Bradley R. Bruhahn

Principal & Managing Partner

Sandpiper Data Systems

Bradley R. Bruhahn is known the world over as a system enterprise architect, virtualization, storage management, continuous availability, data center move and email content/archive authority.  His highly technical user presentations at Gartner Group, Guide, Share, CMG, CMGA, DRJ, StorageTek Forum, IBM Storage Symposium and other IT user and CIO conferences have established his reputation as a dynamic communicator.  He has published articles in DRJ magazine and Enterprise Systems Journal and is often quoted as an IT expert within the industry.

Mr. Bruhahn recently led a team of 20 technical architects in the architecture and creation of a completely new IT Infrastructure for what will likely become one of the world’s largest new Banks, with direct responsibility for network, security, operating platform/storage and enterprise systems management domain components, with cross-references to applications, integration, delivery channels and information management domains. Integrated concepts and frameworks from leading architecture models such as TOGAF, Zachman and FEA. Responsible for all related IT processes, business principles, business value, tiering approach, regulatory and industry compliance and ensuring the requirements and guidelines from other authorities such as ITIL, BASEL II, CoBIT, Sarbanes-Oxley, ISO and SNIA are addressed. Interfaced with various vendors and system integrators as the Bank's IT Infrastructure was being built in order to ensure the overall quality and services required were provided.

Mr. Bruhahn has over 33 years of hands-on IT experience, most particularly with management and planning of large, complex IT solutions.  He has assisted Fortune 100 clients with a wide variety of server, storage/content issues and availability processes, including data center management and migrations, storage architecture, systems tuning, performance and capacity planning, remote vaulting, remote copy, network bandwidth analysis, telecom/VoIP, training, strategic storage futures, and document, email and content management, archival and e-discovery, especially with regards to regulatory and compliance issues.   He pioneered high-bandwidth global data mirroring techniques using the internet rather than traditional, expensive telecommunications links. He also provided overall direction to Sandpiper’s Microsoft SQL Snapshot solution (MSSQLDBSNAPSHOT) currently on the market.

Mr. Bruhahn is responsible for all aspects of MVS, OS/390, z/OS, z/Linux, z/VM, AS/400, AIX, Unix, HPUX, Linux, Solaris, Windows, VMWare, HiperV, Xen, Polyserve and other consulting, architecture and design services, including functional specifications and principles, operating system and subsystem requirements definitions, capacity planning and modeling, performance tuning, SAN architecture and fabric configuration, enterprise monitoring and automation, availability management, project management and client training.  His most recent architectural project is related to building a vertical cloud infrastructure and eco-system needed to support a health care customer’s requirements for medical imaging archival, e-discovery and regulatory compliance solutions.

He provides strategic business IT requirements assessment, design and conversion alternatives to support application portability and migration/conversion projects for mainframe to open systems including zOS, zVM, Unisys and VSE to Windows, HPUX, Solaris, Linux and AIX platforms.  He can address and manage applications, data conversion requirements and ensure improvements to the end-user/customer ‘experience’ and provide validation and leadership needed to achieve overall project success.  He provides processes and solutions to ensure regulatory and retention requirements are also supported as part of a migration, move or solution implementation project.  Database projects included CICS, IMS, DB2, Datacom, ADABAS, IDMS, VSAM, Websphere and other conversions to Oracle, SAP, Peoplesoft, SQL, Sybase on multiple target platforms.

He has directed architecture, design, compliance, litigation and global, high-availability failover consulting engagements with regards to Exchange, Lotus Notes, SQL, Sharepoint, Infosphere, Datasphere, Websphere and Business Intelligence. He has also provided consulting on Six Sigma Black Belt, IT Audit and Business Process Re-engineering engagements.

Lead architect for Sandpiper Data Center Move strategy and methodology, including support for customer business and service levels required during the move, development of move groups and events, planning and coordination of vendors and customer initiatives during the moves, testing and plan validation, assessment and consideration of application workloads, dependencies and inter-relationships, network, voice and other platform considerations such as consolidation and/or virtualization.

Mr. Bruhahn's specific hands-on duties include support of DFSMS, DFSMShsm and internals, CA-Disk, CA-Allocate, BrightStor CA-Vantage SRM, Innovation’s FDR, ABR, PAS and MOVE, Fujitsu Softek’s (now IBM) TDMF (Mainframe and Open Systems), LDMF, SRM and SAN Manager, RMM, CA1, TLMS, ICF Catalog management, capacity planning using MICS and MXG, SAN and NAS planning and implementation, Tivoli Storage Manager, SANergy, Tivoli Data Protection (TDP), Veritas Netbackup and Backup Exec, Veritas Volume Manager, SanPoint, SAN Manager, Legato Networker, Harbor (Tantia), Alexandria, ArcServe, BrightStor Enterprise Backup (EB), CommVault, Bakbone, CAM/Reel, VNE, Mainview SRM, Trellisoft, AppIQ, Aptare, Storage Capacity Reporter, Creekpath, Sun’s Operations Manager and Teracloud. Tape solutions including IBM VTS, STK VSM, STK SN6000, EMC CopyCross, CA-Vtape, Neartek and Diligent. Continuous Availability solutions including GDPS, ABARS, DR and Remote copy network bandwidth ‘sizing’, remote vaulting and remote mirroring/copy design, implementation and testing using Flashcopy, Snapshot, SRDF, Timefinder, PPRC (and Metromirror), PPRC-XD, XRC (and GlobalMirror), Shadowimage, Copy-on-Write (COW), Nanocopy, TrueCopy, HUR or equivalent.

He directed the planning, design and performed the hands-on conversion/migration work for numerous customers implementing IBM, EMC, HP, Sun, Hitachi, Compellent, 3Par, LSI, NetApp and NEC storage subsystems.   Perform all SAN related work required to support the migration for vendors such as Cisco (such as 9509, 9513, 9516 and Nexus 5000 FCoE), Brocade and McData.  Expert with USP, USPv, AMS and WMS storage using UVM/VM, Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager, Storage Navigator (and Modular version) and HDvM.  Hundreds of terabytes converted using this virtualization/externalization process for all major server types and operating systems.  Setup and configure HDS RapidXchange HRXotm option, along with all DFSMS ACS updates required to support Tantia backup of open system files to a mainframe with a VTL.

He also design and implement continuous availability solutions using FalconStor, Store-Age, Inmage, Cofio and DataCore. Physical volume movement of over 335,000 3390-3’s, mod9’s and mod27’s (and smaller Hipervolumes) using TDMF & LDMF, Innovation PAS and FDR/Move and proprietary Sandpiper tools at multiple customer locations. Also converted 3380 or smaller 3390's to 3390-27 using Softek's LDMF, FDR/Move and proprietary Sandpiper tools. Strong technical problem determination skills, assembler, SAS and REXX coding, communication skills and presentation skills. Invented and developed Sandpiper’s Massively Parallel Internet Data Mirroring (MPIDM) DataPiper solution utilizing Nishan and StoneFly, and successfully deployed this solution from North America to Europe. Also, he provided overall direction to Sandpiper’s Microsoft SQL Snapshot solution (MSSQLDBSNAPSHOT) currently on the market.

Mr. Bruhahn has completed numerous Business Impact Assessment (BIA) projects and Risk Assessments using the Strohl product line (BIA Pro, LDRPS, Notifind and Incident Manager) along with Sandpiper proprietary BIA modeling tools. Resulted in multi-million dollar savings for multiple customers around the world.

Mr. Bruhahn has performed a number of application inter-dependency analysis projects specifically in support of Business Continuity and Data Center move projects.

Mr. Bruhahn has also held management and consulting positions with Hitachi Data Systems, StorageTek, Mainstar Software, and Qwest (USWest) Communications.