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

@Si McAleer highlights what's new in the 2.0.12 IBM Storage Defender release in the blog IBM Defender's Continued Drumbeat Towards Comprehensive Protection

@Ted Hoover shares how at NVIDIA GTC 2025 IBM announced that it is an NVIDIA-Certified Storage partner in the blog IBM Storage Scale System 6000 is NVIDIA-Certified Storage

📌 IBM TechXchange Conference 2025

IBM TechXchange Conference 2025 Call for Speakers is open until 11 April

Share your expertise with thousands of developers and technologists from around the globe. Learn more about submitting a session proposal here, and check out @DAVID Jenness' blog for expert tips on crafting a compelling abstract.

📌Upcoming 2025 Webinar Sessions:

📆 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!

📖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 Storage Scale System 6000 with NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD Deployment Guide: This IBM Redbooks® publication is designed to provide information that is related to the implementation and deployment of the NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD architecture by using IBM Storage Scale System hardware. It is suitable for anyone looking to learn more about the overall solution and provides direct examples of solution implementation.

📆 Events

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

📝 Blogs of the week

👉 @Smita Raut shares how IBM released the Storage Ceph-as-a-service offering on 7th March 2025 and is now available as an IBM Cloud catalog tile in the blog IBM Storage Ceph As A Service is now live

👉 @Naresh Narhayan A K walks through getting started with IBM Storage Ceph-as-a-service in the blog Revolutionizing On-Premise Solutions with a Cloud-Like Experience: IBM Storage Ceph as a Service

👉 @Jason Paquette showcases how the University of Queensland is paving the way for a brighter future in research and education in the blog Driving Innovation: The University of Queensland's Approach to Research and Technology

👉 @Randy Blea highlights what's new in Copy Services Manager 6.3.14.0  in the blog What's New in IBM Copy Services Manager 6.3.14.0 and highlights two new features of IBM Copy Services Manager that make managing Local and Remote Snapshots for Asynchronous Replication on IBM FlashSystems easier in the blog Effortless Snapshot Management: Automate local and remote Snapshot creation for Asynchronous Replication on IBM FlashSystem using IBM Copy Services Manager

👉 @Pranav Prakash walks through the step by step process on building and bringing up the Ganesha service from the upstream code in the blog From Source to Storage: How to Build and Deploy Upstream NFS-Ganesha with Ceph

👉 @Scott Colbeck shares significant improvements made in the backup/restore performance in the latest Fusion 2.9 release in the blog Fusion Backup & Restore Performance Improvements

🚀 IBM Storage Corner 

@Maria McDade shares photos from a 2 day Storage Strategy event this week held at the IBM Innovation Centre in London. This event brought together Clients and Business Partners seeking a deeper understanding of the IBM Storage portfolio of products to hear from IBM experts who presented their views on strategic directions, best practices, and feedback on IBM Storage FlashSystem and SVC, IBM Storage Defender, IBM Storage Insights, IBM DS8K, IBM Ceph, IBM Fusion and IBM Scale!

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IBM TechXchange Community Team
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