Bringing more than 20 years of technology experience to his role, Jason Lochhead joined VMware in 2012, and is responsible for integrating VMware technologies in to the EVO SDDC platform. Before joining the EVO SDDC team, he led the architecture team for vCloud Hybrid Service. Prior to VMware, Lochhead worked at Terremark for 4 years where he served as Chief Technology Officer. At Terremark, he was responsible for the overall technology strategy of the cloud business unit, including the selection of software and hardware technologies, as well as the internal development of supporting software. He also spent 11 years at Data Return, where he was a founder and CTO. At Data Return he provided overall technology direction for the company.
Among EVO SDDC’s many capabilities are provisioning and lifecycle management. While working through the design of these features, we determined that a new abstraction would...