Get connected to IBM and industry experts, colleagues and many others who share experiences with System x and BladeCenter. Discover ways to connect with people who share your interest in seeking technical advice, solving problems, getting questions answered and more. Learn more below and meet some great people along the way.
Meet the experts
Elisabeth Stahl
Chief Technical Strategist, Performance Marketing
Barbara Beltrame
x86 & Cloud Competitive Specialist
Cliff Kinard
Social Media Strategist & Sr. Marketing Manager
Otis Lackey
System x Marketing Manager
1- and 2-socket servers
IBM x86 servers on YouTube
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Otis Lackey
System x Marketing Manager
1- and 2-socket servers
Otis is the Marketing Manager for System x 1- and 2-socket rack and tower servers, including the best-selling IBM server, the System x3650 M3. He is a frequent speaker at customer, seller and Business Partner events, and manages communications to the IBM System x seller and Business Partner community.
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Elisabeth Stahl
Chief Technical Strategist, Performance Marketing
Elisabeth Stahl is Chief Technical Strategist, Performance Marketing for the IBM Systems and Technology Group and has been working in systems performance for over 25 years. Elisabeth’s blog is designed for the open exchange of ideas relating to systems performance and benchmarking.
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Cliff Kinard
Social Media Strategist & Sr. Marketing Manager
Cliff is one of the new "intrapreneurs" at IBM, Cliff was digital...when digital wasn't cool or profitable. Today, he is helping reinvent the IBM System x server team's social media and internet marketing approach to engaging customers in the x86, Intel® and AMD server hardware market.
Cliff’s blog:
Cliff’s blog is an open discussion of ideas relating to IBM System x and BladeCenter® servers, with experts from multiple areas lending opinions on many topics: virtualization, VMware, networking, systems management, Linux®... just to name a few.
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Barbara Beltrame
x86 & Cloud Competitive Specialist
Barbara is a competitive expert working with servers and cloud computing, part of an IBM worldwide team. She is a public speaker at IBM technical events and IBM Top Gun courses. In March 2011 she graduated with an MBA dissertation on the strategic implications of cloud computing for IBM x86 servers. She has been with IBM for 10 years.
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