May 20, 2022

Panel Discussion: How the SCOM roadmap changes everything

Bhavna Appayya / Bob Cornelissen / Bruce Cullen / Dujon Walsham / Kevin Greene / Nathan Foreman / Nathan Gau

Our panel discuss what is new in SCOM 2022, what was shared in the SCOM Product Group’s keynote session, and what it means for the future of SCOM.

Meet the author

Author

Bhavna Appayya

Product Manager @ Microsoft

Bhavna is a Product Manager in Microsoft's System Center team. She is passionate about using technology and product design to help customers run their business better. Prior to Microsoft, she worked on data science and big data solutions at SAP.

Bob Cornelissen

Microsoft MVP & managing consultant @TOPQORE

Bob (AKA SCOM Bob) is a Managing Consultant at TopQore, a highly specialized Cloud and Datacenter Management consultancy from the Netherlands and operating world-wide. Bob is an 11 x MVP, blogs, wrote a book, presents at events in person or virtually world wide, and loves anything community related.

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.

Dujon Walsham

Founder & Chief Microsoft Technologist @ ProtectOrg & Microsoft MVP

Dujon Walsham is a Microsoft MVP, the Founder/Chief Microsoft Technologist at ProtectOrg, and SME for SCOM, MEM, and Management Pack Development. Dujon is also a published author, with the release of his book “Self-Motivation: Anyone can do IT if I did IT”.

Kevin Greene

Microsoft MVP and Cloud & Datacenter Management Specialist

Kevin is a Microsoft MVP (Cloud and Datacenter) and Microsoft Certified Trainer working as the Azure Practice Lead for Ergo, an IT services and consulting company operating out of Dublin, Ireland. A regular speaker at local and international events, he has also authored a number of books on Cloud and Datacenter Management technologies including 'Getting Started with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager' and 'Inside Azure Management'.

Nathan Foreman

Solutions Architect of Advanced Products @ Cookdown

Nathan is the Solutions Architect of Advanced Products at Cookdown, with over ten years of experience in enterprise IT and Infrastructure monitoring and management. He designs and develops both on-prem SCOM management packs as well as cloud solutions, with a focus on bring disconnected platforms closer together. Nathan enjoys speaking in the community, you may have seen him at the Midwest Management Summit, ServiceNow’s Knowledge conference or local user groups.

Nathan Gau

Senior Technical Specialist @ Microsoft

Nathan has been working in IT for over 25 years across various industries. He is currently a Senior Technical Specialist at Microsoft, doing cyber security work for public sector customers. In the SCOM world, he is best known for his white papers on alert management and has authored two Security solutions for SCOM. The first turned SCOM into a log monitoring and operational best practices security solution. The second built on that and turned SCOM into an edge device for Microsoft Sentinel.