Sean Donnellan is an IT Architect with IBM in Ehningen, Germany and has worked in the IT industry since 1995 when he started as an enterprise firewall designer and an AIX SP2 Cluster specialist. He has worked for IBM for the past eight years. Amongst other IBM specialist certifications, he is an AIX Advanced Technical Expert and holds the CISSP credential. He has been involved in designing solutions for Linux on System z, Intrusion Detection Systems design in hosting environments, designing systems management solutions, and data center and hosting design in general. He is currently designing the architecture for shared data center migrations and also for shared customer virtualization solutions across the entire IBM Systems family.