http://www.cloudoverafrica.comenTechnologyCopyright Kevin Derman & Gary Kimmelhttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/89531ab84d2e178a0c1b35889434f4fc.jpghttp://www.cloudoverafrica.comMon, 11 Mar 2024 20:53:09 +0000Kevin Derman & Gary KimmelKevin Derman & Gary Kimmelinfo@cloudoverafrica.comThe podcast that explores all things cloud with a special focus on AWS and associated technologies, and their application across the African continent.falseepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-state-of-the-cloud-2021-south-africa--45771911https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45771911Tue, 20 Jul 2021 14:43:52 +0000Kevin Derman & Gary KimmelIn this episode, Kevin Derman and Russell Warne analyze various research on cloud usage across the world and compare it with what is happening in South Africa. How far behind is South Africa? 6 months? 12 months? 2 years? Take a listen to find out.1693alibabacloud,aws,cloud,flexera,googlecloud,hyperscalecloud,microsoft,southafrica,worldwideworxfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/women-in-the-cloud-veliswa-boya-interview--40467429https://api.spreaker.com/episode/40467429Mon, 24 Aug 2020 07:29:06 +0000Kevin Derman & Gary KimmelWe are celebrating all the women in cloud technology this month. We interview Veliswa Boya, an AWS Cloud Hero, 3 times certified cloud architect, mother, mentor and more. We cover her journey to certification, career tips, exam advice, and how she...1518amazonwebservices,aws,awscertified,awshero,certification,cloudarchitect,cloudtechnology,mentorship,technology,womeninit,womensmonthfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-ins-and-outs-of-cloud-storage-episode-rick-braddy-interview--37593094https://api.spreaker.com/episode/37593094Wed, 08 Jul 2020 10:27:34 +0000Kevin Derman & Gary KimmelWe chat with Rick Braddy Founder and CTO of Buurst (Softnas) and former CTO of Citrix, about all things cloud storage and compare South Africa and Africa to what's being seen in North America.1864aws,buurst,citrix,cloud,cloudcosts,cloudstorage,softnas,storage,storagecostsfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-aws-live-in-south-africa-episode--26010980https://api.spreaker.com/episode/26010980Fri, 24 Apr 2020 15:04:10 +0000Kevin Derman & Gary KimmelIn this episode we chat about the Local AWS Region in South Africa that has just gone live in April 2020. We discuss the benefits and what companies should be looking at doing with this awesome opportunity presented.1282ai,amazon,amazonwebservices,aws,azure,capetown,cloud,cloudtechnology,compute,google,hyperscale,localcloud,machinelearning,microsoft,southafrica,storagefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-business-continuity-covid-19-episode--24426273https://api.spreaker.com/episode/24426273Fri, 27 Mar 2020 14:13:45 +0000Kevin Derman & Gary KimmelWe delve into what businesses can do to remain active during this lock-down period. Many different cloud solutions are available that can ensure business continuity.1356aws,businesscontinuity,bussiness,cloud,cloudtechnology,coronavirus,covid19,productivity,proposify,workfromhomefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-ai-expo-africa-2019-edition--18917094https://api.spreaker.com/episode/18917094Mon, 26 Aug 2019 10:40:26 +0000Kevin Derman & Gary KimmelIn this edition we chat to Nick Bradshaw, organiser and founder of the AI Africa Expo on what impact they saw from the expo last year and what people can expect from this years expo happening on the 4th and 5th of September.1501ai,aiexpoafrica2019,amazonwebservices,aws,azure,cloud,machinelearning,microsoft,mlfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-geoff-brown-aws-interview-episode--17923000https://api.spreaker.com/episode/17923000Tue, 14 May 2019 07:50:51 +0000Kevin Derman & Gary KimmelIn this episode we interview Geoff Brown, Managing Director for Sub-Saharan Africa at Amazon Web Services. We get into the detail on how AWS is investing in South Africa and Africa as a whole, AWS technology for Africa and Geoff's experience so far...1696africa,africabusiness,aws,azure,business,cloud,geoffbrown,kenya,machinelearning,nigeria,southafrica,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/from-local-to-hyperscale-cloud-the-ydox-case-study-episode--17430365https://api.spreaker.com/episode/17430365Mon, 25 Mar 2019 12:43:05 +0000Kevin Derman & Gary KimmelIn this episode we speak to Carl Wallace, CEO of Digital HQ on why the made the choice to move from a local cloud provider to AWS, a hyperscale cloud and the results they experienced in the process.1376aws,azure,cloudtechnology,hyperscalecloud,latency,localcloudfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-cloud-big-bets-for-2019-episode--17007514https://api.spreaker.com/episode/17007514Mon, 11 Feb 2019 07:03:22 +0000Kevin Derman & Gary KimmelIn this episode we place our big bets for cloud for 2019. These are the top 5 areas where we think you will see major shift in 2019. Discussions include, local datacenters, AI, IoT, Blockchain (all the required buzzwords), payment granularity and more.8662019,ai,artificialintelligence,aws,azure,blockchain,cloud,cloudmigration,cloudtechnology,gcp,microsoft,pricingfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-security-in-the-cloud-episode--16425277https://api.spreaker.com/episode/16425277Sun, 09 Dec 2018 19:49:14 +0000Kevin Derman & Gary KimmelA key component of moving to the cloud is security. We catch up with Tau Mailula of Trend Micro and discuss some common pitfalls and what is required with cloud security. This interview was recorded at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas.1142amazonwebservices,aws,azure,cloud,cloudcomputing,gcp,security,sharedsecuritymodel,trendmicrofalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-awesome-aws-re-invent-announcements-summary-1-edition--16336178https://api.spreaker.com/episode/16336178Thu, 29 Nov 2018 02:23:53 +0000Kevin Derman & Gary KimmelDirect from Las Vegas re:Invent, we cover some of the announcements from Andy Jassy's keynote. Hear about what was released in the new database functionality, many machine learning announcements, security and more.1319ai,amazonwebservices,artificialintelligence,aws,cloud,cloudcomputing,databases,machinelearning,securityfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-preinvent-re-invent-episode--16232246https://api.spreaker.com/episode/16232246Thu, 15 Nov 2018 20:24:43 +0000Kevin Derman & Gary KimmelIn this episode Kevin and Russell, AWS re:Invent veterans, share their top 10 tips on how to ensure you have a great and productive re:Invent. The conference starts 25th November in Las Vegas and is the year highlight in the AWS world.921amazonwebservices,aws,awsconference,cloudcomputing,conferencetips,lasvegas,reinventfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-interesting-startups-in-the-cloud-2-episode--15818570https://api.spreaker.com/episode/15818570Thu, 27 Sep 2018 07:53:57 +0000Kevin Derman & Gary KimmelIn this, the second episode that looks at interesting "born in the cloud" startups, we chat to Celina Lee, CEO of Zindi, a cloud platform that aims to solve Africa's toughest challenges using machine learning and AI. A fascinating discussion and a...853africa,ai,amazon,amazonwebservices,aws,azure,cloud,cloudcomputing,digitaltransformation,google,machinelearning,ml,startups,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-interesting-cloud-startups-1-episode--15764781https://api.spreaker.com/episode/15764781Thu, 20 Sep 2018 14:54:42 +0000Kevin Derman & Gary KimmelIn this episode we speak to ALEXANDRE N'DJORE CEO of the Digitech Group and recent winner of the AWS Startup Day pitching competition and one of the Top-10 startups in Africa. Find out how they have used cloud to accelerate their business and compete...877africatechnology,amazon,aws,azure,cloud,cloudcomputing,connectivity,digitisation,digitization,ec2,googlecloud,insurance,pitching,rds,startupbootcamp,startuppitching,startupsfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-cloud-explained-part-2-episode--15664149https://api.spreaker.com/episode/15664149Fri, 07 Sep 2018 15:05:01 +0000Kevin Derman & Gary KimmelIn this episode we dive a bit deeper into some of the differences between on-premise and cloud. We cover some cloud terminology equivalents, enabling you to be comfortable at any dinner party where cloud is the topic of the day.1261amazon,amazonwebservices,aws,cloud,cloudcomputing,databases,iaas,onpremise,paas,saas,servers,storagefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-7-rs-of-cloud-migration-episode--15600951https://api.spreaker.com/episode/15600951Wed, 29 Aug 2018 23:02:09 +0000Kevin Derman & Gary KimmelIn this episode we cover the 7R's of cloud migration. What?? You thought there were only 6 R's? Well, we introduce you to our suggested 7th R to complete the list and to keep up with current trends of cloud computing.1317amazonwebservices,aws,azure,cloudcomputing,cloudmigration,digitisation,digitization,gartner,gcp,iaas,kaskade,paas,saas,technologytrendsfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-cloud-explained-part-1-episode--15551857https://api.spreaker.com/episode/15551857Thu, 23 Aug 2018 12:09:41 +0000Kevin Derman & Gary KimmelIn this episode we take a few steps back and go through some cloud basics like IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. The benefits and risks are examined, as well as great analogy with Pizza as a Service thrown in for good measure. If you are looking at moving to cloud...1276aws,azure,cloud,cloudcomputing,datacentre,gcp,googlecloud,hyperscalecloud,iaas,itcosts,office365,paas,pizza,saasfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-women-in-the-clouds-episode--15491485https://api.spreaker.com/episode/15491485Tue, 14 Aug 2018 19:54:46 +0000Kevin Derman & Gary KimmelIn this episode we speak to three women (Lisa Strydom, Catherine Luckoff, and Monique Hart) working in cloud technology in South Africa. They share with us their journey to careers in technology and provide some practical advice for anyone wanting to...1743amazon,amazonwebservices,aws,azure,cloud,cloudtechnology,entrepreneur,girlswhocode,virtualisation,womeninbusiness,womeninit,womenintech,womenintechzafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-pie-savings-costs-the-cloud-and-you-episode--15449319https://api.spreaker.com/episode/15449319Wed, 08 Aug 2018 17:31:11 +0000Kevin Derman & Gary KimmelIn this episode Russell Warne, Certified Cloud Cost Optimisation Expert, explains the similarity between the cloud and pies. This is no "Pie in the Sky" analogy. Russell and Kevin get into the details of why cloud spend gets out of control and what...1325aws,azure,cloud,cloudcomputing,cloudmanagement,cloudmigration,costoptimisation,costsavings,gcp,google,microsoft,msp,rds,s3falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-microsoft-on-aws-episode--15389994https://api.spreaker.com/episode/15389994Tue, 31 Jul 2018 15:41:30 +0000Kevin Derman & Gary KimmelIn this episode we chat about running Microsoft workloads on AWS. We cover some interesting facts about the two cloud giants, what workloads you can run, how the licensing works and so much more. all in under 20min.1286amazonwebservices,aws,azure,cloudcomputing,csp,ec2,managedservices,microsoft,office365,rds,sharepoint,softwarelicensing,spla,sql,sqlserver,windowsserverfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-ai-expo-africa-episode--15317052https://api.spreaker.com/episode/15317052Tue, 24 Jul 2018 08:31:54 +0000Kevin Derman & Gary KimmelIn this episode we chat to Nick Bradshaw Director of the AI Expo Africa which is happening in Cape Town 10-11 September. We discuss AI in general over the African continent and what people can expect from the event.1164africatechnology,ai,aiexpoafrica,amazonwebservices,artificialintelligence,aws,awscloud,cloud,cloudservices,computing,conferences,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-amazon-workdocs-episode--15280044https://api.spreaker.com/episode/15280044Wed, 18 Jul 2018 13:46:32 +0000Kevin Derman & Gary KimmelIn this episode we delve into Amazon Workdocs. A great service for saving and sharing documents for businesses. Ultimate resiliance and durability, no more need to back up your files with Amazon Workdocs. Join us in this 15 min session.1061amazon,aws,backups,businessit,documents,dropbox,filesharing,kaskade,onedrive,workdocsfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-cloudfront-episode--15236666https://api.spreaker.com/episode/15236666Wed, 11 Jul 2018 20:06:21 +0000Kevin Derman & Gary KimmelWe dive into the AWS investment into the South African ecosystem with the availability of Amazon CloudFront in South Africa. Use cases, the costs, who is using it, how to use it, we tell all.1052amazonwebservices,aws,azure,cdn,cloudcomputing,cloudfront,cloudmigration,iaas,managedservices,msp,paas,security,websitesfalsefull