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Residency Announcement:  TI-A404-R01 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Technical
Guide - Update 2004

Benefits to Resident:  Residents will expand their insight into the latest
Tivoli Storage Manager version and have access to marketing strategists and
development personnel throughout the life of the residency. They will be
able to learn new aspects of the Tivoli Storage Manager world and share the
expert knowledge that they have gained as Tivoli Storage Manager
professionals to solve business problems and implement solutions. The
residents will show how to integrate the very latest version of Tivoli
Storage Manager into heterogeneous Linux/UNIX and Windows NT/2000
environments and show how Tivoli Storage Manager will benefit customer
business needs.

The exposure to technical marketing and development staff will position the
residents at the leading edge of the Tivoli Storage Manager world, and will
put them in an excellent position to broaden their awareness of storage
software solutions.

This residency provides a unique opportunity to gain worldwide recognition
as a Tivoli Storage Manager professional by sharing your expertise and best
practices with the Tivoli Storage Manager community.


This residency begins 01 Nov 2004, ends 10 Dec 2004 (6 weeks), and requires
3 residents. The residency is running in San Jose CA.

Nominations should be submitted online on the Web by 26 Sep 2004.

The residency leader is Roland Tretau whose email address is
rtretau AT us.ibm DOT com.

Note:  ITSO pays authorized travel and living expenses for all residents,
but does not compensate for the time or services of its residents.  For
IBMers, ITSO residency travel is pre-approved.




Description:  On this project we will produce an update of the very
successful IBM Redbook 'Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.1 Technical
Guide', SG24-6554-00

Objectives:  The objective of this residency is to update one IBM Redbook
that will provide customers, business partners, and IBMers with a guide on
how to accomplish the following:

- Understand the latest Tivoli Storage Manager concepts.
- Describe the new features and functions of Tivoli Storage Manager.
- Integrate Tivoli Storage Manager.
- Apply backup and restore concepts.
- Provide best practices to the Tivoli Storage Manager community.

The residency will cover some conceptual, theoretical, and Tivoli Storage
Manager architecture related topics. This will also be a "hands-on"
practical residency with a unique opportunity to build a Tivoli Storage
Manager test environment.




To submit a nomination, you must use the online web nomination form:

Customers and business partners can go directly to this announcement and
its online nomination form using this link:
http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Residents.nsf/GetResidency?OpenAgent&ID=TI-A404-R01

IBMers with access to the IBM Intranet can go directly to this announcement
and its online nomination form using this link:
http://w3.itso.ibm.com/itsoapps/Residents.nsf/GetResidency?OpenAgent&ID=TI-A404-R01

All residency information is available by clicking Residencies on the IBM
Redbooks Internet site at http://ibm.com/redbooks.  Employees of IBM will
prefer using the IBM Intranet site http://w3.itso.ibm.com.  The websites
fully describe the residency process and offer online nomination forms.