Patrick Lownds is a master-level solution architect at Hewlett Packard Enterprise's (HPE) Pointnext, COE, in the Hybrid IT practice and is based in London, UK.

Patrick is also a current Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Cloud and Datacenter Management (CDM) and has worked in the IT industry since 1988 on various technologies, including Windows Server Hyper-V, System Center, Windows Azure Pack, and Microsoft Azure. In his current role, he works mainly with the most recent versions of Windows Server, System Center, Azure, and Azure Stack, and has participated in the Windows Server 2016, System Center 2016, and Microsoft Azure stack's early adoption program.

Patrick has previously contributed to Mastering Hyper-V Deployment, Microsoft Private Cloud Computing, and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Installation and Configuration Guide, all of which were published by Wiley and Sybex and Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook by Packt.

He is a community blogger for HPE and tweets in his spare time--his Twitter handle is @patricklownds.

When not consulting, speaking, or writing, he can be most often found on a rugby pitch teaching contact rugby to children of various ages.

Aleksandar Nikolic is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Cloud and Datacenter Management and Microsoft Azure, a co-founder of PowerShellMagazine.com, and the community manager of PowerShell.com. Aleksandar has more than 17 years of experience as a system administrator. He also delivers PowerShell and Azure training courses around the world and is a frequent speaker at IT conferences.