Bob Plankers is a Cloud Infrastructure Security Architect focused on security and compliance, from on-premises traditional vSphere deployments all the way to the VMware Cloud. Prior to joining VMware he spent 23 years in IT operations, from support to developer to system engineer to manager, and understands the challenges organizations face in trying to lead IT towards simpler, secure, and more reliable systems. Bob is a speaker, writer, blogger, and photographer, both for VMware and on his own. If you dare, you can find him on Twitter at @plankers.

Chris McCain is a director in the Technologist group for Networking and Security at VMware.  Chris has over 22 years of experience in the world of information technology.  In addition to being a double VCDX in data center virtualization and network virtualization Chris has written several books on virtualization and infrastructure design.  In 2006 Chris wrote the first book on VMware, Mastering VMware Infrastructure 3, which helped begin the massive stampede to virtual machines.  His last book, Foundation in the Art of Infrastructure Design, was the #1 selling book at VMworld 2016 in Las Vegas, NV.  Chris’s next book will focuses on the changing roles of IT roles and responsibilities that have come as a result of the monumental shift in enterprise data center technologies and architectures.  As part of his mission at VMware Chris travels around the world talking to customers and partners about their vision and strategy for next generation data center design.  Chris is based in St Petersburg, FL where he lives with his wife and two sons.

Srinath is a Senior Director of Product Marketing for Dell APEX, as-a-Service and multicloud portfolio. He started his career in IT taking care of 24x7 mission-critical systems, UNIX and SAN. He designed data protection solutions to help customers achieve their RPO and RTO objectives. Srinath also has extensive experience in all-flash, scale-out file, block and object storage systems and lately he’s involved in helping build Cloud and as-a-service for Dell Technologies.

With over 20+ years of experience in the IT industry ranging from customer, VMware Solution Architect for a VAR, Solution Engineer and Solution Engineering Manager at VMware, he joined Oracle as a leader on the Oracle Cloud VMware Solution team last November.  Bryan’s team of engineers and architects helps simplify and accelerate their customer’s journey to the cloud by blending together the value of both Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and VMware.

Audrey Bian is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at VMware. She leads product marketing for Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, focused on messaging, product positioning and promotion, pricing, and go-to-market strategy and execution. Audrey has years of experience working as an enthusiastic marketer in the Cloud and Hyper Computing storage industries.

Edwin Weijdema is a Global Technologist for Veeam Software based in The Netherlands covering a global role within the Product Strategy team and part of the Office of the CTO. He serves as a partner and trusted adviser to customers and partners worldwide bridging business and technology. He has over 29 years of industry experience with a key focus on data management, availability and cyber security. He is a veteran vExpert, Cisco Champion and holds several other certifications. He is also a crew member and blogger at www.vmguru.com. Follow Edwin on Twitter @Viperian,  LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/eweijdema or @Veeam.

Glen has spent his entire 25-year career developing, selling, supporting, and marketing Information Technology, mostly in servers, storage, and data protection. In his current role, Glen specializes in product marketing for VMware vSphere, the most popular virtualization technology on the planet, and does everything he can to make the complex seem simple.

Puneet Chawla is a Senior Technologist for enterprise Networking and Advanced Security solutions. He works with many large and small customers in the finance, government, and service provider verticals, focusing on the NSX designs and multi-cloud strategy with the VMware Cloud on all hyperscalers.

Darin is a Product Line Marketing Manager responsible for Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations at VMware. Over his nearly 20 year IT career, Darin has worked within organizations as a customer, partner & vendor holding roles from Application Analyst, Implementation Engineer & Solutions Engineer/Architect.

Ryan Conley is based in San Francisco and brings 20 years of IT experience supporting some of the fastest growing tech companies in the Bay Area. Ryan started his career as an SE and is now a Staff Platform Architect for Modern Apps. Prior to VMware, Ryan brought 12 years of experience from finance, consulting, and education.

Justin started racking and stacking servers in 1999 and through that experience gained a true appreciation for engineered and curated solutions. He has spent time as an operator, administrator, sales engineer, and marketer across a number of datacenter technologies. Today he works at Dell Technologies Product Marketing focusing on VMware software defined hyperconverged solutions.

Tom Fenton works at ControlUp as a Technical Marketing manager where he creates content for their website and talks to IT professionals about ControlUp. Previously he worked in VMware's Education department as a Senior Course Developer and created VMware's first course on View. He also works as a columnist for StorageReview.com and Virtualization Review magazine. He has a wealth of hands-on IT experience gained over the past 20 years in a variety of technologies, with the past 15 years focused on virtualization and storage.  Tom was also a Senior Validation Engineer with The Taneja Group, where he headed their Validation Service Lab. He's on Twitter @vDoppler

Gus Chavira is the Alliance Director and Chief Architect for VMware Solutions at Dell. Gus has extensive experience and expertise on the VMware solutions and software stacks as well as in Enterprise virtualization, storage and enterprise data center design. Gus has worked in capacities of Sys Admin, DBA, Network and Storage Admin, Virtualization Practice Architect, Enterprise and Solutions Architect.

Pete Koehler is a Staff Technical Marketing Architect at VMware.  With a primary focus on vSAN, much of Pete's experience in infrastructure design and optimization came from hands-on experience as a Virtualization Architect for a software company, consultant and later as a field engineer for a VMware reseller, as well as a VMware partner.    Pete was a former VMUG leader as well.  You can find Pete's recent insights into challenges in the data center at  https://core.vmware.com/users/pete-koehler and on twitter at @vmpete.

Tom Gillis is the Senior Vice President/General Manager of the Network and Security Business Unit at VMware. Prior to joining VMware, Tom Gillis was CEO of Bracket Computing, a company he founded in December 2011. Before starting Bracket, Gillis was VP/GM of the Security Technology Group at Cisco Systems and VP of Marketing and part of the founding team of IronPort Systems which was acquired by Cisco in 2007.

Harsha Sanku is a Sr. Partner Solutions Architect with AWS specializing in VMware Cloud on AWS, AWS Outposts, and AWS Networking. He has been working with customers and strategic partners, helping them design and build secure, resilient, and scalable environments using hybrid cloud services that deliver a consistent experience from the cloud to on-premises and at the edge. He also works with various partner engineering and service teams to build roadmaps and drive service enhancements. He has been working in the IT industry in multiple roles since 2006.

Specializing in memory tiering and hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) John Hubbard’s charter at Intel includes pathfinding, architecting and evangelizing the best solutions on Intel architecture. Drawing on a wealth of knowledge from networking, storage, virtualization, database, software development and validation across 20 years, he is uniquely positioned with different points of view. John delights in dissecting the toughest problems and identifying the why and how environments operate. As a trusted advisor and technologist, he works to ensure that customers, partners, and end users receive the best possible experience.

Arvind Jagannath is a versatile product manager with 25+ years of architecture expertise in data storage, networking, virtualization, security, cloud, internet telephony, content acceleration and delivery technologies. He currently leads infrastructure and core platform enablement for vSphere, working across the VMware ecosystem of server, IO, and storage partners. He most recently drove platform product management at Cohesity and NetApp. Arvind has an MBA from the University of Chicago, Booth school of Business and a Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering.

Sudhir Balasubramanian is a Senior Staff Solutions Architect & Global Practice Lead - Oracle Technologies , specializing in all Oracle technologies on the VMware SDDC stack. Prior to joining VMware in 2012 , Sudhir has over 25 years experience as a Principal Oracle Database Administrator (DBA) / Architect in Oracle Technologies for fortune 100 companies including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) , Sony Electronics, Epsilon Marketing (Aspen/Newgen), Teletech Corp, SAIC, Active Network and Sempra Energy Holdings. Sudhir co-authored the book, "Virtualizing Oracle Business Critical Databases on VMware SDDC” which is a comprehensive authority for Oracle DBA ’s on the subject of Oracle & Linux on vSphere (tinyurl.com/oracle-on-vmware-book). Sudhir holds a Master of Computer Science from San Diego State University (SDSU) graduating in 2011 and a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science Engineering from Bangalore University. Follow Sudhir @vracdba.

Anthony Dutra is a Technical Marketing Manager (TME) at Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Company who specializes in containerization, designing microservices in the public cloud, and architecting blockchain applications. For the past decade, Anthony has leveraged his Master’s in IT Management to become a trusted technical partner for many organizations.

Brandon Gordon is a Staff Technical Marketing Architect for VMware’s Cloud Management Business Unit focusing on vRealize Operations. As a former customer, Brandon has been using vRealize Operations since the days when it dawned the name Integrien Alive.

Taka Uenishi is Group Product Line Marketing Manager with the VMware Modern Apps and Management Business Group. He has been with VMware since 2012 and focuses on multi-cloud management platform. Prior to joining VMware, Taka was a management consultant.

Jason is the Core Storage Technical Marketing Architect at VMware. Before joining VMware, he came from one of the largest flash and memory manufacturers in the world. There he architected and lead global teams in virtualization strategies for IT. Now his primary focus is vVols and core storage.

Darin Schmitz is a Technical Marketing Architect at VMware currently focused on Google Cloud VMware Engine. From previous roles, he has experience with multiple disciplines in the information technology industry, most notably within enterprise storage and cloud computing.

Marcos Hernandez is a Customer Engineer with the Datacenter Transformation Team at Google Cloud. His responsibilities include supporting the most strategic North-American accounts. Previously, Marcos held senior technical roles at VMware and Cisco. Marcos has a background in datacenter networking design and expert knowledge in routing and switching technologies. Marcos holds CCIE certification #8283, a VCIX and a Masters Degree in Telecommunications from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

Ben has been encouraging people to achieve better outcomes from software projects his entire working life. He's accomplished this through listening, learning, and leading teams in organizations spanning multiple countries, industries, and sectors. As a Pivotal alumn, his thought leadership on strategy, direction, diversity, and inclusion has proven invaluable to the companies and people he works with.

Myles is a Staff Technical Marketing Architect for VMware, he focuses primarily on the developer experience on vSphere. He blogs on architecture and emerging technologies at https://blah.cloud and you can find him on Twitter: @mylesagray

Carlos is a Senior Technical Marketing Architect at VMware. With a primary focus on VMware Data Services, Carlos covers topics such as data analytics, modernization of data operations, hybrid data platforms, and integration with third-party products.

Jay Thontakudi is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at VMware focusing on SASE and AIOps solution. Jay has over 20 years’ experience in Product Management working with major Enterprise, Service Provider and Data Center customers to design and deploy next generation network infrastructures.

Jay has been successful in taking products to market from incubation to market adoption to achieve $B run rate. Products include workload automation solution to provision networking and storage systems, Operational Assurance for software defined data center networks, SDN solution for Service Provider WAN networks, Next Generation Routing and Switching Systems for Enterprise, Service Providers and Data Center customers.

Jatin Purohit is a Sr. Technical Marketing Manager at VMware. Jatin brings eight years of industry experience. Jatin is part of the Technical Marketing team and looking into Oracle Cloud VMware Solution in the current role. Twitter: @jatinpurohit92

Scott is Technical Marketing Manager for Tanzu Observability by Wavefront. Before joining VMware, Scott led dev and ops teams in the telecommunications and automotive industries and most recently was a Sales Engineer in the APM space. When not thinking about Observability, Scott enjoys learning new technology, cycling, and improving his trombone skills.

Rick is a Staff End User Computing Architect where he develops videos, whitepapers and other technical assets for VMware's EUC Technical Marketing team. He is a regular speaker at the conference formerly known as "VMworld" on different topics. Prior to VMware, he had different roles at NetIQ, at Appetizers And, Inc. and at Arthur Andersen.

Cato Grace has been a passionate user of VMware technology since 2006. He has worked for VMware in Technical Marketing since 2013, focused on Availability solutions, specifically DRaaS both VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery and VMware Site Recovery for VMware Cloud on AWS, Site Recovery Manager and vSphere. Prior to VMware, Cato spent time as both a customer and VMware partner.

Mike is a Sr Technical Marketing Architect at VMware. As part of his work within the Technical Marketing team, he is currently covering cloud infrastructure and disaster recovery solutions.

Before coming to VMware, Mike worked in Technical Marketing and Solutions in the Office of the CTO at Datrium as well as similar roles within the storage industry at other companies such as Nimble Storage, Data Domain, EMC, and Veritas.

Mike’s focus has been working in the early stage efforts of companies introducing new innovative technologies. These technologies have covered a broad range of IT infrastructure areas such as virtualization, data protection and disaster recovery, hybrid storage and, now multi cloud architectures