Cloud – An Approach For Today And Not Just The Future!
Over the past 10 months, since I joined Microsoft, my eyes have been opened to the realities of the cloud. In that time I have spoken to a large number of organizations who are fundamentally looking to the future.
In those discussions we have been discussing the future of their organizations and especially how they (as examples):
can improve their agility, lower their overall costs and help them become greener organizations;
will adapt to the coming 4th industrial revolution and what they need to consider to ensure their organization remains relevant. I even took time out to write about the role IoT will play in that;
will be able to put the most robust security and privacy in place in the face of increasingly sophisticated attackers;
can reduce the costs associated with dev/test in particular;
What I have seen, and heard, has convinced me that there is a massive shift happening towards the public/sovereign cloud and towards hybrid cloud (will reference both just as the cloud in the rest of this post). No doubt organizations are now moving, looking to move or thinking of moving major infrastructure and systems to the cloud. I am not speaking hypothetically here but as a matter of fact! Some are moving slower than others but eventually everyone will be there.
In my recent post I shared that I was leaving SAS after 18.5 years. It has been overwhelming to see all the comments in response to that post on LinkedIn, Facebook and on the Blog post itself. Thank you to everyone for the kind words and for all you did to make my time at SAS the success it was. Seeing all those comments made me even more sad that I am leaving!
Many people have asked me where I am going next. The job market is a very interesting one at the moment and it was great to receive a number of offers to consider over the time of my search. Deciding where to go next was not easy especially with some self imposed constraints playing over and over again in my mind. I must also say that staying away from the shiny lights of the booming title is not as easy as it is to write down :-).
There are many great companies out there. I hope I will be able to stay in touch with those I spoke to moving forwards. Many thanks to each of them for considering me for their roles and for their time investment!
What’s Next
Now onto the future. I am now able share my next move. It is one I am very excited about.
I am going to go work for Microsoft(although I will remain located in Heidelberg, Germany) when not travelling as required.
