Bell Integration and AWS

Bell Integration’s CTO Stuart McMinn gives his insight on where AWS sits within Bell. Bell delivers transformation, migration and managed services to support both direct and white-labelled channel Customer data centre, cloud and modern workplace requirements as a core and significant part of our business. Customers of all sizes are now embracing the power and value that AWS provides to their business, with utilisation based billing, speed of deployment and the vast array of technologies and products now available being high on the agenda, along with a vast array of 3rd party products on the AWS marketplace, these are some of the key differentiators that we believe have seen AWS adopted as the preferred cloud provider for many. We are seeing many customers adopting “Cloud First” strategies for new business applications and services, and larger organisations setting targets as high as 60% for migration of on premise server based solutions to public cloud. Whilst this does leave room for data centre infrastructure which remains a core part of Bell’s technology business, it does show the increasing momentum for cloud.