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Cloudscapes Podcast

Cloudscapes is UpCloud’s podcast about Cloud computing and the people who work with it. Join Will Barlow and Jannika Jokinen for open conversations with founders, technical leaders and the teams building and running digital services.

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Cloudscapes Season 2

New co-host Will Barlow joins Jannika Jokinen to host Season 2 of Cloudscapes, bringing fresh questions to conversations with customers, industry guests and people from across UpCloud.

This season looks at how businesses retain control of their technology, how managed services change the work of development teams, and why customer experience matters when choosing and using a cloud platform.

22 Oct 2026

Cloudscapes S2 – Ep 1 | Meet the new hosts

⁠Cloudscapes⁠ returns with conversations about how cloud services are built, chosen and used.

This season, William Barlow and Jannika Jokinen will be speaking with guests from ⁠UpCloud⁠ and across the industry about sovereignty, product development and the customer feedback that changes how a service works.

Cloudscapes Season 1

Explore earlier conversations about cloud migration, Kubernetes, open-source software, hosting and running services at scale. Start with a topic that matters to your team or a guest whose experience you want to hear.

10 Sep 2025

Cloudscapes S1 – Ep 10 | From Hidden Champion to Cloud Leader: CEO Arno Schafer on UpCloud’s Vision

In this special season finale of Cloudscapes, we’re joined by Arno Schäfer, CEO of UpCloud, for an in-depth conversation about his first six months leading the company and his vision for the future of cloud infrastructure in Europe.

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1 Sep 2025

Cloudscapes S1 – Ep 9 | How Quriiri Built a Zero-Downtime Messaging Platform on UpCloud

How do you build a messaging platform capable of handling millions of SMS, emails, and RCS messages without latency or downtime? In this deep dive, Thomas Wahlberg (CTO of Quriiri) breaks down the infrastructure required to scale business messaging globally while maintaining strict GDPR compliance and security.

28 Jul 2025

Cloudscapes S1 – Ep 8 | Building an Open Source Alternative to Google Workspace

Is it possible to build a profitable SaaS without feeding your data to US hyperscalers? In this episode, Niels Kersic (Founder, mosa.cloud) reveals how he built a fully sovereign, open-source collaboration platform that rivals the giants, without the privacy nightmares.

Oiva Health guests our Cloudscapes podcast.

7 Jul 2025

Cloudscapes S1 – Ep 7 | Keeping Healthcare Data Safe: Cloud, Compliance and the European Advantage

Johannes Holvitie (CTO, Oiva Health) reveals the infrastructure strategy behind one of Europe’s leading digital care platforms. We break down the technical and legal realities of storing sensitive patient data in 2025.

Pionative guesting our Cloudscapes podcast.

23 Jun 2025

Cloudscapes S1 – Ep 6 | Platform Engineering vs. DevOps: The Future of Kubernetes (K8s)

Kubernetes has won the orchestration war, but are your developers drowning in complexity? In this episode, Hijmen Fokker (Pionative) argues that the future of Cloud Native isn’t about managing clusters, it’s about Platform Engineering and abstracting the infrastructure away.

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9 Jun 2025

Cloudscapes S1 – Ep 5 | Inside Hack The Box’s Cloud Architecture: Hybrid Cloud & Pwnbox

The minds behind Hack The Box, Thiseas Meggos (VP of Infrastructure) and Gerasimos Marketos (SVP of Product), reveal the architecture that powers the world’s largest ethical hacking community.

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26 May 2025

Cloudscapes S1 – Ep 4 | Choosing the Right Web Hosting Strategy with Hosted Power

In this episode of Cloudscapes, we are joined by Tim Terreur COO at Hosted Power to explore the key considerations that modern businesses should weigh when evaluating their hosting options.

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12 May 2025

Cloudscapes S1 – Ep 3 | From Complexity to Clarity: Evolving Cloud Migrations in 2025 with Montel

We’re joined by Lauri Kainulainen from Montel Intergalactic to explore how modern cloud migration is evolving — and why more companies are shifting from complex, DIY setups to streamlined, managed environments.

Featured guests

Season 1 Episode 2: Hailey HR

“We’re super happy to have found a partner that has the same view as us when it comes to data security and the European cloud.”

haileyhr marincke 1 - Cloudscapes — Marincke Behm,
Customer Success Team Lead (Nordics)

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Season 1 Episode 3: Montel

“Today, the hardest part of setting up Kubernetes on UpCloud is naming the cluster.”
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montel lauri 1 - Cloudscapes — Lauri Kainulainen,
CTO

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Season 1 Episode 4: Hosted Power

“Multicloud is really where we need to look for the next five years.”
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hosted power tim 1 - Cloudscapes — Tim Terruer,
COO

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Season 1 Episode 5: Hack The Box

“UpCloud ticked from the beginning most of the boxes in terms of performance, resilience, and scalability, as we saw in the initial POCs.”

hackthebox thiseas 1 - Cloudscapes — Thiseas Meggos,
VP of infrastructure

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Season 1 Episode 6: Pionative

“We’ve seen some clients that have a really hard requirement that data should stay within Europe.”

pionative hijmen 1 - Cloudscapes — Hijmen Fokker,
Founder

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Season 1 Episode 7: Oiva Health

“We needed a partner who could help define and deliver infrastructure we can modify in real-time while running critical systems for our clients.”

oivahealth johannes 1 - Cloudscapes — Johannes Holvitie,
CTO

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Season 1 Episode 8: mosa.cloud

“If you rip the mask off and it’s AWS or Google underneath, that’s not sovereignty.”

mosacloud niels 1 - Cloudscapes — Niels Kersic,
Founder

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Season 1 Episode 9: Quriiri

“Using UpCloud’s infrastructure has been crucial. It allowed us to provide configurable servers through a user-friendly interface, and it gave us the reliability we needed from day one.”

quriiri thomas 1 - Cloudscapes — Thomas Wahlberg,
CTO

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About Cloudscapes

Cloudscapes is UpCloud’s podcast about cloud technology, the businesses that depend on it and the people making it work.

Hosts for season 2, Will Barlow and Jannika Jokinen sit down with founders, technical leaders and industry guests to discuss everything from European data sovereignty to building and scaling digital services. Guests share the decisions they’ve faced, what they’ve learned and the career paths that brought them here.

For season 1 every episode was hosted by Teppo Suominen and Jannika. Where they sat down with customers, partners, and industry figures to discuss real-world challenges facing their business.

Expect relaxed conversations with technical substance, personal stories and perspectives you can bring back to your own team.

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