Tony Eriksson  works at IBM Systems Lab Services Nordic, based in Stockholm, Sweden. 

He joined IBM in 1988 as a mainframe Customer Engineer. From 1999 he has worked as a product specialist on entrerprise storage solutions incl DS8000, SVC and SAN products. In 2014 he joined a IBM Business Partner as a pres-sales and a implementation consultant mainly migrating to IBM storage products. In 2019 ,he joined IBM Systems Lab Services Nordic working close with the Swedish technical sales team for storage solutions. He holds a Technical College Graduation in Electrical Engineering. 

Detlef Helmbrecht  Detlef Helmbrecht is an Advanced Technical Skills (ATS) IT Specialist working for the IBM Systems. He is in the EMEA Storage Competence Center (ESCC) in Kelsterbach, Germany. Detlef has over 35 years of experience in IT, performing various roles, including software engineer, sales, and solution architect. His areas of expertise include high-performance computing (HPC), disaster recovery, archiving, application tuning, FlashSystem. and Flash based storage systems. 

Peter Kimmel  is an IT Specialist and ATS team lead of the Enterprise Storage Solutions team at the EMEA Storage Competence Center (ESCC) in Kelsterbach, Germany. He joined IBM Storage in 1999, and since then has worked with all the various IBM Enterprise Storage Serverfi and System Storage DS8000 generations, with a focus on architecture and performance. He was involved in the Early Shipment Programs (ESPs) of these early installs, and co-authored several DS8000 IBM publications. Peter holds a Diploma (MSc) degree in Physics from the University of Kaiserslautern. 

Lisa Martinez  has been working in the Washington Systems Center—Storage Team as a storage specialist since January 2012. Her focus has been with pre-sales support for IBM DS8000 and the IBM Spectrumfi Accelerate family of storage products (FlashSystem A9000 and A9000R, XIVfi, and IBM Spectrum Accelerate). She is also the lead instructor for FlashSystem A9000 and A9000R, XIV, and Spectrum Accelerate customer based workshops. 

Her experience includes roles as a storage architect in the Specialty Services Area in GTS and test architect in disk storage, focusing on system-level test for XiV for three years, and copy services for DS8000. Lisa holds degrees in Computer Science from New Mexico Highlands University and Electrical Engineering from the University of New Mexico. 

Kavita Shah  is an IBM Storage Technical Advisor with more than 20 years of experience in IBM Storage. In her current role, she works with some of IBM’s prominent customers, providing them technical guidance and advise on a broad range of IBM storage products. 

Before her current role, she was in Development working on many of these products such as Spectrum Protect, Spectrum Control, DS8000, Flash Systems and SVC Storwizefi. In the Development labs, she performed various technical roles, including the GUI Team Lead for products such as the DS8000. 

Sandro Thierbach  is a Remote Technical Support Engineer and Subject-Matter Expert (SME) for IBM System Storage DS8000 at the EMEA Storage Competence Center (ESCC) in IBM Germany, and he has been with IBM since 1996. Before he joined the ESCC for IBM System Storage, he worked for the Technical Education Competence Center (TECC) Germany and IBM TSS Global Learning as instructor and held many DS8000 and XIV trainings for several years. 

