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45 Degrees v3 In a previous blog we previewed the third version of our Cloud Center of Excellence as a ...

Earlier this year, we shared everything about our Boost Your Impact program, an 8-step journey towards better personal knowledge, soft ...

How our small team can achieve great things 45 Degrees is a club of Cloud Architects and Engineers. That’s for ...

How to start with a Cloud transformation journey that will last a lifetime. In the first part of our blog ...

How to start with a Cloud transformation journey that will last a lifetime. Cloud computing brings about incredible opportunities. The ...

We have a pretty amazing crew of consultants. They are passionate about their job and are constantly improving their technical ...

Fairytales don't exist.  Especially not in IT.  With Cloud technology emerging, a new type of operating model started to get ...

Three years ago we designed the first  45 Degrees version of our ‘Cloud Centre of Excellence’ approach.  We looked at ...

About 3 years ago we started building our own 45 Degrees approach to setting up and running a Cloud Centre ...

(But there's a lot more work before they can be built) Imagine yourself as a real estate developer. You just ...

In achieving digital transformation or higher business value, more and more companies are looking to migrate their businesses into the ...

During the first weekend of the Tour de France 2021 a big debate arose, based on interviews by two of ...

Companies like Spotify are often referred to as examples of modern IT organizations.  Unfortunately modernizing a large, complex enterprise is ...

In the first part of this mini blog series we explored why cloud technology is not just another technology shift. ...

Introducing cloud technology in a large enterprise environment is much more than a technology challenge.  In a series of 3 ...

Imagine yourself as a real estate developer. You just bought a large piece of land and eventually want to use ...

Cloud journey The major cloud journey service providers have been preaching for years that the way to get started on ...

According to Gartner, every enterprise needs one.  According to conversations with our customers, every enterprise wants one.  But what exactly ...

Why would you need a Cloud Center of Excellence?  Let's give 10 good reasons.  Part 2 … Optimised Architecture through ...

Why would you need a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE)?  Let's give 10 good reasons.  Part 1 … Increased Business ...

Adopting cloud technology is like learning to swim.  Nobody can do it without jumping into the water.  The first step ...

Only those who have the agility to change with the market and innovate quickly will survive (Robert Kiyosaki)  The answer ...

In traditional application development the focus is on preventing the system from failing.  In technical terms: increasing the Mean Time ...

In the ideal world a cloud/transformation journey is a straightforward concept: Step 1: you start to experiment both from a ...

All of the technology is a means to an end. (Jack Holzman) The big cloud providers are not only investing ...

"Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is" (Steve Martin) Before starting ...

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes”. (Benjamin Franklin) Today the vast majority ...

In the middle of a summer heat wave, I had an interesting conversation with a CIO about a shared passion: ...

Cloud computing 101: the biggest advantage of the cloud computing model is "agility".  We can do things that were simply ...

We often get questions like (don't worry if the question sound like Chinese for now) : "I want to setup ...

"In times of great chaos, people tend to follow a man with a plan" (Jeffrey Fry) What happens if you ...

In a cloud first world, everything is done in self organising teams. New roles like Scrum Masters, Product Managers or Product Owners ...

Mid March 2020 the world changed for everybody. Of course, this includes IT managers and CIOs. From one day to the other ...