About Dennis Laube
Dennis grew up in the Denver, CO area, relocated to Salt Lake City, UT in 2014, and moved to the Greater Atlanta area in 2018. Passionate about technology, he spends his days helping customers navigate virtualization, enterprise applications, and data center infrastructure. Over his career, Dennis has consulted for hundreds of companies nationwide, including DirecTV, Princess Cruises, Pepperdine University, and Chipotle. Currently, he serves in a Competitive Intelligence role at Pure Storage and has spoken at numerous national events on topics like data center virtualization, end-user computing, hyper-converged infrastructure, and disaster recovery. In his free time, Dennis enjoys flying, coffee, whiskey and bourbon, traveling with his family, and volunteering. Specialties:
- 20+ years of IT experience with expert-level knowledge in emerging technologies
- Pre-sales Engineering & Solutions Architecture
- Solutions Selling (trained in The Challenger Sale and Force Management’s Command of the Message)
- Relationship building & complex problem-solving
- Enterprise storage solutions: Pure, Nutanix, EMC, NetApp, HPE, Dell
- Backup storage solutions: EMC, Veeam, Zerto, ExaGrid, Imation, Quantum
- x86 Blades/Servers: Nutanix, HPE, Cisco, Dell
- Converged & Hyper-Converged Infrastructure: Nutanix, FlexPod, Vblock, Cisco HyperFlex, HPE SimpliVity
- Public Cloud Architecture: AWS, Azure
- DevOps & Infrastructure-as-Code: VMware vRA, Nutanix Calm, Ansible, Jenkins
- Container Technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, GKE, EKS, AKS
- Enterprise data center design and architecture
- Business Continuity Planning & Disaster Recovery solutions
- Backup, Replication, Data Recovery, HSM, ILM
- Linux Administration with Bash Scripting (RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu)
Some stats on me
- Colorado native now living in the Greater Atlanta area
- Apple and Mac enthusiast
- Aviation lover
- Coffee and Espresso addict
- twitter – http://www.twitter.com/virtualdennis
- linkedin - http://www.linkedin.com/in/djlaube
- Blogs written for my employer - https://blog.purestorage.com/author/dlaube/
- email – dennis dot laube (@) gmail dot com
This blog is not affiliated nor does it reflect the opinion of the company I work for and is the personal opinion and ownership of Dennis Laube (myself the author) only.