About the authors

Ben Silverman, the Chief Cloud Officer for the service provider/Telco team at OnX. Previously, Ben has worked as a Sr. system architect for Mirantis and as the lead architect for American Express's first OpenStack cloud. He is also responsible for the OpenStack Architecture Guide online and leads the Phoenix OpenStack User's group. He holds a degree in English communications and a master's degree in information management from Arizona State University. 

He has also been a technical reviewer of the book, Learning OpenStack, by Packt Publishing.

I'd like to thank God for the blessings that have allowed me to write this book. I'd also like to thank my beautiful wife Jennifer and the two apples of my eyes, my sons, Jason and Brayden, for all of the loving support. I'd also like to thank all the stackers that continue to give us feedback and help us write better books.

Michael Solberg, as a chief architect, is responsible for helping Red Hat customers achieve their key business transformation initiatives through open source architectures and technologies. His previous experience includes building web hosting infrastructure, helping enterprises migrate to Linux, and designing new Infrastructure-as-a-Service platforms. He is an avid supporter of the OpenStack project and a regular speaker at industry events.

Thanks to Ben for all of his hard work on this edition of the book. It's a great pleasure to work with such a talented author.