GSE ISP 2024

17th GSE ISP Symposium

23 — 25 September 2024

Hilton Cologne, Germany

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Agenda

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Monday, 23 September 2024

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From 08:00
Registration Opens
10:00 - 10:30
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 - 10:45
10:30 - 10:45
Opening Session
Peter Goth
President, GSE
In today's threat landscape, data resilience is no longer a luxury, but a necessity. Traditional backup and recovery methods are no match for the sophistication and frequency of modern attacks. That's why we need an end-to-end approach that perceives information from multiple sensors, looks across the data estate and guarantees safe recovery of data. By harnessing the power of artificial intelligence, organizations can predict, prevent, and recover from data threats with unprecedented speed and accuracy. Join the IBM team to explore the latest innovations in data protection and discover how to safeguard your most valuable asset against hackers, disasters, and human error. Build durable data resilience with IBM Storage Defender.
10:45 - 11:30
10:45 - 11:30
Platinum Sponsor IBM Keynote: Does your backup plan guarantee recovery of your data from hackers, hurricanes or hurried updates?

In today’s threat landscape, data resilience is no longer a luxury, but a necessity. Traditional backup and recovery methods are no match for the sophistication and frequency of modern attacks. That’s why we need an end-to-end approach that perceives information from multiple sensors, looks across the data estate and guarantees safe recovery of data. By harnessing the power of artificial intelligence, organizations can predict, prevent, and recover from data threats with unprecedented speed and accuracy. Join the IBM team to explore the latest innovations in data protection and discover how to safeguard your most valuable asset against hackers, disasters, and human error. Build durable data resilience with IBM Storage Defender.

Ram Parasuraman
IBM, USA
Ram Parasuraman is an Executive Director responsible for Data Resiliency across IBM. He is a fire-starter, who in two decades has delivered innovative products at the cutting edge of technology. He has delivered products for cloud infrastructure, AI powered security, networking, DevOps and storage covering all market segments across routes to markets worldwide. Ram has spent large part of his career at startups taking them from seed to pre-IPO, helping bootstrap Product Management, Cloud Operations, and Engineering teams. Ram has an MS ECE from Purdue University and MBA from Instituto de Empresa Business School. He serves as an advisor to CxOs of early stage AI, FinOps and crypto startups. In his spare time, Ram likes to run, write, tutor kids, watch sports or play arcade games with his kids. Ram serves on the board of non-profits working with neurodiverse children.
It’s been 2 years since the last GSE Symposium. This session will provide an update on IBM Defender and the many capabilities brought forward to help with your Cyber-resiliency goals. This will cover key use cases and updates from IBM Storage Protect (agents, servers, Storage Protect Plus, etc), IBM Storage Protect for Cloud, IBM Defender Data Management and Data Protect, and IBM Defender Data Resilience.
11:30 - 12:45
11:30 - 12:45
Chair: Peter Micke
Peter Micke is an independent IT consultant and owner of backup2restore GmbH in Germany. After finishing his studies of electrical engineering, he got into contact with ADSM 20 years ago and kept stuck with the product over the years. He's developing TSM concepts, teaching workshops 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. Peter is an IBM Champion since 2021.
IBM Defender: What's new from the last time we met?

It’s been 2 years since the last GSE Symposium. This session will provide an update on IBM Defender and the many capabilities brought forward to help with your Cyber-resiliency goals. This will cover key use cases and updates from IBM Storage Protect (agents, servers, Storage Protect Plus, etc), IBM Storage Protect for Cloud, IBM Defender Data Management and Data Protect, and IBM Defender Data Resilience.

Greg Van Hise
IBM, USA
Greg Van Hise is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member and student of data protection and data resiliency.   He is currently a product manager for Data Resiliency and Storage Protect.   Greg career has spanned numerous development, architecture, strategy and product management positions.   Greg has celerbrated his 20 anniversay of 20 years of employment with IBM.
Juan Carlos Jimenez
IBM, USA
Juan Carlos is a World-wide Data Resiliency Product Manager. He is focused on defining roadmap, initiatives, and strategy within the various data resiliency software products that he manages alongside his team. Juan Carlos brings an end-to-end view to cyber resilience leveraging his expertise in both storage and security. Juan Carlos developed our Cyber Resiliency Assessment Tool which has been helping numerous enterprises identify and close gaps in their IT environments.
12:45 - 14:00
12:45 - 14:00
Lunch Break
Introduction and overview of IBM Storage Defender Data Management and Data Protection. Let’s explore the SaaS control plane along with the Data Protect clusters and the breadth and depth of workload protection and recovery.
14:00 - 14:45
14:00 - 14:45
Chair: Bjørn Nachtwey
Bjørn got in contact with TSM in late 2001 as a client user at the computing center of the Stuttgart University. Some years later he started to administrate TSM servers. At the GWDG he launched the new backup environment with several servers for the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and the University of Göttingen seven years ago. Before doing the „backup job“ he spent time on HPC systems and research on parallel algorithms for computational numerics. In the meantime Bjørn led the server group at the Braunschweig University IT Center. In 2023 he “switched sides of the desk” and became storage architect at Cristie Data GmbH. Bjørn is the current vice chairman of the GSE “System Managed Storage” working group. In January, he was awared the title "IBM Champion" for the third time due to his activities concerning TSM/ISP.
IBM Defender: Solving Data Protection

Introduction and overview of IBM Storage Defender Data Management and Data Protection. Let’s explore the SaaS control plane along with the Data Protect clusters and the breadth and depth of workload protection and recovery.

Juan Carlos Jimenez
IBM, USA
Juan Carlos is a World-wide Data Resiliency Product Manager. He is focused on defining roadmap, initiatives, and strategy within the various data resiliency software products that he manages alongside his team. Juan Carlos brings an end-to-end view to cyber resilience leveraging his expertise in both storage and security. Juan Carlos developed our Cyber Resiliency Assessment Tool which has been helping numerous enterprises identify and close gaps in their IT environments.
Introduction and overview of IBM Storage Defender Data Resilience capabilities.
14:45 - 15:30
14:45 - 15:30
Chair: Bjørn Nachtwey
Bjørn got in contact with TSM in late 2001 as a client user at the computing center of the Stuttgart University. Some years later he started to administrate TSM servers. At the GWDG he launched the new backup environment with several servers for the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and the University of Göttingen seven years ago. Before doing the „backup job“ he spent time on HPC systems and research on parallel algorithms for computational numerics. In the meantime Bjørn led the server group at the Braunschweig University IT Center. In 2023 he “switched sides of the desk” and became storage architect at Cristie Data GmbH. Bjørn is the current vice chairman of the GSE “System Managed Storage” working group. In January, he was awared the title "IBM Champion" for the third time due to his activities concerning TSM/ISP.
IBM Defender: Making your data safe, delivering Cyber-resilience for your data

Introduction and overview of IBM Storage Defender Data Resilience capabilities.

Juan Carlos Jimenez
IBM, USA
Juan Carlos is a World-wide Data Resiliency Product Manager. He is focused on defining roadmap, initiatives, and strategy within the various data resiliency software products that he manages alongside his team. Juan Carlos brings an end-to-end view to cyber resilience leveraging his expertise in both storage and security. Juan Carlos developed our Cyber Resiliency Assessment Tool which has been helping numerous enterprises identify and close gaps in their IT environments.
15:30 - 16:00
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break
Infinite Backup Scalability  - protecting your data without limits.
16:00 - 16:30
16:00 - 16:30
Chair: Robert Fijan
Robert Fijan is team lead for Backup and Storage at Deutsche Rentenversicherung Baden-Württemberg. He works with ADSM/TSM/ISP since 1998. During this time he managed multiple platform changes (OS/390 to Linux to Windows and back to Linux) and the evolution of the environment from OS/390-only to the actual setting with many different applications and ISP-modules (TSM4VE, TDP for ERP/DOMINO/MSSQL/Oracle). He is also responsible for the NetApp-Filers. Since last year he is part of the team that consolidates the many different OSs on different platforms to RHEL on x86. This is part of the even bigger project ‘RZ DRV’ that is building the fundament for the applications of the 16 independent carriers of Deutsche Rentenversicherung in Germany. He is an IBM champion since 2020.
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Infinite Backup Scalability  – protecting your data without limits.

Lars Henningsen
General Storage Software GmbH
Co-founder and CTO of General Storage Software GmbH. More than 25 years of ADSM/TSM/ISP experience as a systems engineer, consultant and software developer.
What are we seeing in terms of threats from malware or other “attack vectors”? In this session, we’ll discuss what we are seeing along with some best practice recommendations. We’ll also discuss the technologies available to help with threat detection and mitigation.
16:30 - 17:30
16:30 - 17:30
Chair: Robert Fijan
Robert Fijan is team lead for Backup and Storage at Deutsche Rentenversicherung Baden-Württemberg. He works with ADSM/TSM/ISP since 1998. During this time he managed multiple platform changes (OS/390 to Linux to Windows and back to Linux) and the evolution of the environment from OS/390-only to the actual setting with many different applications and ISP-modules (TSM4VE, TDP for ERP/DOMINO/MSSQL/Oracle). He is also responsible for the NetApp-Filers. Since last year he is part of the team that consolidates the many different OSs on different platforms to RHEL on x86. This is part of the even bigger project ‘RZ DRV’ that is building the fundament for the applications of the 16 independent carriers of Deutsche Rentenversicherung in Germany. He is an IBM champion since 2020.
IBM: Threat landscape

What are we seeing in terms of threats from malware or other “attack vectors”? In this session, we’ll discuss what we are seeing along with some best practice recommendations. We’ll also discuss the technologies available to help with threat detection and mitigation.

Juan Carlos Jimenez
IBM, USA
Juan Carlos is a World-wide Data Resiliency Product Manager. He is focused on defining roadmap, initiatives, and strategy within the various data resiliency software products that he manages alongside his team. Juan Carlos brings an end-to-end view to cyber resilience leveraging his expertise in both storage and security. Juan Carlos developed our Cyber Resiliency Assessment Tool which has been helping numerous enterprises identify and close gaps in their IT environments.
In this session we want to highlight new solution capabilities with ISP and the areas of value of the Vendor solutions and how you can take advantage of them.
17:30 - 18:00
17:30 - 18:00
Chair: Bjørn Nachtwey
Bjørn got in contact with TSM in late 2001 as a client user at the computing center of the Stuttgart University. Some years later he started to administrate TSM servers. At the GWDG he launched the new backup environment with several servers for the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and the University of Göttingen seven years ago. Before doing the „backup job“ he spent time on HPC systems and research on parallel algorithms for computational numerics. In the meantime Bjørn led the server group at the Braunschweig University IT Center. In 2023 he “switched sides of the desk” and became storage architect at Cristie Data GmbH. Bjørn is the current vice chairman of the GSE “System Managed Storage” working group. In January, he was awared the title "IBM Champion" for the third time due to his activities concerning TSM/ISP.
Tour through exhibition

In this session we want to highlight new solution capabilities with ISP and the areas of value of the Vendor solutions and how you can take advantage of them.

18:00 - 19:00
18:00 - 19:00
Break
"Dinner and Drinks". Walk around the exhibition and learn about old and new Storage Protect add-on products. Renew contacts and discuss about your thoughts and ideas.
19:00 - 21:00
19:00 - 21:00
Evening Event

„Dinner and Drinks“. Walk around the exhibition and learn about old and new Storage Protect add-on products. Renew contacts and discuss about your thoughts and ideas.

Tuesday, 24 September 2024

BACKUP EAGLE® is established globally as timesaving and the most flexible backup monitoring and reporting solution on the market. Covering IBM Storage Protect, IBM Storage Protect Plus, IBM Storage Protect Online Services, IBM defender (Cohesity) and IBM BRMS BACKUP EAGLE® it is ready to protect your backup environment. Our vendor agnostic approach creates a single pane of glass and saves you each day hours spent on monitoring and reporting. Come and experience BACKUP EAGLE® in action in our vendor presentation:
  • Security: Discover the blind spots in your backup environment like missing backups or dangerous retention settings.
  • Monitoring: Cover all monitoring aspects. Backups, restores, archives, backup server health, storage device health.
  • Reporting: See our unmatched reporting functionality create exactly the reports you need. Ready to use templates will get you started and save you hours of work.
  • Provide Services: Join us to see how service providers around the globe use BACKUP EAGLE® to create tenant specific reports in shared and mixed vendor backup environments.
  • Flexibility: Transfer your own know how and monitoring scripts into BACKUP EAGLE® to automate them and share with your team by using reports, custom health checks and ticket creation.
  • Audit and compliance: Solve audit and compliance requirements in minutes by using BACKUP EAGLE® reporting on backups, restores and configurations. Be ready for NIS-2 without any effort.
09:00 - 09:15
09:00 - 09:15
Chair: Bjørn Nachtwey
Bjørn got in contact with TSM in late 2001 as a client user at the computing center of the Stuttgart University. Some years later he started to administrate TSM servers. At the GWDG he launched the new backup environment with several servers for the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and the University of Göttingen seven years ago. Before doing the „backup job“ he spent time on HPC systems and research on parallel algorithms for computational numerics. In the meantime Bjørn led the server group at the Braunschweig University IT Center. In 2023 he “switched sides of the desk” and became storage architect at Cristie Data GmbH. Bjørn is the current vice chairman of the GSE “System Managed Storage” working group. In January, he was awared the title "IBM Champion" for the third time due to his activities concerning TSM/ISP.
BACKUP EAGLE®: Single pane of glass for your backup environment – safe and audit ready in minutes

BACKUP EAGLE® is established globally as timesaving and the most flexible backup monitoring and reporting solution on the market. Covering IBM Storage Protect, IBM Storage Protect Plus, IBM Storage Protect Online Services, IBM defender (Cohesity) and IBM BRMS BACKUP EAGLE® it is ready to protect your backup environment. Our vendor agnostic approach creates a single pane of glass and saves you each day hours spent on monitoring and reporting.

Come and experience BACKUP EAGLE® in action in our vendor presentation:

  • Security: Discover the blind spots in your backup environment like missing backups or dangerous retention settings.
  • Monitoring: Cover all monitoring aspects. Backups, restores, archives, backup server health, storage device health.
  • Reporting: See our unmatched reporting functionality create exactly the reports you need. Ready to use templates will get you started and save you hours of work.
  • Provide Services: Join us to see how service providers around the globe use BACKUP EAGLE® to create tenant specific reports in shared and mixed vendor backup environments.
  • Flexibility: Transfer your own know how and monitoring scripts into BACKUP EAGLE® to automate them and share with your team by using reports, custom health checks and ticket creation.
  • Audit and compliance: Solve audit and compliance requirements in minutes by using BACKUP EAGLE® reporting on backups, restores and configurations. Be ready for NIS-2 without any effort.
Stefan Schröder
BACKUP EAGLE® - Schmitz RZ Consult GmbH
Stefan Schröder has more than 20 years of experience in Storage Management - especially IBM Storage Protect, IBM Storage Protect Plus, Cohesity, Veeam, Rubrik and NetWorker. He is an expert in monitoring multi-vendor backup environments and supporting MSPs in streamlining their backup reporting and monitoring. After his study in Applied Computer Science Stefan Schröder started his career as a software engineer and consultant for IBM Storage Protect. He quickly advanced to Software Architect only later to become the head of Software Development at Schmitz RZ Consult GmbH. Since 2023 Stefan Schröder is Managing at Schmitz RZ Consult GmbH and responsible for all aspects of BACKUP EAGLE® - advanced backup reporting and monitoring software.
Cyber Resiliency stands for the simple capabilty to recover quickly, cleanly and completely after any form of vicious external attack on your IT. Backup environments are first attack vector of hackers, because they are in the heart of any IT departments strategy to come back quickly after an attack. Recovery Assurance is the practice to ensure that backup requirements are meeting that challenge
09:15 - 09:30
09:15 - 09:30
Chair: Bjørn Nachtwey
Bjørn got in contact with TSM in late 2001 as a client user at the computing center of the Stuttgart University. Some years later he started to administrate TSM servers. At the GWDG he launched the new backup environment with several servers for the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and the University of Göttingen seven years ago. Before doing the „backup job“ he spent time on HPC systems and research on parallel algorithms for computational numerics. In the meantime Bjørn led the server group at the Braunschweig University IT Center. In 2023 he “switched sides of the desk” and became storage architect at Cristie Data GmbH. Bjørn is the current vice chairman of the GSE “System Managed Storage” working group. In January, he was awared the title "IBM Champion" for the third time due to his activities concerning TSM/ISP.
Recovery Assurance at the heart of Cyber Resiliency

Cyber Resiliency stands for the simple capabilty to recover quickly, cleanly and completely after any form of vicious external attack on your IT. Backup environments are first attack vector of hackers, because they are in the heart of any IT departments strategy to come back quickly after an attack. Recovery Assurance is the practice to ensure that backup requirements are meeting that challenge

Oliver Parpart
CANCOM
Oliver moved into his position at CANCOM in 2022 after 27 years of experience in IT at IBM where he - after a sales career - moved into management and executive positions. He gained grassroots delivery experience in strategic outsourcing as Delivery Project Executive being responsible for running full IT for large general business outsourcing clients. During his time in Global Business Consulting Oliver was trained on and delivered strategic consulting to partners and clients of IBM, based on his deep experience in IT Sales & IT Delivery. Today at CANCOM he is focusing on developing solutions & competencies around critical topics like cyber resiliency and new agile platforms & infrastructure to help customers in developing their resilient and innovative new IT platform of the future to address big challenges of IT like new workloads, AI readiness, automation, resiliency and cost control.  
Using AI in enterprise and small environments. Presenting how we built our own AI integration to quicker find data in logs and give end users better instruction. We will create embeddings in realtime.
09:30 - 09:45
09:30 - 09:45
Chair: Bjørn Nachtwey
Bjørn got in contact with TSM in late 2001 as a client user at the computing center of the Stuttgart University. Some years later he started to administrate TSM servers. At the GWDG he launched the new backup environment with several servers for the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and the University of Göttingen seven years ago. Before doing the „backup job“ he spent time on HPC systems and research on parallel algorithms for computational numerics. In the meantime Bjørn led the server group at the Braunschweig University IT Center. In 2023 he “switched sides of the desk” and became storage architect at Cristie Data GmbH. Bjørn is the current vice chairman of the GSE “System Managed Storage” working group. In January, he was awared the title "IBM Champion" for the third time due to his activities concerning TSM/ISP.
Using CAISA each day keeps your headaches away | Worry-free managing of even multi engine Backup Environments thanks to Cristie AI Support Assistant

Using AI in enterprise and small environments.
Presenting how we built our own AI integration to quicker find data in logs and give end users better instruction.
We will create embeddings in realtime.

Petra Kuhnert
Cristie Data GmbH
Petra Kuhnert joined Cristie Data GmbH in 2004. Starting mainly in the technical department, she is currently Senior Consultant specialized in Storage and Data Management & Protection – in addition to the Cristie Backup Solutions like TBMR and CBMR.
Daniel Larsson
Cristie, Sweden
Daniel  started to work for Cristie in 2003 before that I was working for several different IBM partners and  IBM. He is passionate about keeping data secure and available to the users. Very interested in providing solutions to customer questions.
eXstor is providing a high availability solution to accompany ADSM/TSM/ISP since 19 years. Our product TSMCluster® in the new Version 8.1.3 based on AIX and Linux operating systems, is a robust, scalable and widely used cluster software for Storage Protect (TSM). In spite of its high complexity, TSMCluster® remains easy to operate via new web interface or command line. A set of tools reduces the daily work around TSM/ISP. In 2024 we started with two new tape products: eXstor Library and Media Manager (eLMM), derived from IBM’s TSLM and our Safe Guarded Tape solution. In this presentation we will show some of the new highlights, e.g. cloning a running ISP instance.
09:45 - 10:00
09:45 - 10:00
Chair: Bjørn Nachtwey
Bjørn got in contact with TSM in late 2001 as a client user at the computing center of the Stuttgart University. Some years later he started to administrate TSM servers. At the GWDG he launched the new backup environment with several servers for the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and the University of Göttingen seven years ago. Before doing the „backup job“ he spent time on HPC systems and research on parallel algorithms for computational numerics. In the meantime Bjørn led the server group at the Braunschweig University IT Center. In 2023 he “switched sides of the desk” and became storage architect at Cristie Data GmbH. Bjørn is the current vice chairman of the GSE “System Managed Storage” working group. In January, he was awared the title "IBM Champion" for the third time due to his activities concerning TSM/ISP.
The eXstor tools

eXstor is providing a high availability solution to accompany ADSM/TSM/ISP since 19 years. Our product TSMCluster® in the new Version 8.1.3 based on AIX and Linux operating systems, is a robust, scalable and widely used cluster software for Storage Protect (TSM). In spite of its high complexity, TSMCluster® remains easy to operate via new web interface or command line. A set of tools reduces the daily work around TSM/ISP.

In 2024 we started with two new tape products: eXstor Library and Media Manager (eLMM), derived from IBM’s TSLM and our Safe Guarded Tape solution.

In this presentation we will show some of the new highlights, e.g. cloning a running ISP instance.

Bruno Friess
eXstor GmbH
Bruno has studied computer science and started with ADSM advanced technical support of IBM in 1996 with Version 2.1. His work was mainly support for big ADSM/TSM/ISP installations in EMEA. Since 2005 Bruno is founder and owner of the company eXstor which is focused on the high availability solution TSMCluster®.
Storage teams are under pressure to do more with less, but in a world of increasing cyber-threats the stakes have never been higher. Discover how Artificial Intelligence and automation is making recovery confidence reality.
10:00 - 10:15
10:00 - 10:15
Chair: Bjørn Nachtwey
Bjørn got in contact with TSM in late 2001 as a client user at the computing center of the Stuttgart University. Some years later he started to administrate TSM servers. At the GWDG he launched the new backup environment with several servers for the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and the University of Göttingen seven years ago. Before doing the „backup job“ he spent time on HPC systems and research on parallel algorithms for computational numerics. In the meantime Bjørn led the server group at the Braunschweig University IT Center. In 2023 he “switched sides of the desk” and became storage architect at Cristie Data GmbH. Bjørn is the current vice chairman of the GSE “System Managed Storage” working group. In January, he was awared the title "IBM Champion" for the third time due to his activities concerning TSM/ISP.
AI Ops for Recovery Assurance

Storage teams are under pressure to do more with less, but in a world of increasing cyber-threats the stakes have never been higher. Discover how Artificial Intelligence and automation is making recovery confidence reality.

Alistair Mackenzie
Predatar
Founder & CEO, Predatar A relentless problem-solver, Alistair has a history of building businesses that tackle the some of the biggest IT challenges of the day. Predatar’s mission is to give its customers complete confidence in their ability to recover 100% of their data.
Adam Robinson
Predatar
Technical Account Manager The newest member of the Predatar Team, Adam brings a wealth of technical knowledge from his role as Technical Partner Specialist for IBM Storage. No one is better equipped to help you maximise resiliency of your IBM Storage Protect backups.
Realign your IT with the help of PROFI Managed Services. Create new resources for more flexibility in your day-to-day business. PROFI Managed Services supports you from large to small, with standardized and scalable solutions as well as individually tailored services. From monitoring backups to complete outsourcing.
10:15 - 10:30
10:15 - 10:30
Chair: Bjørn Nachtwey
Bjørn got in contact with TSM in late 2001 as a client user at the computing center of the Stuttgart University. Some years later he started to administrate TSM servers. At the GWDG he launched the new backup environment with several servers for the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and the University of Göttingen seven years ago. Before doing the „backup job“ he spent time on HPC systems and research on parallel algorithms for computational numerics. In the meantime Bjørn led the server group at the Braunschweig University IT Center. In 2023 he “switched sides of the desk” and became storage architect at Cristie Data GmbH. Bjørn is the current vice chairman of the GSE “System Managed Storage” working group. In January, he was awared the title "IBM Champion" for the third time due to his activities concerning TSM/ISP.
Backup as a service

Realign your IT with the help of PROFI Managed Services. Create new resources for more flexibility in your day-to-day business.
PROFI Managed Services supports you from large to small, with standardized and scalable solutions as well as individually tailored services. From monitoring backups to complete outsourcing.

Hans Larcén
PROFI AG
Born in Stockholm in 1960 Hans emigrated to Australia with his parent at twelve. When his parents decided to return to Europe they ended up in Germany. Still a Swedish citizen he has lived in Germany since 1976. After acquiring a degree technical engineering, he spent nine years designing injection moulding tools, switching to IT in the mid-nineties when it was still “hip”, and everyone wanted to do “computers”. Starting with CAD on AIX-Workstations he moved on to the Tivoli product family and had his first contact with TSM was in London in 1999 when it was rebranded from ADSM 3.1 to TSM 3.7 As a Senior System Engineer Hans still regularly perform TSM support but primarily he works as Service Manager organizing support.
10:30 - 11:00
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break
Introduction and overview of IBM Storage Protect in 2024. While Storage Protect has been around for a few years, it continues to evolve and solve the data protection challenges you are facing. Come explore more about the Storage Protect capabilities and updates since the last Symposium.
11:00 - 11:45
11:00 - 11:45
Chair: Robert Fijan
Robert Fijan is team lead for Backup and Storage at Deutsche Rentenversicherung Baden-Württemberg. He works with ADSM/TSM/ISP since 1998. During this time he managed multiple platform changes (OS/390 to Linux to Windows and back to Linux) and the evolution of the environment from OS/390-only to the actual setting with many different applications and ISP-modules (TSM4VE, TDP for ERP/DOMINO/MSSQL/Oracle). He is also responsible for the NetApp-Filers. Since last year he is part of the team that consolidates the many different OSs on different platforms to RHEL on x86. This is part of the even bigger project ‘RZ DRV’ that is building the fundament for the applications of the 16 independent carriers of Deutsche Rentenversicherung in Germany. He is an IBM champion since 2020.
IBM: IBM Storage Protect

Introduction and overview of IBM Storage Protect in 2024. While Storage Protect has been around for a few years, it continues to evolve and solve the data protection challenges you are facing. Come explore more about the Storage Protect capabilities and updates since the last Symposium.

Albee Jhoney
IBM, India
Albee Jhoney is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the IBM Storage Protect portfolio.  He has more than 33 years of industry experience in software product engineering - across multiple product portfolios in IBM Software – Tivoli, WebSphere, and IBM Cloud.  He has worked with multiple global customers on complex IT Service Management and Cloud solutions.  Currently, Albee is the technical leader for all development activities and improvements that are made to the IBM Storage Protect, Protect Plus and Copy Data Management products.
Come to this session and learn how IBM Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service can evolve data protection into data resiliency and closes an important gap in your storage and data protection environment. The session will introduce the major capabilities of the service like governance around data protection, ransomware attack detection, and reliable recovery options.
11:45 - 12:30
11:45 - 12:30
Chair: Robert Fijan
Robert Fijan is team lead for Backup and Storage at Deutsche Rentenversicherung Baden-Württemberg. He works with ADSM/TSM/ISP since 1998. During this time he managed multiple platform changes (OS/390 to Linux to Windows and back to Linux) and the evolution of the environment from OS/390-only to the actual setting with many different applications and ISP-modules (TSM4VE, TDP for ERP/DOMINO/MSSQL/Oracle). He is also responsible for the NetApp-Filers. Since last year he is part of the team that consolidates the many different OSs on different platforms to RHEL on x86. This is part of the even bigger project ‘RZ DRV’ that is building the fundament for the applications of the 16 independent carriers of Deutsche Rentenversicherung in Germany. He is an IBM champion since 2020.
IBM: Intro and Exploration of IBM Storage Defender

Come to this session and learn how IBM Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service can evolve data protection into data resiliency and closes an important gap in your storage and data protection environment. The session will introduce the major capabilities of the service like governance around data protection, ransomware attack detection, and reliable recovery options.

Dominic Mueller-Wicke
IBM, Germany
Dominic Müller-Wicke is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member and IBM Master Inventor and is working for IBM Research and Development in Germany. He has more than 17 years of experience with data protection and data resiliency. Before he joined the IBM Storage Defender team, he was mainly responsible for scale out data protection integrating IBM Storage Scale and IBM Storage Protect. Beside his engagement for IBM Storage Defender, he is the development architect for IBM Storage Protect for Cloud. Dominic lives in the Frankfurt / Main area, has four nice kids and likes riding his race bike.  
12:30 - 14:00
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch Break
The Jülich Supercomputing Centre operates a large HPC storage solution based on Storage Scale (GPFS) called "JUelich STorage (JUST)". One of the GPFS file systems is designed for data archiving using IBM Storage Protect for Space Management. In addition, HPC user data is backed up using mmBackup calling the IBM Storage Protect client "dsmc". In the first half of 2024, the 6th generation of "JUST" was installed. One design change was to replace the Power/AIX systems for the Storage Protect servers and clients with x86/Linux nodes. In this talk we will share our experiences, focusing on the migration of the Space Management client from AIX to Linux using the “stubfilemigration” tool.
14:00 - 14:45
14:00 - 14:45
Chair: Peter Micke
Peter Micke is an independent IT consultant and owner of backup2restore GmbH in Germany. After finishing his studies of electrical engineering, he got into contact with ADSM 20 years ago and kept stuck with the product over the years. He's developing TSM concepts, teaching workshops 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. Peter is an IBM Champion since 2021.
Migrating the Storage Protect Infrastructure from Power/AIX to x86/Linux including the space management client for Storage Scale (GPFS)

The Jülich Supercomputing Centre operates a large HPC storage solution based on Storage Scale (GPFS) called „JUelich STorage (JUST)“. One of the GPFS file systems is designed for data archiving using IBM Storage Protect for Space Management. In addition, HPC user data is backed up using mmBackup calling the IBM Storage Protect client „dsmc“.
In the first half of 2024, the 6th generation of „JUST“ was installed. One design change was to replace the Power/AIX systems for the Storage Protect servers and clients with x86/Linux nodes.
In this talk we will share our experiences, focusing on the migration of the Space Management client from AIX to Linux using the “stubfilemigration” tool.

Stephan Graf
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Scientific Degree: MSc Technomathematk (FH Aachen-Jülich, January 2009) 1997-2011: Member of the Technical System & Service Division at Jülich Supercomputing Centre 2011-2018: Member of the storage group in the Division "High-Performance Computing Systems” at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre 2019-today: Head of the Operation&Development Team "Storage Systems" in the "HPC, Cloud, Data System&Service" Division
This session will cover options and experiances with offloading ISP and SPP to S3, how to secure access and what are the benefits of modern air gaps. Some use cases and first hand experiences will be shared from real customer scenarios. The following questions will be discussed: What are options to modernize IBM Storage Protect infrastructures and to add a new layer of security by using cloud ressources? Is S3 a replacement for Tape? What is the meaning of Cyber Resilience and what are differences to Desaster Recovery Management? How can a cloud offload be beneficial in case of a ransomware attack? Why is cloud more than just a secure vault? How to develop a continuous DR testing strategy?
14:45 - 15:30
14:45 - 15:30
Chair: Peter Micke
Peter Micke is an independent IT consultant and owner of backup2restore GmbH in Germany. After finishing his studies of electrical engineering, he got into contact with ADSM 20 years ago and kept stuck with the product over the years. He's developing TSM concepts, teaching workshops 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. Peter is an IBM Champion since 2021.
Cloudy - with a chance of cyber resilience

This session will cover options and experiances with offloading ISP and SPP to S3, how to secure access and what are the benefits of modern air gaps. Some use cases and first hand experiences will be shared from real customer scenarios.
The following questions will be discussed:
What are options to modernize IBM Storage Protect infrastructures and to add a new layer of security by using cloud ressources?
Is S3 a replacement for Tape?
What is the meaning of Cyber Resilience and what are differences to Desaster Recovery Management?
How can a cloud offload be beneficial in case of a ransomware attack?
Why is cloud more than just a secure vault?
How to develop a continuous DR testing strategy?

Markus Stumpf
Empalis Consulting GmbH
Markus Stumpf is a Business Development Manager at Empalis Consulting GmbH. As an expert in data protection solutions such as IBM Storage (Spectrum) Protect, Veeam, Wasabi, or Cohesity, he has over 20 years of experience as a consultant and manager of our service team, solution architect, trainer, and speaker.
15:30 - 16:00
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break
Introduction and overview of IBM Storage Protect for Cloud. - Come learn about how to protect M365 and other cloud-native workloads.
16:00 - 17:30
16:00 - 17:30
Chair: Bjørn Nachtwey
Bjørn got in contact with TSM in late 2001 as a client user at the computing center of the Stuttgart University. Some years later he started to administrate TSM servers. At the GWDG he launched the new backup environment with several servers for the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and the University of Göttingen seven years ago. Before doing the „backup job“ he spent time on HPC systems and research on parallel algorithms for computational numerics. In the meantime Bjørn led the server group at the Braunschweig University IT Center. In 2023 he “switched sides of the desk” and became storage architect at Cristie Data GmbH. Bjørn is the current vice chairman of the GSE “System Managed Storage” working group. In January, he was awared the title "IBM Champion" for the third time due to his activities concerning TSM/ISP.
IBM Storage Protect for Cloud

Introduction and overview of IBM Storage Protect for Cloud.
– Come learn about how to protect M365 and other cloud-native workloads.

Dominic Mueller-Wicke
IBM, Germany
Dominic Müller-Wicke is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member and IBM Master Inventor and is working for IBM Research and Development in Germany. He has more than 17 years of experience with data protection and data resiliency. Before he joined the IBM Storage Defender team, he was mainly responsible for scale out data protection integrating IBM Storage Scale and IBM Storage Protect. Beside his engagement for IBM Storage Defender, he is the development architect for IBM Storage Protect for Cloud. Dominic lives in the Frankfurt / Main area, has four nice kids and likes riding his race bike.  
The initiative for the SP Symposium came from the GSE ‘Storage Management’ working group. It is therefore only natural that the WG should also meet at the symposium. During this session, questions from the user community will be discussed and also put to the IBM product managers in order to provide them with direct feedback.
17:30 - 18:00
17:30 - 18:00
Chair: Bjørn Nachtwey
Bjørn got in contact with TSM in late 2001 as a client user at the computing center of the Stuttgart University. Some years later he started to administrate TSM servers. At the GWDG he launched the new backup environment with several servers for the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and the University of Göttingen seven years ago. Before doing the „backup job“ he spent time on HPC systems and research on parallel algorithms for computational numerics. In the meantime Bjørn led the server group at the Braunschweig University IT Center. In 2023 he “switched sides of the desk” and became storage architect at Cristie Data GmbH. Bjørn is the current vice chairman of the GSE “System Managed Storage” working group. In January, he was awared the title "IBM Champion" for the third time due to his activities concerning TSM/ISP.
GSE-AK SSMSD

The initiative for the SP Symposium came from the GSE ‘Storage Management’ working group. It is therefore only natural that the WG should also meet at the symposium.

During this session, questions from the user community will be discussed and also put to the IBM product managers in order to provide them with direct feedback.

In this session I will show several topics, an IBM Storage Protect administrator should know, if he wants to implement new features or change easy definitions. In detail I will talk what's important if you will change the server name. There are many dependencies. How to solve this challenge. I will also talk about the license stumbling when implementing retention sets. We will also show an easy way of certificate handling and using CA certificates.
11:00 - 11:45
11:00 - 11:45
Chair: Peter Micke
Peter Micke is an independent IT consultant and owner of backup2restore GmbH in Germany. After finishing his studies of electrical engineering, he got into contact with ADSM 20 years ago and kept stuck with the product over the years. He's developing TSM concepts, teaching workshops 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. Peter is an IBM Champion since 2021.
IBM Storage Protect Mythbusters – it works how it works?

In this session I will show several topics, an IBM Storage Protect administrator should know, if he wants to implement new features or change easy definitions. In detail I will talk what’s important if you will change the server name. There are many dependencies. How to solve this challenge. I will also talk about the license stumbling when implementing retention sets. We will also show an easy way of certificate handling and using CA certificates.

Kurt Straub
Allianz Technology SE
Kurt Straub is a Solution Architect at Allianz Technology SE. He is working for Allianz since 24 years in different Positions and since 2007 working as AIX/SAN/TSM Administrator.
Gerd Becker
Cristie
Gerd Becker is a Senior Consultant at Cristie Data GmbH, an IBM Business Partner in Germany. He was more than 22 years a Project Manager for EMPALIS Consulting GmbH. He has more than 45 years of IT experience, including over 25 years of 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®). In the context of data protection he has certifications and experience in project management. 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) Storage-Usergroup for more than 22 years and member of the committee organizing the well-known TSM or ISP Symposium. He is author of several IBM Redbooks and IBM Champion since 2019.
Holger is an expert on Storage Protect and is working for IBM Technology Expert Labs DACH. In this presentation Holger will document the technical background for renewing the Storage Protect server SSL/ TLS certificate which will need to be done by all Storage Protect custmers soon. Holger will share his experience, tips and tricks for automating the distribution of the Storage Protect server certificate to clients using the cert_distribute script provided by IBM Storage Protect development.
11:45 - 12:30
11:45 - 12:30
Chair: Peter Micke
Peter Micke is an independent IT consultant and owner of backup2restore GmbH in Germany. After finishing his studies of electrical engineering, he got into contact with ADSM 20 years ago and kept stuck with the product over the years. He's developing TSM concepts, teaching workshops 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. Peter is an IBM Champion since 2021.
Storage Protect SSL/ TLS certificate renewal | Experiences – Hints & Tips

Holger is an expert on Storage Protect and is working for IBM Technology Expert Labs DACH. In this presentation Holger will document the technical background for renewing the Storage Protect server SSL/ TLS certificate which will need to be done by all Storage Protect custmers soon. Holger will share his experience, tips and tricks for automating the distribution of the Storage Protect server certificate to clients using the cert_distribute script provided by IBM Storage Protect development.

Holger Martens
IBM, Germany
In 1992, Holger started as Software Support Specialist for the IBM z/VM host operating system where he first got in contact with ADSM/VM Version 1. In late 1996, Holger moved over to the ADSM Open Systems L1 support team where he specialized in the ADSM server component and mass storage devices. ADSM was re-branded to TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager) in 1999. Sometime later, Holger joined the worldwide TSM L2 support team, working closely together with development. In 2006, Holger established the IBM Solution Support team which he led until 2010. From 2010 to 2020 Holger was working in the IBM ESCC Client Satisfaction Project Office for storage hard- and software before he joined the IBM Technical Advisor team for Spectrum Protect for about 2 years. Since 2022, Holger is working for IBM ESCC Lab Services, later Technology Expert Labs in Germany, still focusing on Storage Protect.
12:30 - 14:00
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch Break
What are the latest blueprints and recommendations for deploying IBM Storage Protect? Come learn about the latest blueprints, architectures, and strategies for successful deployment of IBM Storage Protect.
14:00 - 14:30
14:00 - 14:30
Chair: Robert Fijan
Robert Fijan is team lead for Backup and Storage at Deutsche Rentenversicherung Baden-Württemberg. He works with ADSM/TSM/ISP since 1998. During this time he managed multiple platform changes (OS/390 to Linux to Windows and back to Linux) and the evolution of the environment from OS/390-only to the actual setting with many different applications and ISP-modules (TSM4VE, TDP for ERP/DOMINO/MSSQL/Oracle). He is also responsible for the NetApp-Filers. Since last year he is part of the team that consolidates the many different OSs on different platforms to RHEL on x86. This is part of the even bigger project ‘RZ DRV’ that is building the fundament for the applications of the 16 independent carriers of Deutsche Rentenversicherung in Germany. He is an IBM champion since 2020.
Blueprint: Planning for success with IBM Storage Protect

What are the latest blueprints and recommendations for deploying IBM Storage Protect? Come learn about the latest blueprints, architectures, and strategies for successful deployment of IBM Storage Protect.

Jason Basler
IBM, USA
Jason Basler is an architect with the IBM Storage Defender development team.  He has worked in various areas of IBM storage software development for the past 30 years and has expertise in various data protection technologies as well as related storage technologies. Jason is leading QA and performance activities around IBM Storage Defender and continues to oversee the IBM Storage Defender blueprints with a focus on scalability and publishing best practices derived from experiences in the test labs.
Pallavi Singh
IBM, India
In this blueprint session for “Cloud”, explore current recommendations for deploying in the cloud, using object storage, and how to deploy the object agent to use IBM Storage Protect as an object store. This session will provide best practices and other rules of thumb for these “cloud” topics.
14:30 - 15:00
14:30 - 15:00
Chair: Robert Fijan
Robert Fijan is team lead for Backup and Storage at Deutsche Rentenversicherung Baden-Württemberg. He works with ADSM/TSM/ISP since 1998. During this time he managed multiple platform changes (OS/390 to Linux to Windows and back to Linux) and the evolution of the environment from OS/390-only to the actual setting with many different applications and ISP-modules (TSM4VE, TDP for ERP/DOMINO/MSSQL/Oracle). He is also responsible for the NetApp-Filers. Since last year he is part of the team that consolidates the many different OSs on different platforms to RHEL on x86. This is part of the even bigger project ‘RZ DRV’ that is building the fundament for the applications of the 16 independent carriers of Deutsche Rentenversicherung in Germany. He is an IBM champion since 2020.
Blueprint: Planning for success using Cloud with IBM Storage Protect

In this blueprint session for “Cloud”, explore current recommendations for deploying in the cloud, using object storage, and how to deploy the object agent to use IBM Storage Protect as an object store. This session will provide best practices and other rules of thumb for these “cloud” topics.

James Damgar
IBM, USA
James Damgar is a software and performance engineer with the IBM Storage Defender development team, based out of the IBM Tucson lab in Arizona, USA. He has over 16 years of experience in the fields of enterprise storage, data protection, and data resiliency, with a keen focus on performance optimization, scalability, and observability. An author of the Storage Protect Cloud Blueprints, James works closely with development, SRE, and test teams across disciplines on innovative improvements to the product portfolio. He enjoys meeting and working with customers to overcome obstacles, learn their user needs, and facilitate improvements to their experience.
Pallavi Singh
IBM, India
IBM Defender Data Protect is scale-out cluster purpose built for protecting the workloads that are important to you. Come learn about the sizing tools, recommendations, and guidance for how to plan for and deploy Data Protect.
15:00 - 15:30
15:00 - 15:30
Chair: Robert Fijan
Robert Fijan is team lead for Backup and Storage at Deutsche Rentenversicherung Baden-Württemberg. He works with ADSM/TSM/ISP since 1998. During this time he managed multiple platform changes (OS/390 to Linux to Windows and back to Linux) and the evolution of the environment from OS/390-only to the actual setting with many different applications and ISP-modules (TSM4VE, TDP for ERP/DOMINO/MSSQL/Oracle). He is also responsible for the NetApp-Filers. Since last year he is part of the team that consolidates the many different OSs on different platforms to RHEL on x86. This is part of the even bigger project ‘RZ DRV’ that is building the fundament for the applications of the 16 independent carriers of Deutsche Rentenversicherung in Germany. He is an IBM champion since 2020.
Blueprint: Planning for success with IBM Defender Data Protect

IBM Defender Data Protect is scale-out cluster purpose built for protecting the workloads that are important to you. Come learn about the sizing tools, recommendations, and guidance for how to plan for and deploy Data Protect.

Jason Basler
IBM, USA
Jason Basler is an architect with the IBM Storage Defender development team.  He has worked in various areas of IBM storage software development for the past 30 years and has expertise in various data protection technologies as well as related storage technologies. Jason is leading QA and performance activities around IBM Storage Defender and continues to oversee the IBM Storage Defender blueprints with a focus on scalability and publishing best practices derived from experiences in the test labs.
James Damgar
IBM, USA
James Damgar is a software and performance engineer with the IBM Storage Defender development team, based out of the IBM Tucson lab in Arizona, USA. He has over 16 years of experience in the fields of enterprise storage, data protection, and data resiliency, with a keen focus on performance optimization, scalability, and observability. An author of the Storage Protect Cloud Blueprints, James works closely with development, SRE, and test teams across disciplines on innovative improvements to the product portfolio. He enjoys meeting and working with customers to overcome obstacles, learn their user needs, and facilitate improvements to their experience.
15:30 - 16:00
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break
This session introduces a prototype facilitating consistent and immutable safeguarded copies in an environment with IBM Storage Protect servers running on IBM Storage Scale. This allows fast recovery of Storage Protect server instances after a cyber attack leveraging the scalable snapshot restore function of IBM Storage Scale.
16:00 - 16:45
16:00 - 16:45
Chair: Gerd Becker
Gerd Becker is a Senior Consultant at Cristie Data GmbH, an IBM Business Partner in Germany. He was more than 22 years a Project Manager for EMPALIS Consulting GmbH. He has more than 45 years of IT experience, including over 25 years of 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®). In the context of data protection he has certifications and experience in project management. 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) Storage-Usergroup for more than 22 years and member of the committee organizing the well-known TSM or ISP Symposium. He is author of several IBM Redbooks and IBM Champion since 2019.
Creating and managing consistent safeguarded copies with IBM Storage Protect on IBM Storage Scale

This session introduces a prototype facilitating consistent and immutable safeguarded copies in an environment with IBM Storage Protect servers running on IBM Storage Scale. This allows fast recovery of Storage Protect server instances after a cyber attack leveraging the scalable snapshot restore function of IBM Storage Scale.

Nils Haustein
IBM, Germany
Nils Haustein is a Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM Client Engineering Storage EMEA. He is responsible for designing and piloting file and object storage solutions. He co-authored the book "Storage Networks Explained". As a leading IBM Master Inventor, he has created more than 200 patents for IBM and is a respected mentor for the technical community worldwide.
This session introduces a prototype facilitating consistent and immutable safeguarded copies in an environment with IBM Storage Protect servers running on IBM Storage Scale. This allows fast recovery of Storage Protect server instances after a cyber attack leveraging the scalable snapshot restore function of IBM Storage Scale.
16:45 - 17:30
16:45 - 17:30
Chair: Gerd Becker
Gerd Becker is a Senior Consultant at Cristie Data GmbH, an IBM Business Partner in Germany. He was more than 22 years a Project Manager for EMPALIS Consulting GmbH. He has more than 45 years of IT experience, including over 25 years of 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®). In the context of data protection he has certifications and experience in project management. 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) Storage-Usergroup for more than 22 years and member of the committee organizing the well-known TSM or ISP Symposium. He is author of several IBM Redbooks and IBM Champion since 2019.
Dead for more than 70 years! The ultimate Tape Update!

This session introduces a prototype facilitating consistent and immutable safeguarded copies in an environment with IBM Storage Protect servers running on IBM Storage Scale. This allows fast recovery of Storage Protect server instances after a cyber attack leveraging the scalable snapshot restore function of IBM Storage Scale.

Sepp Weingand
IBM, Germany
Come to this interactive session with the IBM Defender product team (product management, development, executives) where the agenda is YOU. It’s open mic where you can ask questions and the product team will answer.
17:30 - 18:00
17:30 - 18:00
IBM BOF

Come to this interactive session with the IBM Defender product team (product management, development, executives) where the agenda is YOU. It’s open mic where you can ask questions and the product team will answer.

In this session, we’ll explore the IBM Storage Protect storage rule based replication. 1. What are the best practices for server-to-server replication? 2. What and how to avoid pitfalls or problems?
11:00 - 11:45
11:00 - 11:45
Chair: Bjørn Nachtwey
Bjørn got in contact with TSM in late 2001 as a client user at the computing center of the Stuttgart University. Some years later he started to administrate TSM servers. At the GWDG he launched the new backup environment with several servers for the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and the University of Göttingen seven years ago. Before doing the „backup job“ he spent time on HPC systems and research on parallel algorithms for computational numerics. In the meantime Bjørn led the server group at the Braunschweig University IT Center. In 2023 he “switched sides of the desk” and became storage architect at Cristie Data GmbH. Bjørn is the current vice chairman of the GSE “System Managed Storage” working group. In January, he was awared the title "IBM Champion" for the third time due to his activities concerning TSM/ISP.
IBM Storage Protect, How to manage a multi-server replicated environment

In this session, we’ll explore the IBM Storage Protect storage rule based replication.
1. What are the best practices for server-to-server replication?
2. What and how to avoid pitfalls or problems?

Nilesh Bhosale
IBM, India
Nilesh Bhosale is a seasoned Software Architect with the IBM Storage Protect development team, based at the IBM India Systems Development Lab in Pune, India. Boasting over 21 years of experience in enterprise storage, distributed filesystems, cloud storage, data protection, data security, and resiliency, he has a well-established track record in these areas. He has collaborated with a diverse global clientele, holds multiple patents, and has contributed to the field through various technical conferences, publications and blogs. He is dedicated to engaging with customers, understanding their requirements, and driving strategic product advancements to align with their needs.
IBM Storage Scale (and ESS) are often used with IBM Storage Protect. This session will explore the typical use cases of using IBM Storage Scale (or ESS) as storage for IBM Storage Protect and how to protect IBM Storage Scale filesystems. This will also explore new use cases such as how to use immutable snapshots to protect to the IBM Storage Protect server database. And it will dive into how to protect IBM Storage Scale filesystems by backing up to IBM Storage Protect.
11:45 - 12:30
11:45 - 12:30
Chair: Bjørn Nachtwey
Bjørn got in contact with TSM in late 2001 as a client user at the computing center of the Stuttgart University. Some years later he started to administrate TSM servers. At the GWDG he launched the new backup environment with several servers for the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and the University of Göttingen seven years ago. Before doing the „backup job“ he spent time on HPC systems and research on parallel algorithms for computational numerics. In the meantime Bjørn led the server group at the Braunschweig University IT Center. In 2023 he “switched sides of the desk” and became storage architect at Cristie Data GmbH. Bjørn is the current vice chairman of the GSE “System Managed Storage” working group. In January, he was awared the title "IBM Champion" for the third time due to his activities concerning TSM/ISP.
IBM Storage Protect and IBM Storage Scale

IBM Storage Scale (and ESS) are often used with IBM Storage Protect. This session will explore the typical use cases of using IBM Storage Scale (or ESS) as storage for IBM Storage Protect and how to protect IBM Storage Scale filesystems. This will also explore new use cases such as how to use immutable snapshots to protect to the IBM Storage Protect server database. And it will dive into how to protect IBM Storage Scale filesystems by backing up to IBM Storage Protect.

Nilesh Bhosale
IBM, India
Nilesh Bhosale is a seasoned Software Architect with the IBM Storage Protect development team, based at the IBM India Systems Development Lab in Pune, India. Boasting over 21 years of experience in enterprise storage, distributed filesystems, cloud storage, data protection, data security, and resiliency, he has a well-established track record in these areas. He has collaborated with a diverse global clientele, holds multiple patents, and has contributed to the field through various technical conferences, publications and blogs. He is dedicated to engaging with customers, understanding their requirements, and driving strategic product advancements to align with their needs.
12:30 - 14:00
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:30
14:00 - 14:30
Chair: Gerd Becker
Gerd Becker is a Senior Consultant at Cristie Data GmbH, an IBM Business Partner in Germany. He was more than 22 years a Project Manager for EMPALIS Consulting GmbH. He has more than 45 years of IT experience, including over 25 years of 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®). In the context of data protection he has certifications and experience in project management. 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) Storage-Usergroup for more than 22 years and member of the committee organizing the well-known TSM or ISP Symposium. He is author of several IBM Redbooks and IBM Champion since 2019.
IBM Storage Protect + Ansible: Automating Protection and Key Activities
Albee Jhoney
IBM, India
Albee Jhoney is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the IBM Storage Protect portfolio.  He has more than 33 years of industry experience in software product engineering - across multiple product portfolios in IBM Software – Tivoli, WebSphere, and IBM Cloud.  He has worked with multiple global customers on complex IT Service Management and Cloud solutions.  Currently, Albee is the technical leader for all development activities and improvements that are made to the IBM Storage Protect, Protect Plus and Copy Data Management products.
Data originates from many places: bare-metal, VM’s, containers, or combinations of these compute/hosting sources. How is storage changing to keep up with the storage and protection needs of your data. This session provide some perspective and insight from IBM’s view of storage with some deeper dives on IBM Flash and how anomaly detection is being added into the primary storage systems along with the evolution and use of Safeguarded copy. Additionally, learn about IBM Diamondback, the latest generation of IBM tape library. And also some forward-looking discussion how Software Defined Storage is currently or may be coming in the storage arena.
14:30 - 15:00
14:30 - 15:00
Chair: Gerd Becker
Gerd Becker is a Senior Consultant at Cristie Data GmbH, an IBM Business Partner in Germany. He was more than 22 years a Project Manager for EMPALIS Consulting GmbH. He has more than 45 years of IT experience, including over 25 years of 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®). In the context of data protection he has certifications and experience in project management. 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) Storage-Usergroup for more than 22 years and member of the committee organizing the well-known TSM or ISP Symposium. He is author of several IBM Redbooks and IBM Champion since 2019.

Data originates from many places: bare-metal, VM’s, containers, or combinations of these compute/hosting sources. How is storage changing to keep up with the storage and protection needs of your data. This session provide some perspective and insight from IBM’s view of storage with some deeper dives on IBM Flash and how anomaly detection is being added into the primary storage systems along with the evolution and use of Safeguarded copy. Additionally, learn about IBM Diamondback, the latest generation of IBM tape library. And also some forward-looking discussion how Software Defined Storage is currently or may be coming in the storage arena.

Greg Van Hise
IBM, USA
Greg Van Hise is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member and student of data protection and data resiliency.   He is currently a product manager for Data Resiliency and Storage Protect.   Greg career has spanned numerous development, architecture, strategy and product management positions.   Greg has celerbrated his 20 anniversay of 20 years of employment with IBM.
Jeff Placer
IBM, USA
Jeff Placer is the UX Architect for IBM Storage Defender based out of Tucson, Arizona. Jeff has been building user interfaces with IBM for over 19 years across multiple IBM Storage products. Previously he was the UI Architect for IBM Fusion. Apart from building quality user experiences and engaging with customers, Jeff loves spending time outdoors with his two wonderful kids.
A legal and technical background on the requirements for NIS-2, SOX, TISAX and PCI DSS. Have you ever faced the challenge of providing documents for audit and compliance trials? Were you spending days on searching and scripting? In this session we will give you an overview about our experience on what kind of reports and documents you need to pass audit trials easily. You will also get an overview about the technical backgrounds on building these documents based on IBM Storage Protect, Storage Protect Plus, Storage Protect Plus Online Services, IBM BRMS and Cohesity.
15:00 - 15:30
15:00 - 15:30
Chair: Gerd Becker
Gerd Becker is a Senior Consultant at Cristie Data GmbH, an IBM Business Partner in Germany. He was more than 22 years a Project Manager for EMPALIS Consulting GmbH. He has more than 45 years of IT experience, including over 25 years of 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®). In the context of data protection he has certifications and experience in project management. 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) Storage-Usergroup for more than 22 years and member of the committee organizing the well-known TSM or ISP Symposium. He is author of several IBM Redbooks and IBM Champion since 2019.
Managing audit and compliance requirements the easy way

A legal and technical background on the requirements for NIS-2, SOX, TISAX and PCI DSS.

Have you ever faced the challenge of providing documents for audit and compliance trials? Were you spending days on searching and scripting? In this session we will give you an overview about our experience on what kind of reports and documents you need to pass audit trials easily. You will also get an overview about the technical backgrounds on building these documents based on IBM Storage Protect, Storage Protect Plus, Storage Protect Plus Online Services, IBM BRMS and Cohesity.

Stefan Schröder
BACKUP EAGLE® - Schmitz RZ Consult GmbH
Stefan Schröder has more than 20 years of experience in Storage Management - especially IBM Storage Protect, IBM Storage Protect Plus, Cohesity, Veeam, Rubrik and NetWorker. He is an expert in monitoring multi-vendor backup environments and supporting MSPs in streamlining their backup reporting and monitoring. After his study in Applied Computer Science Stefan Schröder started his career as a software engineer and consultant for IBM Storage Protect. He quickly advanced to Software Architect only later to become the head of Software Development at Schmitz RZ Consult GmbH. Since 2023 Stefan Schröder is Managing at Schmitz RZ Consult GmbH and responsible for all aspects of BACKUP EAGLE® - advanced backup reporting and monitoring software.
15:30 - 16:00
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break
18:00 - 18:45
18:00 - 18:45
Break
Meeting Point with city guides: Lobby Hilton Cologne at 18:45 Journey through history: Walking tour in the old town from 18:45 - 20:00 Dinner, drinks & networking in a unique and informal atmosphere: Restaurant "Dom im Stapelhaus" from 20:00 - 22:00
18:45 - 22:00
18:45 - 22:00
Evening Event

Meeting Point with city guides: Lobby Hilton Cologne at 18:45

Journey through history: Walking tour in the old town from 18:45 – 20:00

Dinner, drinks & networking in a unique and informal atmosphere: Restaurant „Dom im Stapelhaus“ from 20:00 – 22:00

Wednesday, 25 September 2024

Protecting data is a team sport. While much of the focus on the IBM team at the Symposium is IBM Defender, it is good to take few moments and explore “adjacent” technologies that are used. These sessions will discuss SIEM and SOAR and other important technologies that help to keep our data safe.
09:00 - 09:45
09:00 - 09:45
Chair: Bjørn Nachtwey
Bjørn got in contact with TSM in late 2001 as a client user at the computing center of the Stuttgart University. Some years later he started to administrate TSM servers. At the GWDG he launched the new backup environment with several servers for the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and the University of Göttingen seven years ago. Before doing the „backup job“ he spent time on HPC systems and research on parallel algorithms for computational numerics. In the meantime Bjørn led the server group at the Braunschweig University IT Center. In 2023 he “switched sides of the desk” and became storage architect at Cristie Data GmbH. Bjørn is the current vice chairman of the GSE “System Managed Storage” working group. In January, he was awared the title "IBM Champion" for the third time due to his activities concerning TSM/ISP.
What are the adjacent cyber-resilience technologies to consider?

Protecting data is a team sport. While much of the focus on the IBM team at the Symposium is IBM Defender, it is good to take few moments and explore “adjacent” technologies that are used. These sessions will discuss SIEM and SOAR and other important technologies that help to keep our data safe.

Trishali Nayar
IBM, India
Trishali Nayar is an architect with the IBM Storage Defender development team and is based at IBM India Systems Development Lab. She has more than 20 years of product architecture, design and development experience in distributed filesystems, cluster computing and cloud. She has been working with customers world-wide, holds multiple patents and has published articles and blogs. For IBM Storage Defender, she leads the areas around SaaS architecture and integration with leading cyber-security products in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) space.
Juan Carlos Jimenez
IBM, USA
Juan Carlos is a World-wide Data Resiliency Product Manager. He is focused on defining roadmap, initiatives, and strategy within the various data resiliency software products that he manages alongside his team. Juan Carlos brings an end-to-end view to cyber resilience leveraging his expertise in both storage and security. Juan Carlos developed our Cyber Resiliency Assessment Tool which has been helping numerous enterprises identify and close gaps in their IT environments.
In this session we will look at how containerized application architecture challenges our traditional backup and recovery mindset and how IBM Fusion Backup & Restore can orchestrate backup and recovery of complex application solutions such as IBM Cloud Paks, IBM watsonx, IBM Db2, IBM Maximo as well as providing the necessary tools to protect other complex application solutions.
09:45 - 10:30
09:45 - 10:30
Chair: Bjørn Nachtwey
Bjørn got in contact with TSM in late 2001 as a client user at the computing center of the Stuttgart University. Some years later he started to administrate TSM servers. At the GWDG he launched the new backup environment with several servers for the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and the University of Göttingen seven years ago. Before doing the „backup job“ he spent time on HPC systems and research on parallel algorithms for computational numerics. In the meantime Bjørn led the server group at the Braunschweig University IT Center. In 2023 he “switched sides of the desk” and became storage architect at Cristie Data GmbH. Bjørn is the current vice chairman of the GSE “System Managed Storage” working group. In January, he was awared the title "IBM Champion" for the third time due to his activities concerning TSM/ISP.
Containerized application protection - Orchestrating complex backup and recovery workflows with IBM Fusion

In this session we will look at how containerized application architecture challenges our traditional backup and recovery mindset and how IBM Fusion Backup & Restore can orchestrate backup and recovery of complex application solutions such as IBM Cloud Paks, IBM watsonx, IBM Db2, IBM Maximo as well as providing the necessary tools to protect other complex application solutions.

Jim Smith
IBM, USA
Jim Smith is the architect responsible for application protection and disaster recovery for OpenShift as part of the IBM Fusion offering. Jim was previously responsible for the architecture of the Spectrum Protect Plus and Spectrum Protect virtual machine data protection (VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V) and unstructured data and large file systems data protection (Backup-Archive client) solutions. Jim is a thirty-year-plus veteran of the storage industry with IBM and has authored several technical papers relating to data protection and is an IBM Master Inventor. Jim lives in Northern California.
Kubernetes and Kubernetes distributions such as IBM Red Hat OpenShift promise a framework for stateless applications which can be deployed from automated pipelines - all you need to do is declare your desired application state and the system takes care of the rest. What is there to “protect”? In reality it is not that simple, especially with complex software stacks which have not only stateful data but also stateful “metadata”. In this session we will examine some of the challenges in application resiliency and application protection in terms of high availability, disaster recovery, and traditional backup and restore.
09:00 - 09:45
09:00 - 09:45
Chair: Peter Micke
Peter Micke is an independent IT consultant and owner of backup2restore GmbH in Germany. After finishing his studies of electrical engineering, he got into contact with ADSM 20 years ago and kept stuck with the product over the years. He's developing TSM concepts, teaching workshops 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. Peter is an IBM Champion since 2021.
Containerized application protection - How data protection works (and doesn’t work) - An introduction

Kubernetes and Kubernetes distributions such as IBM Red Hat OpenShift promise a framework for stateless applications which can be deployed from automated pipelines – all you need to do is declare your desired application state and the system takes care of the rest. What is there to “protect”? In reality it is not that simple, especially with complex software stacks which have not only stateful data but also stateful “metadata”. In this session we will examine some of the challenges in application resiliency and application protection in terms of high availability, disaster recovery, and traditional backup and restore.

Albee Jhoney
IBM, India
Albee Jhoney is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the IBM Storage Protect portfolio.  He has more than 33 years of industry experience in software product engineering - across multiple product portfolios in IBM Software – Tivoli, WebSphere, and IBM Cloud.  He has worked with multiple global customers on complex IT Service Management and Cloud solutions.  Currently, Albee is the technical leader for all development activities and improvements that are made to the IBM Storage Protect, Protect Plus and Copy Data Management products.
Greg Van Hise
IBM, USA
Greg Van Hise is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member and student of data protection and data resiliency.   He is currently a product manager for Data Resiliency and Storage Protect.   Greg career has spanned numerous development, architecture, strategy and product management positions.   Greg has celerbrated his 20 anniversay of 20 years of employment with IBM.
Many technologies (emerging or approaching maturity) are driving more data and new kinds of data. Things like AI, ML, LLM’s, quantum computing all have data needs and in terms of access, storage, and creation of data. This session will explore what the product team is seeing driving data and the cyber-resilience implications of those bits and bytes.
09:45 - 10:30
09:45 - 10:30
Chair: Peter Micke
Peter Micke is an independent IT consultant and owner of backup2restore GmbH in Germany. After finishing his studies of electrical engineering, he got into contact with ADSM 20 years ago and kept stuck with the product over the years. He's developing TSM concepts, teaching workshops 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. Peter is an IBM Champion since 2021.
Emerging Technologies and the implications to data and Cyber-Resilience

Many technologies (emerging or approaching maturity) are driving more data and new kinds of data. Things like AI, ML, LLM’s, quantum computing all have data needs and in terms of access, storage, and creation of data. This session will explore what the product team is seeing driving data and the cyber-resilience implications of those bits and bytes.

Albee Jhoney
IBM, India
Albee Jhoney is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the IBM Storage Protect portfolio.  He has more than 33 years of industry experience in software product engineering - across multiple product portfolios in IBM Software – Tivoli, WebSphere, and IBM Cloud.  He has worked with multiple global customers on complex IT Service Management and Cloud solutions.  Currently, Albee is the technical leader for all development activities and improvements that are made to the IBM Storage Protect, Protect Plus and Copy Data Management products.
Greg Van Hise
IBM, USA
Greg Van Hise is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member and student of data protection and data resiliency.   He is currently a product manager for Data Resiliency and Storage Protect.   Greg career has spanned numerous development, architecture, strategy and product management positions.   Greg has celerbrated his 20 anniversay of 20 years of employment with IBM.
10:30 - 11:00
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break
Agentless backup or self-protecting backup can easily protect its data using the S3 object agent. This session will explore uses cases about how to leverage Storage Protect as a central data repository supporting: IBM Defender Data Protect, IBM Storage Protect for Cloud, and other self-protecting workloads. This will include recommendations on how to manage availability using Storage Protect replication for the S3 object based data.
11:00 - 11:30
11:00 - 11:30
Chair: Robert Fijan
Robert Fijan is team lead for Backup and Storage at Deutsche Rentenversicherung Baden-Württemberg. He works with ADSM/TSM/ISP since 1998. During this time he managed multiple platform changes (OS/390 to Linux to Windows and back to Linux) and the evolution of the environment from OS/390-only to the actual setting with many different applications and ISP-modules (TSM4VE, TDP for ERP/DOMINO/MSSQL/Oracle). He is also responsible for the NetApp-Filers. Since last year he is part of the team that consolidates the many different OSs on different platforms to RHEL on x86. This is part of the even bigger project ‘RZ DRV’ that is building the fundament for the applications of the 16 independent carriers of Deutsche Rentenversicherung in Germany. He is an IBM champion since 2020.
How can IBM Storage Protect S3 object agent protect your data?

Agentless backup or self-protecting backup can easily protect its data using the S3 object agent. This session will explore uses cases about how to leverage Storage Protect as a central data repository supporting: IBM Defender Data Protect, IBM Storage Protect for Cloud, and other self-protecting workloads. This will include recommendations on how to manage availability using Storage Protect replication for the S3 object based data.

Jason Basler
IBM, USA
Jason Basler is an architect with the IBM Storage Defender development team.  He has worked in various areas of IBM storage software development for the past 30 years and has expertise in various data protection technologies as well as related storage technologies. Jason is leading QA and performance activities around IBM Storage Defender and continues to oversee the IBM Storage Defender blueprints with a focus on scalability and publishing best practices derived from experiences in the test labs.
James Damgar
IBM, USA
James Damgar is a software and performance engineer with the IBM Storage Defender development team, based out of the IBM Tucson lab in Arizona, USA. He has over 16 years of experience in the fields of enterprise storage, data protection, and data resiliency, with a keen focus on performance optimization, scalability, and observability. An author of the Storage Protect Cloud Blueprints, James works closely with development, SRE, and test teams across disciplines on innovative improvements to the product portfolio. He enjoys meeting and working with customers to overcome obstacles, learn their user needs, and facilitate improvements to their experience.
This is an interactive session lead by IBM user experience design. In this session, we’ll learn together about what a cyber-resilience session is and some of the preferences you may have for what it does or can provide.
11:30 - 12:00
11:30 - 12:00
Chair: Robert Fijan
Robert Fijan is team lead for Backup and Storage at Deutsche Rentenversicherung Baden-Württemberg. He works with ADSM/TSM/ISP since 1998. During this time he managed multiple platform changes (OS/390 to Linux to Windows and back to Linux) and the evolution of the environment from OS/390-only to the actual setting with many different applications and ISP-modules (TSM4VE, TDP for ERP/DOMINO/MSSQL/Oracle). He is also responsible for the NetApp-Filers. Since last year he is part of the team that consolidates the many different OSs on different platforms to RHEL on x86. This is part of the even bigger project ‘RZ DRV’ that is building the fundament for the applications of the 16 independent carriers of Deutsche Rentenversicherung in Germany. He is an IBM champion since 2020.
What is cyber-resilience?

This is an interactive session lead by IBM user experience design. In this session, we’ll learn together about what a cyber-resilience session is and some of the preferences you may have for what it does or can provide.

Trishali Nayar
IBM, India
Trishali Nayar is an architect with the IBM Storage Defender development team and is based at IBM India Systems Development Lab. She has more than 20 years of product architecture, design and development experience in distributed filesystems, cluster computing and cloud. She has been working with customers world-wide, holds multiple patents and has published articles and blogs. For IBM Storage Defender, she leads the areas around SaaS architecture and integration with leading cyber-security products in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) space.
This is an interactive session lead by IBM user experience design. In this session, we’ll learn together about the shape of modern organizations and who the decision makers are for data and cyber-resilience. What are some of the challenges facing the stakeholders trying to manage all their data.
12:00 - 12:30
12:00 - 12:30
Chair: Robert Fijan
Robert Fijan is team lead for Backup and Storage at Deutsche Rentenversicherung Baden-Württemberg. He works with ADSM/TSM/ISP since 1998. During this time he managed multiple platform changes (OS/390 to Linux to Windows and back to Linux) and the evolution of the environment from OS/390-only to the actual setting with many different applications and ISP-modules (TSM4VE, TDP for ERP/DOMINO/MSSQL/Oracle). He is also responsible for the NetApp-Filers. Since last year he is part of the team that consolidates the many different OSs on different platforms to RHEL on x86. This is part of the even bigger project ‘RZ DRV’ that is building the fundament for the applications of the 16 independent carriers of Deutsche Rentenversicherung in Germany. He is an IBM champion since 2020.
Who is at the helm?

This is an interactive session lead by IBM user experience design. In this session, we’ll learn together about the shape of modern organizations and who the decision makers are for data and cyber-resilience. What are some of the challenges facing the stakeholders trying to manage all their data.

Gerd Munz
IBM, Germany
Gerd Munz is part of the global IBM Storage Software development team as a senior manager. He is based in IBMs main lab in Boeblingen, Germany. He has more than 30 years of experience in Software and led development of a broad range of IBM software product components in areas like mainframe, cloud and storage, most recently Storage Protect and Defender. Gerd is working with customers and business partners world-wide and closely interacts with many of them as an IBM Lab advocate.
Chris Ruskay
IBM, USA
12:30 - 14:00
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch Break
What is being considered for the next couple quarters. This will discuss the areas of focus and priorities across IBM Defender being considered for delivery in the short-term. What do we foresee delivering in the next 1 to 2 quarters and how do we view priorities and candidate items for delivery in the next 6 months after that. Candidate items will be discussed, the “what” and “why” we think these are appropriate additions to IBM Defender, and other insight into what may be coming.
14:00 - 14:45
14:00 - 14:45
Chair: Gerd Becker
Gerd Becker is a Senior Consultant at Cristie Data GmbH, an IBM Business Partner in Germany. He was more than 22 years a Project Manager for EMPALIS Consulting GmbH. He has more than 45 years of IT experience, including over 25 years of 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®). In the context of data protection he has certifications and experience in project management. 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) Storage-Usergroup for more than 22 years and member of the committee organizing the well-known TSM or ISP Symposium. He is author of several IBM Redbooks and IBM Champion since 2019.
IBM Defender: A look into the next 3-4 quarters

What is being considered for the next couple quarters. This will discuss the areas of focus and priorities across IBM Defender being considered for delivery in the short-term. What do we foresee delivering in the next 1 to 2 quarters and how do we view priorities and candidate items for delivery in the next 6 months after that. Candidate items will be discussed, the “what” and “why” we think these are appropriate additions to IBM Defender, and other insight into what may be coming.

Juan Carlos Jimenez
IBM, USA
Juan Carlos is a World-wide Data Resiliency Product Manager. He is focused on defining roadmap, initiatives, and strategy within the various data resiliency software products that he manages alongside his team. Juan Carlos brings an end-to-end view to cyber resilience leveraging his expertise in both storage and security. Juan Carlos developed our Cyber Resiliency Assessment Tool which has been helping numerous enterprises identify and close gaps in their IT environments.
Greg Van Hise
IBM, USA
Greg Van Hise is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member and student of data protection and data resiliency.   He is currently a product manager for Data Resiliency and Storage Protect.   Greg career has spanned numerous development, architecture, strategy and product management positions.   Greg has celerbrated his 20 anniversay of 20 years of employment with IBM.
Jeff Placer
IBM, USA
Jeff Placer is the UX Architect for IBM Storage Defender based out of Tucson, Arizona. Jeff has been building user interfaces with IBM for over 19 years across multiple IBM Storage products. Previously he was the UI Architect for IBM Fusion. Apart from building quality user experiences and engaging with customers, Jeff loves spending time outdoors with his two wonderful kids.
What is the strategic view of what IBM is trying to accomplish with IBM Defender? This session will discuss the multi-year strategic goals for IBM Defender and provide insight into how we see the landscape of cyber-resilience evolving to respond to the threats facing your data.
14:45 - 15:30
14:45 - 15:30
Chair: Gerd Becker
Gerd Becker is a Senior Consultant at Cristie Data GmbH, an IBM Business Partner in Germany. He was more than 22 years a Project Manager for EMPALIS Consulting GmbH. He has more than 45 years of IT experience, including over 25 years of 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®). In the context of data protection he has certifications and experience in project management. 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) Storage-Usergroup for more than 22 years and member of the committee organizing the well-known TSM or ISP Symposium. He is author of several IBM Redbooks and IBM Champion since 2019.
IBM Defender: The Strategy and Vision for IBM’s cyber-resilience strategy and the protection of data

What is the strategic view of what IBM is trying to accomplish with IBM Defender? This session will discuss the multi-year strategic goals for IBM Defender and provide insight into how we see the landscape of cyber-resilience evolving to respond to the threats facing your data.

Juan Carlos Jimenez
IBM, USA
Juan Carlos is a World-wide Data Resiliency Product Manager. He is focused on defining roadmap, initiatives, and strategy within the various data resiliency software products that he manages alongside his team. Juan Carlos brings an end-to-end view to cyber resilience leveraging his expertise in both storage and security. Juan Carlos developed our Cyber Resiliency Assessment Tool which has been helping numerous enterprises identify and close gaps in their IT environments.
Greg Van Hise
IBM, USA
Greg Van Hise is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member and student of data protection and data resiliency.   He is currently a product manager for Data Resiliency and Storage Protect.   Greg career has spanned numerous development, architecture, strategy and product management positions.   Greg has celerbrated his 20 anniversay of 20 years of employment with IBM.
Jeff Placer
IBM, USA