2025-11-18, 16:30–17:20, Cipres
This session presents the hardware innovations of IBM Power 11 and the mechanisms that enable Zero Planned Downtime.
We will explain how these innovations integrate with IBM Concert for orchestration and Automated First Failure Data Capture for proactive incident analysis.
A presentation aimed at administrators and architects who want to understand the technical foundations of continuous availability on Power 11.
Fabian is a Certified Consulting IT Specialist at IBM Belgium. He holds a M.Sc. in Electronics Engineering. His area of expertise is infrastructure solutions design. He has 25+ years of experience in Power Systems. Fabian wrote the first technical paper about Flash storage & IBM i and developed the FLiP tool to predict Flash storage impact on IBM i workloads. Both earned him worldwide recognition. Often sought by clients as a trusted advisor, he is also a frequent speaker at customer events.
Ludovic Gasc has been passionate about Open Source, bioinformatics, and hardware for over 20 years. He has worked with various start-ups and scale-ups in Telecom and IoT, and has contributed to several Open Source software projects within the Python, Java, and JavaScript ecosystem. Moreover, he has worked as a DevOps/SRE specialist to deploy and maintain a real-time communication solution in a multi-cloud environment (4 clouds) with the help of Ansible. Currently, he specializes in modernizing the IBM Power platform using the Open Source/RedHat stack and AI.