Previous to Canopy, Simon was working for VMware for over three years in which he has helped some of VMware's largest European customers design and deploy VMware View into their businesses. In addition to his project experience at Canopy and VMware, Simon has worked in a wide range of IT environments ranging from cloud providers, education institutes to financial shops. Alongside his day job, Simon also spends a lot of time blogging about virtualization related topics on his personal blog called The SLOG (simonlong.co.uk).