Acknowledgments

I want to first thank my wife Christine, and our boys Anthony and Adrian, for their understanding about not spending enough time with them while I was writing this book. For my wife in particular, who has been my pillar of strength, always understanding and accommodating.

I also want to thank my mother and father for sacrificing so much of their life in helping me pursue my education and career, and my brothers and sisters for their encouragement. I would also like to thank Christine’s parents and brother for their support and understanding.

I would like to thank my colleagues at VMware who have made this a book a reality:

Lyndon Adams, John Arrasjid, Stephen Beck, Blake Connell, Ben Corrie, Melissa Cotton, Scott Deeg, Duncan Epping, Jonathan Fullam, Alex Fontana, Filip Hanik, Jeremy Kuhnash, Ross Knippel, Gideon Low, Catherine Johnson, Mark Johnson, Kannan Mani, Sudhir Menon, Justin Murray, Vas Mitra, Mahesh Rajani, Jags Ramnarayan, Raj Ramanujam, Lise Storc, Matt Stepanski, Mike Stolz, Guillermo Tantachuco, Abdul Wajid, Sumedh Wale, James Williams and Matthew Wood.