What better way to start off 2025, than with the IBM Storage Champions for 2025! The IBM Champions program has just announced our class of 2025 and with over 224 IBM Storage members I couldn’t be more excited to be part of the program.
As many of our previous champions know, John Sing has been the leader for storage for 2024. Starting in 2025, I’m so honoured to be taking the mantle from John and I’m looking forward to growing the Storage Community he was so passionate about. I’ve been a part of IBM Storage for 15 years now, and the one constant we’ve always had is the enthusiasm and support of our IBM Client and Channel Partner community.
Our Champions in 2024 had advocacy and engagement across all parts of IBM Storage and the nomination and selection process has been a great chance for me to get to know about the community, our members, and our programs. This engagement included activities around IBM Storage Scale, IBM Storage for Mainframe, our SAN and Tape families as well as Data Resiliency. IBM Storage Fusion and how it integrates with IBM watsonx will also be a hot topic for us this year just like it was last year.
For our clients, new for 2025, is the IBM FlashSystem Champions group, you will hear more about this program in the coming weeks, but it provides a great pathway for feedback and advocacy going forward. Programs like this help champions stay involved with storage development through our council feedback programs.
Now, being new to the program, I’m eagerly looking forward to meeting our community and hopefully seeing everyone at IBM TechXchange 2025. However, I do want to highlight just a few of our returning IBM Storage Champions for 2025, they have always been a vibrant part of our community and getting a chance to collaborate with Gerd Becker, Laura Tuller, Tony Owens, Konrad Trojok will be a treat this year. Naturally it also gives me the opportunity to also see old friends as well!
All our members will see a new look and organization for the IBM Storage Community and the topics that we’ll be discussing. More to come on that in the next few weeks, but have a look and please post in the parts of the IBM Community that you are passionate about. We’ve added to our community administration team and included representatives from Development, Product Management and Technical Sales to be part of the discussion.
Thank you to everyone who has been a part of IBM Storage Champions in 2024! Thank you for being a part of our community and advocating for the family that you are passionate about.
Continue the Celebration! 🎉
Meet the Champions: Dive into the 2025 IBM Champions Directory to connect with our Champions!
Get inspired: Check out Libby Ingrassia’s Blog for more on this year’s class.
Hang live: Don’t miss the Meet & Celebrate IBM Champions webinar on March 5th 2025 (11:00 AM ET)—Q&A with the experts!
Once again, congratulations to our class of 2025!
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