Ernest is a Chief Architect of Research and Development who designs and implements secure virtualized infrastructures, private, public and hybrid cloud computing environments and dynamic datacenter infrastructures.
His clients include Fortune 500 enterprises in the Financial, Healthcare and Commercial sectors as well as the U.S. Department of Defense.
Holding advanced degrees in Information Technology and Business, Ernest is a rare asset that understands the needs of the business as well as the deep technical issues that IT departments face. He has a natural talent in which he can explain difficult concepts easily to non-technical people as well as translate business goals and initiatives into robust technical solutions. For more information, please visit Ernest’s enterprise IT blog at http://www.siliconwhisperer.com. You can contact Ernest via the information listed at the top right of the page.
Ernest is an expert in cross platform integration, platform migration and distributed application development. He has deep knowlede of many open source technologies and frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, LAMP servers, Snort IDS/IPS, Linux based Forensics, Rule Based Firewalls, Samba Server, Type 1 and Type 2 Hypervisors, Thin Client Deployment and OS Containers.
Cloud Computing Expertise
Servers, Storage, and Networking
Virtualization Expertise
Work regularly with Intel x86 servers from Sun, HP, Dell, IBM, Cisco and SPARC servers from Sun and Hitachi.
Work regularly with networking products from Cisco, Foundry, Brocade, Juniper. HP ProCurve and F5 BigIP..
Work regularly with storage products from EMC, NetApp, 3PAR, BlueArc, Sun, Hitachi and DotHill.
Expertise with Sun Solaris Unix, RedHat and Ubuntu Linux, Windows Server 2003 & 2008, and Mac OSX Server.
Expertise with Java Tomcat and IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS).
Expertise with Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server databases.
Expertise with Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx and Microsoft IIS.
Expert in virtualization from VMware VSphere 4 & ESX 3.X, RedHat KVM and xen, Citrix Xen Server 5, Parallels Virtuozzo and Sun Microsystems xVM and Virtualbox.
Expert in Virtual Desktop Infrastructures such as SecureTek CAMS, VMware View, and Citrix Xen Desktop.
Expert in cloud computing, focusing on products such as Eucalyptus and Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud to deploy private, public and hybrid clouds. Expert on refactoring applications for cloud computing environments or refactoring applications to achieve application level redundancy across a dynamic datacenter infrastructure.