As a Microsoft corporate Technical Evangelist covering Private Cloud, System Center & Hyper-V, Symon Perriman is a recognized industry expert in datacenter management, cloud, virtualization, high-availability, disaster recovery, mobile technologies and social media. Previously he spent four years as a Program Manager on the Server Clustering & High-Availability team and has been working in the technology industry since 2002. Symon holds several patents and certifications, including MCSE Private Cloud, Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and VMware Certified Professional (VCP). Additionally, he has contributed to four technical books for virtualization, server, clustering and SQL; co-hosts the ‘Edge Show’ for IT Professionals; and has had technologies featured in PC Magazine. Symon also serves as President & Founder of FanWide Technologies LLC and graduated from Duke University with degrees in Computer Science, Economics and Film & Digital Studies.

Justin has been at Microsoft for 15 years and has worked with the System Center team for most of the time. He is currently a Senior Program Manager on the Automation & Integration team focusing on Orchestrator. Previous to working with System Center Orchestrator, he worked on System Center Operations Manager. When not at work, Justin's focus is on his family of four beautiful kids from 12 to 3 and another on the way in June. And when there is time leftover it is spent outdoors with the kids, or inside watching College Football.