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
@Scott Baker showcases how IBM Storage Defender greatly simplifies and orchestrates business recovery processes in the blog IBM Storage Defender: Rapid Data Recovery for Uninterrupted Business Continuity.
Discover how other companies are safeguarding their data by watching this insightful webinar: Getting to Know IBM Storage Defender Data Protect where we explore how this solution delivers comprehensive backup and recovery capabilities for cloud-native, edge, and on-premises workloads.
💬 Trending discussions
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👉 FS9500 Performance Package Received posted in Primary Storage
👉 Configuration of replication over Ethernet on FS9150 posted in the Global Storage Forum
Access self-service IBM Storage demos!
👉 See a live, read-only demo of IBM Storage Insights – monitor, view live instance! See more about Storage Insights here. See tutorials about Storage Insights here.
👉 See a FlashSystem Product Tour here. Explore management, copy services, cyber resiliency, performance, much more!
👉 See the new self-service IBM Fusion online demo here!
New or Updated IBM Storage Redbooks
👉 Unleash the Power of Flash: Getting Started with IBM Storage Virtualize Version 8.7 on IBM Storage FlashSystem and IBM SAN Volume Controller
👉 Ensuring Business Continuity: A Practical Guide to Policy-Based Replication and Policy-Based HA for IBM Storage Virtualize Systems
👉 Data Resiliency Designs: A Deep Dive into IBM Storage Safeguarded Snapshots
👉 Do More with Less: Automating IBM Storage FlashSystem Tasks with REST APIs, Scripting, and Ansible
👉 The Definitive Guide to IBM Storage FlashSystem 5300 Port Configuration
👉 IBM Storage FlashSystem 9500 Product Guide: Updated for IBM Storage Virtualize 8.7 (new edition)
👉 IBM Storage FlashSystem 7300 Product Guide: Updated for IBM Storage Virtualize 8.7 (new edition)
👉 Accelerating IBM watsonx.data with IBM Fusion HCI
👉 IBM Storage Scale System Introduction Guide (ESS)
👉 IBM Storage Ceph Concepts and Architecture Guide
👉 IBM FlashCore Module (FCM) Product Guide: FCM4 with AI-ransomware detection
👉 IBM Diamondback Tape Library Guide
👉 Unlocking Data Insights and AI: IBM Storage Ceph as a Data Lakehouse Platform for IBM watsonx.data and Beyond
@Gucer Vasfi showcases seven new Redbooks about IBM Storage FlashSystem and IBM Storage Virtualize in his blog in the Global Storage Forum.
See all the latest IBM Redbooks here!
📆 Events
6 August | ATG Webcast: IBM Fusion and RedHat OpenShift Virtualization
6-7 August | San Jose, California – IBM TechXchange: West Coast IBM Storage Scale User Forum
8 August | San Jose, California – West Coast US Storage Scale Hands-on ATG Workshop (by Nomination - please contact BethAnn Stugis, bethann.stugis@us.ibm.com for more information and see below information in the IBM Storage Corner)
13 August | Webinar: IBM Storage Defender and Storage Sentinel: Protection for your VMware workloads
📝 Blogs of the week
👉 @Kenneth Griffo features how SAN is a core enterprise storage technology underpinning the modern IT infrastructure in the blog IBM Storage SAN – Did you know? Welcome back to the Future!
👉 @Chebrolu Harika walks through Common Errors found in Rancher setup on RHEL9 machines in her blog in the Primary Storage group
👉 @Deepak Yadav highlights how IBM Storage Defender is a powerful tool that provides end-to-end visibility for data resilience across primary and secondary workloads and the capabilities it provides in the blog IBM's bet on data resiliency capability | IBM Storage Defender
👉 @Vidushi Mishra explains how the collaboration between the IBM Storage Ceph Quality Engineering (QE) team and the IBM Ceph Engineering (ENG) teams is crucial for improving the scalability and performance of Ceph Object Gateway in the blog Scaling IBM Storage Ceph Object Storage: A billion objects per bucket and Multisite sync
IBM Storage Champion Spotlight
IBM Champions are non-IBMers who love to advocate. The IBM Champions program, including the IBM Rising Champions Advocacy Badge program, exists because of outstanding IBM technology advocates - clients, business partners, consultants, and educators – most of whom are just great IT people like yourself. They inspire and motivate us all to share and exchange their and our stories, knowledge, and expertise with the world, all beyond the scope of just their jobs. They embody Community!
See @Kyle Cline's fantastic blog in the Global Storage Forum: Be an Insider: Shape the Future and Grow Your Network as an IBM FlashSystem Champion featuring IBM FlashSystem Champion: Bob Mayotte, Senior System Engineer, Acxiom.
Meet @Bob Mayotte, a geek with decades of hands-on system and storage experience, and an IBM Champion since 2020. As a senior IT systems engineer at Acxiom, Bob has been actively engaged in technical communities for multiple decades. His focus is storage, including IBM FlashSystems and IBM Cloud Object Storage. He feels that the IBM Champions program provides a valuable conduit to learn, share, and collaborate with others from vastly different environments. He enjoys asking other Champions for their thoughts about a new product or technical challenge and providing feedback from his own experience.
You too can become an IBM Champion! See more about the IBM Champions program here. See the IBM Champions Community home page here. Nominations start September 2024.
🚀 IBM Storage Corner
@Christopher Maestas shares details on the upcoming IBM Storage Scale West Coast User Group Meeting (August 6 - August 7) in the blog IBM Storage Scale West Coast User Group announced! and @BethAnn Stugis shares details on the IBM Storage Scale Hands-on ATG Workshop (August 8th - open by nomination) for customers that want to better understand Storage Scale features and functions in the blog West Coast US Storage Scale Hands-On Workshop.
Register here for the IBM Storage Scale Users Group Meeting on August 6 - August 7 in San Jose, CA.
For more information on registration or nominations for the IBM Storage Scale Hands-on ATG Workshop on Day 3, please contact BethAnn Stugis, bethann.stugis@us.ibm.com (Nominations close on August 1, 2024).
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Kat Jarvis & John Sing
IBM TechXchange Community Team
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