Rene Bosman is the service provider major account manager for Infoblox Africa since June 2015. Rene Bosman was Cisco’s Manager for Data Center and Virtualization in Africa and managed a team of sales and engineering specialists across Africa. Since leaving university, he has worked in the IT industry for more than 20 years and brings with him a wealth of experience from routing and switching and Data Centers. Rene joined Cisco in late 1997 and started his career as a global account manager for a Fortune 500 enterprise oil and gas customer. Within this role he has been involved in several complex projects, from building a global wide area networks to the implementation of large data center consolidation projects with global coverage. In 2008 Rene moved to Africa and focused on developing the Data Center business for Cisco in Africa allowing Cisco to scale, exceeding considerably the expected market acceptance.In addition, Rene is a keynote speaker at conferences. To support the above disciplines, he developed a high level of competency in the following areas; Business Case development for IT investments, technology recommendations, Data Center consolidation, security and new technology developments such as Software Defined Networking and Cloud computing, project management & delivery and technical Infrastructure planning.