Category: Business

  • ServerlessDays Helsinki 2019 – The Aftermath

    ServerlessDays Helsinki 2019 – The Aftermath

    ServerlessDays Helsinki was organized the first time ever last week, on April 25th. I had both the honor to be invited to be one of the members of the core team of event organizers and also accepted to talk at the event. The first steps and idea conceived by Marcia Villalba to have a ServerlessDays…

  • AWS ReInvent 2018

    AWS ReInvent 2018

    First a disclaimer: I’ve had this article in the works for a long time. So if you are seeing this only right now, it’s because I’ve backdated the article to last December 🙂 AWS ReInvent is AWS yearly main event held in Las Vegas at Venetian hotel and other venues throughout the city (as it…

  • Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service 2018

    Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service 2018

    This year’s Gartner analysis on the Cloud IaaS is fresh out and there are few interesting pointers and easily worth your time to read it through, if the area is of interest to you. You can also find my thoughts on the 2017 Quadrant in my blog post from last year. Microsoft has also bought…

  • AWS Summit Stockholm 2018 – Stream recording and materials

    AWS Summit Stockholm 2018 – Stream recording and materials

    Earlier this week, I wrote this short summary about my trip to AWS Summit in Stockholm. Here is a summary of relevant materials from the Summit, which have been published since. Highlight reel Keynote recording Materials Session slides are available at: https://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/tag/stocksum18 Enjoy!

  • AWS Summit Stockholm 2018

    AWS Summit Stockholm 2018

    AWS Global Summits AWS organizes annually a series of global AWS Summits, and one of them for last years has been organized in Stockholm. As they describe the event, it is a “free one-day event bringing together the Nordic cloud computing community to connect, collaborate, and learn more about AWS“. This years agenda was particularly…

  • Building Cloud Competence

    Building Cloud Competence

    So what is competence anyway? Simply put: Competence is one’s ability to execute given tasks successfully and efficiently. And without going too much to the theoretical definition, what competence is – you need to have enough of right competence at right time to succeed in business. Also, the sooner you realize, that no-one can develop…

  • 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…

  • 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…