Sven Oehme IBM Deutschland GmbH, Hechtsheimer Strasse 2, 55131 Mainz, Germany (oehmesde.ibm.com). Mr. Oehme started at IBM in 1993 as a team leader for a manufacturing infrastructure support team and later assumed the role as the development lead architect for Stonehenge/Open Enterprise System Virtualization, a scalable virtualization appliance. He is currently a subject-matter expert on a worldwide level for file systems. He is also the lead architect for the File System Competence Center Development group in the Linux Technology Center working on the development of extreme scalable file server solutions.

Juergen Deicke IBM Deutschland GmbH, Hechtsheimer Strasse 2, 55131 Mainz, Germany (deickede.ibm.com). Dr. Deicke received Dipl.-Ing. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. He joined IBM in May 2000 and has been working both as a software architect and as a development manager. Since February 2006, he has headed the IBM Systems and Technology Group systems software development organization in Mainz, Germany, where most software development projects are focusing on Linux, mainframes, tape management, and file systems. He lectures on innovation management at the Darmstadt University of Technology. Dr. Deicke is a member of the IEEE.

Jens-Peter Akelbein IBM Deutschland GmbH, Hechtsheimer Strasse 2, 55131 Mainz, Germany (akelbeinde.ibm.com). Dr. Akelbein received a Dipl.-Ing. in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. For his research work on intelligent mass storages devices based on file-level protocols, he received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Helmut-Schmidt-University, Germany. He joined IBM in 1999 working on the development team for the IBM TSM, mainly focusing on HSM. He managed departments for IBM supply-chain management applications and for TSM. He currently leads the Architecture and Development of Open Systems department in Mainz, developing the IBM Integrated Removable Media Manager on IBM System z* and solutions for SoFS.

Ronnie Sahlberg IBM Australia, 8 Brisbane Avenue, Canberra ACT 2600, Australia (sahlbergau1.ibm.com). Mr. Sahlberg is a member of the Samba team and a core developer for the wireshark protocol analyzer. He received a B.S. degree in mathematics from Linkoping University, Sweden. His current work focuses on Samba and scalable NAS systems making use of CTDB.

Andrew Tridgell IBM Australia, 8 Brisbane Avenue, Canberra ACT 2600, Australia (tridgellau1.ibm.com). Dr. Tridgell is one of the principal developers of the Samba software suite. After originally studying theoretical physics, he received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Australian National University, specializing in network protocols and distributed algorithms. He currently works for the Advanced Linux Response team in the IBM Linux Technology Center.

Roger L. Haskin IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (rogeralmaden.ibm.com). Dr. Haskin manages the File Systems department at the IBM Almaden Research Center. He received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Since joining IBM Research in 1980, he has pursued a wide variety of interests and has published in the areas of full-text retrieval, database, distributed systems, file systems, and multimedia technology. He originated and led the development of GPFS, perhaps the most widely used parallel file system available for high-performance computing. Dr. Haskin leads a number of other projects in IBM Research, including ones to investigate networked storage (NFS4 and pNFS) and to define the storage architecture for PERCS (Productive Easy-to-use Reliable Computer Systems), the IBM architecture for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency High Productivity Computing Systems program.

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