Podcasts about cloud solution architect

Este conteúdo é um trecho do nosso episódio: “{Notícias ++} MCP Explicado: o potencial de integração entre as LLMs”. Nele, Igor Castro, Cloud Solution Architect na dti digital, e nossos hosts, discutem as reais diferenças entre o protocolo MCP e a técnica RAG. Eles trazem exemplos práticos que mostram a aplicação dos dois na prática e como eles podem coexistir juntos. Dê o play e ouça agora! Procurando uma oportunidade na área de tecnologia? Se você é uma mente criativa, a dti digital é o melhor lugar para você construir uma carreira. Confira as vagas Quer enviar uma dúvida ou ideia para o Entre Chaves? Mande uma mensagem para o nosso Linkedin ou pelo email entrechaves@dtidigital.com.br. Sua resposta pode aparecer em um dos nossos episódios!

Será que a integração de LLMs em seus projetos de desenvolvimento vai para o próximo nível? Neste episódio, Igor Castro, Cloud Solution Architect na dti digital, explica como o protocolo MCP atua como ponto de entrada para comunicação com dados e serviços, permitindo que desenvolvedores integrem sistemas de forma mais rápida e eficiente. Descubra a evolução desde interações manuais até a padronização da comunicação entre agentes e sistemas. Dê o play e ouça agora! Procurando uma oportunidade na área de tecnologia? Se você é uma mente criativa, a dti digital é o melhor lugar para você construir uma carreira. Confira as vagas Quer enviar uma dúvida ou ideia para o Entre Chaves? Mande uma mensagem para o nosso Linkedin ou pelo email entrechaves@dtidigital.com.br. Sua resposta pode aparecer em um dos nossos episódios!

In this episode of the #PowerShell Podcast, we continue our deep dive with Fred Weinmann, a Microsoftie and PowerShell legend, as he shares more insights and tools that redefine productivity for PowerShell enthusiasts. Picking up where we left off in the last episode, Fred takes us through his journey of mastering PowerShell, collaborating with the community, and optimizing workflows with powerful custom modules. Key topics in this episode include: Fred's Learning Journey: The value of collaboration in projects like dbatools and the evolution of his development practices. PowerShell Package Management Simplified: Exploring Fred's toolkit for unifying and streamlining PowerShellGet and PSResourceGet, including tools for offline environments and multi-machine deployments. The Importance of Workflow Optimization: Fred shares his philosophy on making the console your home and configuring it to eliminate unnecessary pain points. Fred's Advanced Tools: Fred takes us step-by-step through his projects Fred also emphasizes the importance of adopting best practices, learning from community contributions, and continuously optimizing your tools to make PowerShell work for you. Join PowerShell Wednesdays at 2 PM EST for community discussions and learning. Bio: Fred Weinmann is a seasoned Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft and a renowned PowerShell expert with years of experience designing and implementing scalable solutions. A prolific creator, Fred has developed key tools like PSFramework, PSModuleDevelopment, PSUtil, and PSFramework.Nuget, which empowers developers and IT professionals to optimize their workflows. Passionate about technology and problem-solving, Fred's innovative approach to PowerShell module development and his commitment to community-driven open-source projects have made him a respected figure in the PowerShell community. Resource links: https://github.com/FriedrichWeinmann https://discord.gg/pdq https://aka.ms/psdiscord PowerShell Podcast Home page: https://www.pdq.com/resources/the-powershell-podcast/ The PowerShell Podcast: https://pdq.com/the-powershell-podcast  The PowerShell Podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/IcRVwrNNY2g    

In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we sit down with Fred Weinmann, a prolific PowerShell module creator, to explore his remarkable contributions, including PSFramework, PSModuleDevelopment, PSUtil, and PSFramework.Nuget. Fred shares insights on developing impactful solutions, such as the KRBTGT module and the evolution of module development in large-scale environments.  We dive into Fred's journey at Microsoft as a Cloud Solution Architect, discussing how he leverages his passion for technology and PowerShell to create scalable and innovative tools. Key topics include:  Building internal PowerShell repositories and best practices for managing trust and dependencies. Overcoming challenges with module distribution in offline environments.  Fred's unique hierarchical approach to structuring modules for business and technical processes.  Exciting projects like automating help documentation for commands and enhancing AI's role in PowerShell development.  Fred also reflects on his decision to pursue a hands-on technical career over management, emphasizing the satisfaction and impact he derives from solving complex technical challenges.  Join us for PowerShell Wednesdays at 2 PM EST, on the PDQ Discord https://discord.gg/pdq  Join us next week for part two with Fred Weinmann.  Bio and Links: Fred Weinmann is a seasoned Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft and a renowned PowerShell expert with years of experience designing and implementing scalable solutions. A prolific creator, Fred has developed key tools like PSFramework, PSModuleDevelopment, PSUtil, and PSFramework.Nuget, which empower developers and IT professionals to optimize their workflows. Passionate about technology and problem-solving, Fred's innovative approach to PowerShell module development and his commitment to community-driven open-source projects have made him a respected figure in the PowerShell community. https://github.com/PowershellFrameworkCollective/PSFramework.NuGet https://github.com/ActiveDirectoryManagementFramework/ADMF   PowerShell Podcast Home page: https://www.pdq.com/resources/the-powershell-podcast/  

AI is rapidly changing how business is done, but how do you and your business profit from this mayor change in the history of human kind? That's what you'll discover in this episode of the StoryBrand podcast.In this episode, we welcome An Chu, a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft. An is an expert in data and AI and will share her vision on how businesses can profit from AI and create a culture that embraces this technology. With her in-depth knowledge and experience in the AI sector, this is a conversation you don't want to miss! Key discussion points: The impact of AI on the way businesses operate.Generative AI and the transformation of daily business activities.The key questions businesses should ask when implementing AI.The different levels of AI adoption: no-code, low-code, and pro-code.How businesses can increase productivity and reduce costs with AI.The importance of an AI strategy and fostering a culture of collaboration within organizations.Examples of successful AI applications within Microsoft and among partners.Responsible use of AI and ensuring ethics and safety.Setting up AI labs for experimentation and innovation.Training and educating employees to effectively use AI.Relevant Links and ResourcesMicrosoft Learn - Courses on AI for various levels.LinkedIn profile of An Chu - Connect with An for more insights.DeepLearning.ai - Online platform for learning about AI.Meer informatie over StoryBrand:Je kunt je nu aanmelden voor de 2-daagse StoryBrand Marketing Workshop op 1 en 2 oktober en ga samen met ons aan de slag als je onzeker bent over je boodschap en of je het wel goed hebt gedaan.https://storybrand.nl/live-workshop/

Looking to build a career in the cloud? This comprehensive roadmap will guide you through the essential steps to kickstart your career in cloud computing and solution architecture. Whether you're just starting out or looking to advance your skills, this video covers everything you need to know.Cloud Career Mentor:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@UCIlB0ypTatNVjPPPNEPGFCQ https://app.cloudcareermentor.com/bearded-it✅ Subscribe to our weekly newsletter for insider tips and practical advice on launching your tech career, straight from industry experts! https://thebeardeditdad.ck.page/55f710292bSupport the Show.

Episode 257 of the #MVPbuzzChat interview series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), and Azure MVP, Massimo Crippa (@mas_que_crippa), a freelance Cloud Solution Architect with Codit, based in Milan, Italy (and sometimes France). You can also find this episode on the CollabTalk blog at https://buckleyplanet.com/2024/03/mvpbuzzchat-with-massimo-crippa/

In this episode, we delve into a cornerstone service within Azure that is sometimes underestimated or missed in design discussions: the Azure Storage service. Our guest, Ben Hummerstone, a seasoned Cloud Solution Architect based in the UK, brings his expertise in storage and other infrastructure services to the forefront. Ben shares a valuable set of guiding principles to assist you in crafting the optimal storage architecture for your application.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode489.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/XIKxPRI1G-Y Resources: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-government/azure-secure-isolation-guidance#high-level-azure-storage-architecture https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-redundancy https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/scalability-targets https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/access-tiers-overview   Other updates: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-functions-support-for-http-streams-in-nodejs/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-kubernetes-129-support-in-aks/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/cloud-services-classic-retirement-announcement-feb2024/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-netapp-files-volume-enhancement-allow-the-same-file-path-for-volumes-in-different-availability-zones/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-os-sku-inplace-migration-for-linux-nodes/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/ga-istiobased-service-mesh-addon-for-azure-kubernetes-service/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-disable-network-policy-for-migration-in-aks/  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-capacity-reservations-support-in-aks/

Ryan Wade, Cloud Solution Architect with Diesel Analytics, joins host Andrew Miller to discuss dashboards and visualization practices with Power BI. Please visit Dashboards and Visualizations Hands-on Lab to learn more about Ryan's course and find the full agenda at TDWI Transform 2024 Las Vegas.

Mohamad has an interesting story where he had to solve multiple problems in his life from leaving Egypt to the Gulf and then coming to the USA. From finding jobs that suit him, to learning on the job to do it.   Shownotes: https://wethesalesengineers.com/show290

Welcome back to Giant Talk, the world's first OKR podcast.   In this episode, Roger chats to Ryan Lowdermilk, Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, an OKR Champion and OKR Coach for the Microsoft Tech team for the America's. Ryan chats to Roger about the use of OKRs at Microsoft, how OKRs can break through the hierarchy and why OKRs should be a light lift.     Enjoy the episode! 

DSO Overflow S3EP10Private end-pointswithJonathan D'AloiaIn this episode, Glenn, Jess and Steve are joined by Jonathan D'Aloia from Adatis to talk about benefits and challenges of using private end-points. Jonathan is a Principal DevOps Engineer at Adatis (part of Telefonica Tech) and is also an Azure Certified DevOps engineer and certified Cloud Solution Architect.Jonathan works with Infrastructure as code languages such as BICEP, Terraform and ARM templates, writes and designs YAML templates to automate the deployment of the Infrastructure as well as pipelines to deploy the code base to these resources.In this episode, Jonathan talks about his journey to Azure certification, the challenges of using public end-points and how private end-points can help overcome those challenges. He also explains some of the pitfalls of using private end-points ensuring our listeners are better informed when they decide to review their end-point security architecture.Resources mentioned in this podcast:Jonathan's LinkedIn profileAzure certification by MicrosoftAdatis (part of Telefonica Tech)DSO Overflow is a DevSecOps London Gathering production. Find the audio version on all good podcast sources like Spotify, Apple Podcast and Buzzsprout.This podcast is brought to you by our sponsors:  Prisma Cloud, Apiiro, and SysdigYour HostsSteve Giguere linkedin.com/in/stevegiguereGlenn Wilson linkedin.com/in/glennwilsonJessica Cregg linkedin.com/in/jessicacreggDevSecOps - London GatheringKeep in touch with our events associated with this podcast via our website.For more about DevSecOps - London Gathering check out https://dsolg.com

Episode 233 of the #MVPbuzzChat interview series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), and M365 Apps & Services MVP, Drago Petrovic (@_DragoPetrovic), a Principal System Engineer and Cloud Solution Architect at ITpoint Systems AG, based in Zurich, Switzerland. You can also find this episode on the CollabTalk blog at https://www.buckleyplanet.com/2023/09/mvpbuzzchat-with-drago-petrovic.html

Cloud Solution Architect, Dr. Linda Sheard, joins Russell and Sujit for a primer on Azure Open AI. Linda breaks down the service and provides context on how it can be used for the typical scenario where a customer wants to reason over their own data.  Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode466.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/nDcIWvHa43s Resources: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/openai/overview   Other updates: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-registry/tutorial-registry-cache

Listen in today as we talk to Chad Mowery, Cloud Solution Architect at Telarus. Chad talks about some cutting-edge cloud services such as Kubernetes and a few ways it can help your customers modernize in cloud. You'll find a few helpful tips, some basics around containers, and great conversation starters to open this door with your customers. Josh Lupresto (00:00): Welcome to the podcast that is designed to fuel your success in selling technology solutions. I'm your host, Josh Lupresto, SVP of sales engineering at Telarus. And this is Next Level BizTech, everybody. Welcome back. We are kicking off a new cloud track, and we're gonna get nerdy on you for a minute, but that's okay cuz we're gonna try to make it fun. The title of this week's track is what are the top three Ways Kubernetes can Help your Customers? And if you have no idea what Kubernetes is, that's okay. We brought the smart guy on today, Mr. Chad Mowery, cloud solution architect at Telarus to help us break it down. Chad, welcome on, man. Chad Mowery (02:16): Thanks, Josh. The pleasure is mine. Thanks so much for the invitation. Josh Lupresto (02:20): So, so Chad, before we get in and start talking about Kubernetes and containers and advanced cloud and all kinds of good stuff I want everybody to get to know you just a little bit. This is kind of my favorite part of the show is where we get to hear everybody's journey. Where did you come from? What did you do? Have you always been into tech? Did you start out you know, scrubbing concrete and cleaning floors? And then wanna get into this? Or give us your journey, man, how'd you get here? Chad Mowery (02:47): Wow, I don't know that we have time. Actually, I, I also wanted to back up and, and you, you mentioned at the beginning there that we were gonna get nerdy. So I I sometimes that's a compliment. Sometimes not so much. I'm pro I I choose to take it as a compliment though. My journey started. Yeah, I think cleaning bathrooms maybe, maybe maybe I should go back. So first, first computer I ever had was right out of high school, windows 95. So I've, I've loved technology computers ever since then. I remember as a teenager working for my uncles and they, they made jokes about being me being a car salesman. And it was funny because I, I would've been considered an introvert at the time, right? As a, as a teenager. I, I guess I, I probably really wasn't exactly, I don't know if closet extrovert is a real thing, but I don't know. Chad Mowery (03:50): It just just changed over time. I, it was probably eight years from when, and I distinctly remember that joke for some reason. It was probably eight years between when they made that joke and, and any, and, and later. And there I was working for them in their small autocare business as their service manager, service advisor. You know, I was handling all the, the customer experience, all the scheduling, you know, all the, all the selling of services et cetera. Also happened to be doing the it, I mean, it was a small shop, so they had one, one computer, and the database was like super tiny. But, you know, that's, that's kind of where it started. Actually backing up a little bit I guess to take a page out of Stein's book. I, I actually went to Bible college. Chad Mowery (04:38): So before I, I, I worked for my uncles just doing cleaning bathrooms for years while I was, while, while I was a teenager and then, and then going to college, and then went full-time after that. And, and before I went full-time for them as a service advisor, I had started going back to school after Bible college for my associate's degree in network administration. Because I had loved you know, as I mentioned earlier, I loved computers and technology, and so I wanted to, to do something there, I think. But working for them as a, as a service advisor and working with people, I realized that I, I just,

Episode #003 - In this episode, we speak with Sarah Musick, Cloud Solution Architect at Intel.Not only do we dig into Sarah's Path to PreSales, but we get really tactical on learning routines, habits, and mindset that can help you be successful in your pursuit of your first role, next role, or next promotion within tech and, specifically, PreSales.Regardless of where you are in your career journey, whatever you may be focused on learning right now, there are some really actionable takeaways ahead, so hit play and subscribe to get more great episodes like this every Wednesday! 

This is a fabulous podcast featuring Ryan Lowdermilk, Cloud Solution Architect and OKR Coach at Microsoft.Ryan this last year took on the role of managing the OKR program for Global Partner Solutions (GPS) for Microsoft U.S. Ryans Expertise and enthusiasm are off the charts! His insight and program management style are terrific. Ryan and I talk about his program development and how he's taking this to the next level. What he knows makes a program work best and what he's learned in his journey. Finally, how he has overcome unique challenges and why he knows OKR programs produce such and amazing results when done right. He also is an passionate writer about OKRs you can find his newsletter and newly started podcast on substack “the little okr newsletter”Connect with Tim: Tim@atruity1.com ============================================“Nothing gives me greater satisfaction than seeing the transformation of individuals and organizations as they embrace OKRs as a new way of managing themselves and the people they serve.” - Tim Meinhardt============================================

Microsoft Power Platform gives solution developers all the tools they need to build amazing applications from proofs of concept to large scale enterprise solutions. Learn from Cloud Solution Architect, Wendy Haddad just how powerful Power Platform can really be! 

In diesem Podcast Special zur VMware Explore 2022 Europe, fängt Björn Brundert vor Ort die Stimmen von unseren Kunden, Partnern und Mitarbeitern ein. Zeitstempel: 02:13 - Jörg Lew, Technical Product Manager, VMware 04:39 - Daniel Köck, Sr. Product Line Manager, VMware 07:53 - Alexander Ullah, Sr. Lead Solution Engineer Tanzu, VMware 11:07 - Falk Fischer, Transformation Consultant Architect, VMware 13:05 - David Weyand, Manager, Cloud Solution Architect, VMware 18:34 - Yves Sandfort, CEO comdivision Group 19:34 - Julius Lienemann, Lead Solution Engineer, Digital Workspace, VMware 22:17 - Stefan Müller, Head of Business Line End User Computing, SVA System Vertrieb Alexander GmbH 23:46 - Michael Rottländer, Technical Account Manager, VMware 25:06 - Dr. Eva-Maria Hempe, Sr. Director CEMEA Enterprise & SPP, VMware 25:36 - Christine Hensel, Sr. Director Solution Engineering Germany, VMware 26:33 - Armin de Greiff, Technischer Direktor IT, Universitätsmedizin Essen Weiterführende Links: VMware Explore On-Demand Video Bibliothek: https://www.vmware.com/explore/video-library.html

Research by IDC show that 90% of enterprises around the world are relying on a mix of on-premises, or dedicated, private clouds, as well as public clouds, and legacy platforms to meet their infrastructure needs. Data center cloud solutions need to change as business needs fluctuate. This episode covers the best practices of a hybrid cloud strategy featuring experts from Intel and Connection. Host: James Hilliard Guests:  Vijay Bandari, Cloud Solution Architect at Intel Steve Fowler, Cloud Solution Architect at Intel Kiran Agrahara, Cloud Solution Architect at Intel Kevin Slate, Senior Director of Cloud Services and at Connection  

Today marks a special occasion as Data Driven welcomes our first Three Pete guest, Mark Tabladillo. In his third appearance on the podcast, Mark is Cloud Solution Architect on the Strategic Missions and Technology team at Microsoft. Enjoy the show.

In this episode, Marco Silva and I have a great discussion about artificial intelligence and cloud technologies.  Marco lives in Portugal and is a Cloud Solution Architect for Microsoft with many years of experience.  As a Cloud Solution Architect, he challenges customers with new ideas and new ways to use cloud technologies. Marco has experience in Computer Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Computer Graphics.  He is part of the AI Ambassador team at Microsoft, which means he empowers people to leverage AI and create new uses of AI. Marco is also a professional speaker and teaches courses on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at ISEG in Lisbon, Portugal. “Simulated environments are necessary for learning anywhere.” – Marco Silva Today on the Tech Leader Talk podcast: - Why every business needs AI - New business models that didn't exist until a year or two ago - Digital transformation includes looking at AI for your business - A new pricing model for Rolls-Royce airplane engines that optimizes AI - What you must have to effectively use Machine Learning in your company Resources Mentioned: Microsoft Mesh – A collaboration and communications platform developed by Microsoft. Connect with Marco Silva: LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/marconsilva/ Thanks for listening! Be sure to get your free copy of Steve's latest book, Cracking the Patent Code, and discover his proven system for identifying and protecting your most valuable inventions. Get the book at https://stevesponseller.com/book.

This is the audio-only version of our twice-weekly cyber security talk show, teissTalk.  Join us twice a week for free by visiting www.teiss.co.uk/teisstalkThe panel discussion is titled The evolution of data protection in the cloudData protection in the cloud: past, present and futureManaging and protecting data assets in the cloudUnderstanding cloud risks to inform decisions about vendors and servicesThis episode is hosted by Geoff Whitehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffwhite247/John Opala, Vice President of IT Security, McCormick & Companyhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/johnopalaphd/Judith Ratcliffe, Privacy and Data Protection Senior Leader, Self-Employedhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/judith-r-6659452b/Nicolas Buache, Cloud Solution Architect, Microsofthttps://www.linkedin.com/in/nbuache/?originalSubdomain=ca

In this episode, we revisit AutomatedLab with the other primary maintainer, Raimund Andrée. Raimund teaches us about DSC and shares details of the DSCWorkshop project, which is a great way to go about learning more about DSC in a hands-on manner. We also learned about Cattle vs. Pets and how that applies to your servers. You can hear all of this, plus more in this companion episode to our first AutomatedLab episode.    Guest Bio and links: Raimund Andrée is a Cloud Solution Architect and Microsoft with over 20 years of experience. Raimund has been involved in Open Source and the PowerShell community for a long time. Raimund works on several projects that have a large reach and has helped thousands of PowerShell users. You can find him tweeting on Twitter, contributing to projects on GitHub, speaking at conferences, and more.     https://twitter.com/raimundandree  https://github.com/raandree  https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/NTFSSecurity/4.2.6  The PowerShell module toolbox and templates for Continuous Delivery - Raimund Andrée - PSConfE...  The DSC project blueprint or how to start a DSC project the right way by Raimund Andrée  https://devblogs.microsoft.com/scripting/tag/raimund-andree/  https://download.microsoft.com/download/C/4/A/C4A14099-FEA4-4CB3-8A8F-A0C2BE5A1219/The%20Release%20Pipeline%20Model.pdf  https://automatedlab.org/en/latest/    View the Podcast on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMALY186tdk

Episode Summary: In this episode, we get an initial introduction to AutomatedLab by one of the primary maintainers, Jan-Hendrik Peters. We learned about what AutomatedLab is used for and how you can benefit from it. We also got to hear about his observations from teaching PowerShell over the years. All this, plus our usual foolishness, is included. We also talk about how tech is always changing. See it on YouTube here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sPqoxqFgaY   Guest Bio and links: Jan-Hendrik Peters is a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft. Jan-Hendrik has been helping others take advantage of PowerShell and Microsoft technologies for a long time. He enjoys brewery, blacksmithing, and closing issues on AutomatedLab.   https://www.janhendrikpeters.de/ https://github.com/nyanhp https://twitter.com/NyanHP http://github.com/automatedlab https://automatedlab.org/en/latest/ https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=don+jones+writing+workshop

In this episode of the Kontent Rocks podcast, Brian McKeiver brings back Bryan Soltis, Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft. Brian and Bryan talk about Azure Logic Apps and how they can be useful in various situations including projects with Kontent.ai.

In this episode of the Kontent Rocks podcast, Brian McKeiver brings back Bryan Soltis, Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft. Brian and Bryan talk about Azure Logic Apps and how they can be useful in various situations including projects with Kontent.ai.

Ever wonder what it's like to work in Microsoft Modern Workplace Intelligence? In this episode of the Analytic Mind, Sam McKay spoke with Kristian Bubalo previously a Technical Specialist Intelligence and now a Cloud Solution Architect in Microsoft Switzerland. Dive in and discover his role within Microsoft. An insider update about the latest and greatest trends in Power BI. And most especially his role in the recently concluded Power BI Championship - Switzerland. Kristian Bubalo is working for Microsoft Switzerland as a Technical Specialist Modern Workplace Intelligence, in Wallisellen, Switzerland. Their goal is to empower every organization and every person to achieve more. With Power BI each individual is capable of analyzing their data - "Any data, any way, anywhere. And all in one view."

A Conversational Health Chatbot, Bringing Compassion to a Tailored Digital Health Intervention for Women with Heart Disease. Supervisors and Mentors Dr. Elizabeth Peter, Professor, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto. Dr. Peter locates her work in feminist health care and will provide mentorship in compassionate care. Dr. Joe Cafazzo, Executive Director, Healthcare Human Factors, University Health Network. Dr. Cafazzo will provide mentorship on digital technologies that allow for self-care at home. Dr. Mustafa Al-Durra, Cloud Solution Architect, Microsoft. Dr. Al-Durra will provide mentorship in artificial intelligence, Chatbot innovation, and eHealth/mHealth trends. Four women with lived experiences will be advisors to this fellowship: - Ms. Nicole Nickerson had a heart attack while pregnant and contributed her lived experience in an at heart Her Stories podcast. - Ms. Donna Hart had a heart transplant and contributed her lived experience in an at heart Her Stories video. - Ms. Vincenza Spiteri DeBonis has non-obstructive coronary artery disease and contributed her lived experience in an at heart Her Stories video. - Ms. Lise Owens has Takotsubo cardiomyopathy and contributed her lived experience in an at heart Her Stories podcast. Proposed Compassion Technologies and Attributes for Chatbot ‘Holly' Chit-Chat. Relationship optimization – bidirectional, phased, actionable conversation (Authentic, Aware, Respectful). Text Summarization. Voice tone and/or responsive data points in the text of women used to assess mood/emotion (Aware, Empathic, Empowering). Personalized Learning. A responsive Library (Credible, Trustworthy, Reliable). Customization and Branding. Personalization using colour, style, image, and language (Credible) Short Messaging Service (SMS) and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). Praise and offer support (Empowering). Select References 1. Virani T, Tait A, McConnell H, Scott C, Gergolas E. Nursing Best Practice Guideline: Establishing Therapeutic Relationships. Toronto2002. 2. Sinclair S, McClement S, Raffin-Bouchal S, et al. Compassion in Health Care: An Empirical Model. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 2016;51(2). 3. How Woebot Forms a Therapeutic Bond. UK: Woebot Health; 2021. 4. Parry M, Bjornnes A, Victor J, et al. Self-management interventions for women with cardiac pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Canadian Journal of Cardiology. 2018;34:458-467.

Quali sono le diverse strategie per scalare un'applicazione Saas? E quali sono i vantaggi di farlo affiancandovi un Paas? Ne ho parlato con Marco Dragoni (Cloud Architect di Salesforce) e con la Community del CTO Mastermind durante il primo CTO MEET del CTO Mastermind. L'evento si è tenuto a Milano, presso la sede di Salesforce, partner del CTO Mastermind. 🗣 GUEST: Da oltre 30 anni in ambito IT, è ora Cloud Solution Architect in Salesforce. Marco ritiene fondamentale mantenere un ruolo di trasparenza ed affidabilità per clienti e partner che incontra ogni giorno e stimolarli ad affrontare le nuove sfide di un mercato sempre in trasformazione. 🖖 HOST: Alex Pagnoni: CTO Mentor, Fractional CTO, imprenditore di servizio e di prodotto (Innoteam), esperto di cloud, sviluppo software e marketing technologies. Sono speaker, content creator, conduttore del CTO Show e del CTO Podcast, fondatore della community CTO Mastermind (+520 CTO, Leader Tech e aspiranti tali). 🤝 PARTNER: Quanto è difficile scalare il team di sviluppo? Se sei un CTO o un Leader Tecnologico sai benissimo quali sono le complessita di attirare e trattenere talenti. Per questo Alex Pagnoni ha creato il metodo Team Scaling di sviluppo collaborativo, in cui condivide le skill di una parte del proprio team tech, per aiutarti a scalare anche nei momenti più difficili. Per saperne di più, vai su http://www.teamscaling.it/ (www.teamscaling.it). ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Il Podcast ti è piaciuto? Aiutaci a farlo a conoscere a altri CTO e leader tecnologici. Aggiungilo ai tuoi preferiti e lascia una recensione su Apple Podcast o su Podchaser!

Många är idag på väg till molnet men hur ser en bra molnarkitektur ut? Få kan vara bättre rustade att svara på detta än Arash Rassoulpour, en erfaren Cloud Solution Architect som jobbar med några av Microsoft största kunder i Sverige med att skapa moderna cloud native applikationer, rasande snabba DevOps implementationer och allt annat som krävs för en riktigt bra molntjänst arkitektur! Under samtalet pratar vi om allt från applikationsmodernisering till varför teknisk skuld och kreditkorts skulder egentligen är rätt lika! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Learn the fundamentals of Cloud with special guest Anthony Hansen, Cloud Solution Architect at Telarus.

Hoje a nossa conversa irá ser sobre um tópico que certamente já teve espaço em muitas reuniões e conversas de pub entre os nossos ouvintes, todos nos preocupamos com a privacidade dos dados que temos e possuímos, com e a capacidade atualmente de capturar e analisar dados numa escala massiva. Mas é de dados que vive a nossa sociedade, não o novo ouro ou petróleo com preferirem fazer a analogia. Mas mais ainda são a base para a construção de modelos de IA melhores e mais fidedignos e é graças a esta capacidade de captura e até de labeling de dados numa escala massiva que temos IA tão avançada hoje em dia… E é sobre isso que hoje vamos nos debruçar e procurar discutir abertamente o tema da privacidade ligada à IA e não só, e para discutir este tópico connosco temos um fantástico convidado, o Miguel Caldas, atualmente Cloud Solution Architect na Microsoft Portugal, uma das pessoas mais sábias em IT que conheço e uma das referencias nacionais em tudo e qualquer tema ligado a Cloud, IT, Segurança, etc… Convidado: Miguel Caldas https://www.linkedin.com/in/miguelcaldas/ DALL·E: Creating Images from Text (openai.com) https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/ Imaging AI Autonomous Chest Xray https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/5/23011291/imaging-ai-autonomous-chest-xray-eu-fda AI in the justice system threatens human rights and civil liberties (artificialintelligence-news.com) https://artificialintelligence-news.com/2022/03/30/ai-in-the-justice-system-threatens-human-rights-and-civil-liberties/ Microsoft taps AI to make you look your best in video meetings | PCWorld https://www.pcworld.com/article/629031/microsoft-will-apply-ai-to-meetings-with-webcam-framing-eye-contact.html Email us at podcast@buildingthefuture.pt Hosts: Marco António Silva: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marconsilva/ José António Silva: https://www.linkedin.com/in/canoas/ Vitor Santos: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vitor-santos-ab87662/

Darren Pulsipher, Chief Solution Architect, Intel, continues his conversation with Sarah Musick, Cloud Solution Architect, Intel, about the shift from infrastructure to workloads. Blog: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/government/podcasts/embracing-digital-transformation-episode82.html Video: https://youtu.be/OBaUP6RY4lk #EDT82 #EmbracingDigital #CloudMigration #Multicloud

In unserer Artikelreihe „Developer Stories“ stellen wir regelmäßig spannende Microsoft-Entwickler*innen und ihre Projekte vor. Dieses Mal mit Stefanie Grois, Cloud Solution Architect für IoT bei Microsoft. Den Textbeitrag dazu gibt es hier: https://news.microsoft.com/de-de/developer-stories-stefanie-grois/

Mohamed Kabiruddin is a Senior Program Manager in the Azure SQL Product Team and is currently located in Redmond, Washington. Prior to joining the Product Team, he was a Cloud Solution Architect working with enterprise customers in Australia on all things Azure Data & AI. He is very passionate about the data community and loves to be a part of events that provide an opportunity to interact with like-minded data folks.   Topics of Discussion: [2:12] What are the high points that have led Mohamed up to what he is doing now for Microsoft in his career? [4:42] Mohamed talks about the migration process and how some of the components fit together. [8:24] What type of schema should they key off of? [10:10] The key is understanding what your data type is, how these map to the cloud services, and how these actually scale on the cloud. [10:59] Mohamed talks about the renaming of Azure's synapse, and what it means in terms of rebranding. [14:00] What should the average .NET developer really pay attention to of all these investments that are happening? [18:37] What is the most popular option that their customers leverage for SQL databases? [20:37] How long does the auto-resume take? [24:46] Mohamed discusses the SQL Server Management Studio and the tremendous growth of Azure Data Studio. Where really Azure Data Studio shines is with this new persona of developers, database professionals, or data professionals starting to mix and match the way they query and manage databases.   Mentioned in this Episode: Architect Tips — New video podcast! Azure DevOps Clear Measure (Sponsor) .NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon! Jeffrey Palermo's YouTube Jeffrey Palermo's Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events! podcast@palermo.network Azure SQL Azure Database Migration Guides Azure Data Studio   Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

Catch our insightful discussion with a trio of female data professionals as they share their experiences at the Microsoft Azure Virtual Hackathon 2021. Be inspired by how they came together, combined their expertise and used Azure to address a real-world problem in the financial services industry. Guest speakers: Akanksha Sharma, Lead Data Analyst, Grab Gurkiran Kaur, Data Scientist, PRIME'22, Brown University Sakshi Khatri, Associate, Venture Capital (Intern) at TNB Aura Host: Dr. Julia Gusakova, Cloud Solution Architect, Microsoft APAC

In this episode, Darren talks with Kiran Agrahara about what Intel Cloud Solution Architects (CSAs) do in a day to benefit not only cloud service providers (CSPs) but end users. Tags Blog: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/government/podcasts/embracing-digital-transformation-episode76.0.html Video:

Craig Crescas, Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, and Mathew Batterbee, Global Head of Business Applications at Ingram Micro Cloud, join Changing Channels host Larry Walsh to discuss how partners can leverage the benefits of advanced cloud applications and help customers do the same.   As the digital transformation continues to barrel ahead, with no signs of slowing down, advanced cloud-based applications are increasingly imperative in helping organizations to automate processes, maintain accurate records, and facilitate better customer experiences.   The challenge many businesses face is setting up and operationalizing that cloud-based software. When customers don't have the expertise or resources to bring their cloud vision to life, their quest for digital transformation fails. That's why customers need partners with the skills and know-how to help them get the most out of their cloud investment.   It turns out that partners face the very same challenge as customers – a lack of experience and resources. Building practices that go beyond the deployment of simple, common cloud applications takes time, money, and, most important, the acceptance of risk. But the truth is that advanced cloud applications represent a big opportunity for solution providers given partners' under-penetration in that area and customers' need for support there. As the saying goes, where there's mystery, there's margin.   Vendors need to better prepare partners to offer more advanced cloud applications such as CRM and ERP. Doing so is a win-win. While customers get the help they need to address business challenges, partners get a chance to capitalize on this cloud market opportunity.  A vendor at the forefront of dispelling the mystery of how partners can break into advanced cloud services is Microsoft. With Microsoft Dynamics 365, the company has developed a set of advanced applications designed to help take organizations' digital transformation capabilities to the next level. More significantly, though, the company has built its own training program for Dynamics 365 to simplify the learning process for partners and grant them the skills and resources they need to get the most out of their investments.   As the technical environment transitions, Microsoft is guiding partners on how to embrace the benefits of Dynamics 365 and engage in a business-led, rather than tech-led, conversation with customers. The goal: more open discussions between partners and customers and an overall better experience for customers as partners gain the ability to understand their aims, challenges, and growth inhibitors.   Microsoft is a supporter of cloud research conducted by Channelnomics in partnership with Ingram Micro Cloud, which is why we've invited them here to share their thoughts on leveraging advanced cloud applications and taking advantage of the market opportunity they present. Craig Crescas, Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, and Mathew Batterbee, Global Head of Business Applications at Ingram Micro Cloud, join Changing Channels host Larry Walsh to discuss how Microsoft helps partners and end users harness the power of advanced cloud applications.   Follow us, Like us, and Subscribe!  Channelnomics: https://channelnomics.com/   LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/2NC6Vli   Twitter: https://twitter.com/Channelnomics      Changing Channels Is a Channelnomics Production  Follow @Channelnomics to stay current on the latest #research, #bestpractices, and #resources. At @Channelnomics – the voice of thought leadership – we define #channel trends, chart new #GTM strategies, and #partner with industry leaders to champion #diversity in the channel.       Episode Resources  Host Larry Walsh: https://bit.ly/3beZfOa  Guest Craig Crescas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigcrescas/  Guest Mathew Batterbee: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathew-batterbee-7580a8ba/    Credits  Production: Changing Channels is produced by Modern Podcasting. For virtual content capture and video-first podcasts, check out http://www.modpodstudio.com.  Host Larry Walsh: https://bit.ly/3beZfOa  Voice-Over: Denise Quan 

Geçen bölümde başladığımız bulut alanındaki meslekleri ve rolleri incelediğimiz yeni serimize bu bölümde "Cloud Solution Architect" rolüyle devam ediyoruz. Sevgili Sanem S. Sever sağolsun konuğumuz oldu ve CSA rolünü, neler bilinmesi gerektiğini ve gündelik hayatta bu rolü icra ederken neler yaşadığımızı konuştuk. Podcast'in sonuna doğru bir kadın olarak bilişim sektöründe çalışmanın zorluklarından da bahsederek bölümü kapattık. İyi dinlemeler.

For the past 6 years I've been part of the Microsoft Portuguese Team, first as a Consultant, Architect and Digital Advisor and now as a Cloud Solution Architect. Working mainly in the Telco and Retail Industries and building some of the coolest things for these customers. As Cloud Solution Architect my work consists of challenging my customers with new ideas and ways for them to take the most out of Cloud technologies, which for me makes this one of the best jobs in the world. My academic background as an Engineer specialized in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Graphics made me specially tailored to address digital challenges that my customers are facing in transforming their businesses by levering technologies such as Data Mining and Machine Learning, Cognitive Intelligence and of course Mixed, Augmented and Virtual Reality. I also teach the Data Mining and Machine Learning, Advanced Data Mining and AI, and Data Science Project courses at the Data Science and Business Analytics Post Graduate course at ISEG, a professional speaker with more than 10 years of experience speaking in different national and international events, and am the President of nonprofit organization called DICE Cultural, an Association focused on creating more awareness around modern board games and a way for me to give back to the community and to a hobby I love so much. for both these topics that I love I'm the founder and host of 2 podcast, Building the future AI Portugal Podcast, and DICE Podcast.

JJ Johnson is a Cloud Solution Architect at Amazon, working in the USA. JJ joins TCC to discuss his journey from the world of academia (specialising in areas such as Theology and Philology) to the technology industry. Working across both the US and Japan and through both the DotCom bubble and the 2008 Crash, he's seen a lot of drastic shifts and transformations within the industry. GET 10% OFF ZERO TO MASTERY USING THIS LINK AND CODE FRIENDS10 Join our discord: https://discord.gg/fHdBTrXjVx Contact JJ: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jjjohnson/ Contact Cam: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameron-blackwood/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-coder-career/message

JJ Johnson is a Cloud Solution Architect at Amazon, working in the USA. JJ joins TCC to discuss his journey from the world of academia (specialising in areas such as Theology and Philology) to the technology industry. Working across both the US and Japan and through both the DotCom bubble and the 2008 Crash, he's seen a lot of drastic shifts and transformations within the industry. GET 10% OFF ZERO TO MASTERY USING THIS LINK AND CODE FRIENDS10 Join our discord: https://discord.gg/fHdBTrXjVx Contact JJ: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jjjohnson/ Contact Cam: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameron-blackwood/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-coder-career/message

In this interview, I'm chatting with Devanshi Joshi Sr. Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, Keynote Speaker, and Coach! ✉️ Connect with Devanshi on LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/devanshijoshi

Tune into this insightful conversation with Head Of Data Engineering, Roopali Agrawal. Hear how she overcame some inherent biases and today is a role model for women pursuing a career in data. Uncover the data challenges a Data Company Grab encounters and possible solutions. This episode takes a look at the growing importance of data and data tech in the business world. We discuss the journey of our guest speaker and what it takes for a female to pursue and grow in a career in this space. Guest Speaker: Roopali Agrawal, Head of Engineering- Data Tech, Grab Host: Poonam Sampat, Cloud Solution Architect, Microsoft APAC

Microsoft Security er på en vækstrejse i ekspresfart. Hør hvorfor du skal med om bord. Microsoft har investeret massivt i sikkerhed i de seneste år, og forretningsområdet er vokset markant. Sikkerhed er en stor forretningsmulighed for partnere, fordi it-sikkerhed ikke længere er en it-løsning, man kan vælge fra eller til. It-sikkerhed er fundamentet for at kunne drive en virksomhed og følger virksomheder på hvert eneste skridt i deres digitale rejse. Ifølge Aline Harmand, Cloud Solution Architect inden for sikkerhed i Microsoft, er Microsofts tilgang til it-sikkerhed enestående af flere grunde. Microsofts cloudbaserede sikkerhedsplatform, Microsoft Sentinel, bygger på nem integration, kunstig intelligens og automatisering. Platformen integrerer med andre sikkerhedsproducenter for at kunne lave så nøjagtige og favnende analyser som muligt - på tværs af alle typer enheder, herunder netværk, firewall, servere, it-systemer, endpoints og cloud. Microsoft analyserer hver dag 65 trillioner sikkerhedssignaler, dvs. potentielle sikkerhedstrusler. I podcasten fortæller Aline Harmand om Hvordan Microsoft Security's strategi om åbenhed, kunstig intelligens og automatisering gavner virksomheders it-sikkerhed Hvordan Microsoft Sentinel er meget mere end 'blot' en SIEM-løsning Hvad Microsoft Defender dækker over og kan tilbyde virksomheder Hvorfor partnere bør opgradere deres kompetencer og tage certificeringer i Microsoft Security Thomas Egesø fra Arrows Microsoft team er vært i denne podcast.

In Episode 57 of the SAP on Azure Video Podcast we talk about Powerful Dev Conference, Azure Traffic Manager & SAP Business Technology Platform, Enhanced telemetry with Logic Apps & SAP ERP Connector, Codespaces meets Dapr & DaprCon 2021. Then we have a great chat with Nishan Naicker from South Africa, a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft focusing on SAP on Azure. Nishan guides us through his journey to Microsoft and provides some great insights on why SAP on Azure is so great! https://youtu.be/nKbspchiaEQ https://github.com/hobru/SAPonAzure

In this episode, Marco Silva and I have a great discussion about artificial intelligence and cloud technologies. Marco lives in Portugal and is a Cloud Solution Architect for Microsoft with many years of experience. As a Cloud Solution Architect, he challenges customers with new ideas and new ways to use cloud technologies. Marco has experience in Computer Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Computer Graphics. He is part of the AI Ambassador team at Microsoft, which means he empowers people to leverage AI and create new uses of AI. Marco is also a professional speaker and teaches courses on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at ISEG in Lisbon, Portugal. “Simulated environments are necessary for learning anywhere.” – Marco Silva Today on the Tech Leader Talk podcast: - Why every business needs AI - New business models that didn't exist until a year or two ago - Digital transformation includes looking at AI for your business - A new pricing model for Rolls-Royce airplane engines that optimizes AI - What you must have to effectively use Machine Learning in your company Resources Mentioned: Microsoft Mesh – A collaboration and communications platform developed by Microsoft. Connect with Marco Silva: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marconsilva/ Thanks for listening! Be sure to get your free copy of Steve's latest book, Cracking the Patent Code, and discover his proven system for identifying and protecting your most valuable inventions. Get the book at https://stevesponseller.com/book.

O tópico para o episodio de hoje é o de Criação de Musica usando Inteligência Artificial, no fundo vamos abordar as diferentes aplicações de Inteligência Artificial na produção de musica seja na própria criação, como nos processos de pós-produção com os melhoramentos, noise gates inteligentes, outras técnicas que hoje fazem parte do tratamento de áudio normalmente. E para nos ajudar a explorar convenientemente este mundo para vocês, decidimos convidar um grande amigo, amante de tecnologia, Guitarrista a solo e na banda do David Fonseca, Cloud Solution Architect na Microsoft, estamos a falar-vos do grande Ricardo Fiel, artisticamente conhecido por Moon Cowboy. É sem duvida um episódio que não vais querer perder! Links para Seguirem o Ricardo Fiel https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardofiel/ https://twitter.com/mooncowboymusic Links para o EP - HOPE: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gPv9CMT9Q333xkNQuzqwg?si=-AbxG-okTvOLrLL_gQlzAA&dl_branch=1 AI News: https://www.mindvalley.com/about https://uwaterloo.ca/news/media/researchers-develop-real-time-lyric-generation-technology https://techxplore.com/news/2021-08-air-gym-environment-deep-algorithms.html https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/ai-music-future/ https://hai.stanford.edu/news/open-source-movement-comes-medical-datasets Email us at podcast@buildingthefuture.pt Hosts: Marco António Silva: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marconsilva/ José António Silva: https://www.linkedin.com/in/canoas/ Vitor Santos: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vitor-santos-ab87662/

We didn't know what to expect when we sat down with Greg Beaumont, Senior Business Intelligence Specialist at Microsoft specializing in serving Microsoft's Healthcare space customers' technical Power BI issues.  What we got was an insightful, delightful, and impactful conversation with a really cool and smart human! References in this Episode: The Game Azure Health Bot The Future Will Be Decentralized-Charles Hoskinson Spider Goats Episode Timeline: 3:10 - The magic of discovery with the Power Platform, It's all about the customers(and Greg has a LOT of customers!), and Greg's Data Origin Story 21:10 - The IT/Business Gap, Getting good BI and keeping data security is a tricky thing, The COVID Challenge hits Healthcare 43:00 - Power BI-Not just a data visualization tool, a very cool discussion on Genomics and using data to save lives, the importance of Data Modelling 59:10 - The Bitcoin Analogy, The VertiPaq Engine and when is Direct Query the answer 1:08:30 - We get a little personal with Greg, Azure/Power BI integration and Machine Learning, Cognitive Services and Sentiment Analysis Episode Transcript: Rob Collie (00:00:00): Hello, friends. Today's guest is Greg Beaumont from Microsoft. Like one of our previous guests, hopefully, Greg has one of those interface jobs. The place where the broader Microsoft Corporation meets its customers at a very detailed and on the ground level. On one hand, it's one of those impossible jobs. More than 100 customers in the healthcare space look to Greg as their primary point of contact for all things technical, around Power BI. That's a tall order, folks. And at the same time, it's one of those awesome jobs. It's not that dissimilar, really, from our job here at P3. Rob Collie (00:00:45): In a role that, first of all, you get broad exposure to a tremendous number of organizations and their problems, you learn a lot super, super quickly. When you're doing it right, your work day is just nonstop magic. The power platform is magic and not really because of the technology, but instead because of its impact on the people who use it, who interact with it, who benefit from it, whose lives are changed by it. And again, I can't stress this enough, software usually doesn't do this. And as we talked with him, Krissy and I just couldn't stop nodding, because we could hear it, he lives it, just like we do. And I hope that just leaps out of the audio for you like it did for us. Rob Collie (00:01:32): No surprises here, Greg didn't start his life as a data professional. He's our second guest on this show, whose original training was in biology. And so, some familiar themes come back again, that good data professionals come from a wide variety of backgrounds, that the hybrid tweeners between IT and business are really where the value is at today. And I love this about Greg, that we made a point of talking about how much easier it is today to break into the data profession than it's ever been and what an amazing thing that is to celebrate. Rob Collie (00:02:06): We talked about COVID and specifically its impacts on the industry. How that has served as a catalyst for many organizations to rethink their analytic strategy, the implications of remote work, data privacy and security. And of course, it wouldn't be an episode of Raw Data, if we didn't nerd out about at least one thing. So, we get a little bit into genomics and the idea of DNA and RNA as forms of biological computer code. And as you'd expect, and want, Greg is far from a one dimensional data professional, just such an interesting person, authentically human, a real pleasure to speak with, so let's get into it. Announcer (00:02:47): Ladies and gentlemen, could I have your attention, please. Rob Collie (00:02:51): This is the Raw Data by P3 adaptive podcast with your host, Rob Collie. Find out what the experts at P3 Adaptive can do for your business. Just go to p3adaptive.com. Raw Data by P3 Adaptive is data with the human element. Rob Collie (00:03:13): Welcome to the show, Greg Beaumont. How are you? Greg Beaumont (00:03:17): I'm doing well. How are you all? Rob Collie (00:03:19): I think we're doing pretty well. Greg Beaumont (00:03:19): Awesome. Rob Collie (00:03:20): Business is booming. Data has turned out to be relatively hot field, but I think it's probably got some legs to it. And the Microsoft platform also, well, it's just kind of kicking ass, isn't it? So, business wise, we couldn't be better. I think personally, we're doing well, too. We won't go into all that. What are you up to these days? What's your job title and what's an average day look for you? Greg Beaumont (00:03:39): So, I'm working in Microsoft and my title is Technical Specialist. And I'm a Business Intelligence Technical Specialist, so I focus almost exclusively on Power BI and where it integrates with other products within the Microsoft stack. Now, I'm in the Microsoft field, which is different from a number of guests you've had, who work at corporate and we're working on the product groups, which is that I'm there to help the customers. Greg Beaumont (00:04:01): And you hear a lot of different acronyms with these titles. So, my role is often called the TS. In the past, it was called a TSP. It's just a change in the title. Sometimes you might hear the title, CSA, Cloud Solution Architect. It's very similar to what I do, but a little bit different. But effectively from an overarching standpoint, our goal in the field as Technical Specialists is to engage with customers, so that they understand how and where to use our products, and to ensure that they have a good experience when they succeed. Rob Collie (00:04:29): Your job is literally where the Microsoft organism meets the customers. Greg Beaumont (00:04:34): Yep. Rob Collie (00:04:35): That's not the role I had. I was definitely on the corporate side, back in my days at Microsoft. I think the interaction between the field and corporate has gotten a lot stronger over the years. I think it's a bit more organic, that interplay, that it used to feel like crossing a chasm sort of thing. And I don't think that's really true anymore. Greg Beaumont (00:04:54): At a green, I think that's by design, too. So, with the more frequent release schedules and also kind of how things have changed under Satya, customer feedback drives the roadmap. So when these monthly updates come out, a lot of it is based off of customer demand and what customers are encountering and what they need. So, we're able to pivot and meet the needs of those customers much more quickly. Rob Collie (00:05:15): Yeah, you mentioned the changing acronyms, right? I mean like yes. My gosh, a thousand times yes. It's almost like a deliberate obfuscation strategy. It's like who's what? Why did we need to take the P off of TSP? I mean, I'm sure it was really important in some meeting somewhere, but it's just like, "Oh, yeah, it's really hard to keep track of." It's just a perpetually moving target. But at the same time, so many fundamentals don't change, right? The things that customers need and the things that Microsoft needs to provide. The fundamentals, of course, evolving, but they don't move nearly as fast as the acronym game. Greg Beaumont (00:05:52): Right. I think that acronym game is part of what makes it difficult your first year here, because people have a conversation and you don't know what they're talking about. Right? Rob Collie (00:06:00): Yeah, yeah, yeah. Greg Beaumont (00:06:00): And if they just spelled it out, it would make a lot more sense. Rob Collie (00:06:03): Krissy was talking to me today about, "Am I understanding what Foo means?" There's an internal Microsoft dialect, right? Krissy was like, "Is Foo like X? Is it like a placeholder for variable?" I'm like, "Yes, yes." She's like, "Okay. That's what I thought, but I just want to make sure." Krissy Dyess (00:06:18): That's why there's context clues in grade school really come into play when you're working with Microsoft organization, because you really got to take in all the information and kind of decipher it a bit. And those context clues help out. Greg, how long have you been in that particular role? Has it been your whole time at Microsoft or are have you been in different roles? Greg Beaumont (00:06:36): So, I should add, too, that I'm specifically in the healthcare org, and even within healthcare, we've now subspecialized into sub-verticals within healthcare. So, I work exclusively with healthcare providers, so people who are providing care to patients in a patient care setting. I do help out on a few other accounts, too, but that's my primary area of responsibility. Greg Beaumont (00:06:55): So, I started with Microsoft in 2016. I was actually hired into a regional office as what's called the traditional TSP role and it was data platform TSP. So, it was what used to be the SQL Server TS role. A few months later, the annual realign happened, I got moved over to Modern Workplace because they wanted to have an increased focus on Power BI, and I had some experience in that area. Plus, I was the new guy, so they put me into the experimental role. A year later, that's when they added the industry verticals and that's when I moved into what is kind of the final iteration of my current role. And the titles have changed a few times, but I've effectively been in this role working with healthcare customers for over four years now. Rob Collie (00:07:35): And so, like a double vertical specialization? Greg Beaumont (00:07:37): Yeah. Rob Collie (00:07:37): Healthcare providers, where there's a hierarchy here? Greg Beaumont (00:07:40): Yeah, yeah. Rob Collie (00:07:41): Those are the jaw dropping things for me is sometimes people in roles like yours, even after all that specialization, you end up with a jillion customers that you're theoretically responsible for. Double digits, triple digits, single digits in terms of how many customers you have to cover? Greg Beaumont (00:07:58): I'm triple digits. And that is one of the key differences from that CSA role that you'll see on the Azure team is they tend to be more focused on just a couple of customers and they get more engaged in kind of projects. And I will do that with customers, but it's just, it's a lot more to manage. Rob Collie (00:08:14): Yeah. What a challenging job. If you think about it, the minimum triple digit number is 100, right? So, let's just say, it's 100 for a moment. Well, you've got 52 weeks a year plus PTO, right? So, you're just like, "Okay." It is very, very difficult to juggle. That's a professional skill that is uncommon. I would say that's probably harder than the acronym game. Greg Beaumont (00:08:37): Yeah, there's been times I was on a vacation day and I got a call. I didn't recognize the number. I'm like, "Okay, I'm going to have to route this to somebody because I'm off today." And they're like, "Well, I'm the VP of so and so and we need to do this." And I'm like, "Okay, I got to go back inside and work now, because this is an important call." So, you have to be flexible and you're correct, that it makes it a challenge to have that work-life balance also, but the work is very rewarding, so it's worth it. Rob Collie (00:09:01): Yeah. It's something that vaguely I have a sense of this. I mean, transitioning from corporate Microsoft to, I mean, you can think of my role now as field. I'm much, much closer to the customers than I ever was at corporate. And yes, Brian Jones and I talked about it a little bit. And this is a bit of an artifact of the old release model that it was like every few years, you'd release a product, which isn't the case anymore. But that satisfying feeling of helping people, like even if you build something amazing back at Microsoft in the days that I was there, you were never really around for that victory lap. You would never get that feedback. It even never make it to you. Rob Collie (00:09:37): It was years later muted whereas one of the beautiful things about working closely with customers and our clients with Power BI, and actually the Microsoft platform as a whole, is just how quickly you can deliver these amazingly transformational like light up moments that go beyond just the professional. You can get this emotional, really strong validating emotional feeling of having helped. And that is difficult to get, I think even today, probably, even with their monthly release cycles, et cetera. By definition, you're just further removed from the "Wow" that happens out where the people are. Greg Beaumont (00:10:15): Yep. And I'm sure you all see that, too, with your business is that a lot of work often goes into figuring out what needs to be in these solutions and reports, but when you actually put it in the hands of leaders, and they realize the power of what it can provide for their business, in my case for their patients, for their doctors, for their nurses, it becomes real. They see it's actually possible and it's not just a PowerPoint deck. Rob Collie (00:10:38): And that sense of possibility, that sense of almost child-like wonder that comes back at those moments, you just wouldn't expect from the outside. I had a family member one time say, "Oh, Rob, I could never do what you do." Basically, it was just saying "How boring it must be, right?" It's so boring working with software, working with..." I'm like, "Are you kidding me? This is one of the places in life where you get to create and just an amazingly magical." It's really the only word that comes close to capturing it. You just wouldn't expect that, right? Again, from the outside like, "Oh, you work in data all day. Boring." Greg Beaumont (00:11:17): I'd add to that, that I'd compare it to maybe the satisfaction people get out of when they beat a game or a video game. That when you figure out how to do a solution and it works and you put in that time and that effort and that thought, there's that emotional reward, you get that I built something that that actually did what they wanted it to do. Rob Collie (00:11:35): Yeah. And after you beat the video game, not only did that happen, but other people's lives get better as a result of you beating this game. It's just like it's got all those dynamics, and then some. All these follow on effects. Greg Beaumont (00:11:46): It's like being an athlete and enjoying the sport that you compete in. Rob Collie (00:11:50): Yeah. We're never going to retire. We're going to be the athletes that hang on way too long. Greg Beaumont (00:11:56): Yep. Rob Collie (00:11:58): So, unfortunately, I think our careers can go longer than a professional athletes, so there's that. I can't even really walk up and down stairs anymore without pain, so. So what about before Microsoft? What were you up to beforehand and how did you end up in this line of work in the first place? Greg Beaumont (00:12:15): Sure. And I think that's actually something where listeners can get some value, because the way I got into this line of work, I think today, there's much more opportunity for people all over the world from different socioeconomic backgrounds to be able to break into this field without having to kind of go through the rites of passage that people used to. So, I was actually a Biology major from a small school. Came from a military family. I didn't have corporate contacts or great guidance counseling or anything like that. My first job right out of school was I said, "Oh, I got a Biology major. I got a job at a research institution." They're like, "Okay, you're going to be cleaning out the mouse cages." And it was sort of $10.50 an hour. Greg Beaumont (00:12:53): So, at that point, I said, "Okay, I got to start thinking about a different line of work here." So, I kind of bounced around a little bit. I wanted to get into IT, but if you wanted to learn something like SQL Server, you couldn't do it unless you had a job in IT. As an average person, you couldn't just go buy a SQL Server and put it in your home unless you had the amount of money that you needed to do that. Side projects with Access and Excel. Small businesses did things probably making less than minimum wage and side gigs, in addition to what I was doing for full-time work to pay the bills. Eventually caught on with a hospital where I was doing some interesting projects with data using Access and Excel. They wouldn't even give me access to Crystal Reports when we wanted to do some reporting. That was really where I kind of said , "Data is where I want to focus." Greg Beaumont (00:13:41): We did some projects around things like Radon Awareness, so people who would build a new house now, they're like, "Oh, I have to pay $1500 for that Radon machine down in the basement." But when you talk to a thoracic surgeon and their nursing team and you hear stories about people who are nonsmokers, perfectly healthy, who come in with tumors all over their lungs, you realize the value there and by looking at the data of where there's pockets of radon in the country reaching out to those people has value, right? I think it's that human element where you're actually doing something that makes a difference. So, that kind of opened my eyes. Greg Beaumont (00:14:14): I then after that job, I got on with a small consulting company. I was a Project Manager. It was my first exposure to Microsoft BI. It was actually ProClarity over SQL Server 2005 and we were working with data around HEDIS and Joint Commission healthcare performance measures for one of the VA offices. So, I was the PM and the Data Architect was building the SSIS packages, built out kind of skeleton of an analysis services cube. He asked me to lean in on the dashboarding side, and that's also where I started learning MDX because we were writing some MDX expressions to start doing some calculations that we were then exposing in ProClarity. And at that point, it was like, "This is magic." Greg Beaumont (00:14:57): From a used case perspective, what they were doing traditionally doing was they'd send somebody in from some auditing agency, who would look at, I think it was 30 to 60 patient records, for each metric and then they take a look at where all of the criteria hit for that metric, yes or no. And it would be pass/fail, how good is this institution doing of meeting this particular expectation. So, it would be things like, "Does a patient receive aspirin within a certain amount of time that they've been admitted if they have heart problems?" Something like that. With looking at it from a data perspective, you can look at the whole patient population, and then you could start slicing and dicing it by department, by time of day that they were admitted, by all of these different things. Greg Beaumont (00:15:38): And that's when I kind of said, "This is really cool, really interesting. I think there's a big future here." And I kind of decided to take that route. And from there, I got on with a Microsoft partner, where I stayed for about six years. And that's kind of where I was exposed to a lot of very smart, very gifted people. And I was able to kind of learn from them and then that led to eventually getting a job at Microsoft. But to make a long story short, today, you could go online and get Power BI Desktop for free. There's training resources all over the place, and you could skill up and get started and get a great job. I'd like to tell people take the amount of time you spend every night playing video games and watching television, take half that time and devote it to learning Power BI and you'll be amazed at how far you get in six to 12 months. Rob Collie (00:16:24): That's such good advice. I'm not really allowed to play a lot of video games, so I might need more time than that. But I had my time to do that years ago, learning DAX and everything. A couple of things really jumped out at me there. First of all, you're right, it was almost like a priesthood before. It was so hard to get your foot in the door. Look, you had to climb incrementally, multiple steps in that story to just get to the point where you were sitting next to the thing that was SSIS and MDX which, again, neither of those things had a particularly humane learning curve. Even when you got there, which was a climb, you get to that point and then they're like, "And here's your cliff. Your smooth cliff that you have to scale. If you wanted a piece of this technology," right? Rob Collie (00:17:11): You wanted to learn MDX, you had to get your hands on an SSAS server. The license for it. And then you had to have a machine you could install it on that was beefy enough to handle it. It's just, there's so many barriers to entry. And the data gene, I like to talk about, it does. It cuts across every demographic, as far as I can tell, damn near equally everywhere. Let's call it one in 20. It's probably a little less frequent than that. Let's call it 5% of the population is carrying the data gene and you've got to get exposure. And that's a lot easier to get that exposure today than it was even 10 years ago. Greg Beaumont (00:17:50): I'd completely agree with that. The people in this field tend to be the type of people who likes solving puzzles, who like building things that are complex and have different pieces, but who also enjoy the reward of getting it to work at the end. You've had several guests that have come on the show that come from nontraditional backgrounds. But I'm convinced that 20 years ago, there were a lot of people who would have been great data people, who just never got the opportunity to make it happen. Greg Beaumont (00:18:14): Whereas today, the opportunity is there and I think Microsoft has done a great job with their strategy of letting you learn and try Power BI. You can go download the dashboard in a day content for free and the PDF is pretty self-explanatory and if you've used excel in the past, you can walk through it and teach yourself the tool. I think the power of that from both the perspective of giving people opportunity and also building up a workforce for this field of work is amazing. Rob Collie (00:18:42): Yeah. I mean, all those people that were sort of in a sense like kind of left behind, years ago, they weren't given an avenue. A large number of them did get soaked up by Excel. If they're professionally still active today, there's this tremendous population of Excel people if they were joining the story today, they might be jumping into Power BI almost from the beginning, potentially. And of course, if they were doing that, they'd still be doing Excel. But there's still this huge reservoir of people who are still tomorrow, think about the number of people tomorrow, just tomorrow. Today, they're good at Excel and tomorrow, they will sort of, they'll have their first discovery moment with Power BI. The first moment of DAX or M or whatever, that's a large number of people tomorrow who are about to experience. It's almost like did you see the movie The Game? Greg Beaumont (00:19:36): I have not. Rob Collie (00:19:37): There's this moment early in the movie where Michael Douglas has just found out that his brother or something has bought them a pass to the game. And no one will tell him what it is. He meets this guy at a bar who says, "Oh, I'm so envious that you get to play for the first time." Also, this is really silly, but it's also like the ACDC song For Those About To Rock, We Salute You. For those about to DAX, we salute you, because that's going to happen tomorrow, right? Such a population every day that's lighting up and what an exciting thing to think about. Do you ever get down for any reason, just stop and think, "Oh, what about the 5000 people today who are discovering this stuff for the first time." That is a happy thing. Greg Beaumont (00:20:16): Yeah, I actually had a customer where one of their analysts who turned out to be just a Power BI Rockstar, he said, "I'd been spending 20 years of my life writing V-lookups, and creating giant Excel files. And now, everything I was trying to do is at my fingertips," right? And then within a year, he went from being a lifelong Excel expert to creating these amazing reports that got visibility within the organization and provided a ton of value. Rob Collie (00:20:42): And that same person you're talking about is also incredibly steeped in business decision-making. They've been getting a business training their whole career at the same time. And it's like suddenly, you have this amazingly capable business tech hybrid, that literally, it just like moved mountains. It's crazy. We've talked about that a lot on the show, obviously, the hybrids, just amazing. And a lot of these people have come to work for us. Rob Collie (00:21:09): That's the most common origin story for our consultants. It's not the only one. I mean, we do have some people who came from more traditional IT backgrounds, but they're also hybrids. They understand business incredibly well. And so, they never really quite fit in on the pure IT side, either. It's really kind of interesting. Greg Beaumont (00:21:26): Yeah, I think there's still a gap there between IT and business, even in kind of the way solutions get architected in the field. It's understanding what the business really wants out of the tool is often very different from how IT understands to build it. And I think that's where people like that provide that bridge, to make things that actually work and then provide the value that's needed. Rob Collie (00:21:47): There's such valuable ambassadors. It's just so obvious when IT is going to interact with a business unit to help them achieve some goal. It's so obvious that, of course, who you need to engage with IT. IT thinks, "We need to engage with the leaders of this business unit." They've got the secret weapon, these hybrid people that came up through the ranks with Excel. The word shadow IT is perfect. These people within the business, like they've been Excel people for their entire careers, they have an IT style job. Rob Collie (00:22:22): Almost all the challenges that IT complains about with working with business, you take these Excel people and sort of put them in a room where they feel safe. They'll tell you the same things. They're like, "I had exactly the same problems with my 'users,' the people that I build things for." And yeah, there's such a good translator. And if the communication flows between IT and business sort of through that portal, things go so much better. That's a habit. We're still in the process of developing as a world. Greg Beaumont (00:22:51): Yeah. And in healthcare that actually also provides some unique challenges. With regulation and personal health information, these Excel files have sensitive data in them, and you have to make sure it's protected and that the right people can see it. And how do you give them the power to use their skills to improve your organization, while also making sure that you keep everything safe. So, I think that's a hot topic these days. Rob Collie (00:23:15): Yeah. I mean, it's one of those like a requirement, even of the Hello World equivalent of anything is that you right off the bat have to have things like row level security and object level security in place and sometimes obfuscation. What are some of the... we don't want to get to shop talky, but it is a really fascinating topic, what are the handful of go-to techniques for managing sensitive healthcare information? How do you get good BI, while at the same time protecting identity and sensitivity. So often, you still need to be able to uniquely identify patients to tie them across different systems, can identify them as people. It's really, really, really tricky stuff. Greg Beaumont (00:24:02): And I think just to kind of stress the importance of this, you can actually go search for look up HIPAA wall of shame or HIPAA violation list. When this information gets shared with the wrong people, there's consequences and can result in financial fees and fines. And in addition to that, you lose the trust of people whose personal information may have been violated. So, I think a combination of you said things row level security and object level security as a start, you can also do data masking, but then there's issues of people export to Excel. What do they do with that data afterwards? Greg Beaumont (00:24:37): And then there's going to be tools like Microsoft Information Protection, where when you export sensitive information to Excel, it attaches an encrypted component. I'm not an MIT expert. I know how it works. I don't know the actual technology behind it. But it attaches an encrypted component where only people who are allowed to see that information can then open that file. So, you're protecting the information at the source and in transit, but you're still giving people the flexibility to go build a report or to potentially use data from different sources, but then have it be protected every step of the way. Greg Beaumont (00:25:11): So like you said, without getting too techie, there's ways to do it, but it's not just out of the box easy. There's steps you have to go through, talk to experts, get advice. Whether it's workshops or proof of concepts, there's different ways that customers can figure that out. Rob Collie (00:25:28): Yeah. So because of that sort of mandatory minimum level of sensitivity handling and information security, I would expect, now that we're talking about it, that IT sort of has to be a lot more involved by default in the healthcare space with the solutions than IT would necessarily be in other industries. Another way to say it, it's harder for the business to be 100% in charge of data modeling in healthcare than it is in other industries. Greg Beaumont (00:26:02): Yep. But you can have a hybrid model, which is where the business provides data that's already been vetted and protected and there might be other data that doesn't have any sensitive data in it, where it's game on, supply chain or something like that. But having these layers in between, the old way of doing things was just nobody gets access to it. Then there was kind of canned reporting where everybody gets burst in the reports that contain what they're allowed to see. But now, you can do things in transit, so that the end users can still use filters and build a new report and maybe even share it with other people. And know that whoever they're sharing with will only be able to see what they're allowed to see. It gets pretty complex, but it's definitely doable and the customers that are doing it are finding a lot of value in those capabilities. Rob Collie (00:26:48): That's fundamentally one of the advantages of having a data model. I was listening to a podcast with Jeffrey Wang from Microsoft and he was talking about it. And I thought this was a really crisp and concise summary, which is that the Microsoft Stack Power BI has a model-centric approach to the world whereas basically, all the competitors are report centric. And what does that mean? Why does that even make a difference? Well, when you build a model, you've essentially built all the reports in a way. You've enabled all of the reports. You can build many, many, many, many, many like an infinite number of different reports based on emerging and evolving business needs without having to go back to square one. Rob Collie (00:27:28): In a report-centric model, which is basically what the industry has almost always had, almost everywhere, outside of a few notable examples, Power BI being one of them. When a report centric model, every single change, I remember there being a statistic that was just jaw dropping. I forget what the actual numbers were, but it was something like the average number of business days it took to add a single column to a single existing report. It was like nine business days, when it should just be a click. And that's the difference. And so, preserving that benefit of this model centric approach, while at the same time, still making sure that everyone's playing within the right sandbox that you can't jump the fence and end up with something that's inappropriate. Very challenging, but doable. Greg Beaumont (00:28:15): Yep. That reminded me of an old joke we used to tell in consulting and this was back in the SharePoint Performance Point with Analysis Services days is there be a budget for a project, there'd be change requests along the ways, they discover issues with the data. And at the very end of the project, they rushed the visualization to market. And they're like after six months, with 10 people dedicated on this project, "Here's your line chart." Rob Collie (00:28:39): Yeah. I had a director of IT at a large insurance company one time, looking me in the eye and just brutally confess. Yeah, my team, we spent three months to put a dot on a chart. And that's not what you want. Greg Beaumont (00:28:59): Right, right. Rob Collie (00:29:01): That was unspoken. This was bad. To the extent that you're able to tell, what are some of the interesting things that you've seen in the healthcare space with this platform recently? Anything that we can talk about? Greg Beaumont (00:29:15): Yeah, so I think I'd start with how everything changed with COVID. Just because I think people would be interested in that topic and kind of how it changed everything. I actually had a customer yesterday at a large provider who said, "COVID was the catalyst for us to reconsider our investment in analytics, and that it spurred interest from even an executive level to put more money into analytics because of the things that happened." So obviously, when it hit everybody was, "What in the world is going on here?" Right? "Are we even going to have jobs? Is the whole world going to collapse or is this just going to be kind of fake news that comes and goes?" Everybody was unsure what was going on. Greg Beaumont (00:29:50): At the same time, the healthcare providers, a lot of them were moving people to work from home and these were organizations where they had very strict working conditions because of these data privacy and data security considerations, and all of a sudden, you're in a rush to move people home. So, some of my counterparts who do teams, they have some just amazing stories. They were up all night helping people set up ways to securely get their employees to a work-from-home type experience, so that they only had essential workers interacting with the patients, but then the office workers were able to effectively conduct business from home. Greg Beaumont (00:30:25): Additionally, there were use cases that were amazing. So, Microsoft has now what's called the Cloud for Health where we're effectively taking our technology and trying to make it more targeted towards healthcare customers and their specific needs, because we see the same types of use cases repeat from customer to customer. One of those use cases that came out of COVID was called Virtual Visits. And I actually know the team that built that solution, but because of patients who were on COVID, they didn't know how contagious it was. Greg Beaumont (00:30:56): There were people being put on ventilators, who weren't allowed to see their families and they were setting up a team's application, where people were actually able to talk to their family and see their family before they went under, right? There were chaplains who were reading people their last rites using video conferencing, and things like that. So, it was pretty heavy stuff, but I think from a healthcare perspective, it showed the value technology can provide. Greg Beaumont (00:31:21): And from our perspective in the field, it's like we're not just out there talking about bits and bytes. It kind of hit home that there's real people who are impacted by what we're doing and it adds another kind of layer of gravity, I'd call it, taking what you do seriously, right? I had another customer, they were doing some mapping initiatives with some of the COVID data because they wanted to provide maps for their employees of where the hotspots were. Greg Beaumont (00:31:46): And we were up till I think 11:00 at night one night working through a proof of concept. And they said, "Yeah, what's next is we also want to start mapping areas of social unrest." I said, "Wow, social unrest. Why are you worried about that?" And they said, "Well, we expect because of this lockdown, that eventually there's going to be rioting and issues in all different parts of the world." And at that time, I just kind of didn't really think about that, but then a lot of those things did happen. It was kind of just interesting to be working at night and hearing those stories, and then seeing how everything kind of unfolded. Greg Beaumont (00:32:18): Another example, look it up, there's an Azure COVID Health Bot out there and then there's some information on that, where you can ask questions and walk through your symptoms, and it will kind of give you some instructions on what to do. Another one that is even popular now is looking at employees who are returning to work. So, when people return to work find out vaccination status, "Are you able to come back to work? Are you essential? Are you nonessential?" I don't think a lot of customers were prepared to run through that scenario when it hit. Greg Beaumont (00:32:48): So, having these agile tools where you can go get your list of not only employees, but maybe partners that refer people to your network, because you might not have all the referring doctors in your system. So with Power BI, you can go get extracts, tie it all together and then build out a solution that helps you get those things done. I'd say it was eye opening. I think for customers and also for myself and my peers, that we're not just selling widgets. We're selling things that make a difference and have that human perspective to it. Rob Collie (00:33:20): Yeah, that does bring it home, doesn't it? That statement from an organization that COVID was the catalyst, evaluating and investing in their analytic strategy? Greg Beaumont (00:33:29): Yep. Rob Collie (00:33:30): Being in BI, being an analytics is one of the best ways to future proof one's career because at baseline, it's a healthy industry, there's always value to be created. But then when things get bad, for some reason, whatever crisis hits, it's actually more necessary than ever because when you've been in a groove when a an industry or an organization has been in an operational groove for a long time, any number of years, eventually, you just sort of start to intuitively figure it out. There's a roadmap that emerges slowly over time. Now, even that roadmap probably isn't as good as you think it is. If you really tested your assumptions, you'd find that some of them were flawed and analytics could have helped you be a lot more efficient even then. Rob Collie (00:34:14): But regardless, the perception is that we've got a groove, right? And then when the world completely changes overnight, all of your roadmaps, your travel roadmaps, none of them are valid anymore. And now, you need a replacement and you need it fast. And so, what happens is, is that analytics spending, BI spending, whatever you want to call it, or activity, actually increases during times of crisis. So, you got a healthy baseline business. It's an industry that's not withering and dying in good times, but it actually it's like a hedge against bad times. Rob Collie (00:34:47): When I saw that research years and years ago, when I was working at Microsoft Corporate, we just come out of the dot-com crack up, we'd seen that BI spending it across the IT industry was the only sector that went up during that time where everything else was falling. It's like, "Oh, okay." So, not only do I enjoy this stuff, but I really should never get out of it. It's like one of the best future proofing career moves you can make is the work in this field. And so, I mean, we've seen it, right? The early days of the COVID crisis, you're right when no one knew the range of possible outcomes going forward was incredibly wide. The low end and the high end were exponentially different from one another. Rob Collie (00:35:29): And so, we experienced in our business, sort of a gap in spring and early summer last year. We weren't really seeing a whole lot of new clients, people who are willing to forge a brand new relationship. Again, what happens when a crisis hits? You slam on the brakes. No unnecessary spending first of all. Let's get all the spending under control, because we don't know as a company what's going to happen in the industry, right? You see a lot of vendor spending freezes and of course, to other companies, we're a vendor, right? So, our existing clients, though, doubled down on how much they used us and how much they needed us. Rob Collie (00:36:08): And then later in the year, the new client business returned, and we actually ended up, our business was up last year, despite that Q2 interruption and sort of making new friends. And this year, holy cow like whatever was bottled up last year is coming back big time. And so, yeah. You never really want to be the ghoul that sort of morbidly goes, "Oh, crisis." From a business perspective, yeah, anything that changes, anything that disrupts the status quo tends to lead to an increased focus on the things that we do. Greg Beaumont (00:36:43): Yeah, I think something you said there, too, was when you don't know what's going to happen was when the business intelligence spending increased. I mean, the intelligence and business intelligence, it's not just a slogan. The purpose of these tools is to find out the things you don't know. So when there's uncertainty, that's when BI can provide that catalyst to sort of add some clarity to what you're actually dealing with. Rob Collie (00:37:06): Yeah, I've been using, even though I'm not a pilot, I've never learned to fly a plane or anything. I've been using an aviation metaphor lately, which is windshield is nice and clear. You might not be looking at the instruments on your cockpit very much, right? You know there's not a mountain in front of you, you can see how far away the ground is. And you could sort of intuit your way along, right? But then suddenly, whoosh clouds. And oh, boy, now, you really need those instruments, right? You need the dashboards, you need the altimeter, you need the radar. You need all that stuff so much more. Rob Collie (00:37:37): And so, and our business has kind of always been this. The reason I've been using this metaphor is really for us, it's like given how fast we operate, and I think you can appreciate this having come from a Microsoft partner consulting firm before Microsoft years ago, our business model, we move so fast with projects. We're not on that old model with the original budget and the change orders and all of that. That was all dysfunctional. Rob Collie (00:38:01): It was necessary, because of the way software worked back then, but it was absolutely dysfunctional. It's not the way that you get customer satisfaction. So, we've committed to the high velocity model. But that means seeing the future of our business financially two months in the future is very difficult relative to the old sort of glacial pace, right? If there's a mountain there, we're going to have months to turn around it. Krissy Dyess (00:38:26): To add a bit to your analogy there, Rob. I am married to a pilot and I have gone up in the small tiny airplane. And before the gadgets, there's actually the map. The paper map, right? So, you had the paper map, which my husband now would hand to me. And he'd tell me, "Okay, let me know the elevations of different areas to make sure we're high enough, we're not going to crash into the mountains." Krissy Dyess (00:38:47): What's happened is people just they got used to different ways that they were doing things. They were forced into these more modern ways. And I think even now, this wave of seeing this catalyst we can change and how are other people changing is also driving the people to seek help from others in terms of getting guidance, right? Because even though you've had the change, it doesn't necessarily mean that the changes that you made were 100% the right way and you can learn so much from others in the community and the people that are willing to help. Krissy Dyess (00:39:24): And I think that's one of the things too, that our company provides as a partner, we're able to kind of go alongside. We've seen what's works, what doesn't work, what are some of those pitfalls? What are those mountains approaching? And we're really able to help guide others that want to learn and become better. Rob Collie (00:39:42): Yeah. I mean, this is us getting just a little bit commercial, but you can forgive us, right? That high velocity model also exposes us to a much larger denominator. We see a lot at this business that accumulates. The example I've given before is and this is just a really specific techy, so much of this is qualitative, but there's a quantitative. It's sort of like a hard example of like, "Oh, yeah, that's right. This pattern that we need here for this food spoilage inventory problem is exactly the same as this tax accounting problem we solved over there, right?" As soon as you realize that you don't need to do all the figuring out development work, you just skip to the end. Rob Collie (00:40:22): And really, most of the stuff that Krissy was talking about, I think, is actually it's more of the softer stuff. It's more of the soft wisdom that accumulates over the course of exposure to so many different industries and so many different projects. That's actually really one of the reasons why people come to work here is they want that enrichment. Greg Beaumont (00:40:38): Yeah, that makes sense. Because you see all these different industries and you actually get exposed to customers that are the best in the business for that type of, whether it be a solution or whether it be a product or whether it be like a framework for doing analytics or something like that. So, you get that exposure and you also get to contribute. Rob Collie (00:40:55): Even just speaking for myself, in the early days of this business, when it was really still just me, I got exposure to so many business leaders. Business and IT leaders that, especially given the profile of the people who would take the risk back in 2013, you had to be some kind of exceptional to be leaning into this technology with your own personal and professional reputation eight years ago, right? It was brand new. So, imagine the profile of the people I was getting exposed to, right? Wow, I learned so much from those people in terms of leadership, in terms of business. They were learning data stuff from me, but at the same time, I was taking notes. Greg Beaumont (00:41:33): Everybody was reading your blog, too. I can't count the number of times I included a reference to one of your articles to help answer some questions. And it was the first time I was introduced to the Switch True DAX statement. And then I'd print that. Rob Collie (00:41:47): Which- Greg Beaumont (00:41:48): Sent that link to many people. "Don't do if statements, do this. Just read this article." Rob Collie (00:41:53): And even that was something that I'd saw someone else doing. And I was like, "Oh, my God, what is that?" My head exploded like, "Oh." Yeah, those were interesting days. I think on the Chandu podcast, I talked about how I was writing about this stuff almost violently, couldn't help it. It was just like so fast. Two articles a week. I was doing two a week for years. There was so much to talk about, so many new discoveries. It was just kind of pouring out in a way. Krissy Dyess (00:42:24): Greg, you came in to the role around 2016. And to me 2017 was really that big year with the monthly releases where Power BI just became this phenomenon, right? It just kept getting better and better in terms of capabilities and even the last couple years, all the attention around security has been huge, especially with the health and life science space. And last year, with this catalyst to shift mindsets into other patterns, working patterns using technology, do you feel like you've seen any kind of significant shifts just compared to last year or this year? Greg Beaumont (00:43:05): Yeah. And so something that burns my ears every time I hear it is when people call Power BI a data visualization tool. It does that and it does a great job. Rob Collie (00:43:11): I hate that. Greg Beaumont (00:43:12): But it's become much more than that. When it launched, it was a data visualization tool. But if you think about it at that time, they said, "Well, business users can't understand complex data models, so you have to do that in analysis services." Then they kind of ingested analysis services into Power BI and made it more of a SaaS product where you can scale it. There's Dataflows, the ETL tool, which is within Power BI, which is an iteration of Power Query, which has been around since the Excel days. So, now you have ETL. You have effectively from the old SQL Server world, you have the SSIS layer, you have the SSAS layer. With paginated reports, you have the SSRS layer. And you have all these different layers of the solution now within an easy to use SaaS product. Greg Beaumont (00:43:55): So this evolution has been happening, where it's gobbling up these other products that used to be something that only central IT could do. And now, we're putting that power by making it easier to use in the hands of those analysts who really know what they want from the data. Because if you think about it, the old process was is you go and you give the IT team your requirements, and they interpret how to take what you want, and translate it into computer code. Greg Beaumont (00:44:21): But now, we're giving those analysts the ability to take their requirements and go do it themselves. And there's still a very valid place for central IT because there's so many other things they can do, but it frees up their time to work on higher valued projects and I see that continuing with Power BI, right? But like we're adding AI, ML capabilities and data volumes keep increasing then capabilities I think will continue to expand it. Rob Collie (00:44:46): Greg, I used to really caused a storm when I would go to a conference that was full of BI professionals. And I would say that something like, "What percentage of the time of BI project, traditional BI project was actually spent typing the right code?" The code that stuck, right? And I would make the claim that it was less than 1%. So, it's like less than 1% of the time of a project, right? And everyone would just get so upset at me, right? But I just didn't understand why it was controversial. Rob Collie (00:45:19): Like you describe like yeah, we have these long requirements meetings in the old model. Interminably long, exhausting, and we'd write everything down. We'd come up with this gigantic requirements document that was flawed from the get-go. It was just so painful. It's like the communication cost was everything and the iteration and discovery, there wasn't enough time for that. And when I say that the new way of building these projects is sometimes literally 100 times faster than the old way. Like it sounds like hyperbole. Greg Beaumont (00:45:53): It's not. Yeah. Rob Collie (00:45:54): It can be that fast, but you're better off telling people, it's twice as fast because they'll believe you. If you tell them the truth, they'd go, "Nah, you're a snake oil salesman. Get out of here." Greg Beaumont (00:46:07): Yeah. And I think the speed of being able to develop, too, it's going to basically allow these tools to be able to do things that people didn't even dream of in the past. It's not just going to be traditional business use cases. I know in healthcare, something that's a hot topic is genomics, right? Genomics is incredibly complex then you go beyond Power BI and into Azure at that point, too and Cloud compute and things like that. Greg Beaumont (00:46:31): So, with Genomics, you think about your DNA, right? Your DNA is basically a long strand of computer code. It is base pairs of nucleic acids, adenine, thymine, and guanine, cytosine that effectively form ones and zeros in a really long string. Rob Collie (00:46:46): Did you know it effortlessly he named those base pairs? There's that biology background peeking back out. Greg Beaumont (00:46:52): I did have to go look it up before the meeting. I said, "Just in case this comes up, I need to make sure I pronounce them right," so. Rob Collie (00:46:59): Well, for those of us who listen to podcasts at 1.5x speed, that is going to sound super impressive, that string there. Greg Beaumont (00:47:05): Yeah. I should call out, too, though that I'm not a genomics expert, so some of what I'm saying here, I'm paraphrasing and repeating from people I've talked to who are experts, including physicians and researchers. So, this long string of code, if you sequence your entire genome, the file is about 100 gigabytes for one person, okay? At 100 gigabytes, you can consume that, but if you want to start comparing hundreds of people and thousands of people in different patient cohorts, all of a sudden, it gets to be a lot of information and it gets very complex. Greg Beaumont (00:47:35): If you think of that strand of DNA as being like a book with just two letters that alternate, there's going to be paragraphs and chapters and things like that, which do different things. So, one of the physicians I spoke to worked with Children's Cancer. Here's kind of where the use case comes in. So, you take something breast cancer where there's BRCA1 or BRCA2, BRCA1, BRCA2 genes where if you have it, there's a measurable increased probability that you'll get that type of cancer within a certain age range. There's a lot of other diseases and cancers, where it might be 30 genes. And depending on different combinations of those genes, it changes the risk of getting that specific type of cancer. Greg Beaumont (00:48:17): But this physician told me that there are specific children's cancers, where they know that if they have certain combinations of genes, that they have a very high probability of getting this cancer. And when the child actually feel sick and goes to the doctor, it's already spread and it's too late. So, if you can do this sequencing, basically run it through machine learning algorithms, so it will determine the probability, you could effectively catch it at stage zero. Because these cancers, it's something that could be related to growth hormones and as you're growing up, and as you become an adult, you're then no longer at risk of getting that childhood cancer. So, if they could identify it early and treated at stage zero, instead of stage 4, it sounds sci-fi, but the tools are there to do it. Greg Beaumont (00:49:01): It just never ceases to amaze me that you watch the news and they talk about self-driving cars and identifying when a banana is ripe, and things like that. But it's like, you know what? These same tools could be out there changing people's lives and making a measurable difference in the world. I think just especially post COVID, I'll expect to see a lot more investment in these areas. And also, interest because I think that might be one of the positives that comes out of this whole experience. Rob Collie (00:49:27): I do think that the sort of the worlds of Medicine and Computer Science are on a merging course. Let's not call it collision course. That sounds more dramatic. There is a merging going on. You're right DNA is biologically encoded instructions by an RNA. The mRNA vaccine is essentially injecting the source code that your body then compiles into antibodies. It's crazy and it's new. There's no two ways about it. Rob Collie (00:49:56): mRNA therapies, in general, which of course they were working on originally as anticancer and sort of just like, "Oh, well, we could use it for this, too." And there's all kinds of other things too, right? Gosh, when you go one level up from DNA or some point of abstraction, you get into protein folding. And whoa, is that... Greg Beaumont (00:50:15): Crazy, yeah. Rob Collie (00:50:16): ... computationally. We're all just waiting for quantum computers, I think. Greg Beaumont (00:50:20): Now, I'll have to call out that I'm making a joke here, so people don't take me seriously. But if you think about it, the nucleus in each of your cells contains an important model of that DNA, right? There isn't just a central repository that everything communicates with. You have a cache of that DNA in every cell in your body, except red blood cells, which perform a specific task. There may be more of the power automated the human body. But cheap attempt at a joke there, so. Rob Collie (00:50:44): Well, I like it, I like it. Let's go in with both feet. I've also read that one of the reasons why it's difficult to clone adult animals is because you start off with your original DNA, but then you're actually making firmware updates to certain sections of the DNA throughout your life. And so, those edits that are being made all the time are inappropriate for an embryo. Greg Beaumont (00:51:09): Yep. Rob Collie (00:51:10): And so, if you clone, you create an embryo, right? And now, it's got these weird adult things going on in it. That's why things kind of tend to go sideways. It can all come back to this notion of biological code and it's fascinating. A little terrifying, too, when you start to think of it that way. I've listened to some very scary podcasts about the potential for do-it-yourself bioweapon development. There was this explosion back, in what, in the '90s when the virus and worm writers discovered VVA. Remember that? We call them the script kiddies that would author these viruses that would spread throughout the computer systems of the world. And a lot of them, the people writing these things were not very sophisticated. They weren't world renowned hackers. Greg Beaumont (00:51:53): For every instance where you can use this technology to cure cancer, you're right that there's also the possibility of the Island of Dr. Moreau, right? You go look up CRISPR Technology, C-R-I-S-P-R, where they can start splicing together things from different places and making it viable. And 10 years ago, they had sheep that were producing spider webs in their milk and it's just, there's crazy stuff out there if you kind of dive into the dark depths of Biology. Now that we went down the rabbit hole, how do we correct course, right? Rob Collie (00:52:23): Well, we did go down a rabbit hole, but who cares? That's what we do. Greg Beaumont (00:52:26): Even you kind of step it back up to just kind of easy use cases in healthcare, so one of the ones that we use as a demo a lot came from a customer, and this was pre-COVID. But something as simple as hand washing, you don't think about it much. But when you're in the hospital, how many of those people are washing their hands appropriately when they care for you. And there's some white papers out there, which are showing that basically, there are measurable amounts of infections that happen in hospitals due to people not washing their hands appropriately. So, a lot of healthcare organizations will anonymously kind of observe people periodically to see who's doing a good job of washing their hands. Rob Collie (00:53:04): I was going to ask, how is this data collected? Greg Beaumont (00:53:06): This customer actually had nurses who were using a clipboard and they would write down their notes, fax it somewhere, and then somebody would enter it into Excel. So, there was this long process. And with another TS, who covers teams, we basically put a PLC together in a couple days, where they enter the information into a power app within teams, so they made their observation, entered it in. It did a write back straight to an Azure SQL Database at that time. Now, they might use the data verse. And then from Azure SQL DB, you can immediately report on it and Power BI. It even set up alerts, so that if somebody wasn't doing a good job, you could kind of take care of the situation, rather than wait for two days for the Excel report to get emailed out, and maybe lower the infection rates in the hospital. Greg Beaumont (00:53:53): So, it saved time from the workers who are writing things down and faxing things just from a sheer productivity perspective. But it also hopefully, I don't know if it will be measurable or not, but you'd have some anticipated increase in quality, because you're able to address issues faster. And that's the simplest thing ever, right? You can spend a billion dollars to come up with a new drug or you can just make sure are people washing their hands. Rob Collie (00:54:17): Both data collection and enforcement, they happen to be probably the same thing. There's like, "Oh, I'm being watched." The anonymity is gone. That's a fascinating story. Okay. What kinds of solutions are you seeing these days? What's happening out in the world that you think is worth talking to the audience about? Greg Beaumont (00:54:38): We're seeing this ability to execute better where the tools are easier to use, you can do things faster, but there's still challenges that I see frequently out there. So, I know something that you all are experts in its data modeling and understanding how to take a business problem and translate it into something that's going to perform well. So, not only do you get the logic right, but when somebody pushes a button they don't have to go to lunch and come back, they get a result quickly. That's still a challenge. And it's a challenge, because it's not always easy, right? I mean, it's the reason cubes were created in the first place was because when you have complex logic and you're going against a relational database, the query has to happen somewhere, but like that logic. Greg Beaumont (00:55:19): So take for example, if somebody wants to look at year over year percent change for a metric and they want to be able to slice it by department, maybe by disease group, maybe by weekend versus weekday, and then they want to see that trend over time. If you translate that into a SQL query, it gets really gnarly really fast. And that problem is still real. One of the trends I'm seeing in the industry is there's a big push to do everything in DirectQuery mode, because then you can kind of manage access, manage security, do all of those necessary security things in one place and have it exist in one place. Greg Beaumont (00:56:00): But when you're sending giant gnarly SQL queries back to relational databases, even if they're PDWs with multiple nodes, it gets very expensive from a compute perspective, and kind of when you scale out to large number of users, concurrency is still an issue. So that's something where you look at recently what Power BI has come out with aggregations and composite models. That's some of the technology that I think can mitigate some of those problems. And even if we think about something like Azure synapse, right? You can have your dedicated SQL pools then you can have a materialized view. A materialized view is effectively a cache of data within synapse, but then you can also have your caches in Power BI, and kind of layer everything together in a way that's going to take that logic and distribute it. Greg Beaumont (00:56:46): Does that make sense? Rob Collie (00:56:47): It does. I think this is still a current joke. The majority of cases where we've encountered people who think they want or need DirectQuery, the majority of them are actually perfect poster children case studies for when you should use cash and import mode. Right? It turns out the perceived need for DirectQuery, there is a real percentage of problems out there for which DirectQuery is the appropriate solution and it is the best solution. But it's the number of times people use it is a multiple of that real ideal number. Rob Collie (00:57:17): I think part of it is just familiarity. Still, I've long talked about how we're still experiencing as an industry the hangover from most data professionals being storage professionals. Everyone needed a database, just to make the wheels go round. The first use of data isn't BI. The first use of data is line of business applications. Every line of business application needed a database, right? So, we have minted millions of database professionals. this is also why I think partly why Power BI gets sort of erroneously pigeonholed as a visualization tools, because people are used to that. They're used to, we have a storage layer and reports layer, that's it, right? Rob Collie (00:57:56): Reporting services was Microsoft's runaway successful product in this space. Paginated reports is still around for good reason. And I think that if you're a long-term professional in this space with a long history, even if you're relatively young in the industry, but you've been working with other platforms, this storage layer plus visuals layer is just burned in your brain. And this idea of this like, "Why do you need to import the data? Why do you need a schedule? Why do you need all this stuff?" It's like as soon as people hear that they can skip it, and go to DirectQuery, they just run to

@Passion, People & Purpose #azure #cloud #computing #ai #podcast #show #vaishalilambe Hello Everyone, For the past 6 years, he has been part of the Microsoft Portuguese Team, first as a Consultant, Architect, and Digital Advisor and now as a Cloud Solution Architect. Working in the Telco and Retail Industries and building some of the coolest things for these customers. As Cloud Solution Architect his work consists of challenging his customers with the latest ideas and ways for them to make the most out of Cloud technologies, which for him makes this one of the best jobs in the world. His academic background as an Engineer specialized in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Graphics made him specially tailored to address digital challenges that his customers are facing in transforming their businesses by levering technologies such as Data Mining and Machine Learning, Cognitive Intelligence, and of course Mixed, Augmented and Virtual Reality. He also teaches the Data Mining and Machine Learning, Advanced Data Mining and AI, and Data Science Project courses at the Data Science and Business Analytics Post Graduate course at ISEG, a professional speaker with more than 10 years of experience speaking in different national and international events, and is the President of a nonprofit organization called DICE Cultural, an Association focused on creating more awareness around modern board games and a way for him to give back to the community and to a hobby he loves so much. for both these topics that he loves. He is the founder and host of 2 podcasts, Building the future AI Portugal Podcast, and DICE Podcast. Quick Summary: 00:18 Introduction 03:14 Passion & Interest 07:28 Questions from Audience 16:13 Fun Segment 21:28 Career/Work/Volunteering 25:11 Tips/Advise/Books 30:09 Leadership 35:43 Closure & Thank you So, watch the complete episode - https://youtu.be/K9fFw3UPunM Listen to the complete episode - https://anchor.fm/vaishali-lambe/episodes/SoLeadSaturday---Episode-86---Marco-Silva-azure-cloud-computing-ai-podcast-show-vaishalilambe-e159omq If you would like to connect further, please feel free to connect on @LinkedIn Until we meet, happy leading and let's lead together. Stay safe. Bye for now. Find me on - YoutTube - https://bit.ly/3dA0Qko #SoLeadSaturday Community Website - https://vaishalilambe.club/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/vaishalilambe LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/vaishali-lambe/ Instagram - @PassionPeoplePurpose Website - https://www.vaishalilambe.com/soleadsaturday Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/vaishalilambe17 Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/soleadsaturday/id1496626534?uo=4 Google Podcasts - https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8xMzFiYTA0MC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0bFOIm9EGFalhPG8YPBhVp --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/vaishali-lambe/support

Lior Kamrat, a Cloud Solution Architect focused on the Hybrid landscape, discusses the role Azure Arc plays and the scenarios is addresses.  Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode387.mp3 YouTube: Azure Podcast - Azure Arc - YouTube Resources: Azure Arc Jumpstart: aka.ms/AzureArcJumpstart Updates: New ways to deliver a secure hybrid workplace with Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 General availability: Built-in Azure Policy support for Network Watcher Traffic Analytics

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FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/303 A brief introduction about Christian Paul Abata Quinchuqui - the only MVP in Ecuador. Talks about Christian's interest in Robotic Process Automation. A conversation about Christians RPA journey. Discussions about Christian's Power Platform learning experiences Christian's experience as a Cloud Solution Architect at Cloud 360 Talks about Christian's journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP – who nominated Christian How Christian got his first MVP nomination and the process involved. Things Christian shared in the community forum. Christian thoughts about working full time remotely  Christian's engagement with Clients Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nz365guy)

The Young Professionals Podcast (TYPP), proudly brought to you by ADAPT Careers (https://adaptcareers.com.au) and co-hosted by Luke Marriott and Nicholas Sargeant (Sarge). Today we're speaking with Habiba, a research engineer and computer scientist at CSRIO's Data61, specialising in machine learning and data science. After completing a Bachelor of Computer Science in her hometown of Islamabad, Habiba moved to Chicago to complete a PhD of Computer Science, focused on computational biology. Following the completion of her PhD, Habiba worked throughout Europe before finding her way to Sydney, Australia, to work at Data61. Habiba's favourite coding language is Python, an open source language used for machine learning and deep learning, which we loved getting stuck into in this week's episode! If you have a career story you would like to share, a role you would like to learn more about or any questions you would like us to ask young professionals, you can reach us through any of our social media that can be found at TYPP.com.au. We would love to hear from you!

Iulia Feroli is a Cloud Solution Architect for Data and AI at Microsoft. She joins Future Talk to discuss everything from how she secured an internship at Microsoft and moved into a graduate position to why she thought it valuable to leave her Masters degree to pursue working for the company, the importance of women in the technology sector, and making most of opportunities that you might not have considered. Transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/careers/transcript-future-talk-iulia-feroli-data-and-cloud-solution-architect-microsoft

Con Lorenzo Barbieri, Sr. Cloud Solution Architect in Microsoft, oggi in veste di esperto e punto di riferimento per tutto quel che riguarda il mondo del public speaking, discutiamo del suo nuovo libro, Beyond Public Speaking for Geeks, e del mondo del public speaking in tempo di lavoro da remoto.Potete scaricare e leggere il libro direttamente dal sito di Syncfusion al seguente indirizzo: https://www.syncfusion.com/succinctly-free-ebooks/beyond-public-speaking-for-geeks-succinctly

In this episode, Darren Pulsipher, Chief Solution Architect, Intel, and Stephen Holt, Cloud Solution Architect, Intel discuss cloud optimization and studies that show that cores perform differently for various workloads.

In this week's episode, we interview  Wesley Backelant, cloud data & AI expert at Microsoft, to discuss his career trajectory and how you can gain new skills and become a self-made IT pro like him.  Plus, a look back at the week in tech news and a new issue of our IT's Who is Who series. This time around we look at the role of the C/C++ Developer.  -- Mission Control Center is your one-stop shop for career advice and tech trends analysis. Weekly tips and news digests, career guides and even short sci-fi stories. Everything you need, in one place. Every Thursday, in your inbox and ears. This podcast is brought to you by Mindquest, Europe's new IT recruiting agency. Mindquest accompanies you throughout your entire professional journey with high-quality offers that meet all your needs and aspirations. All at no cost.

Technology Professional with experience in project management, design, testing, implementation, and administration of a wide range of systems and technologies. Robert has strong analytical skills with a strong understanding of infrastructure architecture, possesses vast experience in troubleshooting, and strong interpersonal in excellent communication skills, overseeing various projects of various sizes and scope. He has also effectively advised clients on hardware and software solutions that best meets their needs. In conclusion, he assist clients with the planning and deployment of systems, upgrades, cloud migrations, cloud integrations, and modifications based on Microsoft's best practices model.

Today we have a treat in store for you, as we step into the fascinating data-driven world of Phil Harvey. A self-confessed beardy data geek he has worked in a wide range of industries and currently his interest lies in the impact of data on what we know and how we know it. In this deep dive into data you will discover: The difference between ethical and unethical AI Robotics, AI, automation and machine learning 101 and what work in the future will be like, when the robots have arrived Phil is a big beardy data geek who loves working with data and solving interesting data problems. He is especially interested in software skills for technical people in data, empathy, ethics, and in the impact of data on what people know and how they know it. Starting his career with a BA in AI, he has worked in a wide range of industries from surveying, to architecture, to advertising, to being the CTO and technical founder of a data start-up. Phil now works at Microsoft as a Senior Cloud Solution Architect for Data & AI in One Commercial Partner. If you enjoy the podcast, please consider leaving us a short review. It really makes a difference! For show notes and past guests, please visit: wndyr.com/podcasts/ For transcriptions of this episode visit: wnydr.com/podcasts/Phil_Harvey Follow Wndyr: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wndyrsocial/ Twitter: twitter.com/wndyrsocial Facebook: facebook.com/wndyrsocial

In this video, Chris recaps the events over the last week, including his transition from FastTrack for Azure Engineer into a Cloud Solution Architect, The Compute Resource Consolidation Pattern and being 'In Conversation with' JonnyChipz and the relaunch of Azure Thames Valley! This week, expect an additional blog post on GitHub and GPG, as well as an Intro to Landing Zones with Karim Fahmy. Don't forget to checkout the session with Squared Up on Thursday as well! It's a busy week! The last one has been busy for the Azure Enginering teams, as we recap some of the updates (This is one not to miss - There's a lot!)

Con Lorenzo Barbieri, Cloud Solution Architect in Microsoft, discutiamo a tutto tondo di lavoro da remoto e perché no di public speaking. Lorenzo è sempre una miniera inesauribile di informazioni, esperienze e aneddoti.Per restare in contatto con Lorenzo:- https://publicspeaking.dev- https://www.geniodelmale.infoLibri:- Public Speaking for Geeks Succinctly (https://www.syncfusion.com/ebooks/public_speaking_for_geeks_succinctly)- App Modernization on Azure Succinctly (https://www.syncfusion.com/ebooks/app-modernization-on-azure-succinctly)E infine il percorso di formazione menzionato: Dave Crenshaw https://davecrenshaw.com/

Die schöne neue Welt der Cybersecurity! In dieser Episode des ITCS Pizzatime Tech Podcasts werden Patrice Volkmer, Alliance Manager & Business Development Manager & Client Partner bei NTT Data und Thomas Schwärzl, Cloud Solution Architect für Cloud & Container Security bei NTT Data anhand von aktuellen Fallbeispielen darüber berichten, wieso Datensicherheit wichtig ist und wie sie sich von Datensicherheit vor der Digitalisierung unterscheidet. Früher wurde Software entwickelt und im Anschluss in Betrieb genommen. Mit DevOps ist diese Herangehensweise längst überholt, aber Patrice und Thomas legen noch einen oben drauf. Denn heute muss auch schon während der Entwicklung an Security gedacht werden - daher DevSecOps. Hier gehts direkt zu NTT DATA: https://de.nttdata.com Hier findet ihr Patrice auf Social Media: - LinkedIn: https://de.linkedin.com/in/patrice-volkmer-67806686 - Xing: https://www.xing.com/profile/Patrice_Volkmer - Twitter: @PatriceVolkmer Hier findet ihr Thomas auf Social Media: - LinkedIn: https://de.linkedin.com/in/tschwaerzl - Twitter : https://twitter.com/tschwaerzl Der ITCS Pizzatime Podcast ist Teil des **ITCS und ITCS Online**! – Tech Konferenz, IT Jobmesse & Festival – schnapp dir dein **kostenloses Ticket** hier: https://www.it-cs.io/ Redaktion: Katharina Bauriedel & Matthias Walenda // Moderation: Leonie Peyerl //Produktion: Umbeck & Walenda Media GmbH.

Mike Martin is going to talk to us about his role in the company, how ISVs and the Microsoft OCP operate, his thoughts on the future of tech, and the importance of diversity and inclusion in IT and outside of it. He’s also going to share some key advice to future startups and scale-ups and he’ll explain his approach to software creation and what he believes are the key factors companies should focus on. Mike’s going to talk about how he communicates with his team and how to provide constructive criticism in a way that encourages others. We’re also going to learn more about Mike’s favorite communities, the importance of Ecology, and some of his personal experiences working with ISVs. Guest Bio: Mike Martin​ works for Microsoft Western Europe as Cloud Solution Architect for ISV's with a focus​ on the Microsoft Cloud Platform. He’s been active in the IT industry for more than 20 years and has performed almost all types of job profiles, going from coaching and leading a team to architecting and systems design and training. Today he’s primarily into the Microsoft Cloud Platform and Application Lifecycle Management. He’s not a stranger to both dev and IT Pro topics. On April 1st 2013 he also became a Microsoft Azure MVP, an award he managed to get 5 years in a row. Quote "Think about how your business model should evolve and what you need to do next inside of​ your business model. Thinking of features it's not hard. Thinking of the next move in becoming a large enterprise......that's the hardest part.​" Mike Martin​Timestamps:(1:31) Guest Introduction(2:02) Mike's job role and tasks(3:43) What is OCP and what are ISVs(6:34) Things that Mike doesn’t do in his role(7:45) The current trends in the industry(11:54) How Mike's partners changed their use of tech(14:58) A story about one of Mike’s ISVs(20:24) Advice to future scale-ups and start-ups(26:24) What to focus on when creating software(34:22) Constructive criticism within the team(40:51) Predictions on the future of tech(49:35) Mike's thoughts on inclusiveness and diversity(55:59) Some of Mike's favorite communitiesLinks:Connect with Cloud Gossip on: https://www.cloudgossip.nethttps://www.linkedin.com/company/cloud-gossiphttps://twitter.com/CloudGossipnet        Thanks for listening to Cloud Gossip! You can find us from our website CloudGossip.net. Please leave us a review and subscribe to us at iTunes, Google, or Spotify!Connect with Mike on:https://twitter.com/TechMike2kXhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/techmike2kx/Connect with Annie on: https://twitter.com/AnnieTalvastohttps://www.linkedin.com/in/talvasto/Connect with Karl on: https://twitter.com/karlgotshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/karlots​/

The secret sauce behind today's most successful firms can be summed up with a single word: CULTURE! Listen in as Sana Khan explores this most profound insight.BIO: Sana Khan is a Sr. Cloud Solution Architect in the Customer Experience & Success team at Microsoft, focused on Azure Data & AI at global and local customer organizations based in the Northeast region. Specifically, Sana advises customers on where, when and how to: leverage CAF to transform their data, application, product and process lifecycles; grow into intelligent analytics by incorporating enriched data, analytics and AI into their product offerings; transform in-house technology platforms to power creativity, innovation, business growth and overall vision, and productionalize use cases in Azure that help achieve and maintain customers’ competitive edge and leadership in the marketplace. In her personal time, Sana invests in initiatives that combine her academic roots in Math, Art, History, Economics and International Strategic Communication with her professional work in Analytics/AI, Design Thinking, Inclusive Thought, Applied Empathy, Allyship and Transformation. Which is why, in addition to her core CSA role at Microsoft, Sana is honored to serve as one of Microsoft’s WW Champs for the Azure Data & AI Business, Lead for the Microsoft Northeast Region AI Ambassador team, Co-Founder and Co-chair for the Women at Microsoft NY Chapter, and Core Team Member of the MS OneNY Ambassador Council, NY ERG Leads team and MSUS Digital Transformation D&I team.LINKS: Microsoft Global Diversity & Inclusion; Culture Is The Most Surprising Reason Microsoft Stock Will Keep Rising; How Microsoft “Renovated” Its Culture by Following These 3 StepsCREDITS: Louis Berman (Host); Sana Khan (Guest); Dan Phillipson / PremiumBeat (Music); Anne Lamb (Intro/Outro); East Coast Studio (Editing)MORE: visit https://azure-success.com for additional episodes, plus transcripts, and more ways to listen to the show. As to your comments and suggestions, please feel free to email your host, Louis Berman, at lberman@microsoft.com

Podcast'in bu 7. bölümünde bulut alanındaki rollerden ve iş tanımlarından bahsettik. Cloud Engineer, Cloud Developer, Cloud Solution Architect, DevOps Engineer v.b. rollerin neler olduğunu ve bu alanlarda çalışan insanların neler yaptıklarından bahsettik.

Contrary to popular belief, our customer's like to play in more than one cloud (say it isn't so, coach; say it isn't so!) They even like to keep some of their workloads on-prem. Never fear, however, because Microsoft has one platform to rule them all: Azure Arc. Listen in as Vlad "Not the Impaler" Tomsa lets us in on the secret.BIO: Vlad is a Cloud Architect with a passion for technology and its ability to transform the world around us. He has extensive experience on the Cloud Infrastructure, Datacenter Migration, Applications, Identity and Networking. Before joining Microsoft in 2008, he worked as a System Administrator at several firms. At Microsoft, he was first responsible for supporting Enterprise Customers with design reviews and solving complex problem. Then he moved to a Consulting role, designing and implementing Identity, Security and Messaging projects with EMEA customers, after which he became a Cloud Solution Architect working with Belux and now US customers on their digital transformation and journey to the cloud.LINKS: Azure Arc, Welcome to Azure Arc, Azure Arc | Bring Windows Server and SQL Server into Azure Arc management (2020)CREDITS: Louis Berman (Host); Vlad Tomsa (Guest); Dan Phillipson / PremiumBeat (Music); Anne Lamb (Intro/Outro); East Coast Studio (Editing)MORE: visit https://azure-success.com for additional episodes, plus transcripts, and more ways to listen to the show. As to your comments and suggestions, please feel free to email your host, Louis Berman, at lberman@microsoft.com

The Azure world may be awash in training resources, but all too few of those are pitched to the technical seller. Listen in as Cloud Solutions Architect Jose Arias introduces us to one of the best (if all too rare!) technical sales training programs for Azure sellers: The "Northeast Technical Sales Cross-Training Sales Program". Yes, it a bit of a mouthful, but well worth the listen.BIO: Jose is a Cloud Solution Architect that has been at Microsoft for 3 years and before that working at HPE/DXC for close to 8 years. His background is Database Administration for SQL Server and Oracle as well as Account Delivery Management. Jose has a BA in Computer Engineering and MA in Economic Development and Social Responsibility, he was also an Executive Director of a non profit organization from 2010-2015 in Costa Rica.LINKS: Please feel free to email Jose at Arias.Jose@microsoft.com, and if you're a Microsoft employee, be sure to ask him to send you a link to the "CSAs and Specialists (Cross-functional) Group" SharePoint site.CREDITS: Louis Berman (Host); Jose Arias (Guest); Dan Phillipson / PremiumBeat (Music); Anne Lamb (Intro/Outro); East Coast Studio (Editing)MORE: visit https://azure-success.com for additional episodes, plus transcripts, and more ways to listen to the show. As to your comments and suggestions, please feel free to email your host, Louis Berman, at lberman@microsoft.com

Geeks on Screens with Coffee Episode 37 - Not for landlubbers Look who I bumped into at the water cooler/tea room/corridor? It's only Christina Leo ( @christinaleo ) I think this episode will mostly be about saling .... Christina Leo is a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft specialising in the Data and AI Platform. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2016, she worked as an independent consultant focusing on T-SQL and BI development, as well as database performance tuning in the finance and investment banking sector. When she isn't sharing her 18 years of technical experience with the data community, you can find her racing around the Solent on a 40' sailboat or often in the Thames on a little Laser. I must dash, the kettle has almost boiled. Love you! https://geeksonscreens.azurewebsites.net/ Check out the podcast version on https://anchor.fm/geeksonscreenswithcoffee (Or find it in your favorite podcast app) This content is mostly my own, but I have to honor the podfather Richard K Herring, it's inspired by and dedicated to his memory.... (Okay he's not dead, but we will be dead one day). Check out Richard's work, become a monthly badger. https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/richard_herring_lst_podcast/

Listen in as Jay Kumar introduces us to Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF), the secret sauce behind many of of our most successful cloud migrations. Better still, Jay will discuss one of his own personal Venn Diagrams: converging high-end audio and marital relations.ABOUT: Jay Kumar is a Sr. Cloud Solution Architect, who specializes on App and Infra at Microsoft. Jay possesses 15+ years of industry experience in Software Design and Development, Enterprise Architecture, On-premises and Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, IT Operations and Service Delivery, and Program Management. At Microsoft, as a trusted adviser of his customers, Jay helps customers in their digital transformation journey and provide guidance for Digital Transformation, Application Modernization and Cloud Adoption and Migration.LINKS: Cloud Adoption Framework, CAF - Microsoft Learn, Azure Friday – CAF Part 1, Azure Friday – CAF Part 2, Azure Academy – CAF Series, Cloud Assessment Tools, Strategic Migration Assessment and Readiness Tool, CAF Benchmark Tool, Find a CAF PartnerCREDITS: Louis Berman (Host); Jay Kumar (Guest); Dan Phillipson / PremiumBeat (Music); Anne Lamb (Intro/Outro); East Coast Studio (Editing)MORE: visit https://azuresuccess.buzzsprout.com/ for additional episodes, plus transcripts, and more ways to listen to the show. As to your comments and suggestions, please feel free to email your host, Louis Berman, at lberman@microsoft.com

Cloud Solution Architect, Christophe Koehl introduces some of his favorites features of Microsoft Teams, as well as best practices for increasing productivity and improving security.

Joining Jeffrey Palermo today is Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, Shawn Weisfeld! Shawn works on the One Commercial Partner team helping Microsoft Partners architect solutions that run on Azure. He is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer, who, in addition, runs the Azure Meetup in Austin TX and two community websites. These two fantastic websites are SouthCentralCommunity.com, where he lists all the groups and events that he knows about in the region, and UserGroup.tv, where he posts recordings of technical user groups and conferences for folks to watch for free.   In this episode, Jeffrey and Shawn are diving into the topic of Azure certifications! Shawn works with partners every day helping them get Azure certified and in today’s conversation, he is sharing his experiences, some of the ins and outs he learned throughout his career, invaluable tips and tricks, and his go-to resources!   Topics of Discussion: [:40] Be sure to visit AzureDevOps.Show for past episodes and show notes. [:50] About Jeffrey’s current promotions and offers. [1:30] About today’s episode with Shawn. [2:22] Jeffrey welcomes Shawn to the show! [2:27] Shawn speaks about his career background and shares how he ended up in his current role! [4:10] Shawn speaks about his community speaking outside of his main role and answers the question of whether or not he would be willing to speak at a virtual user group [4:52] What is the landscape for certifications, in general, these days? [5:52] What percentage of the developer population are getting certified? And how has that changed over the last 10 years or so? [7:22] Why certifications are important to obtain even if you’re a senior developer. [11:31] How many people are getting certified in the industry? And what does it do for them? [12:29] A word from Azure DevOps Podcast’s sponsor: Clear Measure. [12:53] Jeffrey shares some quick announcements. [14:43] Shawn gives a rundown of the relevant certifications in the DevOps space from a Microsoft perspective. [19:57] Shawn explains how you can take a test for a certification at home. [21:38] Are there currently any discounts on Microsoft certification tests? [22:40] Shawn provides his top tips and advice for those looking to currently take a certification test at home! [28:07] Is there anything in the works for certifications regarding DevOps capabilities integrating GitHub? [30:11] Shawn shares what’s new and upcoming with him! [31:13] When can people register for future conferences such as Microsoft Build? [35:19] Jeffrey thanks Shawn for joining the podcast!   Mentioned in this Episode: Azure DevOps Clear Measure (Sponsor) .NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon! bit.ly/dotnetdevopsebook — Click here to download the .NET DevOps for Azure ebook! bit.ly/dotnetdevopsbookforcommunity — Visit to get your hands on two free books to give away at conferences or events! Jeffrey Palermo’s Youtube Jeffrey Palermo’s Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events! Jeffrey@Clear-Measure.com — Email Jeffrey for a free 30-point DevOps inspection (regularly priced at $5000!) — Spaces are limited! SouthCentralCommunity.com UserGroup.tv Azure DevOps Podcast Shawn Weisfeld’s Resources How to Use Microsoft Teams to Host a Virtual Lab or Virtual Hackathon Event Microsoft Certifications Microsoft Training and Certifications DevOps Learning Plan Exam AZ-400 Pluralsight AZ-400 MeasureUp Microsoft Exam Policies   Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

#14 - Mark Souza - Corporate Vice President @ Microsoft (Customer Success Unit) window.playerConfiguration = { "episode": { "media": { "m4a": "https://csapodcast.azureedge.net/episodes/ep14MarkSouza.m4a" }, "title": "#14- Mark Souza – Corporate Vice President @ Microsoft (Customer Success Unit)", "description": "In this episode I talk to Mark Souza the Corporate Vice President of the Customer Success Unit - who is technically my boss's boss's boss's boss :). Mark has been at Microsoft for over 26 years with different roles across the organization. It was a fun expereince talking with Mark on this podcast. Having interacted with Mark in the past I can confidently say he is one of the most down to earth and grounded senior leadership executives I have ever met. 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Mark has been at Microsoft for over 26 years with different roles across the organization. It was a fun experience talking with Mark on this podcast. Having interacted with Mark in the past, I can confidently say he is one of the most down to earth and grounded senior leadership executives I have ever met. In this episode we talk about how Mark starts off his day, his journey in Microsoft, he explains what the customer success in plain English, his advice for people starting off in their career, how he stays grounded, the one quality which he expects every member of his organization has, his favorite book and his favorite pastime outside of work. How does Mark start his day ? (01:44) He starts his day off by keeping up to date with everything that is happening with his happening across the world and making sure there are no emergencies, followed by coffee Mark’s journey in Microsoft (03:01) All 26 years in Mark’s career have been customer focused. Of the 26 years, 20 of them were in Microsoft engineering. He started his career of in a role which is similar to what is now called the “Cloud Solution Architect” role showing the value of Microsoft technology and ensuring they are utilizing the tech in the best way possible to get the most value and be successful. Customer Success Unit v/s Customer Advisory Team (03:41) In 2000 he started the Customer Advisory Team (CAT) - the idea of engineers talking to customers was brand new. CAT takes learning from the field back to the engineering team to improve the services and quality of the products. Customer Success Unit (CSU) looks a lot like CAT however the difference being this one is completely customer focused v/s the CAT being primarily product focused. In the Customer Success Unit we do #WhatEverItTakes to make sure the customer is successful. Customer Engineering Team (07:14) Customer Engineering Team is an extension of the customer success unit. As a global team -they take best practices and share them across customers across the regions. One advice to his younger self (09:32) If you are not learning something new everyday - you should start looking for a change. He asks to think of the CSU as a college - one year from now you will be much smarter than you are today - at the same time you will be making a difference to customers. How does Mark stay grounded and not let success get to his head (11:22) Insights profile culture test - defines Mark’s color as Yellow and Red. Yellow for team - he loves a healthy happy winning team and people. Red - for execution and getting things done. He regularly visits his local team across the world inspite of his busy schedule. Advice for millennials to stay more engaged and focused (13:40) Millennials having grown up with instant answers to everything all through their lives, he asks to keep up the same level of curiosity and the thirst to know the answers to everything. However with the abundance of information in todays world, everything is important but the key is to focus on what is “most important” If everyone in the organization could have just one skill learnt overnight, what would it be? (17:18) Customer empathy - If the customer has an outage or something goes wrong - we should be able to feel the pain and similarly if the customer succeeded or entered a new market because of our technology we should be celebrating it with them Favorite book of 2019 (19:26) Marching powder - He loves mystery fiction, however this book is a true life fascinating story. Outside of work Mark’s favorite pastime (22:03) His family - his wife, his son, and his 2 daughters. LinkedIn - Mark Souza . Show Notes Available at https://azuremonk.com/podcast/mark/.

Episode 090 – Barkha Herman – graduated from Florida Atlantic University with a Computer Science degree. For the past decade she has worked as a developer. She has worked her way up from developer to Senior Developer and Senior DevOps Engineer, and today, she is a Sr. Cloud Solution Architect for Microsoft. Along the way, …

In this DataPoint, Frank talks with Marck Vaisman, fellow Cloud Solution Architect from DC, about data, the R community in DC, and that "aha moment."

#12 – Phil Coachman – Principal Data scientist demystifies “Data Science”, the future of Data Science and a really cool ML project window.playerConfiguration = { "episode": { "media": { "m4a": "https://csapodcast.azureedge.net/episodes/ep12PhilCoachman.m4a" }, "title": "#12 – Phil Coachman - Principal Cloud Solution Architect(Data Scientist)", "description": "If you are in the data science field or aspiring to be in the data science field you are going to love this episode. In this episode we talk with Phil Coachman who works as a Data Scientist/Principal Cloud Solution Architect in Microsoft. We talk about Phil’s journey starting with the Bing, Xbox and Windows 10 team to his current role. We also demystify “who a data scientist” really is and what it take to be one. We talk about a really interesting and cool Train derailment prevention project using AI, Machine Learning, IoT sensors and IOT edge which is currently in production and has been deployed to 4 continents. 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Enjoy listening ! Phil’s journey on how he got to where he is today (01:52) Phil started off working with a project codenamed “Live search” (now called Bing) 12 years ago- and he had the opportunity to work on tools like Hadoop, Spark and other big data tools and capabilities. Working with big data processing with 100’s of PB for Bing, Xbox and Windows 10 – he understood the relationship between data and insights and naturally progressed into a Cloud Solution Architect specializing in the data science field. Demystify the role “data scientist” (03:59) Most people who have the title of Data Scientist are actually doing Data Analyst roles where they work on Excel. The key is a “scientific method”, creating a null hypothesis and going about to prove it you are not really doing data science. You could be doing data analytics or data engineering or data mining. The future of Data Science as Phil’s perceives it – Data analyst are gradually moving towards data scientists as tools become easier for machine learning and deep learning. Excel, Power BI makes it easier to do data science without even realizing you are doing it. Tools like DataRobot, Julia, and Azure automated Machine Learning makes it even easier to figure out a what is a good model without having to know how the actual algorithms work behind it. Interesting projects that Phil has worked on (07:57) Train Derailment Prevention – Customer who deals a lot with Trains had a lot of trains across the globe with 1000s of sensors across the train like heat, vibration etc. Their goal was to monitor the trains and also be alerted when a train derailed (for trains running in remote location like rainforests it will be harder to find derailed trains). POC was using Raspberrry Pi and a toy train set inside their lab. A model built in R and get into Azure stream analytics and get alerted when a train derails. The POC was a success. Big Edge devices were placed on the train. The production was then deployed across the globe and they used this to sell the solution to other train manufacturers and vendors across the globe. As a phase 2 – they are picking up sound frequencies from the wheels to predict if a bearing is going to fail – so that they can proactively fix it and thereby reducing train delays. The resource constraint also meant that the solution had to work with 2G network connectivity which was overcome using IoT edge to bring AI closer to the source as possible. Phil’s advice to anyone who is starting off in the Cloud Solution and Data Science space (14:26) Holistic understanding of the other pieces involved in a solution is critical to deliver a quality solution – example Networking, Governance, Security, Identity understanding is critical even for a data science project. Collaboration is crucial for a success solution architect to leverage the strengths of the team. Phil’s advice to keep himself abreast of all the changes happening in the cloud world (16:42) Top 4 ways he keeps himself up to date: TowardsDataScience – site he follows this – articles from students, practitioners and professors MachineLearningMastery – similar to the above site ACM – Latest from the university and research papers. Kaggle – ton of data sets and new challenges. It helps you take out the tunnel vision and take a broader picture. For work life balance – Phil blocks time on his calendar for learning and keeping up with the latest updates. When he is travelling he uses hotel hours to keep up with new things. How to get in touch with Phil (21:07) LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/philcoachman/ www.azuremonk.com . Show Notes Available at https://azuremonk.com/2020/02/01/ep12/.

It’s still early days for most in the charity sector, but the truth is artificial intelligence is now far from being just a buzzword.  Experts are saying that artificial intelligence will shape society more than any other technology in the next few decades, so why would the third sector be any exception? However, it’s not been without its bad press – with risks and concerns over data use, loss of jobs and general usability.   We’re seeing more and more charities using technology such as machine learning, chatbots and algorithmic decision making to do everything from serving information and telling stories online, to taking voice-based donations, driving innovative research and serving beneficiaries.  The possibilities are incredibly wide-ranging.   This podcast challenges the negative aspects of AI, dives into exactly what charities are missing out on and shares how other charities are using AI to change the shape of their fundraising, operations and services. Have any questions? Reach out to us at podcasts@charitydigital.org.uk (mailto:podcasts@charitydigital.org.uk) Episode Sponsor This podcast is supported by The Microsoft UK Philanthropies team (https://sway.office.com/tkH1hVsBSwD8rId4) are aiming to help charities and young people across the UK develop digital skills and they'll be working with us over the next few months to produce a short series of podcasts and webinars. If you'd like to learn more about AI tech and how it can help your charity, head over to the charity digital (https://www.charitydigitalnews.co.uk/) website or visit Microsoft's AI for good site (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/ai-for-good) . Our guests: Nick Wise is the CEO of Ocean Mind (https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Foceanmind.global%2F&data=02%7C01%7Ct-glmcal%40microsoft.com%7C403c73a3f3984b146f5708d773ec0c50%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637105329962576651&sdata=m2wapkL7LSwlGpIpEj0D5%2FGzLl8CgakhVsh4ZROfurs%3D&reserved=0) (a social enterprise that uses satellites and artificial intelligence to empowers fisheries authorities and seafood buyers to understand the compliance of fishing around the world, both near- and offshore. They provide confidential direct support, training and capacity building to governments and IGOs, as well as risk management and due diligence to the seafood industry.   Kate Rosenshine leads the Cloud Solution Architect team at Microsoft covering media, telco & professional services sectors, previously working on data & AI in financial services.  

#9 - Sarah Lean– Cloud Advocate/Glasgow Azure Group founder window.playerConfiguration = { "episode": { "media": { "m4a": "https://csapodcast.azureedge.net/episodes/ep9SarahLean.m4a" }, "title": "#9 - Sarah Lean– Cloud Advocate/Glasgow Azure Group founder", "description": "In this episode we talk with Sarah Lean aka TechieLass. She is a STEM ambassador, founder of the Glasgow Azure group, she has been a Cloud Solution Architect and now she works as a Cloud Advocate for Microsoft. In this episode we talk about how Sarah influenced Azure Migrate and its features, how she bridges the gap between the customers and the product engineering and how she keeps herself up to date with everything happening in the cloud world.", "url": "/2019/12/28/ep9/", "coverUrl": "" } } In this episode we talk with Sarah Lean aka TechieLass. She is a STEM ambassador, founder of the Glasgow Azure group, she has been a Cloud Solution Architect and now she works as a Cloud Advocate for Microsoft. In this episode we talk about how Sarah influenced Azure Migrate and its features, how she bridges the gap between the customers and the product engineering and how she keeps herself up to date with everything happening in the cloud world. Enjoy listening ! Sarah’s journey on how she got to where she is today (01:41) Sarah joined MSFT in 2017 as a Cloud Solution Architect She transitioned to the Cloud advocate role a couple of months ago. Her role as a cloud advocate is to be an evangelist to Microsoft products ( she focusses on the ITPro audience), collect feedback from customers and bridging the gap between customers feedback and product engineers. Interesting projects that Sarah has worked on (03:37) She talks about how she specializes in data center migration. She also talks about the “Azure Migrate” – how they were using it, how they should be using it and how she influenced the product with the feedback provided. Some of her feedback that was incorporated into the products include the inclusion of importing CSV files and import it into azure migrate – which was announced at MS Ignite. Sarah’s advice to anyone who is starting off in the Cloud Solution space (06:45) MSLearn – Leverage MSLearn – it has free and has different learning paths for varying skill levels. Local Azure Meetup groups – She encourages joining local azure user groups and learning from other people. Examples include – Glasgow user group which she runs. [If you are in the NYC region also check out the following user group that we host – https://www.meetup.com/Microsoft-Azure-Public-Sector-Meet-Up/ ] Sarah’s advice to keep herself abreast of all the changes happening in the cloud world (09:40) She uses twitter to keep herself updated on everything that is happening and everything that people are talking about – she follows customers and Azure Program managers. She listens to the community and understands the latest trends and what is important. She also has started a Youtube channel where she posts regular updates on Azure. Sarah defines what a “good day” and a “bad day” is for her (12:10) Good day – Almost every day, specifically when people find the content she shared or created useful and provide her feedback on it Bad day – when travel schedules get messed up How to get in touch with Sarah (13:50) LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/sazlean/ Twitter – https://twitter.com/techielass Glasgow Azure User Group – https://twitter.com/GlasgowAzureUG . Show Notes Available at https://azuremonk.com/2019/12/28/ep9/.

#7- Kevin Mack – the “welldocumented” nerd window.playerConfiguration = { "episode": { "media": { "m4a": "https://csapodcast.azureedge.net/episodes/ep7KevinMack.m4a" }, "title": "#7- Kevin Mack – the “welldocumented” nerd", "description": "In this episode we talk with Kevin Mack who works as a Cloud Solution Architect with ISVs. He talks about how his past life as a professor gave him valuable life and tech skills, like explaining and simplify for the audience & also helped him sharpen his debugging skills. We also talk about how his wife made the greatest contribution to his blog, and also helps him run the alpha/beta test before delivering a session on a complex topic. We also talk about how designing for high availability is critical for the customers that he works with and he goes about designing them.", "url": "/2019/11/11/ep7/", "coverUrl": "" } } In this episode we talk with Kevin Mack who works as a Cloud Solution Architect with ISVs. He talks about how his past life as a professor gave him valuable life and tech skills, like explaining and simplify for the audience & also helped him sharpen his debugging skills. We also talk about how his wife made the greatest contribution to his blog, and also helps him run the alpha/beta test before delivering a session on a complex topic. We also talk about how designing for high availability is critical for the customers that he works with and he goes about designing them. Enjoy listening ! Kevin’s journey on how he got to where he is today (02:08) Went to school business information technology and how he wanted to be anything but a programmer – but that’s where life got him

#6 – Abhijeet Jhala – Making a parking system “smart” using Azure window.playerConfiguration = { "episode": { "media": { "m4a": "https://csapodcast.azureedge.net/episodes/ep6AbhijeetJhala.m4a" }, "title": "#6 – Abhijeet Jhala – Making a parking system “smart” using Azure", "description": "Welcome to the Cloud Solution Architect podcast where we talk to Azure architects from across the globe and discuss interesting and creative Azure solutions. For more podcast episodes, animated azure video lessons and simplified how-to Azure articles please visit www.azuremonk.com. In this episode we talk with Abhijeet Jhala (AJ) who works as a Cloud Solution Architect with ISVs. He talks about how he has the “coolest job” since he has to solve a business problem only once but can be reused many number of times. We talk about how he was instrumental in solving a business problem which was – making a parking gate “smart” using Azure and its IOT capabilities. He also talks about how having a breadth of technical experience and a hip pocket skill helps him be a “problem solver", "url": "/2019/11/01/ep6/", "coverUrl": "" } } Welcome to the “Cloud Solution Architect” podcast where we talk to Azure architects from across the globe and discuss interesting and creative Azure solutions. For more podcast episodes, animated azure video lessons and simplified how-to Azure articles please visit www.azuremonk.com In this episode we talk with Abhijeet Jhala (AJ) who works as a Cloud Solution Architect with ISVs. He talks about how he has the “coolest job” since he has to solve a business problem only once but can be reused many number of times. We talk about how he was instrumental in solving a business problem which was – making a parking gate “smart” using Azure and its IOT capabilities. He also talks about how having a breadth of technical experience and a hip pocket skill helps him be a “problem solver” Enjoy listening ! AJ’s journey on how he got to where he is today AJ talks about how he started off with Oracle and how he started off with a blank state in Azure when he joined Microsoft but quickly mapped & translated the syntax from Oracle and AWS to Azure AJ talks about how he has the coolest job by working with industry solutions in the ISV space. AJ solves a business problem once but the solution he develops can scale – thanks to partners who help amplify his solution to 100-1000s of customers Interesting projects that AJ has worked on – A leader in parking management wanted their Kiosks, gate to be intelligent and dynamic fare based system. The challenges were the parking were 5 levels underground and had no internet connectivity. Azure IoT was used to solve this business problem – including OCR, Azure edge camera for License plate reading. This also gave them additional value added services like – differential pricing based on demands, monitoring the parking spots, categorize the car by frequent customers and more. AJ defined what a “good day” and a “bad day” is for him – Good day: True business impact which tangible results than just a technical solution Seeing his impact in real world Bad day: Unhappy Customers AJ’s advice to anyone who is starting off in the Cloud Solution space – Categorizing oneself as a pillared solution category expert – may not be a good idea. The real world doesn’t work that way – they do not hear solutions or products, what they want is industry problems. In order to solve this he had to stop wearing the hat of a “pillared solution expert” model. He now prefers calling himself a “problem solver” rather than a Data & AI Architect or Apps & Infra architect with a “hip” pocket skill. AJ’s advice to keep himself abreast of all the changes happening in the cloud world – He is more of an audio/visual learner Azure Mechanics, Azure Academy, and Channel 9 video contents are something that he goes back to for an update on the features. For day-to-day updates he prefers following updates blog How to get in touch with AJ LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhijeetjhala/ His future blog link will be posted here

#5 – Joe Sarabia – AWS, GCP and Azure Solution Architect window.playerConfiguration = { "episode": { "media": { "m4a": "https://csapodcast.azureedge.net/episodes/ep4JoeSarabia.m4a" }, "title": "#5 – Joe Sarabia – AWS, GCP and Azure Solution Architect", "description": "Welcome to the “Cloud Solution Architect” podcast where we talk to Azure architects from across the globe and discuss interesting and creative Azure solutions. For more podcast episodes, animated azure video lessons and simplified how-to Azure articles please visit www.azuremonk.com. In this episode we talk with Joe Sarabia who works as a Cloud Solution Architect in Microsoft. We talk about Joe’s variety of experiences working on and with all the major private and public cloud providers out there including VMWare, Google, AWS and now Microsoft. We also talk about the book – Phoenix project, how he bought low-cost discounted machines at his local Fry’s store to learn NT migration, how he likes to “build stuff” to keep up with his “continuous learning” methodology and much more valuable advice to anyone in the tech space. We also talk about two of his interesting projects that he has worked on – one focused around people and other around technology.", "url": "/2019/10/29/ep5/", "coverUrl": "" } } Welcome to the “Cloud Solution Architect” podcast where we talk to Azure architects from across the globe and discuss interesting and creative Azure solutions. For more podcast episodes, animated azure video lessons and simplified how-to Azure articles please visit www.azuremonk.com In this episode we talk with Joe Sarabia who works as a Cloud Solution Architect in Microsoft We talk about Joe’s variety of experiences working on and with all the major private and public cloud providers out there including VMWare, Google, AWS and now Microsoft. We also talk about the book – Phoenix project, how he bought low-cost discounted machines at his local Fry’s store to learn NT migration, how he likes to “build stuff” to keep up with his “continuous learning” methodology and much more valuable advice to anyone in the tech space. We also talk about two of his interesting projects that he has worked on – one focused around people and other around technology. Enjoy listening ! Joe’s journey on how he got to where he is today (02:02) Joe talks about how he started off as an enthusiast by building his “home lab”, then working in weather service and how he worked his way through IT operations. He talks about how an incident where transitioning from a BCDR strategy of “shut down” when a disaster happened to using VMWare solutions, changed the game for him and his business. That’s when he learnt that technology can be a business driver. From there he transitioned over to Amazon and Google in the public cloud arena, and now in Microsoft – one of his main drivers for choosing Microsoft is the relationship and the understanding of enterprise and the flexibility of work to balance work Defines his “good” and “bad” day at work (08:57) Good day: Solving a diverse and complex problem. When things start to click for the organization (especially around DevOps – he references the book “The Phoenix project”) Bad day: When he can’t solve the business problem, when they need or want to – due to certain technological restraint/limitations. The interesting projects Joe has worked on and has made a big impact (12:19) Project #1 – Azure DevOps – He defines DevOps as – People, Process and Product -and the product side being the easiest – like they mention in the Phoenix project. He gives an example of how one of his customers had several silos inside the organization. All the teams at his customer were using different versions of TFS and were looking to migrate TFS to VSTS online and Azure Devops. He had to bring all the dev teams in the same room and talk about current state analysis, future state analysis and gap analysis. Each team had their own pocket of excellence. When the customer realized this and they started learning from the inhouse talent of how the other teams were leveraging technology – it was a moment of dissolving the silos and how he was able to get the people working together. Project #2 – Joe talks about how application insights helped his customer resolve sporadic errors and performance issue patterns. With the power of telemetry from application insights they were able to identify with a click of a button, it as something that coincides with calls back from the database and the RCA was the DBA team was performing maintenance without letting the application team know. Joe’s advice to anyone who is starting off in the Cloud Solution space (23:41) Having a computer science degree helped him out, although he thinks it may not be a mandatory requirement currently. Ability to write lightweight code, and understanding both the infrastructure and app side gives him an advantage. Leverage the free tier (or pay if necessary) to play around with the features. Building your own website to build a blog will teach you a lot. Attend or host user groups local to the place you live in. Leverage the educational benefits or discounts that all the major cloud providers provide. Build stuff – applications ( he gives an example of his friend who built a game not because “he should” but because “he can” Joe’s advice to keep himself abreast of all the changes happening in the cloud world (31:07) He uses feedly or a similar RSS feed aggregator for keeping up with all of the updates as a daily routine He uses “pattern recognition” to keep himself ahead of the curve when it comes to new technologies – example Kubernetes “Continuous learning” is critical – not just gets hands dirty but “keep your hands dirty” ! There is a lot of overlap between all the major cloud providers and identify and having a strategy to learn around it helps. He has broken many things along with many “oops” moments – but this is what makes his experience valuable – Keep at it !! How to get in touch with Joe LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-sarabia/ . Show Notes Available at https://azuremonk.com/2019/10/29/ep5/.

#4 – Olivier Martin– Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer window.playerConfiguration = { "episode": { "media": { "m4a": "https://csapodcast.azureedge.net/episodes/ep4OlivierMartin.m4a" }, "title": "#4 – Olivier Martin– Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer", "description": "In this episode we go through an interesting and inspiring conversation with Olivier Martin who works as a Machine Learning Expert and Architect in Microsoft. We talk about a wide variety of topics from how “being curious” and being a #LearnitAll helped him to get to where he is today and helping him every single day. He also talks about an interesting Machine learning project where they helped increase the efficiency by identifying “false negatives” ", "url": "/2019/10/21/ep4/", "coverUrl": "" } } This is the fourth episode of the “Cloud Solution Architect” podcast where we talk to Azure architects from across the globe and discuss interesting and creative Azure solutions. For more podcast episodes, animated azure video lessons and simplified how-to Azure articles please visit www.azuremonk.com In this episode we go through an interesting and inspiring conversation with Olivier Martin who works as a Machine Learning Expert and Architect in Microsoft We talk about a wide variety of topics from how “being curious” and being a #LearnitAll helped him to get to where he is today and helping him every single day. He also talks about an interesting Machine learning project where they helped increase the efficiency by identifying “false negatives” Enjoy listening ! Show notes 1:40 : Olivier talks about his journey from a network engineer to his entrepreneurial journey to his different roles in Microsoft – all while maintaining his secret weapon – “Curiosity” and “GrowthMindset“ 10:07 : Olivier talks about how he went about learning Machine Learning and Deep Learning (all this with a new born baby

#3 – Mohamed Faizal – Singapore Airlines KrisPay and Cloud Custodian program window.playerConfiguration = { "episode": { "media": { "m4a": "https://csapodcast.azureedge.net/episodes/ep3MohammadFaizal.m4a" }, "title": "#3 – Mohamed Faizal – Singapore Airlines KrisPay and Cloud Custodian program", "description": "In this episode we talk to Mohamed Faizal, who was one of the first 100 MVPs of Azure who is currently working as a Cloud Solution Architect in Singapore. In this episode we talk about interesting projects like KrisPay for Singapore Airlines using blockchain as a service to the Cloud custodian program", "url": "/2019/10/14/ep3/", "coverUrl": "" } } In this episode we talk to Mohamed Faizal, who was one of the first 100 MVPs of Azure who is currently working as a Cloud Solution Architect in Singapore. In this episode we talk about interesting projects like KrisPay for Singapore Airlines using blockchain as a service to the Cloud custodian program Show notes 01:37 – Faizal talks about his background on how he started off as a DOS Developer, to Lotus Notes migration to PaaS SQL in Azure and being one of the first 100 Azure MVPs in 2011 06:47 – Faizal talks about the implementation of Loyalty Program (KrisPay) using Blockchain as a Service for Singapore Airlines. 11:00 – Faizal talks about Cloud Adoption Framework and how Cloud Adoption Framework helps with the compliance requirements for customers. 12:27 – How CAF is using cloud agnostic Infrastructure as a Code implementation using Terraform. 15:07 – We discuss the hub and spoke model for both networking as well as an overall subscription purpose. 20:50 – We discuss, how the detect and auto – remediation of subscription policies. 22:07 – Faizal talks about the open source solution – Cloud Custodian and how he leveraged this to solve the business problem. 26:00 – Faizal talks about the waste water management solution. He talks about they used 200000 IoT sensors to monitor water quality, collect data using stream analytics, and leverage Azure ML to predict the chemical usage to treatment. 29:12 – Faizal talks about his advice for new Azure Architects. Understanding customer needs and problem statement first before jumping to technical solutions is great advice. 31:08 – Advice to keep up with the latest updates on Azure – Run user groups. Commit to the user group which makes learning mandatory. Follow Azure Updates, and Product Management team on twitter, listening to podcasts like Azure Friday, Kubernetes podcast by google, AWS podcast. Faizal’s Linkedin in account – https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmdfaizal/ Faizal’s Twitter account – @kmdfaizal CAF using Terraform on github – https://github.com/aztfmod/blueprints Singapore airlines story – https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/singapore-airlines-travel-transportation-azure Azure Friday podcast – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/resources/videos/azure-friday/ Kubernetes podcast – https://kubernetespodcast.com/ AWS podcast – Azure Product Management Team twitter handle – https://twitter.com/AzureApp https://twitter.com/AzureDevOps https://twitter.com/jonfancey . Show Notes Available at https://azuremonk.com/2019/10/14/ep3/.

In this DataPoint, Frank talks with fellow Cloud Solution Architect, Devin Jaswal, about the SQL Trail conference in Richmond, VA and serverless SQL.

#2 – Julian Soh – smart trash cans using Azure window.playerConfiguration = { "episode": { "media": { "m4a": "https://csapodcast.azureedge.net/episodes/ep2JulianSoh.m4a" }, "title": "#2 – Julian Soh – smart trash cans using Azure", "description": "In this episode we go through an insightful and fun conversation with Julian Soh who works as a Cloud Solution Architect in Microsoft US in the west coast. We talk about a wide variety of topics from how smart trash cans are revolutionizing a city and county by leveraging Azure to how biking helps Julian keep up with the latest and greatest on Azure", "url": "/2019/07/02/ep2/", "coverUrl": "" } } This is the second episode of the “Cloud Solution Architect” podcast where we talk to Azure architects from across the globe and discuss interesting and creative Azure solutions. For more podcast episodes, animated azure video lessons and simplified how-to Azure articles please visit www.azuremonk.com In this episode we go through an insightful and fun conversation with Julian Soh who works as a Cloud Solution Architect in Microsoft US in the west coast. We talk about a wide variety of topics from how smart trash cans are revolutionizing a city and county by leveraging Azure to how biking helps Julian keep up with the latest and greatest on Azure Enjoy listening ! Show notes 01:42 –> Julian talks about his background and how he got into Azure space 04:20 –> We discuss how the CSA (Clous Solution Architects) organization is structured 07:00 –> Julian talks about how Azure was used in modernizing a legacy system 09:24 –>Julian talks about the interesting and creative smart trash cans solution for the city and county using Azure Data and AI, IoT, Machine Learning and Big Data Analysis 12:54 –> Julian talks about how cycling helps him achieve multiple benefits -> focus, fitness goals and learn the latest and greatest on Azure & clearing the head. 20:04 –> Challenges and advice for budding new Azure architects Julian Soh’s LinkedIn -> https://www.linkedin.com/in/julian-soh-307ab24/ . Show Notes Available at https://azuremonk.com/2019/07/02/ep2/.

#1 – Stanislav Novoseletskiy -modernizing and transforming one of the largest transportation systems in the world window.playerConfiguration = { "episode": { "media": { "m4a": "https://csapodcast.azureedge.net/episodes/1StanislavNovoseletsky.m4a" }, "title": "#1 – Stanislav Novoseletskiy -modernizing and transforming one of the largest transportation systems in the world", "description": "In this episode we go through an insightful conversation with Stanislav (Stan) who is currently an Azure Solution Specialist working for Microsoft serving the NYC region.He talks about how he used Azure to transform some of the worlds largest transit systems IT infrastructure and reporting. He also shares very useful advice for budding new Azure architects not just from a technical perspective but also from a business and impact perspective.", "url": "/2019/06/27/ep1/", "coverUrl": "" } } In this episode we talk to Mohamed Faizal, who was one of the first 100 MVPs of Azure who is currently working as a Cloud Solution Architect in Singapore. In this episode we talk about interesting projects like KrisPay for Singapore Airlines using blockchain as a service to the Cloud custodian program Show notes 01:37 – Faizal talks about his background on how he started off as a DOS Developer, to Lotus Notes migration to PaaS SQL in Azure and being one of the first 100 Azure MVPs in 2011 06:47 – Faizal talks about the implementation of Loyalty Program (KrisPay) using Blockchain as a Service for Singapore Airlines. 11:00 – Faizal talks about Cloud Adoption Framework and how Cloud Adoption Framework helps with the compliance requirements for customers. 12:27 – How CAF is using cloud agnostic Infrastructure as a Code implementation using Terraform. 15:07 – We discuss the hub and spoke model for both networking as well as an overall subscription purpose. 20:50 – We discuss, how the detect and auto – remediation of subscription policies. 22:07 – Faizal talks about the open source solution – Cloud Custodian and how he leveraged this to solve the business problem. 26:00 – Faizal talks about the waste water management solution. He talks about they used 200000 IoT sensors to monitor water quality, collect data using stream analytics, and leverage Azure ML to predict the chemical usage to treatment. 29:12 – Faizal talks about his advice for new Azure Architects. Understanding customer needs and problem statement first before jumping to technical solutions is great advice. 31:08 – Advice to keep up with the latest updates on Azure – Run user groups. Commit to the user group which makes learning mandatory. Follow Azure Updates, and Product Management team on twitter, listening to podcasts like Azure Friday, Kubernetes podcast by google, AWS podcast. Faizal’s Linkedin in account – https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmdfaizal/ Faizal’s Twitter account – @kmdfaizal CAF using Terraform on github – https://github.com/aztfmod/blueprints Singapore airlines story – https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/singapore-airlines-travel-transportation-azure Azure Friday podcast – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/resources/videos/azure-friday/ Kubernetes podcast – https://kubernetespodcast.com/ AWS podcast – Azure Product Management Team twitter handle – https://twitter.com/AzureApp https://twitter.com/AzureDevOps https://twitter.com/jonfancey . Show Notes Available at https://azuremonk.com/2019/06/27/ep1/.

I detta avsnitt av Digitalsnack-podden gästas vi av Joakim Åström som är Cloud Solution Architect inom data och AI på Microsoft Customer Success Unit. I podden kommer du lära dig: ✔️Vad är Artificiell intelligens? Förklarat på ett enkelt sätt av en superexpert ✔️Vad kan företag använda AI till? ✔️Fördelar att använda AI-teknik som företag ✔️Hur skapar man en bot för Facebook Messenger? ✔️Vilken kompetens behöver jag? ✔️Hur ser framtiden ut gällande Artificiell intelligens?

Christophe Koehl, Cloud Solution Architect at adaQuest, explains the benefits of WIndows Autopilot, how it's used and deployed, and how it's helping IT managers to more efficiently and securely provision new devices.

GUEST BIO: Sarah is a Cloud Solution Architect for Microsoft where she helps organizations with their Data Centre Transformations.  In recent years Sarah has started to focus and specialize in all things Cloud, especially Microsoft Azure.   Sarah is also a STEM Ambassador and likes to share her story in the hope that it will inspire the next generation to start a STEM career.   EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Phil’s guest on today’s show is Sarah Lean, who has spent 15 years working as an IT professional. She is a Cloud Solution Architect for Microsoft, specifically working on Data Center Transformations. Sarah specializes in Microsoft, VMware, Veeam and Azure, but she has many other skills and is always adding more. She is a STEM Ambassador and founded the Glasgow Azure user group. KEY TAKEAWAYS: (1.08) – So Sarah, can I ask you to expand on that brief intro and tell us a little bit more about yourself? Sarah starts by sharing the fact that she has been working in IT for about 15 years. She began her career working on a helpdesk doing really basic tasks like resetting passwords. From there, she worked up through more complex tasks. Over the years, she has touched virtually every technology. Currently, she is moving into working with the Cloud, specializing in helping companies to migrate their data across. (2.10) – Sarah started working for Microsoft about a year ago. Phil asked her what inspired that move. She says that she had always wanted to work for Microsoft and jokes that is her inner geek showing. Now that she has the right skill set she has been able to fulfill her ambition. (2.33) – Can you please share a unique career tip with the I.T. career audience? Sarah’s advice is to “be authentic and learn to speak up”. It is important to share your opinion. That after all is why you have been invited to meetings or asked to work on projects. (3.40) – Can you tell us about your worst career moment? And what you learned from that experience. Sarah explains that, a while back, she was working with a manager she just did not get along with. They were polar opposites. This situation pushed her to change jobs for the wrong reasons and she ended up working for a company that was not a good fit for her. Basically, she found herself in an even worse situation than the one she had just left. But, it forced her to be proactive and turn the situation around. She learned to handle thing differently whenever she was struggling to work with someone. In the end, that negative episode turned out to be a growing experience for her. (4.56) – Phil asks Sarah what she now looks for when moving jobs. Sarah likes to work for supportive managers that inspire her. She also prefers flexible working and needs to be doing the type of work she enjoys. Phil understands this completely. He once made the mistake of accepting a job despite the fact that the interview went badly. That experience taught him to never ignore red flags. (6.29) – What was your best career moment? For Sarah that has been joining Microsoft. Something she has wanted to do from the moment she started using computers. Her skill enabled her to land her dream job. But, there was also an element of luck involved. She was referred by someone she met through the Glasgow Azure user group, that she founded 2 years ago. He worked for Microsoft. (7.16) – Where are you based? Sarah explains that she works mostly from home or customer sites, often, in Scotland and England. She loves the flexibility the job gives her. (7.46) – Can you tell us what excites you about the future of the IT industry and careers? The fact that no two days are the same is something Sarah finds exciting. This is especially the case now. The whole cloud first mentality has turned things on their head. Everything is evolving and progressing very quickly. Sarah really enjoys being able to continuously learn and try out new things. (8.43) – Clearly your focus is the Cloud, but is there any other area that particularly interests you? Sarah describes herself as a server hugger, but she is now getting more involved in DevOps. She is focusing on understanding the infrastructure as code and how to automate. (10.00) – What drew you to a career in IT? Sarah has always enjoyed computers. The fact that she can help people and share her knowledge is something she also enjoys. Her career in IT allows her to combine all of these passions, so, for her, it is the ideal career. (10.36) – What is the best career advice you have ever received? Sarah says that is – “be yourself”. When she was younger she tried to follow in the footsteps of some of the people she worked with and admired. Unfortunately, that strategy led to her working in roles that she was not really suited for. (11.09) – If you were to begin your IT career again, right now, what would you do? Sarah would spend more time learning about networking. She has a good grasp of infrastructure, but often wishes her networking knowledge was even better. (11.53) – What are you currently focusing on in your career? Sarah is currently focusing on filling in the gaps, learning more. This year, she particularly wants to secure some Linux certification. She also wants to become a more rounded person. (12.19) – What is the number one non-technical skill that has helped you the most in your IT career? Interestingly, Sarah’s secret skill is curling. She has been involved in the sport for around 20 years, now. Playing has taught her the importance of teamwork. As the captain (skip) she has to make decisions for the team. Often, these are split-second gut feeling decisions that define the game. So, you have to become a confident leader as well as be a good team member. The skills she has picked up while curling has definitely helped her to succeed in her IT career. (13.44) – Phil asks Sarah to share a final piece of career advice with the audience. Sarah’s parting piece of advice is not to be afraid to pursue your dreams. You are good enough. It is important to recognize and deal properly with imposter syndrome. BEST MOMENTS: (1.40) SARAH – "I've probably touched every technology there is." (3.20) SARAH – "Be yourself. And don't be frightened to use your voice." (5.40) SARAH – “If you enjoy your work, it's not really work, it becomes like an extension of you" (8.18) SARAH – “I pick up new technologies, methodology and meet new people with different perspectives all the time." (14.00) SARAH – "Don't be afraid to go and pursue your dreams we are all worthy of those dreams.”

AzureABILITY host Louis Berman discusses how to get started in Azure with his fellow Cloud Solutions Architect, Srini Ambati. Listen in as Louis and Srini give you a leg up into the cloud.----more---- Srini Ambati is a strategic and business focused Cloud Solution Architect providing best practices and deep technical guidance/thought leadership to ensure customers have a great experience when using Microsoft Azure. To learn more about getting started with Azure, be sure to check out the following links, or simply use your favorite search engine to access an absurd amount of Azure content; more than any one human could ever consume in a single lifetime: Getting Started in Azure Getting Started in Azure - Live Demo and Q&A Getting Started Guide for Developers Azure Fundamentals Learning Path Azure Friday (Best Azure Video Series) AzureABILITY Podcast [Editor's Note: Gotta get a plug in there somehow] Quick Heads Up: If you have kids, know kids, want to help kids--maybe even like kids!-- then be sure to check out http://code.org. Code.org provides the leading curriculum for K-12 computer science in the largest school districts in the United States.  They also recognize the annual hour of code campaign which has engaged 10% of all the students in the world.  10 friggin percent!! Be sure to visit http://azureability.com for show notes and additional episodes.  Also, if you like (or even hate!) what we're doing, please take the time to share your comments and suggestions. CREDITS: Louis Berman (Host); Srini Ambati (Guest); Megan Hochstatter (PSA); Heather Walsh (Intro/Outro); Vincent Tone / PremiumBeat (Music); East Coast Studio (Editing) TRANSCRIPT: https://www.videoindexer.ai/accounts/1c5a0342-11e8-4e1d-b656-d0bf35b80614/videos/3ac26600ce/;  automatically generated by Microsoft's Video Indexer service (http://videoindexer.ai).

Gościem 50. odcinka Kreatywnego Zagłębia jest Marek Pyka pełniący aktualnię funkcję Cloud Solution Architect w Microsofcie. Marek oprócz człowieka związanego z branżą IT jest również wieloletnim uczelnianym wykładowcą, który łączy praktykę biznesową z podejściem akademickim.Nad czym aktualnie pracuje, jak misja przyświeca jego aktywności, kiedy w USA zamykane są bezobsługowe sklepy Amazon Go oraz czy warto iść na studia - to w skrócie poruszane przez tematy.Polecam posłuchać, bo to wybuchowa mieszanka pasji, ciężkiej pracy i ogromnej wiedzy.Linki:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mpyka/

Gościem 50. odcinka Kreatywnego Zagłębia jest Marek Pyka pełniący aktualnię funkcję Cloud Solution Architect w Microsofcie. Marek oprócz człowieka związanego z branżą IT jest również wieloletnim uczelnianym wykładowcą, który łączy praktykę biznesową z podejściem akademickim.Nad czym aktualnie pracuje, jak misja przyświeca jego aktywności, kiedy w USA zamykane są bezobsługowe sklepy Amazon Go oraz czy warto iść na studia - to w skrócie poruszane przez tematy.Polecam posłuchać, bo to wybuchowa mieszanka pasji, ciężkiej pracy i ogromnej wiedzy.Linki:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mpyka/

Edward Walton, CISSP and Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft gives an overview of Shadow IT and explains some of the best methods for dealing with this rapidly growing phenomenon.

Ben and Scott have a chat with Sarah Lean, a Cloud Solution Architect from Microsoft about why you should be looking at the cloud and how to govern your Azure environments. The post Episode 114 – Answering “Why Cloud?” with Sarah Lean appeared first on Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast.

This episode Jeffrey brings you a live recording from the Microsoft Ignite event. Today, he’s talking with several people, including Greg Leonardo, an Azure MVP and Cloud Architect; Josh Gaverick, an MVP in Application Lifecycle Management and an Senior Application Architect at 10th Magnitude; Rob Richardson, a Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET who also builds web properties for small and medium sized businesses; and Colin Dembovsky, an ALM MVP and Cloud Solution Architect at 10th Magnitude.   Tune in to hear highlights from each of the guest’s panels, what they have enjoyed learning about at the conference, their insights on various topics in the Azure space, their day-to-day work and projects outside of the conference, and their predictions on the future of Azure!   Topics of Discussion: [:40] About today’s episode. [:51] Jeffrey introduces his first guest this episode, Greg Leonardo. [1:55] How Greg journeyed into the Azure space. [2:49] What has been going on in Greg’s local community of Tampa, Florida. [3:59] What Greg and Jeffrey share in common: supporting VetsinTech! [4:48] Greg explains what a front door is in the Azure space. [5:40] Where to find more information about the work Greg is up to. [7:01] Greg explains some of the interesting ideas found in his book. [10:27] A word from Azure DevOps sponsor: Clear Measure. [10:53] Jeffrey introduces the next set of guests: Josh Gaverick, Rob Richardson, and Colin Dembovsky. [11:50] How the conference has been so far for the three of them. [12:23] Highlights from Rob’s talk at the conference. [14:35] What has been Josh’s highlights of the conference thus far and what his talk was about. [17:21] Colin’s highlights at the conference. [19:18] Josh’s insights on SQL Managed Instance. [20:09] About Josh’s other talks at the conference. [21:16] About Rob’s current projects at his job. [24:45] What Colin works on day-to-day. [28:18] About Josh’s current work. [35:27] Recommendations for listeners to check out after this week’s episode! [41:22] Jeffrey asks: five years from now, where are we going to be?   Mentioned in this Episode: Azure DevOps Microsoft Ignite Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure, by Greg Leonardo VetsinTech Clear Measure (Sponsor) Azure Front Door Service GregLeonardo.com SQL Managed Instance The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, by Fred Brooks Micro Focus Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Windows Containers   Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.   Follow Up with Our Guests: Greg Leonardo’s LinkedIn GregLeonardo.com Josh Garverick’s LinkedIn RobRich.net Colin Dembovsky’s LinkedIn

Przed Wami DevTalk po raz… czterdziesty! Ale ten czas leci, nie? Dzisiaj prezentuję rozmowę z gościem, na którego pełne przedstawienie potrzebowałbym kilku ładnych akapitów. Mirek Burnejko! Spec od chmury: Cloud Solution Architect. A dodatkowo … 321 uwaga … : pisarz na Chmurowisku, prelegent na cloud-confach, autor codziennego vloga na YouTube, twórca bloga trzypoziomy.pl, jeden z […] The post 40 – O chmurze z Mirosławem Burnejko appeared first on DevTalk.