Andrea Mauro has 20 years of experience in IT, both in industry and the academic world. He currently works as a solution architect at Assyrus (an Italian IT company). He is responsible for infrastructure implementation, architecture design, upgrades, and migration processes. He is a virtualization and storage architect, specializing in VMware, but also Microsoft, Citrix, and Linux solutions. His first virtualized solution in production was built around ESX 2.x several years ago. His professional certifications include several VMware certifications (VCP-DCV, vSAN Specialist, VCIX-DCV, VCIX-NV, VCDX-DCV), but also other vendor-related certifications. He is also a VMware vExpert (2010-18), Nutanix NTC (2014-18), and Veeam Vanguard (2015-18).