Speakers at the Nagios conference

Ethan Galstad

Ethan Galstad, Nagios Creator and Lead Developer, has had over seven years of firsthand experience in developing Open Source software. Since he first created Nagios (formerly known as NetSaint) in 1999, it has continued to grow in popularity and now has a global user base of over 25,000 people.

Drawing from his experience with developing and supporting Nagios, he founded Ayamon, LLC in 2003 with the purpose of promoting Open Source support services offered by individuals and businesses worldwide.

Ethan graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1997 with a Bachelors degree in Computer Science. In addition to continuing to develop Nagios, he is self-employed and provides Nagios consulting and integration services to a variety of clients.

Ethan currently serves on the Advisory Board for Splunk, Inc. - a technology startup based in San Francisco.

Ton Voon

Ton Voon is the lead developer of the Nagios Plugins project, the objective of which is to provide the best cross platform UNIX plugins for Nagios.

Ton currently works for Altinity, the leading UK supplier of open source network management solutions, developing systems based on Nagios and the Nagios Plugins.

When not at his iBook, Ton likes to play Bob the Builder with his young daughter, go ballroom dancing with his wife, or enjoy 5-a-side football with his friends.

His minor claim to fame is appearing as an extra in several UK television programs, including Frank Stubbs Promotes.

William Preston

At university William studied electrical engineering where he developed his passion for computer networking and the open-source linux system.

After arriving in Nuremberg in 2001, he joined the software developer 100world as a system administrator before progressing to leader of the IT Department in 2004.  Following a change of emphasis for the company, William successfully drove the outsourcing of the entire internal IT department to German ISP Noris Network in late 2005 (where he stayed until the end of 2006).

He currently works for NETWAYS GmbH as a consultant for network integration and Nagios projects.

Dario B. Bestetti

Dario B. Bestetti is one of the founders and managing director of OpServices Tecnologia da Informação.

OpServices is a leading Brazilian company focused on IT Governance, business process, network and systems management solutions through our OpMon platform. OpMon is a software and hardware solution based on Nagios.

Kevin Menard

Kevin Menard is Vice President of Servprise International, Inc. His company makes products for the IT industry. Their flagship product line is the WebReboot, which allows administrators to remotely power-on, power-off, and reboot unresponsive servers. With their enterprise line of products, they can also monitor host power state, temperature, and other attributes. They rely on Nagios to tie the monitoring in with the actions. They developed a set of plugins that can use a WebReboot product to monitor a host and take corrective action with that host. E.g., if a host is overheating, turn it off. Or, if a host is power-off, turn it back on.

He has been an open source developer for many years now. Primary he was developer of the ApacheToolbox project, he is an Apache Cayenne PMC member, and has contributed to numerous other open source projects.

Werner Neunteufl

Werner Neunteufl war 3 Jahre als C Programmierer bei der Siemens AG und 8 Jahre als techischer Consultant in den Bereichen UNIX/Windows Integration bei Digital Equipment Corporation (später COMPAQ) tätig und konnte in dieser Zeit Erfahrung in großen heterogenen IT Infrastrukturen sammeln. Als Gründungsmietglied der Consultingfirma ITdesign Software Projects & Consulting arbeitet er seit einigen Jahren als technischer Leiter Bereich Nagios Entwicklungen.

James Peel

James Peel is founder and Managing Director of Altinity. Altinity are leading developers of Open Source network management solutions and their Opsview product is built around Nagios. James comes from a background in IT infrastructure and thinks he can program Perl. In his free time James mainly eats and sleeps.