[Post Event] ITDays - Cluj-Napoca, November 2019

On November 12th and 13th I attended ITDays conference. At ITDays I was invited to speak about

how we can reinvent the IT using Microsoft Azure and what is the future of cloud - Cloud as a Service how I like to call it. You can find more about my sessions, including the slides at the end of my post.

It was the 7th edition of ITDays, where there were more than 80 sessions on 4 different tracks. The topics presented during the event were from different domains and industry from IoT & cloud to security and programming art.

ITDays it's a good place where you can see what are the current trends of IT in the world and what is happening in Cluj-Napoca from this point of view.

Title: CaaS - Cloud as a Service

Abstract: Working with the cloud is not a big thing anymore; it is just another place where you can run your workload. Have you ever ask yourself what does the future prepare for us? Join this session if you want to discover how cloud is transforming the way how we do business and how the cloud might look like in the next 5 years.

Slides:

CaaS - Cloud as a Service from Radu Vunvulea

Title: Reinvent the IT with Azure
Abstract: In this session, we show how the new features provided by Azure change the way how we do business and help us to reinvent the way how we design, develop, deploy and do application management. We start from a real life solution and show how different Azure services improved the way of doing day to day business from client and IT Services point of view.
Slides:

Reinvent the IT with azure from Radu Vunvulea

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