About the Reviewers

Christian Rudolph is a Cloud consultant who has worked with virtualization technologies since 2003. He started as a virtualization infrastructure architect and worked in several server consolidation projects. Later, he built the operational team for the virtualization and was the responsible technical lead for this. During this time, he also got in touch with possible virtualization solution for end users, where he was part of some projects to build virtual desktops for end users. Since 2012, he is responsible to build and design the cloud solution of his company with a focus on infrastructure-as-a-service and desktop-as-a-service.

Christian holds the VCP-DCV 2/3/4/5 certification and has been also selected as a vExpert in 2013.

Ramses Smeyers is part of Cisco Technical Services where he works with the Datacenter Solutions support team. His main job consists of supporting customers to implement and manage Cisco UCS, VDI, and VXI infrastructures. He has a very strong background in computing, networking, and storage, and has more than 10 years of experience deploying enterprise and service provider datacenter solutions. His relevant certifications include VMware VCP/VCAP DCA|DCD/VCDX, Cisco CCIE Voice, RHCE, and Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Support Specialist.