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
@BethAnn Stugis shares a series of new videos that delve into the advanced capabilities of IBM Storage Ceph in the blog Boost Your Ceph Expertise with These New ATG Level-Up Videos!
📌 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: 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!
📆 Accelerate with ATG: IBM Cyber Vault Introduction 101 – 3/20/25 at 12:00 PM ET
Join the Advanced Technology Group (ATG) and Expert Tom Bish for an exclusive webinar exploring IBM Cyber Vault blueprint! Discover how this solution can help customers detect and recover from logical corruption of their data due to malicious or accidental causes. Learn the key technologies and concepts used to protect the data, perform validation, forensic analysis, and recovery capabilities to bring a customer back to an operational state as quickly as possible in the event of an attack. This session will focus on the primary environments of IBM Z and i which make use of this blueprint, as well efforts to extend this to Power/AIX. Don't miss this opportunity to gain invaluable insights into data protection and recovery capabilities and register today!
📣 IBM Storage Updates of the week
Storage Guru
📌IBM Storage Insights: Integration with Cloud Pak for AIOps
This video outlines the steps to integrate IBM Storage Insights with IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps(CP4AIOps) for alert management. IBM Storage Insights offers real-time visibility into storage health, performance, and capacity, identifying alerts across the systems it monitors. CP4AIOps, powered by AI, detects anomalies, correlates alerts, and identifies related tickets. Together, these tools enable proactive storage issue resolution, reduce alert noise, and streamline incident response.
📌AI and Beyond: How IBM Storage is Leading the Way
A Conversation with Vincent Hsu. Vice President, IBM Fellow, CTO for IBM Storage
💬 Trending discussions
Check out these discussions in IBM Storage and share your expertise:
👉Where are 25gbe gone? posted in the Global Storage Forum
👉IBM SVC License posted in Primary Storage
📆 Events
6 February | ATG Webcast - IBM Storage Ceph RADOS Gateway Deep Dive
18 February | Webinar: Flood, fire, and foes: Preparing for disasters both natural and unnatural
18 - 19 February | Mainframe Solutions for Robust, Lossless Large Data Centers [18 February session | 19 February session]
19 February | IBM Technology Lifecycle Services - Revolutionizing IT Support with AI and Automation
19 - 21 February | Hsinchu, Taiwan - HPC ASIA 2025
10 - 13 March | Singapore - SupercomputingAsia 2025
17 – 21 March | San Jose, California - NVIDIA GTC AI Conference
20 March | ATG Webcast - IBM Cyber Vault Introduction 101
2 - 3 April | Madrid, Spain - EMEA Fusion User Group
📝 Blogs of the week
👉 @Chebrolu Harika walks through how to configure Kubernetes nodes on RHEL 9.2, covering steps to enable necessary repositories, install Docker, configure SSH, install kubectl, and make system-level adjustments like enabling firewalls and SELinux configuration in the blog Setting Up a Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE) Cluster - Part 2
👉 @Daniel Alexander Parkes outlines building an example interactive Superset Dashboard for the application with the log data generated when enabling S3 bucket logging in the blog IBM Storage Ceph 8.0: Enhancing Object Storage Logging for End Users with the S3 Bucket Logging API
👉 @Vidushi Mishra highlights how to set up Elbencho and run basic benchmarks in the blog IBM Storage Ceph Object Storage with Elbencho
🚀 IBM Storage Corner
@Frank Lee shares photos from IBM's presence at the FoG25 (The Festival of Genomics & Biodata) held this week (29 - 30 January) in London! IBM showcased Fusion HCI as the platform for research data management, virtualization and GenAI-in-a-box, bringing the power of automation, data management and GenAI research to healthcare life sciences industry and communities.
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IBM TechXchange Community Team
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