Profile
Publish Date
24 September 2008
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Author(s)
- Nagraj Alur
- Anthony Corrente
- Robert D. Johnston
- Sachiko Toratani
Nagraj Alur is a Project Leader with the IBM ITSO, San Jose Center. He has more than 33 years of experience in database management systems (DBMS), and has been a programmer, systems analyst, project leader, independent consultant, and researcher. His areas of expertise include DBMSs, data warehousing, distributed systems management, database performance, information integration, and client/server and Internet computing. He has written extensively on these subjects and has taught classes and presented at conferences all around the world. Before joining the ITSO in November 2001, he was on a two-year assignment from the Software Group to the IBM Almaden Research Center, where he worked on Data Links solutions and an eSourcing prototype. He holds a master's degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai, India.
Anthony Corrente is a Senior Technical Support Engineer in Australia. He has 14 years of experience in the database and software technical support field. His areas of expertise include problem determination, down systems support, systems scripting, heterogeneous systems interoperability, with extensive skills in Information Server, DataStage, DB2 for Linux, UNIX,and Microsoft Windows, as well as UniData, and UniVerse. He has written a white paper on "Setting up MSCS for DB2 using VMWare." He holds a degree in Computer Science and Pure Mathematics from University of Sydney.
Robert D. Johnston directs the High Availability (HA) and Grid solutions within the IBM Information Platforms Solutions group. He has more than 20 years experience in DBMS, and has been a Programmer, Systems Analyst, and Project Manager. He has presented at many conferences world wide and provided training on Parallel processing, Grid and HA solutions. Prior to working with Grid solutions, he designed and developed many of the ERP connectivity stages within the DataStage product suite.
Sachiko Toratani is an IT Specialist providing technical support on IBM Information Platforms products to customers in Japan. She has more than 8 years experience in DBMS, and application development in government-related systems. Her areas of expertise include Information Integration and DBMSs, with extensive skills in InfoSphere Information Server, DataStage, and DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows. She is IBM Certified in Database Administrator DB2 Universal Database for Linux, UNIX, and Windows. She also contributed to the development of the Redbooks publication IBM InfoSphere DataStage Data Flow and Job Design, SG24-7576.
ISBN
0738431451
IBM Form Number
SG24-7625-00