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Publish Date
19 February 2008
Last Update
28 February 2008
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(based on 5 reviews)
Author(s)
- Lydia Parziale
- Massimiliano Belardi
- Mario Held
- Li Ya Ma
- Lester Peckover
- Karen Reed
Lydia Parziale is a Project Leader for the ITSO team in Poughkeepsie, New York, with domestic and international experience in technology management including software development, project leadership, and strategic planning. Her areas of expertise include e-business development and database management technologies. Lydia is a Certified IT Specialist with an MBA in Technology Management and has been employed by IBM for 24 years in various technology areas.
Massimiliano Belardi is an Advisory IT Architect supporting IBM System & Technology Group in Italy. He joined IBM in 1998 and his areas of expertise include design and presales support for System z and Linux-based architecture. He is strongly committed to supporting the growth of the System z platform and Linux Solutions adoption.
Mario Held is a Performance Analyst for the Linux on System z - System & Performance Evaluation Development in the IBM development lab in Boeblingen, Germany, since 2000. His area of expertise is the general performance of Linux on System z, and he specializes in gcc and glibc performance. He presents worldwide on all areas of performance. Between 1997 and 2000 he was a System Developer. For six years before joining the IBM development lab he was an application programer on the mainframe with a health insurance company in Germany.
Li Ya Ma has been a IT Specialist for the IBM ATS team of China since 2005. She has domestic and international experience in performance benchmark on both Linux on System z and WebSphere Application Server on z/OS. She gives workshops and presentations, writes articles on the Linux on System z, from the basics to performance tuning. She is committed to supporting new growth of the System z platform and Linux solutions adoption in China.
Lester Peckover is an Infrastructure, Enterprise Performance, and Capacity Architect in the United Kingdom. He has 32 years of experience in the IT field, during that time covering IBM System x™ and System p™, mainly specializing in System z; and, since 2000, Linux running on the mainframe. He has also worked on a number of other system platforms in performance and many other areas, specializing in virtualisation. He been with IBM for 18 years, and is a Senior IT Specialist. He started his academic training with a bachelor’s honors degree in Biochemistry, and then switched to research-based computational chemistry for both his masters and his doctorate. His areas of expertise include performance analysis and modelling. He helped shape the tool now known as IBM VM Performance Tool Kit in its early, first decade of development, as well as other IBM VM program products and tools from other vendors. He has written and also taught and presented extensively on performance and capacity, plus various other systems management topics, in many countries across the world.
Karen Reed is an IT Specialist supporting IBM Tivoli® software in San Francisco, California. She has over ten years of experience in systems performance monitoring and automation software for both System z and distributed systems.
ISBN
0738485586
IBM Form Number
SG24-6926-01