Richard Talaber

Mr. Talaber has 23 years extensive experience managing mission critical systems and optimizing service levels for large organizations including MCI.  While at BMC Software, Rich was the General Manager of BMC Services focused on helping companies implement large-scale open systems methodologies.  He next served as CIO of a major Internet company where he guided them through a large consolidation project resulting in significant ROI.  Rich then embarked on several successful entrepreneurial ventures culminating in his founding Asset Optimization Group  (AOG) in 2001 focused specifically on capacity planning and performance tuning helping companies simplify complex environments and improving service levels.  AOG was purchased by VMware in 2005 and is an integral part of VMWare's current software offerings.  Mr. Talaber is currently a Data Center Strategy specialist at VMware.