Understanding GCP Application Services

October 24, 2017 Alex Meade Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

PaaS solutions were some of the first services offered by cloud providers. These solutions came early since they provide a tremendous value of allowing a developer to deploy their code without having to request or provision infrastructure, which may take days or weeks. GCP has a number of such PaaS solutions that allow you to deploy your application without the complexity of provisioning and managing infrastructure. These solutions fall into two families: serverless applications and Linux containers.

Understanding GCP Augmented Infrastructure

October 10, 2017 Alex Meade Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

This is part two of a three-part overview discussing architecting on Google Cloud Platform. In the first part of this series, Understanding GCP Infrastructure Services, we discussed a few of the infrastructure components available in GCP. Now, let’s discuss some of the products that augment this infrastructure. These solutions act as force-multipliers, which allow you …

Understanding GCP Infrastructure Services

September 26, 2017 Alex Meade Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

There is a wide-range of services available in GCP ranging from Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to completely managed Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). In the first part of this series, we will discuss the available infrastructure components and how they provide a powerful and flexible foundation on which to build your applications.

How the Channel is Uniquely Positioned to Close Critical Skill Gaps for Cloud Success

September 25, 2017 Ray Doucette Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

As a trusted advisor, facilitator and broker of cloud solutions and services, it’s imperative the channel community help their clients understand that cloud is not just a technology change, but it also changes business processes, the skills of their people and every interaction between all three.

The Evolution of Cloud Job Roles and Training

September 17, 2017 Guest Authors Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

As with all technologies transforming the way organizations operate, it’s expected that roles will also evolve. Cloud computing already has and will continue to change traditional IT roles and functions for years to come. We’ll begin our overview of the transformation of cloud job roles with a look at some of the top cloud computing roles and responsibilities for architects, engineers and developers.