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Dan Kusnetzky

Dan Kusnetzky

Daniel Kusnetzky, Analyst and Founder of Kusnetzky Group LLC, is responsible for research, publications, and operations. Mr. Kusnetzky has been involved with information technology since the late 1970s. Mr. Kusnetzky has been responsible for research operations at the 451 Group; corporate and marketing strategy for Open-Xchange; system software and virtualization research at IDC; and program and product management at Digital Equipment Corporation.; Today, Mr. Kusnetzky focuses on system software, virtualization technology and cloud computing.

Paula Rooney

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Paula Rooney

Paula Rooney

Paula Rooney has covered the technology industry for more than 15 years, starting with semiconductor design and mini-computer systems at EDN News and later focused on PC software companies including Microsoft, Lotus, Oracle, Red Hat, Novell and other open source and commercial software companies for CRN and PCWeek. She received a silver award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors in 2005 for her profile on Linus Torvalds and edited and co-authored "Partnering With Microsoft," a book about Microsoft's channel published by CMP Publishing in 2004. Rooney graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1997. In her off time, she enjoys scuba diving, sailing, sun worshipping, running and reading. She resides on the shores of Scituate, Massachusetts.

Ken Hess

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Ken Hess

Ken Hess
Kenneth 'Ken' Hess is a full-time Windows and Linux system administrator with over 15 years of experience with Mac, Linux, UNIX, and Windows systems in large multi-data center environments.

Ken writes on a variety of topics including interoperability, virtualization, data center operations, databases, and open source software. He has written and co-written books on Linux, databases, and virtualization. He currently writes a System Administration column for Linux Magazine and is a regular contributor to Linux User & Developer magazine, ServerWatch.com's Trends and InfoStor. He often contributes to other online and print publications as well.

His first computer was a Commodore VIC-20, which he purchased because William Shatner was in the commercials.

In his limited spare time, Ken enjoys painting, drawing, and flinging angry birds at fortified pigs.

About Virtually Speaking

Virtualization reaches from hand-held devices to the data center to the clouds. Virtually Speaking examines the forces behind this expansion, the suppliers of the technology and the organizations using the technology.

  • eG Innovations wants to help organization make sense out of complexity

    By Dan Kusnetzky | February 8, 2012, 2:45am PST

    eG Innovations is offering a comprehensive, yet easy to use, set of tools to monitor enterprise environments. The company has to make itself heard over others in a very competitive and noisy...

  • VMware debuts cloud integration manager for service providers

    By Paula Rooney | February 7, 2012, 9:14am PST

    VMware has announced its latest cloud product, the VMware Cloud Integration Manager, which automates the delivery and operation of the company’s vCloud Director clouds. It will be delivered...

  • Cloudability wants to manage cloud usage to reduce costs

    By Dan Kusnetzky | February 7, 2012, 5:00am PST

    Cloudability wants to apply clever management tools to cloud computing usage and reduce costs. Interesting idea, but do they have what it takes to beat all of the other players who are promising...

  • Hostway offers industry's first Hyper-V cloud

    By Ken Hess | February 7, 2012, 5:00am PST

    Their “FlexLink” Hybrid Cloud will enable Hyper-V users to combine their company’s public cloud infrastructure with managed hosting, co-location and private cloud service to achieve the...

  • We got funding! Aren't you excited about it?

    By Dan Kusnetzky | February 7, 2012, 3:01am PST

    A start up has convinced someone in the investment community to give them money. The PR folks are excited, should you be?

  • Nicira platform brings network virtualization to cloud

    By Paula Rooney | February 6, 2012, 3:49pm PST

    Nicira aims to bring enterprise private networking to the cloud. The company’s Network Virtualization Platform (NVP) oftware-based system that creates a distributed virtual network...

  • MokaFive offers Mac in minutes

    By Dan Kusnetzky | February 6, 2012, 2:57am PST

    As executives and staff bring Macs into the enterprise, IT administrators need tools to bring the Macs under management control. MokaFive believes its “Mac in Minutes” tools make the...

  • Cisco launches enhanced network switches to support rapid move to cloud computing

    By Dan Kusnetzky | February 3, 2012, 3:13am PST

    Cisco believes that the future includes a rapid rise in network use driven by new access devices, greater use of non-structured data and is responding by launching enhanced network switches.

  • NetIQ focuses on emerging Cloud service providers

    By Dan Kusnetzky | February 2, 2012, 2:56am PST

    NetIQ is taking a pragmatic, straightforward, approach to redeploying Novell’s orchestration and migration technology. NetIQ hopes to help cloud service providers in emerging markets quickly...

  • CTERA cloud attached storage introduces the midmarket to cloud solutions

    By Dan Kusnetzky | February 1, 2012, 2:39am PST

    CTERA’s Director of Channel Sales for North America, Donald Fuller, and I had a wide ranging conversation about CTERA’s “cloud attached storage” devices, what resellers had...

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