Cloud

Today I got the email from Google saying that I passed the Google Cloud Associate Engineer certification. Last Friday I took the exam at a Kryterion test center and got the pass score but had to wait till the final approval from Google. At my current job I don’t work with Google Cloud but more with Microsoft Azure, AWS and data center environments. Google certification was on my list of certifications I wanted to look into. When A Cloud Guru also started with the offering of course around Google Cloud I bought it. I already knew them from the AWS courses and I really like their approach. I started also with the training but didn’t finish it. ...

Last Tuesday, I was together with two colleagues at the AWS Enterprise summit in the World Forum in The Hague. This was for me the second AWS summit that I attended. The event started with a keynote from Ian Massingham, Chief Evangelist (EMEA), AWS. Ian spoke about the impact that cloud has on enterprise IT. After the keynote, there was a plenary session by Hans Koolen, Senior Director, Philips IT Global Services. He posed the statement that a private cloud doesn’t exist. ...