GSE UK Conference 2008

"Be Recognized"

Abstract:

System z connects to I/O gear via external connections called channels and control units. Forty years ago, these were separate boxes, each the size of a refrigerator. Today, they are elements of the Processor Complex and the Storage Subsystems. This session will discuss the basics of storage attachment, how storage works and the current state of disk and tape for the System z platform

Robert D. (Bob) Halem is a Senior Storage Consultant based at IBM's Storage Executive Briefing Centre at San Jose, California. Bob has been with IBM for over thirty-nine years and has had a varied range of job assignments and positions including programmer, programming manager, hardware product planner, market support representative, microcode development manager, and program manager. For the last fifteen years, he has served as a Storage Consultant in the Storage Systems Project Office and the Storage Systems Executive Briefing Center and is IBM Storage Systems Division representative to various international user groups including SHARE, GUIDE International (US), GUIDE/SHARE Europe, Australasian SHARE/GUIDE(InterAction), and IBM User Group Hong Kong.

Bob holds a Bachelors Degree in Maths from UCLA and a Master of Science degree in Computer Design from San Jose State University.

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