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!

📣 Announcements & Highlights

@Mike Kieran showcases the new capabilities in Storage Ceph 7.1 in the blog IBM Storage Ceph 7.1 Adds Support for NVMe over TCP, Bringing Software-Defined Block Storage to VMware Environments

💬 Trending discussions

Check out these discussions in IBM Storage and share your expertise: 

👉 FlashSystem 7300 expandarray command posted in Primary Storage
👉 How many times a particular tape has been erased using the IBM Tape Diagnostic Tool (ITDT) or directly via the console posted in File and Object Storage

📆 Events

19 June | Selangor, Malaysia – IBM TechXchange: Storage - Malaysia

25 June | Webinar: Logicalis & IBM FlashSystem: The data storage platform that's turning heads

9 July | Webinar: Getting to know IBM Storage Defender Data Protect

📝 Blogs of the week

👉  @Daniel Alexander Parkes shares how IBM Storage Ceph, now supported by Snowflake as an S3-compatible store, makes it possible to access on-premises datalake datasets enhancing Snowflake's data warehousing capabilities in the blog IBM Storage Ceph integration with Snowflake

👉  @Ajinkya Nanavati and @Sourav Jagati highlight how IBM Flash-system Storage integration into VMware vSphere, simplifies operations like VM creation, migration, reconfiguration, and deletion across your virtualized data centre in the blog Seamless Integration: VMware vVols and IBM FlashSystem

🚀 IBM Storage Corner 

@Jason Paquette shares a look back at IBM at Red Hat Summit 2024 where IBM co-presented with Intel featuring how IBM Fusion can help clients with their AI, OpenShift and, VM needs.

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Kat Jarvis
Senior Consultant, IBM TechXchange Community
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