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
@Luis Ruelas showcases how IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management is the ideal solution for businesses looking to become data-driven and maximize the value of their data in the blog IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management
@Margo Harrell shares details on an upcoming webinar on April 24 at 11:00 AM EDT which will feature the new IBM z17 technologies and how IT support and services can help overcome the complexities of on-prem AI adoption in the blog Racing into the era of AI with IBM z17 - Who is your pit crew?
π 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! Stay tuned for the session catalog which will be going live in May.
πUpcoming ATG Webinar Sessions:
π Accelerate with ATG: Building Affordable, Resilient Storage Solutions with IBM FlashSystem and Brocade SAN β 4/24/25 at 12:00 PM ET
Join the IBM Advanced Technology Group and Broadcom experts for an in-depth webinar on designing cost-effective, highly resilient multi-site storage solutions using IBM FlashSystem arrays and Brocade SAN technology. This session will focus on:
* The real financial impact of downtime across various industries.
* Proven strategies to achieve ultra-low Recovery Time and Recovery Point Objectives (RTO/RPO).
* Protect for both Disaster and Cyber scenarios.
* How IBM Policy-Based solutions ensure business continuity without breaking the bank.
π Accelerate with ATG: AI Data Assistance with IBM Content Aware Storage (CAS) β 4/29/25 at 12:00 PM ET
The common implementation of AI pipelines today is to bring data to the AI application. This works well when your dataset is relatively small and co-located but challenges arise in data scaling capacity, operations, and fidelity. The effective way to address this challenge is to push AI processing closer to where the data is. This concept is "AI Content-Aware Storage (CAS)." The vision of content-aware storage is to enable intelligent storage to process data for AI applications. It can also orchestrate, and catalog information based on regular and custom metadata fields. Content Aware Storage can leverage NVIDIA Blueprints and NIMs to accelerate the retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline by incorporating storage and storage metadata in the Continuous Data Ingest and vector DB management. Join the Advanced Technology Group and Expert Chris Maestas for an exciting session on April 29th. Register today!
π Accelerate with ATG: Moving the Standard Forward - IBM Storage Virtualize 8.7.3 Technical Update & the New FlashSystem C200 β 5/13/25 at 12:00 PM ET
Join the IBM Advanced Technology Group to explore how IBM is moving the standard forward with IBM Storage Virtualize 8.7.3 and FlashSystem hardware. This session will cover the new FlashSystem C200, along with features as highly available snapshots, partition migration for disaster recovery, and GUI enhancements for FlashSystem grid. Register today!
πNew IBM Redbooks
πSupercharge Your IBM Storage FlashSystem: Performance Tips and Tricks: IBM Storage FlashSystem is an enterprise-class all-flash storage system that delivers high performance, scalability, and data protection for demanding workloads. To fully realize the potential of IBM Stroage FlashSystem storage, a thorough understanding of their architecture, features, and optimal configuration is essential. This book serves as your comprehensive guide to maximizing IBM Storage FlashSystem performance, providing practical techniques, best practices, and real-world examples to help you fine-tune your environment and achieve the speed and efficiency your organization demands. This book is intended for experienced storage, SAN, IBM Storage FlashSystem, and IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) administrators and technicians.
π¬ Trending discussions
Check out these discussions in IBM Storage and share your expertise:
πPolicy Based High Availability issues posted in the Global Storage Forum
πHow to stop simserver (cimom) on SVC 8.6.0.3? posted in IBM FlashSystem
πUpgrade Firmware FCM FS5200 posted in the Global Storage Forum
πFS intra-cluster zoning for backup communication path posted in IBM FlashSystem
π Events
22 April | Webinar: What's new with Storage Defender
24 April | Webinar: Racing into the era of AI with IBM z17. Who is your pit crew?
24 April | ATG Webcast - Building Affordable, Resilient Storage Solutions with IBM FlashSystem and Brocade SAN
29 April | ATG Webcast - AI Data Assistance with IBM Content Aware Storage (CAS)
1 May | Sydney, Australia - IBM Hybrid Cloud Summit Australia
13 May | ATG Webcast - Moving the Standard Forward - IBM Storage Virtualize 8.7.3 Technical Update & the New FlashSystem C200
13 - 15 May | Amsterdam - WW zResiliency Summit, an IBM TechXchange Workshop
20 May | Webinar: The Gold Standard Cyber Resilience Solution with IBM Technology
20 May | Copenhagen, Denmark - IBM Storage User Group Denmark, sponsored by IBM TechXchange
4 June | London, United Kingdom - Ceph Days London 2025
π IBM Storage Corner
@CARLOS SANDOVAL CASTRO and @EDGAR SU SU-CHOUG share photos from an Infrastructure Briefing held in SΓ£o Paulo, Brazil! This event brought together clients and business partners from all across Latin America to discuss the Future of Tape and IBM Storage Deep Archive.
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IBM TechXchange Community Team
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