Salvatore Salamone

SALVATORE SALAMONE is the Senior IT Editor at Bio-IT World, IDG’s
monthly magazine that covers technology for the life sciences. He
is responsible for providing IT coverage for the magazine and the
publication’s Website. Additionally, he publishes a bi-weekly e-
newletter for Bio-IT World called Networking Under the
Microscope, which looks at major networking technology trends and
issues as they apply to the life sciences. Mr. Salamone is a
frequent speaker at industry conferences and has helped organize
and conduct industry roundtable discussions on a variety of
topics. He is the author of three books including The Complete
Guide to VPN’s (InternetWeek 1999); Managing Remote Connectivity
(McGraw-Hill/Osborne, 1997; Spanish edition published July 1998;
Chinese edition published September 1998) and co-author of
Reducing the Cost of LAN Ownership (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995).
Mr. Salamone has served as an Editor at most of the major
industry trade publications including InternetWeek, Data
Communications, LAN Times, Byte magazine, and Network World.
While at InternetWeek, Mr. Salamone established the InternetWeek
VPN Alliance, an educational group whose purpose is to be a
resource for IT managers interested in virtual private
networking. In this role, he developed and presented seminars on
the business and technical issues of using VPNs, and wrote four
VPN White Papers published in InternetWeek. He holds a BS and MS,
both in Physics, from Boston College.