NetApp Singapore, 22-26 Feb 2016

BIS student year 2016 and 2018 – accompanied by Mr. Antonius Kurniawan went to visit Singapore  NetApp, Google and Global Knowledge. Day 1, as soon as we arrived in Singapore, we went for our first activity which was rock climbing in the Grand Central. We enjoyed activities such as rock climbing and team building as well

Day 2 – NetApp + Google

Day 2, we started it at the NetApp office. After having an introductory session on NetApp culture and the working environment in Singapore, as well we had latest technology update from NetApp.

Within this session, the students had real experience in visiting NetApp Data Center. They as well had a competition session around NetApp technology and its implementation in the real world.

After the Technology session, we had lunch at the NetApp office lounge. Lucky for us, we met the Vice President & Managing Director of NetApp East Asia Mr. Krishna Arani. We had chance for a meet and greet session, as well as an informal Q&A session after lunch.

In Google we had a chance to see their office, and a very exiting and unorthodox working culture. They have snacks and food in almost every room, games room, vending machines, and even cozy beds.

This was not in a hotel or some buffet restaurant, Google has a lot of cafeteria almost in every floor, they try to create a lot of free working space to foster the innovation, so not only using one office area but the employee can work across the public space and can collaborate with other peers in the entire Google office area.

Day 3 – The Case Solving

In Day 3, we get some chance to go to Global Knowledge and get the multi device integration hardware from various vendor, and we also get some chance to go to Global Knowledge Data Center and try some hot-swap feature in their Data Center. We also meet with Mr. Eric Tay, Vice-President of Global Knowledge and he give us some welcoming speech about the trend in cloud technology.

Mr. Khor Hee Soo, CTO of Global Knowledge accompanied and gave us some tour to their data center and technology update in the are of Cloud System and Data Fabric implementation

After Global Knowledge office, we went back to NetApp and had another Technology update from FastLane consulting while did some case solving activities. The students were act as consultants of the cutting edge technology, and they were requested to create solutions based on some Cloud Technology advancements.

Closing Session

In the final session, we had a closing ceremony and MVP awarding event, two of our students awarded as MVP in this session.

After we enjoyed the technology update, at the final day we went to USS and enjoy our free and easy time before went back to Jakarta.