San Jose – 2026 West Coast IBM Storage Scale User Group Event
Join us at the IBM Silicon Valley Lab in San Jose for a two day, in person IBM Storage Scale User Group event, beginning Tuesday morning and concluding at 4:00pm on Wednesday.
This event is open to all IBM Storage Scale (GPFS) and IBM Storage Scale System (ESS) users, along with anyone interested in learning how IBM Storage Scale supports modern data intensive workloads across AI, HPC, analytics, and enterprise environments.
IBM Storage Scale continues to be IBM’s flagship software defined parallel file system, providing high performance access to unstructured data, advanced enterprise data management, and scalable infrastructure for organisations operating across hybrid and multi cloud environments. IBM Storage Scale System delivers a pre engineered platform designed for reliability, scalability, and high throughput performance at scale.
In 2026, Storage Scale remains closely aligned with the growing demands of AI infrastructure, global data orchestration, analytics, and next generation compute environments, helping organisations simplify data access, accelerate model development, and support modern workloads with confidence.
This interactive technical user group event will include presentations, technical discussions, roadmap updates, customer experiences, and networking opportunities with IBM specialists and members of the wider Storage Scale community.
Topics throughout the event will include:
• AI workloads and global data access with IBM Storage Scale
• Optimising NVIDIA DGX and NVIDIA SuperPOD environments
• Building scalable global data platforms across distributed infrastructure
• IBM Storage Scale and Storage Scale System strategy updates
• New capabilities and enhancements in the 2026 releases
• Customer deployment experiences and operational best practices
• IBM Research insights into data resiliency and storage intelligence
• IBM Content Aware Storage innovations for AI and data intensive workflows
Who should attend:
• IBM Storage Scale and ESS users
• Storage administrators and infrastructure teams
• HPC and AI platform architects
• Research computing and analytics teams
• Organisations building or scaling AI infrastructure
• Technical professionals working with large scale data environments
We look forward to welcoming the Storage Scale community to San Jose for two days of technical discussion, knowledge sharing, and networking.