Jeroen Mulder - Multi-Cloud Architecture and Governance: Leverage Azure, AWS, GCP, and VMware vSphere to build effective multi-cloud solutions

Leverage Azure, AWS, GCP, and VMware vSphere to build effective multi-cloud solutions

Jeroen Mulder

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After studying journalism, Jeroen Mulder (born 1970) started his career as an editor for Dutch newspapers. In 2000, he joined the IT company Origin as a communication specialist in cross-media platforms. At (Atos) Origin and Atos, he fulfilled a variety of roles, most recently as a principal architect. Since 2017, he has been working for Fujitsu, where he boarded as senior lead architect. In 2020, he was promoted to the position of head of applications and multi-cloud services for Fujitsu in the Netherlands.

Jeroen is a certified enterprise and security architect, concentrating on cloud technology. This includes the architecture for cloud infrastructure, serverless and container technology, application development, and digital transformation using various DevOps methodologies and tools.

I want to thank my wonderful wife, Judith, for giving me the space and support Ive needed to write this book, even while the COVID-19 global pandemic was raging around us. Id also like to thank Fujitsu for granting me the opportunity and time to complete this journey. The whole Packt editing team has helped this first-time book author immensely, but Id like to give special thanks to Romy Dias, who edited most of my work.

Duane Morgan is a multi-cloud technical solutions architect with 15+ year's experience in infrastructure and has a passion for innovative next-gen, cloud-native architectures and emerging tech, such as blockchain, ML, and AI. He lives in the United States and has worked for multiple industries and tech consulting firms, including Accenture and Deloitte.

Duane began his career as a Linux administrator, and further incorporated networking, security, virtualization, and cloud computing infrastructure tech along the way, earning certification as a VMware advanced professional, AWS solutions architect, GCP professional architect, Cisco design professional, and checkpoint expert, as well as gaining blockchain certifications. Technologists in the cloud, digital, and emerging tech domains are welcome to connect with him on LinkedIn.

Chris Rasco has worked in nearly every facet of IT over his 20+ years in the field. He currently works for a leading global financial services firm, where he serves as one of the chief cloud architects. He also leads the technology team for the Atlanta-based vehicle history reporting start-up, VINwiki. Chris is passionate about all things technology and spends his free time working on various projects, advising other start-ups, and doing the occasional home renovation.

I would like to thank my wife, Lauren, and my children, Ethan and Evie, for their support.

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