Running Microsoft Workloads in the Cloud
On 9 June 2021, we hosted John Noakes, AWS Partner Development Specialist focused on Windows alongside Aled Sage, VP Engineering at Cloudsoft, to talk about running Windows workloads in the cloud. Aled provided a comparison of the top 3 cloud providers, and John delivered a detailed overview of why AWS might be the surprise choice for your Windows workloads!
Modernising SQL Server to AWS Aurora
On 21 April 2021, we hosted Prasad Rao, AWS Senior Partner Solutions Architect, Dan Pacitti, CTO at ASP and Aled Sage, VP Engineering at Cloudsoft, to talk about the benefits, considerations and risks involved in modernising your SQL server workloads.
Dan and Aled spoke about ASP's modernisation project with Cloudsoft, about which you can read more on our Customer Stories.
Cloud Cost Management & FinOps
On 25th February 2021, we hosted Ben de Mora (FinOps Instructor) and Ashley Hromatko (Senior FinOps Manager, Pearson) to talk about approaches to cloud cost management and how the tools and practices we know as FinOps can help. Aled Sage, VP Engineering at Cloudsoft, finished up the event with practical tips for understanding and controlling your cloud spend.
Read detailed summaries of their talks on the dedicated event page.
Prepare, Plan & Migrate Your Applications to AWS
In October 2020, we hosted Ricardo Sueiras, Enterprise Evangelist at AWS, to talk about cloud adoption and how to define and execute a cloud strategy. Aled Sage, VP Engineering at Cloudsoft, followed up with a talk on approaches to migrating applications to cloud, covering common pitfalls and the best practices to employ to avoid them. Leading FinTech Origo were also on hand to talk about their experiences of migrating to AWS.
Developing standards across cloud services
Cloud enables innovation, but adoption in Capital Markets remains low - why?
At an ISITC event held in London in early March 2020, Solutions Architect Alasdair Hodge lead a workshop around low uptake of public cloud in financial services and how the recent recommendations from the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) can help realise the full potential of public cloud computing.
