dear developer,
re: public cloud infrastructure in africa and the challenges faced
I would like to thank you for submitting your viewpoint into the noteb∅x, I can definitely relate to the challenges portrayed during your entrepreneurial growth cycles.
“A luta continua.”
The struggle is real, not just for the enterprise, nor the SMB, neither the casual startup — but for all the future thinkers, dreamers, and architects of this beatuiful continent.
Let me first let you in on what my vision is for cloud infrastructure and managed solutions in the EMEA region. Rather, I’d prefer it IMEA — as I feel many young professionals can learn bigconcepts from our supporting team in India.
Best. Mentorship. Ever.
Today, I was having trouble deploying Dynamics CRM, AX, NAV, and SL onto my 365 tenant. I loved the fact that I had the opportunity to connect with a support rockstar. I always enjoy this part: connecting with India. And surely with every escalation, I am always at peace — because I wholly trust their ‘frame of work’ — not just the ITIL foundation, but even more so the Microsoft Operations Framework.
I would like to be a part of an emerging breed of creative Solution Architects
ie. In the leagues of the Medium writer, Florian Hoeppner
I aspire that this new breed of designers will spark a massive local interest and intrigue with how and what the cloud can offer — irrespective the user’s realm or scope in whichever industry they are leading/pioneering.
In five years time, I would like to see a hyper-scale public cloud infrastructure available in Africa — I would also like to see an ubiquitous design model emerge with one soul purpose:
Integration, not competition.
(see RedPixie on The API Economy)
It really is quite mid-evil how competition still plays a pivotal role in the corporate banter — especially telecoms, and how they fight a Wit vs. Wit to an easily influenced audience of under-developed professionals LinkedIn to their network. I would like to converge the best practises and models of all the leading IaaS providers (as listed in the Gartner MQ report) and spark a new generation of young problem-solvers.
Ultimately crafting and engineering a dynamic and fully scalable “Managed Solutions as a Service” core offer. This ideally is my forte in IT — How to manage the service, and promising continuity of the service and also, an alien idea, offering training with the end-users on how to easily tap into perceivably complex services such as Business Intelligence and Analytics — which as the paradigm states, was only privy to the C-Levels on the on top floor.
Power is shifting and as you are aware this is evidently a new era/error, and this surely must compel a new solution.
There are many obstacles and summits that I identify critical to my own personal development as a human — outside of my Office 365. I am captivated by Machine Learning and Bot services, even cognitive awareness and how this allows us to have more empathy over tough mediums such as email or VoIP, or even, the dreaded dial-in conferences.
Still, haven’t figured that one out (I thought I was safely ‘conferenced’ with my Lync solution — It seems what applies for me does not apply for my peers)
PS. I’m taking a liking to meet.jit.si
Ultimately I aspire to be a broad-spectrum solutions architect from the smaller scale independent inventors, to the nationwide service providers, to even the global corporations such as the likes of Microsoft or even, Alphabet Inc.
Personally, I have my sights set on Jelly industries, the makers of a new kind of search engine. Truly a start-up of this breed and calibre is matched perfectly for the curious dynamic of a knowledge-starved youth.
Who, are in most cases, misled by their social media timelines.
Something has to shift.
☮ = ☯➡✌➡ 💫➡🎶➡🚀➡💸➡🌈➡💕➡🦄
My Ambitions and Objectives (Q4, 2016)
- To develop my proprietary and open-source systems engineering skills for SMEs and Enterprises in the cloud sector for EMEA.
- To work on Cloud migration (or the development of born-in-the-cloud) projects.
- Improve and perfect my end-user customer support techniques and practices.
- Be an integral part of a team — working interdependently towards common goals.
- Keep abreast of ‘new-tech’ data structures and test environments.
- Understanding the business logic and architectures of managed services and solutions.
- Provide mentoring, training, documentation and tools to other professionals in my industry and to be actively involved in the communities that provide the same to me.
- Develop skills to accurately analyse and interpret data in line with customer/business needs to enable a bias for action.
- Manage inter-team collaboration, understand the dependencies and activities in the various business units, and develop an effective communication model.
Globally zoning Africa since 2020
…that’s the goal, for hyper-scale public infrastructure to empower a sky-driven vista of a tomorrow continuously starting-up the future and then — with enough ‘climate’ change — even capitalise the A in EMEA.
Matt Jude ✌
Aspiring Solutions Architect
