Chris is an avid golfer and is in to heavy metal music, although you would probably never guess it. He is an expert in all aspects of virtualization and has extensive experience in small to enterprise level environments. As GreenPages’ VP of Consulting and Integration, Chris is responsible for overseeing pre sales technical activities, vendor relationships and selection, and post sales delivery. Chris’ technical career began as a field consultant specializing in Novell and Microsoft technologies. He was introduced to the concept of virtualization in 2002 and has been focused on that space ever since. Chris was one of the first to deploy a virtualized desktop environment on top of VMware in 2004, before the VDI acronym even existed. In 2006, Chris began his career at GreenPages and at the same time moved into more of a pre-sales technical consultant as part of the Solution Architecture team focused on the quickly growing virtualization space. In 2008, he was promoted to Director of the Solution Architecture group managing a talented group of pre sales architects across a broad range of technical specialties including virtualization, server based computing, networking, data management, security, and collaboration. Chris currently holds a broad range of industry certifications including VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Datacenter Design (VCAP-DCD), Citrix Certified Enterprise Engineer (CCEE), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), and Master Novell Certified Engineer (MCNE)
Recent Posts
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Miscellaneous IT
A Deep Dive Preview of Windows 8
I took the plunge over this past week and decided I would check out the Windows 8 customer preview. Now one would think that I would simply spin it up in a VM given my background in the virtualization space but that would have…Read More »
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Cloud Computing
To Converge or Not to Converge, That Is the Question
One of the largest growth areas in the datacenter throughout 2011 has been the concept of a Converged Infrastructure, and everyone wants a piece of the pie including HP, IBM, Dell, and VCE (the VMware, Cisco, EMC alliance). All of these manufacturers will tell…Read More »
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Virtualization
Thin on Thin Provisioning – Good Idea or Recipe for Disaster?
I was part of a panel at a recent GreenPages event and a question was asked by the audience regarding best practices for thin provisioning in a virtual environment. More specifically, the question was, what is the best practice regarding thin on thin storage…Read More »
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Cloud Computing
A View from 30,000 Feet: What Does the Cloud Really Mean?
I wrote this post on a flight back from Colorado (hence the title). It seemed only fitting that, being up above the clouds myself, I should write my next Journey to the Cloud blog post. I started thinking back a couple of weeks ago, when GreenPages held its annual Technology Summit in Portsmouth, NH. The…Read More »
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Cloud Computing
VMware Partner Technical Advisory Board (PTAB) Post Meeting Update
Finally back from the PTAB meeting in Palo Alto at the mother ship. Great meeting, but I’m not a huge fan of 6 hour flights each way. There were several great discussions over the two day meeting including, of course, a very robust discussion on…Read More »
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Virtualization
VMware Announces New vSphere 5.0: Exciting Features…Confusing Licensing?
Yesterday VMware announced several new products, including vSphere 5, which has several new and exciting features, such as enhanced 3D graphics and disk I/O optimization for VDI environments. It also has a VSA virtual storage appliance which allows one to build a fault tolerant virtual…Read More »
