SolarWinds continues to expand head geek team with virtualisation and Cloud expert

SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT performance management software, has introduced Kong Yang as the newest member of its Head Geek team, specialising in virtualisation management. Kong contributes more than 20 years of practical IT experience and a reputation as a trusted thought leader within the virtualisation community. As a Head Geek, he will continue to share his passion for understanding the behaviour of the entire application ecosystem with both the thwack® and the greater IT communities.

Meet Head Geek Kong Yang
· IT expert with over 20 years of industry experience in performance tuning and troubleshooting enterprise stacks, virtualisation sizing and capacity planning best practices, community engagement, and technology evangelism
· VMware® vExpert from 2010-2014 and 2014-2015 Cisco Champion
· 2014 Spiceworks® SpiceWorld Austin invited influencer and VMworld 2007 presenter on Microsoft Exchange performance on ESXi
· Owner of United States Patent 8,176,497 for an intelligent method to auto-scale VMs to fulfill peak database workloads
· Seattle Seahawks 12th Man, depressed Chicago Cubs fan, saltwater fisherman, World of Warcraft rogue, and fantasy football fanatic

“As IT continues to expand rapidly into virtualisation and cloud infrastructures, it’s important for us to subsequently continue to strengthen our expertise in these areas. Kong is the perfect person to help us do that,” said Suaad Sait, executive vice president, products and markets, SolarWinds. “Kong brings a stellar reputation as an influencer in the space to our growing Head Geek team and will be a great asset to IT Pros who are tackling the everyday challenges of managing hybrid IT environments.”
Kong joins the SolarWinds Head Geek team following a year as a Cloud Practice Leader at Gravitant, a hybrid cloud software startup, and 13 years in various roles at Dell.