When people ask why I still invest so much time building and teaching workshops after more than two decades in this field, the answer is simple: IT infrastructure keeps getting more powerful, but it hasn’t gotten any easier. Every year the stakes rise. Hybrid cloud intricacy grows. Lifecycle decisions carry more operational weight. And now we’re integrating data pipelines, AI workflows, and GPU-driven compute into environments originally designed for much simpler times. 

That’s why IT training still matters in 2026. And that’s not just introductory training or mundane “check the box” training. I’m talking about real, hands-on engineering education that improves how teams run their data centers day to day.

Thirty-six years ago, out of a garage, Belisario Rosas founded WEI with an engineering-first mind set. Almost four decades later, that mindset remains at the center of everything we do. We hire engineers first. We empower them to invent, refine, and challenge assumptions. We built Knowledge Transfer Centers and multiple labs because we believe you cannot teach (or design) enterprise infrastructure without touching the equipment yourself. 

That same engineering-first culture is what drives the workshops I build and lead today. 

Why Do I Still Teach Workshops? 

I started teaching virtualization long before formal training existed. Back in the ESX 1.5 days, most of us were learning by trial, error, and careful note-taking. There were no best practices yet, just practitioners with a mission and a lot of questions. 

That early experience shaped my view of what high-quality training should be: 

• Hands-on, not theoretical 

• Aligned to business requirements 

• Rooted in design decisions, not just features 

• Practical enough to use the next morning in production 

I’ve carried that philosophy forward across every technology evolution, from early VMware hosts to today’s software-defined datacenters and hybrid architectures. 

Even more, our customers trust us to help design and operate mission-critical environments. That means we must ensure the teams running those environments have the confidence and clarity to make good decisions. We don’t drop-ship products and wish you luck. We open, test, validate, integrate, and teach. As a result, workshops are a natural extension of that commitment. 

Why WEI Workshops Look Different 

We offer workshops because your operational outcomes depend on how well your team understands the platform you run. And we invest in the facilities to make that possible: 

• 2,500 sq. ft. Knowledge Transfer Center for in-person workshops 

• Proof-of-Concept Lab where we test real solutions exactly as they’ll run in your environment 

• Demo Lab for competitive comparisons 

• Integration & Testing Lab where we build actual stacks before they reach your datacenter 

Our engineering team’s unique value add is that we conduct architecting, tuning, breaking things safely, and rebuilding them right beside you. 

This matters because the role of IT infrastructure today is unforgiving. Downtime is expensive. Hybrid cloud misalignment is expensive. Delayed lifecycle work is expensive. 
 

A well-trained team is one of the strongest defenses against those realities. 

What I Focus On When I Teach 

No matter the subject, whether it be PowerShell, Nutanix, or VMware by Broadcom, my workshops always return to three fundamentals. 

1. Everything must map to a business requirement: If you tune a cluster, change a storage policy, or redesign a network segment, there must be a business reason. This avoids overcomplication and makes designs more defensible. 

2. Keep it simple where possible: I remind attendees constantly that every knob or toggle comes with an implication. Simpler architectures survive patch cycles, lifecycle updates, and staff turnover. They also reduce MTTR when something goes wrong. 

3. Reduce ongoing ownership tasks: Too many designs focus on deployment and ignore the next five years of operations. Workshops give us room to talk about predictable lifecycle planning, clustering strategies, policy inheritance, and minimizing touch points. 

These ideas are especially important for our VP of Infrastructure and Director of IT audience members. Training helps your team align technical choices with those outcomes. 

A Look Inside the 2026 Workshops 

Intro to PowerShell 

Most infrastructure teams are still overloaded with manual effort. PowerShell changes that. This workshop builds practical skills (terminology, scripts, modules, and VMware PowerCLI) that help teams automate repeatable tasks and shrink the margin of human error. 

This matters because Gartner continues to report that human error drives a significant share of operational outages. When engineers leave the workshop saying, “I can script that now,” they’ve gained hours back in their week. 

Nutanix AHV 

AHV continues its rise as more enterprises adopt HCI to support hybrid cloud and AI-ready workloads. But running AHV well requires understanding storage container design, networking, template strategy, and operational lifecycle. 

This workshop is intentionally hands-on. My goal is to demystify AHV so teams can run it confidently, not just deploy it successfully. 

VCF for vSphere Admins 

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is reshaping how organizations standardize, secure, license, and lifecycle-manage their VMware environments. But the transition from traditional vSphere requires clarity. 

This workshop compares VCF and VVF directly, explains the architectural differences, and shows how lifecycle automation changes operational realities. Attendees get practical insight into subscription entitlements, design impacts, and adoption paths that avoid unnecessary disruption. 

The VCF bundle is powerful, but only when teams understand what decisions it makes on their behalf. 

Why Leadership Should Care About IT Training in 2026 

IDC recently reported that organizations with strong skills development programs experience significantly fewer unplanned outages and faster recovery when incidents occur. Those aren’t soft benefits, but rather they’re executive metrics. 

A trained team: 

• Reduces configuration drift 

• Avoids downtime through better decisions 

• Improves patching and lifecycle consistency 

• Operates hybrid environments predictably 

• Supports AI and GPU-based workloads with confidence 

• Protects uptime and reduces operational escalations 

The Real Reason I Still Teach 

After delivering hundreds of workshops, the part that still motivates me is watching someone make the connection between a design choice and its business impact. That’s when the lightbulb turns on and training becomes value. 

My goal is to make sure: 

• They understand why the platform behaves the way it does 

• They can defend their architectural decisions 

• They leave with operational confidence 

• They know WEI is there as a partner and not just another IT solutions provider 

Learn More About Our Workshop Series

WEI’s 2026 workshop series offers practical, real-world learning designed to empower your team and elevate your infrastructure outcomes. If you’re ready to deepen your technical expertise, stay ahead of industry trends, and gain the confidence to tackle tomorrow’s challenges, learn more about WEI’s full workshop series by contacting marketing@wei.com.