
Business Connexion Presenter: Sekete Patrick Maphopha
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Short ProfileNetApp Sales Engineer for SADC region & Angola - Based in South AfricaI have been in the IT industry for the past 22 years having worked for Siemens and Siemens Nixdorf as a Telecommunication Engineer - building and installing Mobile Base Stations and as a Field Systems Engineer – Installing and supporting Business |
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Systems respectively. I have also worked for the Sentrachem Group as IT Operations Administrator responsible for Windows, Linux, UNIX, Backup and Recovery, Business Continuance, LAN, WAN and Business Systems Support. For the past 12 years I have worked in various roles as Technical Account Manager, Systems Consultant, and Solution Architect in the Storage and Server industry for EMC, Dell Computer Systems and NetApp. My experience has been around providing NAS, SAN, Business Continuance, Backup and Recovery, Archiving and Virtualization solutions to the Financial, Telecommunication industries as well as Government institutions and Medium to Small Enterprise. |
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IVA - Imagine Virtually Anything "The Journey to Virtualization and the Cloud – The Collaboration between VMware, Cisco and NetApp in Helping customers build their Dynamic Data Centers by providing ITaaS or what many call an internal cloud. Customers require a flexible IT solution that will fit into their current infrastructure, yet will scale for future growth. And allowing IT transformation to either a private or public Cloud. Cisco, NetApp, and VMware are driving the unified fabric and unified storage as the way to achieve the highest possible DC compute density = the most efficient data center." Multiplay its changing the game |
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