Silicon Valley Road Trip
A few weeks ago I received a tweet from @frankdenneman if I was interested to join him and a few other guy’s for a short road trip through Silicon Valley to visit a couple of start-ups before attending VMworld San Fransisco.
I didn’t have to think long if I wanted to join, but had to discusses this with my boss at home (yeah, all you guy’s out there know what I mean 🙂 )
Frank made a list of the company’s who are interesting for us to visit:
- Rubrik(Backup Solution)
- PernixData(Storage Acceleration solution)
- Nutanix(Hyper Converged solution)
- Platform 9(OpenStack Cloud solution)
The company’s who aren’t confirmed:
- Thousand Eyes (Network Monitoring Software)
- VMware (Virtualiaztion software)
- Palo Alto Internet Exchange (Internet Exchange)
Fist of all thanks to the companies who are willing to make the effort the welcome us and show us there company! Of course we all know what your company does, but it’s always great to meat passionated people to share information and thoughts.
If you’re working for a company who hasn’t confirmed that we’re welcome, please do! We sure like to visit you!
About Michael
Michael Wilmsen is a experienced VMware Architect with more than 20 years in the IT industry. Main focus is VMware vSphere, Horizon View and Hyper Converged with a deep interest into performance and architecture.
Michael is VCDX 210 certified, has been rewarded with the vExpert title from 2011, Nutanix Tech Champion and a Nutanix Platform Professional.