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 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.

Why You Should Consider Running Linux on Azure, Part I: The Basics

March 27, 2017 Tracy Wallace Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Microsoft, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Microsoft has been making several overtures to Linux and the open source community over the last few years. Everything from running SQL Server and Visual Studio on Linux to running a legitimate Bash shell in Windows 10.