German User Meeting 2024

IBM is organizing a Storage Scale User Meeting in Sindelfingen, Germany. We have an exciting agenda covering user stories, roadmap update, the latest insights into data fabrics, data orchestration and data management architectures, plus access to IBM experts and your peers. Details will follow soon. We look forward to welcoming you to this event.

Date: March 6+7, 2024 – Storage Scale German User Meeting

Location: Hotel Marriot, Sindelfingen, Germany

The Storage Scale German User Meeting is face-to-face only and free of charge. The event will be held mostly in German. There will be some sessions in English.

Please register here prior the event:
https://www.ibm.com/events/reg/flow/ibm/fecfrkmb/createaccount/page/contactInfo

Agenda
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Wednesday - March 6th, 2024

09:00 10:00 Registration and Networking
10:00 10:15 Welcome
10:15 10:45 Storage Strategy and Strategic Initiatives
10:45 11:10 IBM Storage Scale System 6000
11:10 11:35 Smart Data Orchestration to Accelerate AI Workloads
11:35 11:50 What is new in Storage Scale?
11:50 12:00 Meet the Developers
12:00 13:00 Lunch and Networking
13:00 13:30 FZJ - New Storage for Juelich: Exabyte for Exaflop/s
13:30 14:10 Lightning Talks with Product Updates
             - ARM & Nvidia Update
             - AFM Update
             - mmhealth Update
             - OS currency and Extended Update Support (EUS)
             - Protocol Update
14:10 14:30 Sneak Preview
14:30 15:00 Coffee and Networking
15:00 15:20 SVA - A five year journey with ESS
15:20 15:40 Tuxera - MacOS media & entertainment workloads with SMB
15:40 16:00 ETH Zurich - IBM Speicherumgebung an der ETH Zuerich: Loesungen und Herausforderungen
16:00 16:20 Break
16:20 16:40 Unified Installation and Configuration - On-premise and on Cloud
16:40 17:40 Performance update
17:40 18:00 Ask us anything
18:00 20:00 Get Together

Thursday - March 7th, 2024

08:30 09:00 Coffee und Networking
08:40 09:00 Spectrum Scale Licensing
09:00 12:00 Break-out Sessions
             - Cloudkit and Ansible Toolkit (Deep Dive)
             - AFM Deep Dive
             - Smart Data Orchestration to Accelerate AI Workloads (Deep Dive)
             - Date Lakehouse with watsonx.data and IBM Storage
             - Health Monitoring and Call Home Improvements
             - Storage Scale Performance Monitoring Improvements & Prometheus Exporter
             - CNSA Update Improvements
             - CNSA along with InfiniBand and RDMA
             - Introducing the IBM Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service
             - Introduction to IBM Storage Ceph
             - Introduction to IBM Storage Fusion
             - For 20 Years Nothing New with Tape? IBM Tape Update 2024!
12:00 13:00 Lunch and Networking
13:00 14:10 Lightning Talks with Product Updates
             - Storage Scale on IBM Cloud
             - Modernization of Storage Scale
             - Multi-protocol data access in OpenShift
             - Storage Scale Support and Expert Care Premium
             - IBM Technology Expert Labs Services for IBM Storage Scale
             - Dynamic Infrastructure for Spark in OpenShift
             - Using writable snapshot with Storage Scale
             - Data Migration using OpenShift Built-in Tools
             - IDEA Process
14:10 14:40 Coffee and Networking
14:40 15:00 Lenovo - Storage Update
15:00 15:20 Creating and Managing Consistent Safeguarded Copies with IBM Storage Protect on IBM Storage Scale
15:20 15:50 Lessons from the Field
15:50 16:00 Wrap-up

The Storage Scale Scale User Meeting is preceded by the Storage Scale New User Day at March 5, 2024:
https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/german-new-user-day-2024/