About

I’m Eric Shanks — a Solutions Architect at Red Hat and someone who has been working in enterprise IT in a variety of capacities including service delivery, consulting, technical marketing, and sales. I’ve worked with customers installing data center equipment, designing solutions, identifying business value, and automating processes.

Primarily I’ve focused on technologies based on from VMware vSphere, Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, Microsoft, and Linux.

This blog has been running since 2012. It started as a way to document things I was figuring out, and it still is. The content follows whatever I’m working on — which right now means Red Hat’s technology stack.

It is my hope that you’ll find some nugget of insight from this blog, and pass along what you’ve learned to those still learning. Oh, and be good to each other.

Career

Senior Solutions Architect — Red Hat (2025–present)
Principal Technical Marketing Manager — Portworx by Pure Storage (2021–2025)
Staff Solutions Architect / Senior Technical Marketing Architect — VMware (2019–2021)
Solutions Principal / Senior Solutions Architect — AHEAD (2014–2019)

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General Disclosure This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation. The compensation received will never influence the content, topics or posts made in this blog. All advertising is in the form of advertisements generated by a third party ad network. Those advertisements will be identified as paid advertisements. The owner(s) of this blog is not compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the blog owners. If we claim or appear to be experts on a certain topic or product or service area, we will only endorse products or services that we believe, based on our expertise, are worthy of such endorsement. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer or provider. ...

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