Top 10 Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcasts of 2022
The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast group had been compelled by occasions to deviate from their regular light-hearted strategy to enterprise business-to-business expertise within the first few months of the yr. They mentioned the conflict in Ukraine with the assistance of Computer Weekly’s safety editor Alex Scroxton on a pair of podcasts, one of which is highlighted on this listing. The cyber warfare side of the battle was to the fore in these episodes, together with the final IT trade boycott of Russia.
Otherwise, girls in UK expertise, alongside variety, was, once more, an enormous matter for the group, mentioned throughout the yr and culminating in Clare’s presentation of the announcement of the 2022 listing of the Most Influential Women in UK Technology, and its associated event, Diversity in Tech, which Computer Weekly runs in collaboration with Nash Squared.
Caroline’s two principal matters of give attention to the podcast had been the continuing saga of the IR35 reforms and the power disaster, because it pertains to the datacentre market (in addition to inexperienced IT extra usually, together with the launch of the Computer Weekly Green IT assume tank that she masterminds and shepherds).
And Brian was again within the air in 2022, attending Dreamforce in San Francisco, Oracle Cloud World in Las Vegas, and an SAP press journey to the Bay Area coterminous with SAP’s TechEd.
This yr, Cliff Saran, Computer Weekly’s managing editor (expertise) did a sequence of episodes inside the framework of the podcast. These featured one-to-one interviews with main IT trade thinkers and executives on matters starting from quantum computing, via the metaverse, and on to developer well-being.
One of these featured, as a case research, The National Archives’ deployment of a semantic data platform, offered by MarkLogic, to assist the UK authorities’s drive to enhance transparency within the justice system.
Cliff closed out his podcasting for the yr with a dialog with Stewart Buchanan, a analysis vice-president in Gartner’s CIO group, about how CIOs can handle via the present financial disaster, with IT budgets successfully reduce attributable to inflation. That dialog has granular recommendation for IT leaders.
Meanwhile, the perennial podcast energy trio added some gentle to the shade all through the podcasting yr, together with natters round Halloween and the appearance of Christmas.
Here are Computer Weekly’s prime 10 Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcasts of 2022.
1. Ukraine: Cyber warfare and IT trade boycott of Russia
In this episode, Computer Weekly’s safety editor Alex Scroxton joins Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna to debate the cyber conflict dimension to the conflict in Ukraine, and the IT trade’s response to the Russian invasion, together with a boycott of Russia and humanitarian support to the folks of Ukraine. Because that is probably the most critical of topics, this episode of the podcast is devoted simply to this matter.
2. Energy disaster influence on datacentre market
Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna mirror on the present power disaster by approach of the Sungard AS UK collapse, and the function of software program and information analytics within the wind turbine trade. They additionally speak in regards to the findings of the annual Computer Weekly/TechGoal IT wage survey, which finds IT professionals extra in management of their working lives than earlier than the pandemic, and again to pre-health disaster wage ranges.
3. The metaverse and ladies in software program
Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna had been joined, within the short-term absence of Caroline Donnelly, by Cliff Saran to debate the metaverse, the Makers Women in Software Power List, and the way CIOs ought to relate to the small print of enterprise expertise.
4. Does quantum matter?
In this particular version of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Ilyas Khan, CEO of Quantinuum, discusses the quantum computing revolution.
He believes the UK is main the best way, simply because it did firstly of the primary industrial revolution. The CEO of Quantinuum, the organisation shaped from the merger of Honeywell Quantum Solutions and Cambridge Quantum Computing, the corporate Khan based in 2014, says the UK is one of the main nations, if not the worldwide chief, in quantum computing.
5. Koch’s networking
Here, Matt Hoag, CTO of Koch Business Solutions, discusses networking as a service.
The concept of “lift and shift” is unnecessary within the cloud. Matt Hoag, chief expertise officer (CTO) for Koch Business Solutions, factors out that whereas lifting and shifting workloads may match as a short-term measure, as organisations purchase time to develop cloud-native software program, enterprise networking merely can’t be lifted and shifted to the cloud.
6. Developer well-being
A large-ranging particular with Capital One financial institution’s CTO, Brad Miller.
Brad Miller lives in New Jersey and, as a result of pandemic, has the flexibleness to work each out of his residence and from Capital One financial institution’s New York workplace. Miller has been CTO of Capital One for 2 years, the place he’s accountable for the financial institution’s enterprise merchandise and platforms expertise organisation.
7. Top 50 girls in UK tech, IR35 Truss fiasco
Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna mirror on the announcement of the 2022 listing of the Most Influential Women in UK Technology, and its associated event, Diversity in Tech, which Computer Weekly does in collaboration with Nash Squared.
They additionally talk about a side of the transient premiership of Liz Truss that was under-covered in different media: the scrapping after which the rescinding of the scrapping of the IR35 reforms.
8. Coding at Bet365
In this podcast, Alan Reed, head of sports activities growth at Bet365, discusses the technical and enterprise challenges of scalability.
Computer Weekly final spoke to Alan Reed a couple of years earlier than the pandemic. During the Covid-19 lockdown, the pinnacle of sports activities growth at Bet365 says the net betting agency wanted to adapt to dwell sports activities stopping and the shift to residence working.
9. Justice transparency
The National Archives has deployed a semantic data platform, powered by MarkLogic, to assist the UK authorities’s drive to enhance transparency within the justice system.
John Sheridan, digital director at The National Archives, defines semantic information as a proper conceptual mannequin to explain information. At The National Archives, a semantic information platform, powered by MarkLogic, is getting used for the Find Case Law service. “We are preserving court judgments in the digital archive for the future,” he mentioned.
10. AWS mutes trash speak at Re:Invent
Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna mirror on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Re:Invent partner and customer conference in Las Vegas, an initiative for getting extra younger girls into the cyber safety career, and up to date SAP and SAP person group occasions – in San Francisco, Las Vegas and Birmingham.
