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

@Chelsey Gosse and @Greg Van Hise share updates on the new IBM FlashSystem C200 in the blogs Unleash Capabilities Across Your Data Storage with Capacity-optimized IBM FlashSystem C200 and IBM Storage Defender and IBM FlashSystems C200: A Winning Combination.

📌 IBM Champions Program Highlights 

👉Congratulations IBM Champions class of 2025!

More than 1400 new and returning advocates were invited to become 2025 IBM Champions based on their expertise, contributions, and thought leadership! Throughout 2024, these individuals built a portfolio of advocacy as they completed thousands of activities and contributed hours of their time to code, to content, to community, to mentoring and teaching, to feedback, to user groups, and to events over the last year, beyond the scope of their jobs. See @Libby Ingrassia's blog for more details.

📌Upcoming 2025 Webinar Sessions:

📆 Accelerate with ATG: IBM Cyber Vault Introduction 101  – 3/20/25 at 12:00 PM ET
Join the Advanced Technology Group (ATG) and Expert Tom Bish for an exclusive webinar exploring IBM Cyber Vault blueprint! Discover how this solution can help customers detect and recover from logical corruption of their data due to malicious or accidental causes. Learn the key technologies and concepts used to protect the data, perform validation, forensic analysis, and recovery capabilities to bring a customer back to an operational state as quickly as possible in the event of an attack. This session will focus on the primary environments of IBM Z and i which make use of this blueprint, as well efforts to extend this to Power/AIX. Don't miss this opportunity to gain invaluable insights into data protection and recovery capabilities and register today!

📆 Accelerate with ATG: Exploring FlashCore Modules Across IBM Storage  – 3/27/25 at 12:00 PM ET
Join the IBM Advanced Technology Group and Expert Matt Key to explore the latest advancements and offerings of our IBM FlashCore Modules (FCM)! We will cover use cases and value across our distributed, file and enterprise platforms. We will dive deep into the FCM4, focusing on its contributions to resiliency, capacity, economics, and real-time ransomware threat detection. We will also highlight how this module enhances storage environments and how you can leverage its technology for maximum benefit. Register today!

📆 Accelerate with ATG: What's New in Fusion 2.9 – A Look at Hardware and Infrastructure as a Service  – 4/1/25 at 12:00 PM ET
IBM Fusion is the premier cluster-as-a-service solution for Machine Learning, AI and Application Modernization. Building on its purpose-built Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI), version 2.9 introduces these new features:

• Enhanced storage and compute nodes
• Flexible GPU node options
• Dedicated service node servers

Join the Advanced Technology Group experts on April 1st to learn more about these exciting new features. Register today!

📆 Accelerate with ATG: IBM Storage Ceph File System Deep Dive  – 4/8/25 at 12:00 PM ET
Join the Advanced Technology Group for a detailed update on the new IBM Storage Ceph 8.0 features and deep dive of file storage within the Ceph File System (CephFS). This session begins at an intermediate level about IBM Storage Ceph and continuing into the latest 8.0 CephFS features. Specific details will be presented about the new Dashboard support for advanced CephFS features, plus new file sharing capabilities. This session will pack as many CephFS topics as possible, including some live demonstrations, within a 60 minute Accelerate with ATG format. Register today!

📣 IBM Storage Updates of the week

New IBM® Redbooks®

📌Configuring Fibre Channel Protocol on IBM LinuxONE and IBM Z to IBM FlashSystem Storage: IBM® LinuxONE and Z platforms offer support for open systems Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) networks and subsystems, enabling their use for block storage provisioning for Linux and select z/VM® workloads. This IBM Redpaper provides a comprehensive guide to the hardware configuration and enablement of FCP for Linux environments.

📌IBM TS4500 R11 Tape Library Guide: The IBM TS4500 Tape Library is a next-generation tape solution that offers higher storage density and better integrated management than previous solutions. This IBM Redbooks® publication gives you a close-up view of the new IBM TS4500 Tape Library. In the TS4500, IBM® delivers the density that today's and tomorrow's data growth requires. It has the cost-effectiveness and the manageability to grow with business data needs, while you preserve investments in IBM Tape Library products.

📌IBM Storage Ceph Concepts and Architecture Guide: IBM Storage Ceph is an IBM® supported distribution of the open-source Ceph platform that provides massively scalable object, block, and file storage in a single system. IBM Storage Ceph is designed to infuse AI with enterprise resiliency, consolidate data with software simplicity, and run on multiple hardware platforms to provide flexibility and lower costs. This IBM Redpaper publication explains the concepts and architecture of IBM Storage Ceph in a clear and concise way. For more information about how to implement IBM Storage Ceph for real-life solutions, see IBM Storage Ceph Solutions Guide, REDP-5715.

💬 Trending discussions

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

👉2072-2N4 posted in the Global Storage Forum
👉IBM Storage FlashSystem 5300 - Expanding volumes when using policy-basedHA posted in IBM FlashSystem
👉Problem with IBM Storwize V3700 controller posted in the Global Storage Forum

📆 Events

4 March | Webinar: No assembly required! – Introducing IBM Storage Ceph as a Service: Cloud storage efficiency in your datacenter, managed by IBM experts

10 - 13 March | Singapore - SupercomputingAsia 2025

13 March | Webinar: What's new for NVMe over TCP in IBM Storage Ceph Version 8.0: VMware plugin & performance insights

17 – 21 March | San Jose, California - NVIDIA GTC AI Conference

18 March | Webinar: Rethinking the "crown jewels": Identifying and protecting what's truly valuable to your company

18 - 20 March | Heidelberg, Germany - IBM Storage Scale (GPFS) German User Meeting 2025 

20 March | ATG Webcast - IBM Cyber Vault Introduction 101

25 - 26 March | London, UK - Storage Strategy Event

27 March | Webinar: IBM TLS & Lenovo Partnership: Datacenters, efficient AI Integration & Legacy Optimization

27 March | ATG Webcast - Exploring FlashCore Modules Across IBM Storage

1 April | ATG Webcast - What's New in Fusion 2.9 – A Look at Hardware and Infrastructure as a Service

2 - 3 April | Madrid, Spain - EMEA Fusion User Group

8 April | ATG Webcast - IBM Storage Ceph File System Deep Dive

🚀 IBM Storage Corner 

@DAMON WYNNE shares photos from Day 3 of an incredible training workshop for Fusion specialists in the APAC region. APAC SME @Reginald D'Souza and Hyper Scaler SME @ANDREW BEATTIE shared real world examples of a true multi-architecture environment comprised of a multi node Gen1 Fusion HCI system, along with IBM Power 10 servers, IBM ESS Scale storage and IBM FlashSystem storage. Fusion enables organisations to deliver today a true hybrid cloud platform!

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