 | Level: Introductory Luis Ferreira (luix@us.ibm.com), Senior Software Engineer, IBM
Joachim Dirker (dirker@de.ibm.com), Data Management Consultant, IBM
Olegario Hernandez, Independent consultant, N/A
Carlos Queiroz, Independent Consultant, N/A
Volker Rohleder (vrohlede@de.ibm.com), IT specialist, IBM
20 Jul 2004 Welcome to "The information grid" series here on developerWorks. The installments of this series are grouped from latest to first for your convenience.
In Part 3: Scenarios, the authors take a close look at the following three scenarios for the design of an information grid: a virtual data store, an integrated virtual data layer, and a virtual global repository.
In Part 2: Blueprints and layers, the authors show how planning the information infrastructure for a grid is easier when you use a blueprint. After discussing the virtualization layers (data, file system, and storage), Part 2 provides you with a blueprint for using each one.
In Part 1: The infrastructure, the authors show system architects how to think through the information infrastructure when setting up a grid computing environment.
About the authors | | | Luis Ferreira, also known as "Luix," is a senior software engineer at the International Technical Support Organization, Austin Center, working on Linux® and grid computing projects. He has 20 years of experience with UNIX®-like operating systems in design, architecture, and implementation. He holds a master's degree in systems engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Before joining the ITSO, he worked at Tivoli Systems as a Certified Tivoli Consultant, at IBM Brazil as a Certified IT Specialist, and at Cobra Computadores as a kernel developer and operating systems designer. |
| | | Joachim Dirker is a data management consultant with IBM Germany. He has 15 years of experience in the data management field. His areas of expertise stretch from data modeling and database design to system tuning for high-end OLTP and data warehouse solutions on DB2® UDB for OS/390® and UNIX and Windows® platforms. He is involved throughout the pre- and
post-sale process, from designing end-to-end data management solutions and competitive positioning, to implementation and problem determination activities across the entire range of IBM data management offerings.
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| | | Olegario Hernandez is a former IBM advisory systems engineer with 30 years of experience with IBM. He graduated as a chemical civil engineer from the Universidad de Chile. During his time in IBM, as a regular employee, he worked in application development, disciplines of systems management, IS architecture, CICS® Application Interface, and business systems planning methodology (BSP). Has participated in residencies at different centers of the IBM International Technical Support Organization: ITSC Boeblingen for CICS Application Interface, ISC Gaithersburg for AD/Cycle, and ITSC Poughkeepsie, twice, for Systems Management and SystemView. Since retiring from IBM, he has participated in the ITSO Austin Architecting Secure Systems with Tivoli® products and the Introduction to Grid Computing with Globus residencies as an IT Systems Consultant for IBM Business Partners. |
| | | Carlos Alexandre Queiroz is an independent consultant working for Alex Microsystems. He has been working with grid computing, Jini and J2EE technologies since 2000. Currently, he is earning a master’s degree at Universidade de São Paulo as a distributed systems and network specialist. He has published articles at several congresses, such as middleware2003, SBRC, grid computing and parallel applications events. Carlos is an active developer of the InteGrade project. |
| | | Volker Rohleder is a certified I/T Specialist at the TotalStorage Executive Briefing Center in Mainz, Germany. He has 24 years of experience providing technical support across a variety of IBM storage and virtualization products and technologies, including storage management and emerging technologies. He has held various technical positions in both marketing and development with
servers, networking, and storage organization supporting EMEA. He is involved throughout the pre-sales and post-sales process, from designing end-to-end storage solutions and competitive positioning to implementation and problem determination activities across the entire range of IBM TotalStorage offerings. |
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