I'm a Senior IT Architect based in Schwaikheim near Stuttgart, Germany.

My virtualization journey started 1999 as I tried a beta of a product which later became VMware Workstation. It was the beginning of x86 virtualization.  With version 2.5 of ESX VMware became one of my main focus areas. Other areas of interest are LINUX and all basic datacenter technologies like storage, networking and server.

At the end of 2007 I discovered the next new thing: Desktop Virtualization aka VMware View. I have done many special use case deployments in the public sector.

During the last few years I concentrate on architecting large scale virtualization infrastructures which are nowadays called "Cloud".

I joined VMware in October 2013 and I'm still overwhelmed by the sheer number of exiting new technologies: vCAC, vSAN, Log Insight, vCHS, Horizon DaaS ...