Thomas MM is the Practice Lead for Data Centre Transformation at Dell-India, focussed on Virtualization and Cloud Computing. Having worked in diverse roles from Sales, Presales, Support and as Solutions Architect, he has handled complex IT projects for customer's across the IT segment. With over 21 years of experience; he has consulted for hundreds of customers across the Indian sub-continent on presales consulting, architect, design, deployment of enterprise technology solutions.

Thomas is specialised in Virtualization, Server Consolidation, Disaster Recovery, Client/Desktop Virtualization, Virtual Datacentre design, Converged Infrastructure, Cloud Computing - OpenStack, VMware vCloud Director, Microsoft Private Cloud, CloudStack, NexentaStor, etc.

Additional technical and business expertise & experience includes:

Collaboration, Middleware, Databases.
IBM Softwares (Lotus, DB2, WebSphere, Tivoli & Rational).
Symantec Storage Management Softwares, Networking.
Hardware Platforms - Servers-RISC & x86, Storage from: IBM, Sun Microsystems, HP & Dell.
Operating Systems such as, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, Linux, QNX, RT Linux, DR-DOS & Microsoft Windows.
Software Developer - C/C++, Java.
Hardware Design - Embedded Systems. FPGA, VHDL, VLSI, Industrial PC, PC/104, Digital Signal Processing

Thomas is currently certified on Virtualization and Cloud technologies from VMware & Microsoft. He also holds several industry certifications from IBM, Microsoft, VMware, Sun Microsystems, Veritas, HP and IETE.