Month: August 2015

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Inaugural US Meet the Developers Event

The inaugural US “Meet the Developers” session has been arranged.

Date: Wednesday 7th October 2015

Place: IBM building, 590 Madison Avenue, New York City

Time: 12:30 to 5 PM (Lunch will be served at 12:30, and sessions will start between 1 and 1:30 PM. Afternoon refreshments will also be served)

Agenda

  • IBM development architect to present the new protocols support that was released with Spectrum Scale 4.1.1 in June.
  • IBM developer to demo future Graphical User Interface Member of user community to present an experience with using Spectrum Scale
  • Open Q&A with the development team

If you are interested in attending please e-mail Janet Ellsworth janetell@us.ibm.com. Please also let Janet know if you are willing to present your experience using Spectrum Scale.

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Meet the Devs #3 – Report

Last week the third ‘meet the devs’ event took place, this time in Warwick. This was my first visit to IBM Warwick and after a short walk from the train station the first thing that struck me was the size of the site. It always reminds me of the sheer size of IBM when I visit these sites I barely knew existed but are many times the size of our lab in Manchester.

Having arrived and got set up it was great to see a mixture of familiar faces and first time attendees. This makes me confident that people are finding these sessions valuable if they are attending multiple sessions, whilst also ensuring we are involving and getting input from a widening range of users.

The release of Spectrum Scale 4.1.1 was the first release that our development team in Manchester was involved with. With that work now a month behind us, this meeting was an opportunity to look forward to what is coming in 4.2 – targetted in for release in Q4 this year.

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