In the Clouds ...

  Gilles Chekroun
 Lead VMware Cloud on AWS Solutions Architect and CTO Ambassador --- After a year of many challenges, may 2021 bring you and your loved ones a lot of joy and happiness.  Thanks to my Customers and Partners that motivate me with new challenges. This blog is for you all. Thanks to my Team and Colleagues for referring this blog so often internally and externally. And last but not least, thanks to all my readers !! One year we just want to forget My  last day in the  office was on March 10 having a meeting with a large organisation. Since then it was working from home like many of us. I am so lucky to work for a company like  VMware that gave us all the tools and flexibility to work from anywhere. Commuting from home to work My commuting resumes itself to 13 stairs from my home office in the first floor to the living room downstairs. I found myself working much more hours. Difficult to "switch" from work to home.  Nobody likes traffic jams but I found myself mis

  Gilles Chekroun
 Lead VMware Cloud on AWS Solutions Architect --- Got a nice surprise in my mailbox today announcing my nomination to the CTO Ambassador program: I am super happy about that. It is a great recognition from VMware and a very special program. I want to thank everyone that helped me and pushed me to achieve this and in particular: Nico Vibert , my buddy who reviewed my application deeply and insisted to talk about my Cisco career.  Roberto Canton , that gave me the most important directions on what to include in my application. Katherine Lightner , for the continuous support she gives to me and to her team. The success of a manager is the success of the team. What is the CTO Ambassador program? The CTO Ambassador program is run by the VMware Office of the CTO.  The CTO Ambassadors are members of a small group of our most experienced and talented customer facing, individual contributor technologists.  They are pre-sales systems engineers (SEs), technical account managers