Duan van der Westhuizen leads Product Marketing for the Rackspace Private Cloud portfolio. Duan has spent more than 15 years in IT in a wide range of avenues including systems engineering, database development and design, web development, business intelligence and product management. He has worked in various global locations including Africa, North America and the United Kingdom, where he started in 2006 at the Rackspace office in London. Before moving to Product Marketing, Duan was the Product Line Leader for Rackspace Managed Virtualization. Duan currently lives in San Antonio with his wife, his baby daughter and their two dogs.Since the OpenStack-