Benki Chendu (1/30/2013)
How would I be able to transition myself from a DBA to a cloud computing expert?
Depending on your definition of "cloud computing expert" you might be asking how to transition from being a DBA to either be a "sytems administrator specialized in cloud" or be a "cloud computing consultant".
On the first case, your previous experience as DBA will add nothing to your new career path while on the second case your previous live as a DBA will add some value but, you will have to add a lot of skills to it, basically the skills of a solutions architect.
Hope this clarifies.
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Pablo (Paul) Berzukov
Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.
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