Stephen Beaver, the President, CEO and principle consultant for BeaverDam Consulting Inc. is the co-author of VMware ESX Essentials in the Virtual Data Center and Scripting VMware Power Tools: Automating Virtual Infrastructure Administration as well as contributing author of Mastering VMware vSphere 4 and How to Cheat at Configuring VMware ESX Server.
Stephen is an IT Veteran with over 15 years’ experience in the industry with the last decade focused on Virtualization and Cloud Computing for Small and Medium Business as well as Fortune 100 clients. Stephen is a moderator on the VMware Communities Discussion Forums and was awarded VMware vExpert designation for 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. Stephen can also be seen regularly presenting on different topics at national and international virtualization conferences as well as a very active analyst and blogger in the virtualization space.