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Dan Kusnetzky

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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.

  • Mitel Contact Center Solution for VMware View

    By Dan Kusnetzky | February 29, 2012, 3:00am PST

    Mitel and VMware have married computer integrated telephony and virtual desktops to bring a new level of flexibility and control to call center operations.

  • Kaminario DataProtect

    By Dan Kusnetzky | February 28, 2012, 3:01am PST

    The industry now expects storage systems to manage traditional rotating media as well as solid state devices. Other expectations are that storage systems will be highly available, self-healing and...

  • Enter the Time Machine with Dolly Drive

    By Ken Hess | February 27, 2012, 8:30am PST

    Cloud-based backup, archive and recovery for your Mac. What’s better than that? A hard drive sent to your house? They do that too.

  • Use it free - Xeround offers Database as a Service

    By Dan Kusnetzky | February 27, 2012, 2:37am PST

    Xeround offers a free subscription to a MySQL-based database as a service limited offering. Will this move popularize database as a service offerings? The simple answer is yes.

  • Global disaster recovery index and why you should care

    By Dan Kusnetzky | February 24, 2012, 2:39am PST

    Acronis sponsored a Ponemon Institute study that attempted to rank confidence in backup and disaster recovery readiness. The key question is should you care?

  • Lucid Imagination wants to make enterprise search easy

    By Dan Kusnetzky | February 23, 2012, 2:52am PST

    Enterprises create and store a massive amount of structured and unstructured data. The problem is that they often have no idea what they have or how to find it. Lucid Imagination believes Apache...

  • Citrix launches CloudStack 3 beta, version 3.1 and 3.2 also planned for 2012

    By Paula Rooney | February 22, 2012, 10:54am PST

    Citrix recently announced availability of CloudStack 3 beta with a redesigned user interface, integrated XenServer 6, support for CloudStack Swift, and integration with the company’s product...

  • Stratus Uptime Appliance For VMware vCenter Server

    By Dan Kusnetzky | February 22, 2012, 3:37am PST

    Stratus brings its expertise in extremely high availability solutions to VMware vCenter.

  • Solid state storage, a growing trend?

    By Dan Kusnetzky | February 21, 2012, 2:36am PST

    Quite a number of storage suppliers have started offering storage systems that are based upon solid state devices, such as Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) or flash memory when non-volatile...

  • Roozz responds

    By Dan Kusnetzky | February 19, 2012, 12:40pm PST

    Roozz’s Jesper Thomsen commented on the post “Roozz enters the application virtualization race.”

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