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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

@Sandra Teresa Peláez Angeles showcases how IBM has been recognized as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage and what sets IBM FlashSystem apart in the blog IBM is 17x a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Primary Storage

Accelerate with ATG: Ongoing Innovation - IBM Storage Virtualize 8.7.1 Technical Update – 10/10/24 at 1:00 PM ET
Ongoing Innovation - IBM Storage Virtualize 8.7.1 Technical Update – October 10th, 2024
Join the Advanced Technology Group to learn about IBM Storage Virtualize 8.7.1's Policy-based HA 3-site configuration from expert Byron Grossnickle. This feature offers flexibility and ease of use compared to traditional configuration methods, enabling the extension of existing policy-based replication environments with HA and adding DR to current Policy-based HA setups. Don't miss out and register now!

Accelerate with ATG: Announcing the 10th Generation IBM DS8000 Enterprise Storage System – 10/17/24 at 12:00 PM ET
Announcing the 10th Generation IBM DS8000 Enterprise Storage System – October 17th, 2024
Join the IBM Advanced Technology Group's DS8000 Subject Matter Expert team to learn about the 10th generation DS8000 Enterprise Storage System.   i.e., the "G10".  This webinar will be an overview of the G10 product family and its features and functions. The G10 platform is designed to be always available, always performing, always innovating, and always ready.  The DS8000 product family is the most advanced disk system on the market an offers the best-in-class solutions for high availability, disaster recovery, and cyber resiliency. Don't miss out and register now!

IBM Storage Success Story Videos of the Week

Check out these videos showcasing IBM Storage success stories:

👉 IBM CyberVault -  large California produce producer realizes that their IT environment is exposed to ransomware and other cyber resiliency issues turns to IBM Lab Services to assist in resolving their challenges. Cyber Vault workshop assessment is used to identify issues and optimal solutions. IBM Safeguarded Copy and IBM FlashSystem 7300 are employed to provide immutable backups and data isolation.
👉 IBM FlashSystems, IBM Cyber Vault, Chilli IT's FlashCopy and Chilli IT's CopyAssure - automate saving backup snapshots of critical operational data in a retail environment for the preservation and restoration data in the event of Ransomware, Malware or Cyber Attacks. If you are a retailer adopting "zero trust policy", IBM and Chilli IT UK can help you protect and recover your data in this complex world of evolving attack strategies.
👉 Massive amounts of data to store, manage, and *Archive*  - even with all of today's online access, IBM Tape continues to play essential role in making affordable to store and archive Massive Amounts of Data

💬 Trending discussions

Check out these discussions in IBM Storage and share your expertise: 

👉 Ansible broacde.fos collection on level v8.2.1C posted in the Global Storage Forum
👉 Error ID = 9213 : Could not connect to DNS server 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!
👉 New updates have been added to the IBM Fusion online demo, check it out here!

New or Updated IBM Storage Redbooks

IBM watsonx.data and IBM Storage Scale:

👉 watsonx.data 2.0.2 release notes
👉 Accelerating AI and Analytics with IBM watsonx.data and IBM Storage Scale Blog
👉 IBM Redbook: Accelerating AI and Analytics with IBM watsonx.data and IBM Storage Scale

👉 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

1 October | New York, NY - IBM Storage Scale User Group

1 October | Webinar: Reducing total cost of ownership with IBM Fusion and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

3 October | Red Hat® Summit: Connect in Scottsdale, Arizona

7-9 October | Washington D.C. - NVIDIA AI Summit

10 October | ATG Webcast - Ongoing Innovation - IBM Storage Virtualize 8.7.1 Technical Update

16 October | Red Hat® Summit: Connect in Huntington Beach, California

17 October | ATG Webcast - Announcing the 10th Generation IBM DS8000 Enterprise Storage System

21 - 24 October | Las Vegas, NV - IBM TechXchange Conference 2024

23 October | Red Hat® Summit: Connect in San Jose, California

30 October | Webinar: Modernizing data lakes with IBM Storage Ceph

14 November | San Francisco, California - IBM TechXchange: AI Academy

17 - 22 November | Atlanta, Georgia - SuperComputing 2024 

📝 Blogs of the week

👉 @Elvia Ramírez and @Venkat Kolli share information on an upcoming webinar (30 October) where attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of the critical elements required to modernize their data lakes, ensuring they remain agile, scalable, and aligned with the needs of contemporary data ecosystems in the blog Modernizing data lakes with IBM Storage Ceph

👉 @Randhir Singh outlines how to export the storage systems performance and capacity metrics collected by IBM Storage Insights into Prometheus in the blog Visualizing Storage Insights metrics on Prometheus

👉 @AshaRani GR provides step-by-step instructions on how a non-admin user can perform backup and restore operations for a Cloud Pak for Data (CPD) application using Fusion Backup and Restore CRs in an OpenShift environment in the blog Fusion Backup and Restore of Cloudpak for Data as a Non-admin User

👉@Mayur Bhokase walks through various datastore operations including creating a New vVol Datastore, renaming the Existing vVol Datastore, and mounting/unmounting the vVol Datastore in the blog Management of vVol Datastore using vCenter

IBM TechXchange Conference 2024

Join us for IBM TechXchange Conference 2024, the ultimate learning event, October 21-24, at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. This is an immersive learning experience designed to fuel your AI journey. We'll equip you with the practical skills to apply gen AI to your role and unlock the full potential of the IBM technology you rely on. IBM TechXchange Community Members can get a 30% discount to the Conference using the details here.

See all of the IBM Storage sessions offered and most importantly - bookmark the link and share with your colleagues!

@Barry Whyte shares his upcoming IBM TechXchange Conference 2024 sessions in the blog Join my Storage Sessions at IBM TechXchange Conference 2024 in Las Vegas 21-24 October!

@Christopher Vollmar and @Erin Farr showcase how as part of the Storage for Data Resiliency program, IBM Storage Defender will be featured at IBM TechXchange Conference 2024 with an exciting track of sessions in the blog Operational Resiliency in focus at IBM TechXchange 2024

🚀 IBM Storage Corner 

The 17th GSE ISP Symposium took place this week on 23 – 25 September 2024 at the Hilton Cologne in Germany hosted by the GSE German Region in partnership with IBM. Presentations featured updates from the IBM Development Team as well as contributions from other experienced and established ISP users. See @Josef Weingand's Tape Update 2024 here. 

Best of all, there was the opportunity to meet and connect with fellow IBM Storage Protect professionals in an open and informal atmosphere. Below is the group photo capturing the memories and the great connections that were made. Don't miss out on the 18th International GSE Conference for VSE, z/VM, KVM, and Linux on IBM Z & LinuxONE in Dresden on 28 - 30 October 2024!

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Kat Jarvis & John Sing
IBM TechXchange Community Team
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