About the Reviewers

Vinicius R. Apolinario has worked with IT for more than 10 years, always working with Microsoft products, managing servers and environments for small, medium, and large companies. He has a strong background in managing Microsoft Servers such as Active Directory, Exchange, and other Windows Server components. Today he works for Microsoft Brazil as a Technical Evangelist, focusing on Infrastructure. As a part of his job, he does presentations for partners and customers about products such as Windows Server, Hyper-V, System Center, and Windows Azure. Before this role, he worked with Microsoft Brazil on the Windows Server and Private Cloud Product Team, as a technical specialist. Vinicius is also a Microsoft Certified Professional on several Microsoft products. He has been a Microsoft Certified Trainer since 2009 and maintains a blog—ADM de Redes (www.admderedes.com.br), in Brazilian Portuguese—through which he shares his knowledge with other professionals.

Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso is a team leader, with expertise on the cloud and a vast knowledge of a variety of Microsoft Infrastructure technologies in areas such as Virtualization and management. His product skill sets include Hyper-V, System Center, Windows Server, SQL Server, Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, IIS, and Forefront, and he also has knowledge of Quest Migration Manager, Linux Infrastructure, networking, security solutions (such as VPN and Firewall), and VMware in complex and large scenarios. He has a strong grasp of industry-related datacenter processes, strategies, industry regulations, and requirements.

He has over 23 years of experience in IT, in roles from in application development to a role in the field of network security. He has worked as a system engineer, as a senior consultant, and as an IT manager and has a history of successful enterprise projects in the IT, health, education, and government sectors.

He has been Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in Virtualization since 2009 and is a well-known speaker at IT-related events such as TechEd, CNASI, and User Groups. He has consistently been a presenter for more than 10 years.

An active member of Microsoft System Center 2012 TAP, Australia Computer Society Certified Professional, MCSE, and MCT, since 2003, he was selected as Microsoft TechNet Brazil IT Hero in 2007. He was also awarded the Microsoft IT Heroes Happen award in Los Angeles in 2008. Furthermore, his virtualization project for a government institution in Brazil, while working as IT Manager, was selected as a business case by Microsoft.

He works for Dell Australia as a Senior Technical Consultant. Currently, he is associated with reviewing System Center Virtual Machine 2012 Cookbook.

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Kristian Nese started his career in 2005 with no formal training. After some years of heavy training and private study, he has reached a high level of understanding regarding technology, business requirements, and opportunities. He now has 6 years of experience in networking, servers, databases, virtualization, management, automation, architecture, and optimization. Kristian is a Subject Matter Expert in Cloud Computing.

He is an experienced speaker, delivering keynotes and highly technical sessions (level 400), which are often used by Microsoft nationally and globally both as a speaker and writer, on subjects such as Windows Azure, System Center, Windows Server, and Hyper-V.

To stay sharp, he spends a lot of time in the TechNet forums as well, trying to help the community so that they can get the most out of the technology. He also delivers training to local user groups in Norway.

Kristian is also the author of Cloud Computing - Med Virtual Machine Manager 2012, published by IDG/BookWorld. He has been a part of several other books related to cloud computing, virtualization, and technology in general.

He has also been associated with books such as Microsoft Private Cloud Computing, Aidan Finn, Hans Vredevoort, Patrick Lownds, and Damian Flynn, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., and wrote a review of the latest release of VMM in a famous blog post, Cloud Computing with System Center 2012 - Virtual Machine Manager. The Review, on his blog, Virtualization And Some Coffee (http://www.wservernews.com/go/1350553154779)

Carsten Rachfahl started his IT career in 1988, working as a developer on porting X-Windows to an operating system called OS/9. In 1991, he founded his own company in Germany and is self-employed these days. Since 2001, along with Citrix/Terminalserver, his focus is on the virtualization space nowadays. When Microsoft finally created a "real" Hypervisor and brought it to the market, he was all in. His blog http://www.hyper-v-server.de is highly recognized and appreciated within the virtualization community. The blog features tutorials, articles, screencasts, video interviews, and podcasts that focus on Microsoft Private Cloud. Being an MCT, he teaches various Microsoft virtualization courses and his own "Hyper-V Powerkurs" course. As a co-founder of the German Hyper-V community, he regularly organizes events. His efforts were rewarded with the Microsoft MVP Award for Virtual Machine in 2011 and 2012.