I have been musing and writing about technology since 1999 back in my native country Mauritius, dreaming back in 1997 of a world full of avatars and virtual reality. After completing a degree in Social Studies, I hosted a tech talk show for a national radio and have written for a number of tech websites & magazines after being called "a writer...

Since starting a freelance writing business in 2006, Erica J. Thinesen has been working with small and medium-sized businesses to create consumer, marketing, and research materials for online and print use. Her clients include Network Solutions, Demand Media Studios, iRoster Magazine, and local businesses in the Washington DC metro area. She has a...

Rob Kerr is the Mobile editor of ITProPortal.com. He is a journalist with more than 13 years experience of news, reviews and feature writing on titles such as WIRED, PC Magazine, The Register, The INQUIRER, Pocket-Lint, Mobile Industry Review, Know Your Mobile and The Gadget Show. The mobile phone world is his real passion and forte, having owned...

Andy Evans has worked in the media industry since 1986. His experience spans traditional offline business and consumer press, radio and television. Now focused on online publishing, audio and video. Andy began working online in 1997, launched Net Communities in 1999, survived the internet boom and is the controlling share holder in the business.

Radu has been working as a freelance writer for more than five years and has been blogging around since 2004. He is interested in anything Apple as well as gaming and mobile applications.

Dipping his toes into almost everything that could be labeled "nerdy" in his free time, Jon has been writing about technology for over half a decade. While mainly focusing on PC hardware thoughout this time, today he's more varied, covering everything from gaming to general electronics, industry perspectives and consoles. As well as writing for...

Gerry has over 15 years experience in the technology sector. He currently holds the position of Director of Communications at Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu software platform, and is responsible for coordination of the company’s communications activity globally. Prior to his current role, Gerry...

Barry works for Kit Digital, and has over 21 years extensive experience dealing with strategic and tactical security initiatives for a variety of organisations . He advises on the security requirements on a variety of subjects, and has carried out security research on information security, cyber crime and social media. A Speaker at various...

A Chartered Marketer, who is working hard to ensure Telco's suck just a little less everyday, James leads marketing for BlueVia, the new developer platform from Telefonica. In addition he is a global board member of the Mobile Entertainment Forum and chairs the Technology Market Interest Group of The Chartered...

Alex holds an engineering degree in Telecommunications and has been covering technology as a writer since 2009. Customization it’s his middle name and he doesn’t like to own stock model gadgets. When he’s away from the keyboard, simpler things like hiking, mountain climbing and having a cold drink, makes his day.

Axel Pawlik is the Managing Director of the RIPE Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC). Axel graduated from the University of Dortmund, Germany, with a Masters Degree in Computer Science. He was later employed at the University of Dortmund from 1985 to 1992, where he contributed to the establishment of UNIX networking as a publicly available...

David Sherriff is the CEO of Microgen. Microgen develops and implements enterprise software for some of the world’s largest financial institutions, multi-national corporations and public sector organisations. Microgen’s high performance software and detailed understanding of specific markets enable customers...

Costis founded Globo in 1997 and became an executive director in 2007. In addition to his role at Globo, Costis serves as the non-executive chairman and a director of Hellenic Capital plc. He is also chairman to the Hellenic Information Technology & Communications Enterprises and the Athens Chamber of...

Tom Brand has more than 12 years of business IT experience. Since joining GlassHouse, he has focused on delivering projects that focus on the use of virtualisation. He joined GlassHouse from Morse, where he was a senior consultant delivering virtualisation, storage and backup solutions. Before that, Tom held consulting roles at Deloitte & Touche,...

Steve Wharton is a field engineer at Fusion-io. Steve has been working in IT for more than 15 years and has previously held positions at Data Domain, Dell, Compaq and several bluechip companies in IT delivery roles.

Chris Richter is VP of Security Services at Savvis. He leads the effort behind implementing standardized control frameworks and risk management processes across Savvis’ dedicated and cloud-based services. Chris has assisted many enterprises in adapting their premise-based infrastructure risk management programs and security controls to outsourced...

Simon Richardson brings more than 15 years of IT industry experience to ITogether. Simon manages the overall technical strategy and service...

Ken Owens is Vice President of Security and Virtualization Technologies at Savvis, where he has made significant contributions in security and virtualization architecture and strategies. Prior to joining Savvis, Ken spent two years as a Network Security Architect at AG Edwards & Sons, Inc. and Edward Jones Investments, respectively. Previously,...

Glenn Fassett joined Network Hardware Resale in 1996 and is today general manager of the company's international operations. His responsibilities include strategic direction and revenue development for Network Hardware Resale throughout the EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions. Glenn led Network Hardware...

From his base in Sheffield, England, Steve has been a business journalist/techical writer for 25 years, 23 of them full-time. He has specialised in IT security, healthcare technology (he worked in the NHS for 11 years), business matters, the Internet and communications for most of that time.

Andrew McCreath is an Engagement Partner with Glasshouse Technologies (UK), a global provider of IT infrastructure services, with more than 16 years experience of Infrastructure and Management Information Systems. Prior to joining GlassHouse, Andrew managed multi-million dollar projects while employed with Accenture, Credit Suisse First Boston,...

Nigel Beighton recently joined Rackspace as Vice President Technology. He is responsible for driving the OpenStack Cloud community internationally and for delivering world-class offerings for Rackspace in the international markets it serves. He is Rackspace’s voice in the market place across EMEA and Asia...

Andreas Bernström is the CEO of Rebtel, the world’s second largest mobile VoIP company. Prior to Rebtel, the Goldman Sachs alum was COO of Taptu, a leading UK-based mobile search engine, and TradeDoubler, Europe's leading performance based marketing company.

Mehul completed his post graduate degree in International Business from the University of Greenwich. Though born in the UK, Mehul lived luxuriously in India for a while but decided to leave his comfort zone and challenge himself to a fast paced life in London. In his spare time he likes photography and repairing his friend’s faulty gadgets!...

Andy Perrin is Senior Product Manager, Cloud Services, at Virgin Media Business. In this role, Andy is responsible for defining and executing the Cloud Services market strategy and product development, overseeing the Virtual Private Data Centre offering, as well as other key applications and...

As an “accidental” project manager and marketing veteran with over 25 years of experience, Ty writes about project management, leading teams, and basically getting work done. Ty makes the concepts and best practices of managing project-based work accessible to both the expert and novice (or accidental) project professional by weaving personal...

Mark’s background is firmly entrenched in technology marketing. He set up and ran the digital marketing agency, Mason Zimbler, which specialised in working with technology companies such as Microsoft, Toshiba, Google, EMC, Seagate and SAS. Mark sold Mason Zimbler to Harte-Hanks in January 2008. At this time it was clear to Mark that the Smartphone...

Chris Adlard is the Senior Manager for EMEA Marketing and Communications at Coverity. He is responsible for all aspects of marketing and communications across EMEA. Chris brings a wealth of B2B technology marketing and communications experience to his role. This includes strategy development, marketing and communications campaign execution,...

John Humphreys has more than a decade of technology experience in his role as VP, Marketing and has global responsibility for brand awareness, lead generation, sales enablement, product marketing, and channel development at Egenera, a global provider of Elastic Infrastructure-as-a-Service foundations for cloud-computing.

I have been involved with everything Cisco since December 97 when AGS routers were considered 'state of the art' and CISCO7000 routers fully loaded sold for over £100k each! In those days if you wanted to know the specs of a Cisco router you flicked through the Cisco product manual which was thicker than the yellow pages. My company specialises in...

Hunter Richards graduated in 2010 from Washington University in St. Louis. He is a market manager and blogger for Software Advice, an online resource for information on business software.

Geoff Izzard has over 16 years of experience as a strategic consultant, with a principal focus upon the communications industry. His primary focus has been on business management and ensuring that the technology supports the business through and beyond any business change.

Ben Chai was one of the first UK engineers to receive both the prestigious Microsoft MCSE and Novell MCNE qualifications and qualify as a Microsoft Certified Trainer. For a number of years Ben Chai was Technical Marketing Director of a leading UK Microsoft partner where he lead a team of consultants and engineers providing Windows business...

Bryan Doerr is Chief Technology Officer at SAVVIS. Bryan provides technology leadership for infrastructure and product development, M&A support, and next generation platform evaluation. Before joining SAVVIS, he held positions in management, software technology research, and software development at Bridge Information Systems, Boeing, and the...

Larry Steele brings more than 20 years of experience in technology to his role as technical vice president of Software-as-a-Service at Savvis, Inc., a leading provider of infrastructure services purpose-built for SaaS. He leads the overall global strategy for SaaS solutions for Savvis and is a frequent participant in CTO advisory boards and...

Steve joined Savvis in April 2010 as Product Marketing Manager for the EMEA region. Key responsibilities include managing the Savvis product roadmap, launching new Savvis products into EMEA, and ensuring EMEA requirements are prioritised by the central product development teams. Steve started his career in sales and account management roles at...

Andrew Gradwell has experience in all levels of IT, as a user, support engineer and a company director. Heading up Cloud Hypermarket, Andrew is on a mission to bring cloud savings to companies that really need it, rather than those its most profitable to sell to.

James Yates has more than 14 years experience in business IT, working in both distribution and reseller environments. 15 months ago, he set up Servers Plus, a specialist server, storage and networking reseller focused on delivering bespoke solutions to SMBs through a volume web based model. Previously...

Adam Miller is a senior strategy consultant, focussing on IT Service Management. He has been with GlassHouse Technologies since July 2008 working across a wide range of engagements in the UK, Europe, and Latin America. Previous to that, he has worked for Wavex Technologies and Wincor Nixdorf, as a Client Services Manager and Regional Service...

When Paul Hales started writing about IT, DOS was state of the art, Microsoft had competition, a laptop was called a luggable and Amstrad was yet to source a dodgy hard disk. "In those days," he says, "we used to write what were called magazines, which were engineered using an old-fangled technology called paper. Much of our output could wait up...

Andrew Frowen MBCS is the Managing Director of IntaForensics, a Midlands-based Digital Forensics Company who provide services to both the public and private sectors. Andrew is responsible for overseeing all aspects of business from recruitment to marketing. Andrew is a practicing Digital Forensic...

Stewart had over 20 years of experience in the print publishing industry working at the bleeding edge of technology before deciding that this new-fangled interweb thingummybob was the way forward for a jaded middle-aged hack who likes to spend more time with his dogs than is probably healthy. He stole a Sinclair ZX81 from a rich friend who...

Ravi Mandalia has cleared his Associate – (ISC)2 Exams and is an ISO 27001:2005 Lead Auditor. He has a Masters in Network Security from Liverpool John Moores University and holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science. His strength areas are Risk Management, Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery, Public Key Infrastructure, Web...

James Campanini is the Managing Director of Cisco WebEx for EMEA and LATAM. Cisco WebEx, a division of Cisco, is the global leader in on-demand collaboration services and web conferencing. James is responsible for the business unit’s strategic growth across all routes to market in the region, including direct sales, the channel and new routes to...

Graduated at the University of Bournemouth in 2008 with a BA (Hons) Degree in Interactive Media and Production. Abtin was previously working for BskyB and now works as online consultant for Net Communities and its publications.

Dr Graham Oakes, is a highly skilled systems engineer and project manager with over 20 years’ industry-proven experience backed by a track record of delivering highly innovative and effective solutions. Dr Graham Oakes helps people untangle complex technology, relationships, processes and governance. As an independent consultant, he helps...

Mark Swanston, Infrastructure Operations Services Manager at UK Data Centre Consulting Firm GlassHouse Technologies UK (LTD) and a contributor to ITProPortal.com Swanston brings over 12 years experience within the support services arena. During his time at GlassHouse, he has worked with numerous organisations delivering a wide variety of support...

A chap who is in constant awe and also madly frustrated by technology.

Mariel Norton is a self-confessed girly geek with a penchant for technology, and joins ITProPortal with just over a year's experience under her online belt. A copywriter by day and a freelance writer by night/weekend, Mariel is an avid volunteer - lending her charitable services throughout the world. Specialising in social media, apps, and video...

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Michael Ide was a university graduate working toward a PhD in physics when a change of plans took him to South Africa to teach. Since then he has worked as a journalist in Cairo and a freelance writer in Cyprus. He is interested in online privacy, and changing notions of intellectual property and can often be found in the vicinity of his favorite...

James reckons he's had his eyes glued to a computer screen since some time in the late ’90s. Half-geek, half-Luddite, all nerd, he mixes his enthusiasm for all things IT with a healthy disdain for razor blades and a smattering of eco-angst… although another bout of lumbago might just tempt him to trade his wind-up gramophone for an iPod after all.