Erik Zandboer
Erik Zandboer is a Cloud-Native Architect at Portworx, based in the Rotterdam area. He helps organizations across EMEA North accelerate Kubernetes and cloud-native adoption, with a strong focus on persistency for container workloads. Erik advises customers on modern application platforms, data services, and multi-cloud architectures, ensuring strategies align with business outcomes. His expertise spans Kubernetes, app modernization, automation, enterprise storage, and VMware. Previously, he held senior architect roles at Dell Technologies and worked at EMC as a vSpecialist.
Sessions
Containers are fast, agile, and scalable — but ephemeral by nature. Containers revolutionized agility and scale but brought new challenges like persistency. This session traces the journey from the dominance of virtual machines, to the rise of containers, and now to VMs running inside containers. Along the way, we’ll explore the birth of the Container Storage Interface (CSI) and how modern solutions like Portworx Enterprise enables enterprise-grade persistence, availability, and mobility for today’s hybrid workloads.
Want to get your hands dirty? Come join Red Hat and Portworx in this workshop where you will be installing OpenShift Virtualization, add Portworx Enterprise and run your own VM+container app, in your own sandbox environment! We will also be showcasing things like Live Migration as part of the lab. You should also bring your own laptop, preferably with the Chrome browser installed.