Speakers

John Enck is a vice president and research director in Gartner's Research organization. Mr. Enck focuses on two key research agendas: The technology and market issues surrounding industry-standard servers running Microsoft operating systems and the technology and market issues surrounding enterprise directories. In this capacity, he tracks a variety of industry-leading vendors, including AMD, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and Novell. Mr. Enck has more than two decades of experience in the IT industry. Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Enck was the technology and research director for Duke Communications (now Penton Media), publisher of Windows IT Pro magazine and iSeries NEWS. He has extensive networking and systems experience with a variety of mainframe, midrange, and PC LAN systems. He is also the author of more than a dozen commercial computer books and hundreds of published articles

Darren Mar-Elia is a contributing editor for Windows IT Pro and is CTO and Founder of SDM Software. He maintains a Group Policy resource Web site (http://www.gpoguy.com) and is coauthor of Microsoft Windows Group Policy Guide (Microsoft Press).  Prior to founding SDM Software, Darren was CTO of Quest Software’s Windows Management division, where he worked to develop products and strategies for heterogeneous systems management offerings. Prior to Quest, Darren was Director of Windows/Unix systems at Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. In that capacity, he helped design cross-platform IT systems and developed Schwab’s initial strategy for Linux adoption.

Brian Komar, president of IdentIT Inc., is a principal consultant specializing in network security and PKI. Brian has authored MCSE Training Kits, Microsoft Prescriptive Architecture Guides, and PKI white papers, and he is the author of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 PKI and Certificate Security and the co-author of the Microsoft Windows Security Resource Kit. Brian is a frequent speaker at IT conferences such as Microsoft TechEd, Windows IT Pro Magazine Connections, and Microsoft IT Forum.

Michael Otey, technical director for Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine, is president of TECA, a software-development and consulting company in Portland, Oregon, and coauthor of SQL Server 2005 Developer's Guide (Osborne/McGraw-Hill). Michael has covered the topic of virtualization extensively for Windows IT Pro magazine, having written several features articles showing how to take advantage of virtualization in the enterprise as well as reviewing all of the major virtualization products.