Valentin Hamburger was working at VMware for more than seven years. In his former role, he was a lead consulting architect and took care of the delivery and architecture of cloud projects in central EMEA. In his current role, he is EMEA solutions lead for VMware at Hitachi Data Systems (HDS). Furthermore he works as an advisor with HDS engineering on the Hitachi Enterprise Cloud, which is based on VMware vRealize technology. He holds many industry certifications in various areas such as VMware, Linux, and IBM Power compute environments. He serves as a partner and trusted advisor to HDS customers primarily in EMEA. His main responsibilities are ensuring that HDS's future innovations align with essential customer needs and translating customer challenges to opportunities focused on virtualization topics. Valentin enjoys sharing his knowledge as a speaker at national and international conferences such as VMworld.
I want to personally thank Daniel Koeck for reviewing the technical content of this book and providing such valuable and productive inputs. Besides his technical expertise I am happy to have him as a friend and supporter for this book. Furthermore, I want to thank my beautiful wife and daughter for their patience and understanding while I was writing this book. Without their support and love, this wouldn’t have been possible at all. Finally I do want to thank Rashmi Suvarna who had patience with me as an author and supported me wherever she could in order to get all this work done.