Rocco Alfonzetti Jr. is an IT consultant for small businesses and has specialized in Linux and open source solutions for the last 15 years. Currently, he works for a software development company as an e-mail security expert. He lives in rural Connecticut with his wife and three children, and in his spare time, he enjoys beekeeping, raising chickens, and gardening.
Alessio Bravi has been playing with bits since he was five. He started programming at the age of six and soon focused his attention towards network administration and IT systems security in the best growing-up period of the Internet.
When he was 19, he founded IntSec.NET, and started working as CTO and Network and Security Administrator for Italian Internet service providers (ISPs/W-ISPs) and as an IT security consultant for many companies in Europe.
Alessio works only with Unix-like operating systems and is specialized in IT security analysis, network engineering and administration, autonomous systems BGP routing, IPv4 and IPv6 routing and switching, operating system virtualization, and data center management.
His personal blog can be found at http://blog.bravi.org/, where he writes some technical articles to share IT hints with the digital world. More technical skills and personal details about Alessio can be found on his LinkedIn© profile page at http://www.linkedin.com/in/alessiobravi.
Oleg Butovich is a freelance senior software developer with a passion for virtualization technologies. He has over 15 years of experience in the industry. He has worked on booking systems, trading platforms, laser image generators, digital media systems, medical and life science imaging systems, automatic inspection systems, and embedded systems.
Daniel Lench is a self-proclaimed "fixer of all things". He is drawn to challenges, both physical and theoretical. His background includes acting as an artisan at a state museum, a production manager at a high-volume cabinet shop, AutoCAD expert for civil engineering firms and government agencies, and almost two decades of being professionally involved in the IT industry. In 2008, the challenge was to keep files in sync between multiple computers in real time. Since then he has been focused on finding the best answer. The NoFolder Project is an open source, real-time, private cloud-based backup, file synchronization, and collaboration service that is self hosted and administered in small business and enterprise settings. NoFolder addressed the policy and privacy concerns over using third-party services to store and share data. The project is for those concerned about data, the collaboration with it, and the preservation of it. The company maintains offices in the U.S. and the U.K. with additional resources in Sweden, Austria, and South Africa. Daniel is the founder as well as the CEO for NoFolder Ltd.
Razique Mahroua is a technical consultant on High Availability systems as well as a technical writer. Currently involved in several open source projects, such as OpenStack and KVM, he has written about various technical topics for IBM and Amazon.
His experience ranges from cloud solutions, implementations (IaaS and PaaS), and by-products such as data clustering to network High Availability and data integrity. He currently assists several companies looking for best practices around cloud solutions.