For those of us in the tech sector, jet travel is part of the deal. It can be time consuming and mind numbing. Everybody seems to have a few tricks up their sleeves to make their own trips more manageable. Some share tips with their friends. CT

Dev and Ops are Still Far Apart

Jul 31st, 2019 31m 46s

DevOps has come a long way in the past decade. In a report released more than a year ago, Forrester declared that the practice had reached “escape velocity,” with more than half of all enterprises implementing and expanding DevOps processes. Bu

Why Application Teams Have All the Power

Jul 11th, 2019 24m 33s

Over the past 10 years, the power structure has shifted inside IT organizations. Maintaining the infrastructure used to be the top priority, so infrastructure teams tended to control more resources and command more respect than their counterpar

The Golden Age of the SaaS Product

Jul 2nd, 2019 25m 15s

Software developers are a prideful group. They like to create things, figure out their own short cuts and come up with new ways to innovate on the fly. But sometimes, developers’ inner creativity can be the biggest thing holding them back. Ther

Challenges Enterprises Face Adopting Microservices

Jun 19th, 2019 25m 5s

Microservices have become a popular software development technique in recent years. Breaking down applications into distinct sets of loosely coupled smaller services helps organizations port workloads from cloud to cloud and get better utilizat

Best Practices for Refactoring Applications in the Cloud

Jun 10th, 2019 32m 19s

We’ve been through several major technology paradigm shifts – from mainframe to client server to internet to, now, cloud. Cloud has given people the opportunity to refactor applications, which means different things to different people: From a

Avoiding the “Anti-pattern” Swamp with Data Privacy and Security

May 31st, 2019 28m 13s

It’s a brave new world when it comes to data privacy and security, as companies work to comply with regulations such as the California Consumer Privacy Act and GDPR. No matter the size of the company or where they fall on the compliance spectru

Securing Applications Across Hybrid Environments

May 14th, 2019 32m 12s

Securing applications in a hybrid world can be a challenge. Companies that try to control threat vectors across cloud platforms and infrastructure environments with the same set of tools often run into trouble. We discuss how containers and ser

Getting Your Cloud Infrastructure to Work for You

May 1st, 2019 37m 59s

How do you get the most out of your cloud investment? We discuss how Densify uses machine learning analytics to help customers optimize utilization and cloud billing. One direct path to optimization is to “practice basic hygiene.” Andrew discus

Cloud-Native Doesn't Have One Definition

Apr 25th, 2019 38m 1s

What does “cloud native” really mean? Ask different organizations, or even different business units, and you’ll get hugely disparate answers. The fact is, there is no one answer and there’s no manual for cloud computing, which can make it diffi

“With CTP, it’s like playing on the All-Star team, everyday.”

Apr 17th, 2019 41m

This week we’re switching things up and digging into a topic we know even better than cloud: What it’s like working at CTP. While there is no shortage in the number of organizations that need help migrating, modernizing and building application

Zero Trust Networks in 2019

Apr 8th, 2019 43m 46s

Zero Trust Networks, a concept which assumes the perimeter defenses guarding your network aren’t as secure as you might think, has been around since Forrester coined the phrase almost a decade ago. We discuss how Google, an early adopter of the

Shifting Security Left

Apr 3rd, 2019 41m 44s

As consultants, we work with organizations facing conflicts or blockers slowing down their cloud programs. Often times, these conflicts are the results of siloed groups not communicating at the right time, or place. We discuss the importance of

Skating to Where the Puck is Going

Mar 27th, 2019 45m 20s

Over the past few years, most organizations are asking not whether they will move to the cloud, but when and what they will move to the cloud. Over the past 13 years, cloud computing was just one of the trends Box placed their bets on. The con

Making the Wickedly Complex Scalable

Mar 12th, 2019 47m 43s

Operating in the cloud is different. Your old tools won’t work here. We discuss the leading indicators of cloudwashing you should be looking for when selecting tools for the cloud. We also discuss “dark data” and how organizations can overcome

Data Centers, Cloud, and the Dependence on Each Other

Mar 6th, 2019 33m 21s

From what organizations should do with their existing data center estates after they complete their cloud transformation, to the facepalm mistakes enterprises make when it comes to owning and operating their own IT infrastructure, we discuss da

How Mastercard Is Setting the Standard for Global Hybrid Cloud Adoption

Mar 6th, 2019 32m 32s

Cloud initiatives clearly do not come in “one size fits all” packages. They vary widely in focus and complexity, from basic migration projects to extreme cases involving the strictest security and performance requirements of a global financial

Getting to Hybrid Cloud Nirvana

Nov 27th, 2018 19m 5s

We discuss the importance of good hygiene from the beginning of every technology transformation. Typically, when we see that our clients are doing something incorrectly in their data center, they will likely be making the same mistakes in the c

A Day in the Life of a CTP Architect

Nov 13th, 2018 13m 51s

Whether it’s migrating 300 applications to the cloud, or studying for his Professional AWS Certified Solutions Architect exam, Andy Clark’s day is never boring. In this episode of The Doppler podcast we discuss what it’s like working at CTP, th

Moving Towards a 201 Container Education

Oct 31st, 2018 21m 26s

Our guest on the podcast this week is Ken Lavoie, Principal Technical Account Manager at Sysdig. We discuss the rise of containers in the enterprise and the education, resources and enablement required to support the technology. We also look at

Be the Superhero to AWS’ Custodian Layer

Jul 23rd, 2018 19m 8s

Recorded live from the AWS NY Summit, we discuss the new reality of cloud maturity. AWS’ latest announcements included exciting new features, but there wasn’t anything groundbreaking – in a good way. Instead of chasing after new shiny objects,

Practicing Discipline and Hygiene with the New and Shiny

May 9th, 2018 28m 41s

We discuss the difficulty for organizations to be innovative when they are so busy sustaining older technologies. Amadeus is one of many companies that have begun transitioning its SaaS offerings to a multi-cloud solution in order to better le

Pitfall Avoidance, Training Resources and a Little Unicorn Dust for Cloud Success

Mar 19th, 2018 21m 17s

We discuss the new era of public cloud adoption. Six months ago there were people who were just getting their toes wet in public cloud and now those same people are going all in, not just with dev-test environments but with their major producti

Quit Looking at the New Shiny Technology Object, Focus on the Practical

Feb 13th, 2018 26m 47s

We discuss how companies often forget to focus on the basics and jump right into the latest industry trend. It’s not enough to know 90% of your network inventory when that could leave 200 servers vulnerable. Organizations must remember that it’

Data Analytics and Disposable Code in Financial Services

Feb 7th, 2018 29m 22s

We discuss data analytics in the financial services industry and why the difference between perceived risk and actual risk is causing a lack of understanding about where data security is most appropriate. We also look at the ETL (Extract, Trans