June 15, 2021

Panel Discussion: Can SCOM really monitor anything?

Adam Kinniburgh / Bruce Cullen / John Liss / Shawn Williams / Stoyan Chalakov

Our panel of experts seek to answer the question “Can SCOM really monitor anything?” and, more importantly, should you use SCOM to monitor everything?

Meet the author

Author

Adam Kinniburgh

VP Innovation @SquaredUp

Adam has been with SquaredUp for three years now. In his role, he's responsible for all the work they do with their customers to get as much value out of SquaredUp as possible. Most of his career has been Systems Engineer-focused at various levels. From starting out on a busy IT help desk right through to consulting for government, all of his experience has been about using technology to solve problems for people.

Bruce Cullen

Director of Engineering @ SquaredUp, Founding Member @ Cookdown

Meet Bruce, Product Director at SquaredUp & Founding member of Cookdown. He product manages cloud integrations and on-prem products bringing the worlds tools together under smart dashboards that understand your data. With a decade-long stint at Citrix under his belt, Bruce's journey from software tester to project management maestro saw him spearhead the transition of XenApp and XenDesktop (aka CVAD) from on-premises to cloud. Passionate about observability and sustainable computing, Bruce is your go-to guru for navigating the complexities of both cloud and on-prem software. When he's not orchestrating innovation at the keyboard, you'll find him conquering miles on his bike, pounding the pavement running, or enjoying precious moments with his family.

John Liss

Founder & CEO/Enterprise Architect @ LissProductions

John is a Microsoft enthusiast. He has been working in IT for 30+ years across various industries and lives and breathes technology. His focus lies on Architecting private, hybrid Cloud environments, Large scale solutions, and customer satisfaction. His experience covers a vast number of topics like Datacenter Architecture, Application Architecture/Development, DevOps, Monitoring, IT service management, Orchestration and Automation. With SCOM specifically – his experience ranges back more than 21 years with MOM – right up to now with SCOM 2019. When it comes to technology, John is a “Jack of all trades and a Master of many.”

Shawn Williams

Technical Evangelist @ SquaredUp

Shawn is a 23 year veteran from the "Infrastructure Wars" in the Education sector. Programmer, scripter, and a firm believer in getting things done. Loves playing with data, visualisations and reporting; anything data related. Sometimes brutally, but unintentionally honest. Sarcasm is how he hugs.

Stoyan Chalakov

Microsoft MVP and Senior IT Consultant

Stoyan is a Microsoft MVP and works as a Senior IT Consultant at POHN IT-Consulting, a Swiss IT consulting company, where he is responsible for the Cloud and Datacenter Management technologies. His focus lies on private and hybrid Cloud management, involving number of technologies like Microsoft System Center, Hyper-V, Office 365, Microsoft Azure and covering topics like Datacenter monitoring, IT service management, orchestration and automation. Stoyan started his career as Support Engineer for the server platform team at the Microsoft Professional Support, supporting customers from the DACH (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) region. As part of the Microsoft Support he was also involved in providing the highest level technical support to Microsoft Premier customers. In addition to Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter, Stoyan has an expertise in Microsoft Active Directory and the related technologies.