Waters Wavelength

This week, Gerard Francis, global head of enterprise data at Bloomberg, comes back on the podcast to talk with Tony about lessons learned during Covid, the acceleration of cloud usage, and making data more accessible. The last time he joined the podcast, Gerard spoke about the alternative data space. (https://www.waterstechnology.com/data-management/4275716/wavelength-podcast-episode-161-gerard-francis-of-bloomberg) 2:00 – Tony talks about his story on Trading Technologies' Echo Chamber and its goal of aggregating order flow on the TT platform. (https://www.waterstechnology.com/data-management/7548941/trading-technologies-unveils-new-futures-market-data-feed) 7:00 – Gerard joins the podcast. He and Tony start off talking about the experience of transitioning to a work-from-home situation. 10:00 – Then, they talk about how the Covid situation accelerates the importance of cloud, and the decisions Bloomberg has made to making datasets and services available in the cloud. 14:30 – Gerard explains the thinking