Hey guys, Danny again. I’m loving reading the responses to Steven’s research in China. Thanks this is a great board!
I’m a true believer in the future of enterprise software and cloud computing. I finished an internship with Nationwide last summer and it seems like every company is desperate to transition to cloud. Nationwide sure was desperate and made every attempt to try and convince me and my peers that they were parting from silos of data and moving forward to advanced cloud for the whole company. Easier said than done. No offense to companies like Nationwide (it was a great summer and I learned a lot) but they are transitioning rather inefficiently, putting ad hoc teams of data scientists to try and piece it all together. There’s got to be a better, cheaper, and more efficient way to do this.
I just started checking out Nutanix, which seems to be a favorite on this board. Since I’m not a coder I wanted to start with just understanding the basics. I know a little bit about VM Ware, Sharepoint, etc. but certainly not enough.
I found this video really helpful and easy to understand. It’s about Acropolis, which seems to be one of their flagship services. You guys probably all know about this but it’s a simple 5 minute video that makes a complicated industry easier to understand. The video was made in 2016 but it is still the first thing that pops up if you search Arcropolis on Nutanix’s website so I believe it is still relevant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=288&v=IKdzcw…
Thank you for the knowledge on Nutanix on this board. I think it’s a cool company and I look forward to owning a bit of it.
-Danny
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Danny,
This is off topic, but, it you are just starting out, I highly recommend CS 50 from Harvard. It is on EDx and it is free. It is tough, (I have not finished) but the production is the best I have seen on the internet.
You will not be “a coder” but you will he able to code. More importantly you will be familiar with Github and have used, (whether you realize it or not) Cloudera.
The very first week you will build a game with Scratch. Then you will learn C, yes the clunky hard to use C, then in the end Python and and maybe Swift.
This is supposed to be a 13 week course. I would allow 26 weeks and plan on giving up TV, drinking, and pretty much all social life until you are done. You learn that much, that fast.
Cheers
Qazulight (Did I
mention it was free?)
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Qazulight:
what is the name of the course? I search for Harvard CS 50 on EDX but could not find it.
tj
Hey great advice I’ll check it out for sure!
No offense to companies like Nationwide (it was a great summer and I learned a lot) but they are transitioning rather inefficiently, putting ad hoc teams of data scientists to try and piece it all together. There’s got to be a better, cheaper, and more efficient way to do this.
This reminds me about the story of the car mechanic working on the expensive car owned by a doctor.
It goes something like this:
The mechanic explained the bill and how he fixed the car…had to scan the engine codes, disconnect the battery, blah blah. And the doctor couldn’t believe how expensive it was. It was just a check engine light.
The mechanic said that it was hard work and he got his hands dirty working on real mechanical stuff.
The doctor asked if the mechanic left the car running while he fixed it. Of course, “no!”
The doctor said he was a heart surgeon…I keep the patient alive with the heart beating while I do the repair work.
The point being…and I know nothing about Nationwide…it may seem very inefficient…but they do have to keep the company running while they convert to the cloud.
Mike
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The doctor said he was a heart surgeon…I keep the patient alive with the heart beating while I do the repair work.
That would be funnier if it was true but it’s almost never true. Cardiac arrest is induced with cardioplegia to stop the heart during cardiac surgery. Makes it a lot easier to work. Now if you were an interventional cardiologist like myself… we do the work while it’s beating… just saying. 
MC
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Catheters and balloons are not the same as a scalpel, needle and suture!
Gator
(General surgeon, probably not qualified to speak)
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