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379- Submarine Commander Conquers Azure w/Kenon Bliss

You've Been Heard

Philip Howard

Technology, Tech News, Management, News, Business

549 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

ON THIS EPISODE ➤ Why most Azure migrations fail before they start—and how to plan properly from day one ➤ The real difference between CSPs who just sell licenses and partners who drive value ➤ How to reduce Azure costs by 80% through proper architecture and licensing optimization ➤ Why IT leaders must learn to ask for help instead of fighting fires alone ➤ Moving from reactive firefighting to strategic business partnership What happens when submarine leadership principles meet cloud infrastructure strategy? At Heliant Technologies, Kenon Bliss leads infrastructure practices across the Microsoft stack, helping organizations navigate the complex world...

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0:00.0

Welcome, everyone back to dissecting popular IT nerds in the future.

0:12.3

We have this big, really big, exciting, exciting rebranding coming up.

0:18.4

Because what I realized was, is're short-changing ourselves by just sounding

0:21.7

like we're just dissecting people and we're after 360 episodes we no longer really need to be

0:26.7

dissecting popular IT nerds anymore like we've kind of become and there's just there's just so

0:33.1

much that we're leaving out for you guys and I think one of them is our connection with really

0:39.7

freaking awesome people in the industry and really, really good vendors. And I don't do this

0:44.7

that often because IT guys hate vendors for the most part. They're not vendors. I think we should

0:51.1

say sales people and they have good vendors. We can't really, there's all this hype in the marketplace and we've got, we've got this thing called zero trust in our language.

1:04.6

So it's kind of natural to not trust anyone that shows up in our LinkedIn inbox.

1:08.8

And there's, I think IT people have trust

1:10.9

issues I don't know what do you think they have trust issues Kenon I have trust issues I don't

1:15.7

trust my own children so I mean how about I trust a vendor so I just wanted to highlight some

1:22.7

really awesome people and what they can do and I think when it comes to CSPs,

1:29.7

which is a very broad term communication service provider,

1:33.4

these are the guys that sell you your Microsoft licensing.

1:36.5

And then you call them a middleman and they piss you off.

1:40.0

And I'm just going direct to Microsoft.

1:41.8

And then you end up with an EA agreement.

1:43.5

And there's so many problems with all these things. There are not problems or better ways of doing things.

1:48.5

And I just wanted to bring on someone that was awesome to talk about some really awesome things that

1:54.1

we can do inside Microsoft and Helient. Your company happens to have some old friends that I,

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