Wasim Ahmed, born in Bangladesh and now a citizen of Canada, is a veteran of the IT world. He first came into close contact with computers in 1992 and never looked back. Wasim has a deep understanding of networks, virtualization, big data storage, and network security.
By profession, Wasim is the CEO of a global IT support and cloud service provider based in Calgary, Alberta. He serves many companies and organizations through his company on a daily basis. Wasim's strength comes from his experience, which comes from learning and serving continually. Wasim strives to find the most effective solution at the most competitive price. He has built over 20 enterprise production virtual infrastructures using Proxmox and the Ceph storage system.
Wasim and his team are notorious for not simply accepting a technology based on its description alone, but putting it through rigorous testing to check its validity. Any new technology that his company provides goes through months of continuous testing before it is accepted. Proxmox made the cut superbly.
This book, Mastering Proxmox – Third Edition, would not have been possible without the support and wholehearted cooperation of the team at Packt Publishing. I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness to each of the team members who walked me through the process of the major undertaking that was writing this book.
I also would like to acknowledge the support and dedication of the Proxmox VE developer team, who made this great hypervisor available to all of us. Their vision and attention to detail has enabled Proxmox VE to mature in a very short period of time since its first release.
I am thankful to the global community of Proxmox users, whose combined experiences have allowed me to learn many different scenarios in which Proxmox is used today.
Finally, I would like to acknowledge Charles McCrea, whose friendship and support played an important role in bringing this book to completion.
