Hybrid Cloud in Finance - John Wetherill, David Lewis, Asif Alam, Thomson Reuters, & Janga Aliminati
Channel: Cloud Foundry
Date: 08/10/2016

Hybrid Cloud in Finance - John Wetherill, BNY Mellon (moderator), David Lewis, BNY Mellon, and Asif Alam, Thomson Reuters, Janga Aliminati, Visa

Every major global financial institution is encountering the cloud, and each is adopting it in their own way. Some are diving in the deep end, moving all software delivery to public cloud like AWS or Azure. Others choose to keep everything on premise. Others are taking a "wait and see" approach, while still others are combining the best of both public and private clouds, adopting a hybrid strategy. 

This technical panel discussion features thought leaders from several major global finance corporations. It will explore the role of hybrid cloud in global enterprise software delivery. The  panelists will present their unique experienced viewpoints on the pros and cons of hybrid cloud, the reasons they have, or have not moved to hybrid, and the challenges they're facing in whatever cloud adoption strategy they've chosen, whether public, private, or hybrid.  This promises to be an invigorating, charged, and possibly somewhat controversial debate. 

Asif Alam
Global Business Director - Technology Sector, Thomson Reuters Corporate

David Lewis
Director Architecture and Platform Services, BNY Mellon

John Wetherill
John Wetherill, Principal Architect at BNY Mellon's Innovation Center in Palo Alto, spent much of his career designing and building software at a handful of startups, at Sun Microsystems, NeXT Inc., and in the smart grid and energy space. His biggest passion is for tools, languages, processes, and systems that improve developer productivity and quality of life. 

John has spent the last four years immersed in Cloud Foundry, and continues to focus on cloud technologies including PaaS, microservices, and containerization. At BNY Mellon he is helping drive the adoption of Cloud Foundry and related technologies across the bank.

Janga Aliminati
Janga R. Aliminati is a Passionate technology leader who possess strategic aptitude, entrepreneurial leadership, hands-on deep domain expertise, exceptional organizational talent with extreme customer focus. Over 20 plus years of his career, Janga has excelled in several high profile project/architectural advisory roles for global corporations and consistently delivered marketable offerings with measurable results. Currently Janga is the Chief Architect and global leader for Visa Cloud (PaaS) platform, responsible for defining Cloud strategy and architecture, identifying right technologies for Visa business needs with automation. Prior to Visa Janga worked at Oracle, he was the founder and head of deployment architectures team and responsible for defining deployment architecture and blueprints for Fusion Middleware, Applications and Public Cloud. Janga has played variety of roles at Oracle like Sr. Group Manager/Director/Sr.Director for Platform Architecture team and Architect for Fusion Applications and Oracle Public Cloud. Janga possess in-depth knowledge on emerging technologies, go-to market strategy and Cloud adaption process for enterprises.