Daniel P. Dern is an independent Boston-based technology, business and marketing writer. He covers IT in the enterprise, as well as in the education, government and non-profit sectors, and has written about technologies including cloud/-as-a-Service, virtualization, mobile/wireless, security, IT management, e-commerce, notebooks, storage, peripherals, power, Linux/Open Source, and gadgets. Daniel also writes science fiction and children's stories, and is an amateur magician.