AWS Cloud Enterprise Strategy Blog

“Development is an endurance exercise with incremental improvements” -Sri Mulyani Indrawati DevOps is a relatively new term for a concept I believe has been around a long time. At this point, it’s widely accepted as a cultural way of being in some organizations, a confluence of formerly siloed teams that together can produce faster, more […]

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” — Marcel Proust I recently returned from a 24-day tour through Asia. A few weeks prior to that I was also fortunate enough to spend some time in Australia. Throughout these travels I had the opportunity to speak to many companies, executives, […]

“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 […]

“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 […]

“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. […]