Communities for System x and BladeCenter

Kevin is responsible for worldwide marketing programs for System x and BladeCenter. Kevin has a broad background in IT marketing and business line management, with over 15 years experience working with servers, networking, storage, and IT education.

Area of expertise

x86 based servers and networking, including System x and BladeCenter

Other ways to connect with Kevin:

• View Kevin’s profile on LinkedIn
• Follow Kevin on Twitter
• Connect with Kevin via e-mail

Kevin also recommends:

• Read the System x and BladeCenter blog
• Chat with us on Twitter
• Watch System x videos on YouTube

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.

Elisabeth's blog:

• Benchmarking and systems performance

Other ways to connect with Elisabeth:

• Follow Elisabeth on Twitter

Elisabeth also recommends:

• System x performance benchmarks
• BladeCenter performance benchmarks

Dave is focused on System x and low latency technologies. He created and has been leading the IBM Wall Street Center of Excellence in New York City since 2008 and in 2011 has begun to expand the initiative globally. The Center has a particular focus on financial markets clients to help them solve their most challenging business objectives relating to ultra low latency computing, with technologies spanning solid state, hardware accelerators and acceleration techniques, network adapters and switches, as well as collaborating with partners and clients to drive new standards such as precision time. Dave also leads the IBM relationship with STAC®, the Securities Technology Analysis Center, which works with clients and vendors to create industry standard benchmarks for high-performance capital markets technologies.

Area of expertise

System x

Ways to connect with Dave:

• View Dave’s profile on LinkedIn
• Follow Dave on Twitter
• Connect with Dave via e-mail

Dave also recommends:

• Read the System x and BladeCenter blog
• Watch System x videos on YouTube
• Join the IBM Low Latency Center of Competency
• Visit the Wall Street Center of Excellence site
• See the 3850 X5 "trading in a box" case study(1.01MB)

Paul is responsible for product marketing of System x enterprise rack servers and eX5 innovations, including the industry's fastest solid-state storage offering, IBM eXFlash. He is an active member of IEEE and can be contacted in the business and technical community via social networks, member meetings and various user groups.

Ways to connect with Paul:

• View Paul’s profile on LinkedIn
• Follow Paul on Twitter
• Connect with Paul via e-mail

Paul recommends:

• IBM eX5 enterprise systems web pages at ibm.com

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:

• System x and BladeCenter x86 Server 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.

Other ways to connect with Cliff:

• Follow Cliff on Twitter
• View Cliff’s profile on LinkedIn

Cliff also recommends:

• System x Blades Facebook page

Chris is a Marketing Manager for IBM System x, focused on sales enablement and competitive tools. He works closely with System x product managers, IBM sellers, and IBM Business Partners to provide the right resources and tools to enable all IBM System x sellers.

Other ways to connect with Chris

• View Chris's profile on LinkedIn
• Follow Chris on Twitter
• Email Chris
• Watch System x videos on YouTube

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.

Ways to connect with Otis:

• View Otis' profile on LinkedIn
• Connect with Otis via e-mail

Otis recommends:

• x86 rack and tower web pages at ibm.com