185. Why the Cloud Isn’t for Everyone with Anthony Darden

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

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5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Anthony Darden Anthony Darden is the Vice President of Information Technology at Protective Industries. Anthony is well-versed in CRMs, Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), board-level management, and global talent development. In addition to being responsible for the technology at Protective Industries, Anthony is also part of their strategy team. Why the Cloud Isn’t for Everyone with Anthony Darden During the episode, Anthony shares his wisdom about the benefits and potential pitfalls of using the cloud, best practices for cybersecurity, and his passion for seeing IT teams as part of the business as opposed to just a support for it. He also talks about what he sees happening in IT over the next few years.

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0:00.0	Hi, nerds.
0:10.1	I'm Michael Moore hosting this podcast for dissecting popular IT nerds.
0:13.5	I'm here with Anthony Darden, Vice President Information Technology of Protective Industries.
0:18.2	Anthony, how you doing today?
0:20.3	I'm doing well. Pleasure to be on. Thanks for having me. Anthony, how you doing today? I'm doing well.
0:21.4	Pleasure to be on.
0:22.3	Thanks for having me.
0:23.4	Yeah, absolutely.
0:24.9	I always like to start these things with an icebreaker segment.
0:29.1	I call Random Access Memories.
0:31.3	I'll ask a question and you respond with the answer that comes to your head first.
0:35.2	So the first one, first question I have for you is, if someone asked you to rename Cloud to something else, what would it be?
0:48.3	Money Pits.
0:49.3	Money Pitt.
0:52.3	There's that there's the misnomer that, you know, cloud, you know, just think you don't have to support
0:57.9	your own infrastructure, a mat and you don't have to have people to maintain it, but I got to tell
1:03.8	you, cloud is very, very expensive. Not maybe for the general consumer, if I'm posting stuff on my
1:10.1	personal OneDrive, but running a business, man, that adds up pretty quick.
1:16.1	I think there's pieces and aspects to it. I think you're right. I think if you take a pure cloud approach where everything gets moved over there, then yes, you know, you would, a money pit would,
1:29.8	so if you take a pure money pit approach, right? That would be the case, right?
1:34.8	I think if you got a mixture of hybrid and you're moving your critical items up to that spot
1:40.5	to keep them separated and stuff, maybe that's a different piece. But that's a good point.
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