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
@Jason Paquette highlights how IBM watsonx on IBM Fusion HCI (Hyperconverged Infrastructure) is a powerful duo that's set to change the game for how companies utilize AI technology in the blog Transforming AI Deployment: IBM watsonx on Fusion HCI and shares an upcoming webinar Unleash AI agility with IBM Fusion and watsonx on Tue, Dec 10, 2024 11:00 AM EST.
Remove Referencehighlights the new features, functions and enhancements, made available with the new major release of IBM Storage Ceph, version 8.0. in the blog IBM releases IBM Storage Ceph 8.0
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📆 Accelerate with ATG: IBM Storage Ceph Reloaded – A review and feature update – 12/12/24 at 12:00 PM ET
IBM Storage Ceph Reloaded – A review and feature update - December 12th, 2024
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📣 IBM Storage Updates of the week
IBM FlashSystem
📌Robin Birtstone shares how hardware-assisted computational storage makes it easier to manage ransomware scanning including how the FlashCore Module powers inline ransomware threat detection capability in the blog How cyber resilient storage hardware can defeat ransomware.
IBM Tape
📌 @Shawn Brume, Tape Evangelist and Strategist at IBM, created an amazing podcast series on IBM Tape. Check it out below!
IBM Deep Archive: Data creation is exploding. Companies are struggling to manage and get value from that data. This 15 minute podcast describes the use cases and benefits of IBM's Deep Archive offering IBM storage deep Archive.
💬 Trending discussions
Check out these discussions in IBM Storage and share your expertise:
👉OpenShift environment backup for IBM Storage Protect shop posted in Data Protection Software
👉Questions about "eeadm tape replace" command and physical tape removal posted in Tape Storage
👉FS5300 Ransomware alerting posted in Primary Storage
👉Inline Data Corruption Detection with Real Time Ransomware Detection posted in Primary Storage
👉Flashsystem, PBHA: "IP connectivity is required between systems for management" posted in Primary Storage
👉FlashSystem, PBHA: Are dedicated private ISLs _required_? posted in Primary Storage
📆 Events
10 December | Webinar: Unleash AI agility with IBM Fusion and watsonx
10 - 12 December | Las Vegas, NV - Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference
12 December | ATG Webcast - IBM Storage Ceph Reloaded – A review and feature update
19 December | Webinar: Object Storage for Modern Applications with IBM Storage Ceph
9 January | ATG Webcast - Ongoing Innovation - IBM Storage Virtualize 8.7.2 Technical Update
📝 Blogs of the week
👉 @Daniel Alexander Parkes outlines policy-based data retrieval for IBM Ceph Storage in the blog IBM Storage Ceph Object Storage Tiering Enhancements. Part Two
👉 @Binayak Dutta shares how the IBM Storage Insights development team has open sourced an observability chat bot to evangelize and promote ecosystem integration in the blog IBM Storage Insights open sources Observability Chat bot
👉 @Pradip Waykos gives an overview of Internal Key Management for encrypted data-at-rest in the exciting new version of IBM Storage FlashSystem Software v8.7.2 in the blog IBM Storage FlashSystem: Internal Key Management for encrypted data-at-rest
👉 @Digambar Ingale walks through the key features and enhancements in IBM Storage FlashSystem newly released software version v8.7.2, highlighting the improvements to the Flash Grid experience in the blog IBM Storage FlashSystem: Enhanced Flash Grid Visualization
🚀 IBM Storage Corner
Advanced Technology Group held an IBM FlashSystem Deep Dive & Advanced Functions Workshop in Herndon, Virginia this week! The workshop covered FlashSystem 5200, 7300, and 9500 products for Americas clients with an immediate requirement to upgrade from disk, first generation SSD and Flash storage systems, to the high-performance feature rich IBM FlashSystem line.
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