text: **Rogelio Rivera Gutierrez**joined IBM in 2011 as part of the Storage Development group. As 
  a Test Performance Lead, he has become a SME in tape technologies and has trained 
  customers and IBMers on IBM Spectrum Archive. Rogelio has published several technical 
  white papers about tape products. As a Product Field Engineer, he provides support for 
  customer escalations from beginning to resolution for the IBM Security Appliance Product 
  Line. He also participated and provided support as a Hardware Development Engineer in the 
  release of IBM POWER9™. Rogelio holds a Master degree in Computer Science and is 
  currently pursuing a Ph.D. in IT, focusing on topics, such as Cloud, Blockchain, and Smart 
  Cities. He has presented at IEEE technical conferences with topics related to Cloud and 
  Blockchain technologies. 
  
  **Nicolas Joly**is a pre-sales architect with IBM Systems in New York City, New York. His areas 
  of knowledge include software-defined infrastructure, analytics solutions, storage, technical 
  computing, and clustering solutions. He is working with major customers in the finance and 
  telecommunication industry. Before joining IBM US, Nicolas was working for IBM France, 
  where he was a technical sales specialist for analytics and technical computing solutions. 
  Nicolas holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science with a major in parallel and distributed 
  computing from Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux (ENSEIRB-MATMECA), France. 