About the Reviewers

Michael S. Collier serves as a principal cloud architect for Aditi Technologies, a Microsoft NSI partner that focuses on cloud computing. He is a four-time Azure MVP and was the 2012 Azure MVP of the Year for his extraordinary community contributions. Michael has had a successful 12-year career at various consulting and technology firms, where he was instrumental in leading and developing solutions for a wide range of clients. He has many years of experience in helping companies determine the best strategy to adopt cloud computing and providing insight and hands-on experience to ensure that they're successful. He is also a respected technology community leader, and can often be found sharing his Azure insights and experiences at regional and national conferences. You can follow Michael's experiences with Azure on his blog at www.michaelscollier.com and on Twitter at @MichaelCollier.

Peter Kirchner has been working as a technical evangelist at Microsoft, Germany, since 2008. In this role, he addresses conferences and writes articles that focus on cloud computing, with the goal to inspire new technologies and support developers and administrators in developing for and using the Microsoft platform. Before working with Microsoft, Peter gained experience working in the area of SharePoint development and consulting. While studying, he showed interest in network technologies, security, and distributed systems, and graduated with a Diploma in Computer Science.

Sarang Kulkarni lives in Pune, India, with his wife and daughter. He has been coding for food for the last 14 years, and also talking and writing about it for the last 6 years. He has mostly been around the Microsoft stack, with an occasional adventure in SAP ABAP and Amazon AWS. Sarang has been building SaaS products and services on the Azure stack since the "Red Dog" days. He worked with big consulting firms such as Accenture, Avanade, and Cognizant before settling in Zevenseas, a SharePoint company, building and growing its Azure business.

Sarang has previously worked on a collaborative book, Windows Azure Platform: Articles from the Trenches, as a co-author.

Thanks to Packt Publishing for approaching me with this interesting opportunity. I would also thank my family and my colleagues at Zevenseas for being supportive of everything I keep on doing.

Sachin Prakash Sancheti hails from a small town in western India called Washim. He has 15 years' experience, much of which was focused on Microsoft-oriented technologies. In the last 4 years, he developed an expertise in cloud computing across both Windows Azure and AWS. An innovative architect with solid technology acumen, Sachin is also an avid blogger and speaker. He calls himself "a whiteboard as well as a keyboard guy." Being proud of his modest origins, Sachin would like to bring recognition in some form to his hometown, Washim.

Currently, Sachin is working with Symphony Teleca, Pune, as a principal architect. Earlier in his career, he was with Infosys and Microsoft, both in India. Immediately prior to Symphony Teleca, he spent a couple of years with a startup called Cumulux, which was acquired by Aditi Technologies for its expertise in Windows Azure.

I would like to thank Packt Publishing for this opportunity to review the book. A special thanks to my wife, Vaidehi, who is my pillar when it comes to clearing the clutter in my mind. Clearly, she is the secret to my ability to focus on the task at hand.

Aaron Whittaker is a Microsoft Virtual Technology Solutions Professional (V-TSP) and a technical account manager. He has spoken at many major technology events, including several Microsoft TechEds. He is a guest author for Microsoft MSDN and TechNet. He proactively learns new technologies and is currently focused on building customer relationships to solve problems.

Aaron has received the vExpert award several times and was the host of a VMWare user group for 5 years. He currently hosts the Brisbane Cloud User Group.