About the Reviewers

Dustin Lenz is currently an MTS IT systems engineer with a large semiconductor manufacturer. Dustin earned a bachelor of science degree in computer technology from Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, and has earned his certification, VCP, from VMware for datacenter technologies.

Ajeet Singh Raina is a senior systems engineer at Dell R&D. He has received a certification in VMware Certified Professional (VCP 4.1) and has more than 7 years of experience working on open source and virtualization platforms. He was a part of the VMQA GOS Validation Team at VMware India and validated all flavors of operating systems on ESXi 4.1 and 5.0. He is currently working with Enterprise Solutions Group at Dell and has a solid understanding of a diverse range of IT infrastructure, systems management, systems integration, and quality assurance.

Ajeet has a great passion for open source technologies (Linux, Hadoop, and OpenStack). He likes providing tech-talks and technical consultations on the latest open source software and has a habit of sharing it through blogs and wikis. He can be reached at http://collabnix.com

Earl Waud is a virtualization development professional with more than 7 years of focused industry experience in creating innovative solutions for hypervisor provisioning, management, and automation. He is an expert in aligning engineering strategy with organizational vision and goals, and delivering highly scalable and user friendly virtualization environments.

With more than 18 years of experience in developing customer facing and corporate IT software solutions, he has a proven track record of delivering high-caliber and on-time technology solutions that have a significant impact on business results.

Earl currently lives in San Diego, California. He is blessed with a beautiful wife, Patti, and three amazing daughters, Madison, Daniella, and Alexis.

Currently, Earl is a senior systems engineer with Intuit Inc., a company that creates business and financial management solutions that simplify the business of life for small businesses, consumers, and accounting professionals.

Earl can be reached online at http://sandiegoearl.com.