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Peter Kimmel is an IT Specialist, IBM Redbooks Project Leader, and the Advanced Technical Skills team lead of the Enterprise Storage Solutions team at the IBM EMEA Storage Competence Center (ESCC) in Frankfurt, Germany. He joined IBM Storage in 1999, and since then has worked with all DS8000 generations, with a focus on architecture and performance. Peter co-authored several DS8000 IBM publications. He holds a Diploma (MSc) degree in physics from the University of Kaiserslautern.
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Daniel Beukers has worked in IT for over 20 years, managing and deploying infrastructure. He joined IBM in 2013 to provide storage area network (SAN) and storage support for multiple customers. More recently, he moved into an architect role at Kyndryl, working on the roll-out of a private cloud into new data centers.
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Jeff Cook is a DS8000 Subject Matter Expert (SME), and leads the Tucson, Arizona DS8000 Product Engineering team. He has been with IBM for 43 years, providing implementation and technical support to customers and service representatives in complex enterprise environments. For the past 24 years, he has specialized in IBM direct access storage device products, specifically the DS8000 and former enterprise storage systems.
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Bozhidar Feraliev holds the role of a DS8000 SME and joined the DS8000 team in 2020. Previously, he was part of the DS8000 Remote Support Team (formerly known as the DS8000 Level-1 support), which he joined in 2016.
Bozhidar has experience working closely with clients to troubleshoot any hardware or software issues with a DS8000 product. Before joining IBM, Bozhidar was a technical support engineer for one of the leading internet service providers in Bulgaria. |
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Jörg Klemm is a Senior Mainframe Consultant working for
IBM Platinum Business Partner SVA System Vertrieb Alexander GmbH in Germany. He has over 20 years of experience in IBM working directly with customers. He is primarily focused on enterprise storage, and specializes in Business Continuity solutions. His areas of expertise include Copy Services and IBM Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex® (IBM GDPS®). Jörg has been delivering GDPS solutions for over 15 years. |
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Connie Riggins is a DS8000 Copy Services and Copy Services Manager SME with the DS8000 Product Engineering group. She started working at IBM in 2015. Before joining IBM, starting in 1991, Connie worked at Amdahl Corp as a Systems Engineer, and later at Softek Storage Solutions as Product Manager of IBM Transparent Data Migration Facility (TDMF) for IBM z/OS®.
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Gauurav Sabharwal joined IBM in 2009. He has 18 years of experience in high-end file and block storage with different vendor products. He works at IBM LBS in India. His areas of expertise include performance analysis; establishing high availability and disaster recovery (HADR) solutions; complex data migration; and implementing storage systems. Gauurav holds a degree in information technology. He also acquired a Post-Graduate Program in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning from Texas McCombs Business School.
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