Florian is the CEO and co-founder at hastexo, an independent professional services organization specializing in Linux high availability, storage replication, and the open source cloud. Florian has been active in the HA community for half a decade, and is widely regarded as an expert in the field. He has spoken on high availability and cloud topics at linux.conf.au, LinuxCon North America and Europe, the MySQL Conference & Expo, and many other events.