About the Author
Andrea Dalle Vacche is a highly skilled IT professional with over 15 years of
industry experience.
He graduated from Univeristà degli Studi di Ferrara with an information technology
certication. This laid the technology foundation that Andrea has built on ever since.
He has acquired various other industry-respected accreditations from big players
in the IT industry, which include Cisco, Oracle, ITIL, and of course, Zabbix. He also
has a Red Hat Certied Engineer certication. Throughout his career, he has worked
on many large-scale environments, often in roles that have been very complex, on a
consultant basis. This has further enhanced his growing skillset, adding to his practical
knowledge base and concreting his appetite for theoretical technical studying.
Andrea's love for Zabbix came from the time he spent in the Oracle world as a
database administrator/developer. His time was mainly spent on reducing "ownership
costs" with specialization in monitoring and automation. This is where he came
across Zabbix and the technical and administrative exibility that it offered. With
this as a launch pad, Andrea was inspired to develop Orabbix, the rst piece of open
source software to monitor Oracle that is completely integrated with Zabbix. He has
published a number of articles on Zabbix-related software, such as DBforBIX. His
projects are publicly available on his website at http://www.smartmarmot.com.
Currently, Andrea is working as a senior architect for a leading global investment
bank in a very diverse and challenging environment. His involvement is very wide
ranging, and he deals with many critical aspects of the Unix/Linux platforms and
pays due diligence to the many different types of third-party software that are
strategically aligned to the bank's technical roadmap.
Andrea also plays a critical role within the extended management team for the
security awareness of the bank, dealing with disciplines such as security, secrecy,
standardization, auditing, regulator requirements, and security-oriented solutions.
In addition to this book, he has also authored the following books:
• Mastering Zabbix, Packt Publishing
• Zabbix Network Monitoring Essentials, Packt Publishing
