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Damir Lukic

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Owner, Virtual People Ltd.

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Virtual People Ltd. - cloud migration project management and cloud IT business consulting.

Working as cloud administrator team leader for Versata Inc. - US based company completely using cloud tehnologies for day-to-day business operations. I am emplyed as a freelance consultant and ...

Virtual People Ltd. - cloud migration project management and cloud IT business consulting.

Working as cloud administrator team leader for Versata Inc. - US based company completely using cloud tehnologies for day-to-day business operations. I am emplyed as a freelance consultant and cloud administrator team leader leading cloud migration projects (server migrations, Google Apps), cloud PBX central. As the administrator team leader I am working together with project managers on tasks related to importing newly acquired companys' IT to our cloud environment.

Worked as a VMware product manager and EMC/VMware presales consultant for the largest system integrator in SE Europe - S&T.

My main specializations are virtualization and storage technologies, but I also have a lot of knowledge in server, backup, data replication and disaster recovery technologies.

Worked with enterprise customers in banking and telecom sector.

LinkedIn profile: http://hr.linkedin.com/in/damirlukic

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April 18, 2012

Damir Lukic and 9 other people answered this question

Is there a Dropbox equivalent for the enterprise?

Citrix has an enterprise cloud storage offering called ShareFile, which is very similar to Dropbox, but has advanced features. Check www.sharefile.com. more

Information Technology

Dec. 14, 2011

Damir Lukic and 4 other people answered this question

Cloud Computing 2011 – Part 1: What event had the biggest impact on the cloud computing market?

VMware vCloud adoption - at least 20-30 new cloud providers adopted this technology

Information Technology

Cloud Computing

Impact Assessment

Dec. 2, 2011

Damir Lukic and 4 other people answered this question

Are the technical terms LPAR and Virtual Machine interchangeable?

Hi John,
LPAR's are logical CPU partitions just as virtual machines are (typical term used in x86 virtualization). We are not talking about hardware virtual machines (as in mainframe-era) with zoned CPU's gathered together acting as one (physical partitioning - example - 3 out of 12 ... more

Information Technology

Virtual Machine

Nov. 29, 2011

Damir Lukic and 10 other people answered this question

Why are people more interested in cloud computing?

From my experience working with different cloud platforms (iLand, Terremark, Softlayer, Amazon EC2) I like the idea of not having to worry about underlying hardware anymore. Disk drive failures, server outages are not my concern anymore.
So, some pros would be:
- 'layer' between hardware prone to ... more

Information Technology

Cloud Computing

Nov. 29, 2011

Damir Lukic and 4 other people answered this question

What should a good project management tool feature?

I was suggested to use Confluence. Had some brief intro, but didn't check it as it looked a bit complicated for what I need. more

Information Technology

Business Collaboration

Enterprise Software

Project Management

Nov. 29, 2011

Damir Lukic and 6 other people answered this question

Do you think “cloud” will continue to be a buzzword?

Just check how many new terms were accepted with rapid growth of IT industry.
email, google, windows, xerox, etc... So, yes, I would say that cloud will be added to this list. more

Cloud Application Platform

Cloud Applications

Cloud Computing

Nov. 29, 2011

Damir Lukic is now following Lauren Buchsbaum

Nov. 25, 2011

Damir Lukic and 7 other people answered this question

Why isn't virtualization cloud computing?

Simple and easy analogy (at least for public cloud):
your application or your OS = passenger
server virtualization = bus full of passengers
cloud = public transport service
cloud provider = public transport service company
Hope this helps a bit in understanding differences between terms. ... more

Information Technology

Cloud Computing

May 2, 2011

Damir Lukic and 4 other people answered this question

How frequently should companies back up their virtual servers?

VM's should be backed up depending on their business impact and applications that are run inside of them.
But generally, there are many backup technologies that can help you save space and reduce the backup window, so you might consider backing up more VM's with same ... more

Information Technology

April 27, 2011

Damir Lukic and 1 other person answered this question

VMware acquires SlideRocket - what is VMware trying to do? Is this a smart business move for them?

Seems that VMware is walking the way Google went with Google Docs.

Information Technology

Cloud Computing

Dec. 28, 2010

Damir Lukic answered this question

User reviews of VirtualBox 3.1?

Hi Mike,
note that Virtualbox 4.0 is out. Just google for it.
I prefer VMware Player/Workstation, but Virtualbox sounds like a real good product. more

Information Technology

Desktop Virtualization

Server Virtualization

Servers and Storage

Nov. 20, 2010

Damir Lukic asked a question

How to contact a major vendor with proposal to develop our product using their trademark?

Sept. 28, 2010

Damir Lukic and 4 other people answered this question

How expensive are fibre channel storage networks?

If you're building the SAN environment from scratch, avoid FC (unless you're a financial customer).
Go with iSCSI or AoE. It's much cheaper, no need for separate fibre-optics based network. Like ESG Labs mentioned, I'd recommend CORAID with their ATA over Ethernet too. AoE protocol ... more

Information Technology

Fibre Channel San Networking

Fibre Channel Storatge

Sept. 9, 2010

Damir Lukic recommends this answer by Andrew Baker

Which company makes the best quality disk array systems for the best price?

Mary,
Damir makes some excellent points. Typically, one does not think of a SAN solution from a "disk array" standpoint, but rather from the perspective of a set of features, including performance, redundancy, replication, deduplication, snapshots, on-the-fly expansion, etc.
What needs do you have which require a ... more

Information Technology

July 27, 2010

Damir Lukic recommends this answer by J Al Marquez-delaTorre

Hi Trent,
ISCSI is an abbreviation of Internet Small Computer System Interface, an Internet Protocol (IP)-based storage networking standard for linking data storage facilities.
By carrying SCSI commands over IP networks, iSCSI is used to facilitate data transfers over intranets and to manage storage over long distances.
It ... more

Information Technology

Servers and Storage

July 26, 2010

Damir Lukic and 1 other person answered this question

Reviews for EMC virtualization infrastructure?

EMC owns VMware, and this is the reason why the level of integration is so high. Everything is done in-house.
When talking about EMC (so far I understand is that you're unfamiliar with this company), it is good to know that EMC produces the Symmetrix, ... more

Information Technology

EMC Virtualization

IT Infrastructure

Servers and Storage

May 30, 2010

Damir Lukic recommends this answer by John V

How to name a new company that has a great potential on global market?

Naming companies and products certainly is not science; it’s more of an art.
There is no shortage of evidence that a successful name can be a brand’s most valuable asset, driving differentiation and extension, and fast-tracking customer acceptance.
Here’s a 9 point check-list to use for a ... more

Information Technology

Capital Letters

May 26, 2010

Damir Lukic recommends this answer by Don Herrmann

Do LinkedIn recommendations mean anything to recruiters and employers?

They are a good start. I agree that some component of "give and take" exists but I also feel that those who respond to or offer a recommendation are generally being honest.
How many times have you contacted a reference and sincerely received information that ... more

Human Resources

Information Technology

May 20, 2010

Damir Lukic and 1 other person answered this question

What are the benefits to iscsi storage?

One thing to keep in mind when planning to imeplement an iSCSI based solution - enable jumbo frames on NIC and on LAN switches (where possible). more

Human Resources

Information Technology

Servers and Storage

April 19, 2010

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