Originally posted by: TonyPearson

I have returned safely from the IBM Technical University in Johannesburg, South Africa, and now preparing for my next events. IBM plans to have back-to-back Technical University events in Hollywood Florida.

• October 8-12, will focus on [IBM Z mainframe, and a subset of IBM Storage] that offer synergy for IBM Z, such as DS8880 storage system, and the TS7760 Virtual Tape Engine. There will be 28 sessions on storage related to IBM Z.
• October 15-19, will focus on [IBM Power Systems and the entire IBM Storage portfolio].

I will be attending the second week. Here are three new tracks that will be offered:

IBM Storage Certification Boot Camp

Scattered across Monday to Wednesday (Oct 15-17) will be the following boot camp sessions:

• IBM Spectrum Storage Solution Architect V1
• IBM Visualized Storage V2
• IBM Technical Storage V1
• Traditional Workload Sales V2

Maximizing the Business Value of your Storage

Targeted towards executives and IT leaders, IBM offers a full-day program on Tuesday, October 16, from 9:00am to 5:30pm:

• Driven by Data: IBM Storage Strategic Overview
• The Right Flash for the Right Workload
• Overview of IBM Spectrum Family
• Storage Directions for IBM & the Industry
• What’s New with IBM Storage & SDI
• How to Store a Zetabyte

IBM executives and subject matter experts will be on-hand for this event.

Storage for Rookies

In Johannesburg, we had an "IBM Z for Rookies" track. In Hollywood, we will have a "Storage for Rookies" track. Here are the sessions:

• Storage for Rookies Kickoff
• IBM Spectrum Archive Basics: Taming big data with LTFS standard
• Spectrum Archive EE and Spectrum Scale - 101 Basics
• Introduction to IBM Cloud Object Storage System
• IBM FlashSystem 9100: Intro and deep dive
• Storage directions for IBM and the industry
• Introduction to IBM block storage replication
• Storage encryption overview and the big picture, why do I want to do this?
• Intro to IBM Spectrum Protect family of products
• Spectrum NAS 101 and key use cases
• IBM Spectrum Protect 101
• IBM Spectrum Protect Plus: A technical introduction
• Software Defined Storage: Storage for Software Defined Environments
• Spectrum Virtualize 101
• Enterprise Tape Storage product announcements
• Is LTO really the new enterprise drive?

I will be presenting the session on IBM Cloud Object Storage for this track.

If you will be in Hollywood from Oct 15-19, please stop by and say Hello! For a list of all my topics, see my previous blog post [IBM Technical University upcoming topics].