We're back with our series IBM Storage Rocks 🚀 highlighting all of the great content, events, and announcements in IBM Storage. Enjoy our curated content to stay informed and in the loop! Conveniently access the most recent IBM Storage Rocks 🚀Weekly News post here and all of the previous posts here.
📣 Announcements & Highlights
@Luis Alonso Ruelas Rosales highlights how the IBM's TS7700 Virtual Tape Library stands out in the market and shares an overview of key features in the blog The next generation VTS from IBM: The TS7780
@Meghan Grable shares how IBM's upcoming November deployment of Storage Protect for Cloud in Azure data center located in Brazil signifies a key advancement in SaaS workload coverage in the blog IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Expands to Brazil Data Center
IBM Fusion HCI for watsonx offers enhancements (planned availability date - 5 December 2024): IBM Fusion HCI is now available for fulfillment in Passport Advantage as part of IBM's broader strategy to provide businesses with flexible, secure, and scalable cloud computing solutions tailored to their needs. IBM Fusion HCI for watsonx configurations are available in Passport Advantage to offer the fastest and simplest way to deploy watsonx.
Explore the latest videos added to the IBM Advanced Technology Group - Storage Channel! These videos are 12 minutes or less and feature demos and presentations on storage topics. These recent level up videos collection are focused on IBM® Storage Ceph®, which is a software-defined storage platform that consolidates block, file and object storage to help organizations eliminate data silos and deliver a cloud-like experience while retaining the cost benefits and data sovereignty advantages of on-premises IT.
New Videos:
If you are interested in viewing more technical videos on other Storage related topics from the Advanced Technology group, please visit the IBM MediaCenter Storage Channel.
📆 Accelerate with ATG: IBM Storage Ceph Reloaded – A review and feature update – 12/12/24 at 12:00 PM ET
IBM Storage Ceph Reloaded – A review and feature update - December 12th, 2024
IBM Storage Ceph is a software defined and hardware independent storage solution that provides block, file, and object storage in a single unified platform. . Don't miss out and register now!
📆 ATG Workshops:
Advanced Technology Group Storage Team provides technical sales support to IBM Storage Sellers and Business Partners exclusively in the Americas. The ATG Storage Team offers workshops for IBMers, Business Partners and with clients looking to invest in new IBM Storage solutions. If you are interested in attending one of the following workshops, please reach out to your IBM Representative or Business Partner to find out how you can register.
IBM DS80000 G10 Advanced Functions: November 6-7 (Virtual)
This workshop is intended for Americas clients interested in upgrading from their legacy enterprise disk storage to IBM DS8000 Gen 10.
Cyber Resilience with IBM Storage Defender: November 13 (Virtual)
This workshop is intended for Americas clients that are interested in learning how IBM Storage Defender provides a powerful set of capabilities that is unparalleled in the industry and can help you quickly recover from an attack and avoid paying a ransom. This workshop will cover the risks that a Cyber-Resilient solution must overcome and how to build that solution with IBM Storage.
IBM Fusion and Ceph ATG Workshop - A Deep Dive into Next Gen Storage: November 19-20 (Virtual)
This workshop will provide a deep dive into how IBM Fusion and Ceph will accelerate your organizations application modernization and new application development and move to Red Hat Openshift and watsonx. Topics covered are industry trends, key use cases and success stories. IBM Storage for watsonx overview and why IBM Storage featuring IBM Fusion, IBMStorage Scale and IBM Ceph.
IBM FlashSystem Deep Dive & Advanced Functions: December 3-4 - Herndon, VA
This workshop is intended for Americas clients with an immediate requirement to upgrade from disk, first generation SSD and Flash storage systems, to the high-performance feature rich IBM FlashSystem line. This workshop covers FlashSystem 5200, 7300, and 9500 products.
IBM Storage Success Story Videos of the Week
Check out these videos showcasing IBM Storage success stories:
👉 This video is all about the IBM FlashSystem 5300: what it is, what it does, what it will do for your business. This video is from the launch of the IBM FlashSystem 5300.
👉 The Future is Now - IBM Storage Expert Care and IBM Storage Insights: 3 minute fast-paced video detailing living with vast amounts of data - and the cost of suddenly losing access to that data. IBM Storage Expert Care makes sure that vast amount of data is well managed both on and off premise with IBM Storage Expert Care - and Storage Insights provides a complete data and cyber security, and it's included with your IBM Storage.
👉 Major international UK based bank modernizes with IBM DS8000 and IBM Fusion, transforming VMware services to mission critical Red Hat OpenShift container workloads providing a stretch storage cluster on z data services architecture with zero Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and zero Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) for container apps and IBM cloud Paks. IBM can help solve your complex Data Protection challenges!
💬 Trending discussions
Check out these discussions in IBM Storage and share your expertise:
👉 FS 7300 maximum drive count / limit posted in Primary Storage
👉 Error CMMVC1146E when trying to add a Volume Group to an Ownership Group posted in Primary Storage
👉 Storage Virtualize Node restart posted in Primary Storage
📆 Events
12 November | Webinar: Resilience Redefined - Navigating the Cybersecurity Maze with Confidence
12 - 15 November | Salt Lake City, Utah - KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024
14 November | San Francisco, California - IBM TechXchange: AI Academy
17 November | Atlanta, Georgia - Scale User Group at SC24
17 - 22 November | Atlanta, Georgia - SuperComputing 2024
19 November | Atlanta, Georgia - SC24 Reception
5 December | Webinar: Revolutionize your infrastructure: IBM Fusion 2.9 for cost reduction and value acceleration
10 December | Webinar: Unleash AI agility with IBM Fusion and watsonx
12 December | ATG Webcast - IBM Storage Ceph Reloaded – A review and feature update
📝 Blogs of the week
👉 @Jim Smith outlines how data is sent during each backup operation, the industry definitions of "incremental backup" and other frequently asked questions about incremental backup in the blog Are Fusion Backups Incremental?
👉 @DEEPA A walks through the process of performing an offline/exclude upgrade of IBM Storage Scale using the Ansible-based installation toolkit in the blog Offline upgrade process steps of IBM Storage Scale using installation toolkit with exclude node option
👉 @Tony Pearson shares a technical briefing from IBM's Data Resiliency SMEs discussing highlights from development, support, and sales in the blog Data Resiliency - Technical News brief Oct 2024
🚀 IBM Storage Corner
@Frank Lee shares IBM Fusion HCI at the watsonx booth packed with visitors watching a live demo from @BEN RANDALL and @Jason Paquette at IBM TechXchange Conference 2024 last week!
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