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IBM Power 720 and 740 Technical Overview and Introduction
Sorin Hanganu is an Accredited Product Services professional. He has eight years of
experience working on Power Systems and IBM i products. He is an IBM Certified Solution
Expert for IBM Dynamic Infrastructure® and also an IBM Certified Systems Expert for Power
Systems, AIX, PowerVM virtualization, ITIL, and ITSM. Sorin works as a System Services
Representative for Power Systems in Bucharest, Romania.
Volker Haug is an Open Group Certified IT Specialist within IBM Germany, supporting Power
Systems clients and Business Partners as a Client Technical Specialist. He holds a diploma
degree in Business Management from the University of Applied Studies in Stuttgart. His
career includes more than 25 years of experience with Power Systems, AIX, and PowerVM
virtualization; he has written several Power Systems and PowerVM IBM Redbooks®
publications. Volker is an IBM POWER7® Champion and a member of the German Technical
Expert Council, an affiliate of the IBM Academy of Technology.
Stephen Lutz is a Certified Senior Technical Sales Professional for Power Systems, working
for IBM Germany. He holds a degree in Commercial Information Technology from the
University of Applied Science Karlsruhe, Germany. He is POWER7 champion and has 14
years experience in AIX, Linux, virtualization, and Power Systems and its predecessors,
providing pre-sales technical support to clients, Business Partners, and IBM sales
representatives all over Germany. Stephen is also an expert in IBM Systems Director, its
plug-ins, and IBM SmartCloud® Entry with a focus on Power Systems and AIX.
John T Schmidt is an Accredited IT Specialist for IBM and has 12 years of experience with
IBM and Power Systems. He has a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of
Missouri - Rolla, and an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis. In addition to
contributing to eight other Power Systems IBM Redpapers™ publications, in 2010, he
completed an assignment with the IBM Corporate Service Corps in Hyderabad, India. He is
working in the United States as a pre-sales Field Technical Sales Specialist for Power
Systems in Boston, MA.
Marco Vallone is a Certified IT Specialist at IBM, Italy. He joined IBM in 1989, starting in the
Power Systems production plant (Santa Palomba) as a Product Engineer, and then worked
for the ITS AIX support and delivery service center. For the last eight years of his career, he
has worked as IT Solution Architect in the ITS Solution Design Compentence Center of
Excellence in Rome, where he mainly designs infrastructure solutions on distributed
environments with a special focus on Power System solution.
The project that produced this publication was managed by:
Scott Vetter
Executive Project Manager, PMP
Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this project:
Larry L. Amy, Ron Arroyo, Hsien-I Chang, Carlo Costantini, Kirk Dietzman, Gary Elliott,
Michael S. Floyd, James Hermes, Pete Heyrman, John Hilburn, Roberto Huerta de la Torre,
Dan Hurlimann, Roxette Johnson, Sabine Jordan, Kevin Kehne, Robert Lowden, Jia Lei Ma,
Hilary Melville, Hans Mozes, Thoi Nguyen, Mark Olson, Robb Romans, Pat O’Rourke,
Jan Palmer, Velma Pavlasek, Dave Randall, Todd Rosedahl, Edelgard Schittko,
Hansjoerg Schneider, Jeff Stuecheli, Madeline Vega
IBM
Udo Sachs
SVA Germany
Tamikia Barrow
International Technical Support Organization, Poughkeepsie Center
