Buy-in from the top is key to cloud transitions, AWS exec says
June 22, 2016
Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Blair Hanley Frank.
As the head of Amazon Web Services, Andy Jassy has seen a lot of big organizations start using the public cloud. The biggest indicator of success for a cloud transition is simple, he says: Has the business’ senior staff bought into it? In his view, organizations will usually stick with their status quo on-premises data centers unless leaders are ready to promote the use of public cloud services.
"And it sounds a little bit simple, but the reality is that there’s so much inertia all over these organizations in continuing to things the same way they’ve been done for the last number of years, for a variety of different reasons," Jassy said at the AWS Summit in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday…
On top of that, business leaders should set aggressive goals for getting applications moved into the cloud, in order to accelerate their organizations’ transitions, he recommended. He cited the example of GE, which tried to get 50 of its applications running on AWS within 30 days. The company didn’t quite make that target, but it is now in the process of moving 6,000 applications to AWS…
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