We're back with our series IBM Storage Rocks ๐ highlighting all of the great content, events, and announcements in IBM Storage. Enjoy our curated content to stay informed and in the loop!
๐ฃ Announcements & Highlights
@Jason Paquette shares how IBM Fusion Access for SAN enables a proven approach to storage management in OpenShift environments in the blog The Future of VM Storage: How IBM Fusion Access Enables OpenShift Virtualization Migrations
๐ IBM TechXchange Conference 2025
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See @Christopher Vollmar's discussion post for a high level overview of the key topics that will be covered in the Storage Track at IBM TechXchange 2025.
๐Upcoming ATG Webinar Sessions:
๐ Accelerate with ATG: Discover What's New: The IBM TS7780 and the New Release 6.0 โ 5/20/25 at 12:00 PM ET
Plan to join the Advanced Technology Group Tape Experts to learn about the new IBM Tape Library TS7780 model, released in December, and the latest enhancements and features that were introduced in TS7700 Release 6.0! The session will cover features applicable to both the TS7780 and the widely deployed TS7770 hardware. The experts will explain how these improvements maintain the TS7700's top performance and largest install base. Register today!
๐ Accelerate with ATG: IBM Storage Scale 101 - The Basics & Architecture โ 6/12/25 at 12:00 PM ET
High Performance Computing (abbreviated as AI) requires high-performance storage, and Storage Scale is IBM's flagship storage for the unstructured data that AI requires. But Storage Scale is more - it brings all the capabilities of a Global Data Platform to both AI and the enterprise. Join the Advanced Technology Group for this session, introducing you to IBM Storage Scale, the concept of a Global Data Platform, and surveying the capabilities and features of Storage Scale that make it so unique and powerful. Register today!
๐ Accelerate with ATG: Tape Considerations with IBM Z Cyber Vault โ 6/17/25 at 12:00 PM ET
Join us for an upcoming ATG Accelerate webinar where we will start with a quick review of essential tape concepts and Z operations, then dive into the best practices for leveraging tape in Z Cyber Vault use cases. We will then explore how incorporating Safeguarded Copy (SGC) into your Cyber Vault strategy can enable IPLing a Sysplex to an earlier point in time - an approach that may require access to historical tape volumes for forensic analysis or recovery. Since the tape management environment in a Cyber Vault is often skewed with the current production and grid views, this session will break down the challenges and guide you through safe and effective strategies to manage this complexity. Register today!
๐New IBM Redbooks
๐Intelligent Storage Management with Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) using IBM Storage Insights: This IBM Redpaper delves into the practical application of AI and automation within IBM Storage Insights, empowering you to optimize your storage environment through data-driven insights. From accurate capacity planning to detecting performance deviations and leveraging AI-based workload advisories for storage partitions, this Redpaper equips you with the tools to master proactive storage management. We will explore advanced capabilities such as system health advisories for IBM FlashSystem grid, ransomware threat detection, the power of the IBM Storage Insights Observability Chatbot, and the innovative potential of artificial intelligence for storage (AI4S), all within the context of enhancing efficiency, security, and performance.
๐Unlocking Data Insights and AI: IBM Storage Ceph as a Data Lakehouse Platform for IBM watsonx.data and Beyond: This IBM Redbooksยฎ publication dives into how the IBM Storage Ceph robust storage capabilities and the IBM watsonx.data advanced analytics features come together to form a powerful data and AI platform. This platform empowers you to unlock valuable insights from your data and make data-driven decisions. Using a real-world scenario involving an Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) data lake, you can explore each stage of the data pipeline (ingestion, transformation, and consumption) with step-by-step instructions and hands-on examples. All code samples that are created for the book's scenarios are available at the Redbooks GitHub repository.
๐ฌ Trending discussions
Check out these discussions in IBM Storage and share your expertise:
๐Handling of rebooting nameservers posted in IBM FlashSystem
๐LTFS on Rocky Linux 8.10 posted in Tape Library
๐ Events
19 - 22 May | Las Vegas, Nevada - Dell Technologies World 2025
19 - 22 May | Boston, Massachusetts - Red Hat Summit
20 May | ATG Webcast - Discover What's New: The IBM TS7780 and the New Release 6.0
20 May | Webinar: The Gold Standard Cyber Resilience Solution with IBM Technology
20 May | Copenhagen, Denmark - IBM Storage User Group Denmark, sponsored by IBM TechXchange
3 June | Webinar: Architecting Modern Data Lakehouses with IBM Storage Ceph and IBM Fusion
4 June | London, United Kingdom - Ceph Days London 2025
8 - 12 June | San Diego, California - Cisco Live 2025
10 June | Webinar: OpenShift Virtualization with IBM Fusion
12 June | ATG Webcast - IBM Storage Scale 101 - The Basics & Architecture
17 June | ATG Webcast - Tape Considerations with IBM Z Cyber Vault
24 June | Webinar: Speed Meets Simplicity: Maximizing AI Potential with IBM Fusion
26 June | Webinar: Agentic AI โ Use Cases, Benefits, Risks
8 July | Webinar: Accelerating Cloud-Native Innovation: IBM Fusion and Red Hat OpenShift - The Ultimate Container Platform Solution
๐ IBM Storage Corner
@Sanjay Patel shares photos and a video from IBM's participation at STAC Summit held on 13 May at the New York Marriott Marquis in New York City. @Matthew Klos conducted a session on how Financial market customers leverage IBM Storage Scale for their AI, HPC and analytics workload. IBM Storage Scale is a software-defined file and object storage solution that enables a global data platform for artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing (HPC), advanced analytics and other demanding workloads. It seamlessly manages unstructured data, including documents, audio, images and videos, across distributed storage environments.
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