Mitch Tulloch - Optimizing and Troubleshooting Hyper-V Storage

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Carlos Mayol Berral is a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer born in Majorca and based in Madrid, Spain. He is a specialized engineer for Clustering, Hyper-V, and Directory Services. Before working for Microsoft, Carlos worked for more than 12 years at TIC where he was involved in design, administration, and management areas. Now Carlos does technical and health assessments in the field and conducts workshops for Microsoft Premier customers in Spain and around the EMEA Region. You can follow his activities on the PFE Spain TechNet blog at http://blogs.technet.com/b/pfespain/. His LinkedIn profile can be found at http://es.linkedin.com/in/carlosmayol.

Chuck Timon has been with Microsoft for 15 years and is a Senior Support Escalation Engineer with Microsoft Commercial Technical Support (CTS) in Charlotte, North Carolina, US. He specializes in High Availability (Failover Clustering) and Virtualization (Hyper-V, System Center Virtual Machines Manager, App-V) technologies. Chuck has credits in Microsoft Press books, and he authors manuals for and provides training to Microsoft employees. He is a frequent contributor to the Ask the CORE Team TechNet blog at http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/and is one of the moderators for the High Availability (Clustering) Windows Server TechNet forum found at http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverClustering/.

Jose Barreto is a Principal Program Manager with the File Server and Clustering Team at Microsoft, currently working on Windows Server (including several SMB features and the Hyper-V over SMB scenario). His work for the last 10 years has been focused on Microsoft storage-related technologies like SMB, DFS, the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target, SQL Server, SharePoint Server, and Data Protection Manager. He graduated with a degree in Computer Science from the Universidade Federal do Ceara in Brazil in 1989, moved to the United States in 2000, and joined Microsoft in 2002. His blog can be found at http://smb3.info, and he is also on Twitter at @josebarreto .

Manjnath Ajjampur has 30 years of experience in the IT industry and has spent the past 16 years at Microsoft. He is currently a Principal Datacenter Technologist at Microsoft, focusing on Systems Management and Virtualization. Follow him on Twitter (@ inadatacenter ) and LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/manjnath.

Mark Ghazai is a Data Center Specialist with the Microsoft US State and Local Government (SLG) team. His goal is to address challenging issues within SLG customer datacenters and their journey toward private and public cloud adoption. Assisting customers to get a deeper understanding of managed and consolidated datacenters powered by Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, Remote Desktop, VDI and System Center 2012 suite, along with Microsoft Identity Management Solutions (FIM, UAG, TMG) is his main area of focus. Before this role, he was a Senior Premier Filed Engineer (PFE) and Senior Support Escalation Engineer for several years. His TechNet blog can be found at http://blogs.technet.com/mghazai.

Satya Ramachandran works as a Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft and is based out of Bengaluru (Bangalore), India. Satya helps customers deploy and troubleshoot issues with Windows Server virtualization solutions and clients. He specializes in areas of capacity planning and server performance.

Subhasish Bhattacharya is a Program Manager for Clustering and High Availability at Microsoft. He has worked at Microsoft at for seven years in multiple teams including High Availability and Clustering and Core Networking (DNS). His LinkedIn profile can be found at http://www.linkedin.com/pub/subhasish-bhattacharya/1/a75/b0.

Thomas Roettinger is a Program Manager at Microsoft. Thomas is part of the Partner and Customer Ecosystem Team and works with technologies like Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager. His team runs the Windows Server TAP Program and collects very early technology best practices. Before he joined the Product Group he was the EMEA Virtualization Lead in Microsoft Premier Field Engineering. During this time he was responsible for various services including the Hyper-V Risk Assessment Program and the Implementing Hyper-V Workshop. He has rich experience in cloud implementations across various business segments such as Hosters and Enterprises. Thomas maintains a personal blog at http://blogs.technet.com/b/cloudytom and also contributes to his team blog at http://blogs.technet.com/b/wincat.