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
@Ram Parasuraman highlights the new features and enhancements that have been introduced in the IBM Storage Defender 2.0.10 release to bolster data resilience and streamline recovery processes in the blog Operational Resilience that Goes Beyond Data Protection or Single Vendor Platforms
@Jamie Thomas shares how IBM Technology Lifecycle Services (TLS) offers a comprehensive suite of solutions for infrastructure support in the blog 3 reasons why the right infrastructure support is essential for AI
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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
Let's Create Technology Talk
📌Let's Create Technology Talk with Chris Vollmar about Cyber Resilience
A global expert at the intersection between Security and Data Resilience, Chris explains why operational resilience is so important.
Storage Guru
📌IBM Storage Insights : What's New in 2024
This video highlights the key capabilities of Storage Insights delivered in 2024.
💬 Trending discussions
Check out these discussions in IBM Storage and share your expertise:
👉StormWize V7000 posted in the Global Storage Forum
👉FS9200 vdisks in deleting status posted in Primary Storage
👉SAN SAN24B-4 B24 posted in the Global Storage Forum
👉Inquiries regarding IBM SKLM(IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Mgr) posted in Primary Storage
📆 Events
9 January | ATG Webcast - Ongoing Innovation - IBM Storage Virtualize 8.7.2 Technical Update
21 January | Webinar - Beyond backup: End-to-end data resilience for the modern enterprise
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
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
👉 @Mike Burkhart outlines how IBM Storage Ceph's NVMe over TCP Target offers a powerful, scalable, and cost-effective solution for high-performance storage networks in the blog IBM Storage Ceph - Performance at Scale with NVMe over TCP and IBM X5D Ready Nodes
👉 @Tony Pearson highlights the latest IBM Storage Defender release (Defender 2.0.10) and shares an upcoming Tech Tuesday webinar in the blog Data Resiliency - Technical News brief Dec 2024
👉 @Poyraz Sagtekin explains how to integrate Red Hat Single Sign-On (RH SSO) with the IBM Storage Ceph Dashboard in the blog Integrating RH SSO with Ceph Dashboard
👉 @Santosh Kowshik walks through how IBM Storage Scale enhances collaboration by integrating cloud capabilities in the blog IBM Storage Scale on Cloud Made Easy with cloudkit
🚀 IBM Storage Corner
The Advanced Technology Group held an IBM FlashSystem Deep Dive & Advanced Functions Workshop on December 3-4 in Herndon, Virginia. This interactive technical workshop brought customers together for a deep dive into IBM Storage Virtualize and IBM FlashSystem with a focus on upgrading existing IBM arrays or competitive block storage arrays, to the high-performance feature rich IBM FlashSystem line.
Participants engaged in demonstrations and in-depth sessions that showcased the unique features of IBM FlashSystem (5300, 7300, and 9500 products), including cutting-edge ransomware detection, policy-based replication, and IBM Storage Insights for advanced reporting. Learn more in @Roy Peek's blog IBM FlashSystem Deep Dive & Advanced Functions Workshop.
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