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Each week, Jon Shanks, CEO of cloud-native consultancy and product business Appvia, and tech evangelist Salman Iqbal, analyse the biggest news stories that week, that are shaping Cloud, Data and AI. Alongside their insight, they invite frontline leaders, Chief Technology Officers and engineering heads from established, cloud-powered organisations to share candid lessons from running real-world workloads at scale. Together, they take the headlines and get to the facts, helping you keep track of the fast-paced Cloud market. Expect straight-talking conversation, sharp analysis as they explore how emerging technology reshapes business and society. Tune in each week to stay a step ahead of the future of tech.
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Signup to Generate a PitchEach week, Jon Shanks, CEO of cloud-native consultancy and product business Appvia, and tech evangelist Salman Iqbal, analyse the biggest news stories that week, that are shaping Cloud, Data and AI. Alongside their insight, they invite frontline leaders, Chief Technology Officers and engineering heads from established, cloud-powered organisations to share candid lessons from running real-world workloads at scale.
Cloud Unplugged is hosted by Jon Shanks, Lewis Marshall. The show has published 63 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Nobody is coming to protect you" (29 September 2026, 39 minutes), "The Skills That Will Still Matter When AI Does Everything Else" (2 September 2026, 35 minutes), and "OpenAI's AI Hacked Hugging Face. Now Apple Is Suing Them Too." (12 August 2026, 33 minutes).
Cloud Unplugged publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 38 minutes across 63 episodes.
Booking probability for Cloud Unplugged is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Cloud Unplugged requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Cloud Unplugged's contact route on record: verified email.
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Jon Shanks, Lewis Marshall hosts Cloud Unplugged, a technology podcast with 63 episodes published.
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Episode #1
Season 4 of Cloud Unplugged is here, and we're shifting focus to what AI actually means for the people running technology teams inside real businesses. This week Jon and Salman get into AI strategy — what it actually...
Is AI actually coming for your job? Jon and Salman dig into the data. 150,000 tech jobs have been cut in tech this year alone, and AI is being cited as the number one reason. But is that the full story? The bigger...
Jon and Salman cover three big stories and one very weird one. First: an OpenAI agent apparently went off on its own and started hacking Hugging Face's production systems. OpenAI say it was accidental. Jon doesn't...
Your employees are already using AI on their personal accounts, with your company data. Here's how to get ahead of it. Shadow AI is the term for what's already happening inside most businesses: employees quietly using...
Episode #10
A UN report linked chatbot sycophancy to deaths. So Jon and Salman asked the question: should AI models be ethical? Jon and Salman sit with one of the hardest questions in AI: what does it actually mean for a model to...
OpenAI's financials leaked. Elon bought Cursor. Microsoft had to call Amazon for help. Standard week. Jon and Salman dig into four stories that all point to the same thing: the AI industry is moving so fast that even...
Is the AI bubble about to burst? Jon and Salman go full data mode. No news roundup this week. Instead, Jon and Salman ask the question everyone's dancing around: is AI genuinely transforming business? They dig into the...
This week Jon and Salman cover Anthropic calling for AI regulation while simultaneously IPO-ing for $1 trillion, Meta's AI support chatbot handing over Instagram accounts to complete strangers, whether Meta is about to...
This week Jon and Salman cover a * GitHub breach from a single dodgy VS Code extension * Dutch civil servants accidentally exposed to the US Senate, and * whether EU cloud sovereignty is even real. Plus token maxing is...
Episode #4
This week on Cloud Unplugged Season 3 Episode 3: Can Europe build its own cloud for the price of a data centre car park? Is training AI on pirated books the Napster moment for the entire industry? And is 35% of the...
This week on Cloud Unplugged Season 3 Episode 3: Can Europe build its own cloud for the price of a data centre car park? Is training AI on pirated books the Napster moment for the entire industry? And is 35% of the...
Episode #2
This week on Cloud Unplugged : Is GitHub turning developers into addicts? Can Amazon really dethrone NVIDIA? Did an AI agent actually nuke a production database in nine seconds, or is someone covering their tracks? And...
Episode #1
This week on Cloud Unplugged: Is Anthropics new model, Mythos really that dangerous? How did Vercel get hacked? Did Tim Cook step aside or get pushed out and can AI really run a business? Anthropic's Mythos model...
This week on Cloud Unplugged: AI goes local, Google Cloud breaks the internet, and the DOJ turns up the heat on Google’s $32B Wiz acquisition. We’re breaking down the biggest stories in cloud and AI: Context & Qualcomm...
This week, we delve into the UK government’s substantial investment in AI infrastructure and its implications for cloud sovereignty; Is it related to the trump administration, the economy or the AI arms race? We discuss...
In this episode, Jon and Lewis cover four wildly different stories, from Warfare to the impact of Trump conspiracies on Datacentres. First up, Microsoft is investing $400 million to turn Switzerland into the next cloud...
Episode #12
This week, we dive into OpenAI’s $6.5B acquisition of Jony Ive’s ‘io’ and what it means for the future of AI-native devices. We explore Google’s VEO 3 and the deepfake dilemmas it raises, along with Microsoft’s Aurora...
In this episode, we dissect industry-shaping stories, debating CoreWeave's $35 billion IPO, AWS Transform: AI for legacy app modernisation, and the exciting intersection of quantum computing and AI and how much Nvidia...
In this, almost, but never quite, 30-minute episode, we investigate how Saudi Arabia is set to become the world’s next AI hub. Unravelling the state-backed initiative, HUMAIN, and the billions being channelled into...
In this 30‑minute episode, Jon and Lewis unpick the coordinated ransomware wave that struck Britain’s high‑street giants. They trace the attack chain that emptied Co‑op shelves, froze M&S online orders and attempted...
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