IBM TechXchange Group

The upcoming TechXchange Conference is the premier, technical learning event designed with technologists for technologists who use IBM products and solutions. It offers over a thousand technical breakout sessions, hands-on experiences, product demonstrations, instructor-led labs, and certifications tailored to your interests and learning style. Attendees will participate in deep, guided education through hands-on practical experience with the latest IBM tech, including hybrid cloud and AI, hear best practices from real practitioners, interact with IBM experts around product roadmaps, hang out with their peers in a casual and creative environment, and advance their skills through hands on labs and certifications.

There will be 56 breakout sessions, 14 hands-on labs and 3 user groups for Storage track. 

In this thread, we'll highlight, introduce our lineup of speakers along with their sessions at Storage track. 

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Meet our Client Speaker at TechXchange: Mark Cecil (Navy Federal Credit Union)

Mark is the Senior Principal Engineer Data Protection and Storage Services at Navy Federal Credit Union. He has over 30 years of IT infrastructure experience, beginning as a DoD HPC UNIX administrator, adding data protection facilities, storage arrays and SAN administration at the turn of the millenium. He has held technical and management positions in Defense, Universities, and Banking. He is currently the Senior Principal Engineer at Navy Federal Credit Union's headquarters in Vienna, VA.

In his session (3155), Mark will discuss the criteria they used to evaluate a competitive PoC for enterprise block storage, including availability, performance, integration and ease of use. He'll also discuss the differences he experienced in working with both IBM and Pure Systems.

Session 3155 -- IBM FlashSystem and Storage Virtualize. With Special Guest Speaker from US Navy Federal Credit Union: 

https://www.ibm.com/community/ibm-techxchange-catalog/?search=3155#/

Just another reason to come to TechXchange. Browse the full catalog and register with the link above under "TechXchange Conference".