About
About
Scott Herold (VMGuru)
Scott Herold is founder and owner of VMGuru.com. in the real world Herold is the Director of Virtualization Strategy for Quest Software, a role to which he brings over a decade of relevant industry experience in operating system, network, security, and storage design. Herold has been a pioneer in architecting advanced virtualization solutions for many Fortune 100 organizations in R&D and implementation roles.
Herold is the co-author of the best selling VMware ESX Server: Advanced Technical Design Guide and VMware Infrastructure 3: Advanced Technical Design Guide. He also often contributes whitepapers and articles to online publications focused on virtualization. He has been recognized on numerous occasions for his contributions to the VMware and virtualization community and travels the globe to speak at conferences on how to best overcome both the business and technical challenges of introducing virtualization into organizations.
Herold has provided architectural expertise to multiple local and federal government agencies around the world and continues to provide key information on market and technology trends to analysts and consumers. Herold is married and recently welcomed a son into the world. When Herold grows up, he has aspirations of becoming a poor blues guitarist.
Mattias Sundling
Mattias Sundling is a virtualization evangelist with Quest Software. He joined Quest with the acquisition of Vizioncore, and has more than 10 years of experience in IT. Prior to joining Vizioncore in 2008, he worked as a consultant assisting organizations with monitoring and virtualization. Mattias is a graduate of Umeå University in Sweden (Bork, Bork, Bork), where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electronics and data communication.
Mattias is an experienced speaker and has presented at trade shows including Virtual Forum and Virtual Power.
Scott Polly
Scott is part of the Technical Communications team at Quest Software, coming to Quest through the acquisition of Vizioncore.
Scott has worked in the IT industry for 15 years, in roles ranging from part-time support for the smallest of the small, to project management at one of the global acronyms. A fan of remembering how things work in the real world, Scott tries to inject a practical, functional perspective into his work. Sometimes he even succeeds.
Scott is an expert at making balloon animals (as long as they are snakes or worms), an occasional poet, and an analog photography enthusiast. In his spare time, Scott wishes he had more spare time.