Location Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Middle East Gender Male
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Dragos Manac is the founder and CEO of Appnor MSP S.A., a fully managed service provider operating infrastructure in Europe and the U.S.
Manac leads operations at System & Network Solutions (SNS), a company specialized in programming and system/network administration. Driven by the open source philosophy, SNS was one of the first
companies that covered the niche of Linux/UNIX systems in Romania. An advocate of the Linux operating system and the open source movement, Manac is a member of the Romanian Linux User Group and author of Linux Starter's Kit, the first Romanian manual for Linux newbies.
He is also a member of the Association for Technology and Internet, and an initiator of the Romanian Black List, the first Romanian anti-spam list.
Manac founded other startups, such as Solvabil.ro, an educational personal finance website, and Ghelir.ro, a popular one-product-per-day online shop in Romania.
He is a part-time journalist and published regularly in PCWorld, ComputerWorld, NetworkWorld, Academia Catavencu, and other newspapers and magazines. His blog, www.manac.biz, covers technical, entrepreneurial and personal development issues.
Manac's specialties and skills include: Google Apps, Google Enterprise, GSA, managed services, hosting, colocation, cloud computing, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, online commerce, managed services, high availability, performance, clustering, Linux/UNIX consultancy, Hadoop, big data, and buzzwords.
