I’m conducting some user research in the coming months, and I need virtual infrastructure architects and senior admins to participate in it.  At a high level, I’m looking for virtual infrastructure architects and senior admins who do tasks such as manage and monitor virtual infrastructure, plan capacity, create VMs, migrate VMs, or deal with virtual infrastructure help tickets.  If you’re local to Palo Alto, then you can come to my usability lab and participate in person; if you’re outside of Palo Alto (including outside of the US), then we’ll conduct the studies remotely via WebEx.

This user research is a little different than usual: I’m going to be doing a lot of research on a related group of topics in the coming months, and so I’m putting together a small pool of people who will participate in multiple studies over that amount of time.  Every 6-8 weeks, I’ll run another usability study, and I’ll pull from this small pool of participants for it.  You don’t need to participate in each study, but you do need to commit to participating in at least one study.  The first study begins on Monday, August 13.  You will be compensated for participating in each study, and your level of compensation grows with each study you participate in.

If you’re interested in participating, then fill out this survey to tell me a bit more about what you do and what your virtual environment looks like.  And if you’ve got any questions, feel free to ping me.