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Amazon Web Services Our journey to the cloud so far

Join the Assistant Chief Technology Officer of Skidmore College for an insightful journey into their AWS adoption. Learn about disaster recovery, workspaces, and the AWS Educate program, as well as the importance of timing and cost considerations. Discover the mission-critical, value-add proposition driving their cloud innovation. Follow their accidental technologist through a diverse IT career, from IBM mainframes to virus fixes and certifications.

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Amazon Web Services Our journey to the cloud so far

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  1. Amazon Web Services Our journey to the cloud so far

  2. Who we are: Located in upstate New York – one hour north of Albany Equally distant from Montreal and New York City. In Saratoga Springs, NY Liberal Arts college 2,300 undergraduate students 900 FTE faculty and staff

  3. How did we start our AWS journey? By “accident”

  4. Where do you GO when you don’t know where you ARE?

  5. We’re off and running, but where are we running TO?

  6. Go back to “Start”. Do not pass “Go” and do not collect $200

  7. Ok, so now what?

  8. Wait a minute…WHY do we have to have a “cloud-first” mentality? We like having our stuff in our own data center thank you very much.

  9. Timing is everything?

  10. What’s the “Mission Critical, Value-Add Proposition?”

  11. Kickoff

  12. AWS Disaster Recovery

  13. AWS Workspaces

  14. AWS Educate Program

  15. Where do we go next? •

  16. Costs

  17. Questions?

  18. Tom Marcotte is an “accidental technologist” and is the Assistant Chief Technology Officer (and other duties as assigned ) at Skidmore College and has served in many roles at Skidmore. He began his IT career in the New York State Senate in the days of IBM mainframes and WordPerfect for DOS, and he wrote the first NYS Senate Internet Guide (for GOPHER –yes, you can ask me what that is!). Tom has also worked in IT for a number of national and international private sector companies, including Fleet Bank, SGS Testcom, and Palio Advertising. Tom’s “IT claim-to-fame” - he was the first person in the world to come up with a manual fix for one of the world’s first big virus & worm combination viruses, the W95.MTX virus (September, 2000), and his fix was used all over the world. He received his B.A. in Political Science from SUNY at Albany, an A.A.S. in Marketing from SUNY Adirondack, and a 1-year certificate in Radio Broadcasting from SUNY Adirondack. He is certified in ITIL Foundations v3, and is also a Certified Software Manger and Advanced Software manager. Tom is a US Navy veteran, a former volunteer firefighter, factory worker, and disc jockey! Tom Marcotte Assistant Chief Technology Officer Skidmore College tmarcott@skidmore.edu

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