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Publish Date
01 February 2008
Last Update
03 March 2008
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Author(s)
- Christian Matthys
- Abbas Birjandi
- Alexis Gausach
- Fabio Hasegawa
- Edgar Maniago
- Pekka Siekkinen
- James Thompson
Christian Matthys is a Consulting IBM IT Specialist who has spent more than 25 years with IBM as a System Engineer working with large, mainframe-oriented customers in France. He spent three years as an ITSO Project Leader on assignment in Poughkeepsie, NY. In 2000, he joined the EMEA Design Center for On Demand Business in the PSSC, helping customer projects exploit leading edge technologies. Christian works as a Project Leader for the Poughkeepsie ITSO Center, leading and supporting residencies from his base in the PSSC.
Abbas Birjandi is an IBM certified professional with more than 35 years of experience in the computing industry. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science. He joined IBM France and subsequently PSSC in IBM Montpellier in 1994. He has held many positions, including computer research and faculty positions at various universities, systems architect, project leader, and management positions. For the last few years he has been working in projects related to IBM educational activities and his last position before joining the ITSO was as EMEA Project Manager for the Early Support Program.
Alexis Gausach is an IT Specialist working at the Products and Solutions Support Center in Montpellier, France, as a System Storage Benchmark Manager. He has worked at IBM France for 18 years, and his areas of expertise include DS8K, DS6K, DS4000, and Tivoli Storage Manager.
Fabio Hasegawa is a Consulting IT Specialist leading the DBA Distributed Center of Competency, IBM Global Business Services in Brazil. He has been mastering solutions that involve infrastructure architecture over distinct IBM products, such as IBM DB2, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Message Broker, and WebSphere Information Integration. He has worked for over 10 years in IT. During this time, he worked on projects helping worldwide companies in distinct segments (telco, financial, government, and banking). Fabio's areas of specialty are business intelligence solutions, infrastructure sizing, performance management, and designing and improving high availability solutions focused on information management services.
Edgar Maniago has been with SAP since May 2005, when he received his Software Engineering degree from McMaster University in Canada. He is currently a member of the joint IBM/SAP Integration and Support Centre, where he tests, develops, and integrates new features of DB2 with SAP NetWeaver. Edgar assists SAP consultants and customers with activities such as troubleshooting and performance optimization through his SAP development support role as well. Prior to joining SAP, he worked for IBM on the DB2 Development Infrastructure team in the IBM Toronto Lab.
Pekka Siekkinen is a certified IT Specialist in IBM Finland. He has been with IBM for 19 years. He has been working with AIX since 1991. His areas of expertise include AIX, System p, storage systems, and high availability solutions.
James Thompson is a Performance Analyst for IBM Systems & Technology Group in Tucson, Arizona. He has worked at IBM for eight years, the first two years as a Level 2 Support Engineer for Tivoli Storage Manager, and for the past six years he has provided performance support for the development of IBM Tape and NAS products. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Utah State University.
ISBN
0738488534
IBM Form Number
SG24-7385-00