We cover the usual Minnesota tech stories as well as other top ones, but our guest this week is all about the cloud. Tom Iverson is an Enterprise Solutions Consultant with a Minneapolis firm and we dig in to questions about cloud computing and why it’s the answer.
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson
Music: Penitentiary Blues by DJ Ecklectic Mick under a CC by 3.0 License
The Podcast
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Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories
- Comcast
- Amazon has scared Target into a management shake-up, just like it did to Walmart
- Home buyers can view 360-degree virtual ‘open houses’
- The FBI is trying to crack another locked iPhone (about St. Cloud stabbings in mall)
This Week’s Guest – Tom Iverson
Tom Iverson (LinkedIn) is an Enterprise Solutions Consultant with RBA, Inc., a firm specializing in Cloud, DevOps, Application Lifecycle Management, custom software development, and integration. The firm is a national digital and technology consultancy based in Minneapolis and they’ve been recognized as one of the nation’s fastest growing private companies and consistently named a Best Place to Work.
We discuss RBA’s focus, the acceleration in cloud solutions, spend some time on cloud security, and chat a bit about their client base.
Other Top Tech Stories
- Google’s Tuesday Oct. 4th Event
- Introducing Pixel, our new phone made by Google
- The fastest Chromecast yet, with 4K and HDR support
- Daydream: Bringing high-quality VR to everyone
- Google Home is official: Google undercuts the Amazon Echo at $129
- Mossberg: How Google’s bold moves shake up the tech industry
- The real reason Google’s fancy new products are so cheap
- Exclusive: Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence
- Source Code for IoT Botnet ‘Mirai’ Released
Cool Thing of the Week
- Phil: Motion Code
- Tim: Google Home
- Steve: WattNott: Classic Bulbs with a Design Twist (Plus I love the Plumen 003)
Upcoming Events
- The Complete List of 250+ Tech, IT, and DevOps Conferences in 2016
- MN Blogger Conference, Saturday, Oct 15th, Concordia U – St Paul
- U of MN’s Cyber Security Summit 2016, JWMarriott (MOA), October 11-12
- Minnesota Venture Conference, Oct 13th, Mpls Cnv Ctr
- Converted 2016 by Leadpages, Oct 18th, Depot Renaissance Hotel, Mpls
- IoT Hack Day, October 22, Minnetronix
- WE* Made It by MN Cup, Nov. 7th, Clockwork
- Gamer’s Rhapsody 2016, Nov 18th, Bloomington