Navin Sabharwal - Apache CloudStack cloud computing

Navin Sabharwal is an innovator, as well as a leader, author, and consultant in areas of Cloud Computing, Cloud Lifecycle Management, and Software Product Development.

He has been involved in identifying white spaces in areas of Information Technology and creating innovative products and services. He has taken ideas from their inception to revenue generation.

He has taken some of his ideas to develop innovative award winning products and solutions in the areas of Cloud Lifecycle Management, IT infrastructure management, IT processes, reporting analytics, and governance.

He works for HCL Technologies Infrastructure Services Division and leads the Automation and Cloud Computing Practice.

I would like to thank my family and friends, my co-author Ravi Shankar and the entire team working with me on Cloud Computing technologies. I would like to express my gratitude to my mentor Kalyan Kumar and HCL for giving me the freedom to innovate and experiment.

Special thanks to the entire Packt Publishing team who have worked hard with us all through the publication cycle of this book. Anish Ramchandani, Sweny Sukumaran, Mary Nadar, Wilson D'souza, Nitee Shetty, Vrinda Nitesh Bhosale, Arshad Sopariwala, and Yashodhan Dere a big thank you to all.

I would also like to thank Prof. Ravindra Dastikop who was instrumental in guiding us and motivating us to write this book.

Ravi Shankar holds a postgraduate degree in Information Technology from the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, India. He has been working on cloud-based technologies since the beginning of his career. He has been involved in development and implementation of Private Cloud as well as Hybrid Cloud. He has also worked on public clouds such as Amazon web services. He has worked extensively with open source technologies in the Cloud Computing space and on the Apache CloudStack platform.

He has also co-authored another book on Cloud Computing which is self-published on Amazon.com and Createspace.

I would like to thank my family and friends, my co-author Navin Sabharwal and my colleagues Piyush Pandey, Dheeraj Raghav and Lokesh Chanana for their guidance, mentoring, and continuous support. I would also like to thank Prof. Ravindra Dastikop, the team at Packt Publishing, Wilson D'souza, Mary Nadar, Yashodhan Dere, Anish Ramchandani, Nitee Shetty, Vrinda Nitesh Bhosale, Arshad Sopariwala, and Sweny Sukumaran for the support and guidance for writing this book.

Shanker Balan is managing consultant at ShapeBlue India, a globally leading consultancy, providing strategy, design, and implementation of IaaS/PaaS cloud platforms for service providers and enterprises. ShapeBlue has designed some of the worlds most high profile clouds and consulted on the go-to-market of cloud services, user experience, and process integration. Previously, he has also held technology leadership positions at Yahoo and InMobi and is involved with Apache CloudStack, Citrix CloudPlatform, and open source communities in India.

Lokesh Chanana is an engineering graduate from Maharishi Dayanand University, Haryana, India. Inclined with an extensive interest in virtualization and cloud automation, he has been working on various cloud-based technologies and their integrations since the beginning of his career.

He is currently working in HCL Technologies Infrastructure Services Division and is involved in the company's in-house cloud research team, working on various open source and enterprise-level cloud solutions and their integration with various monitoring and automation solutions. He has worked extensively on the OpenStack platform with a good amount of work on CloudStack and VMware VCloud Director Platform.

Kelcey Jamison-Damage is currently the Infrastructure Systems Architect at Backbone Technology, based out of Vancouver, BC Canada.

With close to 15 years of experience in various aspects of computer technology including sales, marketing, Internet services, support, administration, design, architecture, and business, Kelcey now focuses on helping people make the leap into Cloud Computing and provides consultation services primarily pertaining to Apache CloudStack. He is a leader in the Apache CloudStack community and a committer to the project. He focuses on marketing and providing community support for new cloud builders.

He is currently involved in creating RAAS ( Redundant Array of Application Servers ) architectures and models for flexible service delivery and SaaS foundations.

I would like to thank the community at Apache CloudStack for helping us grow into one of the top IaaS cloud computing products, and in doing so, making books like this possible.

Piyush Pandey is currently working as a Track Lead in HCL Comnet. He looks after the service automation and Cloud Lifecycle Management Practice for HCL from India. He has an overall experience of 3.5 years in IT. He is responsible for designing automation solutions for enterprise IT infrastructure management. He is experienced in enterprise tools in the following tracks:

He has worked to provide automation solutions for Fortune 500 customers such as Cummins, Ingram Micro, SGX, GulfStream, and Xerox. He holds B.Tech degree in computer engineering from NSIT Delhi.