The first thing you see when you step through the
double doors of Avid’s Burlington, MA headquarters is
a row of glass pillars, each radiating a soft, golden
glow. On top of each pillar sits an award - in total, two
Oscars, a Grammy and 14 Emmys.
Avid is the world’s leading provider of professional
audio and video production technology. Their prod-
ucts are used to create award-winning films like The
Martian, Spectre and Mission: Impossible, and they
are in the middle of an ambitious, multi-year IT mod-
ernization initiative.
We sat down with Avid CIO Jonathan Thomas (JT) at
this year’s AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas to
discuss their cloud migration project.
“We needed to be more agile, accel-
erate adding value to the business
and move more quickly. We couldn’t
do that with the model and vendor
we had in place.”
Jonathan Thomas
CIO, Avid
As with nearly every enterprise cloud initiative, Avid’s
primary objectives were innovation and agility. AWS
would enable JT’s developers to build the next gener-
ation of Avid software more quickly, and in the highly
competitive and rapidly changing media industry,
speed is everything.
JT turned to Cloud Technology Partners, a Premier
AWS Consulting Partner, to provide the expertise
and resources necessary to streamline Avid’s cloud
adoption.
A Better Approach to Cloud
“As more and more companies turn to AWS to expand
their cloud capabilities, it was clear we needed to
develop a structured program that would safely
accelerate enterprise cloud initiatives,” explains
Bruce Coughlin, SVP Cloud Technology Partners.
The Cloud Adoption Program (CAP) takes companies
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