Cloud Conversations: Tom Arbuthnot on Empowering.Cloud, Unified Communications, and Microsoft Teams

Cloud Conversations is a regular podcast that we’ll be featuring here on Petri. It’s about everything connected to cloud computing, including technologies like Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM), Microsoft Defender, Windows, Intune, and much more!

Cloud Conversations: Tom Arbuthnot on Empowering Cloud, Unified Communications, and Microsoft Teams

Tom Arbuthnot is a Microsoft MVP, a Microsoft Certified Master, and the co-founder of Empowering.Cloud. In this week’s episode, Tom joins Peter Rising on the show to discuss:

• Unified Communications
• The evolution to Teams from Lync and Skype for Business
• His career journey
• Co-Founding Empowering.Cloud
• The importance of community
• Work/life balance and education
• And much more!

More on Cloud Conversations

The podcast is hosted by Peter Rising, Ru Campbell, and Kat Beedim, all Petri contributors. They’re joined by Azure McFarlane, a Microsoft MVP, Data Analyst, and Power Platform Consultant, and Femke Cornelissen, an Adoption and Modern Workplace Team Leader and Microsoft 365 blogger. Each week, Peter, Ru, Kat, Azure, and Femke speak to a guest who shares their industry insights and technical experience.

Cloud Conversations doesn’t only focus on the technical. Each episode covers topics like career progression, community, productivity to get the most out of your day as an IT pro, equality and diversity in IT, and much more to help IT pros survive and thrive out in the wild!

Previous guests on Cloud Conversations include a list of well-known industry experts and technologists, including Stephen Rose, who is a Microsoft Teams Senior Product Marketing Manager, Petri’s Steve Goodman, who is an MVP in Microsoft Office Apps and Service, and Andy Malone, who is an MVP in Enterprise Mobility and a Microsoft Certified Trainer.