Biographical Sketch: Hans Picht works for the IBM Linux Technology Center in Boeblingen, Germany. He installed his first Linux System back in 1995 from a large stack of floppy disks. Afterwards he worked for nearly 10 years as a Linux Trainer and Consultant across EMEA while running his own company. By accident he came in contact with IBM. Being fascinated by virtualization technologies he decided to learn more about this and joined IBM to work with a hardware platform which invented virtualization back in the 1970s. Hans worked on all layers of the "Linux stack" from Kernel Development to Sales and spends most of his time currently working with clients, IBM teams and business partners around the globe.