Kris Buytaert is a long time Linux and Open Source Consultant working on Linux and open source projects in Belgium, Europe, and the rest of the universe. He is currently working for Inuits.
Kris is the co-author of Virtualization with Xen, used to be the maintainer of the openMosix HOWTO, and is the author of different technical publications. He is a frequent speaker at different international conferences.
He spends most of his time working on Linux Clustering (both High Availability, Scalability, and HPC), Virtualization, and Large Infrastructure Management projects hence trying to build infrastructures that can survive the 10th floor test, better known today as "the cloud".
His blog titled "Everything is a Freaking DNS Problem" can be found at http://www.krisbuytaert.be/blog/.
Renard Philippe has traveled extensively during his youth, due to which he has had the opportunity to make his primary and secondary education in many countries (mostly in the Middle East, north Africa, and Europe).
The choice of higher education has brought him to the field of IT, for which he always had a passion.
Having obtained a degree in IT/ICT (with a specialization in network engineering), he has since had the opportunity to work on major projects including, among other ones, the implementation and deployment of a centralized monitoring system (for which Zabbix was chosen after analysis of multiple concurrent solutions).