Shailesh Surroop

Assistant Manager - IS Infrastructure at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
Has 10+ Years Of Experience

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User Activity

About 8 years ago

Answered a question: What is the biggest difference between SimpliVity and Nutanix

Both Nutanix and Simplivity are great solutions for the modern IT infrastructure Advantages of Nutanix over Simplivity are; choice of hardware to run Nutanix, choice of hypervisor (supports Hyper-V, Xenserver, AHV and VMware), Prism management console is pure pleasure to…

Over 8 years ago

Answered a question: What unique aspects of HCI does Nutanix provide that other HCI solutions do not?

We looked at EMC VXrail, Simplivity and a custom-designed solution based on EMC ScaleIO but Nutanix came on top as we wanted a cost effective solution that will give us the ability to manage any workload and allow us to do box-to-box replication. Prism (Nutanix's management…

Over 10 years ago

Commented on We're not tied to a single piece of hardware so we can quickly adjust, but it needs to gain more market share to incentivize improvement.

Fully agree with Eric about the integration of Xenserver with other vendors, especially with storage vendors. But i guess the gap is closing especially with the popularity that software defined storage is taking. Sooner we may see the likes of Citrix Melio fully integrating…

Almost 11 years ago

Contributed a review of Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service): It is easy to deploy and maintain, but the studio needs to be sped up.

Almost 11 years ago

Contributed a review of Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service): We've found it to be extremely versatile and efficient, but the studio is very slow.

Almost 11 years ago

Answered a question: What advantages do you see with Citrix XenApp or Desktop Solutions?

Hi there XenDesktop gives a full desktop experience i.e. the user gets a Windows machine with a C drive and loaded with a set of applications such as mail, productivity suites and access to files. XenApp however restricts access to only those applications that you, as the…

Projects

Almost 11 years ago

Managed a desktop virtualisation project of 500 users.

Managed a desktop virtualisation project of 500 users. Completed over a weekend.

Experience

Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service)

Reviews

Almost 11 years ago

Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service)

It is easy to deploy and maintain, but the studio needs to be sped up.

Almost 11 years ago

Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service)

We've found it to be extremely versatile and efficient, but the studio is very slow.

Answers

About 8 years ago

HCI

What is the biggest difference between SimpliVity and Nutanix

Over 8 years ago

HCI

What unique aspects of HCI does Nutanix provide that other HCI solutions do not?

Almost 11 years ago

Application Virtualization

What advantages do you see with Citrix XenApp or Desktop Solutions?

Comments

Over 10 years ago

Server Virtualization Software

We're not tied to a single piece of hardware so we can quickly adjust, but it needs to gain more market share to incentivize improvement.

About me

12 years+ strong background in IT implementation and systems management, with strong emphasis on infrastructure and service delivery. Consistently goal oriented with strong leadership capabilities. Highly organised, motivated, and detail-directed problem solver. Ability to direct complex projects from concept to fully operational status. Sharp and quick to assimilate compound technical and organisational information, understand issues and interpret the findings to non-technical audience. Accomplished in developing and implementing policies and procedures.

Currently looking after the whole IT infrastructure of the Mauritius Union Group in Mauritius, Seychelles, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.

Education

University of Sunderland
University of Sunderland

Interesting Projects and Accomplishments

Almost 11 years ago

Managed a desktop virtualisation project of 500 users.