Matt VanBergen, CITYTECH, at AWS Re:Invent 2013 2013 with John Furrier and Dave Vellante
Broadcasting live from the AWS re:invent Conference in Las Vegas, theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, asked their guest Matt VanBergen of CityTech to comment on the current event and recent Amazon innovations from the CTO standpoint.
"It's very, very innovative; it's the best opportunity for software developers and architects," stated VanBergen, who recalled that in the past one had to rely on hardware people to set up the servers, and allocate storage. What's happening now is "turning things upside down" in VanBergen's opinion "as far as how IT is being done."
"We're not an infrastructure company, we never have been; we've always been software," clarified VanBergen. "This allows us to jump in right away and offer a turn-key solution without having to build our data centers."
Experiment fast, minimize damage
Citing Andy Jassy's keynote, which mentioned the word "experiment" a great deal in connection with the cloud, Furrier asked VanBergen to share his impression on the mindset of people using the cloud. Vellante added that one "should be able to experiment fast and minimize collateral damage."
"We've seen adoption happening in different ways," said VanBergen. "Sometimes people want to go full-scale, get in, maybe for specific application, but a lot of times our opportunities come around where there are performance issues with on-premise application."
Part of resolving the problem is spinning that application on AWS. "It's an experiment; we want to see how an application performs in a known environment." This way they try to identify whether there is a problem with the hardware or the software. And, in the end, "if the application runs better on AWS, why not just move it there?"
How AWS impacted CityTech's business
VanBergen's company, CityTech, has been around since 2003, pre-AWS era. Three years in, AWS announced S3 and EC2. Vellante asked Matt to take the viewers back to that time, explaining a bit their business model and how AWS impacted it.
"We are a global IT consultancy specialized primarily in general enterprise application development. By 2005-2006 we started getting into large scale web content management implementations and started seeing that we needed a development environment that we could stand up the developers' projects on. Initially we leveraged AWS for those type of purposes; it was more of a utility for us," admitted VanBergen. "As Amazon started releasing more services and public cloud computing infrastructure service became more popular, we started defining our business around Amazon Web Services."
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Matt VanBergen, CITYTECH, at AWS Re:Invent 2013 2013 with John Furrier and Dave Vellante
Broadcasting live from the AWS re:invent Conference in Las Vegas, theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, asked their guest Matt VanBergen of CityTech to comment on the current event and recent Amazon innovations from the CTO standpoint.
"It's very, very innovative; it's the best opportunity for software developers and architects," stated VanBergen, who recalled that in the past one had to rely on hardware people to set up the servers, and allocate storage. What's happening now is "turning things upside down" in VanBergen's opinion "as far as how IT is being done."
"We're not an infrastructure company, we never have been; we've always been software," clarified VanBergen. "This allows us to jump in right away and offer a turn-key solution without having to build our data centers."
Experiment fast, minimize damage
Citing Andy Jassy's keynote, which mentioned the word "experiment" a great deal in connection with the cloud, Furrier asked VanBergen to share his impression on the mindset of people using the cloud. Vellante added that one "should be able to experiment fast and minimize collateral damage."
"We've seen adoption happening in different ways," said VanBergen. "Sometimes people want to go full-scale, get in, maybe for specific application, but a lot of times our opportunities come around where there are performance issues with on-premise application."
Part of resolving the problem is spinning that application on AWS. "It's an experiment; we want to see how an application performs in a known environment." This way they try to identify whether there is a problem with the hardware or the software. And, in the end, "if the application runs better on AWS, why not just move it there?"
How AWS impacted CityTech's business
VanBergen's company, CityTech, has been around since 2003, pre-AWS era. Three years in, AWS announced S3 and EC2. Vellante asked Matt to take the viewers back to that time, explaining a bit their business model and how AWS impacted it.
"We are a global IT consultancy specialized primarily in general enterprise application development. By 2005-2006 we started getting into large scale web content management implementations and started seeing that we needed a development environment that we could stand up the developers' projects on. Initially we leveraged AWS for those type of purposes; it was more of a utility for us," admitted VanBergen. "As Amazon started releasing more services and public cloud computing infrastructure service became more popular, we started defining our business around Amazon Web Services."
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