About the Reviewers

Maarten Balliauw is a technical consultant in web technologies at RealDolmen, one of Belgium's biggest ICT companies. His interests are ASP.NET (MVC), for Windows Azure, and Windows Azure. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) ASP.NET and has published many articles in both PHP and .NET literature, such as MSDN magazine and PHP architect. Maarten is a frequent speaker at various national and international events, such as MIX (Las Vegas), TechDays, DPC, and so on. His blog can be found at http://blog.maartenballiauw.be.

Michael S Collier is a Windows Azure MVP and serves as a National Architect for Neudesic, a Microsoft SI partner that specializes in Windows Azure. He has nearly 11 years of experience building Microsoft-based applications for a wide range of clients. He spends his days serving as a developer or architect—helping clients succeed with the Microsoft development platform. He gets very "geeked up" about any new technology, tool, or technique that makes his development life easier. He spends most of his spare time reading technology blogs and exploring new development technologies. He is also an avid golfer and attempts to be good at shooters on the Xbox 360. His previous speaking engagements include Central Ohio Day of .NET, Central Ohio .NET Developers Group, Cloud Connections, and multiple Windows Azure Boot Camp events. He is also the Founder of the Central Ohio Cloud Computing User Group. He earned his Bachelor of Computer Science and Engineering from The Ohio State University. You can follow Michael on Twitter at www.twitter.com/MichaelCollier and he maintains his blog at www.MichaelSCollier.com.

Gaurav Mantri is the Founder and Head of Technology for Cerebrata Software Private Limited (http://www.cerebrata.com), an ISV based out of India specializing in building tools and services for Microsoft's Windows Azure Platform. He is also a Microsoft MVP for Windows Azure.

Brent Stineman is a solution architect specializing in cloud computing with Sogeti, USA. His 18+ year IT career has spanned technology from the mainframe to mobile devices. However, he has spent the bulk of the last 10 years working on Internet applications and distributed system development. Brent started working with the Windows Azure Platform early in its CTP phase and is now focused on helping colleagues and clients explore the promise of cloud computing.