About the Authors
BRIAN DOWN has been at Sun for five years in Sun's Global Sales Organization as a Senior Staff Engineer and most recently in SunPS, where he holds the position of Chief Architect for Enterprise Migration for the Americas. For several years, Brian has focused on developing Sun's migration methodology and solution strategy, helping to develop and identify the value proposition associated with such implementations. Prior to joining SunPS, Brian focused on performance and custom engineering initiatives related to strategic server installations for the GSO.
DAVID LEVY is a Senior Consultant in the SunPS United Kingdom (UK) organization. He is currently leading the program for the UK's Consolidation and Migration team, concentrating on data center architectures and economics. Prior to this role, Dave led the UK's financial services consulting team based in London. Dave has successfully completed numerous consolidation and migration projects for banking and media customers.
KEN PEPPLE is an IT Architect in Sun Professional Services' Asia Pacific
practice.In this role, he assists clients with enterprise computing
architecture solutions,concentrating on advanced data center projects.
Before moving to his currentposition, Ken managed Sun Professional Services'
high-end platform servicesprogram and focused on complex performance issues
for the Information Technology Consulting and Operations practice. While there, he co-wrote andtaught Sun Education's "Solaris OE Performance and
Tuning Secrets" seminar.When not travelling in Asia, Ken is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
