About ConsulCat

Digital Transformation

I feel fortunate to have been able to experience and feel the evolution that information technology has undergone since the birth of the first PC that IBM launched in 1981. It was very successful with its open architecture.

I describe below my journey through the different great eras of IT:

1. Open Systems
2. Virtualization
3. Cloud

Open Systems Era
My first knowledge began to grow at the same rate as the IBM DOS operating system did during the 80s, until Microsoft Windows took over with its version 3.1, in 1992. This was a year before I finished my studies as an analyst programmer , in the year 1993.

It was the time when practically every company had its own server room. That is, where to host your company servers (file servers, email servers, domain servers, databases, etc).

I started working in 1994, a year before the arrival of revolutionary Windows 1995 and the Windows NT 4.0 version, for companies. In 1998, I passed the Microsoft MCSE certification, which still serves me today, since despite the advances since that time, there are bases that have followed the same since then, such as DNS, DHCP, TCP / IP , routes, domains, scripts, SQL, etc.

In 2001, I came from Canada to Europe, the same year that the famous Windows XP and Windows 2000 landed, with its revolutionary Active Directory, which we still use today.

Virtualization Era
In 2002 I had the opportunity to have my first contact with the new technology of VMware ESX, which marked a before and after in the evolution of IT. I remember perfectly when I mounted my first virtual Windows 2000 server, on a VMware ESX hypervisor, at the Bank of France headquarters in Paris.

A few years later, Microsoft also entered the world of virtualization with its Hyper-V technology. I have been working with both technologies ever since. Today, server installations on servers in CPDs are virtually all virtualized, mostly with VMware or Hyper-V technologies.

Cloud era
Although the strongest cloud boom has begun to be noticed after 2010 for most people, during the 2000s companies like IBM, Google, Apple, Amazon and Sales Force were already focusing their businesses on the use of the Cloud. For my part, I started working with Google's G-Suite family of products shortly after their launch in 2008.

In 2012 I had my first contacts in private Cloud projects in banking environments and in 2016 I started to work more closely with the AWS and Azure solutions of the giants Amazon and Microsoft, specifically for scenarios of backup, disaster recovery, replication and business continuity, supported by hybrid solutions with public Cloud.