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Dirk Peitzmann is a Leading Technical Sales Professional with IBM Systems Sales in
Munich, Germany. Dirk is an experienced professional and provides technical pre-sales and
post-sales solutions for IBM server and storage systems. His areas of expertise include
designing virtualization infrastructures and disk solutions and carrying out performance
analysis and the sizing of SAN and NAS solutions. He holds an engineering diploma in
Computer Sciences from the University of Applied Science in Isny, Germany, and is an Open
Group Master Certified IT Specialist.
Steven Pemberton is a Senior Storage Architect with IBM GTS in Melbourne, Australia. He
has broad experience as an IT solution architect, pre-sales specialist, consultant, instructor,
and enterprise IT customer. He is a member of the IBM Technical Experts Council for
Australia and New Zealand (TEC A/NZ), has multiple industry certifications, and is co-author
of seven previous IBM Redbooks.
Tom Provost is a Field Technical Sales Specialist for the IBM Systems and Technology
Group in Belgium. Tom has many years of experience as an IT professional providing design,
implementation, migration, and troubleshooting support for IBM System x, IBM System
Storage, storage software, and virtualization. Tom also is the co-author of several other
Redbooks and IBM Redpapers™. He joined IBM in 2010.
Marco Schwarz is an IT specialist and team leader for Techline as part of the Techline Global
Center of Excellence who lives in Germany. He has many years of experience in designing
IBM System Storage solutions. His expertise spans all recent technologies in the IBM
storage.
Thanks Bertrand Dufrasne of the International Technical Support Organization, San Jose
Center for his contributions to this project.
Thanks to the following authors of the previous editions of this book:
Alex Osuna
Sandro De Santis
Carsten Larsen
Tarik Maluf
Patrick P. Schill
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