Peter von Oven is an experienced technical consultant and has spent the last 20 years of his IT career working with customers and partners, designing technology solutions aimed at delivering true business value. During his career, Peter was involved in numerous large-scale enterprise projects and deployments. He has presented at key IT events and has worked in senior presales roles for some of the giants of IT. Over the last 9 years, Peter has used his skills and experience within the desktop virtualization market. Today, he is a subject matter expert in end user computing at VMware in the UK, and is also the systems engineering manager for the partner and general business SE team. Peter got his first taste of writing when assisting with some of the chapters in the book Building End-User Computing Solutions with VMware View. This led him to author three Packt Publishing titles: VMware Horizon Mirage Essentials, VMware Horizon View Essentials, and VMware Horizon Workspace Essentials, coauthored by Peter Bjork and Joel Lindberg. Barry Coombs is the presales director for Computerworld Systems, a UK-based, virtualization-focused value-added reseller. He has been focusing on virtualization, storage, and end-user computing technologies as a customer, consultant, and architect for the last 8 years. Previously, Barry was a member of a team supporting internal and customer solutions and projects for a software house. This role brought with it a variety of experiences, particularly with Microsoft, Citrix, and VMware technologies. In his current role, Barry manages a team of technical architects and is actively involved in engaging with customers and designing solutions to meet their needs. He also works with his technical director to set implementation standards and act as a point of technical escalation. Barry is responsible for identifying new technologies and speaking at and hosting customer-focused events surrounding virtualization, storage, and end-user computing. Barry has been awarded VMware's vExpert award for contributions to the VMware community every year since 2010. He is also part of the VMUG leadership team for South West UK and has a VMware-focused blog, http://virtualisedreality.com/. He is active on Twitter (@virtualisedreal), particularly reporting live from many industry-related events. This is Barry's second book on end-user computing technologies. He was a coauthor of Building End-User Computing Solutions with VMware View published in 2012.
