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IBM Cloud Architect Joins the Vendor Forum

Pete Goldin
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Marcel M. Karman, Cloud Architect at IBM, has joined the Vendor Forum on APMdigest.

A senior architect for Cloud and Service Management solutions who is active in the pre-sales stage and who knows how to manage the sales cycle in a technical way. Strong points are quick and effective analysis of the customer's wishes and requirements and acting on those. Thorough knowledge of IBM's Tivoli (C&SI) portfolio with respect to Cloud, Integrated Service Management, Storage and Performance and Availability monitoring. Keywords: teamplayer, quick learner, positive attitude.

IBM's Application Performance Management portfolio helps businesses manage and optimize applications of all types ranging from large scale enterprise applications to dynamic cloud based web and mobile applications. IBM offers a single platform spanning end user experience management (browser , mobile and synthetics), application-aware infrastructure and resource monitoring, application topology discovery and visualization, transaction tracking, code level diagnostics and integrated search and predictive analytics. IBM offers flexible deployment models - SaaS, PaaS (e.g., IBM Bluemix), On Premises or Hybrid depending on user needs and buying centers. With IBM Performance Management you can find root cause 90% faster, improve availability by 60-90% and reduce outages by 50% . IBM's performance management solutions have a huge global customer base ranging from small/medium businesses to large enterprises managing mission critical applications across the globe.

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Marcel M. Karman, Cloud Architect at IBM, has joined the Vendor Forum on APMdigest.

A senior architect for Cloud and Service Management solutions who is active in the pre-sales stage and who knows how to manage the sales cycle in a technical way. Strong points are quick and effective analysis of the customer's wishes and requirements and acting on those. Thorough knowledge of IBM's Tivoli (C&SI) portfolio with respect to Cloud, Integrated Service Management, Storage and Performance and Availability monitoring. Keywords: teamplayer, quick learner, positive attitude.

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