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
@Ramakrishna Vadla highlights various ecosystem services such as security, observability, incident management, and productivity services integration with IBM Storage Insights in the blog Evolution of IBM Storage Insights - From Insights to Ecosystem Integration Platform
📌 IBM Champions Program Highlights
👉IBM Champions class of 2025 (announcement will be on 6 February)
The IBM TechXchange team is very excited about all the great nominations and renewals received for 2025 - more than 2200 of them! The selection committees and program team have been hard at work reviewing and quantifying - and then badging - all the completed advocacy activities! Learn more about what those badges mean and how they're part of the journey to an IBM Champion in @Libby Ingrassia's blog here.
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: 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
IBM Storage Grand Prix training events are hitting nearly 30 cities worldwide. This 2-day sales training extravaganza dives into our Storage Software domains and FlashSystem, led by top-tier experts! (see more below)
💬 Trending discussions
Check out these discussions in IBM Storage and share your expertise:
👉Attempting to create cluster while control enclosure has stored cluster ID posted in Primary Storage
👉Tape Drive Diagnostics posted in Tape Storage
👉FS7300 PBHA update Storage Virtualize posted in Primary Storage
📆 Events
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
28 January | Webinar - Beyond backup: End-to-end data resilience for the modern enterprise
29 January | What's new in IBM Storage Scale and IBM Storage Scale System update
30 January | Ceph Storage in a World of AI/ML Workloads
6 February | ATG Webcast - IBM Storage Ceph RADOS Gateway Deep Dive
18 - 19 February | Mainframe Solutions for Robust, Lossless Large Data Centers [18 February session | 19 February session]
19 - 21 February | Hsinchu, Taiwan - HPC ASIA 2025
10 - 13 March | Singapore - SupercomputingAsia 2025
17 – 21 March | San Jose, California - NVIDIA GTC AI Conference
2 - 3 April | Madrid, Spain - EMEA Fusion User Group
📝 Blogs of the week
👉 @Mohit Bisht walks through how Ceph SMB MGR module in Ceph 8.0 brings an innovative and efficient way to manage SMB services within CephFS in the blog SMB Meets Ceph 8.0: Introducing the New Ceph SMB MGR Module for SMB Service Management in ceph
👉 @Abhishek Mehta, @Nilesh Khankari, and @Sayali Joshi highlight the exciting new features available with the IBM Storage Virtualize Plugin for vSphere 2.0 in the blog Revealing IBM Storage Virtualize Plugin for vSphere 2.0
👉 @Randhir Singh outlines the steps to integrate IBM Storage Insights with IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps (CP4AIOps) for alert management in the blog IBM Storage Insights: Integration with Cloud Pak for AIOps
👉 @Sayalee Raut outlines Ceph Ready Nodes in the blog IBM Ceph Ready Nodes - A brief overview
🚀 IBM Storage Corner
@Dave McDonnell and Chad Decher share photos and details from the IBM Storage Grand Prix training events for IBM Sellers and Ecosystem Partners. These events are a 2-day sales training extravaganza diving into Storage Software domains and FlashSystem, led by top-tier experts hitting nearly 30 cities worldwide (including Madrid, Copenhagen, Warsaw, Johannesburg, Dubai, Riyadh, Cape Town, London, Paris and Milan). Sessions focused on understanding and implementing Data Resilience, Hybrid Cloud and Data and AI priorities as key to driving maximum value to clients!
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IBM TechXchange Community Team
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