Last Tuesday – just a few days after Brexit – around 15 members of the Cloud Architecture Alliance (CAA) had the chance to visit Netapp’s Insight congress in London and have a private session with Jonsi Stefansson, CTO & VP of Cloud at NetApp. Steffansson’s company Greenqloud was bought in 2017 by Netapp and now…
From September 24 to 28 I visited Microsoft Ignite in Orlando Florida with 5 colleagues – and 30,000 others from around the world. In the many sessions and conversations with specialists from Microsoft and partners I’ve been inspired, gained knowledge and made valuable connections. Here is a very concise summary of changes that I have…
Last week I went to Microsoft in Seattle and Redmond, together with 40 other architects, CEO’s and CIO’s, developers and data specialists from the Netherlands. Three days packed with meetings and sessions from Microsofts leaders and technical product specialists. The main topic was Data and AI. The subjects ranged from Artificial Intelligence and cognitive services,…
This week I’m preparing myself for my second trip to Microsoft in Redmond – Seattle. Three days packed with presentations from and discussions with the best people at Microsoft: Scott Guthrie, Eduardo Kassner, Ulrich Homann, James Whittaker, and many more. And I’ll visit the product teams of AI, Cosmos, IoT, Machine Learning, Azure Functions. It’s…
Organizations are becoming more and more IT companies. Technology has become the way to develop new services or enrich existing services. The business is getting closer to IT, and ideas come true because the needed technology is accessible to everyone. The use of containers is one of the most important IT trends at the moment…
This week I went to Microsoft Ignite in Atlanta. After 8 years of going to VMworld this was my first Microsoft congress ever. Since my visit to Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond November 2015 I’ve been amazed with the transition this company is going through. They seem to really live up to their mission: to empower…
A few months back I needed to understand how Microsoft Storsimple is build up. So I made this high level overview which I checked with the guys from Microsoft in Redmond. And I’d like to it share with you. Download the PDF right here. Enjoy.
A few months back I needed to understand how Microsoft Cloud OS and Azure Pack is build up. So I made this high level overview which I checked with the guys from Microsoft in Redmond. And I’d like to it share with you. Download the PDF right here. Enjoy.
