...in alphabetic order of lastname...

Matt has over 30 years of experience in Storage Software Design, Coding, and Testing. He's an expert on IBM Spectrum Protect's Deduplication implementation, including new enhancements being introduced this year and into the future. He's also an expert on Spectrum Protect's interactions with all supported operating systems.

Jason Basler is the test architect responsible for IBM Spectrum Protect. He has been part of the TSM development team for over twenty years, and has expertise in various TSM technologies as well as related storage technologies. He is currently driving the test activities around new releases of TSM with a focus on scalability and publishing the TSM blueprints based on best practices derived from experience in the test labs.

Gerd Becker is a Project Manager for EMPALIS Consulting GmbH, an IBM Business Partner in Germany. He has more than 30 years of IT experience, including over 15 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®).

In the context of data protection he has certifications and experience in project management.

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 and for qSkills in Nuernberg. He has been Chairman of the Guide Share Europe (GSE) Storage-Usergroup for more than 10 years. He is author of the Redbooks „IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Technical Guide 5.3, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Technical Guide 6.1, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Certification Guide 6.1, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager as a Dataprotection Solution“, did the betatest for TSM Version since 5.3 to 7.1.x and is member of the TSM Early Access Program.

Rolf Bogus was working in the Systems and now in the "Campus and Cloud" Department of the Computing Center of Heidelberg University for more than 30 years. Since 1991 he was responsible for the backup facilities with TSM starting with WDSF/VM.

The first TSM workshop for large European sites was initiated in 1994 by the universities of Karlsruhe and Heidelberg by Prof. Gerhard Schneider, Klaus Dilper and Rolf. This workshop was the beginning of the TSM Symposium, starting with three workshops in Karlsruhe, continuing with five symposia in Oxford and followed by the symposia at Petersberg, Berlin and Dresden organized by Claus Kalle.

Dave Cannon joined IBM in 1978, and has spent most of his career developing storage hardware and software products. Since 1992, Dave has worked on development of IBM Spectrum Protect (formerly Tivoli Storage Manager) in Tucson, Arizona. In his current role as the Spectrum Protect chief architect since 2004, he leads the worldwide development team in setting technical direction and designing product enhancements.

Colin Dawson has been with TSM development for 20 years in various roles ranging from developer, to team lead, to his current role as server architect. His focus has been primarily on the server with emphasis on the server inventory, database, and most recently the user experience provided by the Operations Center.

Thomas Eifert studied Physics at RWTH Aachen University where he received his Ph.D. in solid state chemistry. He joined the IT Center's predecessor 1992 and worked in several fields of services with a focus on stateful service.

Since 2013 he is the CTO of the IT Center.

Andre Gaschler is a certified IT Specialist working since several years in the IBM Data Protection and Retention Solutions area within the IBM Lab Services organization. He is the team-leader of the European Storage Competence Center DPR Team and he has more than 10 years of experience in IBM Spectrum Protect. He is supporting customers in pre-sales and post-sales projects, developing TSM solution designs for small and larger data center backup solutions.

Wilhelm Gardt holds a degree in Computer Sciences from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. He had worked as a software developer and subsequently as an IT specialist designing and implementing heterogeneous IT environments (incl. SAP, Oracle, UNIX operating systems, SAN) before he joined IBM in 2001. Today he is a member of the Advanced Technical Skills (ATS) team for IBM Storage in Europe.

Kirsten Glöer has studied computer science at the University of Karlsruhe. She has more than 20 years experience with storage management products such as TSM/ADSM. After her studies, she was employed for five years at the University of Karlsruhe and organized together with Prof. Gerhard Schneider and Klaus Dilper the ADSM workshops, the predecessor of the TSM Symposiums. Since 2009, Kirsten is system administrator for Unix, SAN and NFS storage systems and TSM at FIZ Karlsruhe.

International IBM Certified Instructor, Consultant & Implementer of Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) (aka Spectrum Protect), Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS) and License Metric Tool (ILMT) on the side. Has been teaching around the world (in Houston, New York, Chicago (USA), Porto (Portugal), Amsterdam, Kuwait City (Kuwait), Belgium and Germany)

Likes to serve a customer fully, from presales advice via implementation and configuration to the actual operations. Creating documentation and procedures with the customer while training them on the job.

Troubleshooting, upgrading and migrating systems helps the logical step to keep a satisfied customer while maintaining a long relationship. That is the ultimate goal.

Also likes to join the Tivoli Exam Writing/Review group. Participating regularly as SME to help enhance the exams.

Specialties: Extended Training Experience (24 years) Creating/Building Training Material and Exams (22 years)

Languages: Dutch, English and German

Peter is the President of GUIDE SHARE EUROPE. In the working life he is the Managing Director of BTB GmbH in Germany, Leinfelden.

Nils Haustein joined IBM in 1994 after successfully completing the work for a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Technical University Chemnitz. As storage engineer he has worked in various technical positions at IBM in manufacturing, support, presales and services. One of Nils’ key focus areas is digital archiving and preservation where he has developed solutions and co-authored a book named “Storage Networks explained” (“Speichernetze”). As a leading master inventor at IBM he coaches inventors and fosters the development of patents.

Co-founder of General Storage in 2001.

More than 20 years of TSM experience as a systems engineer, consultant and software developer.

Greg is responsible for Tivoli Storage Technical Strategy. Greg is a veteran of the storage industry with recent work focusing on Cloud and TSM for Virtual Environments. Prior to this, Greg held architecture and development roles related to TSM, TPC and DFSMShsm.

Del is an offering manager for IBM Spectrum Protect (formerly IBM Tivoli Storage Manager). He is a Senior Software Engineer with over 26 years of experience in product management, software architecture, design, development, education, and service. Del has worked on designing and developing software products for the award winning IBM Spectrum Protect suite of products and has delivered education for IBMers, business partners, and customers.

Claus has been involved with system administration at the University of Cologne for 38 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. He was involved in leading the German Unix Users Group (GUUG) for many years and is now Speaker of the operating systems committee of the ZKI-Verein (www.zki.de).

Oliver Klenk - Robert Bosch GmbH

AEG Winnenden
1988 - 1991 work Scheduling / System engineer MVS Mainframe (JES3 / TSO / CMS / VTAM / CICS)
Robert Bosch GmbH
1992 - 1997 System engineer MVS - Area Disk Storage, backup and archiving
Since 1998 System engineer Windows / AIX Server - Area backup and archiving with TSM
Current task: Teamleader Backup Team Responsible for design Backup Server and backup processes with TSM

Hobbies: watching Football, skiing, sailing, motorcycling and the hobbies of my children

Frank Kraemer is an IBM Client Technical Architect working for IBM Systems and Technology Group. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering and has joined IBM in April 1990. He is currently focusing on novel architectures for storage systems and on applications for non-volatile storage. Frank’s areas of expertise are UNIX Servers, IBM Server Architectures and IBM Storage Solutions with a focus on GPFS file systems.

Daniele Kruse is an Italian computer engineer from Rome and he is currently working as a backup and archive service manager at CERN in Geneva. He is responsible for the tape side of the entire physics data store and for the TSM backup service. He is also an active developer of the tape part of the HSM software used at CERN.

Maurice van 't Loo is a freelance TSM specialist. Fall in love with ADSM 3.1 on a 3466 NSM in 1998, freelancer for many customers since 2001 and occupied since 2013 by IBM Belgium as teamleader of the TSM team for approx. 40 customers who outsource their environment to IBM.

With TSM6 and TSM7 he has the possibilities to hobby and develop a lot with SQL on the DB2 database, both from TSM as directly within the DB2 database to simplify tasks, improve monitoring and reporting and collect information what was never realistic with the previous database structure.

Peter Micke is working as a brandleader for the TSM product line for nine years now at Fritz & Macziol GmbH, a Premium IBM Business Partner in Germany. After finishing his studies of electrical engineering he got into contact with ADSM 19 years ago and kept stuck with the product. He's developing TSM concepts and also doing installations on different platforms, including TDPs. Besides the daily work, his focus is on improving management and monitoring capabilities of the TSM environment.

Christian Moser is a senior consultant at PROFI Engineering Systems AG, specialized in TSM. He has TSM experience since the very first version of DFDSM (Data Facility Distributed Storage Manager) on MVS hosts. He attended many TSM symposia in Karlsruhe, Oxford and also the recent ones in Cologne and Dresden. Actually Christian Moser works on TSM for VE

Urs Moser is Senior IT Specialist (main focus on Tivoli Storage Manager with there different Sub-products) in IBM Switzerland.

He works for IBM Outsourcing for different back-end customer projects to support and providing implementation and operation of Tivoli Storage Manager. He has 42 years of experience with IBM, over 40 years of experience in IT, and more than 24 years of experience with the Tivoli Storage Manager product, starting with ADSM Version 1.1 and predecessor WDSF/VM.

His areas of expertise include Tivoli Storage Manager server and client development skills and in-depth knowledge of problem determination. He develops, writes and teaches the TSM course curriculum for different customers as well IBM internal.

He is an author of several Redbooks publications:

• ADSM/VSE Implementation Guide, SG24-4266
• Using Tivoli Storage Manager to Back Up Lotus Notes, SG24-4534
• IBM Tivoli Storage Area Network Manager: A Practical Introduction, SG24-6848
• IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager: A Practical Introduction, SG24-6886

Matthias S. Müller is Professor for High-Performance Computing at RWTH Aachen University and the director of the University's IT center.

Currently he is heading the RWTH’s project for introducing appropriate research data management and for implementing appropriate infrastructure.

Dominic Müller-Wicke is part of the Spectrum Protect development team for eight years and has expertise in the areas of scalable backup and HSM. As the technical lead of the Spectrum Protect development team in Mainz he is responsible for the integration of Spectrum Protect into Spectrum Scale and Spectrum Archive. In his role as focal point for Spectrum Scale related discussions in the organization he is driving new functions, patents and publishes papers with focus on improved product integration, usability and scalability.

Cyrus Niltchian is a Product Manager for IBM Spectrum Protect with focus on snapshot-based Data Protection. He earned a Master's degree in Information Technology of the Eberhard Karls University in Tuebingen, Germany.  Starting in 1997, Cyrus worked in IBM's Research and Development Lab in Boeblingen as software architect for products, which are centered around IBM Tivoli Storage Manager and IBM Content Manager. The foundation for his expertise is profound application knowledge about IT systems, such as SAP, IBM DB/2, ORACLE DB, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Exchange and VMware vSphere. His work in the first 5 years spanned from software architectures to their market transition. Customer engagements as project manager as well as enablement activities were his daily business. For the next 10 years, Cyrus worked in Sales and Technical Enablement to provide worldwide enablement for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, focused on the 'IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Applications and Databases' product portfolio. Since 2013 Cyrus is a Product Manager for IBM Spectrum Protect.

Norbert Pott is an IBM Spectrum Protect (Tivoli Storage Manager) Support Specialist in Germany. He works for the Tivoli Storage Manager back-end support team, providing support to customers worldwide. He has 34 years of experience with IBM, over 25 years of experience in IT, and more than 18 years of experience with the Tivoli Storage Manager product, starting with ADSM Version 2.1.5. His areas of expertise include Tivoli Storage Manager client development skill and in-depth knowledge of problem determination.

He is the author of several Redbooks publications:

• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.3 Technical Workshop Presentation Guide, SG24-6774
• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Implementation Guide, SG24-5416
• IBM Tivoli Storage Management Concepts, SG24-4877
• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Versions 5.4 and 5.5 Technical Guide, SG24-7447
• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1 Technical Guide, SG24-7718 Certification Study Guide Series: Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1, SG24-7781
• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager as a Data Protection Solution, SG24-8134

1981-1992: research associate in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Univ. of Essen
1993-1999: System Administrator data network of the Univ. of Essen
1999-2005: System Administrator Storage of Univ. of Essen/Duisburg-Essen
2005-2014: Leader of the team System/Storage at the Univ. of Duisburg-Essen
since 2014: Chief Technology Officer of the Univ. Duisburg-Essen

Jim Smith is the Spectrum Protect architect responsible for virtual server data protection (Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments), unstructured data and large file systems (Backup-Archive client) and hierarchal space management (HSM). Jim is a twenty-five 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 before joining the architecture team. Jim has authored several Tivoli Field Guides and white papers relating to data protection and is an IBM Master Inventor.

Markus started his professional career as a programmer and database administrator at a German brewery. After 6 years he joined Praktiker AG a German DYI brand where he was in charge for 20 TSM instances across Europe and the SAP installations.

Since 2011 Markus works with Empalis Consulting GmbH consulting enterprise customer in regards backup implementations and architecture optimizations. He specialized into the Application protection to TSM (TDP and FCM products) and is serving customers in a project of the IBM TSM L2 support team since 2012.

Joerg Walter holds a diploma in electrical engineering and computer sciences. After completing his studies at the University of Applied Sciences in Bingen, Germany, he joined IBM in 2000.

Joerg worked in various technical positions within IBM. Starting with network engineering & design, he changed focus to storage, data protection & retention in 2005. Being a member of the Tivoli Storage Manager engineering team, he collected vast experience and knowledge in the design, implementation and support of complex TSM based DP&R environments.

Since 2011, Joerg is a member of IBM's Systems Storage Lab Services team, supporting customers with the planning and implementation of DP&R related HW & SW products, like TSM, FlashCopy Manager, ProtecTIER and physical tape.

Josef Weingand is a Certified IT Specialist within the IBM System Storage Group in Germany. He provides sales and technical sales support for Data Protection and Retention solutions. He has 19 year of experience providing technical support at IBM. From 2001 to 2009 he was providing pre-sales, technical sales and consulting support for backup, archive, VTL, Data DeDuplication and Tape solutions. Since 2009 he is responsible for DP&R products and solutions in DACH. Josef's expertises are tailor made backup solutions which contains a mix from Disk, Tape and DeDuplication storage.

Josef has co-authored several IBM Redbooks and developed several patents.

Dan Wolfe is a product manager for the Spectrum Protect product family. He has worked with storage hardware and software for most of his career which has spanned many areas including development, architecture, strategy, test, performance engineering, and pre-sales technical consulting. During Dan's previous position as a worldwide pre-sales technical consultant, Dan provided technical consultations for hundreds of customers, focusing on data protection for VMware.

Chris joined IBM in 1981 after completing his Master's degree in Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He started his IBM software development career working on the ISPF product on MVS and VM but has worked on TSM and its predecessor products (ADSM and WDSF/VM) since 1990. Chris is the TSM architect responsible for application aware backup and recovery delivered through the Data Protection agents for databases, mail servers and SAP as well as the snapshot based application protection provided by the Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager.

Jochen Zeller is a System Architect at SVA in Germany. He has been working with ADSM/TSM for more than 17 years

and with GPFS/Spectrum Scale for more than 8 years. He is focused on backup, archive and restore projects in large

environments explaining the extraordinary combination of knowledge in TSM and Spectrum Scale.