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Changes: I am joining VMware R&D!

Duncan Epping · Nov 27, 2012 ·

I just wanted to let all of you know that I have decided to take on a new challenge within VMware. Per December 1st I will be joining the R&D organization as part of Integration Engineering. In this team I will be providing operational and architectural feedback on our products to engineering and I will be exploring new possibilities with our products. Needless to say I am very excited about it!

I want to thank my management (Kaushik Banerjee and Bogomil Balkansky) for supporting my move and supporting me the last two years within Technical Marketing. I also want to thank all of my Technical Marketing friends for the fun projects we worked on together.

I am looking forward to getting started within Integration Engineering, and I am thankful for this awesome opportunity. I have been saying this at every single session I presented, but just as a reminder, if you have feedback around products / features / work flows / operational efficiency, don’t hesitate to let me know.

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  1. Bas Raayman says

    27 November, 2012 at 15:24

    Cool, congratulations Duncan! 🙂

  2. Gopinath says

    27 November, 2012 at 15:26

    Congrats and best wishes for your future role…:)

  3. Michael Poore says

    27 November, 2012 at 15:38

    Sounds very interesting. Seems like you’ll have carte blanche to play with absolutely anything and everything. Congratulations!

  4. LucD says

    27 November, 2012 at 15:39

    Congratulations, I’m sure you will excel in that new role as well.

    Where’s the “Like” button on this post 😉

  5. Clint Greenwood says

    27 November, 2012 at 15:49

    Awesome! Congrats!

  6. Linus Bourque says

    27 November, 2012 at 16:09

    Congrats and awesome!

  7. Hans De Leenheer says

    27 November, 2012 at 16:26

    Awesome move for yourself but even more important > for VMware! Every R&D team should have a few no-nonsense feedback guys like you. Have fun.

  8. Jane Rimmer says

    27 November, 2012 at 16:33

    Congratulations Duncan, but I hope this move will still allow you to be public facing and not shut behind closed doors!

  9. Scott Lowe says

    27 November, 2012 at 16:37

    Congratulations, Duncan! I’m sure that Michael White and cohorts in Integration Engineering are excited to have you on their team. Best of luck in the new role!

  10. Constantin Vvedenskiy says

    27 November, 2012 at 16:37

    My congratulations and best wishes on new position!
    Hope to you`ll continue to post tons of great information.

  11. Doug says

    27 November, 2012 at 16:50

    Congratulations and good luck in the new role. It sounds like an excellent opportunity!

  12. Sudhir R says

    27 November, 2012 at 17:01

    Congrats Duncan.. I hope you do the best!

  13. Aravind says

    27 November, 2012 at 17:07

    Congrats and Best wishes for the new role Duncan!!!

  14. Bryan O'Connor says

    27 November, 2012 at 17:18

    Nice one, well done and good luck in your new role

  15. Brian says

    27 November, 2012 at 17:34

    Congrats on the new role, I’m sure you will help take these great products to new levels.

  16. Sunshineknox says

    27 November, 2012 at 17:56

    Buy me a beer.

  17. Irfan Ahmad says

    27 November, 2012 at 18:44

    Sweet. Go cause some trouble! 🙂

  18. Diego Cogo says

    27 November, 2012 at 18:59

    Congratulations! VMware always getting better and better…

  19. Travis Backs says

    27 November, 2012 at 19:15

    Congratulations! I just ordered the 5.1 Deepdive so looking forward to reading it.

  20. Eric Sloof says

    27 November, 2012 at 19:24

    Gefeliciteerd kerel – top!!!

  21. Noham says

    27 November, 2012 at 21:12

    Congratulations Duncan, VMware R&D are really lucky!!!

  22. Mario Lenz says

    27 November, 2012 at 21:20

    Hi Duncan,

    Since you “will be providing operational and architectural feedback on our products to engineering”, please tell them to make SSO highly available out-of-the-box. We were using AD directly which is highly available and now we have to deal with load balancers and stuff.

    SSO instances should sync automatically. When an SSO instance fails, vCenter etc. should just use another one.

    Oh, and I’d like to see a VCSA that doesn’t need a separate database and is still fully supported for large, productive environments. You know, like the vCOps appliance.

    cu

    Mario

  23. Bartlomiej K. says

    27 November, 2012 at 21:41

    Congrats !!! With your knowledge every new product will be awesome 😀

  24. Ravi says

    27 November, 2012 at 22:09

    Very nice, congratulations! 🙂

  25. Michael Webster says

    27 November, 2012 at 22:49

    Congrats Duncan! Well done on your new role.

  26. Calvin Zito (@HPStorageGuy) says

    27 November, 2012 at 23:18

    Congrats Duncan!

  27. Paul Braren says

    27 November, 2012 at 23:46

    Congrats Duncan!

    This sentence really got my attention:
    “if you have feedback around products / features / work flows / operational efficiency, don’t hesitate to let me know.”

    So sorry I missed out on getting to chat with you at VMworld 2012, but did get to see you presentation, and wanted to so bad to share some feedback I’ve collected over the last 18 months of blogging, but never had a chance. And just don’t seem to meet the right VMware folks at my local VMUG meetings.

    My site’s articles are largely geared to home lab builder/enthusiasts, like myself. If you ever want to collect more details about ESXi 5.1 and shortcomings with USB 3.0, VMDirectPath, and SSD RAID caching, by all means, I could put together quite a list of my site visitor’s comments, and my own take.

    Let me know if any of this interests you, and if so, what is your favored method for me to contact you. Thank you!

  28. Imran says

    28 November, 2012 at 00:53

    Congratulations Duncun !! Best of luck in your new role

  29. Santosh says

    28 November, 2012 at 06:29

    Congrats on your new role!! Wishing you all the best!!!

  30. vpourchet says

    28 November, 2012 at 13:22

    Hi Duncan,

    All the best for your new position.

    best whishes

    v

  31. Uttam Kumar says

    28 November, 2012 at 20:31

    Looks like storage vmotion finally :))
    Cheers

  32. Eric Gray says

    28 November, 2012 at 22:32

    Congratulations, Duncan!

  33. David Hill says

    28 November, 2012 at 23:54

    Congrats Duncan, well deserved move. Hope to continue working with you in the future in your new role.

    Hopefully some more awesome times and chicken feet ahead.

  34. Stein says

    29 November, 2012 at 00:09

    Congrats Duncan and good luck! Hope still to meet you around VMworld and other events around the world.

    cheers//stein

  35. Steve Ballmer says

    29 November, 2012 at 02:35

    CONGRATS!

    Can we get VMWARE to fix VM rename when moving between Datastores that Storage DRS broke?

  36. Eiad Al-Aqqad says

    29 November, 2012 at 06:21

    Congrats Duncan. I am sure we will start seeing some of those most requested features/enhancements coming in the next release of vSphere. Be ready to be bugged & buzzed!

    Enjoy the new challenge bro!

    Regards,
    Eiad Al-Aqqad

  37. Wen Yu says

    29 November, 2012 at 09:19

    sounds like a great move – enjoy and best of luck! congratulations!

  38. Steven Poitras says

    29 November, 2012 at 21:50

    Congrats – best of luck on the new venture!

  39. Marco Broeken says

    10 December, 2012 at 15:15

    Gefeliciteerd!!!

    Sounds like a lot of fun!

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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist in the Office of CTO of the Cloud Platform BU at VMware. He is a VCDX (# 007), the author of the "vSAN Deep Dive", the “vSphere Clustering Technical Deep Dive” series, and the host of the "Unexplored Territory" podcast.

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