Shawn Conaway is Associate Editor for Mission Critical. Shawn has held a variety of challenging leadership roles throughout his 15 years of managing systems infrastructure for Fortune 500 companies. He has automated system builds for thousands of servers; wrote and testing disaster recovery plans; designed storage area networks, virtual infrastructures, and backup environments; and deployed or moved many data centers. He has been working with x86 virtualization since VMware was just a year old and built the first VMware infrastructure at Kohl’s Department Stores and Roundy’s Supermarkets. Reach him at MCeditorialSC@bnpmedia.com.