Gaspare A. Silvestri - Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 Cookbook

Gaspare A. Silvestri is an IT Technical Director for an Italian Hosting Provider company with 10 years of experience in the Information Technology market. Being a Multicertified IT Director, he considers his job as the first of all his passions, with a particular preference for the virtualization and the Unix technology areas. He is always curious and in search of new IT projects on which he performs research activities. Gaspare has been involved in the design, tuning, and consolidation of physical and virtual infrastructures for important system integration companies based in Italy.

Thanks to Viola and Manuela, the shining stars of my life.

Thanks to all my family, for the strength and the support they have always given to me.

Thanks to Roberto, who gave me, some years ago, an opportunity to start working on the Citrix platforms.

Thanks to the coffee and Miles Davis, which have been my main fellowship during the working hours.

A special thanks to Stephanie Moss, Abhishek Kori, Arun Nadar, and the entire staff at Packt Publishing for the exceptional work they have done with me, and for all the work we have done together.

Aaron Black is a Senior Product Manager at VMware in the End User Computing business unit. He is currently responsible for ThinApp, ThinApp Factory, and the Horizon integration with ThinApp. At VMware he has worked at various positions in the field as a Systems Engineer, a stint in technical marketing, and now product management. His primary domain of knowledge revolves around all application-related things. At previous companies, he worked as a Systems Engineer with Citrix Systems, lead a technical corporate IT team at Sprint, and worked as a Solutions Designer for a platinum reseller of VMware and Citrix products.

Ferdinand Feenstra is a Citrix Certified Architect and Senior Specialist for Microsoft environments, based in the Netherlands. He is working in the IT branch since 1998, and he has experience in many complex environments with different customers in different functions.

His experience is in building and designing Citrix environments, implementation and migration projects, and consultancy projects. Since he discovered working with Citrix in 2004, a new world of solutions, working on any device combined with a great user experience, came his way. This makes IT more dynamic and easier to adapt for users. You can find his blog on www.CitrixGuru.net. You can also check his tweets on Twitter, @f_feenstra.

This is the second review for him. He has already reviewed the book XenServer 6.0 Administration Essential Guide, Daniele Tosatto, Packt Publishing .

Ferdinand works for Icento. Icento is a Citrix Partner Solution Advisor with the Silver status. Icento is also a V-Alliance member; the Virtualization collaboration between Microsoft and Citrix. Icento is located in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and delivers solutions for the desktop, unified communications, and virtualization and systems management. Icento delivers state-of-the-art ICT solutions for a broad set of international customers. You can find more information at www.icento.nl.

Peter Nap is a very experienced Server Based Computing consultant and Infrastructure Architect. He is 38 years old, lives in the Netherlands and is currently employed as an Infrastructure Architect for Logica (now part of CGI). He has 13 years of work experience in various large and small businesses, including the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands.

In his latest project, Peter has created a VDI infrastructure with XenDesktop 5.6, Windows 7 x64, and Citrix Provisioning 6.1 on a VMware vSphere 5.1 hypervisor.

Juan Perez has been in the IT field for 12 years. He has been working with Citrix for just over 2 years and has thrived in it. He is looking forward to a newly accepted position with very highly regarded Citrix solutions Platinum Partner and attending Citrix Academy in January of 2013 in Santa Clara.

Juan is currently working for Stearns Lending, a fast growing company that has put the challenge on the IT team to help them grow to a world class company. Stearns is fully equipped with Citrix Xenap, Xendesktop, and Xenserver. Since being introduced to Citrix, Juan has learned the basics, and moved on to completely managing multiple Xenserver environments.

He has reviewed the book XenServer 6.0 Administration Essential Guide, Daniele Tosatto, Packt Publishing .

Simple thanks to all who have helped me in my career as an IT pro.