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May 2026

David Lacey

Getty

What If You Started Your Cloud Use Today

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  • Have we made the best choices

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  • Where have we been

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  • Where are we today

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  • Where do we want to be

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A Journey of Enlightenment or a Journey

What If You Started Your Cloud Use Today

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Where we have been

Where we have been

  • Limited choices in the beginning
  • Grass roots or non-sanctioned
  • Account proliferation
  • Staffing and training
  • Next day operations

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These companies where considered Cloud Vendors

Where we have been

AWS

RackSpace

Alibaba

Enomaly

CA

Logicworks

Google

AT&T

VMware

NaviSite

GigaSpaces

Verizon

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Microsoft

HP

DigitalOcean

DataPipeline

Cloudscaling

OVH

Oracle

SalesForce

IBM

Appistry

GoGrid

BlackBox

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Where we have been

Where we have been

  • Limited choices in the beginning
  • Grass roots or non-sanctioned
  • Account proliferation
  • Staffing and training
  • Next day operations

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Where it all began

Where we have been

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You are now a multi-Cloud institution

Where we have been

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Where we have been

Where we have been

  • Limited choices in the beginning
  • Grass roots or non-sanctioned
  • Account proliferation
  • Staffing and training
  • Next day operations

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Where we have been

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Where we are today

Where we are today

  • Cloud usage has increased
  • A strategy has been defined
  • Management and operations improved
  • Financials have improved
  • Cloud vendors have matured?

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Strategies are moving targets

Where we are today

  • Cloud last
  • Cloud shaming
  • Cloud opportunist
  • Cloud first
  • Cloud smart

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Where we are today

Where we are today

  • Cloud usage has increased
  • A strategy has been defined
  • Management and operations improved
  • Financials have improved
  • Cloud vendors have matured?

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Operations have improved

Where we are today

  • Knowledgeable and trained staff
  • Click-ops has given away to infrastructure as code
  • Management of multi-cloud has matured
  • Account management and handoff 
  • Management of Identities are integrated into enterprise systems
  • Observability 

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Where we are today

Where we are today

  • Cloud usage has increased
  • A strategy has been defined
  • Management and operations improved
  • Financials have improved
  • Cloud vendors have matured?

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The Cloud costs money

Where we are today

  • Cloud is not cheaper
  • Costs can spiral out of control
  • The lift-and-shift question
  • How to pay for Cloud
  • FinOps is a lifestyle and cultural

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Where we are today

Where we are today

  • Cloud usage has increased
  • A strategy has been defined
  • Management and operations improved
  • Financials have improved
  • Cloud vendors have matured?

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Cloud vendors helpful or hindrance

Where we are today

  • The Good
  • The Bad
  • And the Ugly

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Starting over

Where we are today

  • Blow it all up
  • Community
  • Resource – internal and external
  • One Cloud or multi-Cloud
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • FinOps

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Starting over by blowing it all up

Where we are today

  • Not realistic
  • Talk to stakeholders
  • Develop a plan
  • Make incremental changes
  • Don't go back to the comfort zone

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Community can help

Where we are today

  • Leverage those here
  • Use online forums and channels
  • Use monthly Clouds calls

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Use resources

Where we are today

  • Look to those who are internal
  • Utilize Cloud vendors
  • Use smaller consultant firms

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Starting over

Where we are today

  • Blow it all up
  • Community
  • Resource – internal and external
  • One Cloud or multi-Cloud
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • FinOps

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Use multi-Cloud

Where we are today

  • Use it to your advantage
  • Each vendors have strengths
  • Lock down the ability for anyone to create an account

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Starting over

Where we are today

  • Blow it all up
  • Community
  • Resource – internal and external
  • One Cloud or multi-Cloud
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • FinOps

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What Getty is doing

Where we are today

  • Standards
  • Use influence
  • Each account must haves
    • In the organization
    • Security
    • Identity
  • Code everything
  • Retire ancient accounts or retrofit
  • Budgets and forecasting

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Thank you.

David Lacey

dlacey@getty.edu