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Martin Hosken is employed as a global cloud architect within the VMware Global Cloud Practice, which is part of its Cloud Provider Software Business Unit.
He has extensive experience architecting and consulting with international customers and designing the transition of organizations' legacy infrastructure onto VMware cloud-based platforms. His broad and deep knowledge of physical and virtualized services, platforms, and cloud infrastructure solutions is based on involvement and leadership in the global architecture, design, development, and implementation of large-scale, complex, multitechnology projects for enterprises and cloud service providers. He is a specialist in designing, implementing, and integrating best-of-breed, fully redundant Cisco, EMC, IBM, HP, Dell, and VMware systems into enterprise environments and cloud service providers' infrastructure.
In addition, Martin is a double VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX #117) in Data Center Virtualization and Cloud Management and Automation. (See the Official VCDX directory available at http://vcdx.vmware.com.) Martin also holds a range of industry certifications from other vendors such as EMC, Cisco, and Microsoft, including MCITP and MCSE in Windows Server and Messaging.
He has been awarded the annual VMware vExpert
