xii Red Hat OpenShift and IBM Cloud Paks on IBM Power Systems: Volume 1
Sudipto Pal is Solution Architect for IBM Cognos® Analytics in GBS. He successfully 
delivered several critical deliverable with IBM clients from USA and Europe. He led Cognos 
administration competency and monitored several candidates. He co-authored IBM 
Redbooks publications about Cognos implementation with PowerVM platform. He has 
experience in IBM Power system for Virtualized environment setup and provisioning. He also 
has hands-on experience in data lake implementation by using DIP over a big data platform. 
He is based in IBM India, Kolkata. He holds Master of Computer Application and has 
experience in product development that uses C, C++ and Python, 
Bogdan Savu is a Cloud Infrastructure Architect at IBM Cloud Managed Application Services 
and works for IBM Global Technologies Services in Romania. He has over 13 years of 
experience in designing, developing, and implementing Cloud Computing, Virtualization, 
Automatization, and Infrastructure solutions. Bogdan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer 
Science from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest. He is an IBM Certified Advanced 
Technical Expert for Power Systems, TOGAF 9 Certified, VMware Certified Professional, and 
Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containerized Application Development. His areas of expertise 
include Cloud Computing, Virtualization, DevOps, and Scripting.
Richard Wale is a Senior IT Specialist, supporting many IBM development teams at the IBM 
Hursley Lab, UK. He holds a B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Computer Science from Portsmouth 
University, England. He joined IBM in 1996 and has been supporting production AIX systems 
since 1998. His areas of expertise include IBM Power Systems, PowerVM, AIX, and IBM i. He 
has participated in co-writing many IBM Redbooks publications since 2002.
Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this project:
Wade Wallace
IBM Redbooks, Austin Center
Manoj Kumar, Joe Cropper, Chuck Bryan, Keshav Ranganathan, Bruce Anthony, Bruce 
Semple, Reza Ghasemi, Mike Easlon
IBM USA
Miguel Angel de la Mora, Cesar Dominguez Moreno, Guillermo Hernandez Gonzalez, 
Arianne Navarro
IBM Guadalajara, Mexico
Yenugu Madhavi
IBM India
Alfonso Jara
IBM Spain
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