The Virtualization Practice provides analysis, commentary, and resources on current Virtualization and Cloud Computing news, events, and community. We break Virtualization into Topics, and feature a world class expert in that topic as the analyst for the topic. Topic Analysts are responsible for writing original, objective, analytical posts in their area of expertise, for writing and maintaining a white paper on their market and the vendors that serve that market, and for assisting sponsoring vendors with marketing activities.
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Introducing our Analysts and Guest Writers:
| Edward Haletky Analyst — Virtualization Security Analyst — SMB Virtualization Analyst — Cloud Computing | |
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Edward L. Haletky, aka Texiwill, is the author of VMware vSphere(TM) and Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing the Virtual Environment as well as VMware ESX and ESXi in the Enterprise: Planning Deployment of Virtualization Servers, 2nd Edition. Edward owns AstroArch Consulting, Inc., providing virtualization, security, network consulting and development and The Virtualization Practice where he is also an Analyst. Edward is the Moderator and Host of the Virtualization Security Podcast as well as a guru and moderator for the VMware Communities Forums, providing answers to security and configuration questions. Edward is working on new books on Virtualization. |
| Bernd Harzog Analyst — Virtualization Performance and Capacity Management Analyst — IT as a Service | |
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Bernd Harzog is the Analyst at The Virtualization Practice for Performance and Capacity Management and IT as a Service (Private Cloud).
Bernd is also the CEO and founder of APM Experts a company that provides strategic marketing services to vendors in the virtualization performance management, and application performance management markets. Prior to these two companies, Bernd was the CEO of RTO Software, the VP Products at Netuitive, a General Manager at Xcellenet, and Research Director for Systems Software at Gartner Group. Bernd has an MBA in Marketing from the University of Chicago. |
| Tom Howarth Analyst — Data Center Virtualization | |
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Tom Howarth is an IT Veteran of over 15 years experience and is the owner of TCA Consultancy Ltd and PlanetVM.Net Ltd, Tom is a moderator of the VMware Communities forum. He is a contributing author on VMware vSphere(TM) and Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing ESX and the Virtual Environment, and the forthcoming vSphere a Quick Guide. He regularly does huge virtualization projects for enterprises in the U.K. and elsewhere in EMEA. Tom was Elected vExpert for 2009 in February 2009.      |
| Andrew Wood Analyst — Presentation Virtualization | |
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Andrew is a Director of Gilwood CS Ltd, based in the North East of England, which specialises in delivering and optimising server and application virtualisation solutions. With 12 years of experience in developing architectures that deliver server based computing implementations from small-medium size business to global enterprise solutions, his role involves examining emerging technology trends, vendor strategies, development and integration issues, and management best practices. |
| Joe Jessen Analyst — Desktop Virtualization | |
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Joe Jessen is an Analyst for Desktop Virtualization and Chief Solutions Officer for Gotham Technology Group’s Office of the CTO. Joe has extensive practical experience in enterprise solution implementation, system integration, network architecture, and security. Joe was formerly a Manager of Citrix Consulting Services and Global Director of Server Based Computing for FutureLink an international Application Service Provider |
| Mike Norman Analyst — Open Source | |
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Dr Mike Norman, IT Strategist and Entrepreneur – Open Source; Server Scalability and Performance; Virtual/Remote Desktop. 10 years as a CEO at Scapa Technologies ensuring the scalability and perfromance of the largest Citrix, TS and VDI implementations on the planet. 5 years on the Board of Directors of the Eclipse Open Source Foundation. Set up and led the Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Project. 5 years as an analyst/consultant – Large-scale Database, Data Warehouse. Currently implementing hosted systems for virtualised application delivery, based on open source stacks. |
| Steve Beaver Analyst — Data Center Virtualization | |
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Stephen Beaver is the co-author of VMware ESX Essentials in the Virtual Data Center and Scripting VMware Power Tools: Automating Virtual Infrastructure Administration as well as being contributing author of Mastering VMware vSphere 4 and How to Cheat at Configuring VMware ESX Server. Stephen is an IT Veteran with over 15 years experience in the industry. Stephen is a moderator on the VMware Communities Forum and was elected vExpert for 2009 and 2010. Stephen can also be seen regularly presenting on different topics at national and international virtualization conferences. |
| Simon Bramfitt Analyst — Desktop Virtualization | |
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Simon is an independent industry analyst covering enterprise desktop, mobile and application virtualization, delivery and management technologies.
He is an experienced solutions architect with unmatched insight into the challenges of designing large (200,000 seat plus) high availability presentation and desktop virtualization systems. Simon was invited to join the Citrix Technology Professionals (CTP) group in May 2010 and joined the Virtualization Practice in September 2010 |
| Greg Schulz Analyst — Storage Networking – Guest Blogger | |
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Greg Schulz is Founder and Sr. Analyst of independent IT advisory and consultancy firm Server and StorageIO (StorageIO). He has worked in IT at an electrical utility, financial services and transportation firms in roles ranging from business applications development to systems management and architecture planning. Greg has also worked for various vendors in addition to an analyst firm before forming StorageIO. Mr. Schulz is author of several books (Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking – CRC Press, The Green and Virtual Data Center – CRC Press, Resilient Storage Networks: Designing Flexible Scalable Data Infrastructures – Elsevier), active with social media with his engaging approach and a top ranked blogger. He has a degree in computer science and master’s degree in software engineering. Learn more at www.storageio.com |
| Ryan Shriver Analyst — Agile Cloud Development | |
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Ryan Shriver is a Managing Consultant with Dominion Digital, an award-winning process and technology-consulting firm. Based in Richmond, VA he leads their Innovative Products solution that helps people deliver the right products at the right time, quickly with high quality. With services related to experience, value, speed and quality, he helps clients holistically focus on improving their customer’s experience.
Working with Internet technologies since 1995 and practicing Agile since 2001, Ryan has deep experience in systems architecture and large-scale agile product development. He’s presented internationally on topics including Scaling Agile, Measurable Business Value and Agile Engineering. He’s founder and program chair of Innovate Virginia and posts is thoughts, articles and conference presentations to the agile engineer. |
| Bob Plankers Analyst — Datacenter Virtualization and Emerging Technologies | |
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Bob Plankers is an IT generalist with direct knowledge in many areas, such as storage, networking, virtualization, security, system admistration, and data center operations. He has 17 years of experience in IT, is a three-time VMware vExpert and blogger, and serves as the virtualization & cloud architect for a major Midwestern university. |
| Mike Kavis Analyst — Agile Cloud Development | |
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Mike has served in numerous technical roles such as CTO, Chief Architect, and VP positions with over 25 years of experience in software development and architecture. A pioneer in cloud computing, Mike led a team that built the world’s first high speed transaction network in Amazon’s public cloud and won the 2010 AWS Global Startup Challenge. An expert in cloud security, Mike is currently writing a book for Wiley Publishing called “Architecting the Cloud: Design Decisions for Cloud Computing Service Models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)” which is expected to be released in late 2013. |
