Farhan Ahmed Nadeem has been in the IT field for over 17 years. He has aMaster's degree in Electrical Engineering and holds a number of certificationsincluding CCNP/CCNA DC, VCP, CISSP, CCA, and MCSE-EA. Starting withMicrosoft certification MCSE-NT in 1997, he always stayed abreast with thelatest technologies and server hardware through proactive learning and successfulreal-world deployments. He has extensive work experience in complex heterogeneousenvironments comprising various hardware platforms, operating systems, andapplications. This exposure gave him broad knowledge in investigating, designing,implementing, and managing infrastructure solutions. He progressively startedfocusing on virtualization technologies and the Cisco UCS platform and hascompleted a number of successful UCS deployments with both VMware ESXi andCitrix XenServer hypervisors. When not working with computers, he enjoys spendingtime with his family. Prasenjit Sarkar (@stretchcloud) is a senior member of technical staff atVMware Service Provider Cloud R&D, where he provides architectural oversightand technical guidance for designing, implementing, and testing VMware's Clouddatacenters. He is an author, R&D guy, and a blogger focusing on virtualization,Cloud computing, storage, networking, and other enterprise technologies. He hasmore than 10 years of expert knowledge in R&D, professional services, alliances,solution engineering, consulting, and technical sales with expertise in architectingand deploying virtualization solutions and rolling out new technologies and solutioninitiatives. His primary focus is on VMware vSphere Infrastructure and Public Cloudusing VMware vCloud Suite. His aim is to own the entire life cycle of a VMwarebased IaaS (SDDC), especially vSphere, vCloud Director, vShield Manager, andvCenter Operations. He was one of the VMware vExperts of 2012 and is well knownfor his acclaimed virtualization blog http://stretch-cloud.info. He holdscertifications from VMware, Cisco, Citrix, Red Hat, Microsoft, IBM, HP, and Exin.Prior to joining VMware, he served other fine organizations (such as Capgemini, HP,and GE) as a solution architect and infrastructure architect.