Alastair has made a twenty-year career out of helping people understand complex IT infrastructure and how to build solutions that fulfill business needs. Much of his career has included teaching official training courses for vendors, including HPE, VMware, and AWS.
Alastair has written hundreds of analyst articles and papers exploring products and topics around on-premises infrastructure and virtualization and getting the most out of public cloud and hybrid infrastructure. Alastair has also been involved in community-driven, practitioner-led education through the vBrownBag podcast and the vBrownBag TechTalks.
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From Silicon to Cloud: Microsoft and HPE Driving the Next Era of Hybrid Infrastructure
Enterprise infrastructure decisions around hybrid, edge, and sovereign cloud are no longer modernization exercises. They are long-term architectural commitments being shaped by AI adoption, data residency requirements, and governance mandates that cloud-only strategies cannot satisfy. Meena Gowdar and Justin Slane from Microsoft join Six Five at HPE Discover 2026 to examine how the Microsoft and HPE partnership is helping enterprises extend cloud capabilities, address sovereignty requirements, and modernize mission-critical workloads on a foundation built for what comes next.
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