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 Smith highlights the strategic partnership with Recovery Assurance innovator PREDATAR delivering PROOF of recovery for IBM Storage Defender customers in the blog PROOF. DONE PROPERLY.
@Namita Singroha walks through consuming existing CAS vector stores via MCP for AI and platform engineers who want to integrate MCP‑compatible AI assistants with enterprise vector‑backed knowledge stores in the blog IBM Bob Meets CAS MCP: Everything You Need to Get Started
📌Upcoming ATG Webinar Sessions:
📆 Accelerate with ATG: Understanding the Cyber Vault for IBM I blueprint – 4/7/26 at 12:00 PM ET
Join ATG to understand how the Cyber Vault blueprint can detect and recover from cyber attacks or logical corruptions to your IBM i environment. We will discuss the technologies which make up the solution and how they work together to provide cyber resiliency and detection capabilities. Register today!
📆 Accelerate with ATG: Protecting Hybrid Cloud Platforms with IBM Storage Defender – 4/9/26 at 12:00 PM ET
Many organizations use a combination of on-prem and cloud-based platforms to take advantage of the different performance, capabilities and cost characteristics offered by each, especially when used together. Whether this is just exploiting this flexibility to meet the needs for different application types or production and dev/test environments or even taking advantage of cloud platforms for enhanced disaster recovery. Each different platform introduces its own unique challenges to data resiliency and having a common solution to protect all aspects of on-prem physical, on-prem virtual, different location sizes serving different roles and cloud platforms allows an organization to control complexity and cost, while being able to meet all data resiliency needs. Please join IBM as we discuss how IBM Storage Defender can protect hybrid cloud solutions to meet your advanced data resiliency needs. Register today!
📆 Accelerate with ATG: IBM DS8000 - Deep Dive on Ransomware Threat Detection with FlashCore Modules – 4/16/26 at 12:00 PM ET
Aligned with the Detect, Protect, and Recover functions of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0, DS8000 has long delivered protection and rapid recovery through immutable Safeguarded Copy. With DS8000 G10 R10.1, IBM extends this strategy with inline, hardware‑assisted ransomware threat detection at the I/O block level using IBM FlashCore Module 4 (FCM4) and AI‑driven analytics. Ransomware detection is performed directly within the FCM hardware, inline with the data path, ensuring continuous analysis of every write operation with no impact to application performance. Low‑level telemetry is offloaded every few seconds to the Hardware Management Console (HMC), where it is aggregated and analyzed using machine‑learning models to identify early indicators of active data attacks - independent of hosts, operating systems, or applications. IBM is delivering DS8000 ransomware threat detection and alerting in phases. In the current Phase 1 release with R10.1, detection logic is active and telemetry‑based alerts are sent to IBM Support for model training, tuning, and false‑positive reduction. In a future Phase 2 release, customers will receive alerts directly through multiple notification channels, enabled via the DS8000 Security Group license. Join IBM Advanced Technical Group (ATG) for a deep dive into the architecture, detection logic, analytics, and alerting roadmap of DS8000 FCM4 ransomware threat detection, and how it integrates into a broader Detect–Protect–Recover cyber‑resilience strategy. Register today!
📆 Accelerate with ATG: IBM GDPS 4.9 Update – 4/23/26 at 12:00 PM ET
The GDPS solution provides continuous availability / disaster recovery / cyber resiliency protection for IBM Z clients. This presentation will provide an update on the GDPS 4.9 which recently became available. Register today!
📆 Accelerate with ATG: Deep Dive into the IBM Storage Scale Policy Engine – 4/28/26 at 12:00 PM ET
IBM Storage Scale is IBM's flagship storage for unstructured data for AI, High-Performance Computing, and enterprise workloads. Scale is a Global Data Platform with sophisticated data acceleration and abstraction services, under the control of a policy engine, that orchestrates data placement, movement, and optimization across flash, disk, tape, and object storage. Join this webinar to dive into the Storage Scale policy engine and learn practical techniques to harness it to control tiering, compression, and other information lifecycle management operations - improving performance and reducing costs. Register today!
📖New IBM Redbooks
📌Next-generation Enterprise AI Solutions with IBM watsonx.ai and IBM Storage Scale: This IBM Redpaper describes the IBM® solution for using IBM Storage Scale as enterprise storage with IBM watsonx.ai®. The paper explains how IBM watsonx.ai applications can use the enterprise-storage features and functions that are provided by IBM Storage Scale. This Redpaper is intended for technical professionals, including customers, consultants, technical support staff, IT architects, and IT specialists who are responsible for delivering artificial intelligence (AI) solutions.
📌Setting Up IBM Storage Scale with NVIDIA Base Command Manager: This comprehensive technical reference provides system administrators and system programmers with detailed guidance for deploying and managing IBM Storage Scale storage clusters in environments orchestrated by NVIDIA Base Command Manager (BCM). The document addresses the unique integration challenges of combining BCM's image-based provisioning model with Storage Scale's cluster management requirements, offering production-ready implementation procedures for AI, HPC, and data-intensive computing environments.
📌Implementation Guide for IBM Storage Scale System 6000: This document explores the latest IBM Storage Scale System hardware, which addresses these new and growing needs through many different system and storage configurations. This document is intended to be used by technical support staff, IT architects, IT specialists, and anyone who wants to know more about the latest IBM Storage Scale System offerings and system components.
📌Unleashing the Power of IBM Storage FlashSystem Grid: A Comprehensive Guide: The IBM FlashSystem® grid is an innovative and efficient solution for overcoming data storage management challenges. This federated, scalable storage platform enables unified management of multiple IBM FlashSystem and IBM Storage Virtualize (IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC)) controllers. Its key strengths include unmatched scale-out capability and streamlined, non-disruptive management across federated IBM FlashSystem and SVC environments, which enhances both agility and resilience. This IBM Redbooks® publication provides a practical guide to deploying and managing the IBM FlashSystem grid. The intended audience includes storage administrators and storage architects who need practical guidance for IBM FlashSystem grid implementation and ongoing management.
Check out these discussions in IBM Storage and share your expertise:
👉FS7300 PBHA performance issue posted in the Global Storage Forum
👉IBM i Storage Migration: Using SVC as Intermediary for FlashSystem to DS8000 Transfer posted in IBM FlashSystem
👉MFA in Storage Virtualize with DUO Security posted in the Global Storage Forum
👉IBM Fusion OpenShift: CPU-First or Always GPU-by-Default for Sovereign Granite Inference? posted in IBM Fusion
📆 Events
7 April | ATG Webcast - Understanding the Cyber Vault for IBM I blueprint
9 April | ATG Webcast - Protecting Hybrid Cloud Platforms with IBM Storage Defender
16 April | ATG Webcast - IBM DS8000 - Deep Dive on Ransomware Threat Detection with FlashCore Modules
23 April | ATG Webcast - IBM GDPS 4.9 Update
🚀 IBM Storage Corner
@Matthew Smith shares photos from the recent IBM Storage Strategy Event at the IBM Innovation Studio in London highlighting how IBM Storage Defender with Predatar can recover your business in the event of a ransomware attack!
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IBM TechXchange Community Team
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