Niklas Akerlund works as Chief Technical Architect - Microsoft Solutions at a consultancy firm in Sweden. He has extensive experience in design and adoption of hybrid cloud solutions with Hyper-V, Azure, Office 365, and EMS. He also works on the design, implementation, and upgrading of private clouds using MS Hyper-V 2012 R2 with System Center for customers with a strong focus on automation.
He often writes posts about virtualization and automation on his blog, http://vniklas.djungeln.se/; you can follow him on twitter at http://twitter.com/vniklas.
Niklas is the cofounder of PowerShell User Group Sweden; he has also been awarded Hyper-V MVP for his contributions to and love for sharing technology with other IT professionals.
Markus Darda is the owner of MD Consultancy, Germany, and DaComp GmbH, Switzerland. As senior Citrix engineer and architect, he works for Enterprise customers all over Europe to design and implement Citrix (XenApp and XenDesktop) environments based on different Hypervisors. As a Citrix and Microsoft trainer, he teaches about Microsoft Server Products and Citrix Products to customers all over Europe. He also works for Citrix as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in different courseware and exams.
He has worked for Lanxess, Germany; T-Systems, Germany; Koenen en Co, the Netherlands; and other companies in Switzerland, Sweden, and Norway.
He has also worked on Citrix XenApp ® 7.5 Desktop Virtualization Solutions, Packt Publishing, and other different courseware from Citrix.
James Preston is an IT professional working in the education field and has a broad range of interests, including Virtualization with Hyper-V and App-V, data-orientated application design with Visual Studio Lightswitch, IP telephony, and Remote Access technologies.
To share his knowledge, James runs a blog (http://myworldofit.net/) that covers a wide range of the most recent topics, including publishing a WebDAV server, the effective integration of student databases with virtual learning environments, and his take on an enterprise Wi-Fi deployment.
When he isn't working, he can be found in the local coffee shop having a go at the latest computer games or planning the training program for his local air cadet squadron.
Lai Yoong Seng is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Hyper-V since 2010. He has more than 14 years of IT experience and he joined Hyper-V and System Center Specialist Infront Consulting in Malaysia. He started off by specializing in Microsoft Virtualization, and then started blogging (www.ms4u.info) and presenting at local and regional events. He is the founder of Malaysia Virtualization User Group (MVUG), which is a one-stop center for people to learn about Hyper-V, System Center, and Azure.
Previously, he was actively engaged as Technology Early Adopter (TAP) and Tester of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012, System Center 2012 SP1, Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2, and Azure Site Recovery.
Then, he was a technical reviewer for the book Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform and the video Building and Managing a Virtual Environment with Hyper-V Server 2012 R2, both by Packt Publishing.