IT sizing, storage solutions

Due to my deep knowledge of the storage market I was involved in all the major opportunities with high competition (EMC, STK, HDS, HP, etc). I was considered as a consultant from both sale and pre-sale collegues.have gained along all these years the trust and the estimation from all the community in IBM Italy developing my skills and continuing to add more and more topics and interests to his knowledge becoming one important reference point in the extended technical team.At the same time while developing my skill, on both sides in IBM and outside, I’ve provided an extremely important contribute to develop the business on strategic customers.Today I represent the IBM technical reference point also for customers like: • Telecom Italia (we have gained a huge DS8000 installed base when, until 2005, this customer was de facto 100% EMC-trusted; in 2009 I was in the team that has sold more than 1 PB of N series systems for the strategic Easy Storage project for repositioning the storage layers in the customer data centers and introducing with excellent result the new deduplication technology), • Cineca (introducing our SAN VC virtualization solution in a huge HPC cluster environment - this is still an important official IBM reference in Europe and worldwide; in 2009 he was the storage presales in the team that won the tender for the new Cineca supercomputer - now this HPC cluster is rated at no.54 in the TOP500 cluster ranking and a recent upgrade has added a BluGene system and more than 10 DCS9900 systems (more than 2 PB of disk capacity) to this new complex but exciting environment. Currently installing a new HPC system ranked at no.7 in TOP500.• Cineca-ENI, for the new HPC infrastructure with IBM and HP servers connected to the disk layer composed by several IBM DCS9900, DDN-IBM SFA10000 and IBM DS5100 disk servers• Other relevant client are Wnd, Telespazio, INFN-CNAF, Enel, etc- Current placement: “dirigente".

Nominated IBM Certified IT Specialist in December 2002.I represent IBM in the SNIA Italy Committee and I took place as the Technical & Speaker Committee Manager.Recently I presented a tutorial paper in italian language for promoting the “Storage Management Initiative – Specification” (SNIA SMI-S) issues in the marketplace.Continuing to participate as a speaker/teacher to IBM and non IBM events, in Italy and in Europe (Germany, Turkey, Israel). I have gained along all these years the trust and the estimation from all the community in IBM Italy developing my skills and continuing to add more and more topics and interests to his knowledge becoming one important reference point in the extended technical team.