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
@Denis Kennelly announces that an IBM Storage customer, the University of Birmingham in England, received the 2024 HPCwire Readers' Choice Award for the best use of high-performance computing in life science at the Supercomputing 24 conference in Atlanta, GA in the blog IBM Storage wins HPCwire Readers' Choice Award for enhancing non-invasive cancer detection
@Marcel Hergaarden highlights the new features, functions and enhancements, made available with the new major release of IBM Storage Ceph, version 8.0. in the blog IBM releases IBM Storage Ceph 8.0
@Sam Werner, VP of Product Management at IBM joined SiliconANGLE & theCUBE hosts David Vellante and John Furrier to discuss the evolving role of storage in AI and supercomputing, emphasizing the crucial need for efficient data management. Sam highlighted the shift towards custom infrastructure and IBM's innovative solutions, such as content-aware storage and active file management, which significantly enhance data retrieval and storage efficiency at scale. He also discussed the importance of adapting to new architectures to optimize energy consumption and performance in modern data centers. (See more SC24 highlights in the IBM Storage Corner section below!)
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📆 Accelerate with ATG: IBM Storage Ceph Reloaded – A review and feature update – 12/12/24 at 12:00 PM ET
IBM Storage Ceph Reloaded – A review and feature update - December 12th, 2024
IBM Storage Ceph is a software defined and hardware independent storage solution that provides block, file, and object storage in a single unified platform. . Don't miss out and register now!
📆 ATG Workshops:
Advanced Technology Group Storage Team provides technical sales support to IBM Storage Sellers and Business Partners exclusively in the Americas. The ATG Storage Team offers workshops for IBMers, Business Partners and with clients looking to invest in new IBM Storage solutions. If you are interested in attending one of the following workshops, please reach out to your IBM Representative or Business Partner to find out how you can register.
IBM FlashSystem Deep Dive & Advanced Functions: December 3-4 - Herndon, VA
This workshop is intended for Americas clients with an immediate requirement to upgrade from disk, first generation SSD and Flash storage systems, to the high-performance feature rich IBM FlashSystem line. This workshop covers FlashSystem 5200, 7300, and 9500 products.
📣 IBM Storage Updates of the week
IBM Storage Ceph
📌 Storage Ceph 8.0
Official release date was November 21, 2024
- Release highlights
- Fully supported unified Storage Ceph release: File, Block and Object.
- Enhanced Block storage functionalities for VMware vSphere.
- NFS v4.2 support for CephFS, file access for non-native Ceph clients.
- SMB v2 and v3 Windows filesharing for CephFS (Tech Preview)
- Ceph Object storage, RADOS Gateway (RGW) multiple updates.
- New IBM Storage Ceph Dashboard UI functionalities.
IBM Storage Ceph 8.0 release assets
All other resources can be found at the Storage Ceph Seismic Sales kit page.
IBM Tape
📌 @Shawn Brume, Tape Evangelist and Strategist at IBM, created an amazing podcast series on IBM Tape. Check it out below!
PhysicalTape: Learn how IBM tape is cost efficient, has low carbon impact and is critical to enterprise data storage
👉Lee Olguin, IBM Tucson Client Experience Center, Cyber Resiliency Assessment Lead shares photos from IBM's "Future of Tape" Summit held in Tucson, Arizona - a two-day event where Tape Development SMEs presenting on the Diamondback and Virtual Tape Libraries including live interaction with clients and Business Partners during the "Ask the Expert" panel discussion.
💬 Trending discussions
Check out these discussions in IBM Storage and share your expertise:
👉Performance issue IBM 5035 ISCSI 10GbE posted in Primary Storage
👉FS7300 access to web gui posted in Primary Storage
📆 Events
26 November | Webinar: IBM Storage Ceph NVMe/TCP and VMware Integrations
5 December | Webinar: Revolutionize your infrastructure: IBM Fusion 2.9 for cost reduction and value acceleration
10 December | Webinar: Unleash AI agility with IBM Fusion and watsonx
12 December | ATG Webcast - IBM Storage Ceph Reloaded – A review and feature update
📝 Blogs of the week
👉 @Daniel Alexander Parkes showcases Identity and Access Management (IAM) accounts as Tech Preview, a transformative feature introduced in the IBM Storage Ceph 8.0 release in the blog Enhancing IBM Storage Ceph Multitenancy with IAM Accounts
👉 @Randhir Singh discusses rate limiting of REST APIs and explore pros and cons in the blog Rate limiting with Envoy Proxy
👉 @Mihaela Nedelescu shares an opportunity to receive a $25 gift card from G2 for providing IBM Storage FlashSystem feedback in the blog Get a $25 Gift Card for your Review of IBM Storage FlashSystem
🚀 IBM Storage Corner
@Jason Paquette shares photos from IBM's participation at SC24 (Supercomputing 2024) the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (17 - 22 November) in Atlanta, Georgia this week! IBM Storage customer, the University of Birmingham in England, received the 2024 HPCwire Readers' Choice Award for the best use of high-performance computing in life science at the Supercomputing 2024 conference. Read more in Denis Kennelly's blog IBM Storage wins HPCwire Readers' Choice Award for enhancing non-invasive cancer detection.
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