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Mr French's primary focus is business continuity, disaster recovery, high availability (HACMP), virtualization (VIO,APV,PowerVM), and data center automation (vLPAR) in large IBM AIX data center environments. He consults with many of the worlds largest organizations regarding data center automation, data center and server consolidation, business function consolidation and outsourcing, and a variety of other cost saving techniques.

Certifications

Publications

• IBM Developer Works

August 2008: KornShell 93 Auditing - New features of the Korn Shell provide system administrators and management with the ability to monitor, track, record, and audit every command executed by any user of a system. This is different from normal the normal shell history, and provides detailed information that includes date, time, tty, user, and the command. This information can be stored locally or transmitted in real time to a remote logging system. (url)
Mar 2008: Shell Curses Function Library - Provides the shell programmer the ability to perform text-based cursor movements to specified locations on the screen. This ability permits the creation of menuing and data-entry systems using shell scripts without the need for compiled binaries. These functions are similar to the "C" language "Curses" library. (url)
Sep 2007: AIX disaster recovery - Resolving resource conflicts - This article identifies resource conflicts that typically occur during a disaster recovery implementation and provides suggestions for resolving these conflicts. (url)

• AIX Update Magazine
  Mar 2008: Virtualization Standards for Business Continuity: Part 9
  Feb 2008: Virtualization Standards for Business Continuity: Part 8
  Nov 2007: Virtualization Standards for Business Continuity: Part 7
  Sep 2007: Virtualization Standards for Business Continuity: Part 6
  Aug 2007: Virtualization Standards for Business Continuity: Part 5
  May 2007: Virtualization Standards for Business Continuity: Part 4
  Mar 2007: Virtualization Standards for Business Continuity: Part 3
  Feb 2007: Virtualization Standards for Business Continuity: Part 2
  Dec 2006: Virtualization Standards for Business Continuity: Part 1 (doc)
  Aug 2006: Successful Business Continuity: Automated Documentation (doc)
  Jul 2006: Automated Process Monitoring (ksh93)
  May 2006: Tracking disks and virtual SCSI adapters in a VIO server environment (ksh93)
  Apr 2006: Generate Secure Random Passwords (ksh93)
  Apr 2006: Successful Business Continuity: Websphere MQ (doc)
  Feb 2006: Setting Path Priorities for Virtualized Disks (ksh93)
  Feb 2006: Korn Shell Awk Emulation (ksh93)
  Nov 2005: Successful Business Continuity: Volume Names (doc)
  May 2005: Successful Business Continuity: Naming Structures (doc)
  Apr 2005: Successful Business Continuity: User Names and Groups (doc)

• Lulu Publishing
  2007: Virtualization for Business Continuity (in IBM AIX environments) (Book)
  2007: Advanced Korn Shell Programming (Book)

• Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
  Business Continuity: Dana French is the author of the Wikipedia article on the topic of " Business Continuity". (url)