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William Caban-Babilonia

Senior Cloud Architect

Cisco Champion

William Caban has over 18 years of experience architecting, designing, and delivering solutions in the fields of advanced networking, data centers and cloud services for service providers, financial, healthcare and government institutions.

William’s experience includes technical architecture and operation of a high performance computing facility at a large university system in the Caribbean, design and implementation of multi-service MPLS networks for service providers in the Caribbean, design and implementation of public and private clouds in Latin America and Caribbean.

Today, William provides mentorship and professional services through Cisco, NetApp and VMware Partners in LATAM and Caribbean in the fields of Data Centers and Cloud services.

As a CCSI he delivers Cisco data center technologies trainings in the Americas region.

His passion is to enable governments and businesses transformation through technology. Changing the world one “bit” at a time.

William holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Sciences from University of Puerto Rico.

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November 9, 2015

PERSPECTIVES

Interacting with Metapod from the OpenStack CLI (or Building your OpenStack CLI VM)

Back in September 2014 Cisco acquired private OpenStack cloud service company Metacloud (http://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?articleId=1489587). Initially known as Cisco OpenStack Private Cloud (COPC) and now known as Cisco Metapod®. Cisco Metapod represents one of most robust and scalab…

March 12, 2015

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A Summary of Cisco VXLAN Control Planes: Multicast, Unicast, MP-BGP EVPN

With the adoption of overlay networks as the standard deployment for multi-tenant network, Layer2 over Layer3 protocols have been the favorite among network engineers. One of the Layer2 over Layer3 (or Layer2 over UDP) protocols adopted by the industry is VXLAN. Now, as with any other overlay networ…

July 30, 2014

PERSPECTIVES

Summary: Decoding UCS Invicta – Part 3

In part one of this series we covered the internals of HDDs, in part two we went over the internals of SSD, In part three we continue reviewing storage concepts to refresh or learn the right lingo. Lets start by understanding “Redundant Array of Independent Disks” (RAID). There are RAID levels like…

July 29, 2014

DATA CENTER

Decoding UCS Invicta – Part 3

In part one of this series we covered the internals of HDDs, in part two we went over the internals of SSD, In part three we continue reviewing storage concepts to refresh or learn the right lingo. Lets start by understanding “Redundant Array of Independent Disks” (RAID). There are RAID levels like…

June 26, 2014

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DATA CENTER

Decoding UCS Invicta – Part 2

Solid State Drives (SSD) 101 In part one of this series we covered the internals of HDDs and some basic techniques manufacturers use to increase performance. In part two we are going into a deep dive of Solid State Drives (SSD), how they work, and some caveats. Solid State Drives (SSD) The solid-sta…

June 26, 2014

PERSPECTIVES

Summary: Decoding UCS Invicta Part 2

Solid State Drives (SSD) 101 In part one of this series we covered the internals of HDDs and some basic techniques manufacturers use to increase performance. In part two we are going into a deep dive of Solid State Drives (SSD), how they work, and some caveats. The solid-state drives (SSDs) have a s…

June 25, 2014

PERSPECTIVES

Summary: Decoding UCS Invicta Part 1

Storage 101 Less than a year ago, October 29th 2013, Cisco acquired Whiptail {http://newsroom.cisco.com/release/1279074}, a high performance scalable solid-state memory system. Shortly after its acquisition, the product lines were renamed UCS Invicta. The idea behind UCS Invicta and its market posit…

June 25, 2014

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DATA CENTER

Decoding UCS Invicta – Part 1

Storage 101 Less than a year ago, October 29th 2013, Cisco acquired Whiptail , a high performance scalable solid-state memory system. Shortly after its acquisition, the product lines were renamed UCS Invicta. The idea behind UCS Invicta and its market positioning is application acceleration. This is…