Matt has been in TSM server development since 1995. His primary focus over the last few years has been deduplication, node replication, and DB2 interactions with TSM. He has also been involved with clustering and high availability of the TSM Server on AIX and Linux.

Dr. Jürgen Arnold is a Senior Consultant for Empalis Consulting GmbH, an IBM Business Partner in Germany. After finishing his PhD in Physics he joined the IT 1995. Since then he worked mostly with data centers based on IBM RS/6000 / SystemP. With the focus on availability and disaster prevention he implemented Cluster, replication techniques and backup concepts for various customers. He has more than 13 years of TSM experience and focuses at the moment on architecture concepts, TSM Cluster and FlashCopy Manager. 

Jason Basler is the test architect responsible for Tivoli Storage Manager. He has been part of the TSM development team for over eighteen 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 recent focus on scalability and publishing papers that highlight 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®). 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) Stoage-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“, did the betatest for TSM Version 6.1, 6.2 and 6.3 and is member of the TSM Early Access Program.

Simon Bes is Rocket Software's TSM subject matter expert working in the Rocket Servergraph Team. Simon has been travelling around the world to teach and preach TSM using Servergraph to gain in depth information on all areas of TSM and its infrastructure. Before joining Rocket Software in 2011, starting in 1994 Simon has taught, designed and implemented Tivoli Storage Manager solutions for many big or small data centers as IBM Business partner and IBM employee.

Rolf Bogus is working in the Systems Department of the Computing Center of Heidelberg University for more than 25 years. Since 1991 he is 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 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 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 worldwide development team in setting technical direction and designing functional 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 administrative user experience.

Alexander Dunaevskiy is a lead administrator of the backup and archive system of Leibniz Supercomputing Centre of Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

Thomas Eifert studied Physics at RWTH Aachen University where he received his Ph.D. in solid state chemistry. He joined the Center for Computing and Communication 1992 and worked in several fields of IT services. He is head of the backup and archive team since 2000 and since then drives the development of data services which in 2010 were expanded by database services. Recent publications cover backup services as well as Identity Management in university context.

Prof. Dr. Reinhard Foertsch is the Scientific Director of Information Technology at the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Berlin since 2010. Before he headed the Research Archive for Ancient Sculpture at the University of Cologne, Cologne, in 2010 renamed Center for Digital Archaeology / CoDArchLab. He also teaches archaeoinformatics as an adjunct professor at the University of Cologne. Key projects are focused on the design and development of a research-data-infrastructure, building web-based information resources that are based on the DAI-Cloud.

Bruno has studied computer science and started with ADSM advanced technical support in IBM 17 years ago. His work was mainly support for big ADSM/TSM installations in EMEA. Since eight years Bruno is founder and owner of the company eXstor which is focused on solutions around TSM, especially high availability 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 before he joined IBM in 2001. Today he is a member of the Advanced Technical Support team for IBM Storage in Europe. His current field of activity covers SAP platforms, databases, operating systems (mainly UNIX) and storage systems.

Kirsten Glöer has studied computer science at the University of Karlsruhe. She has more than 15 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. She is now employed at FIZ Karlsruhe.

Peter is the GSE European Strategic Project Manager and the Technical Co-ordinator in the GSE Region Germany. In the working life he is the Managing Director of BTB GmbH in Germany, Leinfelden.

Ron is a Consulting I.T. Specialist with IBM. He is a member of the Tivoli Storage SoftWare Advanced Technology (SWAT) team providing pre-sales technical support for Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM), with a focus on the areas of archiving and reporting and monitoring. Ron has been working with TSM and its predecessors, ADSM and WDSF, for over 20 years. During that time he also provided technical support for a variety of other IBM storage software and hardware products. Prior to working with storage products, Ron was an IBM regional and branch office mainframe VM specialist. He's supported IBM customers and sales teams in various roles including pre-sales and post-sales consulting, and implementation services.

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

Claus has been involved with system administration at the University of Cologne for 36 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 systems committee of the ZKI-Verein (www.zki.de).

Michael Klatt born in 1954 started at StorageTek in 1980 as a service engineer. After 17 years of installing, repairing and maintaining of storage equipment in the mainframe - and open system arena he changed his range of duties and joined 1988 the pre-sales team in StorageTek with a focus on Open System storage solutions. He is engaged with TSM since 2000 and complemented his specialism about StorageTek tapes and libraries in a TSM environment by two TSM certifications in 2000 and 2007. During his career as pre-sales system engineer he provides beside sales support as well technical - and consulting support.

Reinhard Mersch has studied computer science at the University of Dortmund. He is working at the University of Münster where he is responsible for the TSM environment since 1994. He still performs this task, though his primary focus has switched to identity management.

Peter Micke is working as a brandleader for the TSM product line for five 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 14 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

Dominic Mueller-Wicke joined the TSM development team in 2006 and is located at the IBM R&D Lab in Mainz, Germany. Currently he is responsible for the TSM for Space Management UNIX client and leads the TSM client development team in Mainz. Furthermore, he is responsible for development collaboration between TSM and GPFS and different integration projects like SoNAS.

Cyrus Niltchian is a Technical Evangelist for IBM Storage. Before his current position in Techncal Enablement, he worked for IBM as IT Architect in IBM's development lab in Böblingen, Germany. He focused on architecture and development of Data Protection and Archiving solutions.
He earned a Master's degree in Information Technology -Diplom-Kaufmann- of the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, Germany.
Since 1997, Cyrus worked as architect for products, which are focused on IBM Tivoli Storage Manager and IBM Content Manager. The foundation for his expertise is application knowledge about IT Systems, such as SAP, IBM DB2, ORACLE, Lotus Domino and Microsoft Exchange. Today he is enabling the 'IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Applications and Databases' product portfolio. 

Norbert Pott is an IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Support Specialist in Germany. He works for the Tivoli Storage Manager back-end support team and provides support to customers worldwide. He has 32 years of experience with IBM, over 23 years of experience in IT, and more than 16 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 when it comes to problem determination.

He is an author of the 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
Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1 Technical Guide, SG24-7718-00
Certification Study Guide Series: Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1, SG24-7781-00

Stefan Radtke engaged with IBM in 1995 and worked for the company until 2011 in various technical roles. Over the years, his focus has been shifted from Unix/AIX to Server Virtualization and Storage Systems and Solutions. In 2010 Stefan has been appointed as Chief Technical Architect Storage Solution and he worked for the EMEA Storage Competence Center until December 2011. In January 2012 Stefan joined EMC where he was appointed to the CTO EMEA within the Isilon Storage Division in 2013. Stefan has authored a number of technical papers, books and blogs.

Peter Schenke is an IBM IT Specialist working for IBMs Systems and Technology Group in Germany. Peter's work location is based in the city of Berlin. He is working for IBM since 1990. His areas of expertise are IBM and competitive UNIX Servers, IBM Server Architectures, High Availability (HA) software and IBM Storage Systems. In his current position as IT Specialist he is focused on Data Protection & Retention for Open Systems. In his daily business he plans and architects large scale data center solutions and verifies the technical viability of these. His expertise and technical guidance has been applied to architect and implement large-scale solutions for a number of customers.

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

Greg has over 31 years of experience in Storage hardware and software development; working in programming, systems programming, architecture, technical support and strategy. Greg works extensively with many of the world's largest companies and partners in architecting strategic storage infrastructure, data management and cloud strategies. He has been appointed as an IBM Master Inventor and currently has 31 patents issued or pending. For the last 7 years, Greg has been in charge of Technical Strategy for Tivoli Storage software, responsible for driving the portfolio technologies, roadmaps and integrations. Recently Greg has moved to take a role of technical strategy and customer support in our Tivoli Worldwide Sales organization. He also works on most IBM wide storage strategies and was involved with all of IBM’s recent storage acquisitions (XIV, FilesX, Diligent, Novus Consulting Group, Arsenal Digital, Storwize, and Texas Memory Systems). 

Xin Wang is the product manager responsible for the Tivoli Storage Manager portfolio. Xin's responsibilities include assessing the market and opportunity, understanding the company's strategic directions, building and executing the product vision, strategy, and product roadmap by working closely with customers, sales, marketing and development teams. Xin was the product manager for Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (TPC) for 2 years prior to joining the TSM product management team. Before that, Xin was a software developer and technical leader, then a development manager on Tivoli storage software for more than 6 years.

Josef Weingand is a Certified IT Specialist within the IBM System Storage Group in Germany. He provides sales and technical sals support for Data Protection and Retention solutions. He has 17 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 Germany. Josef's expertise 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 software engineer with Tivoli Storage SWAT, providing worldwide presales technical consulting to IBM Technical Sales, Business Partners, and Customers. Dan has over twenty years of experience in development, performance engineering, and architecture with storage hardware, storage management and data protection software. He currently focuses on data protection for VMware.

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.

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.