Matt is a Senior Developer on Tivoli Storage Manager Server. He has been with IBM for 25 years, all of it in Storage Software, the last 15 with the Tivoli Storage Manager Server. Matt has worked on many TSM Server enhancements over the years and is the AIX platform owner. In addition to his role as lead developer on TSM's deduplication solution, Matt also wrote the Instance Configuration Wizard and Server Upgrade Wizard for TSM V6.1.
Oliver Augenstein joined TSM 9 years ago as software developer in the IBM Research and Development Lab in Boebingen. He is currently responsible as architect for the SAP specific backup modules of TSM and for Tivoli's snapshot backup solutions on AIX. During his time with TSM he gained a strong interest in snapshot technologies and in the management of enterprise applications, and he developed, in colaboration with DB2 and SAP, snapshot backup interfaces that allow fast and flexible backup operations for mission critical applications.
Gerd Becker is a Project Manager for EMPALIS GmbH, a Premium IBM Business Partner in Germany. He has more than 25 years of IT experience, including over 13 years experience with storage management products such as DFSMS and Tivoli Storage Manager. His areas of expertise include IBM Tivoli Storage Manager implementation projects and education at customer sites, including mainframe environments (OS/390®, VSE, VM, and Linux® for zSeries®). He holds several certifications, including technical and sales, and is an IBM Tivoli Certified Instructor. He has developed and taught several storage classes for IBM Education Services in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. He has been Chairman of the Guide Share Europe (GSE) usergroup for more than 6 years. He is author of the Redbook „IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Technical Guide 5.3“, did the betatest for TSM Version 5.5 and 6.1 and is member of the TSM Advisory Council.
Stefan Bender joined TSM in 2003 as member of the German development team in Mainz.
The Mainz team is responsible for the Backup/Archive Clients on UNIX/Linux and for the HSM clients (UNIX/Linux and Windows). In particular Stefan owned the Backup/Archive and HSM clients on AIX GPFS and worked as such on various HSM work-items. Since beginning of 2006 he is the responsible lead developer for the HSM for Windows client and worked on reconciliation, backup integration and threshold migration.
Dave joined IBM in 1978, and has spent most of his career developing storage hardware and software products. Since 1992, Dave has worked on ADSM/TSM development in Tucson, Arizona. As a TSM server development team leader, he designed and developed many of the features found in TSM today. In his current role as the TSM chief architect since 2004, he leads the development team in setting technical direction and designing functional enhancements.
Hana Darzi is heading the Unix group of the System section at the computation center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, located in Beer Sheva, Israel. She is managing the TSM backup system which is in use as the main backup system in the university for over 7 years. Her background is long experience in management of heterogenous Unix and Linux systems. She manages also the EMC Storage at the computing center and has extensive knowledge in Network Appliance filers.
Alexander Dunaevskiy is a lead administrator of the backup and archive system of Leibniz Supercomputing Centre of Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
Kurt Gerecke is working for IBM since 1978 (31 years) and is doing storage for 27 years and now the oldest IBM storage person in Europe. He is also the author of the IBM System Storage Kompendium, which is available in German language, describing the IBM Storage history from 1952 until 2008.
Jasper Gundry-White has been in the IT industry for over 20 years. He started his IT career with EMC, working firstly in the UK, within his time at EMC he ran several areas in the UK and EMEA. including Banking and Finance, BT, Cellerra Network Attached Storage and European Distribution. Then moved to Data General, running the Calriion Business unit in the UK and Ireland.
In 2002 he joined Diligent Technologies to build their EMEA activity and drive the technical and sales team for the newly started company. Focusing on De duplication and VTL's with the ProtecTIER offering, building a sales and technical team to support the partners that we recruited in the region. working with HDS, Comparex and other significant tier 1 partners across the region.
In 2008 Diligent was acquired by IBM and now Jasper is the Regional Director for the TS7650 De- duplication product line.
Alex is the lead Service Manager for the Backup Service at CERN. He joined CERN in 2005 as a Technical Specialist for the Procurement Team, and before that he was a Developer for the Wireless and Pervasive Computing group at IBM Spain. CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world's largest particle physics laboratory. Its business is fundamental physics, finding out what the Universe is made of and how it works.
Claus has been involved with system administration at the University of Cologne for 33 years. Since 1990 he has been head of the Systems Department and his main interest is in storage networking solutions and linux based server farms. Has was involved in leading the German Unix Users Group (GUUG) for many years and is now Speaker of the systems committee of the ZKI-Verein (www.zki.de).
Born 1939 in Balingen (Germany). Doctorate in Theoretical Physics (University of Stuttgart). Since 1974 University of Essen (now University Duisburg -- Essen): Till 1980 in the Physics Department, then head of the department of planning and data processing of the university administration, 1990 -- 2004 director of university computer center. Has been working in boards and committees of various organisations like senate of the university, association of computer center directors (ARNW), German Research Network (DFN), German Initiative for Network Information (DINI) and others.
Peter currently works as the Lead Architect - Backup Infrastructure for Thomson Reuters Markets Division, where he has been working for the last 13 years. Over those years, he has worked on many management systems using various Tivoli products, but since 1997 has concentrated mainly on backup and recovery solutions, selecting ADSM V2.1 for use within a specific project in Reuters. Starting in 2002, Peter architected, designed and help implement a Solaris based global resilient 'Centralised Backup Capability' that is now used in 8 (ex Reuters) Data Centres worldwide protecting approximately 4000 Solaris/Windows clients using TSM V5.5 with Storage Agents, SQL Server/Oracle Agents and custom EMC storage array integration.
Prior to Thomson Reuters, Peter worked for Digital Equipment Company (DEC) since 1983 as an Engineer in the PDP/VAX Installation Team, PDP/VAX Field Service, and as a Technical Consultant in the VMS clustering, performance, capacity planning and system management areas.
Peter is an active member of the UK Tivoli User Group as the committee member of the Storage Stream, and has recently become a member of the newly formed Storage Sub Council of the Global Tivoli User Group (GTUG). Both are looking for new members - please see Peter if you are interested.
Peter lives near Guildford in the south of the UK with his wife and 2 children. His hobbies include DIY, conjuring, walking, camping, saxophone, R/C helicopter flying.
Cyrus Niltchian is a Technical Evangelist for IBM Tivoli Storage and started his professional career in 1997 at IBM. Before his current position in Technical Enablement for IBM Tivoli Storage, he worked for IBM as IT Architect in IBM's development lab in Böblingen, Germany, where he focused on architecture and development of Data Protection and Archiving solutions.
He earned a Master's degree in Business Administration and Information Technology of the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, German
Tom is the product manager for the TSM family of products: Tivoli Storage Manager, Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack and Tivoli CDP for files. Tom joined IBM in 1998 and has worked on various Tivoli development projects as a developer and development manager. Tom has been in Tivoli Storage product management since 2006 and is focused on partnering with customers, sales and development to bring new functional enhancements and new product offerings to market to meet customer business requirements and technology needs.
Stephan joined the backup and archive division of the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in 2006. His main working area in this time was the performance optimisation of the TSM systems at LRZ. Currently he is responsible for designing and deploying the backup and archive system for the next LRZ Supercomputer. Before his time at LRZ he worked as Linux/Unix system administrator at the Munich University of Applied Sciences.
Pier Paolo Ricci is working for then Italian Nuclear Physics National Institute (INFN) since 1999. For the last 7 years he have joined the INFN CNAF in Bologna which hosts the Italian Tier-1 site, the biggest italian computing centre in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) distributed computing. The four High Energy Physics detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) are among the most important physics experiments in the world today. Pier Paolo's activity is principally in the data storage management which include PBytes of disk and tape hardware for storing the data output from the CERN detectors.
Jim Smith is the TSM architect responsible for the Backup-Archive client. Jim is a twenty year veteran of the storage industry with IBM. In 1993 he started the original level-2 support group for ADSM V1 and moved into ADSM/TSM development in 1996, specializing in Windows and NetWare system backup and recovery, data encryption, subfile backup, and snapshot integration. Currently he is involved with architecture of solutions for virtual environments and large file systems. Jim has authored several Tivoli Field Guides relating to TSM and is a Tivoli Master Inventor.
Denise Tacay is working at the Center for Computing and Communication at the RWTH Aachen University since 2005. She is involved in TSM administration and in particular responsible for development and administration of the TSM web interface used by the Backup administrators at RWTH Aachen University.
Manfred, born 1950, holds a PhD in Modern History from the University of Graz, Austria and a PostDoc in empirical Sociology from the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, 1978. Her worked fro twenty years at the Max-Planck-Institut for History in Göttingen, where he developed a general concept of applied computer science in the Humanities, having visiting professorships at the universities in Jerusalem, London and Firenze. Since 1995 he held a professorship in that field of at the University of Bergen, Norway. There he also acted as founding director of the «Humanities Information Technology Research Programme» and the attached research centre, before moving in 2000 as Prof. of «Historisch Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung» (Humanities Computer Science) to the University at Cologne, Germany.
Since the middle of the nineties he became more and more involved with digital libraries in the cultural heritage area, which lead to numerous research projects and membership in the Library Committee of the German National Research Association (DFG), 2002 – 2008. Within this area during the last five years his focus moved more and more towards long term preservation of digital content, where he is participating in a number of national and international projects, most notably Delos and Planets.
Josef Weingand is an IT specialist within the IBM System Storage Group in Germany. He provides technical sales support for tape, VTL, archive and backup solutions. He has 13 years of experience providing technical support at IBM. His specialty is tape virtualization in Open. He started with providing post-sales support for tape products as a team leader for the European Support Center. Since 2001 he is providing technical pre-sales and consulting support. Josef achieved recently the 1st patent invention plateau for several patent applications in tape and virtual tape architectures. Josef has coauthored several IBM Redbooks.
Rainer Wolafka is the head of the development team for the Enterprise Removable Media Manager (eRMM) in the IBM Research and Development organization in Germany.
He joined IBM in 1997 working on Open Systems storage solutions. From 2001 to 2005 he went on international assignment to IBM San Jose, where he was evaluating new Open Systems storage solutions. After that he joined the Storage Software development organization and is now the architect of the Enterprise Removable Media Manager (eRMM). Rainer holds a bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from the Fachhochschule Frankfurt am Main and a Master of Science in Software Engineering from the Santa Clara University.
Lothar Wollschläger is employed at the Research Centre Juelich since 1979. He works in the division High Performance Systems and is responsible for the integration of high capacity storage systems and tape libraries. He is engaged with TSM since 1992 and was responsible for the backup and archive concept in the research centre.
Martin Zimmermann leads the team for data provisioning and backup at rku.it in Herne/Germany, which is a service provider (not only) for public authorities in the Ruhrgebiet area. His special interests are in the areas of storage systems, AIX, SAN-technology and TSM.
