8459pref.fm Draft Document for Review December 11, 2019 1:55 pm solutions. Nicolas holds a master degree in Computer Science with a major in parallel and  distributed computing from Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux (ENSEIRB-MATMECA),  France. Boris Litichevsky  is a Infrastructure Analyst IV Horizon BlueCross. He currently works with  RHEL and lately with Red Hat on Power Systems. Boris participated in the IBM Cloud Private  PoC. Previously, he worked as a Senior Systems Engineer Consultant working with Tivoli  Storage Manager (TSM), Commvault Backup solution, VMware and created and configured  Linux (RHEL and CentOS) and Wintel servers 2008 and 2012. Boris has been 20 years in the  financial industry sixteen of which in computer operations and four years as a TSM  administrator. Gabriel Padilla  is a Test Architect for Hardware on Power System. He is involved in early  faces of most of the hardware general availability working closely with development to achieve  best quality products. Gabriel previously worked on manufacturing lines at IBM Mexico as  Test Lead for XIVfi Storage and Power Systems. Gabriel has a Masters degree in Information  Technology and a Bachelors of Science in Electronic Engineering. Sudipto Pal  is Solution Architect for IBM Cognosfi Analytics in GBS. He successfully  delivered several critical deliverable with IBM clients from USA and Europe. He led Cognos  administration competency and monitored several candidates. He co-authored Redbooks on  Cognos implementation with PowerVM platform. He has experience in IBM Power system for  Virtualized environment setup and provisioning. He has hands on experience of Data lake  implementation using DIP over a BigData platform. He is based in IBM India, Kolkata. He  holds Master of Computer Application. Sudipto has prior experience of product development  using C, C++ and Python,  Rogelio Rivera Gutierrez  joined IBM in 2011 as part of the Storage Development group. As  a Test Performance Lead, he has become an SME on tape technologies and has trained  customers and IBMers on IBM Spectrum Archive. Rogelio has published several technical  whitepapers for tapes products. Now, as a Product Field Engineer, he provides support on  customer escalations from beginning to resolution for the IBM Security Appliance Product  Line. He also participated and provided support as a Hardware Development Engineer in the  release of IBM POWER9™. Rogelio holds a Master degree in Computer Science and is  currently pursuing a Ph.D. in IT focusing on topics such as Cloud, Blockchain and Smart  Cities. He has presented at IEEE technical conferences with topics related to Cloud and  Blockchain technologies. Bogdan Savu  is a Cloud Infrastructure Architect at IBM Cloud Managed Application  Services, who currently works for IBM Global Technologies Services in Romania. He has 13+  years of experience in designing, developing, and implementation of Cloud Computing,  Virtualization, Automatization, and Infrastructure solutions. Bogdan holds a bachelor’s degree  in Computer Science from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest. He is an IBM Certified  Advanced Technical Expert for Power Systems, TOGAF 9 Certified, VMware Certified  Professional, and Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containerized Application Development. His  areas of expertise include Cloud Computing, Virtualization, DevOps, and Scripting. Ismael Solis Moreno  is a data scientist and performance analyst for IBM at Mexico Software  Lab. He got his Masters from the National Center of Research and Technological  Development in Mexico and his PhD from the University of Leeds in the UK. Ismael has  participated as technical leader in different projects related to big data analytics and machine  learning within the IBM and other companies. These include, the University of Leeds, The UK  Datacenter Alliance and Apollo MIS researching predictive algorithms for Google, Alibaba  and the British Premier League. Ismael has about 15 international publications in prestigious  computing science journals. He has participated as speaker in over 25 international  conferences related to data science and machine learning, and co-authored patents to   Preface  xiii