We're back with our series IBM Storage Rocks ๐ highlighting all of the great content, events, and announcements in IBM Storage. Enjoy our curated content to stay informed and in the loop!
๐ฃ Announcements & Highlights
@Namita Singroha showcases how deploying NVIDIA RAG on Fusion HCI, is a production-ready framework for building research assistants that deliver accurate, explainable insights at enterprise scale in the blog Deploying NVIDIA RAG on Fusion HCI. For more info see the video: NVIDIA Blueprint Video Search and Summarization
@Jeremias Werner summarizes the batch inferencing scenario showcased in a recent technical deep dive, explaining how Code Engine enables developers and client engineering teams to run AI inferencing at scale with minimal operational complexity blog Batch Inferencing at Scale with IBM Cloud Code Engine Serverless Fleets
@Qais Noorshams provides a summary of the key points and benefits of the IBM Redpaper "Next-generation Enterprise AI solutions with IBM watsonx.ai and IBM Storage Scale" in the blog NextโGeneration Enterprise AI with IBM watsonx.ai and IBM Storage Scale
๐ IBM Storage FlashSystem - Live from Warsaw: The future of storage
Join the Livestream on 10 February 2026 | 9:00 AM โ 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.
๐ก๏ธIBM Storage Defender Product Release Updates
๐Upcoming ATG Webinar Sessions:
๐ Accelerate with ATG: IBM Storage Fusion - Migration from VMware to Red Hat OpenShift โ 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!
๐ Accelerate with ATG: Protecting OpenShift workloads with IBM Storage Defender & Fusion โ 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!
๐ Accelerate with ATG: IBM Storage Fusion 2.12 - What's new โ 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!
๐New IBM Redbooks
๐Next-generation Enterprise AI Solutions With IBM watsonx.ai and IBM Storage Scale: Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are developing rapidly. The significant advancements in processing power achieved through the latest generations of graphics processing units (GPUs) enable the development and deployment of increasingly complex AI models. This leads to the creation and adoption of large-scale foundation models and large language models (LLMs). These models are the cornerstone for new emerging technologies like Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) or Agentic AI. At the core of all of these models is data. The ability to provide high quality data through a fast storage solution is key when committing costly resources and optimizing the IT infrastructure to develop new, high quality solutions. This IBM Redpaper describes the IBM solution for using IBM Storage Scale as enterprise storage with IBM watsonxยฎ.ai. The paper showcases how IBM watsonx.aiยฎ applications can benefit from the enterprise storage features and functions offered by IBM Storage Scale.
๐Implementation Guide for IBM Storage Scale System 6000: The business world is being transformed rapidly by artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing (HPC), analytics, and hybrid cloud technologies. Unlike traditional applications that work with structured data that is stored in databases, these new workloads operate on a vast ocean of unstructured data, such as documents, images, videos, audio recordings, log files, or any other information that can be generated by users, applications, or even machines. Therefore, organizations are having to rethink their data storage strategies and adapt to new ways of working, including how to use AI to unlock the value of their data wherever it might reside. IT leaders face many new challenges. 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.
๐IBM Storage DS8A00 Architecture and Implementation Guide: Updated for Release 10.1: This IBMยฎ Redbooksยฎ publication describes the concepts, architecture, and implementation of the IBM DS8A00 family. The book provides reference information to assist readers who need to plan for, install, and configure the DS8000 G10 systems. This edition applies to DS8000 G10 systems with Licensed Machine Code (LMC) 7.10.0 (bundle version 10.0.xxx.x), referred to as Release 10.0.
๐ฌ Trending Discussions
Check out these discussions in IBM Storage and share your expertise:
๐High latency spikes on iSCSI connected FS5040 posted in the Global Storage Forum
๐code 9.1.0.3 issue posted in IBM FlashSystem
๐Looking for help on converting from CA1 to RMM in a plex, any advice/documenation/presentations/etc posted in Tape Library
๐ Events
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
๐ Blogs of the week
๐ @Sandeep Bazar showcases a practical setup where IBM Bob can query your IBM Fusion cluster in plain English, while staying grounded in live cluster facts pulled via Kubernetes-MCP tools in the blog IBM Fusion + IBM Bob + Kubernetes-MCP: End-to-End "Conversational Ops"
๐ @Randhir Singh expands on Part I and introduces an external issuer and allows it to define validity on our behalf - the application no longer authenticates; it verifies assertions issued by another system in the blog Part 2 - Delegating Trust to an Issuer and walks through building a human-in-the-loop automation pipeline using IBM Storage Insights, n8n, Google Gemini, Slack, and a vector database in the blog An n8n Workflow to Automate IBM Storage Insights Alerts
๐ @Rupali . walks through the steps to set up Red Hat OpenShift AI, configure necessary operators and certificates, and create your first data science project in the blog Getting Started with OpenShift AI with Fusion Data Foundation and walks through how to set up a real-time fraud identification pipeline on-prem using IBM Fusion HCI + IBM Software Hub + watsonx.ai, then built and hosted a model that can flag transactions instantly in the blog Real-time Fraud Detection on IBM Fusion HCI with Watsonx AI
๐ @Namita Singroha explains how MCP enables watsonx Orchestrate to access IBM Content Archive Services, demonstrates the technical implementation, and shows the integration in action in the blog Integrating IBM CAS with watsonx Orchestrate via MCP
๐ @SUMIT GUPTA explains how to configure PBR using Ansible playbooks, covering security, pool setup, policy creation, and volume lifecycle management in the blog Policy-Based Replication on FlashSystem Using Ansible
๐ @Anthony Hsu explores how combining llm-d, LMCache, and IBM Storage Scale fundamentally changes the economics of LLM inference in the blog Rethinking LLM Inference Economics with llm-d, LMCache, and IBM Storage Scale
๐ IBM Storage Corner
@Christopher Maestas shares a recap of IBM Storage's presence at SCA/HPCAsia 2026 in his blog HPC, AI, and Culture: My Trip to SCA/HPC Asia 2026 in Osaka
SCA/HPC Asia 2026 was a massive success. The convergence of AI and traditional HPC is accelerating, and the storage layer is right at the center of that evolution. The technology is moving fast-especially with the integration of AI capabilities into the storage layer itself-but the community is keeping pace. Looking forward to the next SC ASIA and HPC ASIA events in 2027!
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