Hugo Barona is a Cloud Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and Pluralsight Author.  

Hugo kicked off the Cloud Lunch and Learn initiative which is aimed at providing free lunch time learning sessions focused on all things Cloud. 

In this episode we find out more about Cloud Lunch and Learn and the future plans as well as discuss the importance of community support and sharing the knowledge. 

LinkedIn: Hugo Barona

Twitter: @HmsBarona

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In this episode I am joined by Ihcene Cheriet.

Ihcene is a PM at Microsoft working in the Azure Stack team focussed on the Marketplace within Azure Stack Hub.

In this episode Ihcene shares her story of how she graduated as a Software Engineer, did some pretty cool internships and found her passion for the PM role within Microsoft.

Then we dive in to a discussion around how powerful the Marketplace is within Azure Stack Hub for ISVs and for customers.  

We cover three customer personas: 

I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did and a massive thanks to Ihcene for sharing her knowledge and insight with us.

@icheriet1

Links discussed in this episode: 

For disaster recovery scenarios to have data protection for operation backup and restore. You can have a backup on Azure and a backup on the Azure Stack Hub

Networking: VPN services, Load balancing services, Firewall services or for centralized management

Hidden Gems:

Bitnami released recently :

In this episode I am joined by the awesome April Edwards. 

April is an Azure Advocate and Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft and has the most fascinating story to tell when it comes to how she found her calling in a career in tech after almost going down a few other paths.  

We discuss transitioning from Ops to DevOps, impostor syndrome, the importance of being you, getting comfortable with not knowing everything in tech and we confirm that you are Dev/Tech enough! 

April also shares her thoughts on Work Life Balance vs Work Life Integration when we discuss how Covid-19 has impacted her role and day to day life as well as how she is surviving lockdown.  

@TheAprilEdwards

In this episode I'm joined by my two team mates Jayanth and Janaka.

Jayanth and Janaka are Azure Stack Engineering Technologists covering APJ.  As we know Azure Stack Hub is a co-engineered product between Microsoft and a few select OEMs.

In this episode we talk through some of the Dell Tech differentiators and the value we bring to Azure Stack Hub. I hope this episode interesting and if you have any questions after listening please reach out to me and the team.

@lisaattheedge

@YkJayanth

@JanakaRangama

In this AWESOME episode I am joined by Steve Buchanan.  Steve Buchanan is a Director, & Midwest Containers Services Lead on the Cloud Transformation/DevOps team with Avanade, the Microsoft arm of Accenture. He is an eight-time Microsoft MVP, and the author of six technical books.

In this episode we discuss: 

Steve also flips the table and asks me some questions which caught me off guard.  I hope you enjoy this honest and open episode as much as I did. 

Twitter: @buchatech

Blog: www.buchatech.com

In this episode I am joined by Mark Scholman.  Mark is a Freelance Microsoft Azure Consultant - Microsoft MVP - Working on #Azure, #AzureStack, #AzureStackHCI - Speaker & blogger - @azurestackblog

Mark travelled the world providing training to HPE in 2017-2018 when Azure Stack launched and has recently created his own courses and virtual learning offering.  The courses sound awesome and I think they will provide excellent value. 

You can learn more about the courses and take the free Azure Stack Family course here: Azure Stack Learning 

Twitter: @MarkScholman

With awesome guest Chris Renda -  Director of Engineering for Azure Stack at Dell Technologies. 

In this episode we discuss Dell's approach to co-engineering Azure Stack Hub with Microsoft, where we look to add value, building a team to integrate tech and people and what a monthly engineering cycle looks like including our approach to Agile and the release train!

Twitter: @ChrisRenda1

Dell Technologies Cloud Solutions for Microsoft Azure Stack Hub

Dell Technologies InfoHub Azure Stack

In this episode I am joined by Aaron Buley. Aaron recently transitioned within Dell from Global Director of the Engineering Technologist team for the CI & HCI BU to Director of Product Management for Data Centric Workloads and Solutions

In this open and honest conversation we cover personal brand, leadership, social media presence, mentoring and leaning in to challenges.

Good luck to Aaron in his next role and hopefully he'll join us again to share more about his career development.

Twitter: @AaronBuley

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