Jason Langer works as a solutions architect for a VMware partner in the Pacific Northwest, helping customers achieve their datacenter server virtualization and end user computing goals. He has obtained multiple levels of certification both from Microsoft (MCSE/MCSA) and VMware (VCP/VCAP), and brings over 15 years of IT experience to the table. When not working at his day job, Jason is active in the VMware community as a member of the Seattle VMUG Steering Committee and generates content for his blog, http://www.virtuallanger.com/.

He worked as the technical reviewer for VMware ESXi CookBook and Troubleshooting vSphere Storage, and VMware Horizon View 5.3 Design Patterns and Best Practices, all published by Packt Publishing.

Julien Mousqueton has been in the Information Technology field for 16 years, starting out as a systems administrator. Along the way, he worked at different positions, such as an IT manager, a systems engineer, and, most recently, as the chief technology officer (CTO) for a financial group. Currently, he works as a senior consultant in an independent provider of IT infrastructure services.

In addition, Julien is the leader of the French VMware User Group. VMware awarded him a vExpert in 2009.

Mario Russo has worked as an IT architect, a senior technical VMware trainer, and in the pre-sales department. He has been working on the 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 the 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 the migration of P2V on VI3 infrastructure at BNP Cardif Insurance.

In 2014, he completed a project on customizing the dashboard and tuning smart alert VCOPs 5.7 for PosteCom, Italy, Rome.

He is a VCI-Certified Instructor 2s Level of VMware and is certified VCAP5-DCA, VCP3-4, VCP5-DVVCP5-DT, and VCP-Cloud.

He is the owner of Business to Virtual, which specializes in virtualization solutions.

He was also the technical reviewer of the following books:, Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2, Implementing VMware vCenter Server, Troubleshooting vSphere Storage, VMware Horizon View 5.3 Design Patterns and Best Practices, Instant Getting Started with VMware Fusion, Implementing VMware vCenter Server, and VMware vSphere Security Cookbook all by Packt Publishing.

Vikas Shitole is a member of the technical staff at VMware R and D, where he primarily contributes to the vSphere API team, which is focused on vCenter server features such as vSphere DRS, DPM, SDRS, SIOC, and so on. He was awarded vExpert 2014 and 2015, a recognition from VMware for outstanding contributions to the virtualization and cloud computing community. Also, he is the owner of http://vThinkBeyondVM.com, a blog site focused on VMware and virtualization. He has completed his M.Tech in computer science from VIT University, India, and holds VCP51, OCPJP 1.6, and MCTS certifications. He can be followed on twitter at @vThinkBeyondVM.

Akmal Khaleeq Waheed is a Cloud consultant who specializes in VMware Technologies in all categories. He has previously worked on enterprise servers at Hewlett Packard, and Virtualization at VMware, Inc. He is a VCP (all categories), VCAP (DCA and Design), vExpert 2014 and 2015, and the first ever winner of the reality competition called Virtual Design Master-vDM001 organized by the VMware community.

You can contact Akmal at www.twitter.com/akmal_waheed, or visit his blog at http://vdm-001.blogspot.in.

He has worked as a technical reviewer for VMware vSphere Resource Management Essentials.