About the Author

Prasenjit Sarkar (@stretchcloud) is a senior member of the technical staff in VMware Service Provider Cloud R&D, where he provides architectural oversight and technical guidance for the design, implementation, and testing of VMware's Cloud datacenters.

He is an author, R&D guy, 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 VMware vSphere Infrastructure and Public Cloud, using VMware vCloud Suite.One of his other focuses is to own the entire life cycle of a VMware based IaaS (SDDC), specially, vSphere, vCloud Director, vShield Manager, and vCenter Operations. He is one of the VMware vExperts in 2012 and 2013 as well, and is well known for his acclaimed Virtualization Blog http://stretch-cloud.info.

He holds certifications from VMware, Cisco, Citrix, RedHat, Microsoft, IBM, HP, and Exin.

Prior to joining VMware, Prasenjit has served in other fine organizations (such as Capgemini, HP, and GE.) as Solution Architect and Infrastructure Architect.