Sovereign DBaaS Decoded
Sovereign DBaaS Decoded is a podcast for IT leaders and implementers who want to understand data sovereignty and explore strategies to reliably scale their open-source database ops while maintaining control of how their data is managed and stored. In each episode, Severalnines CEO Vinay Joosery interviews industry leaders to uncover how organizations can implement open-source databases, cloud vendor-neutral environments, and tooling to address heavy workloads and mitigate business risks, including data compliance requirements.
Episodes
16 episodes
The pendulum swings - the current state and future of cloud repatriation
The pendulum swings or has it swung? Over 80% of CIOs now plan to repatriate some of their workloads from the cloud back to on-prem environments. In this episode, we sit with industry veteran and COO of US Signal, John White, to discuss what re...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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41:21
The cloud of Babel - unifying cloud and on-prem with Kubernetes
What's in a name? Cloud, private and hybrid cloud, on-prem and other terms are bandied about in an attempt to clarify, but also confuse and separate. We set out to unify these terms once and for all and discuss Kubernetes's role in making that ...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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1:23:16
2025 state of cloud - warp speed ahead for AI, workload consolidation, and repatriation
Severalnines CEO Vinay Joosery and guest Sanjeev Mohan, former Gartner Research VP and now principal analyst at SanjMo, kickoff Sovereign DBaaS Decoded's 2025 season with their annual discussion on the state of the cloud. In this ep...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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56:42
Promethean wager - AI, vector databases, and data sovereignty
In the frontier of AI, vector databases have emerged as a pivotal technology, sitting at the intersection of everyday ops concerns, AI application frameworks, and data compliance.Join our CEO Vinay and Stephen Batifol, a seasoned Develop...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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50:29
Cloud reinterpreted - from destination to philosophy and OpenStack
In this episode, we explore the shifting paradigms of cloud with Todd Robinson, President and Co-founder at OpenMetal, an award-winning open-source cloud. He joins Vinay to unpack how traditional views of the cloud as a destination/location are...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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1:24:33
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Mad world - creating a new stateful world with Kubernetes
In this episode, Vinay dives into the world of Kubernetes and stateful systems with Eddie Wassef, VP and Chief Architect at Vonage.Together, they discuss compare the Kubernetes of yesterday to today and how its stateful systems use case...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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56:19
2024 state of cloud - emerging into a brave new world
In this episode to kick off 2024, our CEO Vinay Joosery and SanjMo principal analyst Sanjeev Mojhan get together once again to look back at 2023 and ahead to 2024.They discuss the events and trends that made the greatest impact to 2023,...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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47:22
Holistic sovereignty - the sovereignty landscape, open-source, and data stack
Guest-at-a-Glance💡 Guest: Frank Karlitschek💡 What he does: Founder / CEO💡Company: Nextcloud💡Noteworthy: Open-source advocate with 25 years in so...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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46:59
The holy trinity - data sovereignty, Sovereign Cloud, and Sovereign DBaaS
Guest-at-a-Glance:💡 Guest: Antoine Coetsier💡What he does: Co-founder / COO @ exoscale💡Noteworthy: Cloud expert with extensive experience in secure infrastructu...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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34:49
Charting the uncharted - the role of DevOps & Platform Engineering in Sovereign DBaaS
Guest-at-a-Glance:💡 Name: Josef Pullicino💡 What he does: Core DevOps Manager at MeDirect💡 Noteworthy: Prior to joining MeDirect, Josef worked at a leading telecom...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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55:16
Reducing environment risk — how local CSPs can supplement and replace hyperscalers
In this episode of Sovereign DBaaS Decoded, host Vinay Joosery dives deep into the intricacies of the Swedish cloud space with a distinguished panel: Fredric Wallsten from Safespring, Johan Christenson of Cleura, and Henrik Grankvist from Elast...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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54:07
The journey home — a healthcare app’s journey emigrating from a US hyperscaler to a local cloud
For a SaaS company founded in the past decade, a US-based hyperscaler offering services for hosting infrastructure would have been the natural place to start. However, the legal landscape has changed a lot and deciding where to host your infras...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:02:16
Notes from a CIO: Security & compliance in today’s dynamic regulatory environment
Digitization has resulted in a lot of good things. It has facilitated better processes, brought greater transparency, and accelerated the exchange of information. Further, social networks not only enable us to connect with other people and adve...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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47:53
Booking.com Pt 2 - How Booking.com built their own Sovereign DBaaS at scale
Automation is a necessity and a prerequisite for growth, but building your own automation is a time-consuming and costly process. Therefore, before going down this path, it would be useful to establish your resource limits, whether in money, to...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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1:18:03
Booking.com Pt 1 - Running data infrastructure at an Enterprise scale
Running and scaling a robust database is a complex and time-consuming process. But, if managed properly, it sets the business up for long-term success. Therefore, as a manager, you must first ask yourself what you want from a database and wheth...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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1:21:55
The State of Cloud - Exploring challenges, risks & opportunities with Sanjeev Mohan
Today, we are seeing a shift in business with economies cooling and IT spend going down; however, one area of business that continues to grow is cloud computing. More and more companies are moving workloads into the cloud, but are they doing it...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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53:54