Florian Klaffenbach started his IT carrier in 2004 as a first- and second-level IT support technician and IT salesman trainee for a B2B online shop. After that he changed to a small company working as an IT project manager for planning, implementing, and integration from industrial plants and laundries into enterprise IT. After spending some years, he joined Dell Germany. There he started from scratch as an enterprise technical support analyst and later worked on a project to start Dell technical Communities and support over social Media in Europe and outside of the U.S. Currently he is working as a solutions architect and consultant for Microsoft Infrastructure and cloud, specialized in Microsoft Hyper-V, Fileservices, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, and Microsoft Azure IaaS.

Additionally, he is an active Microsoft blogger and lecturer. He blogs for example on his own page at Datacenter-Flo.de or Brocade Germany Community. Together with a very good friend, he founded the Windows Server User Group Berlin to create a network of Microsoft IT Pros in Berlin. Florian is maintaining a very tight network to many vendors such as Cisco, Dell, and Microsoft as well as communities. That helps him to grow his experience and to get the best out of a solution for his customers. Since 2016 he is also a co-chairman of the Azure Community Germany. In April 2016, Microsoft awarded Florian the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Cloud and Datacenter Management.

He has worked for several companies such as Dell Germany, CGI Germany, and his first employer, TACK GmbH. Currently, he is working at MSG service AG as a senior consultant of Microsoft cloud infrastructure.

Here are some of the books that he has worked on: Taking Control with System Center App Controller, Microsoft Azure Storage Essentials, Mastering Microsoft Azure Development, and Mastering Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2013, all by Packt Publishing.