Podcast
AFC Podcast: Alfa's Alex Barnes
Richard O’Donohue talks with Alex Barnes, Director of Cloud Services at Alfa, about the next phase of cloud strategy.
Cloud has become business-as-usual - until an outage reminds us how dependent we really are. In this AFC European Equipment Finance Podcast, host Richard O’Donohue is joined by Alex Barnes, Director of Cloud Hosting at Alfa, to unpack what resilience means in 2025 for asset finance.
In a fast, practical conversation, they cover:
- Outages happen: designing recovery for business-critical apps
- Right-sizing resilience: mapping applications to RTO/RPO targets
- FinOps in the real world: controlling speed, scale and spend
- Security today: why public cloud can be more secure - with the right teams
- Regulation that helps: how DORA and PRA outsourcing rules drive better planning (not box-ticking)
- Alfa’s approach: Data Guardian (cross-region/cross-cloud replication) and Cloud Escrow (continuity if a provider fails)
- Hybrid done right: where on-prem, public cloud and SaaS each make sense for asset finance
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