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Join my Storage Sessions at IBM TechXchange Conference 2024 in Las Vegas 21-24 October!

By Barry Whyte posted Thu September 26, 2024 03:50 PM

  

It feels like this year is more or less back to pre-COVID time, in terms of my recent travel anyway! Back in May/June we had the usual European User Group tour back in full swing with ever growing attendance at every event across Holland, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium and the UK. I made it to most of those and with seemingly weekly trips across the local “ditch” to our Aussie cousins I was glad to have some family time in the UK at the start of the trip – the first time the kids had made it back to see family since we left in 2015!

Over the last six weeks its been crazy too, making it to Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia before heading to the US for the recent two state User Groups rounded off by a great week in Switzerland at Storage Days and a Common sponsored event at Geneva University with a major focus on Cyber Resiliency throughout.

I would like to say I’m home until I make it over to the US again for IBM TechXchange Conference 2024, but that would be a lie! However, as I prepare my sessions for the IBM TechXchange Conference, I thought I should post here with details of the sessions I’m directly presenting or helping out our clients with. I even get an honorary mention if you expand the Storage Track toggle at the link above:

There is still just enough time if you haven’t already registered, and a few spaces left (going fast!). IBM TechXchange Community Members can get a 30% discount to the Conference using the details here.

Monday is community day, we a have an “all storage” AMA session just after lunch with all the experts in one place!

Session ID Title Brief Abstract When/Where
3471 Storage User Group AMA Meetup: FlashSystem, Storage Defender Panel Meet, greet, ask all your questions at IBM Storage Ask Me Anything (AMA) sessions on Monday of TechXchange 2024. All the IBM Storage speakers on this topic in the title, will be here to help you kick off your full week of technical breakout sessions, hands-on labs, demos, and huge interaction with all of your peers. Don’t miss this event at TechXchange 2024! Attend all the Storage AMA’s to get a full picture…. meet all the experts in one place! Mon 21st 12:30pm to 1:30pm
South, Palm H, Level 3
2674 What’s New in past 12 months with FlashSystem, Storage Virtualize and Storage Insights Join this session to hear of the many enhancements to the IBM FlashSystem, IBM Storage Virtualize, and IBM Storage Insights family in the past 12 months. See and hear all the important details, considerations, usage cases, best practices, migration considerations and success factors, user stories. Learn all the key success factors and experienced advice you’ll need to deploy these new FlashSystem / Storage Virtualize features. See what others are doing – you’ll find out your FlashSystem can do so much more. Get the most out of your FlashSystem and Storage Virtualize! Tues 22nd 8:30am to 9:30am
South, Oceanside C, Level 2
3972 IBM Storage FlashSystem – Ask Me Anything Have burning questions , curiosity, or want to talk to our WW FlashSystem and Storage Virtualize expert Barry Whyte on any / all things FlashSystem and Storage Virtualize? Schedule and come to the IBM Storage Community booth in the Sandbox, and join a personal Ask-Me-Anything session with our famous Storage expert, waiting and ready to meet you and discuss anything you’d like! Put this on your schedule! Tues 22nd 3:00pm to 3:45pm
Sandbox – Storage Booth
2677 Flash Grid and the future of Policy-based Data Resiliency and Mobility Policy-based management has been the cornerstone of all recent Virtualize replication and high availability features. The introduction of Storage Partitions enabled HA and the new 3-site replication, and partitions are the future of data mobility with the ever evolving Flash Grid. Join this session to learn all about these exciting new features and capabilities. Wed 23rd 1:30pm to 2:30pm South, Oceanside D, Level 2
2676 IBM FlashSystem, Storage Virtualize and Storage Insights – Future Roadmap Join this session to hear of the trends, directions, technologies an all important feature outlook for IBM FlashSystem, Storage Virtualize and Storage Insights. It’s much more than just features; these products are also at the heart of IBM Infrastructure’s use of AI for performance, reliability, and deployment of Cyber Resilient infrastructure that will keep your data and infrastructure enterprise resilient in face of major new Cyber Resiliency threats. We’ll go into detail with the roadmap of product enhancements and new features in the coming years for IBM’s strategic distributed block storage. Thr 24th 10:00am to 11:00am
South, Oceanside D, Level 2
2675 FlashSystem Hints and Tips – including Performance best practices How best to setup encryption, how should I configure my DRAID, what about DR? These are just some of the common questions asked – Join us for 1001 (not quite) hints and tips for getting the most out of your FlashSystem and Virtualize systems. Incorporating the latest in best practices and tips for squeezing every ounce of performance from your system. Thr 24th
1:30pm to 2:30pm
South, Oceanside D, Level 2

I’m also helping cover a few things with these customer sessions :

2116 AI Sovereignty and Data Chain of Custody Spectrum would be presenting our productization of Sovereign AI platform, we have built that with IBM using Watsonx as the foundational layer and utilizing IBM storage to create a meta data governance chain of custody with the IBM Flash, Scale and Defender teams. We have completed our POC layer and are now working through the technology and software ESA’s. We can present on the design, build and testing phase and also bring to the session the discussion around the governance layers within the data sets and what sovereignty means within an AI context. Tue 22nd 4:30pm to 5:30pm
South, Oceanside F, Level 2
2454 Customer Success Stories – FlashSystem Cyber Resiiency, High Availability and Disaster Recovery Come hear our customers from Australia share their major success stories and lessons learned. CMTG will share their story of implementing automated SafeGuarded Copy as a Managed Service, requirements, design, what we learnt along the way, how its saved us already! ANZ Bank will share their use of FlashSystem’s new replication technology, Policy-Based High Availability (PB-HA), the next generation in data protection capabilities available to the current suite of FlashSystems, including challenges involved in migrating our existing systems to the new technology, the benefits of doing so, the current challenges faced using existing replication technologies. Wed 23rd
11:30am to 12:30pm
South, Oceanside D, Level 2

I hope to see many of you there!



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