Takashi HOSHINO works at Cybozu Labs, Inc. and is interested in database and storage systems. He is developing vmbkp: an open source VMware vSphere backup tool.

Nilesh Pawar has a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology and has successfully completed learning .NET programming. He has a complete understanding of the life cycle of software development projects. He has spent part of his career as a programmer (.NET, MS-SQL, and Crystal Reports). He is a VMware Certified Professional, Red Hat Certified Engineer, and is Citrix Xenserver Certified, along with a strong knowledge of networks. He is well versed with IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS cloud delivery models.

He designs public and private Cloud Infrastructure and Services. He has a deep understanding of network and firewall policies. He has strong impact analysis and debugging skills. He has knowledge of e-mail solutions, security (AV and anti-spam), e-mail archiving and compliances, and two-factor authentication.

He has a good knowledge of Windows clustering and Hyper-V environments. He also likes to learn and excel in new technologies. His resume can be referred to for additional information on his experience. His profile can be found at www.nileshpawar.info. He can be reached anytime via his cell phone at +91-99208 29266.

Greg Swallow, an Indiana boy, currently lives in Indianapolis with his wife, Nami, and two children, Noah and Madeline. He has worked as a system administrator since 1997. His career has included running the State of Indiana website for NIC, starting up a hosted IaaS platform that runs VMware vSphere for Expedient, and managing over 2,000 Linux VMs with a team of just two persons at a large Orange company (ExactTarget), where he lives. He is currently employed at Indigo Biosystems as a DevOps engineer, which is a fancy title for a system administrator who likes to work directly with a dev team and can write scripts.

When he's not working, he usually marches with his family through the woods until they beg him to stop, and then they turn around and march back to the car. Otherwise, if they don't want to go, he leaves them behind and grabs his running shoes or his bike and does the same thing on his own.

Bingfeng Zhao is a system programmer. He has a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Inner Mongolia University, but he finally found that programming is much more fun and a better way to raise his standard of living. He uses C/C++ mostly and devotes more time to the virtualized digital world. He works for the EMC company as a Principal Software Engineer, and he helps to design and implement unified storage systems. He lives in Beijing, China with his lovely wife Jing Lai.