Prasenjit Sarkar

Prasenjit Sarkar (@stretchcloud) is a senior member of technical staff in VMware Service Provider Cloud R&D where he provides architectural and technical guidance to design, implement, and test VMware's Cloud datacenters.He is an author and a blogger focusing on virtualization, cloud computing, storage, networking, and other enterprise technologies. He has more than 10 years of expert knowledge in R&D, professional services, alliances, solution engineering, consulting, and technical sales, with expertise in architecting and deploying virtualization solutions and rolling out new technology and solution initiatives. His primary focus is on the VMware vSphere infrastructure and the public cloud using VMware vCloud Suite.One of his other focuses is to own the entire life cycle of a VMware-based IaaS (SDDC), especially vSphere, vCloud Director, vShield Manager, and vCenter Operations. He was one of the VMware vExperts in 2012 and is well known for his acclaimed virtualization blog http://stretch-cloud.info.Prasenjit holds certifications from VMware, Cisco, Citrix, RedHat, Microsoft, IBM, HP, and Exin. Prior to joining VMware, he served other fine organizations such as Capgemini, HP, and GE as a solution architect and infrastructure architect.