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Lester Wade

Groundhog Day with Azure Stack

I used to work on Eucalyptus, one of the earliest private cloud implementations, out of which OpenStack was born. Eucalyptus used AWS API…

Sep 6, 2017

Sep 6, 2017

Lester Wade

Azure & AWS: Closing the Gap?

My day job now sees me focusing on building a Microsoft Azure practice inside a large global SI. Before this I was busy doing the same…

May 31, 2017

May 31, 2017

Lester Wade

Why the rush to public cloud?

I spend a fair amount of time talking to clients who call out public cloud as their future platform — new stuff lands on it and old stuff…

Mar 24, 2017

Mar 24, 2017

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Worried About Lock-In? Encourage Cloud Skills To Enable Platform Mobility

Reducing the switching cost and burden of lock-in is highly dependent on the skill level of your development teams

Mar 1, 2017

Worried About Lock-In? Encourage Cloud Skills To Enable Platform Mobility

Mar 1, 2017

Lester Wade

The Ball and Chain for Enterprise IT Services

Amazon recently posted its Q2 2016 earnings. It showed that AWS generated $2.88 billion in revenue in the second quarter of this year…

Aug 1, 2016

Aug 1, 2016

Lester Wade

Here Be Dragons: The Enterprise Dangers for Amazon

One thing I've heard from clients is that dealing with Amazon (AWS) can often be refreshing. Refreshing in the sense that they are building…

May 11, 2016

May 11, 2016

Lester Wade

The age of BYOT (or BYOTch) in cloud

First it was BYOD (Bring Your Own Desktop), now it’s BYOT (Bring Your Own Tools). A colleague of mine prefers the acronym BYOTCH (Bring…

May 9, 2016

May 9, 2016

Lester Wade

3 things to do before you start your enterprise cloud migration…

Over the past year I’ve seen a very notable increase in the number of large organisations showing a very clear desire to migrate as many…

Apr 14, 2016

Apr 14, 2016

Lester Wade

What you should know about a “Cloud Broker”

A Cloud Broker is typically a form of CMP (Cloud Management Platform) which touts the ability to deploy and move a service (a set of cloud…

Apr 8, 2016

Apr 8, 2016

Lester Wade

That shadow IT thing …

… otherwise known as “argh we’re all outta jobs!” syndrome.

Mar 31, 2016

Mar 31, 2016

Lester Wade

Lester Wade

Cloud explorer. Christian. Tennis player. Gamer. History nut. I support real ale! Now working at AWS. Thoughts and opinions my own.

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