Jason Langer works as a Solutions Architect for a VMware partner in the Pacific Northwest region helping customers achieve their datacenter virtualization goals. Jason has obtained multiple levels of certification both from Microsoft and VMware and brings 15 years of IT experience to the table. When not working his day job, Jason is active in the VMware community as a member of the Seattle VMUG Steering Committee and generating content for his blog, virtuallanger.com.

He is also currently working as a technical reviewer for VMware ESXi 5.1 Cookbook, Mohammed Raffic Kajamoideen, Packt Publishing.

Mario Russo has worked as an IT Architect, a 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 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.

He is a VMware Certified Instructor (VCI) and is certified in VCAP5-DCA.

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

He was also the technical reviewer of the book, Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2, Jason Ventresco, Packt Publishing.

Aravind Sivaraman is a Virtualization Engineer with more than seven years of experience in the IT industry and for the past five years, he has been focused on virtualization solutions especially on VMware products. He has been awarded with the VMware vExpert title for the year 2013. He is a VMware Technology Network (VMTN) contributor and maintains his personal blog at http://aravindsivaraman.wordpress.com/. He can also be followed on Twitter (@ss_aravind).

Eric Wright is a Systems Architect and VMware vExpert with a background in virtualization, business continuity, PowerShell scripting, and systems automation in many industries including financial services, health services, and engineering firms. As the author behind www.DiscoPosse.com, a technology and virtualization blog, Eric is also a regular contributor to community driven technology groups such as the VMUG organization in Toronto, Canada. You can connect with Eric at www.twitter.com/DiscoPosse.

When Eric is not working in technology, you may find him with a guitar in his hand or riding a local bike race or climbing over the obstacles on a Tough Mudder course. Eric also commits time regularly to charity bike rides and running events to help raise awareness and funding for cancer research through a number of organizations.