Michael is responsible for leading a team of world class architects helping enterprise IT customers optimize critical workloads on Nutanix infrastructure and building the Nutanix products for critical apps of the present and future. The team’s expertise extends to migrations from Unix, Mainframe and other traditional IT platforms. Prior to Nutanix, he was a strategic architect at VMware for business-critical applications. In addition to holding multiple certifications, including VCDX (#66) and NPX (#007), he is also the co-author of Virtualizing SQL Server on VMware: Doing It Right, and longwhiteclouds.com, a popular virtualization blog.