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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

To reach those goals, Shell in 2010 began using AWS. By offloading the task of managing infrastructure to AWS Essent is able to spend more time on innovating on behalf of their customers to help them in their energy usage. Europe is a continent with much diversity and for each country there are great AWS customer examples to tell.

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Conserve or Invest?

The Agile Manager

The thing about any crisis is that there's an expectation that there will eventually be a recovery, no matter long it takes to reach bottom and regardless the shape the recovery takes: V-shaped rebound as happened in in 1953, W-shaped as in 1981-82, U-shaped as in 1973-75 and again in 2000-03, or L-shaped as in 2008-2010.

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Capitalizing Tech in a Cloud / SaaS / Continuous Delivery World

The Agile Manager

Around 2010, when US companies could count on a recovering domestic economy, a weak US dollar, and growing emerging market economies, CFOs didn't need to work that hard to flatter the income statement. First, Cloud, SaaS and BYOD change software and infrastructure from capital investments to rent expenses.

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