Posts by David Hill

David Hill

David is a global technologist working within Veeam’s product strategy group to develop the company’s multi-cloud strategy. Prior to joining Veeam, David was the lead evangelist at VMware in the public cloud business unit. Over the past 20 years, he has been a successful entrepreneur, architect and business consultant, working with many top consultancies and businesses around the world. He is also a regular contributor to the virtualization community, a vExpert since 2012 and a former Veeam Vanguard. Follow David on twitter.

Business | November 7, 2018 (Updated January 11, 2024) 4 min to read

Stateful containers in production, is this a thing?

As the new world debate of containers vs virtual machines continues, there is also a debate raging about stateful vs stateless containers. Is this really a thing? Is this really happening in a production environment? Do we really need to backup containers, or can we just backup the data sets they access? Containers are not meant to be stateful are they? This debate rages daily on Twitter, reddit and pretty much in every conversation I have with customers.

David Hill

Technologist, Product Strategy

Business | October 5, 2018 (Updated May 2, 2024) 3 min to read

Considerations in a multi-cloud world

With the infrastructure world in constant flux, more and more businesses are adopting a multi-cloud deployment model. The challenges from this are becoming more complex and, in some cases, cumbersome. Read more

David Hill

Technologist, Product Strategy

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