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A TECHNOLOGY DEEP DIVE

Mostafa Khalil

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A Technology Deep Dive

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Mostafa Khalil is a senior staff engineer at VMware. He is a senior member of the VMware Engineering team and has worked for VMware for more than 18 years. Prior to joining VMware, he worked at Lotus/IBM. A native of Egypt, Mostafa graduated from the Al-Azhar Universitys School of Medicine and practiced medicine in Cairo. He became intrigued by the mini computer system used in his medical practice and began to educate himself about computing and networking technologies. After moving to the United States, Mostafa continued to focus on computing and acquired several professional certifications, including VCDX (3, 4, 5, and 6), VCAP (4, 5, and 6)-DCD, VCAP4-DCA, VCP (2, 3, 4, 5, and 6), MCSE, Master CNE, HP ASE, IBM CSE, and Lotus CLP.

As storage became a central element in the virtualization environment, Mostafa became an expert in this field. He has delivered several seminars and troubleshooting workshops at various VMware public events in the United States and elsewhere around the world.

Jonathan Van Meter has more than fifteen years of experience in enterprise infrastructure design and engineering for large enterprise, financial, and service provider customers. He is currently working as a solutions architect for Red Hat focusing on automation and cloud application services delivery. Jonathan has been an early mover in virtualization, converged infrastructure, and software defined networking production deployments. He holds multiple industry certifications including several VMware advanced professional certifications in data center virtualization and network virtualization and ISC2 CISSP. Jonathan is an active emerging tech community contributor in the Washington, D.C. metro area.