Jose Rodriguez Ruibal

Jose Rodriguez Ruibal is a Technical Sales Leader for the IBM System x Networking team that covers the southwest Europe region. He has more than 15 years of experience in IT, and has worked for IBM for almost ten years. His experience includes serving as Benchmark Manager in the IBM PSSC Benchmark Center in Montpellier, working as an IT Architect for Nokia Siemens Network in Finland, and IT Architect and Team Leader for the IBM STG OEM and Next Generation Networks teams in EMEA. Before joining IBM, he worked for Red Hat and other consulting firms. He holds MSc and BSc degrees in Computer Engineering and Computer Systems from Nebrija University, Madrid. His areas of expertise include Business Development, Strategic OEM Alliances, long-term IT projects in the telecom, media, and defense industries, high-level IT architecture and complex solutions design, Linux, and all x86 hardware. Jose has co-authored other IBM Redbooks publications on networking products from Juniper, Linux solutions, IBM x86 servers, and Performance Tuning for x86 servers.