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Going Cloud at Allstate, An Interview With Matt Curry
In this episode, Andrew Clay Shafer talks with Matt Curry of Allstate. They discuss how the insurance company has been navigating the waters of going cloud and why they started in the first place. It’s a good profile of one company’s journey to become a software defined business. They also discuss how Pivotal Cloud Foundry has been helping at the structured cloud platform at the center of this enterprise transformation.
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Notes:
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As covered in their Cloud Foundry Summit keynote, AllState seeing the need to change with IT
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How an enterprise like AllState is different than Silicon Valley culture.
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How fear of Silicon Valley “marauders” drives the need to change - interestingly, high up the management people are more paranoid, but lower down, people are not so paranoid. They discuss what kind of disconnect this creates in the organization.
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The discussion then moves to solving for this disconnect in the organization. Among other things, Matt suggests that leadership needs to create and communicate a vision and strategy.
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Also discussion of how open source is helping AllState focus on the right things instead of building platforms.