Entrepreneur, Author, Columnist, Lecturer and recognized expert on Managed Services, Relational Databases, Data Warehousing, Virtualization, and the Cloud. Identified in 2015 & 2017 as the #42 person to influence the Cloud. A frequent speaker and educator at business and technology conferences around the world. Michael is a Recognized Oracle Ace, VMware vExpert and a past Microsoft MVP. Michael is the Original Oracle*press author and has coauthored over 10 books.