Summary: In episode 222, Douglas Brown interviews Andre Leibovici, Director of Technology Alliances at Nutanix. Andre and Douglas discuss Nutanix Web-Scale converged infrastructure solution. Andre does an amazing job introducing us to web-scale infrastructure, why it’s important, discusses how the datacenter has changed over the years, how Nutanix fits in to the software defined datacenter, and much more. This is part 1 of a 2 part series. Andre does a great job so we will have him back! About Nutanix Nutanix delivers web-scale IT infrastructure to medium and large enterprises with its software-driven Virtual Computing Platform, natively converging compute and storage into a single solution to drive unprecedented simplicity in the datacenter. Customers can start with a few servers and scale to thousands, with predictable performance and economics. With a patented elastic data fabric and consumer-grade management, Nutanix is the blueprint for application-optimized and policy-driven infrastructure. Learn more at http://www.nutanix.com or follow up on Twitter @nutanix. About Andre Leibovici Andre Leibovici is a leading expert in the current area of virtualization, mobility and End User Computing and maintains an award winning and world recognized blog. For the last 10 years Andre's passion and dedication around virtualization and End User Computing has helped many organizations while working for VMware CTO Office, VMware Professional Services, EMC Virtualization Team (vSpecialists), and through creating professional blogging resources. His expertise is backed by 20+ years' industry experience managing IT infrastructures and teams for large organizations. Andre's blog myvirtualcloud.net is recognized as one of the industry leading technical VDI blogs with more than 2M+ views every month. Based on his field experience, Andre developed a number of free tools to help beginners and advanced architects to appropriately size and architect VDI solutions. Andre's passion for End User Computing led him to found the APAC Virtualization Podcast and speak at conferences and public events. Due to his creativity and accomplishments, Andre received the VMware Virtual Desktop Ingenuity Award'2009, and was recognized as vExpert recipient award for 4 consecutive years Degree qualified, Andre currently enjoying helping Nutanix as Technical Alliances Director. Visit Andre’s blog: http://myvirtualcloud.net
