
Founder and Chief Editor at virtualization.info
Rome Area, Italy

Founder and Chief Editor at virtualization.info
Rome Area, Italy
Alessandro Perilli is an independent analyst with a major focus on virtualization and IT security markets.
Alessandro is well known in the virtualization industry since 2003 thanks to his website virtualization.info, which attracts more than 10,000 visitors per day.
Alessandro mostly works as a trusted advisor for multinational companies, large system integrators, venture capital firms and IT vendors.
His customers are in in North America, Europe and Asia, and include Fortune 1000 and Global Fortune 2000 companies, civil and military government agencies, and some of the most relevant market players in the IT industry.
He provides a broad range of strategic and technical research analysis, including company profiling, market trend forecasting, competitive strategy planning, product evaluations and comparisons.
Alessandro has served as a keynote speaker at international conferences arranged by some of the most influential analyst firms worldwide, such as IDC and Burton Group:
http://www.virtualization.info/about#alessandroperilli
Since 2003, his website, virtualization.info, has been recognized as an authoritative and unbiased source for news and insights about virtualization vendors and technologies in the hardware, OS and application virtualization markets.
Available in English and Japanese, it has over 250,000 pageviews / month and over 13,000 subscribers / day.
Linked-to by more than 100,000 websites, virtualization.info is mentioned on most virtualization vendors websites (including VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, Parallels, etc.), and by most popular news publications published by leading media companies.
virtualization.info also counts more than 25% of Fortune 100 companies among its readers.
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT)
Microsoft Certified System Engineer w/ Security competency (MCSES)
CompTIA Linux+ certified (LINUX+)
Check Point Certified Security Instructor (CCSI)
Check Point Certified System Expert+ (CCSE+)
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
Prosoft Certified Internet Webmasters Security Analyst (CIWSA)
Citrix Metaframe XP Certified Administrator (CCA)
CompTIA Security+ certified (SECURITY+)
(Events Services industry)
May 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
The Virtualization Congress (www.virtualizationcongress.com) is a conference produced by virtualization.info.
Billed as “the independent stage for virtualization technologies" it features a technical agenda, specifically designed for virtualization architects and engineers, and world-class speakers.
The premiere event took place in Las Vegas, NV in the US, in May 2009.
The speakers line-up included recognized experts in the virtualization industry including:
- Brian Madden, Independent Analyst, TechTarget
- Christofer Hoff, Director of Cloud and Virtualization Solutions, Cisco
- Ian Pratt, Chairman, Xen.org
- Jason Langone, Director of Virtualization Services, Infinite Group
- Jeroen van de Kamp, CTO, Login Consultants
- Mike Di Petrillo, Principal Systems Engineer of Datacenter and Cloud Architecture, VMware
- Richard Jones, Service Director, Data Center Strategies, Burton Group
- Ron Oglesby, Practice Executive, Virtualization, Dell
- Ruben Spruijt, Solutions Architect and CTO, PQR
- Scott Lowe, National Technical Lead, ePlus Technology
- Simon Crosby, CTO, Citrix
- Stephen Beaver, Virtualization Evangelist, Tripwire
(Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2005 — Present (4 years 3 months)
Independent consulting in North America, Europe and Asia, with customers including Fortune 1000 and Global Fortune 2000 companies, civil and military government agencies, investment firms, and some of the most relevant market players in the IT industry.
Hired as a trusted advisor, supported customers in strategic IT decisions.
Provided a wide range of services, from infrastructure assessment to competitive analysis, from implementation supervision to market strategy optimization, to the scouting of the most promising startups.
Also served as a keynote speaker at international conferences with speeches in Italian or English, plus with simultaneous translation in other languages:
http://www.virtualization.info/about#alessandroperilli
(Online Media industry)
September 2003 — Present (6 years 3 months)
Globally recognized as one of the first evangelists for virtualization technologies since 2003 thanks to the website virtualization.info
virtualization.info, available in English and Japanese, tracks hundreds of news sources, verifying information published by major news magazines, corporate and personal blogs, web forums and newsgroups.
News is enriched with references to the companies' market positions, including past and upcoming product releases, declared and implicit alliances, market predictions and more.
Along with daily news, virtualization.info publishes periodic insights about different aspects of the market, covering competition, emerging trends, customer and partner relationships.
Where connections between vendors and their strategies are unclear, this analysis connects the dots.
Today virtualization.info records over 250,000 pageviews / month and over 13,000 feed views / day, and it counts more than 25% of Fortune 100 companies among its readers.
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2004 — August 2005 (1 year 4 months)
Strategic company leadership for:
- strategy and corporate image
- human resources
- technical departments (IT Security, Virtualization, Microsoft .NET and IBM iSeries Development) supervision
Wide-known projects under responsibility:
- Microsoft ISA Server 2004 Errebian Case Study
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/casestudies/CaseStudy.asp?CaseStudyID=15636
- VMware GSX Server 2.5 Errebian Case Study
http://www.vmware.com/customers/stories/errebian.html
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2003 — April 2004 (10 months)
- Certified Instructor for Check Point courses
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2003 — April 2004 (1 year 4 months)
- Speaker at ITway seminars
- Certified instructor for Check Point courses
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2001 — December 2003 (2 years 11 months)
- Author of a class IT security course: "Network Security Enforcement"
- Content Editor at NetSecurity Conference
- Speaker at Windows Professional Conference (http://wpc.education.mondadori.it)
- Certified Instructor for Microsoft and Check Point courses
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2000 — January 2001 (1 year 1 month)
- Certified Instructor for Microsoft courses
VMware vExpert 2009
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) on Virtualization technologies - 2008-2009
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) on IT Security technologies - 2006