"Scaling, we're all trying to do more with less, and do you really want your staff spending all this time managing things like infrastructure, managing assets that are depreciating…let's take security alone, maybe you have 10 full time security people, when you go to a cloud solution like Azure, you have thousands of security people, that is their full time job - to find vulnerabilities…you just can't have these kinds of resources when you own your own company as you can in Azure" - Kirby on why businesses should not manage their own data infrastructure

Kirby Repko, Solution Architect for Microsoft's enterprise data & AI solution area, joins us on the podcast today to share his experiences and learnings on how businesses should be storing their data, specifically getting deep on platform as a service (PaaS) - managed databases.

Notable take-aways:

-What CIO's and CEO's really care about when it comes to how the business manages their data

-The differences between IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS

-Why businesses should be focusing on proprietary functions, not managing data centers

-Why the data ecosystem is integral to how a business runs AI and machine learning workloads

-A message for data base architects, and how their roles are changing with the intelligent cloud

-Baby steps: what businesses should be doing today to digitally transform

You can contact or follow Kirby on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirbybrooksrepko/

Kirby also has an awesome Youtube channel with over 400 subscribers called SQLTalk: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6PtJ7FG2eMmQ5FW9e60ClQ

Please feel free to follow me on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, Medium, or at my website: www.derekwesleyrussell.com

Thank you so much for listening!

Shout outs:

*Podcast Photo by Markus Spiske freeforcommercialuse.net from Pexels

*Intro music (beginning only): Orion, by Pedro Santiago 

*License