Draft Document for Review February 7, 2020 4:43 pm 8464pref.fm Serial Storage Architecture (SSA), and storage area networks (SANs). Joe is a Microsoft  Certified Professional and a Certified Level 2 Fibre Channel Practitioner (awarded by the  Storage Networking Industry Association). Tomoaki Ogino  is a Level 1 certified IT specialist at IBM Japan. He has 30 years of  experience in IBM Z and worked at IBM for 28 years in the field directly with customers. He is  a Subject Matter Expert in the areas of DFSMS and high-end tape products and supporting  post-sales and pre-sales for 2 years. Sosuke Matsui  is a software development engineer in Tokyo, Japan. He joined IBM Japan in  2009, and worked on the development and testing of asynchronous replication of IBM Scale  Out Network Attached Storage for 5 years. Currently, he is responsible for the development  and testing of TS7700 hierarchical storage management (HSM) component. He is a member  of the Association for Computing and Machinery (ACM) and Information Processing Society  of Japan (IPSJ). Alberto Barajas Ortiz  graduated from the Technological Institute of Superior Studies of  Monterrey (MEXICO) in 2016 with a Master’s degree in Administration of Information  Technology, and he is a PMI-certified Project Management Professional. He has worked for  IBM since 2001. During the last 13 years, he has been collaborating with the TS7700  Development effort in the Product Test area (mainly focused in Functional Verification  aspects), where he has served as a Team Lead for the last 8 years.  Aderson Pacini  works in the Tape Support Group in the IBM Brazil Hardware Resolution  Center. He is responsible for providing second-level support for tape products in Brazil.  Aderson has extensive experience servicing a broad range of IBM products. He has installed,  implemented, and supported all of the IBM Tape Virtualization Servers, from the IBM VTS  B16 to the IBM TS7700 Virtualization Engine. Aderson joined IBM in 1976 as a Service  Representative, and his entire career has been in IBM Services™.  Michael Scott  is a Senior Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem (DFSMS) Technical  Support Engineer in the IBM Systems, Client Enablement, and Systems Assurance team. He  has 16 years of experience in DFSMS technical support. He holds a Masters in Business  Administration and a Bachelor of Sciences in Mathematics. Michael has six patents that are  issued in the computer sciences field, and is a DFSMS Technical Advocate. Currently, he is  the team lead for the DFSMS technical support education program. Joe Swingler  is a STSM and Master Inventor with IBM’s Systems Group, based out of the  IBM laboratory in Tucson, Arizona, USA. He is currently a lead architect for IBM’s TS7700  Virtualization Engine. Joe joined IBM in 1999 and started with the virtual tape subsystem  team. He began working with ESCON and FICON channel virtualization and eventually  became the lead architect of the TS7700 Grid design. Joe has since become a lead architect  of TS7700 and has owned the design of many features, including the TS7700 Cloud Storage  Tier support. Joe holds a BSEE from Arizona State University. Taisei Takai  is a Level 2 Certified Technical Specialist in IBM Japan. His area of expertise is  storage mainly based on the z/OS platform. He has more than 25 years of experience in  technical support for planning and installing mainframe tape products. He is currently working  as a Client Technical Specialist and is involved with most of the TS7700 related projects in  Japan. Chen Zhu  is a Consulting System Service Representative at the IBM Global Technology  Servicesfi (GTS) in Shanghai, China. He joined IBM in 1998 to support and maintain IBM Z  products for clients throughout China. Chen has been working in the Technical Support Group  (TSG) providing second-level support to IBM Z clients since 2005. His areas of expertise  include IBM Z hardware, IBM Parallel Sysplexfi, IBM Tape Library, and IBM FICON  connectivity.  Preface  xxi