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 highlights how IBM Storage Scale System 6000 is now a certified NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP) for HGX H100/H200/B200 systems in the blog IBM Storage Scale System 6000 Now a Certified NVIDIA Cloud Partner
IBM Documentation: V3.19.0 Long Term Support Release (LTSR) is available for IBM Cloud Object Storage System
The Advanced Technology Group (ATG) at IBM has curated two dedicated channels on IBM MediaCenter to share our expertise and insights on IBM Storage and Power Systems. These channels are for anyone who is interested in learning more about IBM Storage technologies. We encourage you to check out the channels and learn more!
Storage – Deep dive into the world of IBM Storage! This channel features technical videos on a wide range of Storage topics including IBM FlashSystem, DS8K, Fusion, Storage Scale & Storage Scale System, Storage Virtualize, Storage Ceph, Cloud Object Storage, Tape and more. If you want to accelerate your knowledge, check out the special playlist called Accelerate with ATG. These playlists feature current and past year webinars that are packed with
technical details about IBM Storage Systems and related solutions. Also, explore our Level Up Video playlist for 12-minute demos and presentations focused on IBM Cloud Object Storage and IBM Storage Ceph.
ISV on Power - The channel features a variety of videos from IBM ATG experts on a variety of topics related to IBM Power Systems. It includes a Technology Insight series with several episodes reviewing various topics on the IBM VM Recovery Manager for DR (VMRM), IBM VM Recovery Manager for HA, and the PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX Clustering offerings. The topics include architectural discussions, storage and zoning implementation requirements, interoperability with solutions like PowerVC, and various best practices and details on the AIX Geographic Logical Volume Mirroring solution. In addition, there are several case studies and product demonstrations including: an Oracle DB Hybrid PowerVS deployment using AIX GLVM replication between an on-prem landscape in Montpellier and a target PowerVS datacenter in Dallas, as well as demonstrations of an Oracle database deployed on PowerVS leveraging the new Resource Optimized High Availability (ROHA) feature, with many more videos to come.
📌Upcoming 2025 Webinar Sessions:
📆 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.
📌IBM Storage Defender: IBM Data Management Service and IBM Data Protect: This IBM Redbooks publication provides a look at the IBM Storage Defender Data Management Service (DMS) and Data Protect. This includes information to better understand how IBM Storage Defender is used to protect a number of different workloads as well as integrate with IBM Storage Protect for offload and archival purposes. Configuration and usage examples are provided to further explore defining and configuring protection policies. This document is intended for use by System Administrators and anyone wanting to learn more about implementing DMS and Defender Data Protect.
📌IBM Storage Defender: Database Protection and Rapid Recovery: This IBM Redpaper publication introduces the new IBM Storage Defender offering for enterprise data management and protection. This IBM Redpaper publication will help you install, tailor and configure this solution for the protection and rapid recovery of databases like Oracle, Oracle (OVM), Oracle RAC, SAP HANA, SAP Oracle, SAP DB2®, SAP MS SQL, SAP Sybase ASE, Sybase IQ & ASE, IBM DB2, MS SQL, Hadoop, IRIS and Cache for EPIC applications.
IBM Storage Scale
📌CoreWeave Partners With IBM to Deliver Grace Blackwell Superchip-Enabled AI Supercomputer: CoreWeave has announced plans to deliver one of the first NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip-enabled AI supercomputers to IBM. The supercomputer will feature NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 systems interconnected with NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking, providing unparalleled performance for artificial intelligence workloads.
📌Blocks & Files Storage News: Public cloud GPU farm service supplier CoreWeave is partnering with IBM and making a cluster of Nvidia GB200 NVL72 systems with all-flash Storage Scale storage available to IBM for training its Granite LLMs, as well as for general customer use.
💬 Trending discussions
Check out these discussions in IBM Storage and share your expertise:
👉Global Mirror secondary be another Global Mirror primary posted in Mainframe Storage
👉Error Node 734 in Storage V3500 posted in Primary Storage
👉Windows 2025 ba-client support/release date posted in Data Protection Software
📆 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
29 January | What's new in IBM Storage Scale and IBM Storage Scale System update
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
👉 @Madeva Tuppad outlines the different roles available in IBM Fusion Backup & Restore and the use of these roles to manage Backup and Restore operations for Application Owner, Application Admins, and Backup & Restore Admins in the blog IBM Fusion Backup & Restore: Self-Service Feature for Application Owners and Admins
👉 @Nick Clayton shows a comparison of Compression Estimation Tool results and the actual FlashCore Module compression for a real-world environment in the blog Sizing and Understanding DS8000 FlashCore Module compression in z/OS environments
👉 @Krishna Ramaswamy provides a step-by-step guide on how to efficiently manage NVMe-oF gateways using a specification file, from editing the YAML configuration to applying changes with Ceph orchestration commands in the blog Managing Ceph 8.0 NVMe Gateways in HA with a Specification File
🚀 IBM Storage Corner
@Christopher Maestas shares details on an upcoming What's new in IBM Storage Scale and IBM Storage Scale System session taking place on January 29th, 2025 @ 10:00 AM PST (1:00 PM EST). Reserve Your Spot Today - RSVP via email: info@applieddatasystems.com
------------------------------
IBM TechXchange Community Team
------------------------------