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Maxim Kukarev is a Client Technical Specialist working on System z for IBM Russia and has
worked for IBM for 5 years. He has 9 years of experience in working with the System z
platform. His areas of expertise include installation and implementation of SAP solutions in
high availability mode based on DB2 9 and 10 for z/OS.
Oliver Petrik is a Software Developer with the IBM Platform Team for SAP on System z in
Böblingen and St. Leon-Rot, Germany. He has 13 years of experience on the System z
platform. His areas of expertise include virtualization (IBM System z, z/VM®, VMware,
kernel-based virtual machine (KVM)) and Linux. Oliver has written extensively about SAP
installation, OS monitoring, and virtualization. He holds a diploma in mathematics from the
University of Düsseldorf in Germany.
Franz Voelker is a Sr. Consultant and Technical Presales Specialist in the IBM SAP
International Competency Center (ISICC) in Walldorf, Germany. He joined IBM in 1978 and
has been with the company for 30 years. He has more than 10 years of experience in
servicing the manufacturing industry and another 14 years of experience in consulting with
banks about systems integration and service-oriented architecture (SOA). He specializes in
System z solutions, and since 2004, has been focusing on SAP infrastructures. He is a
coauthor of the book SAP auf Linux, written in German and published by SAP Press 2007,
and is a regular speaker at SAP TechEd and other conferences. Franz has a diploma in
applied physics from the University of Dortmund/Hagen in Germany.
Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this project:
Richard M. Conway
Roy P. Costa
Robert Haimowitz
ITSO, Poughkeepsie Center
Dr. Bernd Kohler
Peter Mohrholz
SAP
Johannes Schuetzner
IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH
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