Karl is an IT veteran with 23 years of experience. He has been a systems administrator and architect for Fortune 500 companies, a national solutions architect for NetApp and Microsoft, and now a Principal Program Manager in Azure Engineering. He has always kept himself in the thick of emerging technologies. In his 9 years with Microsoft, Karl has focused on Azure Storage, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Edge Computing, and High Availability. In his role as a Program Manager with the Azure Storage team, he focuses on strategic partnerships to enable any and every workload to run on Azure. You can find him on Twitter as @Kloud_Karl.