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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 …
Ten reasons for setting up a Cloud Center of Excellence (part 1) Read More »
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 …
Only those who have the agility to change with the market and innovate quickly will survive (Robert Kiyosaki) The answer to the title question is no … Being agile is crucial to survival. Being agile is not just adopting an agile way of doing projects. An agile project approach can be one of the pieces of the puzzle to be …
Is an agile project approach the holy grail in crisis times? Read More »
In traditional application development the focus is on preventing the system from failing. In technical terms: increasing the Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF). Applications build for the cloud require a different mindset. One must expect failure to happen (every now and then) and focus on how to recover from them. The focus should shift to …
Building applications for the cloud is a totally different ballgame Read More »
In the ideal world a cloud/transformation journey is a straightforward concept: Step 1: you start to experiment both from a business as from a technology point of view by means of Proof of Concepts Step 2: you take the learnings and start to put a framework around your journey. Call it a Cloud Center of …
When Cloud Adoption becomes too much of a success … Read More »
All of the technology is a means to an end. (Jack Holzman) The big cloud providers are not only investing to keep their technology (cloud) stack up to date. They are equally investing a lot of time in “adoption frameworks”. There are pages and pages of documentation available, for free. They have free tools for …
Why we designed our own approach to a Cloud Center of Excellence Read More »
“Chaos in the midst of chaos isn’t funny, but chaos in the midst of order is” (Steve Martin) Before starting to answer the question, it makes sense to have a common understanding on what we mean with a “Cloud Center of Excellence“. The concept was first pitched by Steve Orban from AWS in 2016. At …
“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes”. (Benjamin Franklin) Today the vast majority of our financial, insurance, and other important personal documents are in a digital format, stored in a variety of online systems, secured by numerous passwords, multi-factor authentication and other security options. The problem is no …
Before “Rationalization of Digital Estate” can even start … Read More »
In the middle of a summer heat wave, I had an interesting conversation with a CIO about a shared passion: winter sports. While the last winters had plenty of snow, some winters before were a bit more challenging. We both remembered very well the situation of Christmas 2015: it had not been snowing up until …
At some point in a technology market, a small number of companies will set the standard, turning into the “gorilla” that runs the place.
