Lourie Goodall is a Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) with IBM's Systems and Technology Group, based out of the IBM Storage develoment laboratory in Tucson, AZ, US. She is an Architect for the IBM TS7700 Virtualization Engine. Lourie has worked in mainframe back-end tape and virtual tape for over 19 years and has authored or co-authored hundreds of design documents and techincal papers.