Aashish Ramdas

Shreesh Dubey is Principal Group Program Manager, Enterprise Backup, for the Cloud & Enterprise Group at Microsoft Corporation. He has 27 years of experience in the IT industry (at Intel and Microsoft) with diverse technology experience in datacenter infrastructure, storage/replication, data protection, JavaScript/AJAX, developer tools, embedded systems, and EDA tools. He holds two patents in storage replication and an MSEE from the University of Texas, Austin. He currently lives in Hyderabad with his wife and two daughters, an eleventh grader and a senior at the University of California, Berkeley. He enjoys downhill skiing, all outdoor activity, cooking, and insanely spicy food.

Vijay Tandra Sistla is Lead Program Manager for the Cloud & Enterprise Group at Microsoft Corporation. Vijay has 16 years of combined experience in product development, quality, and customer support in cloud, business continuity, disaster recovery, and synchronization technology areas. He holds three patents in business continuity and SQL Server technologies, and holds a Master of Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Texas, Arlington. He is also passionate about travel and food.

Shivam Garg is Principal Manager - Program Management, Enterprise Backup, for the Cloud & Enterprise Group at Microsoft Corporation. Shivam has 16 years of experience in the IT industry with diverse technology experience in the data protection, replication, search relevance, local and mobile search, and supply chain domains. He holds an MBA from IIM Bangalore and a bachelor’s degree from IIT Kanpur, India. He currently lives in Hyderabad, known as the City of Pearls, with his wife, Jyoti, and two kids, a fifth grader and a kindergartner. He loves water sports (snorkeling, rafting, jet skiing) and reading spiritual books.

Aashish Ramdas is Program Manager II, Enterprise Backup, for the Cloud & Enterprise Group at Microsoft Corporation. He has 9 years of experience in the IT industry with a balance of business and engineering functions. He started in the telecommunications domain but now holds backup/replication quite dear. He received an MBA from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, and a BTech in CSE from NIT Trichy, India. He is passionate about statistics and data visualization, geopolitics, pricing and COGS optimization, spicy chicken biryani, and badminton--depending on the time of the day.

Mitch Tulloch is a well-known expert on Windows Server administration and cloud computing technologies. He has published hundreds of articles on a wide variety of technology sites and has written, contributed to or been series editor for over 50 books. Mitch is one of the most popular authors at Microsoft Press--the almost two dozen ebooks on Windows Server and System Center he either wrote or was Series Editor on have been downloaded more than 2.5 million times! For a complete list of free ebooks from Microsoft Press, visit the Microsoft Virtual Academy at http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/ebooks.

Mitch has repeatedly received Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for his outstanding contributions to supporting the global IT community. He is a ten-time MVP in the technology area of Windows Server Software Packaging, Deployment & Servicing. You can find his MVP Profile page at http://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/mvp/Mitch%20Tulloch-21182.

Mitch is also Senior Editor of WServerNews, a weekly newsletter focused on system admin and security issues for the Windows Server platform. With almost 100,000 IT pro subscribers worldwide, WServerNews is the most popular Windows Server-focused newsletter in the world. Visit http://www.wservernews.com and subscribe to WServerNews today!

Mitch also runs an IT content development business based in Winnipeg, Canada, that produces white papers and other collateral for the business decision maker (BDM) and technical decision maker (TDM) audiences. His published content ranges from white papers about Microsoft cloud technologies to reviews of third-party products designed for the Windows Server platform. Before starting his own business in 1998, Mitch worked as a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) for Productivity Point.

For more information about Mitch, visit his website at http://www.mtit.com. You can also follow Mitch on Twitter @mitchtulloch.