About the Author

Scott Lowe is an author, consultant, speaker, and blogger focusing on virtualization, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Scott is currently the CTO for the vSpecialist team at EMC Corporation. In this role, Scott provides technical leadership, support, and training to the vSpecialist team worldwide.

Scott's technical expertise extends into several areas. He holds industry certifications from Cisco, EMC, Microsoft, NetApp, VMware, and others. He also holds the premier VMware Certifi ed Design Expert (VCDX) certifi cation; Scott is VCDX #39. For Scott's leadership and involvement in the VMware community, he was awarded a VMware vExpert award by VMware three years in a row: 2009, 2010, and 2011.

As an author, Scott has contributed to numerous online magazines focused on VMware and related virtualization technologies. He is regularly quoted as a virtualization expert in virtualization news stories. He has three other published books: Mastering VMware vSphere 4, VMware vSphere 4 Administration Instant Reference (with Jase McCarty and Matthew Johnson), and VMware vSphere Design (with Forbes Guthrie and Maish Saidel-Keesing), all by Sybex.