Andrea Mauro

Virtualization expert and architect, System Administrator on Linux and Windows OS, network and storage specialist, and teacher (both for industry and University).

CTO of Assyrus Srl, an Italian IT company fucused on consulting, IT services and solution provider.

Italian VMUG Co-Founder and board member and VMUG CloudOps SIG co-leader. VMTN Communities Moderator since June 1, 2010.

Active blogger on vInfrastructure (both in Italian and English) since July 2011. Blog has been ranked #21 in the Top vBlog 2015 contest and #1 for non English blog on 2017 contest.

Tech Field Day delegate (#VFD3, #DFD1, #TFDx VMworld EU 2014/2016, Cisco Live EU 2015, #TFD13).

Backup Academy contributor on Jun 2012. Channel 9 profile with some videos on Microsoft technologies.

Holding multiple technical certifications from VMware (VCDX3, VCDX4, VCDX5-DCV, VCDX6-DVC, VCAP4-DCA, VCAP4-DCD, VCAP5-DCA, VCAP5-DCD, VCAP6-DCD, VCAP5-DTD, VCAP5-DTA, VCAP5-CIA, VCAP5-CID, VCIX-NV, VCIX6-DCV,VCP3, VCP4, VCP5-DCV, VCP6-DCV,VCA4-DT, VCP4-DT, VCP5-DT, VCP7-DTM, VCP6-NV, VCP5-Cloud), Microsoft (MCP, MCSA, MCSE, MCTS, MCITP), Citrix (CCA, CCSP), EMC (Proven Professional - EMCPA), Nutanix (NPP), PernixData (PernixPrime), Dell (several products) and Symantec (STS, SSP, SSE, SSE+).

And also several awards and accreditations like: VMware vExpert from 2010 to 2017, Microsoft MVP 2014-16 (on Datacenter), PernixData PernixPro, Nutanix Technology Champion 2014-2018, Dell TechCenter Rockstar 2014-2015, Veeam Vanguard 2015-2017.

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