As Microsoft’s corporate Technical Evangelist covering Private Cloud, System Center, Virtualization and High-Availability, Symon Perriman is a recognized industry expert in datacenter management, private cloud, virtualization, high-availability, disaster recovery and mobile technologies.  Previously he spent 4 years as a Program Manager on the Server Clustering & High-Availability team and has been working in the tech industry since 2002.  Symon holds several patents; contributed to several technical books for clustering, virtualization and SQL; has had his technologies featured in PC Magazine; founded the Failover Clustering & Network Load Balancing Blog; and also serves as President & Founder of FanWide Technologies LLC.  He graduated from Duke University with degrees in Computer Science, Economics and Film & Digital Studies.