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Publish Date
18 July 2008
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(based on 2 reviews)
Author(s)
- Saida Davies
- Martin Cardoso
- Janet L Koblenzer
- Cleiton Soares Freire
- Martin Welk
- Thomas Zetzsche a
Saida Davies is a Project Leader for the International Technical Support Organization (ITSO) and has extensive experience in Information Technology. She has published several Redbooks and Redpapers on WebSphere Business Integration, Web Services, and WebSphere Service Oriented Middleware using multiple platforms. Saida has experience in the architecture and design of WebSphere MQ solutions, extensive knowledge of z/OS operating system, and a detailed working knowledge of both IBM and Independent Software Vendors' operating system software. As a Senior IT Specialist, her responsibilities included the development of services for WebSphere MQ within the z/OS and Windows platform. This covered the architecture, scope, design, project management and implementation of the software on stand-alone systems or on systems in a Parallel Sysplex environment. She has received Bravo Awards for her project contributions. Saida has a degree in Computer Studies and her background includes z/OS systems programming. Saida supports Women in Technology activities and she contributes to and participates in their meetings.
Martin Cardoso is an IT Architect working in the SAP Tiger Team for Business Global Services in IBM Argentina. He joined IBM in 2002 from PwC Consulting, working as an SAP Basis Consultant and SAP Basis SME for the SSA region. Martin has more than ten years experience working with SAP technologies. His expertise include storage and related software, database technologies, SAP NetWeaver technologies, SAP capacity planning, SAP performance and tuning, SAP heterogeneous migrations, and he now specializes in designing of SAP infrastructure architectures. He is a co-author of the Redbooks publication, Best Practices for SAP BI using DB2 9 for z/OS, SG24-6489. Martin was certified as an SAP NetWeaver Technical Consultant in 2007.
Janet L Koblenzer joined IBM in 2000 and is a Senior IT Specialist in the IBM Systems and Technology Group (STG). She has over twenty years experience in the Information Technology field with a primary focus on database management. Her expertise includes both System z and open systems database platforms in systems management, performance tuning, and architectural design for high availability. Her particular interest lies in DB2 database technologies. Janet currently works for the System z Lab Services team based in Poughkeepsie, NY assisting customers in the deployment of database solutions. These range from Linux on System z consolidations, Business continuity and resilience architecture and ISV Packaged Solution implementations for DB2 Linux, UNIX, and Windows (LUW), Oracle, and DB2 z/OS. Janet holds a Masters degree in Business from Cleveland State University.
Cleiton Soares Freire is an IT Specialist working for IBM Global Services in Brazil. His main responsibility is migrating SAP systems from several vendor platforms to IBM AIX. His additional responsibility is to provide Third Level Support to IBM customers across South America and United States. Cleiton is a certified Technology Consultant for the SAP NetWeaver platform and is a Bachelor of Science graduated from Faculty Of Technology, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Martin Welk is a systems engineer in IBM GTS ITS division. He started his IT career in the early 90's, building his experience in Internet technologies. Martin built ISP environments for a few years and joined IBM in 2000. He started with designing and building e-business infrastructures on different UNIX systems focusing on high availability. In 2003, he participated in migrating large SAP and Oracle based environments to SUN E15000 platform. Since 2004, he has worked primarily with Linux as a base operating system. His is currently working as an architect focusing on open source technology. Martin's role in the Enterprise Linux Services group is assisting customers to migrate to open source software based infrastructure, especially with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, IBM Tivoli System Automation for Multi-platforms, SteelEye LifeKeeper, Oracle RDBMS, Xen, VMware, Samba, and OpenLDAP. He is familiar with IBM System x and System p platforms, and IBM and non-IBM enterprise storage. Martin achieved a certification for SteelEye Life Keeper and the ITIL foundation certificate in 2005, and a Red Hat Certified Engineer qualification in 2006.
Thomas Zetzsche a consultant for CC Computersysteme und Kommunikationstechnik GmbH. He started his IT career in 1994, building his expertise in SAP basic components. Thomas joined his current company fifteen years ago. Over the course of his career he has worked on various software products including LifeKeeper, SAP, Oracle, MaxDB, DB2, Linux, and Windows. In the last eight years his work has been to design, implement, and support high availability solutions for Linux and Windows. Thomas is a member of the SteelEye Competence and Support Center for Central and Eastern Europe, where his responsibility is assisting customers to implement high availability solutions based on SteelEye LifeKeeper in SAP and database environments. Thomas has participated in many successful projects integrating SteelEye LifeKeeper in SAP environments.
ISBN
0738431273
IBM Form Number
SG24-7537-00