May 31, 2022

Panel Discussion: SCOM and the Cloud

Dieter Wijckmans / Max Volkov / Michael Forde / Shashank Bansal / Stoyan Chalakov

Our panelists discuss where SCOM sits in the monitoring landscape, talk about how monitoring is changing with hybrid/true cloud, and what this means for SCOM.

Meet the author

Author

Dieter Wijckmans

Microsoft MVP & Managing Partner @ OB-V-US

Dieter is an MVP for System Center Cloud and Data management. He's been active in the IT industry for over 15 years. He is a co-founder of OB-V-US focusing on delivering high-end consultancy to a wide variety of customers. Dieter has over 10 years of experience in SCOM projects at a variety of different customers and environments enabling monitoring for virtually everything. His motto illustrates his way of working: Don't overthink it... It's doing common things uncommonly well that brings success.

Max Volkov

SCOM Management Pack Developer

Max Volkov lives in New Zealand with his family and two cats. He works for a managed cloud service provider called Computer Concepts Limited. In the last six years, System Center Operations manager is his passion. He works creating custom monitoring and automation solutions based on SCOM. He believes that management packs shall be more user-friendly and provide an intuitive configuration UI. Read more about Max and his adventures with SCOM on his blog https://maxcoreblog.com

Michael Forde

IT Solution Architect, Paxus, Australia

Michael has 25 years experience as an international freelance IT professional, providing solutions for Fujitsu, Unisys, Data#3, and Paxus. He has consulted across diverse industries including Cybersecurity, Emergency Medicine, Aerospace, Legal, Financial, and Government. Michael is currently architecting and implementing a large-scale hybrid cloud SCOM 19 solution for DAF Queensland, in the Australian primary industry sector. In his spare time, Michael is experimenting with interfacing SCOM and room scale VR - as sitting too long can be unhealthy. He has one Wife, two Sphynx, and three i9’s.

Shashank Bansal

Principal Product Management Lead @ Microsoft

Shashank is a Product Manager Lead on Microsoft's System Center team. He is passionate about using technology, tools, and processes to help with a faster delivery of value to end customers. Over an 18-year journey with Microsoft, he has been involved with multiple products, building a breadth of cross-industry experiences with Windows, DevOps, System Center, and Azure.

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.