We're back with our series IBM Storage Rocks π highlighting all of the great content, events, and announcements in IBM Storage. Enjoy our curated content to stay informed and in the loop!
π£ Announcements & Highlights
Join the exclusive webinar Experience seamless virtualization & containerization with IBM Fusion + Red Hat OpenShift on Tuesday, July 16, 2024 at 11:00 AM EDT to learn about the benefits of running virtual machines and containers on IBM Fusion and Red Hat OpenShift. Discover how you can reduce total cost of ownership by up to 83 percent, achieve a full cloud-native architecture, and streamline operations with Fusion HCI.
Ask an OpenShift Admin | Episode 130 on Wednesday, July 10th discussed IBM Fusion: Hosted Control Planes and how to manage cluster wide data services with open-cluster-management addons
π¬ Trending discussions
Check out these discussions in IBM Storage and share your expertise:
π V3700 cluster failure (both nodes of system is service state with error) posted in Primary Storage
π 100% of effective capacity fs5200 posted in the Global Storage Forum
π Hyperswap question posted in Primary Storage
Access self-service IBM Storage demos!
π See a live, read-only demo of IBM Storage Insights β monitor, view live instance! See more about Storage Insights here. See tutorials about Storage Insights here.
π See a FlashSystem Product Tour here. Explore management, copy services, cyber resiliency, performance, much more!
New or Updated IBM Storage Redbooks
π Accelerating IBM watsonx.data with IBM Fusion HCI
π IBM Storage Scale System Introduction Guide (ESS)
π IBM Storage Ceph Concepts and Architecture Guide
π IBM FlashCore Module (FCM) Product Guide: FCM4 with AI-ransomware detection
π IBM Diamondback Tape Library Guide
π Unlocking Data Insights and AI: IBM Storage Ceph as a Data Lakehouse Platform for IBM watsonx.data and Beyond
See all the latest IBM Redbooks here!
π Events
16 July | ATG Webcast: Get Up To Speed on IBM Storage Virtualize 8.6.3 & 8.7 - Latest Features and Enhancements
16 July | Webinar: IBM Fusion + Red Hat OpenShift β Seamless Virtualization + Containers
16 July | Web Event: IBM TechXchange AI and Automation Day
17 July | Seoul, Korea β IBM TechXchange: Storage LTO Deepdive
23 July | ATG Webcast: IBM C-Type SAN Analytics: Real-time and Always-on SAN Performance visibility at Scale
25 July | ATG Webcast: Revolutionizing Data Archiving-IBM S3 Deep Archive on Diamondback
6 August | ATG Webcast: IBM Fusion and RedHat OpenShift Virtualization
6-7 August | San Jose, California β IBM TechXchange: West Coast IBM Storage Scale User Forum
π Blogs of the week
π @Sourav Jagati and @Ajinkya Nanavati outline the essential steps and considerations necessary to implement a disaster recovery strategy using IBM's VASA Provider and VMware's PowerCLI automation framework in the blog IBM VASA Provider: VMware vVols Based Disaster Recovery for IBM Storage System Using PowerCLI
π @Jim Smith shares a 2 part blog series on OpenShift Virtualization:
The first blog outlines how you can achieve common backup and restore use cases with IBM Fusion 2.8 protecting OpenShift Virtualization virtual machines in the blog OpenShift Virtualization - Backup and restore use cases with IBM Fusion FAQ
The second blog provides more detailed information regarding backup consistency with IBM Fusion 2.8. in the blog OpenShift Virtualization - creating consistent backups using IBM Fusion.
IBM Storage Champion Spotlight
Did you know there is a periodic "IBM Champions Spotlight" blog, over on the publicly viewable IBM Champions Community? Check out the July 11th edition here! Far more than just Storage information, you will see a great amount of inspirational, educational, useful industry and career information that you will find valuable.
The IBM Champions program, including the IBM Rising Champions Advocacy Badge program, exists because of outstanding IBM technology advocates - clients, business partners, consultants, and educators β most of whom are just great IT people like yourself. They inspire and motivate us all to share and exchange their and our stories, knowledge, and expertise with the world, all beyond the scope of just their jobs. They embody Community!
See more about the IBM Champions program here. See the IBM Champions Community home page here.
π IBM Storage Corner
Did you know that over 70 years ago, IBM created the first viable commercial high density tape data storage technology? At the time, IBM revolutionized the amount of data that could be stored and accessed by computers. Tape has never gone away. IBM Tape is still the key deep archival technology that is used in hyperscale internet data centers and their vast amount of archival storage behind in today's internet.
Did you know? In June 2024, IBM announced the IBM Storage Deep Archive, the next generation long-term archival solution optimized for Deep-but-Accessible data. With an Install-and-go design based in the IBM Diamondback Tape Library, the IBM Storage Deep Archive can deploy up to 27PB of Object storage data archives accessible by any application supporting S3 Archive Glacier Flexible Retrieval storage classes. All this at up to 83% lower cost than Amazon Glacier Deep Archive. Check it out here!
Learn more about the IBM Storage Deep Archive in the upcoming July 25, 2024 webinar, 12 noon to 1pm EDT, " Revolutionizing Data Archiving β IBM S3 Deep Archive on Diamondback".
Register at https://ibm.biz/BdKDpW or Scan this QR Code to quickly register! After registering you will receive an email confirming your registration with information you need to join the Webinar:
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Kat Jarvis & John Sing
IBM TechXchange Community Team
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