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■ about the authors
Anthony Puca is a Microsoft datacenter solution specialist. Anthony has
been consulting with US state and local government accounts on Microsoft
Windows Server, System Center, Private, Public, and Hybrid Cloud
Technologies for the last five years. His IT career started 24 years ago as a
mainframe librarian for American Express. Anthony has been a consultant
for Perot Systems, Avanade, and EMC Corporation with responsibilities
for enterprise architecture, system engineering, network engineering,
and database administration. In the last eight years, he has presented at
Microsoft TechReady, Microsoft TechEd, Microsoft Management Summit,
Microsoft Security Summit, VMworld, and various CIO summits across
the United States. Anthony co-wrote three MOF whitepapers on change,
configuration, and release management. He also authored the SAMS/
Pearson book Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2
Unleashed, focusing on inventory management, software distribution,
and operating system deployments; the O’Reilly book Microsoft Office 365 Administration Inside Out, and
the Apress book Microsoft Azure: Planning, Deploying, and Managing Your Data Center in the Cloud. Anthony
received Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) seven times, from 2004–2010. These MVP awards were
for datacenter monitoring with Microsoft’s System Center Operations Manager and Windows Management
Instrumentation. Anthony’s customer demographics over the last decade include vehicle rental, retail,
financial services, food processing, manufacturing, mining, healthcare, government, and energy.
Mike Manning in a Microsoft Certified Master in Exchange 2007 and
Exchange 2010 with over four years of Office 365 deployment experience
and two years of Microsoft Azure experience. Mike has been working in
information technology for over 20 years, and he is very passionate about
technology and the Microsoft cloud focus and direction. Mike’s other
interests outside of information technology include his family, hockey,
and baseball.
David Gollob has over 30 years of experience working in database and
analytics systems. After receiving his degree in math and computer
science at the University of Denver, Dave worked as a principal consultant
for numerous Fortune 100 companies, helping them to develop enterprise
business solutions, highly scalable OLTP systems, and data warehouse
and analytics systems. Dave’s vendor tour started with Sybase, where
he participated in two patents for his work at TCI Corporation focused
on billing and distributed systems design. At Sybase, Dave also spent
one-and-a-half years in Switzerland as the principal architect. In 1996,
Dave joined Microsoft, where he remains today. Dave’s work at Microsoft
includes his delivery as both a principal consultant as well as a managing
consultant, where he founded the Microsoft Telecom Practice. Dave
has presented and participated in numerous industry events, panel
discussions, Microsoft technical events, and product review and feedback
cycles. Today, Dave travels the western states visiting state and local government customers, evangelizing
and assisting with data (big and small) architecture planning, advanced analytics, and solutions design.
Dave enjoys his time with his family as well as mountain biking, skiing, hiking, and fishing in Colorado.