Author: rolle

  • And the results are in – Gartners Magic Quadrant for Cloud IaaS 2017

    And the results are in – Gartners Magic Quadrant for Cloud IaaS 2017

    Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service 2017 The latest Gartner analysis on the Cloud IaaS is out and there are few interesting pointers and easily worth your time to read it through, if the area is of interest to you. AWS has also bought the distribution rights to this paper, so if you…

  • AWS User Group Finland – May Meetup 2017

    AWS User Group Finland – May Meetup 2017

    Last week we had AWS User Group meetup, which was this time sponsored by Solinor. The meetup was at Solinor’s office, which is located at Teollisuuskatu in Helsinki. And if I counted correctly, we had around 45 participants to attend the meetup. As usual, we had pizza, beer and talks about various subjects. I was…

  • Living on the Edge

    Living on the Edge

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    Cloud services delivery endpoint is moving more and more to network edges and closer to clients little by little. Why is that? Because delivery of the content is not limited any more to human clients. Services are consumed by loads of automated services discussing with each other through API calls. And the whole IoT megatrend…

  • AWS Summit Stockholm is just around the corner

    AWS Summit Stockholm is just around the corner

    The AWS Summit in Stockholm is very close, 3rd of May in the Waterfront Congress Center. If you are planning to come you should move fast with the registration because it’s almost sold out. Cybercom will be there as one of the Gold Sponsors. https://aws.amazon.com/summits/stockholm/sponsors/ I am also personally traveling already on 2nd of May to Stockholm to…

  • Helping out in Cloudy Gothenburg

    Helping out in Cloudy Gothenburg

    Cloudy Gothenburg – AWS meetup April 2017 Part of my job description is also helping out internationally the different sites we have around the Nordics and Europe. This time it meant packing the bags and heading towards Gothenburg with very early flight. There is a relatively new meetup called Cloudy Gothenburg which is sponsored by Cybercom’s…

  • AWS User Group Finland – March meetup

    AWS User Group Finland – March meetup

    Real life IoT in Amazon The march meetup for AWS User Group Finland was a first try to have a event in Tampere. Cybercom was sponsoring the event and it was held at our office at Pakkahuoneenaukio. We got around 25 participants to show up, so it was a positive signal. So possibly we will…

  • The Subtle Art of Upselling

    The Subtle Art of Upselling

    I just had an experience (and actually not related to my work, or even to IT) where I clearly communicated that I wanted to buy certain service. The service in question could be considered as premium service in it’s class. But during the sales process, or discussion, I was more or less directed towards getting…

  • re:Invent 2016 starting

    re:Invent 2016 starting

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    I had the possibility this year to attend to AWS Re:invent, which is one of the largest IT conferences currently in the world. We had a team of three attending the conference to tune in to the latest announcements from AWS and to meet peers and AWS personnel in addition to going through a tight…

  • Microsoft and friends – cloud ecosystem partnership

    Microsoft and friends – cloud ecosystem partnership

    Yesterday I attended a Microsoft Azure workshop in Keilaniemi, Helsinki. This was a joint session arranged by Arrow ECS and Microsoft to promote Microsoft and their “Microsoft & Friends” titled cloud ecosystem and involved partners offering. Working intensively with AWS technologies currently, it seemed to me, that still the angle on this event was to…

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

    AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

    Now Professional Certified After couple of quirks in the road out of my control, I finally had the time slot for my certification. So, now I have the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional status. Kind of relieved, I passed on the first try. Let me just say that it was definitely not for granted,…