Peter von Oven is an experienced technical consultant and has spent the past 20 years of his IT career working with customers and partners in designing technology solutions aimed at delivering true business value. During his career, Peter has been involved in numerous large-scale enterprise projects and deployments and has presented at key IT events, such as VMworld, IP EXPO, and various VMUGs and CCUG events across the UK. He has also worked in senior presales roles and presales management roles for some of the giants of IT, such as Fujitsu, HP, Citrix, and VMware, and has been awarded VMware vExpert for 2015 and 2016.
Over the past 12 years and more, Peter has focused his skills and experience by specializing in the desktop and application virtualization market and today works as toe UK Pre Sales Director for the market-leading desktop transformation specialists, Liquidware Labs.
Peter got his first taste for writing when assisting with some of the chapters in the book Building End-User Computing Solutions with VMware View, which then lead to five other Packt titles, VMware Horizon Mirage Essentials, VMware Horizon Workspace Essentials, co-written with Peter Bjork and Joel Lindberg, VMware Horizon View Essentials, Mastering VMware Horizon 6, co-written with Barry Coombs, and Learning VMware App Volumes.
There are a few people I want to thank for the continued and ongoing support they have given me during the writing of this book. First, and most importantly, I would like to thank my wife and daughters for putting up with me while I spend many weekends and evenings writing – I couldn’t do it without their support.
This book wouldn’t have happened if I hadn’t had the support from some of the key vendors in the EUC space. Firstly, I would like to thank the team at Tintri (Mark Young and Claire Randall) for the loan of the Tintri T820 storage array that enabled me to not only build out the example labs, but to also really understand how storage impacts a VDI solution.
I would also like to thank friend and ex-colleague Steve Horne for his expertise and knowledge in helping with how to define and approach any desktop or VDI transformation project, and of course thanks to my co-author Barry Coombs for helping with the original content.
Finally, a big thank you to the Packt Publishing team again, for giving me the opportunity to write this book.
Barry Coombs is the Operations and Pre Sales Director for ComputerWorld by day and an avid Blogger following everything to do with the virtualisation, storage and cloud industries.
Barry's responsibilities range from identifying new technologies and architecting solutions for customers to speaking and hosting customer focused events surrounding virtualisation, end user computing, storage and cloud computing. Barry blogs at VirtualisedReality.com and DefineTomorrow.co.uk and is co-host of the EUCPodcast.com podcast.
Outside of work Barry is a proud father and husband who enjoys spending time with his family, cycling (Although needs to find more time), photography and yet again more tech!
Barry enjoys talking about technology and sharing his findings with others in the community. Barry was awarded VMware's vExpert award for contributions to the VMware Community in 2010 through to 2016 Barry can usually be found on twitter (@VirtualisedReal) chatting about virtualisation and technology in general.
This is Barry’s third book on end-user computing technologies, after previously being a co-author for Building End-User Computing Solutions with VMware View in 2012, and Mastering VMware Horizon 6 in 2015.
I would like to thank Peter for his hard work updating this book to the latest version and to my wife Laura and daughter Olivia who support me in everything I do.