Hi Sean, tell us a little about yourself. I’m an Associate Cloud Architect at the Club of 45 Degrees, which actually is a step to becoming a Cloud or Business Architect. Currently I’m working from a more technological point of view, whereas I hope to grow into a more strategic one to support clients from …
Fairytales don’t exist. Especially not in IT. With Cloud technology emerging, a new type of operating model started to get a lot of traction and attention. The “old school” siloed IT department running projects in a waterfall way is not the best match with the new technology possibilities. People were looking for inspiration for the …
Who are you? And what do you do at 45 Degrees? Well, my name is Monika Marinkovska, I’m currently based in Skopje, Macedonia. Here I work as a recruitment consultant for FrontWise Group. FrontWise Group specializes in recruiting and has a staff of fifty professionals, each of whom is a subject-matter expert in their field. …
Hi, I’m Wouter and I’ve been working in IT for 5 years now. Currently, I’m a Cloud Engineer at 45 Degrees, which basically means I execute the plans our Architects draw out. 45 Degrees consists of, amongst others, Cloud Architects and Cloud Engineers. The Architects work on certain solutions and draw out the plans to …
Who are you and what do you do? Well, my name is Stijn Depril. What do I do? I work as a FinOps Architect and Practice Lead. My job is made up of two parts. On the one hand, I anticipate the effective implementation of a FinOps culture for our clients, and on the other …
Times like these, we want the best price for everything we use. At home, we focus on reducing gas consumption, while at the same time, municipalities try to pay attention to whether and how long street lights should light up. These are all examples of how parameters like the cold, bad weather and time of …
Three years ago we designed the first 45 Degrees version of our ‘Cloud Centre of Excellence’ approach. We looked at AWS, Microsoft and Google, spoke with our customers and came up with a framework to drive the transformation to a modern service oriented IT organisation. Where cloud technology is the catalyst in the story. Since …
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In our previous FinOps blog Why FinOps isn’t like climbing Mount Everest we told you that achieving a huge goal such as climbing the top of a mountain is a hard one to reach, with a specific result. Our approach to FinOps is that operating FinOps isn’t such a target. With regard to FinOps, the …
Let’s start with who you are and what you do? My name is Stijn, and I am a 36-year-old father of two children as well as an Associate Cloud Architect at 45 Degrees. I’ve been a consultant for the past 12 years, and I am currently working for a client, Delhaize. I spent some time …
About 3 years ago we started building our own 45 Degrees approach to setting up and running a Cloud Centre of Excellence. The world was a very different place then. Most enterprises were having their first proof of concepts with Cloud technology, pushed by Cloud providers to get consumption as fast as possible. IT-marketeers said …
