I am a VMware Certified Design Expert - VCDX #171 During the past 14 years in the IT industry I had the opportunity to contribute to the success and the market leadership of the Cisco Nexus 7000® family of switches and the Cisco NX-OS® Data Center operative system. In my career I covered Data Center and Routing and Switching technologies from different angles, as Product Manager, Technical Marketing Engineeer and Network Consultant. Currently as a Group Manager in the NSX Product Management Team at VMware I work on the VMware NSX® Network Virtualization technology to define Reference Architectures for our large Data Center customers and partners and help defining requirements and use cases for the NSX virtualization suite.