Primary Storage

Dear Storage Community Members:

While 2020 was an immensely challenging year, we want to thank all new and existing IBM Storage Community members for contributing and consuming the latest technical and product news since our launch on July 1, 2020. 

Together, we did the following:

1. Grew our membership by 20% in six months and increasing blog views by 67%;
2. Created an interactive discussion platform providing no-cost assistance from technical Community members who have solved issues in Data Protection Software, Storage Area Networks, Primary Storage and File and Object Storage topic groups, among others.
3. Created a weekly IBM Storage news magazine featuring our most important technologies;
4. Established an Executive's Corner for conveying the latest technical insight from IBM Storage executives including IBM VP of Storage and SDI Development Alistair Symon, IBM Storage General Manager Denis Kennelly, and IBM Fellow, CTO and Chief Architect for Flash Systems, Andrew Walls
5. Provided new technical demos for use by community members;
6. Run user groups on the platform such as IBM Spectrum Virtualize in Hursley, UK
7. Migrated more than 1,100 IBM DeveloperWorks and Storage Developer Center blogs and forums to our new community site, along with their members/contributors;
8. Launched a unique Storage community experience for previous users of the IBM Middleware Community site;
9. Demonstrated how customers and partners like you are using our storage technology through detailed client references and use cases.

These were our most viewed blogs for the period 7/1/20 to 12/31/20: 

Topic	Contributor
IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS) increases performance for object applications	Praveen Viraraghavan, IBM Master Inventor, Hardware Architecture, Cloud Object Storage
Introducing IBM Cloud Object Storage File Access	Suresh Jasrasaria, Offering Management, IBM Cloud Object Storage
Spinning up an NVMe/FC Strategy using Cisco's C-type SAN Switches	Bhavin Yadav, Technical Product Management, Technical Support, Cisco
LAN-free and Server-free backup to disk with IBM Spectrum Protect™ and IBM Spectrum Scale™	Nils Haustein, Senior Technical Staff Member - EMEA Storage Competence Center
Centralized cloud integration and storage orchestration using IBM Spectrum Connect for VMware vCloud Suite	Reo K B

Have we missed any? Please share your favorites! What did you learn or find here that made you better or more efficient?

We hope you have found the community useful and will continue to contribute throughout 2021!

Best regards,

Peter M Basmajian
IBM Storage Product Marketing and Advocacy

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Peter Basmajian
Worldwide Product Marketing and Advocacy, IBM
San Francisco CA 650-542-7246
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