In this episode of Channel Insider: Partner POV, host Katie Bavoso speaks with Ryan Gross, Head of Data and Applications at Caylent, to explore how AI is reimagining cloud migration, reducing technical debt, and accelerating AWS modernization.
Ryan details how Caylent became the number one independent AWS dedicated partner, the challenges enterprises face when modernizing legacy systems, and how Caylent Accelerate uses generated AI to make cloud adoption faster, more secure, and more cost-effective.
Topic and timecode:
00:00–00:36 — Welcome and introduction of guests
00:36–01:19 — What is Caylent and who does it serve?
01:19–02:23 — SMB → Serving Enterprises + ISVs
02:23–03:39 — Caylent’s AWS Journey and Partner of the Year Award
03:39–04:19 — Introducing Caylent Accelerate
04:19–05:29 — What’s holding you back from moving to the cloud today?
05:29–06:18 — Risks, downtime, and skills challenges
06:18–07:14 — Why customers are struggling to deal with technology debt
07:14–08:26 — How to accelerate customer needs Caylent Accelerate
08:26–09:37 — Use generation AI for code conversion
09:37–10:36 — Test-driven automation for secure transformation
10:36–11:06 — “Better, faster, cheaper” model
11:06–12:26 — How to decide if a customer is right for you
12:26–13:18 — Cloud evolution strategy explained
13:18–14:17 — Infrastructure migration with AI-driven IaC
14:17–15:05 — AWS Disaster Recovery and Resilience
15:05–15:31 — Database and application modernization
15:31–16:39 — Security posture and new ways of working in the cloud
