Jasmine Noel is an experienced analyst and researcher who, in addition to virtualization, concentrates on performance, capacity planning, service level management, configuration management, and other areas of IT systems management.  Prior to her current position at Ptak, Noel & Associates, she worked as a systems and applications analyst at Hurwitz Group and D.H. Brown Associates.  

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Vic Nyman, co-founder and COO of BlueStripe Software, has over 20 years systems management experience and is a successful veteran of multiple ventures in the systems and application management field.

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Shane O'Donnell brings nearly two decades of engineering excellence, strategic vision and execution in both network design and management. In his role as VP of Engineering with BlueStripe, O'Donnell is focused upon the development life-cycle tools and processes to move core business applications to virtual platforms.

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Focus Consulting -- FOCUS delivers research, analysis, and consulting, focused on systems, software, and storage. Focus areas include server, desktop, and application virtualization and streaming; systems, storage, and enterprise management (physical and virtual); high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity; blade systems (server, workstation, and PC); storage, network, and I/O virtualization; storage and storage networking (NAS, SAN, Fibre Channel, iSCSI); and business benefits of technology (ROI, TCO). www.focusonsystems.com

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