Mark Wilding

I am a senior developer and manager at IBM specializing in Cloud Computing with DB2 LUW.

Mark Wilding is a physics graduate from the University of Western Ontario. Software was always a personal passion until Mark joined the computer science industry in 1994. Before joining IBM, Mark was a security expert and designed one of the first protocol interpreting firewalls but also held roles as a business owner, system/network administrator and a role as a software developer. Mark joined IBM in 1996 and has worked with DB2 LUW ever since. Today, Mark is an STSM at IBM who specializes in DB2, Unix/Linux, software quality, serviceability, reliability, automated support and most recently, cloud computing. Mark is a 3-time author with two books about DB2 (“DB2 for Solaris: The Official Guide” and “DB2 Universal Database in the Solaris Operating Environment” and his latest on Linux Troubleshooting (“Self-Service Linux: Mastering the Art of Problem Determination”):

Self-Service Linux: Mastering the Art of Problem Determination

Mark is also one of IBM's Master Inventors with a wide range of patent topics including High Availability, concurrency, serviceability and relational database internals.

The postings on my blog solely reflect the personal views of Mark Wilding and do not necessarily represent the views, positions, strategies or opinions of IBM or IBM management.