Steve Buchanan is an infrastructure consultant. He has 13 years of experience in Information Technology around systems management, with a focus on the System Center product suite. Steve authored Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2010 by Packt Publishing and is the contributing author of the upcoming Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2012 book. Steve is a Microsoft System Center MVP and holds the following certifications: A+, Linux +, MCP, MCTS, MCSA, and MCITP: Server Administrator.
Steve's blog is located at www.buchatech.com.
Kristian Nese works for Microsoft both nationally and globally, and is a speaker and writer. He has experience with technologies such as virtualization and cloud computing, and is considered to be one of the best in this area.
He's the CTO at Lumagate, where he works with business development and systems management for their customers while keeping his consultants up to speed on what's hot and interesting.
Kristian has written and participated in the development of several books, such as Cloud Computing (in Norwegian), the Microsoft Private Cloud Computing book, and the Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook.
Richard Skinner has over ten years' experience in the field of IT. Since starting as a software developer, he has had a varied career covering many aspects of IT, including Windows desktop deployments, SQL Server database administration, SAN implementation, document management, SharePoint, and Hyper-V.
Carmen Summers is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft Corporation, working in the Cloud & Datacenter Management System Center department. Carmen got her start in the industry while serving in the United States Air Force from 1991 to 2000. She has worked in the Information Technology and Service and Computer Software industries for over 18 years and has extensive Operations-related experience in various datacenter-related roles. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2007, she led the datacenter patching operations for a large scale IT services company that was responsible for patching over 40,000 servers monthly.