Originally posted by: TonyPearson

Next week, April 8-11, I will be presenting a variety of topics at the [Systems Technical University 2014] conference in Istanbul, Turkey. The conference will feature experts from IBM Power Systems, IBM System x, IBM PureSystems, and IBM System Storage.

Here are the titles and abstracts of the eight topics that I will be presenting next week, in chronological order, along with some related sessions for each topic:

IBM Smarter Storage Strategy

Do you want to understand more about IBM's initiatives for building a smarter planet and how that relates to the data economics of your organization? This session will explain it all, including how IBM's design approach and strategy for its various storage products and solutions for efficiency for data intensive solutions, optimization of business critical workloads, and agility to start quickly and add value. I will also position the features and capabilities of IBM's various disk and tape systems in this context.

Relation sessions:

• Clod Barrera will present IBM Storage Strategy - Traditional and New Methods for Storage Deployment. My session is Tuesday morning and will focus on how IBM Storage Strategy is aligned with IBM's business initiatives including Cloud, Analytics, Mobile and Social Business (CAMS). Clod's presentation will be more technical in nature, featuring Flash storage, scale-out grids, object storage directions, and Software Defined Environments.
   
• Axel Koester will present Storage Technology Futures - fresh from IBM research labs, tomorrow in your datacenter. Axel's presentation will focus on what IBM Research is working on, based on industry trends.
   
• Pat O'Rourke will present Power Systems Trends and Direction, which will focus on IBM's strategy for the POWER Systems product line.

Replication for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR)

Replication of disk storage systems can be used as part of an overall Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plan. This session will provide an overview of the technologies involved, and other considerations.

Relation sessions:

• Markus Oscheka and Ralf Wohlfarth will present IBM Storage Systems integration into VMware Site Recovery Manager, a more focused session that offers Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery for VMware environments.
   
• Deniz Erguvan will present Disaster Recovery Solution Design with PowerVM and Storage Virtualization.
   
• Thomas Vogel and Torsten Rothenwaldt will present Native IP replication with SVC / Storwize v7.2. This new feature was announced last October 2013.
   
• Thomas Vogel and Torsten Rothenwaldt will also present New HA and DR concepts with SVC enhanced stretched cluster, focused on data federation across data centers.

What is big data? Architectures and Practical Use Cases

Do you understand the storage implications of big data analytics? This session will explain what big data is, and cover the Information Infrastructure and practical use cases.

Relation sessions:

• Ajay Dholakia will present Taming Big Data: An overview of key technologies and architectures. Ajay will focus more on the hardware components (servers, networks, storage), whereas my presentation will focus on the roles of the storage administrator, data scientist and decision maker.
   
• Axel Koester will present BIG DATA at CERN : Analyzing petabytes in seconds(!) at the European particle collider facility, a specific use case.
   
• Jean-Armand Broyelle will present Big Data on Power: come and touch reality!, which will focus on the capabilities to process big data on POWER systems.

Cloud Storage and the Active Cloud Engine™

This session will cover private and public cloud storage options, including XIV, SONAS, Storwize V7000 Unified and Linear Tape File System (LTFS) Enterprise Edition. The use of Active Cloud Engine for local space management and global WAN caching to access files, SmartCloud Storage Access for self-service provisioning, and file-and-sync solutions will also be explained.

Relation sessions:

• Eric Aquaronne and Jeff Borek will present Storage Cloud to energize your company. My session will focus on the technologies involved, whereas theirs will provide a product demo and practical implementation advice.
   
• Mo McCullough will present XIV Overview and Update, Thomas Luther will present SONAS overview and Updates, and Nils Haustein will present Linear Tape File System Enterprise Edition (LTFS-EE) explained. These other topics will all go into more deep dive on each product solution than what I will cover in my high-level overview.

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center

Why is Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (TPC) the #1 most requested topic at the IBM Tucson Executive Briefing Center? One of the chief architects of this product will cover the latest features, and why this product will greatly help your storage admin staff.

Relation sessions:

• Clod Barrera will present Software Defined Storage - Storage for Software Defined Environments which will provide a broader view, while mine is focused specifically on how TPC plays a role in SDS.
   
• Thomas Luther will present TPC for Replication 5.2 Overview and updates, will focus specifically on the Replication support in the latest release.

IBM Archive Storage Solutions - Data Retention for Government Compliance and Industry Regulations

This session will cover the various offerings IBM has for archive solutions, including IBM System Storage Archive Manager (SSAM), N series, and WORM tape storage systems.

Relation session:

• Nils Haustein will present Next generation archive storage solutions which will focus specifically on SSAM software, with focus on migration procedures from other archive solutions.

New Generation of Storage Tiering: Less management, lower investment and increased performance

Confused on how to implement storage tiering between Flash, Disk, Tape storage system resources? This session will cover the various techniques and technologies available.

Relation session:

• Levi Norman will present IBM FlashSystem Overview, focused on this particular tier of storage.
   
• Axel Koester will present Storage Portfolio Selection Guide: What (not) to use when, providing an overview of the IBM System Storage portfolio, whereas I am focused more on the technologies that make up each tier of storage, and how to take advantage of them to balance cost and performance.

Data Footprint Reduction

Data Footprint Reduction is the catchall term for a variety of technologies designed to help reduce storage costs. This session will cover four techniques for data footprint reduction: thin provisioning, space-efficient snapshots, data deduplication and real-time compression. It will also discuss the IBM storage products that provide these capabilities. Come to this session to learn how these technologies work, and how they will benefit your data center.

bi Relation session:

• Antoine Maille will present Demonstrate the TurboCompression Effect, a live demo of the technologies I will be discussing.
   
• Johann Weiss will present The Storwize family - easy to manage, function rich and cloud ready, which will include a discussion of Real-time compression.
   
• Mathias Defiebre and Erik Franz will present ProtecTIER with IBM FlashSystem (or maybe with Storwize). ProtecTIER is IBM's strategic data deduplication solution, which can act as a gateway in front of a variety of back-end storage options.

If you will be at this conference all week, look for me and say "Hello!"

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