Brandon Willmott
Brandon is a Global HCI Sr. Solutions Engineer at VMware and has been a VMware vExpert since 2012. Founded Baton Rouge and New Orleans VMUGs. He blogs about virtualization, cloud, storage, and containers at brandonwillmott.com.
Claus Pfleger
Former Veeam SE and a veteran of IT industry. Cycling through different roles like head of IT, business development manager, field SE and now a worldwide freelance trainer and consultant. Experienced with the various aspects of the industry and has found his dream job: sharing his knowledge.
Steven Cortez
With 20+ years of IT industry experience, I bring a unique real-world view to the End Users Labs Evangelist role at NetApp. I am also an active social media influencer, Technical Advisor to the NetApp A-Team, VMware vExpert, VMware VMUG Leader & now a Veeam Vanguard Member.
Gareth Edwards
Gareth is a vExpert, a vExpert PRO & Leader of UK VMUG assisting London VMUG.Very active in the vCommunity,with very broad knowledge of VMware, Cloud, DevOps and a passion for all the cool techy stuff.He is also an advocate of being Eco and loves EVs and running his lab on solar
Paul Wilk
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Global Payments by day, IT Wizard by night. Ireland VMUG leader, vExpert Pro, Red Hat Accelerator and great fan of open source.
Kerem Celiker
Kerem works as a Senior Solutions Architect at SEKOM & Soitron s.r.o. Focusing Converged, Cloud and Container Platforms such as Red Hat Openshift, Kubernetes/Docker and VMware Tanzu. Blogger, Github-er and Twitter-er at keremceliker.com
Timothy Bittenbender
Currently working as a Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Connection Inc responsible for pre and post sales solutions including design and implementation of hybrid cloud, virtual workloads and storage technologies. I have over 20 years of experience in IT Infrastructure architecture and operations support. Excellent problem solver and enjoy working with my peers across the industry.
Falko Banaszak
Falko is a consultant based in Germany working for SVA GmbH. He has a strong focus on virtualization, data backup, disaster recovery infrastructures and a passion for Microsoft 365 & storage systems. He´s a VMware vExpert & Veeam user group leader in Germany. VCP-DCV, VMCE, VMCA.
Federico Venier
Storage / Data-Protection expert with 25Y in HPE, EMC, NetApp and Vodafone. As tech lead in the Veeam-HPE alliance, he works to get the best HW & SW integration, tests it in his lab, prepares best-practices and presents at many international conventions.
Shane Williford
Shane Williford is a Sr. Systems Engineer and has been working in the IT industry for over 20 years across multiple business disciplines. He has been awarded several industry certifications, some of which include Veeam Certified Architect, VMware Certified Advanced Professional, and AWS Solutions Architect — Associate, just to name a few. He also holds two technology community awards — Veeam Vanguard for the past three years and VMware vExpert for 10 years — for his many contributions, involvements, and interactions with the technology community. He has also authored numerous technology certification study guides over the years, including several VCP-DCV Study Guides.
Jonah May
Jonah is a Product Architect at CyberFortress, a platinum VCSP. He is also a Veeam Certified Architect and a Scout leader for Troop 254 in his spare time.
Nico Stein
Nico Stein is a AVP of IT at Signal Financial FCU, a Maryland based Credit Union. Originally started with IBM Germany, he has over 15 years of IT experiences, managing campus networks and critical systems. You can follow Nico on Twitter @nicoastein or on his blog.
Rajesh Radhakrishnan
Manager at Citrus Consulting, handling Consulting Business of SDDC and EUC portfolio for EMEA & APAC. VMUG Leader & VUG Champion for UAE Region. Certified on VCIX DCV/NSX, Azure & AWS Certified, EMCSA,vExpert 2016-2020, Veeam Vanguard, Blogger at vmarena.com and Event Speaker.
Maurice Kevenaar
Maurice Kevenaar is a System Engineer at INFO located in Amsterdam, NL, Package maintainer and moderator for the Chocolatey Community Repository (CCR), contributor to OSS projects. Creator of Veeam Chocolatey packages and BoxStarter scripts.
Preben Berg
CTO of CLOUDIO focusing on building efficient BaaS, DRaaS and IaaS solutions. Preben is Veeam Certified Architect, Veeam Certified Trainer, maintainer of github.com/VeeamHub and co-author of the e-book “Best Practices for Veeam Backup and Replication” available at veeambp.com.
Stephen Seagrave
A Solutions Architect currently working for Evros, Stephen has over a decade of experience working in design and implementation of backup solutions across Ireland. With a focus on brining backup technology to the frontline. Veeam VMCE & VMWare VCP6-DCV Certified
Wolfgang Taitl
Wolfgang is working as a senior consultant & engineer at Kapsch BusinessCom in Austria with main focus on virtualization, backup & storage. He´s a vExpert, VUG AT Leader and one of the first Veeam Legends. HPE: MASE Storage, ASE Server; VMware: VCP-NV, 2x VCAP, VCIX; Veeam: VMCE, VMCA.
Tim Neukirchen
German based Solution Architect working for s.i.g. mbH. With more than 10 years of experience, he focuses on the design and improvement of IT infrastructures in the areas of virtualization, data storage, data backup/recovery and disaster recovery. He holds technical certifications with various vendors and has also been a VMware vExpert for some time.
Seiji Maeda
Seiji is an IT professional with 20+ years of experience in virtualization & networking. He promotes DX as engineer at Meiji Yasuda Life, Japan´s oldest life insurance company. JapanVMUG Leader (2020-22), Co-leader (2017-20), vExpert (2019-22), Veeam Vanguard (2020-22), speaker & blogger.
Sagi Brody
Sagi is the CTO of Opti9 where he is responsible for product development and R&D. Sagi has been involved in infrastructure, software development, security, global network buildouts, & compliance. Sagi has served on multiple boards and has been recognized as a Veeam Vanguard for 3 years.
Martin Lučanský
IS Specialist at Lynx focusing on VMware virtualization, Veeam backup solutions and powershell scripting. VMware vExpert (2017-2022), Veeam Certified Engineer, Slovak VMUG leader and blogger at psguy.eu.
Ben Young
Specialising in the integration & automation of a broad range of cloud & virtualisation technologies including Veeam, VMware, Fortinet, Dell EMC into multi-tenant web applications. If it has an API, then it's in my wheelhouse. Works at vBridge, a cloud service provider.
Dean Lewis
Technical Account Manager, and Ambassador, Office of the CTO @ VMware. Enthusiastic about cloud native and data management. Occasionally blogs @veducate.co.uk
Andre Atkinson
Senior Platform Specialist based in Perth, Western Australia. Veeam Architect and Vanguard with a background in Storage and Backups and a keen focus on Automation and Kubernetes.
Geoff Burke
Senior Cloud Solutions Architect at Tsunati with 20 years experience in IT. Deep background in Backup & Replication, focusing on Automation & Kubernetes. Holds VMCE, VMCA, all of the current Kubernetes certifications, KCNA, CKAD, CKA & CKS. Guest instructor at Kasten by Veeam Kubernetes Learning site.
Jos Maliepaard
Jos is a consultant working for it2grow (VASP partner) in the Netherlands. He fills the days with advice, designing and implementing Data Protection, Business Continuity, and VMware solutions. VMware VCP-DCV, VMCE + VMCA, NL VUG Leader.
Steven New
Operations Director for platinum VCSP Global Data Vault – a Dataprise company. With 20+ years of IT experience, Steven leads the daily operations of the Support and Infrastructure teams, holds a VMCE and VMCA certifications.
Gregory R. Tellone
Greg is a well-known disaster recovery expert whose illustrious career spans over thirty years in Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery. A self-confessed “recovery geek”,he has focused his expertise on innovating DR for businesses of all sizes.
Jonathan Colón Feliciano
IT Consultant with over 15 years of experience. Owner at ZenPr Solutions focused on cloud, storage and virtualization technologies. Holder of several certifications from Veeam, VMware, Microsoft and NetApp. PowerShell and Automation enthusiast.
Cary Sun
Cary is a Principal Consultant with strong background in datacenter & deployment solutions, spent over 25 years in planning, design & implementation of network technologies, management & system integration. Holds CISCO CERTIFIED INTERNETWORK EXPERT (CCIE No.4531) from 1999, also a Microsoft MVP.
Jochen Seeger
Jochen is a Senior Systems Engineer working with SVA GmbH based in Germany. He has a strong focus on data backup and recovery and has more than 14 years of experience in this field with different Software and Hardware Vendors.
Marius Sandbu
Cloud Evangelist at Sopra Steria. Focusing on building company-wide competency/expertise on Public Cloud and looking over the technical initiatives on Public Cloud including building managed services. Expertise across multiple public platforms and cloud-native ecosystems.
Yamato Sakai
"Senior Technical Instructor at Dell Technologies Education Services (Dell PowerEdge, VxRail Instructor), VMware Certified Instructor Level2 (vSphere, vSAN, NSX-T), VCIX-DCV, VCIX-NV, VMware HCI Master specialist and book author. Also a vExpert 2017-2022."
Thiago dos Santos Nunes
Thiago is a CTO of MGDATA, partner VASP VEEAM working with Fortune 500 companies. With more than 30 certifications such as VMCA, VMCE, MCSE & VCP. He is Data Protection enthusiast, leader of the Brazil Veeam User Group. He is Catholic, in love with his wife.
Elizabeth Souza
I am an IT infrastructure analyst with over 20 years of experience. I design and manage IT solutions.I have been engaging and sharing knowledge in the IT communities always seeking to motivate more people to participate in these communities. I am VMUG Leader, vExpert, vExpert Cloud Management, Veeam Vanguard and AZ-900 Certified.
Joaquim Santos
Joaquim is an Architect IT, with over 10 years of experience. He is love hardware, virtualization and backup. It dedicates every possible effort to promote and make sure that the IT communities are always growing. He is also a blogger, VMUG Leader, vExpert and Veeam Vanguard.
Mikhail Kisselyov
Mikhail is an IT Engineer working at the largest telecommunication company in Kazakhstan. He´s focused on virtualization, storage, and backups. Certified as NCX-MCI, VCP-DCV. Also Nutanix NTC and VMware vExpert.
Thomas Maurer
Thomas works as a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft. He engages with the global community and customers to share his knowledge and collect feedback to improve the Azure cloud platform. Prior to joining the Azure engineering team (Cloud+AI), he was a Lead Architect and Microsoft MVP.
Nicolas Bonnet
IT Architect specializing in Veeam and Microsoft Solution. Author at Editions-ENI and Speaker in many French and European events.
Silvio Di Benedetto
Owner at Inside Technologies - Senior Consultant and Trainer. Microsoft MVP for Cloud & Datacenter Management, Veeam Vanguard, Parallels VIPP. Community Lead at WindowServer.it, Azure Community, Veeam User Group Italy.
Rhys Hammond
Solution Architect at Data#3 based in Brisbane, Australia. Rhys specialises in all things Veeam and authors the blog www.rhyshammond.com.
Robert L. Hummel
IT Director for Cheshire County, New Hampshire, Robert is an electrical engineer with over 40 years experience as a system designer, programmer, trainer, and author.
Kevin Allan
CTO of Probax - supporting BaaS, DRaaS and AaaS since the early 2000's. Advocate for all Veeam products and leading development of Veeam into our management and automation platform for MSPs. When I’m not working I’m travelling and drinking good scotch.
Drew J. Como
IT Executive with 25+ years of expertise focused on Product Delivery, Cloud, Windows, Linux, Virtualization, Storage, and DR. Proud Veeamer for life and I forever bleed green! #Vanguard 2017-2022. #TeamMorgan2021
Bart Pellegrino
Technical Consultant, specialized in backup and disaster recovery. Has over 15 years of experience working as IT professional and is i.a. Certified Veeam Trainer & Architect. His website https:// backitup.online is focused around the VMCE program.
Eric Machabert
Datacenter and mission critical systems architect, virtualization veteran and trusted advisor. Has been Veeamizing your world since 2008.
Dave Kawula
Dave is a Microsoft MVP with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. Well known as evangelist for Microsoft, Veeam, 5Nine Software. Dave is the founder MVPDays Community Roadshow and Project Data Raft.
Mike Preston
IT professional and overall tech enthusiast living in Ontario, Canada, Toronto VMUG Co-Leader. Mike has presented at VMworld, VMUGs, and various IT conferences, as well as authored "Troubleshooting vSphere Storage".
Jens Söldner
A managing director for Soeldner Consult GmbH based in Nuremberg, Germany. His company specializes on cloud and virtualization infrastructure based on VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, OpenStack and Amazon AWS technologies.
Xavier Genestos
IT system administrator, IT trainer, IT books writer, blogger at SYSADMIT.com, vExpert
Paulo Sant´anna
IT professional with 20 years of experience in infrastructure, support, consulting, information security, governance and training in large data center environments and non stop operations in large companies. He is also VMware vExpert and Microsoft MVP Reconnect.
Paolo Valsecchi
System Engineer focusing on Virtualization, Storage and Data Protection. Co-Author, VCP-DCV, VMCA, vExpert, Veeam Vanguard. Blogger at Nolabnoparty.com - virtualization and beyond.
Sander Berkouwer
IT pro focusing on cloud computing (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS), identity and access management (IAM) and information security. Sander advises, designs and implements advanced solutions for both on-premises and cloud-based resources. He is also a Microsoft MVP.
Craig Dalrymple
Scottish based Cloud Operations Engineer at iland Cloud, and co-leader/founder of the UK Veeam User Group. 20+ years experience within the IT industry. Enjoy rugby/gaming in spare time.
Rasmus Haslund
Rasmus works in a combined role for Arrow ECS teaching Veeam/VMware and performing consulting work. Obtained many certifications such as Veeam Certified Engineer, Microsoft MCSE: Private Cloud, MCSE: Server Infrastructure, VMware VCP-DCV, VCP-Cloud, VCAP-DCA & VCAP-DCD.
Gary Williams
Gary is a sysadmin with over 20 years IT experience covering a large range of technologies such as Windows, Linux, Storage, Virutalisation, Security, networking and many other things. Also a believer in tea being the best problem solver
Brad Jervis
Brad Jervis is a Technology enthusiast with a special focus in the cloud, virtualization and disaster recovery spaces. Currently the leader of the New York City VUG(Veeam User Group), and Chief Architect at Probax.
Olafur Helgi Haraldsson
Currently working as a Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Advania responsible for infrastructure in hosting division of Advania, passionate about everything in the cloud and finding the right solution for the right job.
Karl Widmer
ICT system specialist in server and virtualization, responsible for all vSphere, HCI and cloud infrastructure at Oerlikon Group. Veeam and VMware addicted, hot on certifications. Veeam Vanguard 2017-2018, vExpert 2017-2018, VCA, MCSA, VMCE. Blogger.
Anatoliy Bakal
Over 18 years in IT and is currently a Principal Technology Strategist @ Elcore Group. Speaker. Veeam User Group Ukraine Leader. MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure. Microsoft MVP Office Servers and Services.
Jim Jones
Husband, parent, geek, proud West Virginian. Cloud Architect at iland Secure Cloud. Certified as a CCNA, VCP-DCV, VMCE, AWS-SAA & once upon a time a MCSE. Honored to be selected as vExpert and Inaugural Veeam Vanguard.
Didier Van Hoye
IT veteran with over 17 years of expertise in Microsoft technologies, storage, virtualization & networking. Microsoft MVP, a member of the Microsoft Extended Experts Team in Belgium and a DELL TechCenter Rockstar.
Yukinobu Asami
Technical systems engineer with Climb Inc.,Veeam’s first ProPartner member based in Japan specializing in Virtualization and Database management solutions. He has engaged with many Veeam and VMware implementations in Japan.
Paul Stringfellow
"20 years’ experience of working in the technology market and understanding how new technologies and trends fix difficult business challenges and impact how we will all operate and do business in the future. "
Kyle Jenner
Kyle Jenner is an Architect working at Insight UK within the Cloud Architect team with a big involvement in the community. Kyle is a current vExpert, VMware EUC Champion, VMUG Leader, Nutanix NTC and also a co-founder of a AWS User Group in the UK
Chris Childerhose
Chris works for ThinkOn as the Lead Infrastructure Architect. He has a passion for technology & stays on top of the ever-evolving IT realm. He´s a Veeam Vanguard, Veeam Legend, vExpert 3*, VMCA/VMCE certified. He is also the author of Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication 10/11 by Packt Publishing.
Christopher Glémot
Infrastructure and Cloud Consultant specializing in Virtualization, Storage, Data Protection and Data Governance at Monaco Informatique Service - Avangarde (Gold Partner). Veeam VMCE, Author (Editions-ENI.fr) and Speaker. Owner of Original-Network.com.
Thomas Maurer
Cloud Architect focusing on Microsoft Cloud and Virtualization Technology.
Christian Mohn
Senior Solutions Architect for Proact IT Norway. IT veteran with over 20 years of experience. Veeam VMCE, vExpert 2011-2017, VCAP-DCA/DCD, VMUG Leader, author, podcaster and blogger.
Jim Millard
VMware SE / SLED-IA/KS/MO/NE IT "jack of all trades, master of some" KC VMUG (2006-2018), vExpert (2009-2018), VMunderground/OpeningActs (2012-2017), Veeam Vanguard (2016-2018)
Josh De Jong
Josh is a Systems Architect focusing on virtualization and storage solutions working with customers of all sizes. Josh holds two VCP's (DCV & NV) & is a 4 time vExpert. Occasional blogger, twitter addict, taker of naps.
Ken Nalbone
Presales Architect focused on virtualization, hyperconvergence, and data protection. Leads Indianapolis VMware and Veeam User Groups. vExpert and Nutanix Technology Champion. Loves drinking bourbon and running, but not at the same time.
Barry Coombs
Operations Director and lead architect for a virtualization focused reseller and consultancy practice Computerworld.co.uk. Barry is a blogger, author, podcaster and multiple time vExpert specializing in server virtualization, end user computing and related technologies.
Carsten Rachfahl
IT Nerd with 30+ years of experience focused on Microsoft Private and Hybrid Cloud. Carsten is rewarded as Microsoft Cloud & Datacenter Management MVP and Microsoft Azure. He owns a german based SI and organizes the Cloud & Datacenter Conference Germany https://cdc-germany.de
Jorge de la Cruz
Jorge de la Cruz is Systems Engineer at Veeam. In his blog, which has more than 50,000 monthly visits, he regularly talks about Veeam as well as the latest news about VMware, and other Cloud and Datacentre technologies, virtual labs and how-to articles about virtualization, monitorization, open-source, etc.
Mads Fog
Cloud Architect working for Proact Systems A/S in Denmark. Primarily focusing on VMware vRealize Orchestrator, VMware vRealize Automation and Veeam Backup & Replication. He has been recognized as a VMware vExpert in 2014-2017.
Manfred Hofer
IT and Virtualization professional, technology & certification geek and owner of vBrain.info. Presenter at local VMUG meetings. Certifications VCAP-*, VCIX-NV, VMCE, CCP-V, NPP and MCSE. Awards: vExpert 2014-16, Cisco Champion 2015-16
Valdecir Carvalho
Val is an Senior IT Professional from São Paulo, Brazil with focus on Infrastructure Architecture and Cloud He's the proud Dad of Mariana and João. Blogger, Community Lover and Corintiano. VMware vExpert, VMUG Leader, Host of vBrownbag Brasil
Andreas Lesslhumer
Virtualization Enthusiast, Author of the blog Running-System.com, VCP-DCV, VMUG Austria Leader, #vExpert 2012-2018, #CiscoChampion, #VeeamVanguard 2017/2018
Vladan Seget
IT and Virtualization consultant, owner of vladan.fr - ESX Virtualization - one of the top independent virtualization blogs. VCAP-DCA/DCD, VCP.
Myles Gray
I am a Senior Technical Marketing Architect for VMware in the Storage and Availability Business Unit. Focused primarily on content generation, product enablement and feedback from customers and field to engineering.
Markus Kraus
Markus is living IT-Pro life for more than 10 years as a Consultant, Architect & Systems Engineer. He focuses on virtualization and automation technologies. In addition to his 6th Vanguard nomination in 2022, he´s a 7-time VMware vExpert.
Liselotte Foverskov
Independent @Textrovert, vExpert 2011-18, VMUG Leader #vmugdk. Mother. Wife. Psychotherapist.
Esteban Prieto
Esteban is a Solution Engineer at VMware & Veeam Certified Instructor, living in Argentina. VMCE / VMCA v1 / VMCET & VCAP-DCV Design 2021 / VCP-DCV 2021 / VCP-DTM 2021 / VCP6-NV. Veeam Lover, vExpert & First Class Veeam Legend. Event Speaker. Ex futsal Soccer Player. Father of Twins.
Julien Mousqueton
Chief Technologist @ Computacenter with over 20 years experience as solution architect focusing on virtualisation and automation technologies. vExpert since the first date. When I'm not working, you may find me on a rugby field.
Marius Sandbu
Senior Cloud Architect from Norway, focusing his day to day business on anything related to Software-defined, Cloud and datacenter solution. He is also a Microsoft/Veeam/Citrix instructor. Also a Microsoft MVP for Azure
Ian Sanderson
Technical Account Manager at iland Cloud. Over 15 years experience in the IT industry with a focus on virtualisation, EUC, backups & disaster recovery and security technologies. Blog at www.snurf.co.uk
Shane Williford
Senior Systems Engineer with almost 20yrs in the IT industry across multiple business disciplines. VMware vExpert specializing in BC/DP/DR, storage, infrastructure & systems automation. Guest blogger and various tech cert Study Guide creator.
Bilel Kammoun
System Engineer with over 10 years IT experience focusing on virtualization | VCIX6-DCV | vExpert 2016-18 | NTC-2018
Adam Fisher
Cloud Architect at WWT with a background in traditional data center and virtualization technologies. Current focus on AWS and VMC. Blogger at virtualbonzo.com, vExpert, maker and consumer of delicious BBQ.
Victor Wu
Senior Solutions Architect, VCIX-DCV, Author, Blogger, vExpert 2014-2022. He wrote Implementing VxRail HCI Solutions published by Packt in 2021. In Dell Technologies Proven Professional Knowledge Sharing Competition 2021 his article “Get Ready for Edge Computing” was selected for publication.
Lai Yoong Seng
Lai Yoong Seng @ericlaiys also known as "Virtual Lai". MVP Hyper-V (Malaysia), interested in Hyper-V, Azure & System Center.
Al Rasheed
Al Rasheed is a Lead Solutions Architect for ThinkOn, a Cloud Service Provider based out of Canada. He´s a long-time member of the VMUG community, VMware vExpert, DC VMUG Leader, Cisco Champion, and Nutanix Technology Champion. In addition to this, Al is a proud father of two.
John Nicholson
In addition to his role as a Staff Technical Marketing Architect at VMware where he is a VMware Storage and Availability expert, John enjoys syslog deep dives, and can telepathically sense slow and undersized storage.
Pete Flecha
Pete is a Sr Tech Marketing Architect at VMware focusing on VVols and vSAN. He can be found speaking at various industry events, on his blog at pedrosarrow.com or geeking out weekly on the vSpeaking Podcast. vExpert 2014-2017.
Cristal Kawula
Cristal is active in the IT Community and is the Co-Founder of TriCon Elite, MVPDays Community Roadshow, and runs #MVPHour. Over the past 18+yrs she has worked on various contracts for the MS Platform teams authoring and reviewing content.
Luciano Patrao
Working with Virtualization for more than 10 years (mainly VMware). vExpert last 3 years. Specialties, Virtualization, Storage, and Backups. Working for Elits and allocated In Germany as a Teach Lead and acting as a Senior ICT Infrastructure Engineer.
Tobias Gregorius
Tobias is a consultant at Bechtle GmbH. Specialized in SLA design and business process mapping. He has a strong focus on backup and multi cloud infrastructures. VMCA, NCIE-SAN, NCIE-BR, IBM - TSM, VCP.
Andrea Mauro
IT Architect on virtualization, cloud, storage technologies. VMUG IT Co-Founder and board member. Certifications: VCDX-DCV,VCAP-*,VCP-*, MCSA,MCSE,MCITP,CCA,NPP Accreditation: vExpert 2010-2018, NTC, Vanguard. Blogger on vinfrastructure.it
Josh Archer
Josh Archer is a Solutions Architect and Veeam certified architect (VMCA) working for cloud service provider, Element Four. He focuses primarily on VMware, Veeam, storage, and cloud solution implementations.
Michael Berg
Product Manager for Tech Data and has a Virtualization evangelist since 2002 with focus on VMware and since 2008 Veeam as well. Simply just loves how the technology solves the customers problems.
Patricio Cerda
Senior Cloud and Virtualization Consultant with over 15 years of experience in IT industry. vExpert 2011-2017, and Nutanix NTC 2015-2017. Blogger at patriciocerda.com. VMware Certified Instructor, Veeam VMCT, VCAP-DCA/DCD, VCIX-NV, NPP.
Tolga Anit
Cloud Engineer at Turkcell in Turkey. Focusing on IaaS, DRaaS, BaaS technologies. Blogger, Community Lover. Also VMware vExpert.
Rob Nelson
Rob Nelson is an IT professional with almost 20 years of experience in the industry, mostly in Security and Operations. When he's not fixing or breaking stuff, you can find him on twitter @rnelson0 or at his blog, rnelson0.com.
Scott Driver
Geek with a virtualization focus by day, Husband/Dad/snowboarding/foodie/music loving/New Englander by night VCP-DCV & vExpert. Former VMUG Leader PowerShell the things. Solve problems and use bullet points.
Shawn Cannon
IT professional since 1996 with server, networking and virtualization experience. Veeam user and Veeam Champion!
James Kilby
James is a Senior Consultant, working for Xtravirt focusing on the VMware stack. He can often be found speaking throughout the UK, discussing some of the technology he uses. He is a founding member of the UK Veeam UserGroup.
Piotr Masztafiak
Piotr is trainer and IT consultant specializing in Microsoft, Citrix, and VMware virtualization technologies as well as public cloud. Holder of VMware vExpert 12-18 award and many other certifications, including Microsoft MCSA, MCITP, MCTS and Citrix CCA.
Makoto Kawakami
Prior to joining Climb, Makoto held key positions in IT sales and marketing management and brings a wealth of industry experience from his years at Pervasive Software, Red Hat and Blue Coat.
Justin Giardina
Justin Giardina is the Chief Technology Officer of iland Secure Cloud and oversees all aspects of global technical operations and strategy including design, implementation, and support.
Allan Rafuse
IT Consultant, blogger and speaker located in Vancouver. Allan lives to implement or speak about IT infrastructure whether it be virtualized or bare metal, Production or DR. Regular contributor to #MVPDays.
Petra Lipp
Over 20 years in IT, focused on Microsoft Virtualisation, Private Cloud and Storage Spaces Direct. Currently working for Rachfahl IT Solutions GmbH Germany as a technical consultat. Veeam VMCE, MCSA Windows Server, MCSE Private Cloud.
Gorka Izquierdo
IT Professional and System Administrator at Sein TIC. VMware vExpert 2015-2016, VCP5-DCV.Virtualization lover, owner and writer of the blog aprendiendoavirtualizar.com
Mike Conjoice
Mike works as a Solution Architect at Bupa Dental UK, one of the UKs largest dental chains. Having worked with Veeam since 2012, initially as a partner, now as a customer, he is a strong advocate for Veeam as both a product, and a company.
Wenhua Tang
Wenhua is an expert in Database, Virtualization, SDN field. During 2012 he established the Changingit System Company with partner. They enable to make the costumer’s blue print in new general Datacenter and always serving customers' data centers with VM platform and data protection.
Arne Fokkema
Arne is working for Uniserver Internet a Cloud hosting company in the Netherlands. He started to virtualise workloads back in 2005 and loves to automate with Powershell. In his private life he is husband and dad. VCP, VCAP-DCA/DCD, vExpert
Dan Frith
20 years in IT working for government and VARs in a big country town called Brisbane. I’m now Head of Technology at Digital Sense. I like things that go in racks and making life easier through smarter process and cool technology applications.
Anoop C Nair
Anoop is a Solution Architect on enterprise device management with more than 17 years of experience. He is Microsoft MVP, Blogger, and Speaker. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like Windows, SCCM Current Branch, Intune , and Hyper-V.
Jesse Anderson
I am a Sr. Cloud Engineer working with Backup and DR as a service.
Craig Rodgers
Craig is a Technical Director with Outsource Solutions focusing on virtualisation, networking, Veeam and analytics with well over 20 years’ experience in the IT industry. Blogger @ www.craigrodgers.co.uk & Speaker at Veeam User Group UK meetings.
Nathan Oldfield
Nathan is an IT professional with over 20 years experience in a wide range of environments. These days working with VMware, 3Par and MS infrastructure. Also a keen Office 365 enthusiast looking forward to the new versions of Veeam for Office 365 VMCA.
Wesley Martins Silva
Wesley is an Senior IT Professional with over 10 years of experience in virtualization. Love Veeam Products and write about in my blog. He is also vExpert since 2016, MCSA and VCP-DCV.
Paul Braren
Pivot3 SA for HCI, formerly VMware Sr. SE for HCI and IBM XIV Storage Technical Advisor, with 25 years in x86 server deployment and training. VCP-DCV, vExpert, speaker, podcast guest, consultant. Created TinkerTry.com featuring technical articles about efficient virtualization, storage, backup, and more.
Eugene Kashperovetskyi
Eugene Kashperovetskyi is a Global Solutions Architect, specializing in the cloud and managed services space. His work primarily focuses on assisting Veeam Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP) partners with configuration best practices and optimization of Veeam-powered service delivery, including Backup as a Service (BaaS) and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offerings.
Joep Piscaer
Joep is a seasoned IT professional, with 10+ years’ experience as a Technical Pathfinder, CTO, Tech Marketing and Nutanix tech evangelist.
Nigel Hickey
An EUC Consultant at Sigma Solutions, 3x VMware vExpert, VMware EUC Champion, VCP5-DCV, VCP5-DT, Blogger at nigelhickey.com, Dad, Husband, and ex-DJ. Nigel is also the Houston VMUG Leader. NY Rangers & Seattle Seahawks fan.
Luke Brown
Principal Technologist/Evangelist for Zettagrid, Australia`s Leading vCloud Air Network SP. 17 years in IT as a consultant/architect for medium to large enterprises on all things server, storage, DR and cloud. VMware vChampion, 4x vExpert
Florian Raack
Florian is a consultant and trainer working for SVA GmbH Germany. He has a strong focus in virtualization and backup infrastructures. VCP-DCV, VCP-DT, VMCE, VMCT, VMCA.
Ryan Jacksland
System and Storage Admin with a focus on virtualization, storage, and disaster recovery. A Veeam Certified Engineer with a focus on giving back to the tech community. Over a decade of general IT experience across multiple technologies.
Karel Novak
Senior Consultant - PSO at VMware, VCI-Level2, VCIX6-NV/VCIX6-DCV, CKA, vExpert12-21,vExpertNSX16-21,vExpertPro19-21, VMCT-Mentor, Veeam Certified Architect, co-author book Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5, VUGCZ Leader, SME VMware Certification
Denis Kelley
Systems Administrator for a Civil Engineering company with 20 years of experience in IT. Proud father of three great kids. When Denis is not solving problems, he spends his spare time learning Kung Fu.
Steven Onofaro
Senior Systems Engineer for Vocus based in Perth WA. Focusing on IaaS, DRaaS, BaaS and just all things Cloud. Busy Dad to two young energetic sons and a big fan of vCloud Director and everything Veeam. Current Veeam Vanguard and VMware vExpert.
Darryl Crossley
Technical Lead at BEarena, Australia. Veeam Technical Champion, VMware vChampion & Nutanix Technology Champion. Doing IT right the first time, every time!
Tim Smith
Senior Data Center Architect, 5x VMware vExpert, VCAP-DCD, MCITP, blogger at tsmith.co, and Cincinnati VMUG Leader.
Patrice Singy
Solution Architect and responsible for Cloud services in a Swiss company. Holder of several Certifications such as VMCE, VCP-DCV, VCP-DT and CrossFit enthusiast.
Christopher Kusek
Chris has worn many hats over 25 years in IT, from consultant to evangelist, manager to leader, executive to CTO, blogger to author of 7 books. In addition to being a proud Vanguard, he´s one of few VMware vExperts since the beginning of the program.
Chris Gecks
I am a Microsoft MVP/MCT and Veeam Vanguard, with a passion for Microsoft 365, Veeam and all Cloud-based technologies on an enterprise level.
Cameron Fuller
Cameron Fuller is an author, speaker, Microsoft MVP and principal consultant for Catapult Systems.
David Ball
Over 20 years, David has worked in all facets of the technology spectrum and is currently a Cloud Platform Architect based in central North Carolina. David blogs at virtualbonzo.com and when not working, he enjoys photography.
Michael Paul
Data Protection Consultant based in the South West of England. Michael is a Veeam Legend & VMware vExpert. Focusing on Veeam, VMware and Microsoft technologies. Commonly blogging, delivering talks or at the Veeam Community Hub.
Matt Crape
Matt is a senior technical product marketer within the global product marketing team at Veeam. Prior to joining Veeam, Matt was a senior technical account manager at VMware, where he worked closely with customers to achieve their goals and outcomes. Over the course of 20 years in the industry, Matt has also worked in tech support, systems administration, and IT management. As a big believer in the IT community, you can often find Matt presenting at conferences and user group meetings.
David Hill
David was a global technologist in Veeam’s product strategy group, where he developed the company’s multi-cloud strategy. Prior to joining Veeam, David was the lead evangelist at VMware in the public cloud business unit. Over the past twenty years, David has been a successful entrepreneur, architect, and business consultant working with some of the top consultancies and businesses around the world. He’s also is a regular contributor to the virtualization community, a vExpert since 2012, and was a former Veeam Vanguard.