Data Management and Storage Tools

Peter is a freelance UNIX, Linux and all around storage trainer/consultant. After his English Master's at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands, with specialization in Shakespeare and other writers, he decided that he wanted to write himself; but not novels or plays. He started writing articles on computers and operating systems, creating course materials as he went along and published for the late Sysadmin magazine. He worked at Sun Microsystems, first as an employee, but since 1997 as... more freelancer. He taught UNIX and Linux courses for IBM, Hewlett Packard, Oracle and other companies. Since 2000 he started to specialize in Storage of all kinds. His favorite storage solution has been NetApp's ONTAP for many years. He trained customers and NetApp engineers and assisted customers as consultant, setting up solutions with regards to NetApp.

David has authored over 100 courses for Pluralsight.com around enterprise data center technologies such as cloud computing, virtualization, and (especially) VMware vSphere. He is a partner at ActualTechMedia.com where he creates compelling enterprise technology content, moderates online events, and helps to connect some of the best-known technology companies in the industry with the end user community. With over 20 years in enterprise technology, he has served as an IT Manager, administrator, an... mored instructor. David is an 14 x vExpert, VCP, VCAP, & CCIE# 9369.

Sadaf Allahyari is a Senior Datacenter Consultant, helping customers and organizations design, implement and troubleshoot datacenter solutions. She is a dual VCIX on Datacenter Virtualization and Network Virtualization tracks. Sadaf is also a VMUG leader and helping Swedish VMUG team to organize user conferences. She is also blogging at vElements.net.