Mario Russo has worked as an IT architect, senior technical VMware trainer, and 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 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 P2V on VI3 infrastructure at BNP Cardif Insurance. In 2014 Customize Dashboard and Tuning Smart Allert vCOPs 5.7 POSTECOM Italy Rm. He was a VCI Certified Instructor 2s Level of VMware and is certified VCAP5-DCA, VCP3-4, VCP5-DV VCP5-DT, VCP-Cloud, NPP Nutanix – ZCP Zerto, and other. He is the owner of Business to Virtual, which specializes in virtualization solutions.

He has also contributed as a technical reviewer for various other books by Packt Publishing, such as 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, VMware vSphere Security Cookbook, Mastering vRealize Operations Manager, and Getting Started with VMware Virtual SAN.

I would like to thank my wife, Lina, and my daughter, Gaia. They're my strength.