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Paul Woodward Jr.

Paul Woodward Jr.

Paul is a Systems Engineer at Presidio with a focus on data center technologies. His passion is virtualization and performing amazing feats of technology! Outside of work, he's actively involved with his local VMUG chapter. Paul was on the planning committee for the first VMUG Virtual Event, which was attended by over 5000 people globally. As he's recently attained the VCP6-DCV and the Cisco CCENT, his goals for the next 6 months are rounding out his virtualization skillset with the VMware VCIX6-DCV. Long term, his career goal is to become a virtualization and cloud architect.

The Latest Posts Featuring Paul Woodward Jr.

Inside the Black Box: Bridging the Database Observability Gap

Over the past 15 years, Agile and DevOps have accelerated application delivery, enabling faster, more reliable releases. Yet the database layer often remains a blind spot for observability and performance monitoring.

In this article, Kevin Kline shows why closing the database observability gap is critical to improving performance, efficiency, and resilience for DBAs, developers, and the businesses that depend on their data.

March 27, 2026
Database Podcast
Inside the Black Box: Bridging the Database Observability Gap
IT pro looks at computer and works
Our Cloud Bill Is What?!—Battle of the Clouds Series
January 22, 2020
Applications
Submitted for your approval; a story of cloud horrors. One of performance issues impacting production. Where monthly cloud billing began spiraling out of control. The following story is true. The…
Battle of the Clouds: Where Do We Go From Here?
January 3, 2020
Applications
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both                 Robert Frost At this point in our “Battle of the Clouds” journey, we’ve seen what…
Just Throw It in the Cloud! The Battle of the Clouds Series
December 13, 2019
Applications
Scenario: a mission-critical application is having performance issues during peak business hours. App developers blame the storage. The storage team blames the network. The network admin blames the infrastructure. The…
Private Cloud: I’m Not Quite Dead Yet
November 18, 2019
Applications
The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated—The On-Premises Data Center Mark Twain As I mentioned in my previous post, the hype cycle has the on-premises data center dead to…
Public Cloud: All Aboard the Hype Train!
November 13, 2019
Applications
We’ve all heard it before. “The cloud is the future!” “We need to move to the cloud!” “The on-premises data center is dead.” If you believe the analysts and marketing…