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  • Willie Favero

    Sr Certified IT Specialist, DB2 for z/OS

  • Martin Packer

    Mainframe Performance Principal - Worldwide Banking Center Of Excellence

  • Roland Seiffert

    IBM System z-based Workload-optimized Solutions

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Martin Packer

Mainframe Performance Principal - Worldwide Banking Center Of Excellence

Martin is a well-known Performance guy, with over 25 years of experience helping customers manage their systems. He has also been involved in the development of performance analysis tools which are widely used inside IBM - for its Performance Consulting practice. Martin also takes a keen interest in modern computing technologies in general, and how they can be used in the z/OS mainframe environment in particular. *

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Willie Favero

Sr Certified IT Specialist, DB2 for z/OS

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

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

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Roland Seiffert

IBM System z-based Workload-optimized Solutions
IBM Systems Optimization Competency Center

 

Roland is the technical leader of the Böblingen, Germany division of a new IBM organization called the Systems Optimization Competency Center. He is focused on advancing the IBM System z business analytics strategy through optimized integration.

Recently, Roland was part of the zEnterprise core design team, acting as the architect for the hypervisor integration and management for zBX-integrated systems. He has also been lead architect for hybrid technologies for Linux on System z — with a focus on leveraging heterogeneous and host/optimizer structures in hybrid workloads. *

 

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IBM System z supports multiple operation systems:

Through its hybrid computing capability, IBM zEnterprise with IBM zEnterprise BladeCenter® Extension (zBX) also supports IBM® AIX® on Power, Microsoft Windows® and Linux® on System x®

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