Michael J. Corey

Michael is co-founder of LicenseFortress. In 2015 & 2017, identified as #42 of the top 100 most influential people in the “cloud industry”. Michael's a recognized Microsoft Data Platform MVP formerly (Microsoft SQL Server MVP), recognized Oracle ACE, a recognized VMware vExpert and has worked with relational databases for over 30 years starting with Oracle Version 3. Michael is the original Oracle Press author, Author for VMware Press, frequent blogger http://michaelcorey.com/, a regular columnist for the Big Data Quarterly and his newest book is Virtualizing SQL Server with VMware: Doing IT Right from VMware Press.

Michael is the Current President of the IOUG VMware, Past President Independent Oracle Users Group and a Founder of the Professional Association of SQL Server.

Michael has presented at Technical & Business conferences from Brazil to Austraila Forbes Website recently wrote an article "21 Questions To Ask Your Cloud Computing Provider, Before You Sign" based upon a recent presentation Michael gave.