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Bill Kleyman

Bill Kleyman is an enthusiastic technologist with experience in a variety of industries. This includes data center, cloud, virtualization, security, AI, mobility, edge solutions, and much more. His architecture work includes large virtualization and cloud deployments as well as focusing on overcoming emerging business challenges. Bill enjoys writing, blogging, and educating colleagues around everything that is technology. During the day, Bill is the Director of Technology Solutions at EPAM where he works with AI, machine learning, blockchain solutions, DevOps, cloud, and advanced technologies to help engineer the digital future. Bill’s whitepapers, articles, video blogs and podcasts have been published and referenced on WindowsITPro, Data Center Knowledge, InformationWeek, NetworkComputing, TechTarget, DarkReading, Forbes, CBS Interactive, Slashdot, and many others.

Michael Otey

Michael Otey, senior contributing editor for Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Pro, is president of TECA, a software-development and consulting company in Portland, Oregon. Michael has covered the topic of virtualization extensively for Windows IT Pro, having written several features articles showing how to take advantage of virtualization in the enterprise as well as reviewing all of the major virtualization products. He also previously served as technical director for Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Pro. Email him at mikeo@teca.com Follow Michael on Google+ and Twitter.

Orin Thomas

Orin Thomas is an MVP, an MCT and has a string of Microsoft MCSE and MCITP certifications. He has written more than 30 books for Microsoft Press IT Pro topics. He is an author at PluralSight and is a contributing editor at Windows IT Pro magazine. He has been working in IT since the early 1990's and regularly speaks at conferences in Australia and around the world.

Gijsbert Janssen van Doorn

Gijsbert Janssen van Doorn is the Director of Technical Marketing at Zerto with a focus on helping customers understand and adopt IT Resilience. Before taking on the role as the Director of Technical Marketing, Gijsbert spent 4 years between being a Technology Evangelist and working in the field for Zerto's Systems Engineering department. Prior to Zerto, Gijsbert was a Sales Engineer at Nexenta Systems supporting the sales of Software Defined Storage. Gijsbert has over 15 years of experience in IT and has been involved in designing and implementing large IT infrastructures at both enterprises and large cloud service providers.

Sam Nicholls

Sam Nicholls is a senior manager for Global Product Marketing at Veeam, combining over 10 years of sales, alliance management and product marketing experience in the IT industry. Sam has developed a strong track record of success and knowledge across multiple markets and trends within today’s enterprise, including virtualization, cloud computing, hyper-converged infrastructure and data protection technologies.

Christophe Bertrand

Christophe Bertrand, Senior Analyst, ESG Previously-VP, Product Marketing at ArcServer

Kong Yang

Manjul Sahay Director Product Management, Previously - Product Management at AWS & VMware