Happy Earth Day everyone!  We celebrate by hosting an insightful conversation with a true sustainability and cloud expert, Mr. Thom McKiernan.  Thom joins us from beautiful Bedford, England and talks in-depth about Microsoft's carbon negative goals, and how we are helping our Azure customers through our cutting-edge capability in Azure Carbon Optimization. 

Our brave NetSec Kings, Kevin Lopez, Bruce Cosden and Abhi Singh return for the final installment of this trilogy.  What are the do's and don'ts of mapping out your quest for enterprise networking and security?  Plus, obscure musical references!

Lord Kevin Lopez assembles an all-star cast with Bruce Cosden and Abhi Singh as we continue our adventure to realizing a secure cloud platform.  What does it mean to be really secure?  How do you make it all work, what are other customers doing?  Consider these two your personal guides out of the Shire and past the dangers that await.

Join us in this adventure not to a place of dinosaurs, man-eating plants and a shockingly more youthful Brendan Fraser.  No friends, this is the journey to Azure as told by Global Blackbelt Director Roan Daley.  Follow Roan, Bill and Shelley into a magical tunnel that transforms old datacenters and legacy applications, opening the door to the world of cloud modernization.   

It's the Return of the King! The king of networking and security that is.  At least he is in the sacred scrolls we read.  Welcome back Kevin Lopez in this first of a trilogy on Azure NetSec.  In this episode Kevin builds a foundation to the house that is a modern migration.  What are the bits and bytes of Azure network security?  How does one begin to make sense of and prioritize the security conversation and we setup for the deep dives coming in this epic 3 part series.

Purists might call this Episode 10, but that's an argument for the Internet.  Not so long ago and right here in this galaxy, a new hope has arisen against cybersecurity threats.  Our heroine Amanda Theel leads a resistance force which trains young Padawans to protect critical infrastructure from the dark side. In this episode, we learn about Amanda's passion, skills and creativity for her program and why there are no losers in this battle against evil. May the CyberForce be with you!

Have you ever thought about how much modern cloud computing has been impacted by the gaming industry?  There has been a doubtless life-long effect for our Season 2 premiere episode guest - Jon Kefaloukos aka Falloutt.  He's a professional esports shoutcaster, former pro-gamer, an account executive for some of the world's largest gaming companies, crazy smart, affable and an all-around amazing person!  Player #1 - are you ready to get rekt?  Let's go!!!!  

Drop in on a conversation among the three chuckleheads that bring you this podcast for a season wrap up.  You may have noticed each episode is a play on a movie or TV title and we love to "Jump the Shark" just like Fonzie.  In this episode, we recap Season 1 with our Producer extraordinaire Sally DeBoer.  We also give a sneak peek of Season 2.  Like, subscribe and give us your feedback for who or what topics we should look at for an upcoming episode.

Eva Longoria has nothing on our very own Windie Wilson.  She's formerly of SAP Radio fame, she's a "fixer" and just an all around amazing human being!  Join us for a lovely chat about what makes SAP and Azure such a compelling story now more than ever.

Are you ready for a jam session of epic proportions?  The tech nerds are geeking out with the extremely cool, funny, smart and talented Anthony Wilson from VMware.  Tune in and find out how our two companies are laying down some smooth tracks in the cloud migration space!

Shelley and Bill chat with Bryan Merckling and Cliff Tironi from Thinaer, an IoT company that uses Azure cloud services to provide solutions for various industries. We discuss how IoT can improve business operations and customer experiences, how Azure helps IoT developers and users, and what are some of the challenges and opportunities in the IoT space.  These are 10Things we LOVE about Thinaer and we're sure that Julia Stiles, Joe Gordon-Levitt and the late Heath Ledger would approve as well!

We all share this unique experience of being human.  But how often do we bring our humanity into our business dealings? In this episode, we explore this topic with our friend and coworker Carl Solazzo.  Mixing your personal experiences and personality with your professional interactions can benefit both you and your clients. Oh, and we talk about some technology too - Carl is an expert in migrating to cloud so we chat about Azure VMware Service (AVS) as well as Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). ...

Cost caps, shrinking budgets, do more with less!  How do you drive to optimize and maybe even thrive in a world that has changed so much over the last three years?  We were so lucky to talk with Pete Orologas and Daniel Krzyczkowski, two of the top drivers on the "partner grid" from Azure partner Formula5.

Our friend and in-house resident expert on all things in the world of Hybrid Compute, "Architect Jeff" is like having our very own Bill Nye the Science Guy for cloud computing!  In this episode we chat about the evolving challenges of migrating to cloud and turn the lens to how Azure Arc can bridge the gap between your on-premises datacenter and the cloud.

You wouldn’t build your house and add the plumbing and electrical after the walls are finished, so why would you “add-on” networking and security into your cloud architectures?  In our foundational episode of our podcast we talk to Mr. Kevin Lopez, a Microsoft Global Blackbelt (what’s a GBB you say?  Listen and find out!)