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Why now is not the time to take your foot off the gas

Llantwit Major | Published in Board and Cloud | 10 minute read |    
Dynamic image representing acceleration and continuous innovation during the pandemic, featuring a sleek, modern road with motion blur effects to convey speed and forward movement. Subtle elements like arrows, data streams, and hints of missing or fragmented maps and signs indicating 'unknown' or 'no plan' emphasise the theme of navigating without a clear map or plan. (Image generated by ChatGPT 4o)

For many Boards, the pandemic has catalysed broad business change by accelerating digital transformation initiatives. The availability of cloud computing has democratised access to technology, and businesses of all shapes and sizes have seized on this opportunity to: increase revenue, margin, and profit; enter new markets and launch new products and services; delight, excite and get closer to their customers; and become more operationally efficient, increasing productivity, cutting waste, and reducing costs.

Accelerating innovation with Cloud Financial Management

Llantwit Major | Published in Cloud | 10 minute listen |    

One of the biggest challenges for organizations that adopt the cloud is aligning their development spend with business initiatives while managing and optimizing spend. That’s Joe Daly’s job at Nationwide, where he began overseeing the insurer’s cloud migration more than two years ago. I spoke to Joe about how this shift has created greater transparency, flexibility, and efficiency as we recorded it as a podcast.

Planning a cloud migration? Here's what you should consider

Llantwit Major | Published in Cloud | 10 minute read |    
Sleek, modern visual representing cloud migration, featuring cloud icons, data streams, and abstract representations of cost analysis and business value benefits. The design conveys the sophistication and strategic considerations involved in cloud technology.(Image generated by ChatGPT 4o)

From peak CPU and peak RAM, to decommissioning costs, there’s more to think about than TCO. How can you assess (at a detailed level) whether migrating X application to the cloud is going to make sense for your organisation?

Silicon Exion: Planning a cloud migration

Skipton | Published in Cloud | 10 minute read |     

Siliconexion sat down with me today to talk about cloud migration and what you need to take into account before embarking on a business transformation enabled by the cloud.

Retail Week

London | Published in Cloud | 10 minute read |     

Retaiil Week wrote an aritlce this week about technology companies and how they have turned themselves into platforms. I was interviewed to give the Amazon viewpoint on this.

Edge Markets

Hong Kong | Published in AI , Board and Cloud | 10 minute read |     

Whilst in Hong Kong for the AWS Transformation Day, some of my AWS colleagues and I sat down with Edge Markets (a publication in Malaysia) to talk about AI and the power of the cloud in helping businesses adopt AI and ML to accelerate business outcomes. You can read the whole interview here.

Gartner CFO Roundtable

Atlanta | Published in Cloud | 1 minute view |    

Earlier this week I presented at a Gartner round table for CFO’s in Atlanta. The topic was how organisations use the cloud to transform and how the value from that transformation is expressed to the business. My presentation can be viewed on the Gartner website here (registration required).

Did Thor just visit Kowloon?

Victoria Harbour | Published | 1 minute view |    

So while I was working in Hong Kong this week, I wandered out during one of the downpours that happen at this time of year here and managed to catch lighting hitting the buildings on the other side of the harbour.

Lightening striking a building in Hong Kong