Adopting Cloud technology comes with new IT operations challenges. While the theoretical model says “you build it, you run it”, enterprise reality is different. Product teams in whatever state of autonomy fail to properly run it. Or honestly, it’s simply too expensive to work like that. The enterprise reality is at this moment a hybrid …
The digital shift forces companies to innovate and rethink their digital strategies. That’s why lots of businesses are adopting cloud technology. However, cloud technology comes with a new financial model where variable spending is the new standard. The agility inherent to cloud technology has its flipside: the invoice from hell every CIO or CFO fears. …
Imagine yourself as a real estate developer. You just bought a large piece of land and eventually want to use it to build and sell houses. These sales will earn you money. But there’s a problem. Your new land is not ready to just start building houses. There’s no plan, there’s no utilities, there’s even …
Adopting Cloud technology comes with a new financial model. Variable spending becomes the standard, while the “spending power” goes from procurement teams to engineers. One button click can lead to instant costs. It’s a matter of time before a CIO will get confronted with “the invoice from hell”. Nobody saw it coming. And worse, nobody knows …
Cloud journey The major cloud journey service providers have been preaching for years that the way to get started on a cloud journey is to start experimenting. Start with proof-of- concepts, pilots, … The cloud model strategy perfectly lends itself to this approach. You have virtually no cloud investment costs. A lot of cloud services …
According to Gartner, every enterprise needs one. According to conversations with our customers, every enterprise wants one. But what exactly is a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE)? In 2016, Stephen Orban, at that time Global Head of Enterprise Strategy at AWS, started using the term CCoE in a blog series around the “Enterprise Cloud Journey“. …
Why would you need a Cloud Center of Excellence? Let’s give 10 good reasons. Part 2 … Optimised Architecture through reference architectures In a recent customer conversation on a CCoE, a customer said: “I believe we have a lot of trees, but we can’t see the woods”. A lot of customers have done proof of …
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Why would you need a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE)? Let’s give 10 good reasons. Part 1 … Increased Business Value The whole idea behind a cloud first strategy is to offer more value to the business. But that doesn’t come by itself. It’s not because you adopt a “cloud first” strategy that miracles are …
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Adopting cloud technology is like learning to swim. Nobody can do it without jumping into the water. The first step towards cloud adoption is starting to use it. The way cloud technology is offered to the world gives you the perfect opportunity to experiment and learn. Proof of concepts are the best way to get …
Hi, I’m Thierry Luycx. I’ve been on this planet since more than 50 years, and running around in the IT world since 1987. My career started as a trainer, teaching people how to program high-volume laserprinters at Xerox. After a few months, my career turned into a pre- and post-sales support role and I entered …
