Florent Tastet

Montreal

Florent Tastet is an Enterprise Datacenter Solution Architect with the objective of understanding customer's IT and business environments, and using that knowledge to enhance the value derived from their current and future IT investments.

Florent has been tasked with delivering long term strategic guidance to IT Executives, including enterprise level clients, on the Server/Virtualization, Storage and Backup technologies.

As an Enterprise Datacenter Solution Architect, Florent holds a diverse set of skills; from technical depth, through strong organizational skills, and possesses a high degree of business acumen. Florent’s customer focus will help to build win-win relationships and successful client projects. He demonstrates excellent communication and presentation skills, and has the ability to establish, meet and manage deadlines.

Works collaboratively with account executives, performing early planning or pre-sales engagements for clients. He is a subject matter expert on emerging technologies in platforms, virtualization, storage and Data management technoligies; with proven core experience with infrastructure projects, storage, virtualization, networking, migrations and deployment.

Florent will help clients to rationalize and optimize their IT investments.

Recognized at vEXPERT 2013 and active member of VMware PTAB, Florent has a deep understanding of leading virtualization vendors’ technologies including Citrix (CCIA achieved) through EMC, Netapp, HP, Nimble and CheckPoint. Florent is aligned with several teams at VMware, Citrix, EMC, Netapp, HP and other partners, with product specializations in VMware product line, Citrix Xen product line, Microsoft Infrastructure product line, Network Infrastructure, and large physical to virtual migrations and has acquired over a decade and a half of IT experience in enterprise infrastructure design, implementation, and administration.

He has provided architectural and engineering expertise in a variety of virtualization, data center, and private cloud based engagements while working with high performance technical teams in tiered data center environments

  • Work
    • ESi Technologies
  • Education
    • Montréal University