{"id":2,"date":"2008-09-29T16:29:22","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T21:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/virtualizeplanet.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2014-11-29T22:55:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T22:55:07","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/virtualizeplanet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/UKVMUG2014.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1103\" src=\"http:\/\/virtualizeplanet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/UKVMUG2014-300x153.png\" alt=\"Ricky El-Qasem\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"http:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/UKVMUG2014-300x153.png 300w, http:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/UKVMUG2014.png 840w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ricky El-Qasem<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; <strong>Private Cloud Chief Technologist<\/strong> @ <strong>Canopy Cloud<\/strong>, developer of <strong>vSphere Plugin Wizard<\/strong> and <strong>vDisk Informer<\/strong>. Previous roles include <strong>Northern EMEA Technical Director with Liquidware Labs<\/strong>, <strong>Director of Global Education Services with Veeam Software<\/strong>, lead virtualisation consultant and lead VMware instructor.<\/p>\n<p>Ricky is founder of Virtualizeplanet.com and dedicates his life to virtualisation and cloud.<\/p>\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:ricky@virtualizeplanet.com\">ricky@virtualizeplanet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/virtualizeplanet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/certlogos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-357\" title=\"certlogos\" src=\"http:\/\/virtualizeplanet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/certlogos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"http:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/certlogos.jpg 331w, http:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/certlogos-300x137.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Ricky El-Qasem\u00a0&#8211; Private Cloud Chief Technologist @ Canopy Cloud, developer of vSphere Plugin Wizard and vDisk Informer. 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