We're back with our series IBM Storage Rocks ๐ highlighting all of the great content, events, and announcements in IBM Storage. Enjoy our curated content to stay informed and in the loop!
๐ฃ Announcements & Highlights
@Vincent Hsu announces the rollout of the open-source IBM Storage Insights MCP Server codebase on github in the blog A Foundational Step Toward Agentic Collaboration with MCP and IBM Storage Insights
@Sushil Sharma gives an overview of how IBM Storage Insights Multi-tenant Dashboard offers a powerful and easy-to-use way to monitor and manage multiple tenants in one place in the blog Beyond the View: Exploring the features of the IBM Storage Insights Multi-tenant Dashboard and showcases how the IBM Storage Insights Multitenant Dashboard provides a unified view across all tenants, enabling users to efficiently monitor, compare, and manage their entire storage landscape in the blog One View to Rule Them All: Centralised Management of IBM Storage Insights Instances via the Multitenant Dashboard
๐ IBM TechXchange Conference 2025
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See @Christopher Vollmar's discussion post for a high level overview of the key topics that will be covered in the Storage Track at IBM TechXchange 2025.
๐Upcoming ATG Webinar Sessions:
๐ Accelerate with ATG: IBM Storage Ceph Deep Dive for NVMe over Fabrics โ 7/17/25 at 12:00 PM ET
Join the Advanced Technology Group for a detailed update on the latest IBM Storage Ceph 8.0 features and a deep dive into the block storage interface (RBD) and NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe/TCP). This session begins at an intermediate level about IBM Storage Ceph and continues into the latest block storage capabilities. Specific details will be presented about the new Dashboard support for RBD Images and NVMe/TCP configurations, plus monitoring capabilities. This session will pack as many block storage topics as possible, including live demonstrations, within a 60 minute Accelerate with ATG format. Register today!
๐ Accelerate with ATG: Content Aware Storage (CAS) with IBM Fusion โ 7/22/25 at 12:00 PM ET
More organizations are leveraging machine learning to make sense out of their application data. This requires bringing the data to the analytics engine, which can be cumbersome, costly and complicated. But what if it was possible to bring the analytics engine right to the data? Join us for an Accelerate with ATG webinar on Tuesday, July 22, 2025, to learn how IBM Fusion and Content Aware Storage (CAS) can streamline your AI workflows and reduce costs! Register today!
๐IBM Redbooks
๐IBM Storage DS8000 Safeguarded Copy: Updated for DS8000 Release 9.3.2: This IBM Redpaper publication explains the IBM Storage DS8000ยฎ Safeguarded Copy functions. With Safeguarded Copy, organizations can improve their cyber resiliency by frequently creating protected point-in-time backups of their critical data, with minimum impact and effective resource utilization. The paper is intended for IT security architects who plan and design an organization's cybersecurity strategy, and the infrastructure technical specialists who implement them.
๐Ensuring Business Continuity: A Practical Guide to Policy-Based Replication and Policy-Based High Availability for IBM Storage Virtualize Systems: In today's digital age, downtime is not an option. Businesses rely on constant access to critical data to maintain productivity and ensure customer satisfaction. IBMยฎ Storage Virtualize offers functionalities to safeguard your data against various threats. Policy-based replication and policy-based HA (policy-based-HA) protect against site failures by automatically failing over to a secondary site, ensuring business continuity. This IBM Redbooksยฎ delves into the powerful tools of IBM policy-based replication and IBM policy-based high availability, empowering you to create a robust disaster recovery plan that minimizes downtime and maximizes data protection. Whether you are a seasoned IT professional or just starting to explore business continuity solutions, this book provides a comprehensive guide to navigating these essential technologies and building a resilient IT infrastructure.
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IBM GDPS: An Introduction to Concepts and Capabilities: This IBM Redbooksยฎ publication presents an overview of the IBM GDPSยฎ offerings and the roles they play in delivering a business IT resilience solution. The book begins with general concepts of business IT resilience and disaster recovery (DR), along with issues that are related to high application availability, data integrity, and performance. These topics are considered within the framework of government regulation, increasing application and infrastructure complexity, and the competitive and rapidly changing modern business environment.
๐ฌ Trending discussions
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๐Patch automatic update - ransomware model v3.20.0 posted in IBM FlashSystem
๐Flashsystem 7300 not show written capacity posted in the Global Storage Forum
๐PBHA initial sync complete but recovery point outside policy posted in IBM FlashSystem
๐ Events
17 July | ATG Webcast - IBM Storage Ceph Deep Dive for NVMe over Fabrics
22 July | ATG Webcast - Content Aware Storage (CAS) with IBM Fusion
24 July | Webinar: Smarter Systems Need Smarter Support: Inside Power11 and IBM TLS for Scalable AI
30 July | Webinar: Boost your data security now with IBM Power Cyber Vault: The ultimate solution against today's threats!
6 โ 7 August | San Jose, California - 2025 West Coast IBM Storage Scale User Group Event
25 โ 28 August | Las Vegas, Nevada - VMware Explore 2025
๐ IBM Storage Corner
@PRABIRA ACHARYA shares photos from IBM's presence at a recently held VMUG Bangalore event where the IBM Storage team had the opportunity to connect with the passionate VMware community and share insights on a topic that's more relevant than ever - Cyber Resilience in the Modern Data Center. Sessions focused on how IBM Flash Storage stands out as the most cyber-resilient storage platform for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). With ransomware threats growing more sophisticated, storage must evolve from being just performant and scalable to being proactively secure.
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