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.

Our Cloud Bill Is What?!—Battle of the Clouds Series

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…

January 22, 2020

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Our Cloud Bill Is What?!—Battle of the Clouds Series

Battle of the Clouds: Where Do We Go From Here?

January 3, 2020

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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

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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

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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

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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…