Understanding OPNFV: Accelerate NFV Transformation using OPNFV (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781545442708)

Amar Kapadia is an NFVI specialist consulting for Mirantis, the pure play open cloud company, and a NFV Strategy Orchestrator (pun intended) at Aarna Networks, Inc, his current startup gig. He was previously senior director of product marketing at Mirantis. Prior to Mirantis, he was the senior director for EVault's Long-Term Storage Service, a public cloud storage offering based on OpenStack Swift. He has over 20 years of experience in storage, server and networking technologies at Emulex, Philips and HP. Amar's current passion is in NFV, unikernels, containers, serverless scheduling, OPNFV and CORD. He holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. His blogs can be found at http: //aarnanetworks.com/blog, or you can reach him on Twitter at @akapadia_usa. Nicholas Chase is Head of Technical and Marketing Content for Mirantis, the pure play open cloud company. Prior to Mirantis, he was an IBM DeveloperWorks Master Author, the Chief Technical Officer of an interactive development company, an Oracle Instructor, a software developer, the founder of the social bookmarking site NoTooMi.com, author or co-author of more than a dozen technical books, a sysop on the original Cleveland Freenet, and the driving force behind one of the very first applications to use a web browser to update a database. He lives on a farm with his wonderful wife Sarah Jane, 27 chickens, 12 goats, 7 ducks, 2 dogs and a furbaby, 3 fish, 2 parakeets, and Hazel the Hedgehog. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Physics and Education from Case Western Reserve University and John Carroll University, and his current passions are cloud computing, Internet of Things, and Machine Learning and AI. His blog can be found at http: //www.nicholaschase.com, or you can reach him on Twitter at @nickchase.