Greg Heywood

About Greg Heywood: Greg is a Consultant at Sourced Group with over 20 years of industry experience. This has primarily been in the areas of infrastructure management, end-user compute, virtualization, databases, and cloud computing. Greg worked with end point management and on-premise virtualization for many years before moving on to helping customers move to, and adapt to the cloud. Greg is passionate about serverless, and also helping teams transition from legacy ways of working. Greg has also been recognised as an AWS Ambassador since 2021.

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Banking and Operational Resilience in the Cloud

Posted on June 8, 2023

With cloud adoption on the rise in the banking sector, operational resiliency is under the spotlight. Banks and financial authorities alike are keen to ensure the transition to cloud is secure and doesn’t harm customers or result in disruption. Public cloud use is inherently reliant on third party cloud providers. In the UK, the Financial […]

3 Situations Where a Lift and Shift Is Right, and 3 Where it Isn’t

Posted on January 28, 2022

Introduction Lift and shift migrations were sometimes frowned upon in the past. Mainly because they fail to unlock the benefits of cloud and can result in higher costs. But increasingly people understand that there is a place for this approach in the migratory mix. As Amazon Web Services (AWS) explains: Most migrations happen in phases […]