Martin Welk is a systems engineer in IBM GTS ITS division. He started his IT career in the early 90's, building his experience in Internet technologies. Martin built ISP environments for a few years and joined IBM in 2000. He started with designing and building e-business infrastructures on different UNIX systems focusing on high availability. In 2003, he participated in migrating large SAP and Oracle based environments to SUN E15000 platform. Since 2004, he has worked primarily with Linux as a base operating system. His is currently working as an architect focusing on open source technology. Martin's role in the Enterprise Linux Services group is assisting customers to migrate to open source software based infrastructure, especially with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, IBM Tivoli System Automation for Multi-platforms, SteelEye LifeKeeper, Oracle RDBMS, Xen, VMware, Samba, and OpenLDAP. He is familiar with IBM System x and System p platforms, and IBM and non-IBM enterprise storage. Martin achieved a certification for SteelEye Life Keeper and the ITIL foundation certificate in 2005, and a Red Hat Certified Engineer qualification in 2006.
