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Thanks to the authors of the previous edition of this book:
Erwan Auffret, Pawel Brodacki, Libor Miklas, Glen Routley, James Whitaker
Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this project:
Christopher Bulmer
Debbie Butts
Carlos Fuente
Evelyn Perez
Matt Smith
IBM Hursley, UK
James Whitaker
Imran Imtiaz
Adam Lyon-Jones
IBM Manchester, UK
Jordan Fincher
Karen Brown
Mary Connell
Navin Manohar 
Terry Niemeyer
IBM US
Special thanks to the Broadcom Inc. staff in San Jose, California for their support of this 
residency in terms of equipment and support in many areas:
Sangam Racherla 
Brian Steffler 
Marcus Thordal
Broadcom Inc.
Danilo Miyasiro is a SAN and Disk Storage Specialist for IBM 
Global Technology Services® in Brazil. He graduated in 
Computer Engineering at State University of Campinas, Brazil, 
and has more than 10 years of experience in IT. As a storage 
subject matter expert for several international customers, he 
works on designing, implementing, and supporting storage 
solutions. He is an IBM Certified Specialist for DS8000 and the 
Storwize family, and also holds certifications from the ITIL 
Foundation and other storage products.
Rodrigo Suzuki is a SAN Storage specialist at IBM Brazil 
Global Technology Services in Hortolandia. Currently, Rodrigo 
is a subject matter expert account focal, and has been working 
on projects and support for international customers.
He has 24 years of IT Industry experience with the last 9 years 
in the SAN Storage Disk area. He also has a background in 
UNIX and IBM Informix® databases. He holds a bachelor’s 
degree in Computer Science from Universidade Paulista in Sao 
Paulo, Brazil and is an IBM Certified IT Specialist, NetApp 
NCDA, IBM Storwize V7000 Technical Solutions V2, and ITIL 
certified.