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
@Madhu Punjabi highlights how IBM Storage Scale 5.2.0 supports technology preview for the CES S3 (Simple Storage Service) access protocol in the blog New: IBM Storage Scale CES S3 Technical Preview for S3 access for AI, data and analytics workloads
💬 Trending discussions
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👉 IBM 8969-F24 FOS recommendations posted in the Global Storage Forum
👉 Fileset Performance metrics from IBM ESS posted in File and Object Storage
📆 Events
14 May | Webinar: Backup is not enough – it's time to move to Data Resilience
23 May | Böblingen, Germany – IBM Storage Virtualize User Group (FlashSystem and SVC customers and partners- if interested in attending, please email Markus.Standau@de.ibm.com)
29 May | Webinar: Mainline & IBM: Delivering cyber resilience for all
29-30 May | Kista, Sweden – IBM Storage User Group Sweden
📝 Blogs of the week
👉 @Jason Paquette shares how IBM Fusion has unveiled its latest release, Fusion 2.8, bringing a wave of innovation and enhancements to the world of OpenShift applications and AI capabilities in the blog IBM Fusion – the easiest way to deploy OpenShift applications and watsonx – adds more powerful AI and advanced Virtual Machine support
👉 @Rogelio Rivera Gutierrez highlights how IBM Storage Protect ver.8.1.18 introduces support of WORM Object storage using S3 object Lock in the blog IBM Storage Scale CES S3 (Tech preview) Performance evaluation of large and small objects using COSBench
👉 @Audrey O'Donnell outlines the high-level benefits of the IBM Storage Assurance Perpetual offering in the blog IBM Storage Assurance Perpetual Contract Details and Country Availability
🚀 IBM Storage Corner
@Gerd Franke was invited as a speaker at the Fortifying Digital Resilience in an Evolving Landscape conference in Bucharest last week highlighting innovative solutions in Data Resilience with IBM Storage, and how IBM's security and power systems are equipped to help customers navigate through the complexities of the digital world, ensuring they stay resilient and ahead in a dynamic environment.
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Kat Jarvis
Senior Consultant, IBM TechXchange Community
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