Mike Kaczmarksi is the IBM Fellow and CTO for IBM Management and Platform, a position that involves the development and implementation of an integration strategy and architecture to combine systems management point products into solutions that deliver improved customer value, particularly in cloud. Prior to this, Mike was the lead storage software architect for storage management software, where he helped in the re-architecting Spectrum Control, deeply integrating products from Tivoli and STG. Mike started his IBM career as a systems programmer and currently holds over 60 patents.