Signature Practice
01 / Cyber Resiliency
Cyber Resiliency & DORA Compliance
Co-author of multiple IBM Redbooks on cyber resiliency, Storage Sentinel, and Safeguarded Copy. Helping financial institutions and regulated enterprises move from "we have backups" to "we can prove recovery within RTO under attack" — where cyber resiliency stops being architecture and becomes operational reality.
DORA
Storage Sentinel
Safeguarded Copy
Air-Gap
Recovery Drills
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02 / Storage Modernization
Storage Virtualize & FlashSystem
Migrations, upgrades, and architecture for SVC, Storwize, and IBM FlashSystem deployments. From single-array refreshes to FlashSystem Grid topologies — much of which I helped document in IBM Redbooks.
SVC
FlashSystem
FlashSystem Grid
Storwize
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03 / Data Protection
Spectrum Protect & Backup Strategy
Where my career began, in 2002. Backup window engineering, deduplication tuning, tape archival strategy, and modern Storage Protect transitions for environments measured in petabytes.
Spectrum Protect
Tape Archival
RPO/RTO Design
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04 / SAN Architecture
Brocade SAN — Gen7, Gen8 & Beyond
44 Brocade certifications, including Gen7 and Gen8 specialist credentials. ISL planning, congestion analysis, NVMe-over-Fabrics readiness, performance forensics.
Brocade Gen7/8
NVMe-FC
Trunking
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05 / Hybrid Cloud & SDS
Software Defined & Hybrid Cloud Storage
When the workload outgrows the array. Software-defined storage strategy, hybrid cloud tiering, IBM Power integration, and the migration paths regulated industries actually trust.
SDS
Hybrid Cloud
IBM Power
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