Andy Abbas has been specializing in architecting storage solutions for AT&T since 1999. He spearheaded the implementation of one of the first Storage Area Networks for AT&T. During Andy's tenure at AT&T, he has led efforts in developing and streamlining processes for providing storage solutions to internal business groups. He has managed several efforts in migrating large amounts of data in heterogeneous environments.

For the past several years Andy has been leading an effort at AT&T to consolidate a vast Heterogeneous Storage environment between multiple datacenters. This effort involved migration of hundreds of terabytes of storage on several dozen arrays from various vendors. Prior to joining AT&T, Andy served ten years in several senior technical positions for various organizations. Andy earned his bachelor's degree in computer science from DePaul University, Chicago, IL.

Ute Albert is the worldwide marketing manager for Server Virtualization in the HP Enterprise Storage and Server Software organization. Ute spearheads the HP Virtual Server Environment program as one of HP's key virtualization solutions enabling an Adaptive Infrastructure. In addition, Ute oversees workload and virtualization management products for HP Integrity and HP ProLiant servers, covering HP-UX 11i, Windows, and Linux environments.

During her 18 years of IT experience, Ute has led all aspects of hardware and software-related product and program marketing activities. Prior to her stint with HP in the United States, Ute worked for HP in Germany for seven years in the European Marketing Center, driving HP 9000 and HP 3000 hardware and software sales. Ute earned an advanced degree with First-Class Honors in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Bonn in Germany.

Robert Aldrich, Cisco Data Center Market Manager, recently joined Cisco after spending 10 years in facilities design, deployment and management. Rob has architected the power and cooling design of more than 20 enterprise class data centers in North America and the Asia Pacific region.

His current role at Cisco involves working with Cisco IT and the Data Center product engineering teams to help drive the "Green" agenda at Cisco as part of Cisco's sponsorship of the Clinton Global Initiative and participation in The Green Grid.

Tom Atwood is a group manager in Sun's Systems Group. The Systems Group at Sun is responsible for the design and marketing of all of Sun's servers. Atwood's focus is on Sun's new mid-range and high-end SPARC servers.

For the last 14 years, Atwood has been part of Sun's "big iron" server teams. He has written papers and spoken on server topics such as server consolidation, vertical or horizontal computing and improving system utilization. He has followed industry and customer trends related to "big iron" computing such as virtualization, consolidation, operating systems and system and deployment architectures.

Atwood joined Sun in 1996 when Sun purchased the SPARC/Solaris division of Cray Research. While at Cray Research he supported server sales worldwide of Cray's SPARC/Solaris products. Prior to joining Cray Research Atwood was a geophysicist for several years in the petroleum industry. Atwood holds a B.S. in Geology and an M.S. in Geophysics both from Stanford University.

Joel Berman is currently a product management director at Red Hat and is responsible for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and virtualization programs. Before joining Red Hat in 2005, he spent 33 years at Digital/Compaq/HP in various engineering and marketing positions. From 1990-1998, he lived in Hong Kong and managed Digital and Compaq's APAC UNIX, Linux and HPC markets.

Joel's expertise lies in enterprise computing, especially high-availability, high-performance transactional systems. He has worked with many of the world's largest banking and telecommunications companies and was very involved in the transitions from Mainframes to UNIX, and now to Linux for robust and high-performance systems.

Joel's undergraduate work was completed at Boston University. Additionally, he received a Diploma in Industrial Management from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He currently resides in Massachusetts.

Andrew Binstock is the principal analyst at Pacific Data Works LLC, a firm that specializes in high-technology white papers. Previously, he was in charge of Global Technology Forecasts for PricewaterhouseCoopers. Earlier, he was the editor-in-chief of UNIX Review. He currently writes the Integration Watch column for Software Development Times (SD Times) and is a Senior Contributing Editor for InfoWorld, where he focuses on enterprise software-development technologies.

David Cohen is director for Research and Development in the Technology Architecture Group. David started his career at Merrill Lynch in 1999 as a consultant and lead technical architect charged with building the institutional portal (MLX). He has provided vision, planning and development leadership for technology architecture challenges for companies like Dunn and Bradstreet Software, Coca-Cola and Panhandle Eastern.

Prior to Merrill Lynch, David was the enterprise chief architect for Extreme Logic, a consulting firm which he helped to grow into a two time Microsoft Partner of the Year before it was acquired by HP. In this position, David was a marquee developer for Microsoft and worked as a subcontractor for high-end Microsoft implementations. In addition to Merrill, his many blue-chip client companies included Schlumberger, Georgia Pacific, Ceridian, Calpine Energy, Wachovia and Peachtree Software.

An acknowledged industry expert in system architecture and development, David manages Merrill's R&D initiatives.

Before founding Leostream, David founded Bluesocket in 1999, a developer of Wi-Fi security gateways. He previously founded Adero (1996), a provider of global content distribution services that briefly competed with Akamai. He was an early member of Richard Li's team that created Pacific Century Group (acquired by Cable & Wireless Hong Kong) to provide wireless Internet services into China. Before then, Crosbie was a system engineering manager at British Telecom. He has an Honors Degree in Engineering from Oxford University, and an MBA from INSEAD, France.

Simon Crosby is co-founder and CTO of XenSource. Prior to XenSource, Simon was a principal engineer at Intel where he led strategic research in distributed autonomic computing, platform security and trust. Before Intel, Simon founded CPlane Inc., a network optimization software vendor, and held a variety of executive roles while there including president & CEO, chairman and CTO. Prior to CPlane, Simon was a tenured faculty member at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he led research on network performance and control, and multimedia operating systems. He is author of over 35 research papers and patents on a number of datacenter and networking topics including security, network and server virtualization, resource optimization and performance. In 2007, Simon was awarded a coveted spot among InfoWorld's CTO 25. He is also a frequent speaker on the topic of enterprise-grade virtualization with open source technologies.

While his parents were passionately active in many environmental organizations in Colorado, Lewis was exposed to the environmental movement as a child. Lewis started his corporate IT career at BFI designing IT information systems for recycling facilities.

Now, Lewis is a strategic infrastructure architecture advisor and Microsoft's first environmental evangelist for the Development and Platform Evangelism group. Drawing on past environmental experience, Lewis founded the internal Green Datacenter Initiative (a unified effort for Microsoft and its partners to help customers reduce energy and environmental impact) and is a member of the Green Datacenter leadership team.

He is also on the Microsoft Certified Architect board of directors. He has pioneered the work on the Perspective Based Architecture Method and published a PBA article for the Architecture Journal. Before Microsoft, Lewis worked for Sun Microsystems for five years in the advanced internet practice for large scale data center architectures.

Doug is responsible for InfoWorld's product reviews and testing projects. In addition to overseeing Test Center coverage of enterprise IT products, Doug also helps plan and produce technology analyses and test-driven feature articles. He holds a bachelor's of science degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

Gene Doody is the chief information officer and director of information technology for the City of Richmond, VA. Gene serves as the city's IT strategist with responsibility for all the municipality's technology activities. Gene was appointed to his cabinet position by Mayor L. Douglas Wilder in January, 2006, and serves under Deputy Chief Administrative Officer, Mr. Harry E. Black.

Gene is also charged with advancing the Mayor's agenda by identifying how innovation and transformation through the use of technology can provide a positive social impact on the city's residents. Gene was bought in specifically for his track record as a positive change agent. Gene's expertise in IT comes from more than 20 years in Information Technology. Gene spent 14 years working in the Fortune 100 arena including four years at Capital One and five years at MBNA America. He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accountancy & Information Systems from Pace University.

Andrea has more than 18 years of experience in enterprise information systems. Prior to VMware, Andrea held product and marketing management positions at several enterprise software companies, namely BEA, IBM, Macromedia/Adobe, Oracle and TIBCO. Andrea has an MBA from Columbia University and has been an advisor to the board of Xis Inc (acquired by Silicon Valley Bank) and other small start-ups.

Toby Ford leads USi's overall technology efforts to enhance and streamline its delivery of outsourced application management services. Toby's key initiatives have included creation of a proprietary network management and automation platform using on-demand capabilities that are core to USi's ability to reduce costs dramatically while increasing application availability. Toby developed the Technology Roadmap that directs future enhancements, reducing clients operating costs while improving service quality. He has also helped guide the development of various product offerings including PeopleSoft HR and Financial Management, Siebel CRM and Microsoft Exchange. Toby received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.

Steve oversees day-to-day editorial operations for InfoWorld Media Group and is responsible for managing strategic development and implementation of editorial initiatives. He brings 28 years of publishing experience to the job, including, most recently, two-plus years as editorial director of CNET, where he directed coverage for both CNET.com and ZDNet.

Steve is no newcomer to IDG. Previously, he held positions of editor-in-chief at pcworld.com, editor at PC World magazine, and editor-in-chief at The Web Magazine. Steve also worked for Omni magazine (where he was managing editor for four years), Popular Mechanics, and the IEEE. He graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in English.

Rob Helble has been specializing in file area network architecture for Time Warner since 2004. He is responsible for Virtualizing large amounts of corporate data for internal business groups and data migration to a tiered architecture. Rob was also responsible for Time Warner corporate exchange migrations prior to taking over File Area Networking storage solutions. He has two U.S. Patents and is a graduate of Spartan School of Aeronautics.

Stephen Hilton is a managing director of Credit Suisse in the Technology Infrastructure Services division, based in New York. He is responsible for Enterprise Servers and Storage globally.

Mr. Hilton joined Credit Suisse in May 2006 from JPMorganChase where he was a managing director in the Global Technology Infrastructure team, responsible for a number of enterprise level initiatives. Prior to that position, Mr. Hilton worked at CSC and JPMorgan for 10 years during which time he lived in London, Singapore and New York. His responsibilities included infrastructure operations management, technical architecture, program management, client account management and outsourcing solutions.

Mr. Hilton holds a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Bristol University in the UK.

Mahmoud Ismaeil is responsible for distributed storage products and service management at Merrill Lynch. Over the last year, Mahmoud helped develop a global file services strategy. Prior to assuming the products management role, Mahmoud served four years as the head of storage operations for the U.S. region and six years in Unix Administration, server consolidation and the managed services development.

Mahmoud has 23 years of distributed infrastructure management and support experience. Prior to his 11 years with Merrill Lynch, Mahmoud spent four years with Salomon Brothers for a total of 15 years financial industry experience. Early in his career, Mahmoud spent eight years in the engineering design automation industry. Mahmoud has extensive knowledge in deployment and support of large scale enterprise servers and storage. He has an accomplished track record in server and storage consolidation. Mahmoud is affiliated with Storage Networking Organization and is a founding member of the Finance Special Interest Group.

Zak Khalil is the IT Director of the Lessard Group Inc., a 20 year old, 150 people architectural design firm based in Northern Virginia.

With 10 years of professional experience in Architecture, an MCSE certification and a Master's Degree in Information Systems Management, Khalil joined Lessard Group in 2002. His duties include network administration and management, new technologies' evaluation and implementation and oversight of CAD and BIM applications. In five years, Lessard's staff grew from 60 to 150 with a peak of 200, the company's infrastructure was entirely rebuilt and its data storage grew by more than 1500‰.

As PlateSpin's Director, Product Management, Saeed is responsible for all phases of the product lifecycle from initial conception through early customer acquisition, revenue growth and end-of-life. Saeed Khan is a 20-year software industry veteran with expertise in product management, product marketing, development and education. He has managed market-leading products in a number of segments including virtualization, data center automation, data integration, data visualization and enterprise application development. Saeed brings hands-on experience in enterprise infrastructure and database-related software systems. Prior to Joining PlateSpin, he held key product management positions at Informatica, General Magic, KL Group (acquired by Quest Software) and Intelliseek (now Neilsen BuzzMetrics). Saeed is also a contributor to leading publications such as ProductMarketing.com magazine.

Current Role: My goal is to make sure that Apache's G&G staff have the tools and data needed to make quick and accurate decisions that can impact the company's time-to-discovery, and ultimately its ability to get wells drilled. I strive to provide this using the most reliability systems with the least cost possible using the latest technology to maximize our asset value.

Responsibilities include: Provide 24 x 7 accessibility for all of Apache's core exploration applications throughout all of Apache's regions; Oversee project management, applications architecture, and systems management; Inspire confidence and build relationships with all of Apache's regions to show our team's commitment, high-performance, and responsive technical support.

Industry Experience: 7.5 years. I have worked to support exploration computing environments for Stone Energy and Houston Energy prior to my experience at Apache.

Kevin Leahy is the director of the newly formed IBM IT Optimization Business Unit and IBM Virtualization Offerings. In his role, Kevin is responsible for the development and progress of the IT Optimization business which includes an extensive portfolio of solutions that combine hardware, software and IBM services to help IBM customers simplify, better manage and do more with their existing infrastructures. As part of this, he is responsible for IBM's virtualization, grid and platform management offerings. Leahy also oversees all of IBM's Virtualization Offerings including IBM Virtualization Business Partner relationships and is responsible for keeping IBM as the virtualization leader in the marketplace.

In his previous role Kevin was responsible for driving marketing for IBM Virtualization Solutions, a business unit designed to enable IBM to create a marketplace of high value, high growth solutions around systems and storage virtualization. Kevin is a graduate of The Cooper Union in NYC.

Patrick Lin leads the VMware Infrastructure product management team. Prior to VMware, he was responsible for product management and marketing at Invio Software, a storage workflow automation vendor acquired by VERITAS Software. He has also held product management, business development and strategy consulting roles at Intuit, Microsoft WebTV, and Bain & Company. In addition to an MBA from INSEAD, Patrick holds degrees in Electrical Engineering and East Asian Studies from Stanford University.

Dan Mitchell is no stranger to new technology. At age 11, he was the youngest beta tester for what is now America Online. By age 13, he became a staff writer for the Boston Computer Society. Dan started his first technology consulting company at the age of 19 and has been active in cutting-edge technology ever since.

Dan spent several years in the Internet and Web Hosting industry, working at organizations such as HarvardNet, Hosting.com and Allegiance Telecom. Prior to joining Dunes (recently acquired by VMware), Dan was a senior systems engineer with CompuCom, a large systems integrator in the U.S., and later Foedus, a virtualization consulting group based in the Northeast. Dan is actively involved in systems engineering and support activities with the global enterprise customers.

Dan is currently working on a book about virtualization technologies and business process automation, to be released next year.

As a senior technical specialist for US Foodservice, Dorian brings his 11 years of industry experience to help manage and maintain 14,000 workstations distributed throughout 90 sites across the country. Throughout his career he has provided software development and system administration services for several organizations. He currently specializes in software packaging, deployment, and remote administration primarily working with Altiris products.

Dorian earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from West Virginia University, and his Master's degree in Information Technology from the University of Phoenix.

Don Norbeck is the director of product development for SunGard Availability Services. Over the last year, he developed SunGard's Suite of Messaging and Collaboration Services and is responsible for setting SunGard's strategy for Virtualization, Grid and On-demand computing, as well as setting the SunGard Information Availability Product Roadmap. Prior to assuming a product management role, Don served as solution engineer and managed services subject matter expert, where he assisted in architecting some of SunGard's most complex managed services solutions.

With over 15 years of IT experience, Don has worked as a solution engineer for Kana, an ECRM software company, and Digex, a hosting provider. He served as Internet services manager and director of Information Technology for Philadelphia 2000, the host committee for the 2000 Republican Convention. Don holds a Juris Doctorate from Temple University's Beasley School of Law and a B.A. in American Culture from Vassar College.

Shai Ofek is a lead technical product manager in Microsoft's Server Division with focus on Windows Server Virtualization, Server Consolidation, and Virtual Infrastructure management. He is an experienced architect of diverse technologies including directory and core infrastructure services, systems management, as well as secured environments.

Prior to this role, Ofek was a principal technology architect on the virtualization team, and before that a senior consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services, where he applied his knowledge of Windows Server, Active Directory, MOM (Operations Manager), SMS, and Virtual Server, to deploy products in organizations ranging from 50 to 10,000 servers. His involvement in projects covered a variety of industries including financial services, retail, hospitality, manufacturing, academia, and small businesses.

Ofek's experience with computer technologies starts with his service in the Israeli Army at 1988. Prior to joining Microsoft, Ofek was working at Time Warner, Sumitomo Bank, JP Morgan Chase, as well as other fortune 100s.

Rich Persaud is a systems engineering manager in the Business Development team at XenSource, where he supports OEMs and technology partners. Since joining XenSource in early 2005, Rich has worked in professional services, sales engineering and release management.

Prior to XenSource, Rich worked at SIAC, the Technology Services division of the New York Stock Exchange. He has more than 10 years of consulting experience in a variety of engineering roles, with clients including AT&T, Concur Technologies, IBM, Northpoint Communications, Sybase and Sun Microsystems.

Ian Pratt is the leader and chief architect of the Xen project, which he founded in 2001 with the aim of making virtualization ubiquitous on scale-out hardware. Ian has played a key role in both the architecture of Xen and formation of industry partnerships that led to the emergence of Xen as the open source virtualization technology. Ian is a member of senior faculty at the Computer Laboratory of Cambridge University, UK, where he has led Systems Research for 7 years. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science, and was elected a Fellow of Kings College in 1996. Ian was a founder of Nemesys Research, acquired by FORE Systems, and has consulted widely in the technology industry.

Specializing in virtualization architecture and high-end storage implementation, Matt has a true passion for enterprise IT solutions. With more than ten years of experience in the IT industry, Matt has done everything from large-scale internetworking, to developing complex LAMP-based web applications. Over the past eighteen months, Matt has been instrumental to the adoption of virtualization technologies as a means for his clients to decrease both their disaster recovery windows and overall TCO.

Matt is a senior network architect with the SymQuest Group.

Michael Rosen is a solutions director in the East Region at Avanade, where he is defining technology direction and strategy in the Technology infrastructure (TI) Practice. His responsibilities include Pre/Post Sales support, managing a regional team of solution leads and shaping our GTM's in the East region. Prior to this he served as TI Practice Director for the East Region. Michael has run some of the largest TI projects in the east, Desktop Transformation, Messaging, and Large Scale Server consolidation for Global Consumer Product & Financial Service companies. Michael joined Avanade in the summer of 2000. Prior to joining Avanade he served as the vice president and co-owner of Touch Tech Inc a Microsoft Gold Partner and prior to that was a senior systems engineer for MicroAge, a Systems Integrator. His 22 years of professional experience started right out of college working for IBM as a PC technician and Network Engineer.

Jim Rymarczyk joined IBM in 1968 as a programmer working for an IBM Fellow on the design of an experimental time-sharing system. He subsequently served as a principal hardware logic designer for the IBM 3033 processor, as manager of S/370 Performance Analysis and Measurement, as manager of S/390 Processor Architecture and System Structure, and as program manager of S/390 Product Design and Verification.

He was a principal designer of the S/390 PR/SM Logical Partitioning facility, led the design of a precursor to the RS/6000 SP, and was a principal architect of the S/390 Parallel Sysplex. He does research on a broad range of future server technologies and designs, predicts trends and disruptions of significance to the server business, and drives changes to the system-level design of future IBM servers.

Jim is currently the chief virtualization technologist for the Systems and Technology Group. He received a BSEE from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

A senior editor for the InfoWorld Test Center, Ted Samson has been with InfoWorld since 1999. Passionate about environmental issues and technology, he tracks green tech trends in his Sustainable IT blog. Ted works out of his home office in Sacramento. His kitchen appliances are all Energy Star-compliant -- but he does not currently own a hybrid.

Edwin J. Simcox, Jr. ("Ed") holds a B.A. degree from DePauw University and obtained a J.D. degree from Indiana University School of Law. Following graduation from law school, Ed became the director of Web and Internet Technologies at the Indiana Department of Revenue where he led the creation of the agency's first Website and the creation of one the United States' first, Web-based tax filing applications. Ed left the Department of Revenue to form a technology consulting firm in 1999.

Currently, Ed is the director of Technology Planning at Clarian Health Partners in Indianapolis. As the executive responsible for several technology and business-improvement projects, Ed has played a key role at Clarian in reducing IT costs while improving patient and clinician satisfaction. Ed also manages the strategic relationship with Clarian's five largest IT vendors, and is responsible for driving Clarian's IT strategic planning effort. He currently chairs two of Clarian's five IS governance bodies.

Dr. Gregory O. Smith is the director of dynamic services for T-Systems IT Operations in North America responsible for Dynamic Computing and Application Services. Gregory has an extensive background in virtualization-based delivery of applications with a focus around SAP. Prior to joining T-Systems, Gregory was the Global Manager of Sun Microsystems SAP Competency Center Organization and a core designer of Sun's N1 for SAP Solutions virtualized delivery platform.

Jim Smith is the vice president of Engineering at Digital Realty Trust. Mr. Smith is a long term veteran of the data communications industry, including being a co-founder and chief technology officer of Colo.com. Prior to joining Digital Realty Trust in 2004, Mr. Smith was a datacenter consultant providing technical and feasibility assessments for corporate clients evaluating datacenter acquisitions in North America and Europe.

Mornay Van Der Walt has over 14 years experience in IT and recently joined VMware as a senior enterprise and technical marketing solutions architect.

Prior to VMware Mornay was a vice president and system architect at Natixis Capital Markets, the U.S. subsidiary of Natixis Corporate & Investment Bank. Mornay was at Natixis for 9 years and during that time was responsible for architecting and managing the firms' core infrastructure services, which included VMware virtual infrastructure which was deployed in a multi-site environment to support both production and business continuity services. As a member of the core engineering team, Mornay played an active role in the Natixis business continuity program and served in the role of project manger for several major IT projects.

Prior to immigrating to the U.S. in 1998 from South Africa, Mornay completed his studies in Electrical Engineering.

Alex Vasilevsky brings over 20 years of extensive engineering, technology leadership and management experience to Virtual Iron Software. He has been instrumental in defining and creating the technology and architecture behind the company. Prior to Virtual Iron, he was chief technology officer at Ucentric Systems (acquired by Motorola), a leading provider of home media software for media centers.

Vasilevsky is a recognized expert in parallel processing, grid run-time systems, and advanced optimizing compilers. He has held senior engineering and management roles in ground-breaking technology companies. At Avid Technology he worked on the award-winning MediaComposer and headed the innovative CamCutter technology. While at Thinking Machines, Vasilevsky created the world's first distributed grid run-time system for the highly acclaimed parallel supercomputer - The Connection Machine.

Vasilevsky holds five U.S. patents for his innovative work in parallel processing. He holds a B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University and a Master's in Computer Science from Boston University.

Paul Venezia is an InfoWorld Senior Contributing Editor and a veteran consultant with over a decade in the trenches. Perl, PHP, SQL, FreeBSD, Linux, Windows, high-end internetworking - he's been there, done it, and has the scars to prove it. Paul is also a contributor to many open source projects including NeDi, Cacti, and relaydelay.

George White was appointed as chief information officer for the Office of Attorney General in February 2005. As CIO he is responsible for developing and implementing the Office's overall IT strategy and oversees all of the Office's IT functions and operations.

Before joining the Attorney General's Office, George was the national director for Professional Services with IntelliMark, overseeing the firm's application development, consulting and training lines of business. He came to IntelliMark after serving as a senior manager with Deloitte Consulting's national e-government practice.

Prior to that, George spent 18 years in the Pennsylvania Governor's Office of Administration as a senior IT manager and was responsible for developing a number of Governor Ridge's key IT initiatives. George has a B.A. from Trenton State College and an MPA from Penn State University.

Vital Signs Technology delivers robust technology utilizing server and desktop virtualization to enable exceptional patient care the Healthcare providers on the West Coast. In cofounding the company, Patrick brought 14 years of IT experience in rapidly growing Silicon Valley startups.

Prior to Vital Signs, he was Director of IT at Finisar Corporation, were he was responsible for the delivery of technology services to over 2500 employees on 3 continents. Rapid growth through acquisitions at Finisar provided him with a keen appreciation for deploying technology that enables rapid business expansion without breaking the bank.

He earned a B.A. degree in Business at Western Baptist College.

Chris Wolf is a senior analyst for Burton Group's Data Center Strategies service. Wolf provides Burton Group's enterprise clients with practical research and advice about server virtualization, data center consolidation, business continuity and data protection. He also authored Virtualization: From the Desktop to the Enterprise, the first book published on the topic. For more content by Chris Wolf and Burton Group, visit our complimentary research site.

Tom Yager has been working in IT and as a hands-on technology journalist for over 25 years. He has published three books, hundreds of reviews and hands-on print articles, and has worked as a columnist for UNIX Review and Windows NT Systems, among others. Today, Tom is the chief technologist for InfoWorld's Test Center, author of InfoWorld's Ahead of the Curve column and author of the Enterprise Mac blog.

Mark Zecca is the senior director for Mitchell 1. He oversees Mitchell 1's commercial software development, database services, networks, quality testing, operations, and engineering areas. He is also responsible for the company's strategic technology planning and corporate project management. He is currently working on increasing the customer data store and creating a more robust set of Application Service Programs (ASP) for Mitchell 1 customers.

Mr. Zecca began his career with Mitchell in 2004. In his career, he has held chief information officer, vice president IT, and IT director positions with companies such as American Airlines, AT&T-Bell Atlantic, Peoplesoft, and BFGoodrich.

Mr. Zecca graduated from The University of San Diego with a Bachelor's degree in Communications Engineering, obtained a Master's degree in Computer Science from Virginia Institute of Technology, a Master's in Business Administration from LeTourneau University of Texas. Mr. Zecca is currently a Ph.D. learner in Information Technology Management at Capella University.

Jack Zubarev is a founder and the chief operating officer overseeing worldwide sales and operations at SWsoft, maker of virtualization and automation software. Since 1999, he has held multiple leadership roles within SWsoft including sales engineering, product marketing and business development. Zubarev has been instrumental in building the company from its start to today with more than 800 employees. Zubarev was a founder of Acronis and helped establish the storage management company's sales and marketing organizations in the U.S. Previously, he handled product marketing for Pervasive Software and brought its first Linux product to market. Zubarev holds a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and an MBA from the University of San Francisco.