About the Author

Pradeep Subramanian is a Senior Platform Consultant at Red Hat, a global provider of open source software solutions that uses a community-powered approach to develop and offer operating system, middleware, virtualization, storage, and cloud technologies. He has 10 years of experience in open source and Linux, which includes 5 years of extensive experience in open source virtualization technologies such as Xen, KVM, and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. His other areas of interest include high availability and grid computing, performance tuning, designing and building open hybrid cloud, architectural design, and implementation of Enterprise IT using open source tools. This is his first book.

I would like to express my gratitude to many people who saw me through this book. I would like to thank all those who provided their support, talked things over, read, wrote, offered comments, allowed me to quote their remarks, and assisted in the editing, proofreading, and designing of this book.

I owe a huge thanks to my manager, Anirudha Karandikar (Andy), for providing excellent support and advice. Above all, I want to thank my wife, Sandhya; my parents, Subramanian, Selvi, Shanmugam, Usha; and my naughty one-and-a-half-year-old son, Harsh. They all supported and encouraged me in spite of all the time the book took me away from them. It was a long and difficult journey for them. I am dedicating this book to my son, Harsh. I hope that one day, he will read this book and understand why I spent so much time in front of my computer. Last but not least, I beg forgiveness from all those who have been with me over the course of the years and whose names I have failed to mention. Thanks for everything; I look forward to writing the second edition of this book and a few more books on Open Cloud Computing soon!