Lawrence Sica, Cloud Architect for ICAP, will discuss the broker's cloud-first strategy, methodology for evaluating its global portfolio of legacy applications, approach to financial industry compliance and risk requirements in the cloud, and goal for self-service IT.
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About Me – Lawrence Sica!
• Cloud Architect
• Experience:
• 15 years experience engineering solutions
• Responsible for defining and implementing ICAP s
global cloud strategy.
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ICAP processes $1.3 trillion in trade
volume daily for clients.
Offices in 32 countries.
70 locations world-wide.
5000 employees world-wide.
20% of staff is in IT.
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• On-premises cost prohibitive
• Cloud allows growth organically with demand.
• Small number of customers to cover costs.
• Revenue Generating - not a cost center!
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Well suited for!
• Separation of duties
• Large IT Shops
• Self-service to non-IT
Not well suited for!
AWS Console is !
• Devops teams
• Small IT Shops
• Self-service to IT groups