#711 TT: Ditch Your Comfort Zone with Duncan Epping, Chief Technologist of VMware

Today we have an episode of Tech Titans. It features summary episodes of our best leadership advice from Modern CTO. Duncan Epping, the Chief Technologist of VMware, joins us in this episode to share his greatest leadership advice on taking steps forward in your career and how to get out of your comfort zone.

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About Duncan Epping:

Duncan Epping is VMware’s Senior Director and Chief Technologist for HCI. In that role, he serves as a partner and trusted adviser to VMware’s customers and partners. Main responsibilities are ensuring VMware’s HCI future innovations align with essential customer needs and translating customer problems to 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 6 patents granted and 5 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 like IP EXPO, Partner Exchange and VMUG User Conferences globally. Duncan has presented at every VMworld in the US and Europe since 2009.

About VMware:

At VMware, we believe that software has the power to unlock new opportunities for people and our planet. We look beyond the barriers of compromise to engineer new ways to make technologies work together seamlessly. Our compute, cloud, mobility, networking and security offerings form a digital foundation that powers the apps, services and experiences that are transforming the world. Since our founding over two decades ago, our 24,000+ employee community and ecosystem of 75,000 partners have been behind the technology innovations transforming entire industries – from banking, healthcare, and government to retail, telecommunications, manufacturing, and transportation. Every day, we work to solve our customers’ toughest challenges through disruptive technologies like edge computing, artificial intelligence, blockchain, machine learning, Kubernetes and more – to define the digital foundation that will accelerate the next wave of innovation.