Bringing New Technology to Legacy Land - Don Fossgreen, Thomas Squeo (West)
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Large legacy telecom buys a cloud-native platform after a competitive POC against Red Hat OpenShift, choosing Pivotal Cloud Foundry for built-in logging, HA scaling, and hybrid multi‑cloud portability. The project enlists about 180 engineers in the POC, targets recovery of roughly 500 applications, and deploys private and public Foundry instances with an internal center of excellence plus professional services to drive adoption, turning slow 60‑day VM provisioning into rapid, repeatable delivery.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Bringing New Technology to Legacy Land
- 1:00West Corporation
- 3:33Challenges & Opportunities
- 7:33Addressing Challenges, Capturing Opportunities
- 9:00West's Journey: from Cloud-last to Cloud-first
- 15:49Why PAAS & Cloud Native Platform as our keystone initiative?
- 18:00Competitive & Defensible; Framework for West's selection
- 25:46Beyond Tools, Transforming our teams
- 27:40A journey of a 1000 miles...
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