Tony Pearson presents briefings on storage topics covering the entire System Storage product line as well as various Tivoli storage software products.
He also leads client workshops to help with strategic planning for IBM's integrated set of storage management software, hardware, and virtualization products. He is author of the book "Inside System Storage: Volume I".*

Tony's blog - Inside System Storage

This blog is for the open exchange of ideas relating to storage and storage networking hardware, software and services. It was rated one of the top 10 blogs of 2006 for the IT storage industry by "Networking World" magazine. It has been published in book form as "Inside System Storage: Volume I", and is available to order in Hardcover (link resides outside of ibm.com) or Paperback (link resides outside of ibm.com) versions.

Barry Whyte is a 'Master Inventor' working in the Systems & Technology Group based in IBM Hursley, UK. Barry primarily works on the IBM SAN Volume Controller virtualization system. Barry graduated from The University of Glasgow in 1996 with a B.Sc (Hons) in Computing Science. In his 14 years at IBM he has worked on the successful Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) range of products and the follow on Fibre-channel products used in the IBM DS8000 range. Barry joined the SVC development team soon after its inception and has held many positions before taking on his current role as SVC performance architect. *

Barry's blog - Storage Virtualization

An exchange and discussion of storage and in particular storage virtualization

Richard Swain is an IT Specialist working in the Sales and Distribution group based in Research Triangle Park, of North Carolina, US. Richard's focus is solely on IBM Network-Attached Storage (NAS) products, including Scale out NAS (SoNAS) and the N series Storage platform within the IBM OEM partnership with Netapp. Richard graduated from North Carolina State University in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science degree. In his 13 years in IT, Richard has moved through the ranks as a Network Specialist, Exchange Administrator, Storage and Systems Engineer, and Sales Engineer. During the last 5 years, Richard has been focused on the N series Storage platform, initially as a Product Field Engineer in Research Triangle Park and now as the IT Specialist for the US East region with focus on the South East US. *

Richard's Blog: IBM NAS Storage

Here is where you will find all things concerning IBM's SONAS and N series. While I do work for IBM all post and comments are no way intended to speak or represent IBM.

Steve is the Chief Architect for IBM i, a Smarter Systems for Smarter Planet operating system used by hundreds of thousands of enterprises world wide. He is a frequent speaker at customer events, collects requirements from customer advisory groups, and works with professionals inside and outside IBM on future technology.

Steve's blog: You and i

This blog is used to discuss topics related to IBM i, including our strategy, benefits of the architecture, announcements, and news. It takes advantage of the capability for the large, passionate IBM i customer community to respond, to have conversations about what we say, to make the blog really be about you and i.

Dawn's current position is the technical lead for the IBM i Systems Software Development organization and IBM i Business Architect. In this position she has the responsibility for the overall strategy and plan for the core components of i.

Dawn's blog - i Can

The "i Can" blog is to share the "hidden gems" within IBM i. The name "i Can" is to convey the fact that IBM i can do more than most realize. The updates to this blog will generally be information about the latest features in the most current releases.

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 - Benchmarking and systems performance

This blog is for the open exchange of ideas relating to systems performance and benchmarking.

Rob McNelly got his first big break when he started working with three IBM AS/400's as a computer operator. Although he still remembers OS/400 fondly, he now spends most of his time with AIX and Linux on IBM Power servers. Rob spent six years with IBM Global Services in Boulder Colorado, and is now employed by IBM Premier Business Partner Meridian IT in a pre and post sales role. Rob is a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) and an IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert (CATE).

Rob has worked in computer operations, systems management, systems architecture, and planning for organizations ranging from healthcare to financial services to retail.

Rob's blog

AIXchange is meant to be an exchange of tips, ideas, and information around IBM's Smarter Systems for Smarter Planet and AIX operating system. Although Rob tries to exclusively write about these topics, now and again you will find him reminiscing about computing environments from twenty years ago, along with observations on tools and techniques that are useful for system administrators.

David Davidian creates customer-facing technology presentations and internal technical intelligence briefs addressing competitive HW, SW, performance claims and comparative CPU architectures. Davidian has several SW and HW patents.

David's blog - Views on Competitor Claims & Advice on Migration

On his blog, Views on Competitor Claims and Advice on Migration, David addresses issues from CPU architectures and performance to security and virtualization.

Conor O'Mahony leads Competitive Marketing for the Information Management organization at IBM. He has been a leading blogger about IBM database technology for a number of years.

Conor's DB2 News and Views (link resides outside of ibm.com) blog attempts to present a frank and balanced view of IBM DB2 pureScale and IBM Smarter Systems. It also keeps readers up-to-date with developments in the DB2 user community.

Irshad Raihan has worked in many marketing roles within IBM Information Management, including product marketing, Go-To-Market and competitive marketing.

Irshad’s Blog (link resides outside of ibm.com) covers many pertinent data management topics including news on DB2, commentary on database industry dynamics and IBM Smarter Systems.

Alan has been in the BI community since the mid 1980’s and held both technical and marketing positions in data warehousing. He has been a frequent speaker at industry trade shows and has authored books, papers and articles on topics of innovating with information. He also holds several software patents.

Cliff is one of the new "intrapreneurs" at IBM, Cliff was digital...when digital wasn't cool or profitable. Today, Cliff 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: System x and BladeCenter x86 Server Blog

This blog is an open discussion of ideas relating to IBM System x and BladeCenter servers. We have experts from multiple areas lending opinions on many topics: virtualization, VMWare, networking, systems management, LINUX... just to name a few.

Kathleen Holm, Service Management Marketing Manager, is responsible for the Integrated Service Management Web site, developing and implementing the service management social media strategy, and content development for articles, presentations and videos.

Kathleen's blog - Service Management blog

Visit the Service Management blog for regular insights into Integrated Service Management in the data center, across design and delivery, and tailored to specific industry needs.

Willie Favero is currently a Senior Certified Consulting IT Software Specialist working with the Data Warehouse for System z Swat Team at IBM's Silicon Valley Lab.

Getting the Most out of DB2 for z/OS and System z (link resides outside of ibm.com)

This blog is for the open exchange of ideas relating to deploying workloads on DB2 for z/OS

Chris Eaton is a DB2 Technical Evangelist for IBM having worked with DB2 for over 18 years. Chris is focused on DB2 strategy and working on future plans for DB2. Chris is also an award winning speaker at worldwide database conferences and has authored several books on DB2.

An Expert's Guide to DB2 Technology

This blog is for the open exchange of ideas relating to systems performance and benchmarking.

Neil Readshaw is an Information Security Solution Architect. He works with customers and business partners to architect solutions that consider Tivoli Security products and how they integrate into a broader IBM and heterogeneous ecosystem. He works across all industries and geographies, and he has particular interest in emerging technologies such as security in cloud and electronic healthcare environments.