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More than half of all severe IT outages now cost over $100,000, one in five over a million (Uptime Institute 2026). Most contingency plans have never flown under real conditions. Mine have: I am Dino Bordonaro, 8x Microsoft MVP. Every architecture I recommend has flown, crashed and been repaired in my own Tier 4 lab first. Only then does it see your production.
MICROSOFT MVP
Trusted by enterprises, critical infrastructure and defence (NDA).
THE DAY IT HAPPENS
On July 19, 2024, a single faulty update took down around 8.5 million Windows systems. Airports cancelled flights, hospitals postponed surgeries, ATMs ran empty, and critical-infrastructure operators in Germany stood still (source: Microsoft via WirtschaftsWoche). No attack. A Friday in normal operations.
Your CFO
sees one number on a day like that: more than half of all severe outages cost over $100,000, one in five over a million (Uptime Institute 2026).
Your CIO
sees the question in the board meeting: “Why did nobody test this?”
Your admin team
already knows the answer: 85 percent of severe outages caused by human error trace back to processes nobody followed or that never worked (Uptime Institute 2025).
All three look at the same bill. Just from different sides.
This is exactly where I start: no slides, your worst day. Played through in the lab before it catches you.
How I workDistilled from defence, critical-infrastructure and healthcare projects, filled in within 10 minutes, brutally honest. Plus the cloud briefing from the captain: field notes from real projects and the Tier 4 lab. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.
RECOGNIZED BY THE VERY BEST
Microsoft MVP in a row
MVP categories held at once
cores in my own Tier 4 lab
professionals trained
WHY ME
The biggest projects of my career were the first of their kind. Everyone in the room knew: something will break along the way. The difference lies in what happens next. In almost 30 years of IT I have learned one direction: forward. If it is not good at the end, it was not the end. Then we work harder. No hunt for someone to blame, lessons learned, everyone pulling together: my people, my partners, your crew. Teams that go through a mission like this come out stronger than they started.
We still make mistakes. On purpose. In our own lab, never at your site. Those who risk nothing learn nothing new. That is why we are early in private previews.
The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
Dino Bordonaro
CEO BORDONARO IT · 8x Microsoft MVP · MCT
PERSONAL
Born
December 17, 1980 · German
Home base
Römerberg near Speyer (EDRY)
Family
Father of two daughters (7 years old).
Hobbies
IT & AI, travel, flying, cars & Vespas, sightseeing. And the test lab in Mutterstadt.
Superpower
Improvisation, free speech without preparation, a vivid long-term memory.
Marvel & Lego
Passionate collector: Iron Man, Avengers, the whole saga. Wanted Jarvis, built KITOS.
VOICES FROM LINKEDIN§07 / commendation
Dino is an exceptionally talented mix of technology and business. He is a passionate advocate for doing what is right, stays ahead of the curve with new technologies and has an innate gift for understanding how technology can be used to help customers solve their problems.
Vijay TewariDirector of Product Management, Google Cloud · former Microsoft product lead for Azure StackI love working with Dino. He is technical, professional, positive, passionate, and curious. He has become one of the global experts on Azure and Azure Stack who I go to for recommendations on making the product better.
David ArmourPrincipal Product Manager Lead, MicrosoftIt is great working with Dino, he is very professional and has great technical knowledge!
Thomas MaurerEMEA Global Black Belt Sovereign Cloud, MicrosoftRequest a strategy call — answer within 24 hours.
Request a strategy callServices
Design, deployment and operations since 2017, including disconnected operations for environments that never touch the internet. Fully automated rollouts with my own Disconnected Operating Framework (DOF), proven in defence, critical infrastructure and healthcare.
Your benefit: rollout times in weeks instead of quarters, even completely without internet.
From assessment to flight plan: landing zones, Azure Arc, Cloud Adoption Framework. Cloud-to-ground architectures that unify your entire infrastructure under familiar Azure tooling.
Your benefit: one infrastructure, one toolbox, one bill your CFO understands.
Full managed service for Azure Stack Hub systems worldwide. We run the complete operation: patching, monitoring, updates, health. Your teams fly, we keep the machine in the air.
Your benefit: your people build new things instead of running patches at night.
Digital sovereignty is daily operations for me: proven track record in defence projects and regulated critical infrastructure, sovereign AI in healthcare already live. BSI and KRITIS mapping ships inside the concept, from day one.
Your benefit: at audit time you show evidence instead of declarations of intent.
As Microsoft Certified Trainer I have trained 800+ professionals. Workshops, bootcamps and hybrid strategy sessions: on-site or remote.
Your benefit: knowledge stays in the house when the consultant leaves.
Trusted partner of Microsoft, Dell Technologies, HPE and Cisco. I join your sales and presales teams in tandem: from first pitch to signed deal.
Your benefit: a higher close rate without having to hire an architect.
BORDONARO IT ACADEMY
Express trainings by a Microsoft MVP: sales, hybrid architecture, Azure Local and sovereign AI. A clear learning goal in 5 or 10 days (5+5 package), with labs instead of slide marathons.
All trainings are held in German or English, all prices are starting prices plus VAT. Individually composed trainings are available on request. Ideal as a deep dive after the free Microsoft Cloud Weeks. Based on our market overview, no other German provider currently offers the disconnected and sovereign tracks.
WHO IS DINO BORDONARO
Not my words. Microsoft's verdict, renewed every year.
Sovereign cloud architect and owner-operator. Almost 30 years in IT, close to 20 years in datacenters, entrepreneur since 2008, CEO of BORDONARO IT GmbH & Co. KG since 2014. Microsoft has awarded me MVP status every year since February 2019, to this day: defended for the eighth time, and since 2024 holding three titles at once (Azure, Azure Hybrid, Cloud & Datacenter Management). Fewer than 4,000 experts worldwide carry this award. In my categories, fewer than 30 exist across the entire DACH region.
MVP status opens the door to Microsoft's product teams and to knowledge before it is published: at the Azure Local launch in Germany I was the only partner officially on stage with Microsoft. My references: Schaeffler, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Vorwerk, Wacker Chemie, Bayer, Deutsche Bahn, Deutsche Telekom, Microsoft and Dell Technologies. From architect level to the board room: I translate between C-level and tech, professionally and politically. Every architecture flies first in my own Tier 4 lab, then at the customer.
“It is great working with Dino, he is very professional and has great technical knowledge!”
CONFERENCE SPEAKER
Keynotes and trainings on Azure Hybrid, sovereign cloud and AI in the datacenter. More than 800 professionals trained, in German and English, live or remote.
Reference format: the Azure Hybrid Experience Day, conceived and hosted for CIOs and architects, together with Microsoft.
Book me as a speakerON STAGE
From executive briefings to the big stage: Azure Hybrid, sovereign cloud and AI in the datacenter, explained by the 8x Microsoft MVP.
Talks for conferences, kick-offs and partner events: Azure Hybrid, sovereign cloud, AI in the datacenter. German and English, live or remote.
Your audience leaves the room with a decision, not a photo of the whiteboard.
Request a dateExpress tracks of the BORDONARO Academy: 5 or 10 days, remote from home or on-site. 800+ professionals trained, from AZ-900 to Azure Stack Hub.
Your people come back with exam readiness and an operations runbook, not a slide deck.
Go to the AcademyBusiness and tech in one person: assessment, architecture, concept in 14 days. Every recommendation tested first in my own Tier 4 lab with 800+ cores.
Assessment, architecture, concept in 14 days. Flown in the lab first.
Request a strategy callPublic speaker & trainer · Microsoft Certified Trainer · German / English
MY COMPANY
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FOUNDED · LED · FLOWN
BORDONARO IT operates its own datacenter lab in Data Center Rhine-Neckar II by PFALZKOM (Pfalzwerke Group), TÜV/tekit-tested high-availability class 4 across the data center network: 3 racks, 800+ cores, 10+ TB RAM, 700+ TB storage, 200 Gb/s network. Every architecture we recommend has already flown, crashed, been repaired and perfected there. Only then does it reach your production.
What we recommend runs here, before we recommend it.
PARTNER COCKPIT
SOVEREIGN CLOUD ALLIANCE
An initiative by BORDONARO IT
You talk to one person: me. Behind me works the Sovereign Cloud Alliance, my network grown over many years: Microsoft MVPs from dozens of countries, architects and operators with a direct line into the Microsoft product groups.
We shape teams around the customer's requirement, per project and with specialists only. One goal: making the world better for the customer.
“Empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.”
Microsoft mission, shaped under CEO Satya Nadella
The Alliance vision. Emblem: final version to follow.
ON THE ROAD TOGETHER: MVPS · MICROSOFT · PARTNERS
Flight Log§03 / engagements
Pilots keep a logbook: every aircraft, every mission, honestly recorded. This is mine, maintenance windows included.
Relaunch of his own company with a focus on Microsoft Adaptive Cloud: Azure, Azure Local and Azure Arc
BORDONARO Academy, workforce programs and the Sovereign Cloud Alliance
Full managed service for Azure Stack Hub and Azure Local systems worldwide, including public sector and defence
Azure Local and Azure Arc enablement for the teams in Bucharest: architecture, standards, knowledge transfer
Deep dive into Microsoft Adaptive Cloud and AI: MVP Summit, Ignite and expanding the own lab
Design and execution of advanced Azure solutions starting from the presales stage
Leading a high-performance team across cloud and datacenter disciplines
2022 merger of BORDONARO IT with the Medialine Group
Built and led the Azure team, set architecture standards and delivery quality
Managing director of VORAX-IT in Heddesheim, in parallel to architecture work in Azure projects
First MVP award in February 2019, signed by Satya Nadella
Defended every year since, holding three titles at once since 2024: Azure, Azure Hybrid, Cloud & Datacenter Management
Founded and built the consulting firm for secure hybrid cloud infrastructure: Azure Stack Hub, Azure Local, Azure Arc
Fully automated Azure Stack Hub rollout for a nationwide dialysis clinic network: 200+ clinics, 7,000 employees, life-critical dialysis 24/7 in clinics and at home
Top 100 Innovator 2019 and 2020, Top Consultant 2020. Merged with the Medialine Group in 2022
Founded a full-service IT company, ran it for six years and sold it successfully. Entrepreneur DNA since 2008
IT specialist apprenticeship in system integration (BSC Systemhaus, Speyer), service technician at Bechtle for ALSTOM Power, first own IT company COMTRIXX in Mannheim (2002-2006), Technical Sales Manager EMEA at MTC Software (2007)
// Enterprise references since 2008. Defence projects under NDA. Full resume on request.
Ventures
BORDONARO IT GmbH & Co. KG
Specialized in Azure Hybrid, datacenter and managed services. Trusted partner of Microsoft, Dell Technologies, HPE and Cisco. Its own Tier 4 lab delivers the quality assurance for every mandate.
ALTEMO IT-Systemhaus
Founded my first IT company at 26, ran it for six years and sold it successfully. Exit experience as an entrepreneur: I know both sides of the table.
KITOS: the AI operating system of BORDONARO IT
My own AI operating system digitalizes quotes, documents, knowledge and processes at BORDONARO IT: self-hosted, sovereign, in daily production. AI transformation is daily operations for me.
NETWORK & COMMUNITY
You are the sum of the people around you. At the MVP Summit in Redmond, at Ignite and at our own events, specialists meet who carry each other: at this level, everyone learns from everyone. That is what drives me. Learn something new every day and turn it into a real advantage for my customers. Today that means local AI infrastructure, sovereign in your own datacenter or in a colocation, legally compliant and under your own data sovereignty.
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
Microsoft case studies, interviews, award videos and a LinkedIn article with 140,000+ views: visibility that secures competitive advantage for customers. 3,700 followers on LinkedIn, many of them C-level.
Certifications§06 / ratings
Pilots call it a type rating. Microsoft calls it a certification. I carry 19 of them in my logbook, from fundamentals to expert level.
Every tile links directly to the official Microsoft Learn page for the certification.
Microsoft Certified Trainer
800+ professionals trained
Microsoft's official trainer program, renewed annually against proof of certifications and teaching practice.
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Microsoft Azure, Azure Hybrid & Cloud and Datacenter Management
7x in a row · 3 categories
Fewer than 4,000 experts worldwide. In Dino's categories, fewer than 30 across DACH.
Learning paths
Four official Microsoft paths, flown in this order. Every path ends in a title.
The path to hybrid & datacenter expert
Windows Server Hybrid Administrator · Azure Stack Hub Operator (legacy) · Dino's home turfThe path to cloud architect
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect ExpertThe path to security architect
Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect ExpertAll certifications
Operating Azure environments: identity, governance, storage, compute and virtual networks.
Microsoft Learn
Planning, deploying and operating Azure Virtual Desktop at enterprise scale.
Microsoft LearnDeveloping cloud applications with Azure services, APIs, Functions and containers.
Microsoft LearnDesigning complete Azure solution architectures: compute, networking, storage, identity.
Microsoft LearnBuilding CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code and DevOps processes on Azure.
Microsoft LearnSecuring Azure: identity, networking, compute, data and security operations.
Microsoft LearnOperating Azure Stack Hub: the certification has since been retired by Microsoft.
Microsoft LearnPlanning and operating Azure networking: routing, VPN, ExpressRoute, private access.
Microsoft LearnAdministering Windows Server across hybrid environments, in the datacenter and in Azure.
Microsoft Learn
Fundamentals of cloud concepts, Azure services, pricing models and governance.
Microsoft LearnDesigning security strategies across identity, infrastructure, data and applications.
Microsoft LearnDetecting and responding to threats with Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender.
Microsoft LearnManaging identities, access and authentication with Microsoft Entra ID.
Microsoft LearnProtecting information and implementing compliance requirements with Microsoft Purview.
Microsoft LearnFundamentals of security, compliance and identity across Microsoft cloud services.
Microsoft LearnOperating an Azure Stack hybrid cloud, the predecessor exam to the AZ-600.
Microsoft LearnThe classic Microsoft certification program before the shift to role-based certifications.
Microsoft LearnPRESS & MEDIA
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Captain
Dino Bordonaro
Passenger
Your name
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Phone
+49 171 6268086Company
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8x MVP
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