Podcast with Gautam Siwach and Jin Vanstee ! Speaker - Christopher Vollmar, Principal, World Wide Storage Data Resiliency Architect Christopher is an IBM Certified IT Specialist (Level 3 Thought Leader) and Storage Architect. He is focused on helping customers design solutions to support Cyber Resiliency on primary and backup data to complement their Cyber Security practices. He is an author of several IBM Redbooks, an Enterprise Design Thinking Co-Creator, and a frequent speaker at events like IBM TechU. Can you speak to the difference between Cyber Security vs Cyber resiliency ? Data is very central to cyber resiliency, in that vein, is all data equal ? please provide some insight into where to protect the data, and where does backup/restore fit in ?
Podcast with Gautam Siwach and Jin Vanstee ! Speaker - Daniel joined IBM in 2004 to work with Linux and then diversified to other Unix platforms, like Solaris, HP-UX and IBM AIX. In 2007, Daniel was responsible for configuring and secure the first Cloud Environment at IBM when we started selling a shared virtual infrastructure to smaller customers. Daniel started consulting across whole Latin America in 2009. In 2015 he came to New York to be WW Architect for Financial Sector on Distributed Computing and started working with Kubernetes in 2016. Today he is the Worldwide SME for application modernization on OpenShift on IBM Systems. What is application Modernization ? How does underlying infrastructure effects the application modernization journey ? Why is Open Shift important for application modernization workloads ?
Podcast with Gautam Siwach and Jin Vanstee ! Speaker - Dr. Ron Harichandran, Ron Harichandran was appointed Dean of the Tagliatela College of Engineering at the University of New Haven in August 2011. In April 2019 he was also named Vice Provost for Research. Prior to that he was a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Michigan State University (MSU) and served as the department chair for 16 years. He received a B.E. from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1979, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981 and 1985, respectively. Dr. Harichandran’s technical specialty is structural engineering, he has performed research on earthquake, pavement, bridge and fire engineering and engineering education, and has published over 160 journal and conference proceedings papers and technical reports. He has taught a broad range of courses in structural analysis, design, dynamics, and probabilistic methods. How has emerging technology impacted University education ? What are the latest impacts and trends and how does the near future look like ? As a successful Dean of one of the world's top forensic institutions, how would you advise an aspiring teacher, as in what are different career choices in Academia and how to be successful in the teaching profession ? How to do a comparison among degree programs ?
Podcast with Gautam Siwach and Jin Vanstee ! Speaker - Thomas Harrer , Thomas is an IBM distinguished engineer and CTO for server storage in Europe, Middle East and Africa. His experience is around Hybrid Cloud & AI Platform, Infrastructure for mission critical systems, Cyber Resilience, Data, IT architecture, IT infrastructure, IBM Systems, Server & Storage,Service Management, Methods, Video, Communications. Why is cryptography so important for our economy and our life? Is the existing cryptography still secure enough for all time in the future? How to mitigate this severe risk from eventually broken crypto protocols?
Podcast with Gautam Siwach and Jin Vanstee ! Speaker - Naeem is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO of Space Technology in the IBM Hybrid Cloud business. He’s working to expand IBMs presences in Space Technology sector. He also serves as a Chief Solutions Architect, leading innovation group to build first of a kind proof of concepts and technical prototypes for strategic application expansion into Industry Verticals on IBM Hybrid Cloud Platforms. He is currently leading technical client engagements, migration and transformation of workloads, for Public, Private and Hybrid Solutions for IBM enterprise customers as well as strategic ISVs on IBM's Cloud Platform. In prior roles, he’s has built several solutions for Smarter Planets including Smarter Buildings, Smarter Cell Towers, Sea Terminal Ports. He’s also an IBM Smarter Cities Challenge Alum for Surrey, Canada. He is member of the IBM Academy of Technology. What is SpaceTech Initiative ? What are some examples of extra-terrestrial challenges and how do you solve Space related problems ? What is the Future of Technology in SpaceTech Program ?