We're back with our series IBM Storage Rocks ๐ 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 ๐Weekly News post here and all of the previous posts here.
๐ฃ Announcements & Highlights
@Mike Kieran showcases in this blog how for the ninth consecutive year, IBM has been recognized as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage for its Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute in the data-driven scale-out storage market for unstructured data
Accelerate with ATG: Announcing the 10th Generation IBM DS8000 Enterprise Storage System โ 10/17/24 at 12:00 PM ET
Announcing the 10th Generation IBM DS8000 Enterprise Storage System โ October 17th, 2024
Join the IBM Advanced Technology Group's DS8000 Subject Matter Expert team to learn about the 10th generation DS8000 Enterprise Storage System. i.e., the "G10". This webinar will be an overview of the G10 product family and its features and functions. The G10 platform is designed to be always available, always performing, always innovating, and always ready. The DS8000 product family is the most advanced disk system on the market an offers the best-in-class solutions for high availability, disaster recovery, and cyber resiliency. Don't miss out and register now!
IBM Storage Success Story Videos of the Week
Check out these videos showcasing IBM Storage success stories:
๐ IBM Storage for Hybrid Cloud and Red Hat OpenShift - Large Australian engineering conglomerate establishes central management of asset deployment, streamlines workflows and reduces cost with one platform to rule them all - IBM Fusion ROCKS!
๐ IBM Storage - More in Store! 2 minute video - IBM Storage is not Slowing Down, it's accelerating and leading the way. Whether it is IBM Fusion, IBM FlashSystem, IBM DS8000, IBM Tape, IBM Storage Defender, and more... IBM Storage is the complete solution for your data.
๐ฌ Trending discussions
Check out these discussions in IBM Storage and share your expertise:
๐ 8.6.0.5: Ready for prime time? posted in the Global Storage Forum
๐ ISV virtualization license on FS7300 posted in Primary Storage
๐ Events
16 October | Red Hatยฎ Summit: Connect in Huntington Beach, California
17 October | ATG Webcast - Announcing the 10th Generation IBM DS8000 Enterprise Storage System
21 - 24 October | Las Vegas, NV - IBM TechXchange Conference 2024
23 October | Red Hatยฎ Summit: Connect in San Jose, California
30 October | Webinar: Modernizing data lakes with IBM Storage Ceph
14 November | San Francisco, California - IBM TechXchange: AI Academy
17 - 22 November | Atlanta, Georgia - SuperComputing 2024
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
IBM TechXchange Conference 2024
The countdown to IBM TechXchange Conference 2024 is on! Join us for IBM TechXchange Conference 2024, the ultimate learning event, October 21-24, at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. This is an immersive learning experience designed to fuel your AI journey. We'll equip you with the practical skills to apply gen AI to your role and unlock the full potential of the IBM technology you rely on. IBM TechXchange Community Members can get a 30% discount to the Conference using the details here.
See all of the IBM Storage sessions offered and most importantly - bookmark the link and share with your colleagues!
@Erin Farr and @Christopher Vollmar share how Storage for Data Resiliency will host Ask Me Anything Sessions at the Storage Community booth in the Sandbox at the upcoming IBM TechXchange Conference 2024 in the blog IBM TechXchange Conference: Storage for Data Resiliency โ Up close and Personal and how IBM Storage Defender Data Protect will have sessions, labs and live discussion at the Sandbox on how to leverage Data Protect for large scale rapid recovery of a variety of environments in the blog IBM Defender Data Protect at IBM TechXchange 2024 Live!
@Daniel Danner shares his session Fusion HCI for OpenShift Virtualization in a Disconnected Environment [Session ID: 2361] on Wednesday, Oct 23, 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM PDT (Location: South, Mandalay Bay I, Level 2) in the blog IBM Fusion HCI for OpenShift Virtualization in a Disconnected Environment at IBM TechXchange Conference 2024
@Joseph Dain highlights his session Storage for watsonx and GenAI -- Futures, Directions, and Roadmap [Session ID: 2114] on Thursday, Oct 24, 8:30 AM โ 9:30 AM PDT (Location: South, Oceanside D, Level 2) in the blog Storage for watsonx and Gen AI - Futures, Directions, and Roadmap
@Joshua Blumert shares three exciting "hands on" labs he is leading on IBM Fusion at the upcoming IBM TechXchange Conference 2024 in the blog Fusion Labs at IBM TechXchange 2024
๐ IBM Storage Corner
@Sanjay Patel shares IBM Storage's participation at NVIDIA AI Summit in DC this week on October 7-9. IBM Storage showcased the latest innovations in AI Infrastructure.
IBM Storage Scale System is an NVIDIA certified ultra-performance solution that drives AI innovation and scales seamlessly from NVIDIA DGX BasePODโข to the largest DGX SuperPODโข installations. Deployed by thousands of organizations for GPU acceleration and AI, IBM Storage Scale System delivers six nines of data reliability, cyber resiliency, and multi-protocol data pipelines for the most-demanding enterprises. Software-defined IBM Storage integrates and tiers your data, so you can leverage a global data platform to bring value to your organization and transform data-intensive AI workloads into actionable insights.
IBM Blue Vela is based around Nvidia's SuperPod concept and uses IBM Storage Scale appliances. Also presented, as shown below, was Creating a Data Flywheel from Inference to training. IBM Storage Scale is software-defined file and object storage enabling organizations to build a global data platform for AI, HPC, advanced analytics, and other demanding workloads. Expedite model training by leveraging IBM Storage Scale.
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Kat Jarvis & John Sing
IBM TechXchange Community Team
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