Profile
Publish Date
06 February 2009
Last Update
23 October 2009
Rating: Not yet rated
Author(s)
- Bertrand Dufrasne
- Wilhelm Gardt
- Jean Iyabi
- Jana Jamsek
- Peter Kimmel
- Jukka Myyrylainen
- Markus Oscheka
- Gerhard Pieper
- Paulus Usong
- Stephen West
- Axel Westphal
- Roland Wolf
Bertrand Dufrasne is an IBM Certified I/T Specialist and Project Leader for System Storage disk products at the International Technical Support Organization, San Jose Center. He has worked at IBM in various I/T areas. Bert has written many IBM Redbooks and has also developed and taught technical workshops. Before joining the ITSO, he worked for IBM Global Services as an Application Architect. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering.
Wilhelm Gardt holds a degree in Computer Sciences from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. He has worked as a Software Developer and IT Specialist, designing and implementing heterogeneous IT environments (SAP, Oracle, AIX, HP-UX, and SAN). In 2001, he joined the IBM TotalStorage Interoperability Centre (now Systems Lab Europe) in Mainz, Germany. He has performed many proof of concepts on IBM storage products. Since September 2004 he is a member of the Technical Pre-Sales Support team for IBM Storage (ATS).
Jean Iyabi has been an active member of the IBM European Storage Competence Center (ESCC) in Mainz, Germany since 2001. As a Product Field Engineer, he acted as last level support for High End storage disk. Jean has extensive experience in DS8000 support, and focuses on Host Attachment (IBM System z), Extended Copy Services Functions, and GDPS. He was assigned for two years as the EMEA field support interface with the DS8000 development and test teams in Tucson, AZ. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences of Wiesbaden (Germany).
Jana Jamsek is an IT Specialist in IBM Slovenia. She works for Storage Advanced Technical Support in Europe and specializes in IBM Storage Systems and i5/OS systems. Jana has eight years of experience in the System i and AS/400 areas, and six years experience in Storage. She holds a Masters degree in Computer Science and a degree in Mathematics from University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She has co-authored numerous IBM Redbooks for System i and IBM System Storage products, including the IBM System Storage DS8000, the IBM Virtualization Engine TS7510, and other tape offerings.
Peter Kimmel is an IT Specialist with the Enterprise Disk ATS Performance team at the European Storage Competence Center in Mainz, Germany. He joined IBM Storage in 1999 and since then worked with SSA, VSS, the various ESS generations, and DS8000/DS6000. He has been involved in all Early Shipment Programs (ESPs) and early installs for the Copy Services rollouts. Peter holds a Diploma (MSc) degree in Physics from the University of Kaiserslautern.
Jukka Myyrylainen is an Advisory IT Specialist with Integrated Technology Services, IBM Finland. He has several years of experience with storage product implementations on both System z and open systems platforms. He provides consultancy, technical support, and implementation services to customers for IBM strategic storage hardware and software products. He has contributed to several storage-related IBM Redbooks in the past.
Markus Oscheka is an IT Specialist for Proof of Concepts and Benchmarks at the ATS Customer Solutions team in Mainz, Germany. His areas of expertise include setup and demonstration of IBM System Storage products and solutions in various environments including AIX, Linux, Windows, HP-UX, and Solaris. Markus has worked at IBM for five years. He has performed many proof of concepts with Copy Services on DS6000/DS8000, as well as Performance-Benchmarks with DS4000/DS6000/DS8000.
Gerhard Pieper is an IT Specialist for Open Systems Solutions at the Enterprise Disk team in Mainz, Germany. For five years, he has worked as last level support engineer for IBM High End Storage Products. His areas of expertise include test, implementation, support and documentation about IBM disk storage servers. His current focus is the implementation of management software for IBM Storage.
Paulus Usong started his IBM career in Indonesia decades ago. He rejoined IBM at the Santa Teresa Lab (now known as the Silicon Valley Lab). In 1995 he joined the Advanced Technical Support group in San Jose. Currently he is a Certified Consulting I/T Specialist and his main responsibilities are handling main frame DASD performance CritSits and performing Disk Magic study and remote copy sizing for customers who want to implement the IBM solution for their disaster recovery system.
Stephen West is a member of the IBM Americas Advanced Technical Support team for IBM disk storage products and related copy services. His primary focus has been the enterprise disk storage products, copy services, and customer performance issues with these storage and copy products. A significant part of this job is to educate the technical team in the field on the storage and related copy services solutions. Prior to the new product or new release announcements, the ATS team is trained on the details of the new products and releases, and then develops education for field training sessions.
Axel Westphal is working as an IT Specialist for Workshops and Proof of Concepts at the European Storage Competence Center (ESCC) in Mainz, Germany. Axel joined IBM in 1996, working for Global Services as a System Engineer. His areas of expertise include setup and demonstration of IBM System Storage products and solutions in various environments. Since 2004, he is responsible for Workshops and Proof of Concepts conducted at the ESSC with DS8000, SAN Volume Controller and IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center.
Roland Wolf is a Certified Consulting IT Specialist in Germany. He has 21 years of experience with S/390 and disk storage hardware and since the last years also in SAN and storage for open systems. He is working in Field Technical Sales Support for storage systems. His areas of expertise include performance analysis and disaster recovery solutions in enterprises utilizing the unique capabilities and features of the IBM disk storage servers, ESS and DS6000/DS8000. He has contributed to various IBM Redbooks publications including, ESS, DS6000, and DS80000 Concepts and Architecture, and DS6000 / DS8000 Copy Services. He holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics.
ISBN
0738432342
IBM Form Number
SG24-6787-04