Vic Cross is an IT Specialist living in Brisbane, Australia. Vic works with IBM Systems Lab Services, where he provides senior design and implementation expertise to IBM Z® and IBM LinuxONE projects across Asia-Pacific. He has 30 years of experience in general IT, 25 of which has been directly related to the IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE platforms and their antecedents. Vic holds a degree in Computer Science from Queensland University of Technology. He is especially interested in networking, security, and high availability. Vic has written and contributed to several IBM Redbooks® publications, including Securing Your Cloud: IBM z/VM Security for IBM z Systems and LinuxONE, SG24-8353 and Linux on IBM eServer zSeries and S/390: Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol on VM Guest LANs, REDP-3657.

Ernest Horn is the Worldwide LinuxONE Client Success Manager based out of Poughkeepsie, New York. He has 37 years working at IBM. Systems Architecture is one of his areas of expertise, particularly on the IBM LinuxONE platform, which he has been involved with since its inception. He has consulted and implemented IBM LinuxONE environments for customers all over the world, several of which were new to the IBM LinuxONE platform. He has written two Redbooks: IBM Wave Management Software and The LinuxONE Virtualization Cookbook.

Colin Page is an Enterprise Architect based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He has over 30 years of experience in Banking and IBM Z technologies. He has worked at IBM for 24 years. His areas of expertise include IBM Db2®, IBM WebSphere®, Linux on z, systems architecture and various core banking and payment solutions. He presents on a variety of IBM Z based topics across the Middle East and Africa region. He has also written a number of white papers and Redbooks on data analytics and Banking solutions.

Jonathan Page is a senior technical writer with the Temenos Jumpstart team, based in the UK. He has 20 years’ experience as a technical writer, producing documentation and technical marketing materials for a wide range of hardware and software organizations. Jonathan has an MA in Critical Theory from UEA in the UK and writes literary fiction in his spare time. His short stories have won a number of prizes over the years, including the Hay Writers Prize 2018.

Robert Schulz is a certified IT specialist in Austria. He has 30 years of experience in IBM Z for banking, government, and retail with a high degree of customer interactions from planning to implementation and support. His areas of expertise include all operating systems on IBM Z, networking, performance, and high availability solutions. He was also co-author on other IBM Z based Redbooks.

John Smith is the WW offering lead for Temenos on LinuxONE, based out of Brighton in the UK. He has 25 years of experience in Financial services field. John’s degree is in marketing and has held many sales and management positions across a number of organizations, before he started at IBM in 2013. His main area of expertise is creating value propositions for IBM technology for clients and for independent software vendors within the Financial services sector.

Chris Vogan is a Solution Architect supporting Temenos on LinuxONE in Austin, Texas. He has 20 years of experience in IBM Z storage including 5 years of experience supporting banking clients. He holds a degree in Computer Science from Northern Illinois University. His areas of expertise include enterprise storage implementation and distribute storage solutions for IBM Z. He has authored several blog posts on sharing IBM z/OS® data and storage with distributed systems.