Originally posted by: TonyPearson
Continuing my coverage of the IBM Systems Technical University in Orlando, here are the sessions that I presented or attended on Days 4 (Thursday).
- Technology Trends in IBM Storage
Jack Arnold, IBM Client Technical Architect, provide an entertaining session on various technology trends in the industry. For example, What is the fastest growing storage medium for 2015? Answer: [Vinyl LP] records, which have seen a resurgence recently, growing at over 40 percent!
- IBM Spectrum Scale and Elastic Storage Server offerings
Tony Pearson provided an architectural overview of both Spectrum Scale software, as well as the Elastic Storage Server pre-built system appliance.
- IBM Spectrum Scale for File and Object storage
Tony Pearson explained the differences between file and object-level storage, and how IBM Spectrum Scale can provide both access methods in a single infrastructure.
- IBM Storage Integration with OpenStack
- IBM Spectrum Virtualize IP Replication 101
Andrea Sipka, IBM Software Developer for SVC/Storwize Copy Services from the UK Hursley lab, presented the implementation details of IP-based replication using the built-in WAN Acceleration that IBM licensed from Bridgeworks SANslide.
- Storage Meet the Experts
Mo McCullough hosted the last session of Thursday with a "Meet the Experts" Q&A panel. Tony Pearson, Brian Sherman, Clod Barrera, John Wilkinson, Mike Griese and Jim Blue were among the storage experts fielding questions. Tony Pearson provided a quick overview of the LTO-7 and TS4500 tape library announcements made earlier in the week.
Most IBM conferences are 4.5 days long, which means that there are typically two or three sessions on Friday morning. Unfortunately, the two sessions I was planning to attend on Friday were both cancelled, so Day 4 was the end of my week for this conference.
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