IBM Power 750 - Authors

x IBM Power 750 and 760 Technical Overview and Introduction
Authors
This paper was produced by a team of specialists from around the world working at the
International Technical Support Organization, Poughkeepsie Center.
James Cruickshank works in the Power Systems Client Technical Specialist team for IBM in
the UK. He holds an Honors degree in Mathematics from the University of Leeds. James has
over 11 years of experience working with IBM pSeries®, IBM System p® and Power Systems
products and is a member of the EMEA Power Champions team. James supports customers
in the financial services sector in the UK.
Sorin Hanganu is an Accredited Product Services professional. He has eight years of
experience working on Power Systems and IBM i products. He is an IBM Certified Solution
Expert for IBM Dynamic Infrastructure® and also a IBM Certified Systems Expert for Power
Systems, AIX, PowerVM virtualization, ITIL and ITSM. Sorin works as a System Services
Representative for IBM in Bucharest, Romania.
Volker Haug is an Open Group Certified IT Specialist within IBM Germany supporting Power
Systems clients and Business Partners as a Client Technical Specialist. He holds a diploma
degree in Business Management from the University of Applied Studies in Stuttgart. His
career includes more than 25 years of experience with Power Systems, AIX, and PowerVM
virtualization; he has written several IBM Redbooks® publications about Power Systems and
PowerVM. Volker is an IBM POWER7® Champion and a member of the German Technical
Expert Council, an affiliate of the IBM Academy of Technology.
Stephen Lutz is a Certified Senior Technical Sales Professional for Power Systems working
for IBM Germany. He holds a degree in Commercial Information Technology from the
University of Applied Science Karlsruhe, Germany. He is POWER7 champion and has 14
years experience in AIX, Linux, virtualization, and Power Systems and its predecessors,
providing pre-sales technical support to clients, Business Partners, and IBM sales
representatives all over Germany. Stephen is also an expert in IBM Systems Director, its
plug-ins, and IBM SmartCloud® Entry with a focus on Power Systems and AIX.
John T Schmidt is an Accredited IT Specialist for IBM and has twelve years experience with
IBM and Power Systems. He has a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of
Missouri - Rolla and an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis. In addition to
contributing to eight other Power Systems IBM Redpapers™ publications, in 2010, he
completed an assignment with the IBM Corporate Service Corps in Hyderabad, India. He is
currently working in the United States as a pre-sales Field Technical Sales Specialist for
Power Systems in Boston, MA.
Marco Vallone is a certified IT Specialist at IBM Italy. He joined IBM in 1989 starting in the
Power Systems production plant (Santa Palomba) as a product engineer and afterwords he
worked for the ITS AIX support and delivery service center. For the last eight years of his
career, he has worked as IT Solution Architect in the ITS Solution Design Compentence
Center of Excellence in Rome, where he mainly designs infrastructure solutions on distributed
environments with a special focus on Power System solution.
The project that produced this publication was managed by:
Scott Vetter
Executive Project Manager, PMP