Alasdair has been an IT professional for over 32 years. Starting out as a Network Engineer in the heady days of thin/thick wire Ethernet, token-ring and Novell Netware, he soon established himself as an authority on LAN/WAN technologies. Over the next 15 years he worked for many blue-chip companies, developing their network and network services infrastructures. In the late 90’s he entered the world of virtualization via a beta of VMware Workstation and soon became an expert in VMware’s technologies. He has spent the last 15 years designing, implementing and teaching virtual infrastructure, virtual networking and storage.  He joined VMware in 2012 to help enable parnters on VMware technologies.  He currently works as part of VMware’s Livefire team of SDDC / Multi-Cloud design, deploy and automation experts, where his current focuses are VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware Cloud Services and Kubernetes.