GSE ISP 2024

17th GSE ISP Symposium

23 — 25 September 2024

Hilton Cologne, Germany

SOLD OUT

Technical Commitee

Gerd Becker

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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.

Thomas Eifert

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Thomas Eifert got acquainted with TSM 2001. Since then he led the the restore team and was responsible for a series of other IT services at RWTH Aachen University. Since 2013 he is the CTO of the IT Center at RWTH Aachen University. His current focus of interest is on digitalization of research and teaching. He received a Ph.D. in the field of solid state physics and won a Fellowship in Innovation of digital university education NRW in 2019.

Robert Fijan

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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.

Peter Groth

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Peter is the President of GUIDE SHARE EUROPE.

Peter Micke

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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.

Bjørn Nachtwey

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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.

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