Contributors & References

Meet the Authors & Works Cited

JASON HOOD

Jason is a Field CTO at Stratascale. He has almost 30 years of experience running cloud, infrastructure (server, storage, and network), desktop, service desk, security, HPC, and data teams for both Fortune 500 and private equity-funded companies. Most recently, he has focused on the operations side of large data centers, IT modernization, and cloud migrations.

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MICHELE HOPE

Michele is the lead research analyst for Cloud at Stratascale. She covers emerging cloud trends and the best way to address key cloud challenges faced by today’s enterprise organizations. She has written about enterprise infrastructures for the past 25 years.

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DAVID OLSZEWSKI

David is technical advisor for Hybrid Cloud at Stratascale. He leads technical cloud strategy conversations, provides guidance from market analysis, and assessments focused on business, technical, and use case intelligence using practical experience and insights.

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KELLY SODEN

As a Principal Cloud Consultant at Stratascale, Kelly provides expert level guidance and support to enterprise customers around public cloud solutions, with a focus on AWS, for which he holds many certifications. Kelly returned to SHI/Stratascale in 2020, bringing with him over 25 years of experience in IT and more than 15 years in IT architecture and planning.

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TONY VINAYAK

Tony is the senior director of cloud professional services at Stratascale. He has been in the software business spanning across three decades and four continents. He has been a software developer, trainer, solution architect, and in leadership roles over the past 15 years.

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LEE ZILIAK

Lee is a Chief Technology officer for SHI’s Communications, Media, and Entertainment business. He came to SHI from Verizon, where he was a Senior Manager leading public and private cloud deployments.

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JAY CHAPEL

Jay is the vice president of growth for cloud solutions at Turbonomic. He joined Turbonomic by way of the acquisition of ParkMyCloud, for which he served as CEO and co-founder.

KIM KING

Kim is the director of product marketing for hybrid cloud management at Snow Software. In this role, Kim is responsible for developing and executing product marketing strategy for Snow’s cloud management platform, Snow Commander.

COREY QUINN

Corey is the chief cloud economist at The Duckbill Group, where he specializes in helping companies improve their AWS bills by making them smaller and less horrifying.

AMIR SHARIF

Amir is the vice president of product and strategy at Opsani. Prior to Opsani, Amir co-founded Aporeto (acquired by Palo Alto Networks).

CHUCK TATHAM

Chuck has 20 years of experience in enterprise software marketing, sales, and corporate management. As chief marketing officer and vice president of business development at Densify, he is responsible for both global marketing and strategic business development initiatives and the Densify™ partner channel.

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Chapel, Jay. Turbonomic. E-mail interview. Conducted by Michele Hope, 8 March to 11 March 2021

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Hayden, Major. Cost-Conscious Continuous Integration in the Cloud: How We Cut Costs on Kernel Testing. Red Hat. 28 July 2020
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Hood, Jason. So You’re in the Cloud – What’s Next? Follow These Steps to Maximize Your Cloud Experience. Stratascale, 11 February 2021
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