My name is Danny Alvarez and I work as a Solutions Architect for the Cumberland Group (Whatever it takes for whatever is NEXT!). Prior to this role, I was a Sr. Infrastructure Engineer at Chewy.com (your pets’ favorite online store!).
I simply love technology (specially latest/greatest), and enjoy reading/talking about anything related to it. Cars and racquetball too.
My main career focus has been around the following subjects:
- Virtualization (VMware, AHV, Hyper-V)
- Storage (Pure Storage Flasharray / Flashblade, EMC VMAX/Powermax , Xtreme IO2, Unity, Isilon, Tintri, Netapp Ontap)
- Compute (Cisco UCS, Dell Poweredge / MX, HPe Proliant / Synergy)
- Data Protection (Veeam, Cohesity, Rubrik, Commvault, Netbackup, Avamar, PowerProtect)
- Business Continuity (VMware Cloud on AWS/Azure/GCP/Oracle, Zerto)
- Hybrid Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, Equinix Metal, Pure Cloud Block Store)
Latest accomplishments include:
VMware Cloud on AWS 2021 – Master Specialist
VMware Cloud on AWS vExpert 2021, 2022
VMware vExpert 2020, 2021, 2022
Double VCP in Datacenter and Network Virtualization
VCAP in Network Virtualization Design
VMware Cloud on AWS Specialist
Nutanix Certified Professional 5
Commvault Solution Architect
Cohesity Technical Sales
Nutanix NCSE Core
Pure Storage Implementation Associate
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
Nutanix Certified Services Core
Nutanix Certified Professional 5 – Multicloud Infrastructure
Pure Storage FlashArray Architect Professional
VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization 2021
VMware Cloud on AWS vExpert 2022
Pure Storage FlashBlade Architect Associate
VCAP – Data Center Virtualization Design 2022
VCAP – Data Center Virtualization Deploy 2022
VCIX – Data Center Virtualization 2022
Cohesity Certified Installation Professional
VMware Certified Professional – VMware Cloud 2022
VMware Certified Specialist – vSphere with Tanzu 2022
Tanzu Vanguard 2023 member
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