Acknowledgments

The number of people who provided materials for this book are too numerous to mention. In particular, source materials for many of the figures in this book were provided by various subject matter experts, including:

• Richard Stormo and Tim Jacobson have provided a great deal of insights into how HP's IT organization are taking advantage of these VSE technologies and have provided real workload data for some of the graphs used in the book.

• Stuart Haden, Mark Shaw and Greg Huff have provided both insights and detailed architectural diagrams for HP's Superdome servers.

• Bob Sauers provided extensive information and diagrams about HP's Serviceguard suite of products.

• Steve Gonzalez provided some very useful information and diagrams describing how some of HP's customers are taking advantage of VSE technologies.

• Steve Cooke, Ute Albert, and Vicki Martel provided a wealth of VSE marketing information both in the early stages of the book proposal process to help get this book off the ground and during the review process.

There were also a large number of reviewers, as you might expect with a book covering this many topics. In particular we would like to acknowledge the folks that reviewed the entire book. This took a tremendous amount of effort, and for that we are very grateful.

• Paco Romero

• Jim Darling

• Rob Lucke

Many other folks reviewed portions of the book. Their product specific expertise is greatly appreciated. These reviewers include Erik Bostrom, Dave Butenhof, D'Ann Chorak, Edgar Circenis, Mark Coffey, Bob Cohen, Steve Cooke, Jerry Harrow, Alan Hymes, Barry Lyden, Dave Parker, Scott Rhine, Wade Satterfield, Mark Shaw, Eric Soderberg, Steve Stichler, and George Williams.