HDE Advent Calendar 2016

“one day - one person - one blog post”, from December 1st - 25th

HDE Advent Calendar Day 25: The impressive things in the world through my business trip!

Hi, there! I'm Shota Kawaminami works for HDE, Inc. as an Executive officer in charge of the Microsoft Business and the Global business. I'm the last guy of HDE Advent Calendar of 2016! Let's get start the Day 25, so, and Merry Christmas, …

HDE Advent Calendar Day 24: My Adventure in Japan part 2

Hello everyone! I am Sunny who started to work in HDE recently. Just kidding. I mean starting to work in HDE Taiwan. HDE Taiwan is same as HDE in Japan, providing value added cloud security to the companies who are using Office 365/ G Suit…

HDE Advent Calendar Day 23: Engadget the company

chromecasting: supermariorun.com - We love Mario! ▲ Merry Friday! ▲Thank God, it's Friday. And also it's a national holiday today in Japan: the Emperor's Birthday, OMG! oops.. OME(mperor)! TEIF! I'm Haruo AMANO, Executive Officer, HDE, Inc…

HDE Advent Calendar Day 22: Baseball

Hi, I'm Yoshiki Nagatome, Executive vice president in charge of sales and marketing management in HDE. What skill have you improved in this year? As you may study a lot in business, for me the most improved skill is "baseball". Because I h…

HDE Advent Calendar Day 21: Skiing/ Snowboarding in Japan - Why I Urge You to Go This Season

Hi I'm Rima, translator at HDE Support Team and I heart snowboarding. I'd like to encourage you to go skiing/ snowboarding this season as I think it is one of the best ways to spend winter in Japan. Due to the La Niña effect, 2017 winter i…

HDE Advent Calendar Day 20: WinterはCapybaraとOnsen Zanmai

Hi, I’m Tanabe, working as a Software Engineer at HDE. I wrote the advent calendar blog second times and this is the third time for me. 2014: Go and AWS 2015: Let’s Encrypt and Go If you are interested in those topic, please check it out. …

HDE Advent Calendar Day 19: My first salary was 70,000yen.

Last month, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of our company. In the small anniversary party, I recalled our young days. I guess many of the Japanese fellows have heard about the stories of our early stage, even just bits and pieces, but …

HDE Advent Calendar Day 18: How I Suck At Japanese And How I Will Overcome It

Hello! My name is Yuri and unlike my name, I'm 0% Japanese and 100% Indonesian. I've been living in Japan back and forth since October 2014 for two internships (including HDE) before I was hired for a full-time job and moved for good on Au…

HDE Advent Calendar Day 17:My reccomend Application

introduction Hello everyone, my name is Yuta Onari. Sorry for my posting being late... Before my start, maybe only few of you guys know about me, so let me shortly introduce myself. It passed about 3 years after I joined HDE.(so fast!) Now…

HDE Advent Calendar Day 16: The HDE Gaming Awards

Ah, the holidays, a time to sit down and spend time doing nothing but playing games with family. On second thought, perhaps it's the former for some os us. If there's one word that I would use to summarize 2016, it would be "surprising" es…

HDE Advent Calendar Day 15: Protecting personally identifiable information on cloud service: ISO/IEC 27018

Hi, I'm Tassy. I'd like to talk about ISO/IEC 27018 that is international certificate of security for cloud service. It's very honorable to us, so I'll talk the detail of the certificate. In particular, ISO/IEC 27018 is based on ISO/IEC 27…

HDE Advent Calendar Day 14: Go by motorhome! The seven-day trip to the Canadian Rockies!

Hi, everyone! Here comes the 14th day of HDE Advent Calendar!I am Akane of the Finance Section in the Business Administration Division. (Do you remember the 4th post written by Akane-chan? In our company HDE, there are 2 Akane, "茜" and "…

HDE Advent Calendar Day 13: The Best (and Worst) Pizza in Japan

Have you ever eaten pizza in Japan? As an American like me it can be pretty strange. It’s as if someone had pizza once and then told a Japanese person what it was like. Then that second person decided to open Japan’s first pizza restaurant…

HDE Advent Calendar Day 12: My favorite thing ~Why am I in Tokyo Dome~

Hi! This is the 12th day of "HDE Advent Calendar", and my name is Imaizumi from Japan.I'm afraid my expressions may be rude or hard to read, because I'm not so good at English. But please, please, please be patient! I will try hard to writ…

HDE Advent Calendar Day 11: Travelling Slow

Hi, I'm Jonas Obrist, from Switzerland and currently working as a Software Engineer at HDE. I had quite some trouble to decide the topic for this blog post, going back and forth between technical and non-technical issues, but finally I err…

HDE Advent Calendar Day 10: Angklung at a Glance

Hi there, dear reader! Bumi here, a member of the Cloud Product Development Division in this lovely home we call HDE. Today I’m going to introduce you to something that has become my passion for the past 9-ish years of my life. It is a tra…

HDE Advent Calendar Day 9: My Japanese Weight Loss Story

Hello, everyone! I'm Bagus Rahman Aryabima from Indonesia. I'm currently working as a DevOps Engineer in Cloud Product Development Team. Last year, I also wrote a blog article for HDE Advent Calendar. In the article, I tried to explain a l…

HDE Advent Calendar Day 8: How does QR code Work?

Hi! This is Ted, a new member and just spent my first week at HDE. Although I really want to write about my experience here in Japan since I have always wanted to come here ever since I started watching animes in high school, but I think t…

HDE Advent Calendar Day 7: The Last of Its Kind - The Battleship Mikasa

Hi Everyone! This is the 7th day of our HDE Advent Calendar, and my name is Jeffrey Lonan, currently working as a DevOps Engineer in our Cloud Product Development team. As I have an interest in history, I decided on writing about my trip t…

HDE Advent Calendar Day 6: No Event No Life - Events in HDE

Alola everyone, welcome to the 6th-day installment of HDE Advent Calendar! I am Iskandar Setiadi from Indonesia and I am currently working as an engineer in the Cloud Product Development team here. I’ve also participated in the last year a…

HDE Advent Calendar Day 5: Beautiful Japan through the Lens of My Camera

My name is Kenny Lock. I am a proud member of the HDE family and I love taking photos. With the capabilities of the technology today, people from all around the world are able to share photos to social media, blogs, forums and other sites …

HDE Advent Calendar Day 4: こたつ コタツ 炬燵 Kotatsu

Hello, I'm Akane, working as an Internal IT manager. (Please note that there are 2 Akane, 茜子 and 茜. I'm the latter.) It's already cold winter. Happily, a Kotatsu (こたつ/炬燵) has just arrived in our office. (Every winter, Kotatsu comes…

HDE Advent Calendar Day 3: A Digital Tour of London

Hello everyone! This is Alice, an intern in the Cloud Product Development team. I’ve been living in London for the past 4 years so I thought I’d take you all on a digital tour of my favourite parts of the city... First up: The Barbican. Mo…

HDE Advent Calendar Day 2: David's guide on surviving 2016's Winter

I'm David from Colombia, an intern working on the Cloud Development Team. Ah December a kind reminder that the year is over, winterish weather, grey skies, and holidays.Lots of holidays, and family time, so here is my personal recommendati…

HDE Advent Calendar Day 1: Adopting English As An Official Language (A Real Story)

Howdy everyone! I'm Richie Ogura, CEO/CTO of HDE, Inc. This is the first post of HDE Advent Calendar 2016, on which HDE members do “one day - one person - one blog”, from December 1st - 25th. Background 3 years ago, we decided to start hir…