in alphabetical order..

Study of „Physics“ at the "Technische Universität Darmstadt" in Germany.

Since 1998 TSM System Engineer. Including project management, training and management tasks

“Power Administrator for TSM” affinity:
First software written 2008 on customer request / development team lead. Contact: ralf.affeldt@tsmpoweradmin.com

Ross Battaglia is the Founder and President of Tivoli Associates and the Executive Vice President of TSMManager US and JamoDat. Ross is an IBM Subject Matter Expert on IBM Storage, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, and Disaster Recovery. He is also a Certified IBM Instructor and has an extensive background developing Storage and Performance software. Ross was one of the original developers for storage and backup software for IBM including the original forerunner to TSM software DF/DSM. Ross is under an open contract to IBM to provide development, support and Tivoli Services world-wide. Ross has written 9 IBM Redbooks on Tivoli Storage Manager and is a member of the IBM Certification exams Team for IBM Storage, Tivoli Storage Manager, and IBM Total Storage Software and IBM Storage hardware. Ross personally holds 39+ certifications.

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.

Lars Henningsen has worked with TSM from the very beginning - first with IBM for ten years in development/support and as a senior consultant in the industry since the late 90s. He founded General Storage in 2001.

At IntelliMagic, Rudolf Huber is responsible for Sales in the key markets within EMEA. Prior to joining IntelliMagic, he held various leadership positions with national and global acting ISVs. Focusing in the past 25 years on Enterprise IT solutions, his areas of expertise include Storage Performance Management, End-to-End Management, Identity Management, Risk Management, ITSM and Cloud Services for Mainframe and Open Systems environments.

Anders Klamer has a very solution oriented mindset and loves to help customers find new solutions to run their business in a more effective way. In the mid 90-ies he helped large car manufacturing companies in Sweden to implement SAP on a global basis, from an infrastructure standpoint. He has now been in the industry for 25 years and worked both with large global companies as well as smaller local ones. Since a couple of years back Anders is acting as a CEO on both Delecsys AB as well as Repostor AB. Both are business partners to IBM in Sweden.

Contact info:
Anders Klamer, CEO
Repostor AB
Mail: anders.klamer@repostor.com
Tel: +46 735 14 69 57

Petra Kuhnert joined Cristie Data Products GmbH in 2004. Starting mainly in the technical department she switched to professional service and consulting. She is now specialised with the software products that Cristie offers for Desaster Recovery like TBMR and CBMR. Furthermore she is focused on SAN infrastructure projects, including new technologies as flash storage, active archive and storage management.

Study of “Intercultural Competencies” at the Danube University Krems – Austria.

Projects, reviews, upgrades & TSM instructor/trainer since 1999.

“Power Administrator for TSM” affinity:
Primary tester and support. Responsible for quality- and test management.

Contact: michael.malitz@tsmpoweradmin.com

Peter Micke is working as a brandleader for the TSM product line for more than seven 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 16 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.

Fernando Moreira is VP StorSentry product line at Quotium, he has been in the storage industry for more than 20 years developing innovative software and hardware products in the field of for mass storage. He holds several patents in the storage industry, particularly in the field of tape management.

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.

Arndt Müller is Business Development Manager Storage Solutions for central Europe at Oracle Corporation. In this function he is responsible for Disk, Tape and Flash systems and also Storage Software.

Before he came to Oracle he was since 1999 Storage Product Marketing Manager at Sun Microsystems and responsible for the whole product live cycle of all Sun storage products.

In 2002 Arndt managed the market introduction of Sun's ST9000 disk systems and in 2009 he did the same for the Sun ZFS Storage Appliances. He joined Sun in 1994 and started the third party storage business for Sun Professional Services in Germany and Switzerland.

Before Sun he worked as software development project leader for DECwindows at Digital Equipment and as a scientist developing advanced robotics systems for nuclear reactors at the German Nuclear Research Center in Karlsruhe. "

Nick Turner, Business Unit Executive Storage Software for Europe.

14 years working in the Storage sector within IT, 11 of which with EMC in a variety of sales and sales leadership roles. The last 3 years with IBM responsible for storage software in UK and since January 2013 for Europe.