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π£ Announcements & Highlights
@Gucer Vasfi highlights the new IBM Redpaper which describes the IBM FlashCore Module (FCM) history with a special focus on the fourth-generation FlashCore Module technology (FCM4) with AI-powered ransomware detection capabilities in the blog Announcing the new IBM Redpaper "IBM FlashCore Module (FCM) Product Guide: Features the newly available FCM4 with AI-powered ransomware detection.
π¬ Trending discussions
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π Events
10 April | Virtually or in-person in 12+ global locations β watsonx Day: Challenge
23 May | BΓΆblingen, Germany β IBM Storage Virtualize User Group (FlashSystem and SVC customers and partners- if interested in attending, please email Markus.Standau@de.ibm.com)
30 May | Brussels, Belgium β IBM Storage User Group Brussels - an IBM TechXchange event
12-13 June | London, England β IBM Scale User Group, sponsored by IBM TechXchange
π Blogs of the week
π @Sandeep Prajapati features a special case of exec hook that will try to run Kubernetes or OpenShift commands during data protection workflows in Fusion Recipe Tips - Running K8 or OpenShift commands during data protection workflows [See the full series of "Fusion Recipe Tips" in IBM Storage Fusion]
π @Nils Haustein explains the fundamentals of AWS S3 Glacier and demonstrates how it works with NooBaa in combination with Storage Scale in the blog S3 tiering to tape with NooBaa Part 5 - AWS S3 Glacier API fundamentals
π @Randhir Singh shares information on how to use IBM Storage Insights using REST API in the blog Getting started with IBM Storage Insights REST API
π @Ashish Gupta delves into the concept of creating a generic recipe that can be adapted to different applications, ensuring feasibility and versatility in the blog Fusion Recipe Tips - How Can I Make My Recipe More Globally Applicable
π @Rajsekhar Bharali highlights how IBM Flash Systemβ’ allows users to non-disruptively upgrade or replace system without impacting data availability and performance using the Storage Partition Migration feature in the blog IBM Flash system Non-Disruptive Upgrade (NDU) using Storage Partition Migration feature
π IBM Storage Corner
Jensen Huang co-founder, president and CEO of NVIDIA at the IBM booth at GTC 2024 signing the Storage Scale System 6000! (photos courtesy of Jonathan Dement and Johnny Alam)
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Kat Jarvis
Senior Consultant, IBM TechXchange Community
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