Steve Buchanan is a Director, Azure Platform Lead & Containers Services Lead on a Cloud Transformation team with a large consulting firm. He is a 10-time Microsoft MVP, Pluralsight author, and the author of six technical books. He has presented at tech events, including DevOpsDays, Midwest Management Summit (MMS), Microsoft Ignite, BITCon, Experts Live Europe, OSCON, Inside Azure management, and user groups. He stays active in the technical community and enjoys blogging about his adventures in the world of IT at www.buchatech.com.
John Joyner is Senior Director, Technology at AccountabilIT, a managed services provider of 24x7 Network Operations and Security Operations Center (NOC & SOC) services. As an Azure Solutions Architect Expert, he designs and builds modern management and security solutions based on Azure Lighthouse, Azure Arc, Azure Monitor Logs, Azure Sentinel, Azure Defender, and Microsoft Defender. John is also an authority on System Center products in private cloud and hybrid cloud environments and has been awarded Microsoft MVP 14 times. John is a retired U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr., where he was a computer scientist, worked for NATO in Europe and was aboard an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. He is a veteran of the Persian Gulf War.