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
@Shawn Brume highlights how organizations looking to minimize their environmental footprint while maintaining robust data preservation practices can maximize their storage capabilities with IBM Deep Archive in the blog Sustainable Data Archiving with IBM Deep Archive
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📆 Relentless Storage Innovation: IBM Storage Virtualize 8.7.2 Technical Update – 1/9/25 at 12:00 PM ET
Join the IBM Advanced Technology Group and expert Byron Grossnickle to explore the latest advancements in IBM Storage Virtualize and FlashSystems. This session will encompass updates to the code, as well as modifications to the VMware and CSI plugins. 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!
📣 IBM Storage Updates of the week
IBM Storage Ceph
📌 Storage Ceph 8.0
Check out this great video by @Marcel Hergaarden and @Randy Arseneau on what's new in IBM Storage Ceph version 8.0
More details about features and specifics can be found in the blog post or the official Storage Ceph 8.0 release documentation.
Storage Guru
📌IBM Storage Insights : Observability Chatbot using IBM Storage Insights APIs
User Guide for the IBM Storage Insights Chatbot-an open-source tool designed to bring natural language interactions to your storage monitoring and management leveraging IBM Storaeg Insights APIs. Powered by IBM watsonx and utilizing advanced LLMs like Granite and Llama (Powered by Llama), this chatbot enables administrators and SREs to interact conversationally with IBM Storage Insights, facilitating intuitive observability and monitoring.
💬 Trending discussions
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📆 Events
19 December | Storage Talks: Join our last Storage Talks edition in 2024
19 December | Webinar: Object Storage for Modern Applications with IBM Storage Ceph
9 January | ATG Webcast - Ongoing Innovation - IBM Storage Virtualize 8.7.2 Technical Update
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
19 - 21 February | Hsinchu, Taiwan - HPC ASIA 2025
📝 Blogs of the week
👉 @Randhir Singh walks through how to send SI Ransomware alerts notifications in real-time to Jira and create a bug automatically in a Jira project to help analysts triage the issue in the blog Integrating IBM Storage Insights with Jira for Ransomware Alerts
👉 @Suma R gives an overview of a CephFS MDS configuration for first-time users and provides information to monitor Progress, Health Checks,Scale requirements and tips to troubleshoot during maintenance in the blog IBM Storage Ceph FileSystem - MDS Overview, Configuration and Maintenance
👉 @Stephan Durand, IT Manager - Storage Backup DR and *NIX, Rona Inc. shares the IBM TechXchange 2024 session, "Oh Canada - Rona's Resiliency Story" (Session ID 2171) and expertise in designing resilient data infrastructures in the blog Resiliency in Data and Blogging: My First Post
👉 @Hemanth Kumar Y J takes a deep dive into the sequence of events that occur on the MDS when a file is created in CephFS in the blog Exploring Ceph Filesystem I/O: The Internal Workings of File Creation
👉 @Mara Miranda Bautista walks through IBM Storage Scale and SMB Security Features in the blog IBM Storage Scale CES SMB on Power, OpenSSL vs GnuTLS
👉 @Daniel Alexander Parkes highlights the new features of Ceph's orchestrator that simplify the deployment of IBM Storage Ceph Object and how they can be easily configured using cephadm spec files to achieve a fully operational Ceph Object Gateway setup in minutes in the blog Simplifying IBM Storage Ceph Object Deployments in 8.0: Production-Ready Ceph Object Gateway with New Cephadm Features
🚀 IBM Storage Corner
Vanessa Pugliese shares photos from IBM's presence at the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference held this week (10 - 12 December) at The Venetian Resort in Las Vegas, NV! IBM booth #311 featured the Hybrid cloud full portfolio showcasing Cloud, Storage, Servers, Automation and Consulting Services with a deep dive into how to build a cutting edge hybrid cloud for AI infrastructure.
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