Duncan Epping

Duncan Epping is VMware’s Senior Director and Chief Technologist in EMEA for the Cloud Infrastructure Business Group with a primary focus on hyper-converged infrastructure and disaster recovery. In that role, he serves as a partner and trusted adviser to VMware’s customers and partners. Main responsibilities are ensuring VMware’s cloud platform innovations align with essential customer needs and translating customer problems into opportunities. Duncan is a recognized leader in the technical community and considered one of the top 50 most influential leaders globally on the subject of Storage & Availability, Virtualization, and Cloud. He has 8 patents granted and 10+ patents pending on the topic of availability, storage, and resource management.

Duncan was amongst the first VMware Certified Design Expert’s (VCDX007) and the main author and owner of VMware/Virtualization blog Yellow-Bricks.com, which is one of the leading virtualization / hyper-converged / SDDC blogs. Duncan is a regular keynote speaker at industry events and VMware User Group Conferences globally. Duncan has presented at every VMworld in the US and Europe since 2009.

He is the author of :
– vSAN Deep Dive (2019)
– vSphere Clustering Deep Dive (2018)
– Essential Virtual SAN (second edition) (2016)
– vSphere HA Deepdive (Gitbook) (2016)
– Essential Virtual SAN (2014)
– vSphere 5.1 Clustering Technical Deepdive (2012)
– vSphere 5.0 Clustering Technical Deepdive (2011)
– VMware vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS Technical Deepdive (2010)
– vSphere Quick Start Guide (2009)
– Foundation for Cloud Computing with VMware vSphere 4 (2010)
– Cloud Computing with VMware vCloud Director (2011)

ware’s Senior Director and Chief Technologist in EMEA for the Cloud Infrastructure Business Group with a primary focus on hyper-converged infrastructure and disaster recovery. In that role, he serves as a partner and trusted adviser to VMware’s customers and partners. Main responsibilities are ensuring VMware’s cloud platform innovations align with essential customer needs and translating customer problems into opportunities. Duncan is a recognized leader in the technical community and considered one of the top 50 most influential leaders globally on the subject of Storage & Availability, Virtualization, and Cloud. He has 8 patents granted and 10+ patents pending on the topic of availability, storage, and resource management.

Duncan was amongst the first VMware Certified Design Expert’s (VCDX007) and the main author and owner of VMware/Virtualization blog Yellow-Bricks.com, which is one of the leading virtualization / hyper-converged / SDDC blogs. Duncan is a regular keynote speaker at industry events and VMware User Group Conferences globally. Duncan has presented at every VMworld in the US and Europe since 2009.

He is the author of :
– vSAN Deep Dive (2019)
– vSphere Clustering Deep Dive (2018)
– Essential Virtual SAN (second edition) (2016)
– vSphere HA Deepdive (Gitbook) (2016)
– Essential Virtual SAN (2014)
– vSphere 5.1 Clustering Technical Deepdive (2012)
– vSphere 5.0 Clustering Technical Deepdive (2011)
– VMware vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS Technical Deepdive (2010)
– vSphere Quick Start Guide (2009)
– Foundation for Cloud Computing with VMware vSphere 4 (2010)
– Cloud Computing with VMware vCloud Director (2011)

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