Ryan Johnson is a staff technical account manager, who works for VMware as a part of professional services. He has over 18 years of enterprise experience, including engineering, research and development, enterprise technology and business architecture, service management, and professional services.

Prior to joining VMware, he was the enterprise technology architect for Citizens Property Insurance Corporation of Florida, where he led the Enterprise Architecture Program and was responsible for the aspects of technology, applications, and information architecture.

He holds numerous industry certifications from VMware, Microsoft, EMC, Red Hat, and others.

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Mario Russo has worked as an IT architect, a senior technical VMware trainer, and has worked in the pre-sales department. He has also worked on VMware technology since 2004.

In 2005, he worked for IBM on the first large project consolidation for Telecom Italia on the Virtual VMware ESX 2.5.1 platform in Italy with Physical to Virtual (P2V) tool. In 2007, he conducted a drafting course and training for BancoPosta, Italy, and project disaster and recovery (DR Open) for IBM and EMC. In 2008, he worked for the project Speed Up Consolidation BNP and he worked for the migration of P2V on VI3 infrastructure at BNP Cardif Insurance.

He is a VCI Certified Instructor Level 2 of VMware and is certified in VCAP5-DCA. He is the owner of Business to Virtual, which specializes in virtualization solutions.

He was also the technical reviewer of the following Packt Publishing books: