Don’t Break the Bank: Run IT, Change IT

3 Takeaways: Be very clear about why you want to go to a cloud model, and make sure you can get out when you want. The keys to success are attitude, belief and people. Hire people with diverse skill sets and actively encourage them to collaborate. If going to a cloud model is about cost savings, don’t put old workloads into something fancy. Don’t put the pigs in the ferrari. Key Quotes:  "You can...

3 Takeaways: When moving an application to the cloud, focus on the velocity of the move and the ability to revert rather than doing a lot of the optimization work on paper beforehand. Move and then optimize. Try to consolidate layers of redundant regulation that may have built up within an application over time. It saves customers time and money. Make sure the IT teams are seen as the heroes of th...

Episode Notes 3 Takeaways: Before kicking off an innovation project, make sure the proposed product has a clear business purpose and route to market.  There are two kinds of innovation; Incremental Innovation - make things we already have better; and Disruptive Innovation - to change the game with something new or reimagined. The pandemic has increased interest in augmented reality and virtual rea...

3 Takeaways: Cyber attacks targeting market strategies and nonpublic market information are growing. The healthcare sector has become a more vulnerable target for extortion because of the pandemic. Organizations should proactively hunt out cyber threats before digital transformations or the rollout of new technologies. Key Quotes:  “The healthcare sector has been dealing with a secondary infection...

[Thimon de Jong](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thimon/?originalSubdomain=nl) is a keynote speaker and founder of the strategy foresight firm [Whetston](https://www.whetston.com/). Thimon walks us through his predictions for the future of office life, the fate of cash and his idea for a bank app that could be the next big thing.   **About Matthew** Matthew O'Neill is a husband, dad, geek and Industry...

Multi-industry CIO [Bask Iyer](https://www.linkedin.com/in/baskiyer/) leads the Global Industry Solutions team for VMware. Bask tells us why every CIO needs to focus on operations before strategy, why nobody actually wants disruption, and how authenticity is key to creating a healthy workplace.   **About Matthew** Matthew O'Neill is a husband, dad, geek and Industry Managing Director, Advanced Tec...

We started Don’t Break The Bank to ask and answer the questions that we didn’t know we had when we worked in banking. With a year of shows behind us, Brian and I look back at some of our top episodes, consider what we’ve learnt from our guests, and attempt to suggest what 2021 might bring.

In this episode, Matthew and Brian are joined by VMware Vice Presidents of Blockchain, Tanya Shastri and Brendon Howe. Together, they explore the current state of Blockchain, why VMware has a Blockchain team, and the merits of an Enterprise Blockchain platform.   **About Matthew** Matthew O'Neill is a husband, dad, geek and Industry Managing Director, Advanced Technology Group in the Office of the...

Over the course of 2020, we’ve had the opportunity to share conversations with some of VMware’s top experts, about issues that are keeping financial services professionals up at night. But we benefit from also sharing views from people in similar roles or positions and how they are handling the same challenges we’re wrestling with.   In this episode of Don’t Break The Bank, our podcast for curious...

We’ve all had our worlds turned upside down in 2020 but as we begin to shift to a new normal, what are the long-term impacts to the way different industries actually work? For many in the financial services sector, the enforced shift to remote working has accelerated what were previously trends on the horizon. In our latest episode, two of VMware’s leading experts on digital workspaces, Spencer Pi...

In episode 9 of the podcast Matthew and Brian are joined by VMware’s CTO, Greg Lavender for a fascinating conversation about everything he’s learnt in making the switch from customer side to customer advocate. Greg offers great insight into what he’s hearing from FS organisations today and advice on what he would do differently if he worked for a bank again.   **About Matthew** Matthew O'Neill is...

Through necessity, the Financial Services sector is one of the most secure in the world; it’s also one of the most targeted by sophisticated cyber criminals (or adversaries). In our latest episode, one of the world’s leading cyber security experts, Tom Kellermann, talks with us about how the threat has gone from bank heist to hostage situation, and what financial service providers can do to combat...

Is sustainability shaking off its CSR/tick box origins and taking its place as a true differentiator and innovator? To find out, Matthew and Brian are joined by Nicola Acutt, VMware’s Vice President for Sustainability, in the latest episode of Don’t Break the Bank. Nicola shared some fascinating insights and relates them to VMware’s own route to sustainability – extremely pertinent when more FS pr...

In this episode, Matthew and Brian are joined by Enrico Boverino. The three compare notes on the missed opportunities they’ve experienced on both the vendor and buy-side of the financial services industry and look at how differing priorities effect how they make and manage change.   **About Matthew** Matthew O'Neill is a husband, dad, geek and Industry Managing Director, Advanced Technology Group...

In this episode, Matthew and Brian speak with Martin Eves, director for Cloud Foundation in EMEA at VMware, all about how enterprises within the financial services industry are rising to the challenges of technology evolution.   **About Matthew** Matthew O'Neill is a husband, dad, geek and Industry Managing Director, Advanced Technology Group in the Office of the CTO at VMware. You can find Matthe...

Recorded on March 24 2020, Matthew O'Neill, Brian Hayes and Rory Choudhuri discuss business continuity during a global pandemic and the challenges financial services organisations face when undertaking this radical shift to remote working.   **About Matthew** Matthew O'Neill is a husband, dad, geek and Industry Managing Director, Advanced Technology Group in the Office of the CTO at VMware. You ca...

It doesn't matter what bank you work for, or where you are in the world, there's one thing that units all IT decision-makers at banks - cyber security. In this episode, Matthew chats to Scott McKinnon, Business Solutions Architect at VMware, about how the threats banks face are changing, what that means for the security they put in place, and the implications if they get it wrong.   **About Matthe...

Spencer Pitts, Chief Technologist for EUC in EMEA for VMware, joins Matthew to chat all things End User Computing. They discuss how banks and other financial service providers are transforming the way they work, the implications and the steps they take to overcome those obstacles.   **About Matthew** Matthew O'Neill is a husband, dad, geek and Industry Managing Director, Advanced Technology Group...

Matthew is joined by Joe Baguley, CTO for EMEA at VMware, to discuss everything from mainframes to applications, the state of IT to the existence of cash.   **About Matthew** Matthew O'Neill is a husband, dad, geek and Industry Managing Director, Advanced Technology Group in the Office of the CTO at VMware. You can find Matthew on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewoneill/) and [Twitter...