Greg Schulz is Founder and Sr. Analyst of independent IT advisory consultancy firm Server StorageIO. He has worked in IT at utilities, financial services, and transportation firms in roles ranging from business applications development to systems management, architecture, strategy and capacity planning, comprising more than three decades of applied experience. Greg is actively involved with cloud, serverless, software deifned, virtual, converged, NVMe and traditional computing models, along with data protection modernization and related data infrastructure topics. Greg has authored many books including Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials (CRC Press 2017). the Intel Recommended Reading List books, Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking and The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC Press) and Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier). He is a nine-time VMware vExpert including vSAN and vCloud as well as a Microsoft MVP Cloud Data Center Management. Learn more at www.storageio.com and twitter @StorageIO