AWS Cloud Enterprise Strategy Blog
Category: Adoption
Be Wary of Analysis Paralysis When Using the Cloud
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” -Elbert Hubbard Last week I returned to the east coast after a productive three weeks on the road. I was able to attend and speak at the AWS Summits in San Francisco, London, and Sydney and meet with several […]
Make Automation a Key Part of Your Cloud Strategy
“As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.” — Ernst Fischer Last week I returned to the east coast after a productive three weeks on the road. I was able to attend and speak at the AWS Summits in San Francisco, London, and Sydney and […]
Trading Technologies: A Financial Service Firm’s Journey to the Cloud
“Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms” –Anthony Storr Rick Lane is my kind of CEO. I had the opportunity to meet with the Trading Technologies (TT) CEO and a few members of his team last week to learn about their journey to the cloud. On this journey Rick led the company through a […]
Three Myths about Hybrid Architectures Using the Cloud
“The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.” –David Russell I began to develop my point of view on hybrid architectures as a CIO leading the delivery of several business solutions on top of cloud services. Over the last 5 months I have been fortunate enough to engage […]
The Enterprise Cloud Journey
“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” –Lao Tzu I had an amazing experience at re:Invent this year. I was lucky enough to attend each of the previous conferences as a customer. This year […]
10 Things Successful Cloud Enterprises Do
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” Aristotle This list could also be named “the 10 things I wish I knew when I started my cloud journey”. We were lucky enough to employ a handful of these at the beginning of the Dow Jones journey. […]
AWS: Tales from the Enterprise
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” -Seneca September marked the end of my tenure as the CIO of Dow Jones. This month I am thrilled to start the next chapter of my career with Amazon Web Services as the Head of Enterprise Strategy. Computing is constantly evolving. The adoption of the Internet […]