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

@Matthew Geiser highlights how the organizations winning at inference economics are the ones running integrated platforms that make every token count in the blog IBM Fusion: How to Fix AI's Broken Economics

@Anushka Jaiswal walks through how to deploy and run the NVIDIA AI-Q blueprint on IBM Fusion HCI, using standard OpenShift and Helm-based workflows in the blog Deploying NVIDIA AI-Q on IBM Fusion HCI

@Daniel Alexander Parkes announces that IBM Storage Ceph has achieved Veeam Ready Repository: Capacity Target certification, now listed in the Veeam Ready database in the blog Expanding the IBM Storage Ceph Partner Ecosystem

🚀 IBM Storage FlashSystem - Live from Warsaw: The future of storage

Join the Livestream on 10 February 2026 | 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM EST: AI-Driven Dynamic Storage from IBM that is Designed to Protect. Engineered to Adapt. Built to Perform.

The next evolution of storage from IBM is coming-and it's redefining what storage can do for your enterprise. This isn't just faster hardware; it's an AI-driven smarter foundation for your future.

Why this matters for you:

• Amplify expertise with intelligent insights that turn complexity into clarity.
• Stay ahead with systems that learn, adapt, and optimize-before issues arise.
• Ensure governance at scale with automated, real-time policy alignment.
• Protect your data with adaptive defenses that evolve as threats do.

 

 

 

📌Upcoming ATG Webinar Sessions:

📆 Accelerate with ATG: Revolutionize Data Storage for AI and the Enterprise: What's new with Storage Scale for 2026 – 1/27/26 at 12:00 PM ET
High Performance Computing (abbreviated as AI) requires high-performance storage, and Storage Scale is IBM's flagship Global Data Platform for the unstructured data that AI and enterprise computing require. But IBM keeps improving Storage Scale and its hardware relative, the Storage Scale System. With the recent emergence of Storage Scale 6.0.0 and the Storage Scale System software stack 7.0.0, now would be a great time to join the Advanced Technology Group for this session and learn about some of these recent changes. Register today!

📆 Accelerate with ATG: IBM Storage Ceph 9.0 Update – 2/3/26 at 12:00 PM ET
IBM Storage Ceph is an open-source software-defined storage solution that supports block, file, and object storage services in a single unified platform. Join the Advanced Technology Group for a detailed update on the latest IBM Storage Ceph 9.0 enhancements in the latest feature release. The key topics will cover RADOS core enhancements, as well as updates to Ceph's NVMe block and S3 object storage services. The presentation will also introduce a new level 2 topic that will focus on the new "Fast EC" Erasure Coding capability in the Ceph data protection rulesets. It is highly recommended that the participant have a basic understanding of IBM Storage Ceph or, in the alternate, a viewing of the following IBM Storage Ceph demos. See the 10-minute recorded demonstrations of the IBM Storage Ceph Dashboard. Register today!

📆 Accelerate with ATG: IBM Storage Fusion - Migration from VMware to Red Hat OpenShift – 2/19/26 at 12:00 PM ET
Virtual Machines are a mainstay in the modern IT infrastructure. And data center managers now have a choice of virtualizations options. However, it can be challenging to switch from one platform to another. But not anymore! In this Accelerate webinar session, we'll show you how easy it is to make the move to RedHat OpenShift Virtualization. We'll discuss how Fusion and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization can provide a full data management solution for your VM applications. We'll also provide a live demo on how to create, migrate and delete VMs. Join the ATG Team on February 19th at 12pm EST to learn more. Register today!

📆 Accelerate with ATG: Protecting OpenShift workloads with IBM Storage Defender & Fusion – 2/24/26 at 12:00 PM ET
RedHat OpenShift provides unparalleled capabilities in managing large scale Kubernetes clusters, but how do you protect your critical containerized applications? How do you protect key information needed to recover an application to a running state after a failure? Do you have critical persistent data that needs to be protected in a clean recoverable state? How do you control the necessary steps in rebuilding an application in the correct order? This session discusses the challenges in protecting containerized applications and how intelligent software allows you to correctly protect an application so that it is recoverable in a variety of circumstances. We will also discuss the different concerns when protecting containerized applications or VMs running on OpenShift Virtualization. Register today!

📆 Accelerate with ATG: IBM Storage Fusion 2.12 - What's new – 2/26/26 at 12:00 PM ET
With the new 2.12 code release, IBM Fusion continues its evolution into IBM's premier application modernization platform. This new release brings hardware and software enhancements designed to improve the time-to-value in deploying AI, ML and hybrid cloud workloads. Join the Advanced Technology Group on February 26th for our upcoming Accelerate to learn more. We'll cover key updates such as flexible GPU configurations, new services available through the Fusion UI and operational improvements around multi-cluster management. Register today!

 

 

📖New IBM Redbooks

📌IBM Storage Scale System Introduction Guide: This IBM® Redpaper publication provides an overview of the IBM Storage Scale and IBM Storage Scale System (Formally known as IBM Elastic Storage® Server (IBM ESS) and IBM Elastic Storage System (also formally IBM ESS)). These scalable, high-performance data and file management solution, are built on IBM Storage Scale technology. Providing reliability, performance, and scalability, can be implemented for a range of diverse requirements. The latest IBM Storage Scale System 6000 is the most innovative system that provides investment protection to expand or build a new Global Data Platform while integrating with existing storage. The system allows enhanced, non-disruptive upgrades to grow from flash to hybrid or from hard disk drives (HDDs) to hybrid. IBM Storage Scale System can scale up or out with two different storage mediums in the environment, and it is ready for technologies like 200 Gb Ethernet or InfiniBand NDR-400 connectivity. This publication helps you to understand the solution and its architecture. It describes ordering the best solution for your environment, planning the installation and integration of the solution into your environment, and correctly maintaining your solution.

📌IBM TS7700 R6.0 Cloud Storage Tier Guide: Building on 25 years of virtual tape experience, the IBM® TS7700 now can store virtual tape volumes in object storage. This IBM Redpaper publication helps you set up and configure the cloud object storage support for IBM Cloud® Object Storage or Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). The TS7700 supported offloading to physical tape for over two decades. Using a TS7700 to offload to physical tape is a process that is used by hundreds of organizations around the world. By using the same hierarchical storage techniques, the TS7700 also can offload to object storage. Because object storage is cloud-based and accessible from different regions, the TS7700 Cloud Storage Tier support essentially allows the cloud to be an extension of the grid. In this publication, we provide a brief overview of cloud technology with an emphasis on Object Storage. Object Storage is used by a broad set of technologies, including those technologies that are exclusive to IBM Z®. The aim of this publication is to provide a basic understanding of cloud, object storage, and different ways it can be integrated into your environment. This publication is intended for system architects and storage administrators with TS7700 experience who want to add the support of a cloud storage tier to their TS7700 solution.

Check out these discussions in IBM Storage and share your expertise: 

👉fw code 9.1.0.3 posted in IBM FlashSystem
👉Preparing customer firewalls and proxies for the upcoming infrastructure changes on IBM Electronic Fix Distribution / IBM Fix Central system posted in the Global Storage Forum
👉FS5015 FlashCopy Snapshot Fails – Volume Group Function Not Supported (CMMVC8755E) posted in IBM FlashSystem

📆 Events

26 – 29 January | Osaka, Japan - SCA/HPCAsia 2026

27 January | ATG Webcast - Revolutionize Data Storage for AI and the Enterprise: What's new with Storage Scale for 2026

29 January | Webinar: Experience the Advancements in IBM Storage Protect 8.2: Feature Enhancements, AI Chatbot, and MustGather Improvements

3 February | ATG Webcast - IBM Storage Ceph 9.0 Update

10 February | Live from Warsaw - The future of storage: AI-Driven Dynamic Storage from IBM that is Designed to Protect. Engineered to Adapt. Built to Perform.

19 February | ATG Webcast - IBM Storage Fusion - Migration from VMware to Red Hat OpenShift

24 February | ATG Webcast - Protecting OpenShift workloads with IBM Storage Defender & Fusion

26 February | ATG Webcast - IBM Storage Fusion 2.12 - What's new

24 - 25 March 2026 | London, United Kingdom - Storage Strategy Event

🚀 IBM Storage Corner 

@Christopher Maestas shares details on IBM Storage's upcoming presence at SCA/HPCAsia 2026 on 26 – 29 January in Osaka, Japan!

Don't miss these sessions:

• January 27th 12:30-13:30: "Toward Quantum Advantage / Data-Centric Architecture"
• January 28th 9:00-12:30: Scale User Group!
• January 29th 11:30am-12:30pm: BoF - Managing and sharing large scientific data sets

 

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