About the Author

Peter von Oven is an experienced technical consultant and has spent the last 20 years of his IT career working with customers and partners, designing technology solutions aimed at delivering true business value. Throughout his career, he has been involved with numerous large-scale enterprise projects and deployments, presented at key IT events, and worked in senior presales roles for some of the giants of IT. Over the last 8 years, he has focused his skills and experience on the desktop virtualization market. Today, he not only leads the End User Computing Systems Engineering team at VMware UK&I—delivering the next generation of end user computing and mobile cloud solutions—but is also the SE manager of the partner and general business SE team.

Peter got his first taste of writing when assisting with some of the chapters in Building End-User Computing Solutions with VMware View, Mike Laverick and Barry Coombs, Mike Laverick Ltd. Later, he wrote VMware Horizon Mirage Essentials and co-authored VMware Horizon Workspace Essentials; both of these books were published by Packt Publishing. He is currently co-authoring Mastering VMware Horizon, Packt Publishing, which will be published in late 2014.

I would like to dedicate this book to the memory of my late grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of 2014, sadly. She was an inspiration to me and could always be relied upon for her support, advice, and words of wisdom. She will be truly missed.

There are also a couple of people I want to thank for the continued and ongoing support they have given me during the writing of this book. Firstly, and most importantly, I would like to thank my wife and our two young daughters for their continued support while I spent evenings and weekends writing—I couldn't have done this without your support. Secondly, thanks to the Packt Publishing team for giving me the opportunity to write this book and for their support, which has been outstanding yet again.