Editors

Bloggers

Avery Todd - Avery Todd is an IT professional with more than 15 years in the industry. She is currently a freelance journalist and virtualization/cloud computing enthusiast. Avery recently joined It’s a Virtual World as the community’s editor in chief. In this role she is responsible for building and managing the community to create a single resource for information, knowledge and expertise for everything related to virtualization and Cloud. In her free time Avery is a bit of a wine fanatic and has recently started cycling – though she knows better than to enjoy them together.

Peter Heigis - I am the founder of 4subcontract and Chief Architect at Sublime Solution. My tenure at a variety of organizations within the Information Systems Management and Virtualization Industry, including Foedus, VMware and Lighthouse Virtualization Group has enabled me to become a trusted adviser within the VAR and ISV community. With over ten years experience in Product Development, Project Management, Procurement, Business Applications, Architectural Design and Consulting Service Delivery along with continuing my technical aptitude, holding VMware Certifications and Accreditation's including VAC VCP certification, Capacity Planning, Architectural Design, P2V, Lab Manager, SRM, SAN Storage and VDI, I bring a unique combination of business intelligence and solution driven technical integration to the table.

Kevin Kline - Kevin Kline has more than 18 years of experience in the IT industry and is a recognized SQL Server expert. In addition to being a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, Kevin is a regular contributor to database technology magazines and discussion forums. Kevin is the author of the O’Reilly titles SQL in a Nutshell and Transact-SQL Programming. He is a founder and former president of PASS - the international SQL Server user group.


Jason Schuerhoff - I currently hold the position of Vice President of Sales for Sublime Solution. I co-founded Sublime Solution in 2007 and grew the business to over 1800 customers within 3 years. I specialize in educating and promoting the best of breed Virtualization solutions to my customer base. My areas of expertise include: Virtualization management, performance, security, cloud computing, disaster recovery within VMware, HyperV and Xen Servers. As a thought leader and contributor of itsavirtualworld.com it is my goal to provide an unlimited resource for everything virtualization.


Chris Chesley - I am a systems architect at GreenPages in Kittery, Maine. I am involved with the design and implementation of datacenters and virtualization as well as working with customers, providing webinars, blogging and technical writing.
I have over 15 years of experience in the field, having spent time at Technomatix-Unicam, France-based Metrix systems, Ecora, and VKernel before landing at Greenpages. I am a MCP and VCP and a vocal evangelist for both virtualization and Green Pages. I am interested in books, games, and poison dart frogs.

Iain Kick - Since 2005 I have worked in the UK for Quest Software as a lead consultant on their SQL Server products. I meet with customers and cover pre-sales, post sales and consultancy on all things SQL Server. I have presented at various SQL Server user groups and at SQL Bits around performance, configuration, security, disaster recovery and high availability of the SQL Server platform. Prior to this I was a production SQL Server DBA for 5 years at Framlington Group and ITouch PLC starting out on Version 6.5.

I live in Reading, Berkshire which is best known for it’s annual music festival (the saviour of my teenage years), a football team (not soccer) most of the north of England had barely heard of until a few years ago and for the 3B’s – making Beer, Bulbs and Biscuits (none of which are still made there!). It’s the birthplace of Ricky Gervais and Kate Winslet both of whom left as soon as they got famous! It also happens to be home to large European offices for the likes of Microsoft, Oracle and Hewlett Packard. I am passionate about football, cricket and music and play golf. I love to travel, and enjoy socialising a lot!

Gene Fay - Gene Fay is senior vice president of Nine Technology with responsibilities that span sales, marketing, business development and partner relationships.

Previously, Gene was the vice president of sales and business development for VKernel, a startup virtualization management vendor, where he grew sales 300%. Prior to joining VKernel, he was vice president of worldwide sales and global alliances for the security information and event management (SIEM) business unit of RSA, the security division of EMC. He joined EMC after the company acquired Network Intelligence where he was vice president of business development. In that position, Gene provided the sales leadership and grew the EMC SIEM business by over 40 percent in 2007 after the acquisition. Gene spent more than seven years with EMC and also held other management positions with Avid Sports (founder), and Avid Technology.

He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Northeastern University. Gene also graduated magna cum laude with a High Tech MBA degree from Northeastern as class president.

Jeremiah Peschka - Jeremiah Peschka is the editor-in-chief of CloudDBPedia and an Emerging Technology Expert with Quest Software. Jeremiah works with different software to identify new techniques and trends in the world of data storage. Over the course of his career, Jeremiah has worked as a system administrator, developer, and DBA. Previously, Jeremiah spent 2 years at Cass Information Systems, a utility billing provider. Jeremiah is involved in the Professional Association for SQL Server. When he is not volunteering with the development community, Jeremiah can be found blogging about data storage, relational databases, and software development at Facility9.

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