Björk Peter - VMware horizon workspace essentials

Peter von Oven is an experienced technical consultant and has spent the last 20 years of his IT career working with customers and partners in designing technology solutions aimed at delivering true business value. During his career, Peter has been involved in numerous large-scale enterprise projects and deployments, presented at key IT events, and has worked in senior pre-sales roles for some of the giants of IT. Over the last eight years, Peter has focused his skills and experience within the end user computing market, and today he leads the End User Computing Pre Sales team at VMware in the UK&I, tasked with delivering the next generation of end-user computing and workforce mobility solutions.

Peter got his first taste for writing last year while assisting with some of the chapters in the book Building End-User Computing Solutions with VMware View , Lulu , and got the writing bug. He went on to write his own book, VMware Horizon Mirage Essentials , Packt Publishing , which was published in December 2013.

I would like to thank my wife and my two daughters for their continued support while I have spent many an evening and weekend at the keyboard. Finally, I would also like to thank my co-authors, Peter Bjrk and Joel Lindberg. It's been great sharing ideas and collaborating during the writing of this book.

Peter Bjrk has many years' experience in VMware Horizon Workspace and ThinApp. He started out working with Thinstall, and continued after VMware acquired the product in 2008, renaming it ThinApp. Peter supports Horizon Workspace and ThinApp in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region. As a teacher, Peter has educated many ThinApp packagers around the world. Peter lives in Sweden with his wife and two kids, a boy and a girl. Peter Bjrk is very active on the VMware community pages and the official VMware Workspace and ThinApp blogs. You can follow Peter on Twitter (@thepeb) to get the latest ThinApp and Workspace news.

Peter Bjrk published his first book, VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials , Packt Publishing , in 2012.

I would like to thank the people who have supported me throughout the writing of this book. First and foremost, my thanks go out to my wonderful wife, Lena. Many thanks to my two wonderful kids, Albin and Filippa, who constantly remind me of what's important in my life. Many thanks to my co-writers, Joel Lindberg and Peter von Oven; it has been a pleasure working with you.

Joel Lindberg has 20 years' experience in the IT industry in various positions and is currently working at VMware as a Senior Systems Engineer specializing in end-user computing solutions. He has spoken at VMworld several times and is an active member and moderator on the VMware user communities. Joel interacts with customers, partners, and vendors, and has been involved in many successful customer projects. You can follow him on Twitter (@viewgeek).

Joel lives in Stockholm, Sweden with his family.

I would like to thank my wife for supporting me in writing this book and my co-authors Peter Bjrk and Peter von Oven for their guidance and good judgment.

Andrew Alloway was born and raised in Edmonton, Canada. He graduated from the University of Alberta with a Computer Science degree.

Working at Nuna Logistics Limited, he supported northern mining sites in its unique and challenging IT environment. In 2012, some of his projects and work was featured in the Winter 2012 edition of Aptitude Magazine in an article entitled Building the road to streamlined license agreements .

He is a supporter of open source technology and products including Ubuntu, ICTFax, Apache, Drupal, Piler, and various other projects.

He has designed and implemented projects including Exchange migrations, Lync deployments, System Center Configuration Manager, and various other VMware products.

In 2013, Andrew attained his VMware Certified Professional 5 Data Center Virtualization certification.

I would like to thank my family for all the support I have received over the years, and my employers for investing in the development of my skills and career.

Luigi Danakos has been in the technology industry for 11 years. He likes helping people understand technology. He is currently the CEO for Blurt Media Group, a technical and social media consultation firm. When not playing with technology, Luigi enjoys spending his time with his family, inspiring his kids to do what they love, by doing what he loves.

I would like to thank my family for their love and support in all my endeavors. They are the real inspiration behind all that I do. Honorable mention should go out to the #NerdHerd for always being there for each other to listen and vent when needed.

Joe Jessen currently works at Dell, but as a veteran in the IT industry, has held roles in private corporations, technology vendors, and consulting organizations. Joe has been involved with application and desktop delivery since 1996, setting the strategic direction for global organizations with their end user computing initiatives. With a focus on virtualization, Joe has also been an Industry Analyst in the end user computing and desktop virtualization space for The Virtualization Practice (www.virtualizationpractice.com) and Solutions 101, LLC (www.solutions101.us). Joe was also a technical reviewer for the book