As I draft this blog post on my way back from VMworld 2014, I have mixed sentiments to share.I spent my IT career (roughly 20 years) on a finite number of technologies that I ended up specializing in (somehow). It has been a progression that looks like this: Unix (briefly), Microsoft and, eventually, VMware. What characterized all these experiences was a sense of stable use cases and best practices. Back in 2008 (pick up any year between 2005 and 2012) the way Bank of America (a name I picked up out of the blue, never worked with them) would deploy an infrastructure was not vastly different than how a small SMB in Turkey would.