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The Cloud Oscars

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If cloud wrote the movies, they would probably be the best movies in the world. Join us for the ‘Cloud Oscars’, as we run through our top ten favourite cloud movie nominations…Cloud Computing

1. Cloud Atlas (2012): Explores the impact of cloud technology past, present and future and how three innovators set the ripples into motion for the biggest computing phenomenon.

2. Head in the Clouds (2004): A romantic drama set in England, Paris and Spain as we see one girls ability to access documents from anywhere in the world – oh and she falls in love.

3. Up (2009): Animation about how easy it is to relocate when all your documents, music and films are stored in the cloud.

4. The Last Airbender (2010): Puts avatars to great use with one boys mastery of social networking.

5. Skyfall (2012): Bond’s race against time to save the cloud from online security breaches on a global scale. Plus, plenty of car chases, some very pretty ladies and a few vodka martinis – shaken not stirred.

6. Up in the Air (2009): One man’s job to travel around the country teaching people about the benefits of cloud computing.

7. Gone with the Wind (1939): A woman from the US and a man from the UK carry on a turbulent love affair via Chatter.

8. Windtalkers (2002): Two Navy Marines are assigned to protect the world using their native internet security language as an unbreakable cypher.

9. Vanilla Sky (2001): After purchasing a vanilla cloud application, David realises he needs unending custom-made support after all…plus…his face turns funny.

10. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009): A cute animation where Flint helps his community by delivering food to the needy through his social group.

Cloud Oscar Clapper BoardThe films, that just missed out on the Cloud Oscar nominations are…

Silver Linings Playbook (2012): After a short stint travelling, former teacher Pat moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile his online cloud storage accounts.

Skyline (2010): A group is awakened by a mysterious trend, but soon realise after staring at it for 94 minutes, that the trend is ‘big data’.

 

 

 

 

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Meet Molly

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MollyThis month we introduce our latest team member, Molly Cheal Baxter, who joins us as an Administration Assistant.

Find out what her responses are to our 5-favourite’s questions:

 

 

 

5-Favourite Hobbies:

  1. 1. ‘Jamming’ with friends & family who play instruments
  2. 2. Exercising
  3. 3. Reading
  4. 4. Socialising
  5. 5. Gigs and festivals

 

5-Favourite Songs:

  1. 1. Damien Rice – The Blower’s Daughter
  2. 2. Coheed and Cambria – The Suffering
  3. 3. Within Temptation – All I Need
  4. 4. Blink 182 – Always
  5. 5. Fall Out Boy – A Little Less Sixteen Candles…

 

5-Favourite Books:

  1. 1. A Game of Thrones
  2. 2. The Faraway Tree
  3. 3. The Hobbit
  4. 4. A Colour of Magic
  5. 5. The Hogfather

 

5-Favourite Films:

  1. 1. True Romance
  2. 2. American History X
  3. 3. American Psycho
  4. 4. Kill Bill Vol. 1
  5. 5. Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind

 

5-Favourite Foods:

  1. 1. Chicken Fajitas
  2. 2. Stir-fry
  3. 3. Bacon
  4. 4. Lamb Curry
  5. 5. Lemon Cheesecake

Top Jobs

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We have all no doubt read about how the cloud industry is expected to generate about 1.9 million jobs across the globe by 2015, but what are we expecting these roles to be?

Leading cloud recruitment agency, Resource On Demand, has been carefully analysing data that has been collected over a 4 year period, to help predict the kind of roles that we can expect to see becoming available.

For starters, the vast majority of people actively seeking employment through Resource On Demand consider themselves to be life-contractors. Yet the records show that during the period from 2009 to 2012, permanent vacancies outstripped contract roles by up to 3 times as many. And the start of 2013 appears to be no different, with 5 times as more permanent roles currently being advertised compared to contract.

So whilst contractors are perhaps driven by a flexible lifestyle and higher day rates, the figures show that unless you are highly skilled as a cloud technologist, you might find yourself struggling to find decent contract roles. In contrast, the permanent market has seen growth year-on-year by at least 40%, which is great for people currently seeking employment within the cloud industry.

So what types of roles do the UK’s leading recruiters say, are top of everyone’s list. Lee Durrant, director at Resource On Demand, said this. “It is unsurprising that whilst the cloud industry is still very much in a growth phase, that we would see more and more requirements for consultant type experts. In particular, those people that possess good data management, project management and a deep understanding of business processes, which are the skills at the very heart of a strategic cloud adoption plan.”

Top Salesforce jobsIn support of this, records show that a staggering 57% of jobs filled during the same 4 year period, were for Functional Consultants. Whilst Administrators made up 22%, Developers 12%, and the remaining 9% was made up of Technical Architects and other cloud related roles. What’s more, this ratio of split, held true for both permanent and contract opportunities.

Durrant went on to say “This is great news for people with a passion for cloud technology and social media apps, and who have the ability to understand how businesses across the globe can benefit from moving their systems into the cloud, without necessarily being a technical guru”.

 


Meet latest ‘newbie’ – Richard Smith

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As is our tradition, we like to introduce the newest members of our team.

So this month newbie, Richard Smith, stepped up to answer the five most important questions of his career:

Your 5 favourite hobbies;

1. Going to the gym and keeping fit (…and yes he has been spotted rushing out at lunchtime with gym bag in hand)

2. Socialising with friends and family

3. Watching motorsport – MotoGP & Formula 1

4. Reading top gear magazine (perhaps we should have asked for his 5-favourite cars…)

5. Football – both playing and watching

Your 5 favourite songs;

1. Chris Brown – Forever

2. Lawson – Taking Over Me

3. Daft Punk – One More Time

4. Kasabian – Club Foot

5. Lupe Fiasco – Superstar

Your 5 favourite books;

1. Kathy Reichs – Flash and Bones

2. Ed Chatterton – A dark Place To Die (currently reading)

3. Hmm…can I have more time?

Your 5 favourite films;

1. Terminator 2

2. The Shawshank Redemption

3. Lion King

4. Dumb & Dumber

5. Taken

Your 5 favourite foods;

1. Sunday Roast

2. Spaghetti Bolognese

3. Treacle Sponge Pudding

4. Chocolate Fudge cake

5. Snickers (…what can I say…I have a sweet tooth)

 


Favourite-5′s from our newest team member Lewis Steadman

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We would like to introduce our newest team member, Client Support Assistant, Lewis Steadman.…

Five Favourite Hobbies;
1. Football
2. Golf
3. Socialising
4. Music Festivals
5. Football Manager (game)

Five Favourite Songs;
1. Sex on Fire – Kings of Leon
2. Levels – Avicii
3. Pass Out – Tini Tempa
4. Clocks – Coldplay
5. 1000 Trees – Stereophonics

Five Favourite Books;
1. Immediate Action by Andy McNab
2. Bravo Two Zero by Andy McNab
3. Mock the week 2012 Edition

Five Favourite Films;
1. Italian Job Original
2. Inbetweeners Movie
3. Speed
4. Cool Running’s
5. Italian Job 2

Five Favourite Foods;
1. Haribo
2. Roast Dinner
3. KFC
4. Cookies
5. Bacon


The Top 10 Cloud Songs

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They say that every song tells a story.  So that got us thinking, could the ROD team tell the story of moving to the cloud with only 10 songs?

Allow us some poetic license with these as we use lyric, song titles and romantic notions to get the message across.

Listen to the entire playlist on Spotify while reading about Cloud songs.

Here goes:

1. Tied to the 90’s – Travis
Lyrics: “We’re tied to the 90’s…we’re tired of the 90’s.”

A down tempo song that reflects the fact that so many companies are still using systems they were using over two decades ago.  Antiquated systems, data stored on a server in the corner of a room, spreadsheets emailed back and forth or banded round on a USB stick.  Tied to the 90’s yet fast becoming tired of the 90’s.

2. Show me what I’m looking for – Carolina Liar
Lyrics: Save me, I’m lost…I’ve been waiting for you; I’ll pay any cost; Save me from being confused; Show me what I’m looking for.

A cry for help.  So many firms and individuals know that fixed data systems are not the way forward, yet the cloud can still be perceived as an enigma.  We still need to work on communicating better what the cloud actually is – and we’re not talking about “private clouds”.  There are so many options out there; but for fear of making the wrong decision many companies stagnant in their decision making.

Let’s make it easier to understand the cloud and show them what they’re looking for….

3. We’ve got to get out of this place – The Animals
Lyrics: We gotta get out of this place, If it’s the last thing we ever do, We gotta get out of this place, there’s a better life, for me and you.

Never a truer word spoken.  Need we say more.

 

 

4. Window in the skies – U2

The moment when clarity hits and the potential of Cloud Computing is realised.  Cloud Computing – a window in the skies.

Aside from that, arguably U2′s best song.  Other contenders from U2 include:

:: Beautiful Day

:: Last Night on Earth

:: No Line on the Horizon

5. On my Cloud – Olly Murs
Lyrics:  Get up
Get on my cloud
Lift your feet right off the ground
Nothing gonna stand in our way
Get up
Get on my cloud
I’m not gonna let you down
Let’s make it happen today
I’ve been busy doing nothing
And it’s starting to show
But let’s turn nothing into something
Get yourself together and we’ll leave the world behind

Did ever a song lend itself so beautifully to a Cloud Computing top 10 song list?  Let’s pretend that this song is about being introduced to Cloud Computing and that a company is implementing salesforce.com – it can’t possibly be about anything else!

Good job Olly – wait for the call from the salesforce.com Superbowl advertising team!

6. Welcome Home – Radical Face
Lyrics: The backs of my eyes hum with things I’ve never done…I’ve come home.

The moment that the company launches their new cloud system.  Welcome Home.

No more fixed I.T. systems.  Collaboration, Security, Lower Costs, Syncing documents, cloud systems, Chatter, salesforce.com – things I’ve never done…I’ve come home.

7. Little Fluffy Clouds – The Orb
Lyrics: The clouds would catch the colours everywhere, its neat…little fluffy clouds.

A fun electronic track, all about ‘little fluffy clouds.’  A relaxing uptempo track…about cloud computing.

8. Digital Love – Daft Punk

Digital Love.  A song title that perfectly encapsulates those who spend their time in the cloud.

New cloud system = A more productive worker + a more efficient company + a cost-effective solution + a happy CEO = Cloud Love (or in this case Digital Love.)

9. There is a light that never goes out – The Smiths

Our hypothetical company are now enjoying the experience of not having a server that keeps on going down; they now have a system that updates itself centrally without each computer needing a technician to fix it; a solution that is available for your company whenever you need it.  No more server resets and lost data.  A light that never goes out.

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10. 10/10 – Paolo Nutini
Lyrics: Oh, I love you more than you can know…ten out of ten.

A celebratory carnival tune entitled ‘10/10’, the undoubted review that a cloud convert would give to their new system.  A joyful rhythmic tune, which (for us) conjures images of a board doing the conga around their board-room as they realise the benefits of Cloud Computing.  

10/10 for cloud computing.

Songs that just missed out on a top ten position:
The back to the future theme tune
My Cloud – Gil Scott
All day and all of the night – The Kinks (a song about up-time)
Happy up here – Royksopp
A design for life – Manic Street Preachers.


You can now see where we’ll be

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We’ve launched a new feature on our website: ‘ROD will be at…’

You can now see which events we’ll be at; so if you’re planning to be there as well you can arrange to meet us. Whether you’re looking for a role in the cloud, or looking for a candidate to fill a role. Just click on the ‘click to arrange a meeting’ and one of our team will be in touch with you shortly.

It’s simple but highly effective.

In March we’ll be at:

:: Social Media World Forum | 27.03.12 – 28.03.12

All events will be listed on our website homepage.


Register now for the Cloud Computing World Forum

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ROD has just registered for the Cloud Computing World Forum and if you’re going we’d love to connect with you.

If you’re not going, CCWF have helpfully put together ten reasons to attend!

1. Meet over 4,000 senior IT decision-makers from around the globe

2. 150 seminars across 8 theatres, including the Microsoft Theatre and all new Google Theatre

3. 120 global exhibitors helping you discover the latest and most innovative IT products

4. Make connections with business partners and peers through our unique networking program

5. Case studies relevant to all business types giving you the clearest industry picture

6. All the latest topics covered by leading industry experts, including SaaS, Security, Big Data, PaaS, Mobile, Public Sector, Virtualization, Communications, Social, CRM and more

7. Hear from Microsoft customers and partners in the Cloud Power theatre and Microsoft Partner Zone

8. Co-located with the CDN World Forum – leading 2 day conference on Content Delivery Networks

9. Attend the Cloud Computing World Series Awards including free networking evening and ceremony

10. 5 free-to-attend theatres, 2 paid to attend/VIP theatre streams and our unique Executive Leadership Summit

We’d like to add an eleventh – we’ll be there!

Some keynote speakers who might interest you: Wener Vogels, VP & CTO, of Amazon. Ricky Santos, VP of Cloud Solutions at Dell, as well as the infamous John Sculley (right), who was hired by Steve Jobs as the new Apple CEO with the legendary line: “Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?”

CCWF is happening on 12th and 13th June 2012 at Earls Court and it’s free to register.

Register for it here, then connect with us and we would love to meet up.