Azmir Mohamed
Senior Director, Product Management
Azmir Mohamed has more than 20 years experience delivering datacenter and enterprise campus infrastructure products. Prior to joining Cloudscaling, he was Sr. Director, Product Management at Abiquo, a hypervisor agnostic enterprise software solution that enables organizations to leverage their existing virtualized infrastructure to enable IaaS. While at Abiquo, he was responsible for driving their product roadmap plus collaborated with their strategic technology partners in building automation, billing, compute and storage infrastructure integration.
Previously, he was held various senior product management roles at VMware, where he was responsible for defining market and product requirements for VMware’s proliferation, backup and storage replication product portfolio. During his time there, he was responsible for bringing the vSphere Replication, VMware Data Recovery and VMware Server products to market. Azmir was also spent 9 years at Cisco System where he had a variety of product management and technical roles in the multi-billion dollar Cisco Catalyst stackable switches business unit.
Azmir has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Brown University.
Posts by Azmir
The most advanced OpenStack-powered cloud infrastructure software just got better
Today, Cloudscaling announced Open Cloud System 2.5, our next major OCS release scheduled for availability this summer. New feature highlights in OCS 2.5 include:OCS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)OCS Block Storage snapshots plus production-ready enhancementsOpenStack Grizzly support, andNew certified hardware options … Continue reading
OpenStack DIY, Distributions and Systems
As you know, OpenStack is open source software for building private and public clouds. When Cloudscaling took Series A funding and pivoted to a pure product company in late 2011, it was a strategic move to use OpenStack as the … Continue reading
Cloudscaling OCS 2.0 – with Block Storage and Folsom Support – Now Shipping
This past week was an exciting one for the Cloudscaling team. While we already have customers deployed on our Essex-based OCS 1.x releases, we began our first Folsom-based OCS 2.0 customer deployments last month. As a refresher, Cloudscaling announced OCS … Continue reading
Elastic infrastructure: Down from the clouds vs. up from the enterprise datacenter
Surprisingly for some, very little in elastic clouds can be traced back to enterprise virtualization in the data center. Elastic clouds represent a new IT model created by the biggest of Internet players (Amazon, Google, Facebook, Twitter) out of necessity. … Continue reading
