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Business Continuity –The Seven Tiers of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

� Tony Pearson� Master Inventor and Senior IT Architect� IBM Corporation



Abstract

Is it time to re-evaluate your Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans?

This session will cover the basic concepts, industry definitions and best practices

This session can apply to all environments, including System z mainframe, POWER Systems, and x86 servers.



This week with Tony Pearson

Day Time Topic

Tuesday 11:45Introduction to IBM Cloud Object Storage System and its Applications (powered by Cleversafe)

17:30 Solution Center Reception

Wednesday 10:15 IBM’s Cloud Storage Options

13:45The Pendulum Swings Back – Understanding Converged and Hyperconverged Environments

15:00Business Continuity – The seven tiers of business continuity and disaster recovery

17:30 Networking Reception with Poster Session

Thursday13:45

New generation of storage tiering: Simpler management, Lower costs and Increased performance

15:00 IBM Spectrum Scale for File and Object Storage



Three Components of Business Continuity

Fault-tolerant, failure-resistant streamlined infrastructure

with affordable cost foundation

1. High AvailabilityNon-disruptive backups and

system maintenance coupled with continuous availability of

applications

2. Continuous OperationsProtection against unplanned

outages such as disasters through reliable, predictable

recovery

3. Disaster Recovery

IT DataProtection



Some Fundamental Truths about Business Continuity

1. Disasters Happen.

2. A Disaster is any incident or event that interrupts access from decision-makers and applications to business data for whatever constitutes an unacceptable period of time.

3. A Disaster is usually distinguished from a mere inconvenience (temporary crisis) by its duration.

4. The nature of the business process impacted determine its tolerance for downtime, which is relative and contextual.



Business Continuity – Key Goals

1. Operations continue after a disaster

2. Recovery is Predictable and Reliable

3. Costs are Predictable and Manageable

4. Protection of Critical Business Data throughout the entire process



All Disaster Recoveries Follow “Bottom-Up” Approach

OS, Application Data and Storage Infrastructure

Server farm

Disaster Facilities

BusinessProcess 1

BP 2

App 1 App 2 A3 A4

Identify Location• Another data center• D/R Service Provider• Cloud

Recovery Data• What data did we have?• What data can we recover?• How do we handle the rest?

Re-host Applications• Bare Machine Recovery• Physical-to-Virtual• Machine dependencies

Human Success Factors• Command & Control• Communication / Collaboration• Connectivity• Contingency• Counseling



Timeline of an IT Recovery

Done?

Execute hardware, operating system, and data integrity recovery

AssessRPO

Application transactionintegrity recovery

Now we're done!

Recovery Time Objective (RTO)

of transaction integrity

Recovery Time Objective (RTO)

of hardware data integrity

Recovery Point

Objective

(RPO)

How much data

must be

recreated?

RPO

Outage!

Production ☺☺☺☺



Replication Metrics

Traditional Backup

SecsMinsHrsDaysWks Secs Mins Hrs Days Wks

Recovery Point Recovery Time

Synchronous replication / HA

Point-in-Time Copies

Asynchronousreplication

Replication TechnologyDrives RPO:

– How out-of-date recovered data is

– Manual re-entry of “data at risk”

ManualRestore

End to end automated clustering

Storage automation

Replication AutomationDrives RTO:

– Fault detection– Recovering data– Restarting applications– Network access



Where are most companies today?

No Offsite

No Testing

No Confidence

Confident

19% D/R plan in place,copies in offsite facilities,… but no D/R testing

62% No D/R plan, no offsite copies of data orcopies of data nearby

12% Regular testing, but not confident they can executeD/R plan

7% Confident they can execute D/R plan



Planning Should Focus on Effects – Not CausesAll effects tend to fall into one of four categories

1. Workforce shortage caused by infectious outbreak, labor strike, extreme weather or a breakdown in transportation

2. Loss of technology due to cyber attack, interruption in communications, power outage or flood

3. Loss of facilities resulting from fire, workplace violence, hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters

4. Failure in the supply chain that prevents the shipping and receiving of products and raw materials

Source: “Perspective: Disaster Recovery Preparedness”, Chase Commercial Bank, 2009



Basic “Top Down” Strategy for Business Continuity Planning

BusinessProcess 1

BP 2 BP 3


Server farm

App 1 App 2 A3 A4 A5

ProductionFacilities

A6

Business Continuity Plans (BCP) should focus on “Business Process” as unit of recovery

• Prioritize Gold, Silver, Bronze• Decide RTO for each, for example:

• Gold in 4 hours• Silver in 48 hours• Bronze 2 weeks or longer

• Be pragmatic

Determine which Applications and Data are required to support each Business Process

• IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM)

Identify server, storage and network infrastructure needed to support the Applications and Data

• Can these run in the Cloud?

Gold Silver Bronze



Organize High Availability, Business Continuity Technologies

Recovery Time Objective (guidelines only)

15 Min. 1-4 Hr.. 4 -8 Hr.. 8-12 Hr.. 12-16 Hr.. 24 Hr.. Days

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BC Tier 4 – Point in Time replication

BC Tier 3 – VTL, Tape Libraries, Electronic vault

BC Tier 2 – Tapes in Hot Site

BC Tier 7 – Storage replication with end-to-end automated server recovery

BC Tier 6 – Real-time continuous data replication

BC Tier 1 – Restore from Tape

BC Tier 5 – Application/database integration

Continuous Operations Backup/Restore

Balancing recovery time objective with cost / value



BC Tier 2Send backup

tapes directly to Disaster Facilities

Backup and Restore – BC Tiers 1 to 3

BusinessProcess 1

BP 2 BP 3


Server farm



A6

Gold Silver Bronze

BC Tier 1Send backup tapes to an offsite vault, move tapes to Disaster Facilities

BC Tier 3Send backups to Disaster

Facilities electronic vaulting, ATL,VTL, Object store or Cloud



IBM Spectrum Protect – Architecture

Spectrum Protect Server• Spectrum Protect server code• Metadata stored in DB2 Database and Logs• Physical data stored in storage pools on

various storage devices or in the cloud

Spectrum Protect Client Nodes

• Laptops• Desktops• Application Servers• Hypervisors

Disaster Recovery• Active/Active Spectrum

Protect Servers• Spectrum Protect

servers, database backups, and replicated copies of data

Data Footprint Reduction• Exclusion lists• Progressive Incremental Forever• Compression• Deduplication

Storage Pools• Flexible storage hierarchy• Flash, Disk, Tape• Virtual Tape Libraries (VTL)• Network Attached Storage (NAS)• Object Storage and Cloud



IBM Spectrum Protect – Tape-Based Disaster Recovery

Source server

Target server

Disaster Recovery Planning

• Automatically generated disaster recovery plan (which tapes to restore first)

• Information, scripts and procedures

• Aid recovery of the IBM Spectrum Protect server from “database backups”

• Detailed tracking of off-site volumes

• Complements IBM Spectrum Protect off-site capabilities

DRPlan

�Node A

�Node B

X Node C



How Do I Backup my Analytics Environment?

HDFS SaveResults

DiscardR

es

tJFS2

NTFS

EXT4

Data Sources mashup of structured and unstructured data from a variety of sources

Actionable Insights Provides answers to the

Who, What, Where, When, Why and How

Business Intelligence & Predictive Analytics> Competitive Advantages> New Threats and Fraud

> Changing Needs and Forecasting

> And More!

IBM HDFS Transparency

Connector allows HDFS-based programs to

process data without application changes (100% compatible)IBM Spectrum Scale

Application data stored on IBM Spectrum Scale is readily available for analytics

Backup and RecoverWith IBM Spectrum Protect



Protect the Data on Tapes that Leave your Datacenter!

OS, Application Data, and Storage Infrastructure

Server farm


Server farm

TS1120, LTO4 and newer

Application Managed Encryption (AME)• IBM Spectrum Protect

can encrypt backup data stored on tapes

System Managed Encryption (SME)• IBM z/OS, zVSE, zVM, zTPF, AIX• Solaris, Windows, Linux

Library Managed Encryption (LME)• For LTO-4, TS1120 drives (and above)• IBM TS2000, TS3000 and TS4000 libraries• Uses IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager

(SKLM)

SKLM

Will you have the encryption keys you

need to make sense of the data?



IBM Spectrum Protect – Device Classes and Containers

Physical Tape Drivesand Automated Tape Libraries (ATL)

Virtual Tape Libraries (VTL) --- disk pretending to be tape

Device Class:TAPE

Disk pools accessed in sequential manner

Device Class:DISK

Pre-allocated space Random access

Sequential Access

DeviceClass

Container Pools

Container:DIRECTORY

Container:CLOUD

Slo

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Fa

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• More intelligent space utilization and I/O balancing across directories

• Dynamic allocation and removal of files like Sequential FILE volumes

• Re-usable space within a container like Random DISK volumes

On-premises or Off-premises

Device Class:FILE



IBM Spectrum Protect – Cloud and Object Store Capabilities

Client nodes

• IBM Cloud Object Storage System• IBM Spectrum Scale / ESS

Off-premises: • IBM Bluemix Cloud• Amazon Web Services

On-premises

IBM Spectrum Protect Server



IBM Spectrum Protect – Protect Pool + Node Replication

Node A and B• Metadata• Data (if any required)

�Node A

�Node B

X Node C

Source server

Target server

�Pool X �Pool Y

Directory Pool X and Y

• Extents of unique data

�Protect storage pool complements node replication by seeding extents on the target server

�Protect storage pool exhibits excellent performance and improves the throughput of subsequent node replication operations



Rapid Data Recovery – BC Tiers 4 and 5

BusinessProcess 1

BP 2 BP 3


Server farm



A6

Gold Silver Bronze

BC Tier 4Send point-in-time copies, (snapshots) to Disaster Facilities, every nn hours

BC Tier 5Send DB transaction

logs to Disaster Facilities, Apply them to secondary database,

( unstructured data recovered separately )



IBM Spectrum Virtualize - FlashCopy

Cascaded FlashCopy:Copy the copies

Up to 256 targets

Source Volume

FlashCopy relationships

Start incremental FlashCopy

Data copied as normal

Some data changed by apps

Start incremental FlashCopy

Only changed data copiedby background copy

Later …

Disk0Source

Map 1 Map 2

Map 4

Disk1FlashCopy

target of Disk0

Disk2FlashCopytarget of Disk1

Disk4FlashCopytarget of Disk3

Disk3FlashCopy

target of Disk1

Incremental FlashCopy:Volume level

point-in-time copy

FlashCopy:Volume level point-in-time copywith any mix of thinand fully-allocated



Mon Tue Wed

Full and incremental snapshot copies

• Interface on-premise block storage into cloud

• IBM Bluemix Cloud, Amazon S3, Openstack Swift

• Transform economics for storage

• Backup, archive, transfer volumes

• Full and incremental restore from cloud snapshots

• Supports volume groups for mutual consistency

More than 400 storage systems from IBM and others

Transparent Cloud Tiering

IBM Spectrum Virtualize Transparent Cloud Tiering



IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot Solution

Application System

Application

Data

Local Snapshot Versions

Snapshot Backup

Spectrum Protect Snapshot

With Optional

Spectrum Protect Server

Integration

�IBM FlashSystem �Spectrum Virtualize�SVC and Storwize�XIV�Sectrum Accelerate�DS8000�N Series, NetApp

�EMC, HP, Other*

For Various Storage

� Online, near instant, application aware snapshot backups with minimal performance impact

� High performance, near instant restore capability

� Integrated with storage hardware snapshots

� Integrated with storage remote mirroring

� Database Cloning

� Online, near instant, application aware snapshot backups with minimal performance impact

� High performance, near instant restore capability

� Integrated with storage hardware snapshots

� Integrated with storage remote mirroring

� Database Cloning

* Via Rocket Adapteror VSS Integration

Custom Apps

File Systems

VMware



Your Infrastructure

IBM Storwize V7000,

V5000, V3000

IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management

Software-Defined

Copy Data ManagementPlatform

• Cloud integrated• DevOps enabled

Transform

Catalog• Discover• Search

Automate• SLA compliance• Policy-based

LE

VE

RA

GE

Use Cases

Protection and Disaster Recovery

Hybrid Cloud

Applications

IBM FlashSystem A9000

IBM FlashSystem A9000R

IBM FlashSystem V9000

Also supports:

SAN Volume Controller

Spectrum Virtualize

Spectrum Accelerate

XIV Storage Arrays

VersaStack

EMC VNX and Unity

NetAPP

DevOps, Test/Dev

Automated CopyManagement

Automated Point-in-Time Copies for Disaster Recovery



BC Tier 5 with IBM Cloud Object Storage System

Three to Nine Sites – Geographically DispersedConsider adding IBM Cloud or leverage existing datacenter locations to

provide a broader distribution of data for higher availability and scalability


Server farm


Server farm

Modern applications often required both structured (DB) and unstructured data

Consider object storage for unstructured data

In the event of a disaster, secondary databases are up-

to-date… and unstructured data readily accessible without

fail-over or data recovery



Continuous Operations – BC Tiers 6 and 7

BusinessProcess 1

BP 2 BP 3


Server farm



A6

Gold Silver Bronze

BC Tier 6Mirror your data to Disaster Facilities, ( Networks and servers handled separately )

BC Tier 7Mirror your data,

networks are automatically re-directed, applications are automatically re-started



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•Write to primary volume

•The primary site initiates an I/O to the secondary site to transfer the data

•Secondary indicates to the primary that the write is complete

•Primary acknowledges to the host application that the write is complete

•Round-trip latency added to each Write I/O

• 1 msec delay per 100km separation distance

•Write to primary volume

•The primary site acknowledges to the host application that the write is complete

Some later time:

•The primary site initiates an I/O to the secondary site to transfer the data

•Secondary indicates to the primary that the write is complete

•Primary and secondary bitmap updated that data is in sync

2

3

1

43

4

1

2

Server I/OServer I/O

Metro MirrorSynchronous

Global MirrorAsynchronous

P SP S

RPO= 0Zero data loss

RPO= secondsor minutes

Sync versus Async



Remote Mirror Configurations

Bunker DisasterFacility

2-site Mirroring• Metro Mirror (Synch)• Global Mirror (Asynch)• Global Copy (Migration)

3-site Cascade• Metro/Global Mirror (M/GM)• Production � Bunker � Disaster

3-site Multi-Target Mirror• Independent Streams� Production � Bunker� Production � Disaster

• Stretch Cluster + Mirror

4-site Mirror

DisasterFacility



• A mirror or backup copy is only useful if all data for an application is saved at a consistent point

• To achieve snapshot consistency, Long Busy is used to create point in time copy on multiple volumes at a single point in time

• To achieve consistency at a remote mirror location, the order of dependent writes must be maintained and a dependent write to a volume must be mirrored if other dependent writes were successfully mirrored

• The remote mirror functions each maintain consistency in their own way

1. Log Update

4. Mark Log Complete

2. Subtract $100 from Saving

A

B

A’

B’

The term rolling disaster refers to failures happening to various components unpredictably over time

C C’ 3. Add $100 to Checking

Replication and Mirroring Consistency



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� Simplify and automate complex replication tasks – Automated replication configuration scales up to thousands

of pairs of disk volumes– Preserves historic configuration information

• easy setup for repetitive configuration or re-configuration– Operational control of replication environment via a highly

usable GUI rather than DSCLI scripts or TSO commands• but provides also CLI, csmcli

� Real world examples

Task DS8000 Command Line Interface CSM

Set up Global Mirror 5 steps 1 command (START)

Global Mirror Recovery 4 steps 1 command (RECOVER)

Set up Metro Global Mirror 8-25 steps 1 command (START)

Make a practice copy 5 steps 1 command (FLASH)

Task SVC Command Line Interface CSM

Set up Metro Mirror 4 steps 1 command (START)

Clean up a consistency group 3 steps 1 command (TERMINATE)

Make a practice copy 5 steps 1 command (FLASH)

IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) – Value



Copy Services Manager – Supported Configurations

Metro Mirrorand

Global Mirror

Snapshot

Metro Mirrorand

Global Mirror

Metro Mirrorand

Global Mirror w/ Practice

FlashCopy

Global Mirror w/ ChangeVolumes

XIV, Spectrum Accelerate, FlashSystem A9000/R

FlashCopy

• Metro Mirror/Global Copy *• Metro Mirror w/Practice *• Global Mirror• Global Mirror w/Practice• Global Mirror both directions w/Practice

• Metro Global Mirror *• Metro Global Mirror w/Practice *

2-site Configurations

3-site Cascade

3-site Multi-Target

• Multi Target MM/MM *• Multi Target MM/GM *• Multi Target MM/GM w/Practice *

* Provides the ability to enable the session for HyperSwap capabilities

DS8000 Systems

SVC, Spectrum Virtualize, Storwize, FlashSystem V9000



Node 2 Node 3

Storage Pool 1 Storage Pool 2

Host Server Host Server

Site 1

Site 1

Site 2

Site 2

Site 3

Node 1 Node 4

I/O Group 1I/O Group 2

Site 1 Site 2

Reads are performed

locally, as long as the local copy is up to

date

IP-based QuorumNo longer requires Fibre Channel connection to

site 3 for HyperSwap and Stretch Cluster

New management

GUI for HyperSwap and Stretch

Cluster

Active/Active HyperSwap® in Spectrum Virtualize



Protected Site / Private cloud

Recovery Site / Public cloud

HyperSwap through FC SAN and

IP-based Quorum

IBM FlashSystem A9000/R

vCenter A SRM A IBM SRA vCenter B SRM B IBM SRA

SAN / iSCSI Network

PublicNetwork

SAN / iSCSI Network

ESXi 1

VM 1 VM 2

App 1 App 2

ESXi 2

VM 3 VM 4

App 3 App 4

Demo: https://youtu.be/qjbl-YyOsNw

IBM Spectrum Accelerate

Quorum

IBM FlashSystem A9000/R

Active/Active HyperSwap® in FlashSystem A9000/R



BC Tier 7 – What is GDR for Power Systems?

VM Restart based DR: Simplified Disaster Recovery Solution for Power

�Support for IBM POWER7® POWER8® Systems (and above)

�Support for heterogeneous guest OSs

– AIX– Red Hat, SUSE, and Ubuntu Linux– IBM i

� Automated Disaster Recovery management

� Economics of eliminating hardware and software resources on backup site

– Enterprise Pool support (optional)

� Easier deployment for DR: unlike clustering or middleware replication technologies

� VM restart technology has no OS or middleware dependencies

A simplified way to manage DR

�Enterprise Pool support: DR site for less�Storage replication: EMC, SVC/Storwize.

DS8000, and coming soon: Hitachi(4Q’17)�Extensive validations�Pluggable framework for customization�Easy to deploy: fewer than 10 steps!



Multiple GDPS products meeting various requirements for Local/Metro/Remote Continuous Availability with out-of-region DR

Continuous

Availability and entry-level Disaster

Recovery

Single Data Center(one or two sites)

Applications remain active

Continuous access to data in

the event of a storage outage

GDPS/PPRC HM

RPO=0 [RTO secs]for disk only

Disaster Recovery

Extended Distance

Two Data Centers

Rapid Systems DR with

“seconds” of data loss

Disaster Recoveryfor out of region

interruptions

GDPS/GM & GDPS/XRC

RPO secs, RTO<1h

CA Regionally and

Disaster Recovery Extended Distance

Two/Three/Four Data Centers

High availability for site disasters

Disaster recovery for regional

disasters

GDPS/MGM & GDPS/MzGM

RPO=0,RTO mins/<1h

& RPO secs, RTO<1h

CA, DR, & Cross-

site Workload Balancing Extended

Distance

Two or more Active Data Centers

Automatic workload switch in seconds;

seconds of data loss

GDPS/Active-Active

RPO secs, RTO secs

RPO – recovery point objective RTO – recovery time objective

Continuous

Availability with DR within

Metropolitan Region

GDPS/PPRC & GDPS/MTMM

GDPS Virtual Appliance

RPO=0RTO mins / RTO<1h

Two Data Centers(2 server sites, 2 or 3 disk

locations)

Systems remain active

Multi-site workloads can withstand site

and/or storage failures

BC Tier 7 – GDPS for IBM Z and LinuxONE

Over 860 clients in 49 different countries



Disaster Recovery is a Business Solution not just Technology

BusinessProcess 1

BP 2 BP 3


Server farm



A6

Gold Silver Bronze

PeopleRoles and responsibilities, Management, Skills development and discipline

ProcessDefinition/design, compliance and continuous improvement

Technology

Backup and Restore, Snapshots and Remote Mirroring

Automation, Storage Management

Change and Problem Management



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� http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/

� https://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/spectrum/suite/

� http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/spectrum-protect

� https://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/en/it-services/business-continuity/draas/

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� GDR product page: ibm.biz/PowerGDR

� GDR Intro charts: https://ibm.box.com/s/wh7405mrjfebq59d685t02b1vew2bvu3

� Quick Intro to GDR: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Geographically%20Dispersed%20Resiliency%20%28GDR%29/page/Business%20Continuity%20%26%20Intro%20to%20GDR

� GDR social forum: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12012982

� 5 Things to know about GDR: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/5things/entry/5_Things_to_To_Know_about_Geographically_Dispersed_Resiliency_for_IBM_Power_Systems?lang=en

� GDR Redbook: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/sg248382.html?Open

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DR Move times - continued

SVC Metro and Global Mirror

DR MoveType

Configuration #VMs Time in Minutes and Seconds

Shutdown ReplicationReversal

RestartVMs

Total Time

Global/Asynchronous

1 Planned Site 1 Hosts=P7+Site 2 Hosts=P7+#HMCs/Site = 1#Hosts/Site = 1#Disks=100

100(Host 1: 100)

13m 33s 0m 1s 33m 56s 47m 29s

2 Unplanned(CEC down)

5m 33s 0m 8s 41m 11s 46m 52s

3 Planned Site 1 Hosts=P7+Site 2 Hosts=P7+#HMCs/Site=1#Hosts/Site=2#Disks=200

200(Host 1:100Host2:100)

9 m 0 m 8 s 57 m 1 h 6 m

4 Unplanned

4 m 26 s 0 m 1 s 57 m 6 s 1 h 2 m 3 s

5 Planned Site 1 Hosts=P7+Site 2 Hosts=P7+#HMC’s/Site=1#Hosts/Site=3#Disks=300

300(Host1:128Host2:122Host3:50)

20 m 54 s 0 m 8 s 78 m 45 s 1 h 40 m 32 s

6 Unplanned

3 m 15 s 0 m 8 s 66 m 55 s 1 h 10 m

Metro/Synchronous

1 Planned Site 1 Hosts=P7+Site 2 Hosts=P7+#HMCs/Site = 1#Hosts/Site = 1#Disks=100

100(Host 1: 100)

16m 44s 0m 8s 33m 58s 50m 50s

2 Unplanned(CEC down)

0m 16s 0m 1s 41m 29s 41m 46s



DR Move times - continued

Mirror Type DR Move Type Configuration #VMs Time in Minutes and Seconds

Shutdown ReplicationReversal

RestartVMs

Total Time

Global

Planned Site 1 Hosts=P7+Site 2 Hosts=P7+#HMCs/Site = 1#Hosts/Site = 1#Disks=100

100(Host 1: 100)

3m 46s 18m 33s 47m 26s 69m 45s

Unplanned(CEC down)

19 s 17m 26s 43m 47s 86m 19s

DS8K Global Mirror



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About the Speaker

Tony Pearson is a Master Inventor and Senior IT Architect for the IBM Storage product line. Tony joined IBM Corporation in

1986 in Tucson, Arizona, USA, and has lived there ever since. In his current role, Tony presents briefings on storage topics

covering the entire IBM Storage product line, IBM Spectrum Storage software products, and topics related to Cloud Computing,

Analytics and Cognitive Solutions. He interacts with clients, speaks at conferences and events, and leads client workshops to

help clients with strategic planning for IBM’s integrated set of storage management software, hardware, and virtualization

solutions.

Tony writes the “Inside System Storage” blog, which is read by thousands of clients, IBM sales reps and IBM Business Partners

every week. This blog was rated one of the top 10 blogs for the IT storage industry by “Networking World” magazine, and #1

most read IBM blog on IBM’s developerWorks. The blog has been published in series of books, Inside System Storage: Volume

I through V.

Over the past years, Tony has worked in development, marketing and consulting for various storage hardware and software

products. Tony has a Bachelor of Science degree in Software Engineering, and a Master of Science degree in Electrical

Engineering, both from the University of Arizona. . Tony is an inventor or co-inventor of 19 patents in the field of electronic data

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