AWS Cloud Enterprise Strategy Blog

“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 […]

“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 […]

“You can’t let your past hold your future hostage.” — LL Cool J In my first few months as a CIO, I felt inundated by requests from an army of vendors. What I really wanted to focus on was learning the business, meeting my team, identifying our strengths and weaknesses, and determining how we should be organized to […]

“Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.” – James F. Bymes Security is a broad topic, and applies in some way to everything that happens in IT. In all of my time working in technology, I’ve found it to be the one […]

“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 […]

“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. […]

“I get by with a little help from my friends” -The Beatles In an upcoming post I will detail some characteristics common to enterprises working successfully in the cloud. One of those characteristics is making sure that you have a cloud center of excellence within your organization. For enterprises that want to accelerate their movement […]

“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 […]