How to Start in IT in 2020, No Experience
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@PhlipElder said in How to Start in IT in 2020, No Experience:
This may help: https://blog.mpecsinc.com/2019/06/19/i-want-to-get-started-in-it-in-a-cloud-first-world-what-do-i-do/
Yeah I agree with you overall in the What to learn in the cloud area, but I wouldn't just silo on Microsoft technologies. In the early 2000s nearly everyone built their network around Microsoft services like Active Directory, but we are seeing less and less of this going forward.
Microsoft is a major cloud player, but not even the biggest one. All their core cloud services are also offered by their competitors. So there will be less vendor lock in then the days of old.
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@IRJ said in How to Start in IT in 2020, No Experience:
@PhlipElder said in How to Start in IT in 2020, No Experience:
This may help: https://blog.mpecsinc.com/2019/06/19/i-want-to-get-started-in-it-in-a-cloud-first-world-what-do-i-do/
Yeah I agree with you overall in the What to learn in the cloud area, but I wouldn't just silo on Microsoft technologies. In the early 2000s nearly everyone built their network around Microsoft services like Active Directory, but we are seeing less and less of this going forward.
Microsoft is a major cloud player, but not even the biggest one. All their core cloud services are also offered by their competitors. So there will be less vendor lock in then the days of old.
I find Vendor lock-in is even worse once we get beyond running virtual machines in the public cloud. VMs are portable.
Apps and Services running in a cloud environment are tailored to that environment. Not so sure they'd be easy to move from one vendor to another.
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@IRJ said in How to Start in IT in 2020, No Experience:
@PhlipElder said in How to Start in IT in 2020, No Experience:
This may help: https://blog.mpecsinc.com/2019/06/19/i-want-to-get-started-in-it-in-a-cloud-first-world-what-do-i-do/
Yeah I agree with you overall in the What to learn in the cloud area, but I wouldn't just silo on Microsoft technologies. In the early 2000s nearly everyone built their network around Microsoft services like Active Directory, but we are seeing less and less of this going forward.
Microsoft is a major cloud player, but not even the biggest one. All their core cloud services are also offered by their competitors. So there will be less vendor lock in then the days of old.
I think you should stick to one vendor in the beginning to learn it well, whether it's AWS or Microsoft it doesn't matter. Once you finish a good learning path, such as one the certs cover so you can be sure you're exposed to enough of it in a pretty good way to start, then you branch out to others. Otherwise, it will take too long.
Myself as an example, I learned about and how to use a lot of Azure, and that by far made it super simple to pick up AWS and GCP. Personally, I feel there are some things Azure does better and more of, and some with AWS I like more. It's also good to know that no place is solely one or the other. Every place I've experienced is using at least Onprem + 2 cloud providers. But I do know there are some cloud only, but still at least 2 cloud providers. If you find somewhere only using one, you don't want to work there.
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@PhlipElder said in How to Start in IT in 2020, No Experience:
@IRJ said in How to Start in IT in 2020, No Experience:
@PhlipElder said in How to Start in IT in 2020, No Experience:
This may help: https://blog.mpecsinc.com/2019/06/19/i-want-to-get-started-in-it-in-a-cloud-first-world-what-do-i-do/
Yeah I agree with you overall in the What to learn in the cloud area, but I wouldn't just silo on Microsoft technologies. In the early 2000s nearly everyone built their network around Microsoft services like Active Directory, but we are seeing less and less of this going forward.
Microsoft is a major cloud player, but not even the biggest one. All their core cloud services are also offered by their competitors. So there will be less vendor lock in then the days of old.
Apps and Services running in a cloud environment are tailored to that environment. Not so sure they'd be easy to move from one vendor to another.
Nope, that's not the case . It's easy to transition from cloud to cloud if done right. For example if you build your infrastructure using terraform, you can deploy on AWS, Azure, Google, libvirt, VMware, etc with only minor changes.
Infrastructure wise Azure, AWS, and GCP are very similar. Sometimes as @Obsolesce mentioned one service may be better or more affordable with a different cloud service provider
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@PhlipElder i do agree there are some areas where MS is clear front runner like Office 365, but as far as infrastructure all major CSPs offer same services. It's on the SaaS side where there are some differences
