Chris works for ThinkOn as an Enterprise Architect. He has a passion for technology & stays on top of the ever-evolving IT realm. He’s a Veeam Vanguard 8*, Veeam Legend 4*, vExpert 6*, and VMCA/VMCE/VMCE-SP certified. He is also the author of Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication 10/11/12 by Packt Publishing.

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With 10 years of specialization in Microsoft and Veeam solutions, Damien is an IT consultant at Axians Cloud Builder and is skilled in VMCE, VMCA, VCP-DCV, MCSA, and MCSE.

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Antonio is a Senior Backup Engineer and has more than 25 years IT experience. Now works to design and implementation of backup and disaster recovery infrastructure. his experience has allowed him to deepen into various areas such as virtualization, sysadmin, storage and BC/DR.

He is a Veeam Legend and VUG Leader for Italy.

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Technical Director Cloud at Integra Cloud Solutions – Uithoorn, NL

With well over a decade of hands‑on experience in VMware, Veeam, and cloud infrastructure, I’ve seen just about every backup scenario imaginable and a few that really shouldn’t have been possible. As a proud member of the Veeam V100 community, I enjoy sharing knowledge, learning from peers, and staying close to the latest innovations in data protection.

In my role as Technical Director Cloud, I oversee our cloud platforms, backup environments, and core infrastructure, making sure everything runs reliably and efficiently. I’m a big fan of smart automation and scripting solutions that eliminate repetitive tasks and keep systems clean and predictable.

Always curious, always improving  and always up for a good tech conversation.

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As a Security and Data Management Team Leader at Monaco Digital, with 15 years of experience in IT on both the customer and service provider sides. Philippe is in charge of developing the business and producing various projects related to data protection. With a strong background in Cyber Security, Cyber Resilience, Data Management, and Data Protection. He tries to share his knowledge with the community to help companies in their digital transformation while safeguarding their crucial assets. He is also author on Original-Network.com blog independent blog created by Christopher Glemot. Veeam Legend and VMCE.

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Chalid is a Consultant in the Infrastructure and Private Cloud Team at Medialine AG, with around 20 years of experience in data center technologies and is based in the Frankfurt Rhine-Main Area in Germany.

His focus lies on virtualization solutions from VMware and Nutanix, as well as server and storage solutions from Dell. He has also been working with Veeam solutions since version 4.x.

Chalid holds multiple certifications from Veeam, VMware, Dell, and Object First.

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Working as an IT Infrastructure Specialist, passionate about virtualization, data protection and technology,

With more than 20 years of experience in the IT world. Now focused on helping others and share knowledge and experiences. vExpert, Object First Ace, VMUG Leader, VUG Leader, Blogger, Father, Husband, Friend.

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I’m a Data Protection Specialist at Proativa, in IT since 2017, mainly focusing on backup and recovery with Veeam. I also work with hypervisors and cloud technologies, which helps me create solid and integrated data protection strategies for complex environments.

These days, I manage backup operations for big clients across Brazil. I enjoy helping people, learning new things, and sharing knowledge, always looking to contribute to the Veeam Community and keep growing professionally.

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Lead Backup Architect with almost 20 years of backup experience in T-Systems. I started as backup administrator on classic platform, where I have found passion for backup technology. Working with Veeam since 2019 on modern and automated private cloud based on VMware to provide business continuity service. Leading development of backup solution from architecture view over engineering and consultancy with all security aspects.

Internal Veeam trainer with VMCE V12, VMCA V12.

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I am Head of IT at Buhl Data Service, leading a Team of Experts for managing modern Datacenter solutions (with a focus on Virtualization, Cloud Native/K8s and Security). Working on this for over 20 years. Besides managing the Team, designing HA & Backup solutions, I still love the occasional network troubleshooting with tcpdump & Wireshark.

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Team lead for Hybrid Cloud Solutions Team at ACP IT Solutions Graz, Austria.

Familiar with computers since childhood. It all started with my brother setting up the computers, but shortly afterwards I took over because he couldn't come as often as I had destroyed DOS and Windows 3.11...

Working in IT now for almost 20 years, since the beginning with Windows, VMware, Citrix and Veeam.

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Timo is a System Engineer in UMB’s Data Management team, based in Zurich, Switzerland. He designs and operates Veeam‑based backup and disaster recovery solutions across on‑prem, private, and public cloud environments. Holding VMCA and VMCE certifications, he leads the technical Veeam backup team and focuses on building backup solutions for customers. His recent work focuses on ransomware‑resilient architecture as well as building private‑cloud BaaS services for customers.

Besides Veeam and technology, he enjoys playing some amateur soccer and likes travelling.

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Michael is co-founder and CTO of idicos and is based in the Southwest of Germany. He has 25+ years of experience in IT business and is working on VMware virtualization technologies since 2002. Michael’s focus is on sizing and securing resilient infrastructures to meet all aspects of business continuity and cloud technologies.

Being an active Veeam certified trainer he also is VMCE, VMCA and holds several vendor certifications such as VCP-DCV, MCP and DCIE.

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Tommy O'Shea is a Solutions Engineer at ThinkOn maintaining Managed Backups as well as Off-Site Backup and DR systems. He holds the VMCE, VMCE-SP and VMCA certifications. With over a decade of IT experience, Tommy has a proven track record of leading major backup modernization initiatives. He values helping people learn more about Veeam and finding solutions to problems. Outside of work and away from technology, he enjoys riding motorcycles and travelling.

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Scott is an Information Systems Specialist with over 20 years of experience, specializing in Veeam, VMware, SAN, and disaster recovery. A senior member of his team, he plays a key role in cybersecurity, data management, system design, and implementation. Scott is also responsible for planning and designing future IT strategies to ensure scalability, security, and efficiency. He holds certifications with multiple vendors, and when he’s not at work, you can find him playing drums in one of his bands.

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Jean works at by Seven as a Data Protection Architect, supporting pre-sales and technical leadership areas in Santa Catarina, Brazil.

Certified in AWS, he also has experience in the FinOps field.

He presented successful cases he personally architected and represented VUG Leaders at VeeamON '23 and '24.

Fascinated by technology journeys, he is certified in VMCE V9 & V12 and VMCA V12.

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Senior System Engineer in an Enterprise Telecommunications Company. Over 25 years of experience in IT, Virtual environments, Datacenter & Cloud (Azure) with Microsoft focus :MCP,MCTS, MCITP,MCSA x3, MCSE x2 Core Infrastructure & Coud Platform - Azure Administrator Associate - Vmware: VCP-DCV 2022, specialized in data protection & DR systems - Veeam: Veeam Legend - VMCE - VMCA.

Security-oriented. (Backups are never enough!).

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Esteban Prieto is a Senior Account Solution Architect at Red Hat, with over 20 years of experience in virtualization, cloud, and digital transformation technologies. Passionate about virtualization.

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System and network administrator since the early days of "the new economy" (2000), lover of virtualization and of Veeam since ten years ago.

Alessandro like to learn, share and teach. He has been working in different business.

Currently employed as consultant, based in Bologna and Rome, Italy. 

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Systems Architect with over 20yrs in the IT industry across multiple business disciplines. IT Generalist specializing in BC/DP/DR, storage, infrastructure & systems automation. Guest blogger and various tech cert Study Guide creator.

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