We're back with our series IBM Storage Rocks 🚀 highlighting all of the great content, events, and announcements in IBM Storage. Enjoy our curated content to stay informed and in the loop!
📣 Announcements & Highlights
@Luis Ruelas showcases how IBM Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service empowers organizations to stay ahead of disruption with a unified, intelligent approach to data protection in the blog What's New in IBM Storage Defender DRS - Visibility, Automation, and Confidence
@VADZIM PILETSKI gives an overview of how IBM Storage Defender Sensors deliver an intelligent, ML-driven layer of defense that continuously monitors system telemetry and metadata to detect anomalies in near real time in the blog IBM Storage Defender Sensors: Smarter Protection for Your Data
@Amit Kathade provides an overview of IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management (CDM) and how to configure PBR Backups in IBM CDM in the blog Implementing PBR/PBHA backups with IBM Defender CDM
@Girish Dadge outlines the enhancements in IBM Storage Protect 8.2.0 in the blog IBM Storage Protect 8.2.0
📖New IBM Redbooks
📌IBM Storage DS8000 Safeguarded Copy: Updated for DS8000 Release 10.1: This IBM Redbooks publication provides comprehensive guidance to plan, install, configure, and manage Copy Services on IBM DS8000® systems in both IBM Z® and Open Systems environments.
📌Best Practices for IBM DS8000 and IBM z/OS HyperSwap with IBM Copy Services Manager: IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) simplifies HyperSwap management, enabling centralized control of planned and unplanned actions through an intuitive interface. This IBM Redbooks® publication provides comprehensive best practices for planning, implementing, and managing z/OS HyperSwap environments using IBM Copy Services Manager. It covers recommended topologies, configuration steps, and operational considerations to ensure high availability and disaster recovery readiness. In addition, the book highlights automation capabilities, performance tuning tips, and integration strategies that help simplify management and improve resiliency in complex enterprise environments. Updated for IBM Copy Services Manager Version 6.3 and DS8000 Release 10.1, it includes the latest features and enhancements to help organizations achieve resilient, high-performing environments.
📌IBM DS8000 Encryption for Data at Rest, Transparent Cloud Tiering, and Endpoint Security (DS8000 Release 10.0): The IBM DS8000® supports encryption-capable drives. They are used with key management services (local or external) to allow encryption for data-at-rest (DAR). The use of encryption technology involves several considerations that are critical for you to understand to maintain the security and accessibility of encrypted data. This edition of this IBM Redpaper publication focuses on IBM Security® Guardium® Key Lifecycle Manager with the DS8000 Release 10.0 code or later and updated DS GUI for encryption functions. The DS8000 Release 9.2 code introduced support for local key management for DAR encryption and is described in Chapter 7, "Local key management" on page 229.
Check out these discussions in IBM Storage and share your expertise:
👉IBM Flashsystem A9000 with extra 4th Modules -- How to repair posted in the Global Storage Forum
👉Volcopy function in Flash System posted in IBM FlashSystem
👉Does Lin_tape drivers support RHEL 9.X? posted in Tape Library
📝 Blogs of the week
👉 @Tomas Kovacik walks through how to physically free up space in the SVC pool in the blog AIX SCSI unmap SVC 8.5.X
👉 @Upendra Rajan announces DL08030G: IBM FlashSystem Fundamentals, a no-cost, self-paced course focused on flash storage technology and the IBM FlashSystem platform in the blog Announcing a Free Self-Paced Course: IBM FlashSystem Fundamentals
👉 @Randy Blea outlines the key features released in IBM Copy Services Manager 6.3.16.0 in the blog What's New in IBM Copy Services Manager 6.3.16.0
👉 @Parijat Mishra walks through the new features available in IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management 2.2.28, designed to enhance data protection, storage management, and business continuity across different platforms in the blog What's New in IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management 2.2.28
👉 @TRISHALI NAYAR highlights IBM Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) which offers various capabilities around governance, compliance, AI-enabled early threat detection, recovery, and a centralized dashboard in the blog Define, prioritize and protect your key applications using IBM Storage Defender
👉 @Smita Gargote outlines the steps to take when IBM Storage Scale encounters mount/unmount failures during dsmrecall or dsmmigrate operations the blog Resolving Filesystem Mount Issues in IBM Storage Scale when using HSM and best practices for restarting the HSM (Hierarchical Storage Management) services in the blog Refreshing HSM Services on IBM Storage Scale: A Best Practice Guide
👉 @Daniel Alexander Parkes walks through S3 Object Versioning, S3 Object Lock, and the concepts behind versioning and object lock from the S3 API perspective in the blog IBM Storage Ceph Object Storage Deep Dive: Versioning & Object Lock and outlines Rate Limiting in IBM Storage Ceph Object (RGW) in the blog Enhanced Rate Limiting in IBM Storage Ceph Object 8.1z4: List and Delete Operations Now Supported
🚀 IBM Storage Corner
@Deepak Yadav shares photos from the recent IBM Storage Symposium event in Mumbai where presentations covered how IBM FlashCore Modules are elevating ransomware defense (including insights on their AI-driven anomaly detection, real-time threat insights, and how integrating security directly into data storage helps organizations stay ahead of evolving cyber risks).
Clients discussed ransomware protection and how IBM FlashSystem offers near real time detection in as fast as 60 seconds, helping organizations stay ahead of emerging threats.
IBM FlashSystem continues to redefine performance, resilience, and security for modern enterprise workloads!
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IBM TechXchange Community Team
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