Authors

Sonali Desai

Product Marketing, VMware

Sonali Desai is a Product Marketing Engineer for VMware Cloud Foundation at VMware by Broadcom, Inc. Sonali has been working in IT industry for more than 15 years with experience…

David Jasso

Director of Cloud Marketing

David Jasso is the Director of Cross-Cloud Services Product Marketing at VMware. He has two decades of B2B technology marketing experience in roles spanning strategic, product, and industry marketing functions.…

Mandy Storbakken

Director, Multi-Cloud Management Security SE's

An early adopter of Cloud technologies, Mandy Storbakken has lived through the good, the bad, and the ugly of driving transformation through technology. She draws on these experiences to shape…

Tobias Lilley

Cloud Technologist

As a Technologist in the Cloud Management Business Unit at VMware, Tobias provides subject matter expertise in Multi-Cloud Operations and Automation. With a broad experience in Software Development, Cloud Architecture,…

William Lam

Senior Staff Solution Architect

William is Senior Staff Solution Architect in the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Division at Broadcom. He primarily focus on Cloud Native technologies, Automation, Integration and Operation for VMware Cloud Foundation…

Lefteris Marakas

Lefteris Marakas is a Product Marketing Manager in VMware’s Cloud Management Business Unit. During his time in VMware he has been driving messaging and positioning for VMware's cloud automation services.…

Emad Younis

Staff Cloud Solutions Architect

Emad Younis is a Sr. Staff Cloud Solutions Architect in the Cloud Infrastructure Business Group (CIBG) at VMware. He leads VMware’s Multi-Cloud Center of Excellence, focusing on solving customer problems…

Ruhi Sehgal

Sr. Associate – Product Marketing & Strategy

Ruhi Sehgal is part of the Product Marketing team for VMware Marketplace team at VMware. She holds a degree from Chapman University in Business-Marketing. She enjoys cooking, kickboxing, and reading…

Audrey Bian

Product Line Marketing Manager

Audrey Bian is a Product Line Marketing Manager at VMware. She leads product marketing for hyperscaler cloud services, focused on messaging, product positioning and promotion, pricing, and go-to-market strategy and…

Neeharika Palaka

Neeharika Palaka is a Sr. Manager at VMware and drives product marketing and strategy for VMware Marketplace. Prior to VMware, Nee worked as an operations strategy consultant with PwC. She…

Lauren van der Vaart

Senior Content Marketing Specialist, Multi-Cloud Solutions

Lauren is a Senior Content Marketing Specialist as part of the Multi-Cloud Solutions team at VMware. She focuses on delivering valuable, relevant, and actionable content for customers on their cloud…

Narayan Bharadwaj

Enterprise Product Leader

Narayan is Vice President & General Manager, VMware Cloud on AWS. In this role, Narayan manages all aspects of Product Development (UX, Product Management, Engineering, Program Management), Customer Operations (Support,…

Bill Roth

Director, Product Marketing

Bill Roth is Director of Product Marketing in the VMware Cloud group at VMware. He is a 30 year veteran of the enterprise software industry. He has been a programmer,…

Eric Horschman

Product Marketing

Eric Horschman, VMware by Broadcom Product Marketing Eric joined VMware in 1999 where, as product manager, he brought the first x86 server virtualization product to market and helped establish VMware…

Cheryl Young

Principal Product Line Marketing Manager

Cheryl Young leads product marketing for Google Cloud VMware Engine at Broadcom in the VMware Cloud Foundation business unit and focuses on go-to-market strategy and execution, product positioning, content creation,…

Matt Elliott

Senior Cloud Solutions Architect

Matt Elliott is a Senior Cloud Solution Architect at VMware with IT experience in several sectors, including healthcare, manufacturing, big law and VAR/MSP. He is passionate about all things networking,…

Stan Kwong

Stan Kwong is the Product Line Marketing Manager for Sovereign Cloud at VMware. With a passion for technology and a knack for strategic marketing, Stan excels in positioning and messaging,…

Sudesh Girdhari

Chief Solution Finder & Sr. Problem Mender

Technology is messy for many large companies and overly complicated. Often unclear tech investments result in poor outcomes for many enterprise decision makers. I love to dig into customer problems…

Craig Stanley

Group Product Line Marketing Manager / Cloud Economics

Craig Stanley is a Group Product Line Marketing Manager in the Cloud Economics group. He specializes in economic cost analysis and the art of decision making. Craig has been in…

Daniel Flaherty

Daniel is a senior member of the Cross-Cloud Services team at VMware, helping IT leaders find solutions to their multi-cloud challenges. He is a bridge between product development at VMware…

Gilles Chekroun

Senior NSX Specialist SE

Gilles Chekroun is Lead VMware Cloud on AWS Solutions Architect in the European team. He joined VMware in 2015 after spending 20 years at Cisco in the Data Centre Network…

Michaela Lindsay

Michaela Lindsay is a Manager of Product Marketing and Strategy at VMware. She helps customers discover solutions compatible with VMware technology and works with partners to promote their solutions on…

Sandeep Sharma

Sandeep is a Sr. Product Manager for Networking and Security on VMware Cloud on AWS. In this role, he helps enterprise customers run mission critical applications using hybrid cloud connectivity…

Victoria Wright

Victoria Wright is a Product Marketer on the Multi-Cloud Solutions team with a passion for technology. When she’s not working on all things multi-cloud, you can find her exercising, reading,…

Christine Cignoli

Content Strategist, Multi-Cloud Marketing at VMware

Dee Dee Atta

Group Product Marketing Manager, Multi-Cloud Solutions

Dee-Dee is responsible for VMware global product marketing and go-to-market initiatives across strategic multi-cloud solutions. Her past experiences include marketing executive roles with Hewlett-Packard Enterprises and Cisco Systems.

Glenn Sizemore

Glenn Sizemore is a Senior Technical Marketing Architect in the Cloud Platform business unit at VMware. Currently, he is responsible for all things Storage in the VMware Cloud on AWS…

Martin Hosken

Martin Hosken is the Worldwide Chief Technologist for VMware Cloud Services. Martin works at the intersection of IT Architecture, Solution Architecture and Software Development. His primary focus is on cutting…

Ruchi Tandon

Ruchi is a Senior Product Marketing Manager for VMware Cloud on AWS at VMware Inc. With 14+ years of strong technology, data, and marketing background, Ruchi brings deep experience in…

Steve Dockar

Worldwide OCVS Field Solutions Architect Director

Steve is a Worldwide OCVS Field Solutions Architect Director at VMware. He leads the technical sales alliance between VMware and Oracle globally for Oracle Cloud VMware Solution.

Guy Bartram

Director of Product Marketing, VMware Cloud Foundation Business Group

Guy Bartram is a Director for Partner Marketing in Broadcom and manages Cloud Service Provider marketing and all associated programs for Broadcom Advantage Pinnacle partners.

Michael Kolos

Product Solutions Architect

Michael Kolos has been at VMware since 2015, starting with NSX, then moving to the VMC product area in 2017 as a Customer Success Architect. In 2020, he joined VMC…

Alina Thylander

Product Line Marketing Manager

Alina Thylander is a Senior Product Line Marketing Manager in VMware’s Modern Apps and Management Business Group. In this role, Alina drives messaging, positioning and consumption for Aria Automation. She…

Anthony Larijani

Sr. Product Marketing Manager

Anthony is passionate about helping organizations adopt new technologies to achieve strategic business outcomes. He is currently a Sr. Product Marketing Manager at VMware, responsible for Multi-Cloud Solutions. As a…

David Zhang

Staff Customer Success Architect

David Zhang is a Staff Customer Success Architect for VMware Cloud on AWS. He enjoys developing content and talking to customers to help their Cloud journey. His current focus is…

Dustin Spinhirne

Solutions Architect Principal

Hari Ramakrishnan

Senior Director of SaaS Transformation & Operations

Hari Ramakrishnan is the Senior Director of SaaS Transformation & Operations at VMware, where he has held a number of product, go-to-market, and operations roles. Before VMware, Hari was a…

Moin Nawaz Syed

Product Line Manager – Security & Compliance - VMware Cloud on AWS

Paul Park

Marketing Manager of Strategic Alliances

Raquel Campuzano Godoy

Technical Marketing Manager

Raquel Campuzano is a Technical Marketing Manager at VMware. She is in charge of managing the creation of technical content that allows developers to deploy and use awesome software everywhere.…

Satya Shrestha

Staff Multi-Cloud Solutions Architect

Satya is an experienced IT professional with a demonstrated history of working in the Information Technology with years of experience in multiple industry verticals. He is a Staff Multi-Cloud Solutions…

Shagun Tewari

Shagun is a Senior Product Marketing & Strategy manager for cloud-native categories on VMware Marketplace, Bitnami App Catalog and Tanzu Application Catalog. Previously, she led marketing efforts for VMware’s hybrid…

Suzy Visvanathan

Sr. Product Line Manager

Ajay Patel

Senior Vice President, Product Development, Cloud Services

Betty Junod

Betty Junod is the Senior Director of Multi-Cloud Solutions at VMware helping organizations along their journey to cloud. This is Betty’s second time at VMware, having previously led product marketing…

Eric Gray

Eric Gray joined VMware in 2005 and is a Principal Technical Marketing Architect. He focuses on VMware Cloud Foundation lifecycle management. Previously, he guided customers on VMware Cloud, Google Cloud…

Greg Collins

IBM Cloud Global Sales Director, VMware

Greg Collins is a Global Director in the VMware Cloud Provider Program. He is responsible for accelerating client cloud transformations partnering with IBM Public Cloud & IBM Consulting as a…

Harsh Singh

Harsh Singh is the Global Lead, VMware Cloud portfolio. Before VMware, Harsh was the VP and Head of Healthcare Sales for Tech Mahindra. Harsh has been a frequent speaker at…

Jason McKenzie

Jason McKenzie is a member of the Multi-Cloud Center Of Excellence in the Cloud Infrastructure Business Group (CIBG) at VMware. Working with the Hyperscalers, he partners with them to drive…

Mark Lohmeyer

VP Products, Cloud Platform

Mark Lohmeyer is the Senior Vice President & General Manager of the Cloud Platform Business Unit at VMware, with responsibility for engineering, cloud operations, product management, marketing, and business development,…

Matt Dreyer

Director of Product Management

Matt is a Director of Product Management at VMware, where he is responsible for driving compliance, certification, automation and analytics for VMware Cloud on AWS. Matt’s team focuses on delivering…

Matt Morgan

VP, Cloud Services

Matthew Morgan is the vice president of global marketing for VMware Cloud Services, overseeing all marketing strategy, planning, and execution for VMware’s Cloud Services Business Unit (CSBU). As marketing chief…

Nancy Cheng

Nancy Cheng is a Group Product Line Manager on the VMware Cloud team, driving the Growth Initiative.

Stefania Cugini

Director, Global Customer Loyalty

Stefania Cugini is Director, Global Customer Loyalty at VMware.

Vish Kalsi

Vish Kalsi is a Product Management lead for the Cloud Platform. He focuses on Cloud Platform and Security. Vish has driven several products at VMware, working through the facets of…

Aakash Chandhoke

Aakash Chandhoke is a Senior Product Manager for VMware Cloud. Aakash focuses on deeply understanding customer challenges and working across the organization to align on the vision, strategy, design and…

Aditi Pandey

Aditi Pandey is a Senior Product Marketing Manager for VMware Cloud on AWS at VMware, Inc. She has over six years of product marketing experience working in the IT industry,…

Angie Reynolds

Cloud Economist

Cloud Economist focused on Total Cost of Ownership for VMC on Dell and GCVE.

Bala Bharathy U

Manager - Strategic Product Marketing

Bala Bharathy U is a product marketer at VMware, focusing on VMware Application Catalog, VMware Image Builder and VMware Marketplace. He started his product marketing career in 2020 and has…

Bob Plankers

Product Management & Marketing, Broadcom

Product Management & Marketing in the VMware Cloud Foundation division of Broadcom, focusing on applied security, compliance, and operational resilience.

Brandon DaCosta

Hyperscale Cloud Economist

Brandon DaCosta is a Senior Cloud Economist at VMware focused on supporting TCO/ROI analysis of VMware Cloud solutions. He has 25 years of technology industry experience including roles in IT…

Chris Wolf

VP & CTO, Global Field and Industry

Heather Raymond

Heather Raymond is the Senior Director, Business Development for the Google partnership at VMware. She has been working in the enterprise software industry in roles ranging from sales to partnerships…

James Forrester

VP Worldwide Technical Leader, Cloud Sales

James Forrester is VP Worldwide Technical Leader, Cloud Sales at VMware. He is responsible for leading VMware’s Cloud Sales technical community to help accelerate customers’ journeys to cloud, modern apps,…

Jeremiah Megie

Principal Cloud Solutions Architect

Jeremiah is a Principal Cloud Solutions Architect within the Cloud Infrastructure Business Group (CIBG) for VMware. Jeremiah is responsible for creating technical content for internal, partner, and customer consumption. With…

Oleg Ulyanov

Sr. Cloud Architect

Oleg Ulyanov is a Sr. Cloud Architect with more than 15 years of experience in virtualization. He is a Subject Matter Expert in all things Hybrid Cloud, security & compliance,…

Phoebe Kim

Senior Cloud Solutions Architect

As a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect in the Multi-Cloud Center of Excellence at VMware, Phoebe Kim helps customers achieve workload mobility across multiple clouds by providing multi-cloud reference architectures and…

Prashanth Shenoy

Prashanth Shenoy is the vice president of product marketing in the VCF Division of Broadcom.

Rajiv Thakkar

Group Manager, Product Marketing, VMware Cloud

Rajiv Thakkar leads product marketing for the Modern Applications on VMware Cloud. Previously, he lead product marketing to launch vSphere with Tanzu, VMware Cloud Foundation with Tanzu, VMware Cloud Foundation…

S Ganeshan

Ganeshan S is a Sr. Product Manager for VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts at VMware. With more than decade of IT experience, he has played various roles with consulting, sales,…

sbadem

Product Line Manager

Subbu Mahadevan

Director, Partner Product Marketing, GTM, Alliances

Tracie Stamm

Sr. Product Line Marketing Manager

Tracie leverages creative, competitive marketing strategy to support VMware's Multi-Cloud solutions with a focus on customer stories and data center modernization. In nearly 20 years of experience in business-to-business (B2B)…

Vittorio Viarengo

Vice President of Cloud Solutions Marketing at VMware

Abhinav Modi

Group Product Line Manager

Abhinav is a Product Manager with the Avi team at VMware. Abhinav's focus areas include load balancing and application delivery, especially for public cloud and hyper-scaler environments.

Adam Bohle

Adam Bohle is a Cloud Solution Architect based in the UK. He is part of VMware’s Global Multi-Cloud Architecture team focused on the breadth of VMware Solutions across AWS, Google,…

Ahmar Mohammad

As leader of the Go-to-Market Transformation Office (GTO), Ahmar is responsible for driving transformational change within go-to-market operations as VMware transitions to a SaaS/subscription business. GTO influences the end-to-end customer…

Amitha Shetty

Amitha Shetty is a Product Line Manager for VMware Cloud Solutions at VMware, Inc. Amitha has been working in IT industry for more than 18+ years with product management experience…

Anika Suri

Product Line Manager

Anika Suri is a Product Line Manager at VMware, where she is responsible for driving adoption of HCX with public Cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google…

Belu De Arbelaiz

Belu de Arbelaiz is the Sr. Product Line Marketing Manager for VMware’s Data Protection as a Service (DPaaS) portfolio, in charge of VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery, VMware Site Recovery, and…

Blair Fritz

Blair has been working in IT since 2003 where he started his adventures by working at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. Since then, he’s has nearly 20 years of experience…

Dave McCarthy

Dave McCarthy is a Vice President within IDC's worldwide infrastructure practice, where he leads a team of analysts covering shared (public) cloud, dedicated (private) cloud, and edge strategies. Benefiting both…

Derrik Campau

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Derrik is the lead SRE for the VDP team, managing over 100 Kubernetes clusters with more than 40k pods. Derrik was also a Release Lead Shadow on the 1.22 Kubernetes…

Emily O'Shaughnessy

Multi-Cloud Marketing Manager

Emily O’Shaughnessy is a Marketing Manager for Multi-Cloud Solutions at VMware, where she focuses on education, awareness, and helping customers navigate their multi-cloud journey. She joined VMware from Dell Technologies,…

Eric Cheung-Young-Sen

Partner Solution Architect

Hitendar Sethi

Hiten is a passionate product marketer who loves to write about modern applications and technology's impact on the business. At VMware, he leads product marketing for Modern Apps on VMware…

Igal Bakshan

Igal Bakshan is the Staff Engineer for the Cloud Services Engagement Platform team. His primary focus is solving engineering problems using the most cutting-edge technology. Perpetual learner, innovator, and tech…

Jason Crocker

Jason Crocker is a Staff Cloud Solution Architect for VMware focusing on VMware Cloud Service offerings and Enterprise/Cloud networking.

Jason Powers

Jason serves as the Global Head of Edge Infrastructure Services at Equinix, where he leads the strategy and critical product decisions. He has also held leadership roles at Teradata, founded…

Jay Thontakudi

Senior Product Marketing Manager

Jay is a Senior Product Marketing Manager for SASE in the Software-Defined Edge division of Broadcom.

Joe Van Ert

Joe Van Ert is a Systems Architect for Quality Bicycle Products, a large distributor of bicycle parts and accessories in the bicycle industry. Joe has been working in the IT…

Joe Witles

Joe Witles is the Director of Authorization Management of VMware specializing in the development of a centralized security assurance, governance, and risk program, accelerating market opportunities in highly regulated environments…

Keith Dobbins

Keith is a Product Line Manager for VMware Cloud on AWS who manages platform/SaaS security and PCI DSS compliance program for the VMware Cloud on AWS.

Larry Henderson

Larry is a Sr. Product Manager for VMware Cloud on AWS at VMware. During his 6-year tenure, he has also worked in Professional Services specializing in NSX and Cloud. Having…

Martijn Smit

Technical Product Manager for Network Insight

Martijn is a proud Dutchman (stroopwafels!) and has spent around 15 years as an IT professional, mostly focused on network operations. He has been with VMware for 3 years. He…

Mihail Hernandez

Member of Technical Staff

Mihail Hernandez is a Member of Technical Staff for the Cloud Services Engagement Platform's Commerce domain. Driven, passionate developer, and learner.

Nic Hall

Nic Hall is a Staff Information Security Engineer focusing on FedRAMP, DISA Cloud and Intelligence Community Cloud authorizations.

Nick Marshall

Nick Marshall is a Technical Product Manager at VMware with over 20 years of IT experience. Nick authors the best-selling Mastering VMware vSphere book series, blogs at www.nickmarshall.com.au, and can…

Nicole Palko

Microsoft Licensing Lead

Nicole Palko has 15 years of software licensing knowledge , working with hosting partners around the world to optimize their software licensing agreements and maintain compliance.

Oren Root

Oren Root is a Senior Director of Product Management at VMware, leading VMware Cloud solutions for Equinix Metal and Hyperscalers. With a background that includes leadership roles at Google's Distributed…

Patrick Daigle

Sr. Technical Marketing Architect, Cloud Native Apps

Pete Koehler

Pete Koehler is a Product Marketing Engineer in the VMware Cloud Foundation division at Broadcom. He specializes in VMware vSAN, storage, data center architectures, performance, and analytics. Pete is also…

Pete Wall

Senior Member Of Technical Staff

Peter Haagenson

Sr. Product Marketing Manger, Cloud Management Business Unit

Pushkar Mulay

Pushkar is a Senior Product Manager at VMware, where he is responsible for driving the developer experience for VMware Cloud on AWS. Pushkar’s team focusses on delivering a world-class developer…

Rebekah Dumouchelle

Rebekah Dumouchelle is the Sr. Product Marketing Manager for Faction. With more than 15 years in the tech industry, Rebekah’s focus is on answering how technology can help enterprises solve…

Richard Munro

Technology Executive and Business Value Lead

Technology Executive and Business Value Lead VCF Division, Broadcom

Samantha Reid

Samantha Reid is senior manager of multi-cloud solutions content and editorial at VMware.

Sehjung Hah

Sehjung Hah is a Product Marketing Engineer at Broadcom working on VMware Cloud Foundation. Sehjung has worked in various industry roles in process engineering, technical support, engineering, sales enablement, product…

Shansi Zhang

Product Manager, VMware

Shansi is a Product Manager on the Disaster Recovery as-a-Service team, focusing on commercial growth and compliance for VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery. She was an intern at VMware during the…

Snehansu Chatterjee

Snehansu Chatterjee is a Senior Product Manager based out of Bangalore. As a key member of the Product Management team Snehansu manages various aspects of VMware HCX, the workload mobility…

Sridhar Vennela

Cloud Technology Architect

Stacy Ozorio

Sovereign Cloud and Hyper-converged Infrastructure Product Marketing and Digital Marketing for Cloud Services Business at VMware

Steven Jones

General Manager of VMware Cloud on AWS and SAP at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Stuart Castillo

Product Marketing Manager

Sudhir Kasanavesi

Sudhir Kasanavesi is the Staff Engineer for the Cloud Services Engagement Platform team. Sudhir’s focus is on building common commerce features and services that power diverse VMware SaaS and hybrid…

Thomas Sauerer

Thomas is a Staff Solution Architect and is part of the Advanced Services Team. In his role he supporting Customer during EA/IA and the early stage of a new Solution,…

Vidur Bhatnagar

Vidur Bhatnagar is a Senior Product Manager for VMware Cloud on AWS.

Yavor Papazov

Cloud Security Researcher, VMware

Yavor is a Cloud Security Researcher at VMware, as part of the CloudHealth Secure State team. Yavor has worked in the information security and cybersecurity space for the past several…

Yonah Dissen

Devops Engineer

Yonah is a Devops Engineer on the Cloud Services Engagement Platform team with a passion for technology. He enjoys solving complex problems and trying out the latest technologies.

Zachary Smith

Leading the business for Equinix's Network Edge and Metal services. Making it easier for customers and partners to leverage the global reach, neutral ecosystems and interconnected value of Platform Equinix.