Cloud computing in evergreen form. In this episode we’ll be covering (a) An overview of some of the less obvious Risks, (b) an overview of some commonly discussed security issues and (c) a discussion of some of the privacy considerations.

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Episode 3 – Cloud and the Utility computing model, software licensing and the more obvious risks

Rob Livingstone — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:00:38 +0000

Welcome to episode 3 of the series ‘Navigating through the Cloud’ – This podcast series is associated with the book and website of the same name – all aimed at providing you with a non-hyped, vendor independent, real-world experience of enterprise Cloud computing in evergreen form. In this episode we’ll be covering (a) The ‘utility’ computing model – the electricity grid analogy and why it’s only roughly true, (b) The impact on various licensing models in the Cloud, and (c) An overview of more obvious Risks.

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Episode 2 – Basics of PaaS, IaaS, SaaS, Appeal of Cloud and the ‘Consumerisation’ of IT

Rob Livingstone — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:00:25 +0000

Welcome to episode 2 of the series ‘Navigating through the Cloud’ – This podcast series is associated with the book and website of the same name – all aimed at providing you with a non-hyped, vendor independent, real-world experience of enterprise Cloud computing in evergreen form. Today we’re covering 3 topics (a) the basics of Platform, Infrastructure and Software as a Service, (b) Why is Cloud so appealing and (c) The ‘consumerisation’ of IT – for the individual and business.

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Episode 1 – Intro to the Navigating through the Cloud Podcast Series

Rob Livingstone — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:44:03 +0000

Welcome to ‘Navigating through the Cloud’ – This podcast series is associated with the book and website of the same name – all aimed at providing you with a non-hyped, vendor independent, real-world experience of enterprise Cloud computing in evergreen form. We will not be discussing any particular vendors offerings, nor the ‘hot’ topic of the day. We’re running a marathon, not a 50 yard dash!. The predominant focus here is Public Software as a Service from the CEOs and business’ perspective. Hosted by Rob Livingstone, an experienced CIO with over 33 years of Corporate experience, the last 16 of which were as CIO in a number of multinationals. We would love to have you along for the journey of though leadership, experience and skill. Realise the value of Cloud, knowing the cost, risks and governance issues with certainty.

What is the ‘Navigating through the Cloud’ trilogy? It’s a place that people and businesses can gather to share the real world challenges, highs and lows of managing and implementing Cloud computing without a vendor pitch in sight!

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