Erik Nielsen is currently working for Harbor Freight Tools. He feels that working for a fast-growing company that is moving to become a 100 percent virtualized is challenging as the company is constantly moving to the latest and most stable configuration of an evolving software-defined datacenter platform.

NetApp and Dell|EMC are the two companies that allowed him to learn, as he previously worked for both these companies as a Professional Services Engineer.

You can read more about him at http://www.linkedin.com/pub/erik-nielsen/6/a79/88.

Mario Russo has worked as an IT Architect, a Senior Technical VMware Trainer, and in the pre-sales department. He has also worked on VMware Technology since 2004.

In 2005, he worked for IBM on the First Large Project Consolidation for Telecom Italia on the Virtual VMware Esx 2.5.1 platform in Italy with the Physical to Virtual (P2V) tool.

In 2007, he conducted a drafting course and training for BancoPosta, Italy, and project disaster and recovery (DR Open) for IBM and EMC.

In 2008, he worked for the Project Speed Up Consolidation BNP and the migration P2V on VI3 infrastructure at BNP Cardiff Insurance.

He is a VCI certified instructor of VMware and is certified in VCAP5-DCA.

He is also the owner of Business to Virtual, which specializes in virtualization solutions.

He was also the technical reviewer of the book Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2, Packt Publishing.

Anish Varghese (Panthalani) has been working in the field of IT infrastructure for about a decade now, developing an expertise in VMware, Windows, Linux, and Web hosting. He has earned certifications/completed training in VCP, MSCE, RHCE, CCNA, and ITIL, and is an expert in many technologies. Whether it be IBM X series, Blade Centers, servers, or Enterprise applications; Anish has expert knowledge of all of them. He has expertise in VMware ESX/ESXi, vCenter, Windows Server 2000/2003/2008, Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange 2007/2010, MSSQL, DNS, DHCP, and so on. He is also well versed in backup solutions such as Symantec Netbackup, VEEAM, EVAULT, and PHD Backup.

After completing his B.Sc. degree in Electronics, he completed his postgraduate education at Cochin University of Science and Technology. Then, he joined Religare Securities of Ranbaxy Group, where he was in charge of the Kerala zone, and he later moved on to JRG Securities as an IT Officer. He currently works with UVJ Technologies, Calpine Group as Senior Systems Engineer, where he handles remote infrastructure management as a part of the Global IT team.

He has spent a lot of his time training people on the intricacies of VMware, sharing his valuable experience with fresh talents in the field. He has also been an expert technical blogger (http://blog.techmaniac.in/) for many years and has been the forefront of solving technical issues for the online world in the field of IT infrastructure.