IBM manual Xviii DS6000 Series Concepts and Architecture

DWDM technology, CWDM technology). His areas of interest include storage remote copy on long-distance connectivity for business continuance and disaster recovery solutions.

Werner Bauer is a certified IT specialist in Germany. He has 25 years of experience in storage software and hardware, as well as S/390®. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Heidelberg. His areas of expertise include disaster recovery solutions in enterprises utilizing the unique capabilities and features of IBMs Enterprise Storage Server, the ESS. He has written extensively in various redbooks, including Technical Updates on DFSMS/MVS® 1.3, 1.4, 1.5. and Transactional VSAM.

Heinz Blaschek is an IT DASD Support Specialist in Germany. He has 11 years of experience in S/390 customer environments as a HW-CE. Starting in 1997 he was a member of the DASD EMEA Support Group in Mainz Germany. In 1999, he became a member of the DASD Backoffice Mainz Germany (support center EMEA for ESS) with the current focus of supporting the remote copy functions for the ESS. Since 2004 he has been a member of the VET (Virtual EMEA Team), which is responsible for the EMEA support of DASD systems. His areas of expertise include all large and medium-system DASD products, particularly the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server.

Andre Fourie is a Senior IT Specialist at IBM Global Services, South Africa. He holds a BSc (Computer Science) degree from the University of South Africa (UNISA) and has more than 14 years of experience in the IT industry. Before joining IBM he worked as an Application Programmer and later as a Systems Programmer, where his responsibilities included MVS, OS/390®, z/OS®, and storage implementation and support services. His areas of expertise include IBM S/390 Advanced Copy Services, as well as high-end disk and tape solutions. He has co-authored one previous zSeries Copy Services redbook.

Juan Antonio Garay is a Storage Systems Field Technical Sales Specialist in Germany. He has five years of experience in supporting and implementing z/OS and Open Systems storage solutions and providing technical support in IBM. His areas of expertise include the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server, when attached to various server platforms, and the design and support of Storage Area Networks. He is currently engaged in providing support for open systems storage across multiple platforms and a wide customer base.

Torsten Knobloch has worked at IBM for six years. Currently he is an IT Specialist on the Customer Solutions Team at the Mainz TotalStorage Interoperability Center (TIC) in Germany. There he performs Proof of Concept and System Integration Tests in the Disk Storage area. Before joining the TIC he worked in Disk Manufacturing in Mainz as a Process Engineer.

Donald (Chuck) Laing is a Senior Systems Management Integration Professional, specializing in open systems UNIX® disk administration in the IBM South Delivery Center (SDC). He has co-authored four previous IBM Redbooks™ on the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server. He holds a degree in Computer Science. Chuck’s responsibilities include planning and implementation of midrange storage products. His responsibilities also include department-wide education and cross training on various storage products such as the ESS and FAStT. He has worked at IBM for six and a half years. Before joining IBM, Chuck was a hardware CE on UNIX systems for 10 years and taught basic UNIX at Midland College for six and a half years in Midland, Texas.

Christine O’Sullivan is an IT Storage Specialist in the ATS PSSC storage benchmark center at Montpellier, France. She joined IBM in 1988 and was a System Engineer during her 6 first years. She has 7 years of experience in the pSeries® systems and storage. Her areas of expertise and main responsibilities are ESS, storage performance, disaster recovery solutions, AIX® and Oracle databases. She is involved in proof of concept and benchmarks

xviiiDS6000 Series: Concepts and Architecture