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
@Roy Peek highlights a newly released IBM Redbooks guide for storage professionals and organizations "IBM Storage DS8A00 Architecture and Implementation Guide" in the blog Introducing New IBM Redbook: IBM Storage DS8A00 Architecture and Implementation Guide
📆 Accelerate with ATG: Unlocking the Future of AI and Application Modernization- IBM Fusion 2.9 – 1/21/25 at 12:00 PM ET
IBM Fusion is IBM's number one storage solution for AI, Machine Learning and application modernization. As such, it's rapidly evolving to provide features to enable clients to serve their clients at the speed of business. In the latest Fusion 2.9 release, we introduce the "Control Tower" concept which will provide:
- A more flexible Private Cloud architecture
- The ability to bring your own bare-metal server into the cluster
- Faster and more efficient backup and restore
In addition, we'll discuss the latest operational and hardware enhancements for ease of monitoring and management. Don't miss out and register now!
📆 Accelerate with ATG: Take Your CSM to the Next Level: What's New in IBM Copy Services Manager 6.3.12 & 6.3.13 – 1/28/25 at 12:00 PM ET
Invite your clients and come join the Advanced Technology Group and Randy Blea, IBM Copy Services Manager Architect, to learn more about the new features available in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 6.3.12.0 and 6.3.13.0! New features include but are not limited to, the ability to specify password policies for local users, enhancements in active and standby support after a takeover, temporarily disable email notifications and support for the new FlashSystems Async Policy Based Replication with High Availability. Don't miss out and register now!
📆 Accelerate with ATG: IBM Storage Ceph RADOS Gateway Deep Dive – 2/6/25 at 12:00 PM ET
Join the Advanced Technology Group for a detailed update on the new IBM Storage Ceph 8.0 features and deep dive of object storage within the RADOS Gateway (RGW). This session begins at an intermediate level about IBM Storage Ceph and proceeding into the latest 8.0 RGW features. Specific details will be presented about the new Dashboard support for multi-site replication, S3 bucket policy, S3 bucket lifecycle, and the new APIs for IAM enablement. This session will pack as many Ceph RGW topics as possible, including some live demonstrations, within a 60 minute Accelerate with ATG format. Don't miss out and register now!
📣 IBM Storage Updates of the week
New IBM® Redbooks®
📌IBM Storage DS8A00 Architecture and Implementation Guide: This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes the concepts, architecture, and implementation of the IBM DS8A00 family. The book provides reference information to assist readers who need to plan for, install, and configure the DS8000 G10 systems. This edition applies to DS8000 G10 systems with Licensed Machine Code (LMC) 7.10.0 (bundle version 10.0.xxx.x), referred to as Release 10.0.
📌IBM Storage Defender: Data Resiliency Service (DRS): IBM Storage Defender Data Resilience Service (DRS) is a purpose-built cloud-based data resilience platform designed to help organizations quickly restart essential business operations in the event of a cyberattack or other unforeseen catastrophic event. DRS provides threat detection, data management, and recovery orchestration for data stored across primary and secondary storage. It helps to detect and respond to cyber threats, such as malware and ransomware attacks, and rapid recovery of data in case of a security breach or data loss to minimize the risks of financial losses or damage to a company's reputation.
DRS offers features such as data backup, disaster recovery, and data isolation to help organizations protect their data from cyber threats and unexpected disruptions. Additionally, it provides rapid recovery of data and applications in the event of a disaster or data loss, minimizing downtime and ensuring business continuity.
💬 Trending discussions
Check out these discussions in IBM Storage and share your expertise:
👉Hyperswap and Flashcopy posted in Primary Storage
👉TS7700 open Logical Volume by two JOBs using FlashCopy function posted in Mainframe Storage
👉Create backup on IBM Service Copy Manager with FS5300 Hyperswap posted in Primary Storage
📆 Events
21 January | Webinar - Beyond backup: End-to-end data resilience for the modern enterprise
21 January | ATG Webcast - Unlocking the Future of AI and Application Modernization- IBM Fusion 2.9
23 January | Webinar - Maximizing datacenter potential: Integrated strategy with IBM Technology Lifecycle Services (TLS)
28 January | ATG Webcast - Take Your CSM to the Next Level: What's New in IBM Copy Services Manager 6.3.12 & 6.3.13
6 February | ATG Webcast - IBM Storage Ceph RADOS Gateway Deep Dive
19 - 21 February | Hsinchu, Taiwan - HPC ASIA 2025
10 - 13 March | Singapore - SupercomputingAsia 2025
17 – 21 March | San Jose, California - NVIDIA GTC AI Conference
📝 Blogs of the week
👉 @Stephan Durand provides a quick and easy How-To for getting the Eagle Agent up and running in just a few minutes within Defender DataProtect in the blog Defender DataProtect - SP through Eagle Agent
👉 @Chebrolu Harika walks through how to configure three Ubuntu 22.04 LTS machines as worker nodes for an RKE cluster in the blog Preparing Worker Nodes for Setting Up an RKE Kubernetes Cluster on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
👉 @Pavan Govindraj outlines Ceph-LLM, an open source finetuning framework created with the collaboration of IBM Research and Red Hat, that seeks to create an open-source, community-driven LLM tailored to the Ceph ecosystem in the blog Ceph-LLM: Unlocking the Power of Community driven and Open Source AI(LLM)
👉 @Krishna Ramaswamy gives an overview of how the Ceph Dashboard offers a streamlined interface for configuring and managing NVMe-oF gateways and related services in the blog Managing the Ceph NVMe-oF Gateway through the intuitive Dashboard UI and shares how IBM Storage Ceph makes VMware storage easy to consume and manage in the blog IBM Storage Ceph 7.1 Integration with NVMe-oF initiator for VMware ESXi
👉 @Sunil Kumar N shares how High Availability (HA) works with NVMe-oF gateway groups, ensuring fault tolerance and continuous I/O operations in the face of failures in the blog Achieving High Availability with NVMe-oF Gateway Groups in Ceph 8.0
🚀 IBM Storage Corner
@Xinlin Wang shares photos from IBM's participation at CES 2025 this week (7-10 January) in Las Vegas, NV where the world's business leaders and pioneering thinkers addressed the industry's most relevant issues! IBM held an incredible panel at CES 2025 alongside Bill Pearson, Ajay Mungara and Amer Ather to discuss "GenAI for Everyday Experience" including how IBM Fusion and Storage are the ideal options for AI applications.
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IBM TechXchange Community Team
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