About Me

Currently, I’m a Principal Cloud Architect at SafeNet Consulting. SafeNet is a Microsoft Gold partner where we are a cloud service provider for Azure and provide services around cloud migrations, hybrid cloud, modern applications and AI.

Digital Thought Disruption was started as a way to help those who are seeking to digitally transform their environments or adopt new cloud operating models in their environment.

My career began with me as a hardware junkie like many beginning with EMC storage. From there I moved into the DR/Backup space, x86 compute, virtualization, hyperconvergd infrastructures, and finally into cloud computing. This full life cycle of technologies and my years in consulting have given me a wide breathe of knowledge of datacenter technologies, which I brought to multiple enterprise corporations.

I just hope these guidelines and thoughts help you on your digital journey. You can find my linkedin and twitter links below. Fee free to reach out if you have any questions.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulbryantemc/

https://twitter.com/emcpebryant

Communities:
vExpert 2019-2023
vExpert NSX 2020-21
vExpert Cloud Management 2020-21
Co-Leader VMConAWS VMUG Community

Certifications
• VMware VCP-NV 2019 NSX-T 2.4 Data center
• VMware VCP-DCV 2019
• VMware vSAN 6.7 2019 Specialist
• VMware Cloud on AWS – Software Defined Data Center 2019
• VMware SD-WAN Foundations 2020
• Dell Technologies Cloud Platform Implementer
• Dell Technologies Cloud Platform Engineer
• DellEMC Cloud Architect Expert
• Azure Fundamentals
• DellEMC VxRail Xpert
• DellEMC DCS-SA VxRail
• DellEMC DCS-IE VxRail
• VMware Certified Associate – Digital Business Transformation 2020
• Dell Technologies and VMware Co-Skilled Associate – Converged Systems and Hybrid Cloud
• Palo Alto Networks PCCSA
• Nutanix Platform Professions (NPP)
• Nutanix Systems Engineering Champion (NSEC)
• Nutanix Install and configuration Expert
• Nutanix Consulting Partner Installation (NCPI)
• EMC Technical Architect – VNX
• EMC Technical Architect – Isilon
• EMC Technical Architect – XtremIO
• EMC Implementation Engineer Isilon
• EMC Implementation Engineer Xtremio 4.x
• EMC Implementation Engineer Backup & Recovery Avamar Specialist
• EMC Implementation Engineer Unity Specialist
• HP Designing Backup Solutions
• HP Storage Solutions Foundations

Courses taken with no associated cert:
• VMware Enterprise PKS: Install, Configure, Manage [V1.5]
• VMware Site Recovery Manager: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.2]