Technical Commitee

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Technical Commitee

Erik Fichter

Manager IBM Systems - Storage Software Development - Data Security, Cyber Resiliency and Modern Data Protection

Erik Fichter started his career at IBM as a software developer and project manager, later moving into leadership roles across development, testing, and customer engagement. He led teams as System z I/O Firmware Development Manager, as Test Center Manager, and as Manager for Technical Pre‑Sales Support (ATS).
In 2016, Erik took over a Storage Software Development team, where he led the development of Storage Protect Snapshot, Storage Protect for ERP, and additional backup and restore products through 2022. His team then became deeply involved in advancing backup and restore capabilities for modern container ecosystems. Building on this expertise, they began developing Defender Data Resiliency Services, and in recent years Erik’s team has made significant contributions to the evolution and success of Defender DRS.

Robert Fijan

Deutsche Rentenversicherung Baden-Württemberg

Robert Fijan is team lead for Backup and Storage at Deutsche Rentenversicherung Baden-Württemberg. He works with ADSM/TSM/ISP since 1998. During this time he managed multiple platform changes (OS/390 to Linux to Windows and back to Linux) and the evolution of the environment from OS/390-only to the actual setting with many different applications and ISP-modules (TSM4VE, TDP for ERP/DOMINO/MSSQL/Oracle). He is also responsible for the NetApp-Filers. Since last year he is part of the team that consolidates the many different OSs on different platforms to RHEL on x86. This is part of the even bigger project ‘RZ DRV’ that is building the fundament for the applications of the 16 independent carriers of Deutsche Rentenversicherung in Germany. He is an IBM champion since 2020.

Peter Groth

President, GSE

Peter is the President of GUIDE SHARE EUROPE.

Peter Micke

backup2restore GmbH

Peter Micke is an independent IT consultant and owner of backup2restore GmbH in Germany. After finishing his studies of electrical engineering, he got into contact with ADSM in 1997 and kept stuck with the product over the years. He’s developing TSM concepts, teaching workshops and doing installations on different platforms, including TDPs. Besides the daily work, his focus is on improving management and monitoring capabilities of the TSM environment. Peter is an IBM Champion since 2021.

Bjørn Nachtwey

Cristie Data GmbH

Bjørn got in contact with TSM in late 2001 as a client user at the computing center of the Stuttgart University. Some years later he started to administrate TSM servers. At the GWDG he launched the new backup environment with several servers for the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and the University of Göttingen seven years ago. Before doing the „backup job“ he spent time on HPC systems and research on parallel algorithms for computational numerics. In the meantime Bjørn led the server group at the Braunschweig University IT Center. In 2023 he “switched sides of the desk” and became storage architect at Cristie Data GmbH. Bjørn is the current vice chairman of the GSE “System Managed Storage” working group. In January, he was awarded the title „IBM Champion“ for the 6th time and also as „IBM Advocate“, „IBM Contributor“ and „IBM Influencer“ due to his activities concerning TSM/ISP.