A few months back Mark Brunstad, former Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX) Program manager moved on to another role at Nutanix and the Chris Skinner is now the the new NPX Program Manager. I’m very glad Chris had the time to answer almost the same questions as Mark and below you’ll find the answers. Name: Chris Skinner Employer: Nutanix …
Category Archive: NPX
Meet NPX 008 – Rene Van Den Bedem
Name: Rene Van Den Bedem NPX Number: 008 Employer: Saudi Telecom Company Blog URL: http://vcdx133.com Twitter: @vcdx133 Virtualisation background: vSphere 4.0 to 6.0, with just over 6 years in the virtualisation space. Storage Background: IBM DS8800, IBM SVC, IBM Storwize V7000, HDS USP-100, EMC Symmetrix VMAX20K & XtremeIO, with just over 6 years in the storage space. …
Meet NPX 005 – Magnus Andersson
This feels a bit weird but i have talked to the mirror and asked myself the same questions i have asked my fellow NPX colleagues. So this is my interview with myself:) Name: Magnus Andersson NPX Number: 005 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: http://magander.se Twitter: @magander3 Virtualisation background: Started back in the days playing with VMware workstation and continued …
Meet NPX Program Manager – Mark Brunstad
I’m very excited that the Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX) Program manager Mark Brunstad had some time to share his thoughts about the NPX program. The questions for Mark will obviously not be the exact same once as for the NPXs but i think you’ll find some really good, interesting and valuable information in this interview. Name: …
Apply for Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) 2016
Last year Nutanix accounted the Nutanix Technical Champion (NTC) program which i blogged about here. Today i received a message that the applications for 2016 are open so if you’re a Nutanix expert that constantly contribute to the community you should apply via this link for NTC before October 26 2015. The following are some …
Meet NPX 007 – Michael Webster
Name: Michael Webster NPX Number: 007 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: http://longwhiteclouds.com Twitter: @vcdxnz001 and @WebScale007 Virtualisation background: 15 years of virtualizing business critical applications and Unix to x86 migrations. VMware since workstation beta. Specialty in Monster VM’s. Mainly in large enterprise environments. Storage Background: I’ve designed and implemented storage solutions from most of the main vendors including IBM, …
Meet NPX 006 – Bas Raayman
Name: Bas Raayman NPX Number: 006 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: http://basraayman.com Twitter: @basraayman Virtualisation background: Started with virtualization while still working at SAP. Worked with VMware, Solaris Zones and the likes, then kicked the VMware stuff into a different gear when I started my job as a vSpecialist at EMC, and obviously while working at Nutanix. Storage …
Nutanix @ VMworld in San Francisco 2015
It’s about a week before this years VMworld event (30 August – 3 September) held in San Fransisco at Moscone Center. Nutanix will be at the solutions exchange as an event Gold sponsor. This gives you a great opportunity to step by our booth #1729 to meet some excellent Nutanix representatives and discuss pretty much anything regarding our …
Meet NPX 004 – Samir Roshan
Name: Samir Roshan NPX Number: 004 Employer: Nutanix Inc Blog URL: thinkingloudoncloud.com Twitter: @kooltechies Virtualisation background: 10+ years of virtualisation experience Storage Background: Storage has been a continuous part of my journey in the virtualisation world sometimes mainstream some times not. I will say close to ~5 years overall. Hyper Converged Infrastructure background: Since my …
Meet NPX 003 – Jonathan Kohler
Name: Jonathan Kohler NPX Number: 003 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: vdoogle.wordpress.com Twitter: @JonKohler Virtualisation background: Health Care – Mission/Life Critical app BCA virtualization, and DC/Infra consulting. Storage Background: Multi-PB EMC environments, NetApp, EqualLogic Hyper Converged Infrastructure background: Nutanix XCP Future of HCI and other emerging technologies: Good question, I don’t have a crystal ball, but I …
Meet NPX 002 – Lane Leverett
Name: Lane Leverett NPX Number: 002 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: N/A Twitter: @wolfbrthr Virtualisation background: I’ve been doing virtualization solutions since 2006 and ESX 2.5. Primarily focused around server virtualization and VDI solutions and designs with various VARs. Storage Background: Storage has been focused primarily to support virtualization requirements with solutions like EMC, NetApp, …
Meet NPX 001 – Josh Odgers
Name: Josh Odgers NPX Number: 001 Employer: Nutanix Blog URL: http://www.joshodgers.com Twitter: @josh_odgers Virtualisation background: Working with VMware as a focus since ~2006 Storage Background: Shared storage experience with a wide range of technologies from EMC, Netapp, IBM, HP since early 2000s with a more NAS focus since 2010. Hyper Converged Infrastructure background: Started working with …
My Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX) journey
A few months ago i wrote a blog post about the announcement of the Nutanix Platform Expert certification (NPX) which can be found here. For those of you following my blog and knows me are aware of that i have been focusing on one single hypervisor and solutions related to that software vendor the past …