Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans

The Big Themes:

• We went all in with Google Cloud: Most of our peers were actually going in the other direction. They wanted to be multicloud, making acquisitions in adjacent ecosystems.
• Return to work …

The Big Themes:

• Will business travel come back? There is a lot of conjecture about business travel being forever changed by the forced online interaction of the pandemic. Our sense is it already has b…

The Big Themes:

• Returning to the office: This isn’t really what native digitals want. Apple employees revolted, as did Google’s, prompting one of the largest technology companies in the world to backt…

The Big Themes:

• Offer customers the best in breed solutions: The pace that we see in the Middle East is a very hungry market for technology and knowledge.
• The best way to accelerate: We have done a rol…

The Big Themes:

• Cloud repatriation: Techies and investors are buzzing about a recent articlethat seems to argue, “start in the cloud, then move back in-house.”
• BoD and CIO/CISO gap: Most CIOs/CISOs hav…

The Big Themes:

• The creativity that each one of them had: Telling their own story – and a lot of them used real-life stories and data, and so much more.
• They’re very polarizing: You can’t really put hu…

The Big Themes:

• That’s what Silk helps with: We’re helping customers take those applications, and more importantly the databases underneath them – and successfully deploy them to the public cloud.
• Perf…

The Big Themes:

• They want a player that’s crushing their quota year-after-year: Everybody’s going after that person. To get a search agency that’s going to make you a priority and only recruit for you…

The Big Themes:

• Microsoft has said that for every $1 of software they sell, partners make $9: The opportunity for channel partners in this time of cloud growth is huge.
• It should mirror the customer ba…

The Big Themes:

• Taking a victory lap: When you look at those lists, these are technology companies that have figured out how to partner and work within the industry.
• New Carnegie Mellon masters program…

Oliver Bussmann is a world-renowned expert specializing on the intersection of technology and business with particular expertise in financial services, and is now CEO of Bussmann Advisory AG. Having …

The Big Themes:

• Why isn’t big data producing big insights? In our last episode we tee’d up the idea that while we have seen extraordinary advances in big data, data analytics and data science, it’s ha…

The Big Themes:

• Wake-up call for boards and C-Suites: What do we hear from victims? “We didn’t think we’d be a target.”
• In our emerging acceleration economy: Firms can’t afford the lost time, the lost …

The Big Themes:

• Fundamental and important to the model: Data lakes, data hubs, data warehouses, data marketplaces – that’s a lot of data.
• Snowflake has popularized the concept: Other vendors are latchi…

The Big Themes:

• Where these two circles intersect: You could offer a core set of applications, and the ability for you to pick and choose some of these other applications that are available.
• We set up …

The Big Themes:

• Plotted on a bell curve: Some are amazing, and some are terrible – and some are in the middle.
• Stability is not the issue: There’s capital behind these companies that give you the same …

The Big Themes:

• Abe Lincoln: Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four hours sharpening the ax.
• No analysis paralysis: As you prepare to lock down your decision, you must b…

Just over a year ago, Howard Boville left his job as CTO at Bank of America to join IBM as senior VP of hybrid cloud. Boville joined Cloud Wars Live to discuss the big changes he’s been driving at IB…

The Big Themes:

• The citizen developer: Those low-code, no-code tools are giving the power back to their employees, and that’s creating a new environment that’s having a reorganization in that area.
• Som…

The Big Themes:

• I’ve got 99 problems and tech ain’t one of them: It’s almost never a technology issue. It’s usually a people problem.
• The technologists out there: Many technologists can be overly focus…