Books in 2017: Part 2
Sunday, January 7, 2018 at 9:01AM Gazettabyte has asked various industry executives to discuss the books they read in 2017. Here, Infinera's Dave Welch and Deutche Telekom's Yuriy Babenko provide their highlights.
Dave Welch, founder and chief strategy and technology officer at Infinera
One favourite book read this year was Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow. Great history about the makings of the US government and financial systems as well as a great biography. Another is The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wonderful discussion about the science and history of genetics.
Yuriy Babenko, senior expert NGN, Deutsche Telekom
As part of my reading in 2017 I selected two technical books, one general life/ philosophy title and one strategy book.
Today’s internet infrastructure design is hardly possible without what we refer to as the cloud. Cloud is a very general term but I really like the definition of NIST: Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.
