We're back with our series IBM Storage Rocks π highlighting all of the great content, events, and announcements in IBM Storage. Enjoy our curated content to stay informed and in the loop!
π£ Announcements & Highlights
@Christopher Vollmar shares updates on the IBM Storage Champions class of 2025 in the blog Meet the 2025 IBM Storage Champions!
π IBM Champions Program Highlights
πCongratulations IBM Champions class of 2025!
More than 1400 new and returning advocates were invited to become 2025 IBM Champions based on their expertise, contributions, and thought leadership! Throughout 2024, these individuals built a portfolio of advocacy as they completed thousands of activities and contributed hours of their time to code, to content, to community, to mentoring and teaching, to feedback, to user groups, and to events over the last year, beyond the scope of their jobs. See @Libby Ingrassia's blog for more details.
πUpcoming 2025 Webinar Sessions:
π Accelerate with ATG: IBM Cyber Vault Introduction 101 β 3/20/25 at 12:00 PM ET
Join the Advanced Technology Group (ATG) and Expert Tom Bish for an exclusive webinar exploring IBM Cyber Vault blueprint! Discover how this solution can help customers detect and recover from logical corruption of their data due to malicious or accidental causes. Learn the key technologies and concepts used to protect the data, perform validation, forensic analysis, and recovery capabilities to bring a customer back to an operational state as quickly as possible in the event of an attack. This session will focus on the primary environments of IBM Z and i which make use of this blueprint, as well efforts to extend this to Power/AIX. Don't miss this opportunity to gain invaluable insights into data protection and recovery capabilities and register today!
π¬ Trending discussions
Check out these discussions in IBM Storage and share your expertise:
πExpand the pool storage posted in the Global Storage Forum
πCreate Child Pool with safeguard error posted in IBM FlashSystem
πTS2900 - I/O station mode and VEEAM posted in Tape Library
π Events
25 February | Webinar: More muscle, more hustle, less bustle with IBM FlashSystem
4 March | Webinar: No assembly required! β Introducing IBM Storage Ceph as a Service: Cloud storage efficiency in your datacenter, managed by IBM experts
10 - 13 March | Singapore - SupercomputingAsia 2025
13 March | Webinar: What's new for NVMe over TCP in IBM Storage Ceph Version 8.0: VMware plugin & performance insights
17 β 21 March | San Jose, California - NVIDIA GTC AI Conference
18 March | Webinar: Rethinking the "crown jewels": Identifying and protecting what's truly valuable to your company
18 - 20 March | Heidelberg, Germany - IBM Storage Scale (GPFS) German User Meeting 2025
20 March | ATG Webcast - IBM Cyber Vault Introduction 101
25 - 26 March | London, UK - Storage Strategy Event
2 - 3 April | Madrid, Spain - EMEA Fusion User Group
π Blogs of the week
π @Luis Alonso Ruelas Rosales gives an overview of IBM Storage Area Network (SAN) in the blog Exploring IBM SAN Technology
π @Brian Sherman highlights how the DS8000 G10 introduces the next generation HPFE Gen3 Flash Enclosure to the DS8A00 family in the blog DS8000 G10 High Performance Flash Enclosure (HPFE) Gen3 Structure
π @Daniel Alexander Parkes shares an upcoming webinar which will discuss the core advantages of Ceph object storage in the blog Next-Gen High-Performance Object Storage for Modern Applications: IBM Storage Ceph 8.0
π IBM Storage Corner
@JP LAVIGNE shares photos from the MEA tour for IBM Mainframe Storage in South Africa! First stop was Johannesburg where there was a fantastic interactive discussion about IBM Mainframe storage topics; Direct Storage with the new DS8K, Backup, Archive and Object Store with the brand new TS7780 and discussion on our physical tape solutions. Next stop is Cape Town - stay tuned!
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IBM TechXchange Community Team
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