Spectrum Scale User Group

NYC User Meeting 2022
2022-09-20 09:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | NYU Langone Health, 435 East 30th Street, New York, NY, 10016, United States
IBM is organizing a Spectrum Scale User Meeting in New York City. 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. We look forward to welcoming you to this event.
Date: September 20, 2022
Location: New York City
The User Meeting is face-to-face only and free of charge.
Attendees must register prior the event. Please register >> here <<.
8:30 9:00 Registration and Morning Coffee
9:00 9:10 Welcome
9:10 9:30 Strategy Update
9:30 9:50 What is new in Spectrum Scale?
9:50 10:10 What is new in ESS?
10:10 10:30 Customer Talk - Albert Einstein College of Medicine
10:30 11:00 Coffee and Networking
11:00 11:20 Container Update
11:20 11:40 New S3 access for AI and Analytics
11:40 12:00 Support for GPUDirect Storage
12:00 12:20 Customer Talk - NYU Langone
12:20 13:20 Lunch and Networking
13:20 13:40 Spectrum Fusion
13:40 14:00 Spectrum Scale on IBM Cloud
14:00 14:20 Customer Talk - New York Genome Center
14:20 14:40 Spectrum Scale & ESS Technical Support Update
14:40 15:10 Coffee and Networking
15:10 15:30 Monitoring and serviceability enhancements in Spectrum Scale
15:30 16:10 Technical Deep Dive - Performance Update
16:10 16:40 Open Discussion
16:40 16:45 Wrap-up
Starting 17:00 Social Event

German User Meeting 2022
2022-10-19 - 2022-10-20 | MediaPark Köln, MediaPark, Cologne, Germany
IBM is organizing a Spectrum Scale User Meeting in Cologne, 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. See the event page for the detailed agenda. We look forward to welcoming you to this event.
Date: October 19-20, 2022
Location: MediaPark Cologne, Germany
The User Meeting is face-to-face only and free of charge.
Attendees must >>register here<< prior the event.
October 19th, 2022
9:00 10:00 Registration and Networking
10:00 10:15 Welcome
10:15 10:40 Strategy Update
10:40 11:05 Easy Installation using Terraform and Ansible
11:05 11:25 Spectrum Scale on IBM Cloud
11:25 11:50 Global Data Orchestration
11:50 12:00 Meet the devs
12:00 13:00 Lunch and Networking
13:00 13:40 What is new in Spectrum Scale?
13:40 14:10 ESS 3500
14:10 14:30 Customer or partner talk - ESS3500
14:30 15:00 Coffee and Networking
15:00 15:20 AFM - Enhancements and Use Cases
15:20 15:40 Customer or partner talk
15:40 16:00 Customer or partner talk
16:00 16:15 New requirement process
16:15 16:35 Break
16:35 16:50 Update from ESCC (Pre-Sales/Lab Services/Support )
16:50 17:05 Sneak Preview
17:05 17:25 CNSA & CSI Update
17:25 17:45 Container & Object Storage hints and tips
17:45 18:00 Ask us anything
18:00 20:00 Get Together

October 20th, 2022
8:30 9:00 Coffee und Networking
Spectrum Scale licensing
9:00 12:00 Break-out Sessions
- AFM Deep Dive
- Spectrum Scale and Tape
- Introduction to Spectrum Fusion
- Secured Data Sharing to Applications running in OpenShift
- ESS Deep Dive
- Spectrum Scale on Z
- HDFS hands-on experience with Cloudera CDP
- Terraform and Ansible Deep Dive
- Introduction to Spectrum Discover
12:00 13:00 Lunch and Networking
13:00 13:20 New S3 Access for AI and Analytics
13:20 13:40 GPUDirect Storage Update
13:40 14:00 HDFS Update
14:00 14:30 Coffee and Networking
14:30 14:50 Customer or partner talk
14:50 15:10 Monitoring and serviceability enhancements
15:10 15:30 Field Update
15:30 15:50 Performance Update
15:50 16:00 Wrap-up

Spectrum Scale UG @ SC22
2022-11-13 12:00 - 18:00 (Europe/London)
The Spectrum Scale user group will be hosting a meeting at this years SC22.
This global user-led meeting provides an opportunity for peer-to-peer learning and interaction with IBM’s technical leadership on the latest in IBM Spectrum Scale. We have an exciting agenda covering user stories, roadmap update, the latest insights into data fabrics, data orchestration and data management architectures. The main agenda will be followed by a cocktail reception at 5:30 pm to continue the discussions. We look forward to welcoming you to this event.
Date: Sunday, November 13, 2022 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Venue: The Adolphus Hotel, Commerce St, Dallas,
Room Location: Grand Ballroom B
Lunch: Lunch boxes will be provided from noon onwards
NOTE: You MUST register to attend the user group meeting. Please complete your details on the registration page: https://ibm.biz/SC22_SSUG
AGENDA:
12:30 – 12:40 Introductions and Committee updates – Paul Tomlinson, UK Chair
12:40 – 13:05 Strategy Update
13:05 – 13:35 What is new in Spectrum Scale
13:35 – 13:55 New S3 access for AI & Analytics
13:55 – 14:15 Managing Massive Amouts for Unstructured Data with Starfish – Justin Wood SNL and Jacob Farmer, Starfish Storage
14:15 – 14:35 Feasibility of a hybrid HPC-Cloud computing platform: A study of data-flow I/O performance between remote clusters – UT Southwestern Medical Center
14:35 – 15:00 AFM Update
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 15:50 HPC on IBM Cloud
15:50 – 16:10 Highly Provisioned ECE Servers – Ray Paden Lenovo
16:10 – 16:30 Spectrum Scale and Spectrum Discover for Data Management – Oslo University
16:30 – 16:55 ESS Enhancements
16:55- 17:20 Performance Update
17:20 – 17:30 Group Discussion
17:30 Close followed by Drinks Reception

SSUG @CIUK 2022
2022-12-02 10:00 - 12:00 (Europe/London) | Manchester Central Convention Complex, Petersfield, Manchester, M2 3GX, United Kingdom
SSUG will be returning to CIUK for 2023 … our agenda is still to be confirmed, but the plan is to run 10:30 – 12:00 on Friday 2nd December.
To attend this user group event, you must be registered to attend CIUK, registration is online at https://www.scd.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/CIUK2022.aspx
Agenda:
10:30 – 10:40 Welcome, Paul Tomlinson
10:40 – 11:20 Spectrum Scale Update – Chris Maestas
11:20 – 11:40 OnDemand: Extending an HPC cluster to cloud infrastructures – Frank Lee IBM
11:40 – 12:00 Anything else? … otherwise … Wrap up and close, Paul Tomlinson – Group Chair

German New User Day 2023
2023-03-21 | Marriot Sindelfingen, Mahdentalstrasse 68, Sindelfingen, 71065, Germany
IBM is organizing a Spectrum Scale New User Day 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 21, 2023 – New User Day
Location: Hotel Marriot, Sindelfingen, Germany
The New User Day is face-to-face only and free of charge. The event will be held in German.
Attendees must register >> here << prior the event.

The New User Day is followed by the regular Spectrum Scale User Meeting at March 22+23, 2023:
German User Meeting 2023

German User Meeting 2023
2023-03-22 - 2023-03-23 | Marriot Sindelfingen, Mahdentalstrasse 68, Sindelfingen, 71065, Germany
IBM is organizing a Spectrum 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 22+23, 2023 – Spectrum Scale German User Meeting
Location: Hotel Marriot, Sindelfingen, Germany
The Spectrum 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.
Attendees must register >> here << prior the event.
Draft Agenda - German Spectrum Scale User Meeting

March 22nd, 2023
9:00 10:00 Registration and networking
10:00 10:15 Welcome
10:15 11:45 Strategy update
11:45 12:00 Meet the Developers
12:00 13:00 Lunch and networking
13:00 14:30 Lightning talks with product updates
14:30 15:00 Coffee and networking
15:00 16:20 Customer and partner talks
16:20 16:40 Break
16:40 17:40 Deep dive sessions
17:45 18:00 Ask us anything
18:00 20:00 Get together

March 23rd, 2023
8:30 9:00 Coffee and networking
Spectrum Scale licensing
9:00 12:00 Break-out sessions
12:00 13:00 Lunch and networking
13:00 14:15 Lightning talks with product updates
14:15 14:45 Coffee and networking
14:45 15:45 More customer and partner talks and deep dive sessions
15:45 16:00 Wrap-up
The Spectrum Scale User Meeting is preceded by the Spectrum Scale New User Day at March 21, 2023:
German New User Day 2023

Storage Scale User Meeting at ISC 2023
2023-05-22 13:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Hotel Reichshof, Kirchenallee 34-36, Hamburg, 20099, Germany
IBM is organizing a Storage Scale User Meeting at ISC 2023. We have an exciting agenda covering user stories, roadmap update, insights into potential future product enhancements, plus access to IBM experts and your peers. We look forward to welcoming you to this event. The user meeting is followed by a Get Together to continue the discussion.
Date: Mon, 22. May 2023 – 13:00-17:00 CET Local time | Hotel Reichshof
The User Meeting is face-to-face only. There is no ISC conference pass required.
To register for the event, please send an email with your name and your company/organization name to IBMStorageScale@ibm.com.
NDA’s have to be signed when entering the meeting room as roadmap items are discussed. A non-confidential version of the charts will be made available after the event.
Agenda

13:00Registration an Networkingn/a

13:30WelcomeUlf Troppens

13:40What is new in Storage Scale and ESS?Mamdouh Khamis, Ted Hoover

14:05Lightning talks with selected product updates and potential future enhancementsAlexander Wolf-Reber, Mathias Dietz, Olaf Weiser, Par Hettinga, Ulf Troppens

14:45DESY - Site UpdateStefan Dietrich (DESY)

15:05- Break -n/a

15:25Sponsor Talk: High-performance SMB service with Tuxera Fusion File Share and IBM Storage ScaleHeinrich von Keler (Tuxera), Jukka Muhonen (Tuxera)

15:45University of Queensland - Site UpdateJake Carroll (University of Queensland)

16:30Performance UpdateOlaf Weiser

16:55Wrap-upUlf Troppens

17:00Get Togethern/a

Sponsors

Spectrum Scale User Group, London, Tuesday 27th June - Wednesday 28th June
2023-06-27 - 2023-06-28 | IBM Client Center London, 20 York Road, London, SE1 7ND, United Kingdom
Hi all,
Just a reminder that the next UK User Group meeting will be taking place in London (IBM York Road) on Tuesday 27th and Wednesday 28th June
The current agenda is below and we still have some slots for User Presentations
Tuesday – June 27, 2023
30 9:30-10:00 Arrival & Registration
15 10:00-10:15 Introductions and Committee Update
10 10:15-10:25 Welcome
25 10:25-10:50 Strategy Update
20 10:50-11:10 CyberSecurity, CyberResiliency, CyberVault
50 11:10-12:00 Modernisation of Storage Scale
60 12:00-13:00 Lunch & Networking
60 13:00-14:00 Lightning Talks I
30 14:00-14:30 ESS Performance Engineering
30 14:30-15:00 Afternoon Tea & Networking
20 15:00-15:20 StarFish Presentation
20 15:20-15:40 Bridgeworks Presentation
20 15:40-16:00 Tuxera Presentation
20 16:00-16:20 HPC Storage at BSC – Sergi More
20 16:20-16:40 Short Break
30 16:40-17:10 Performance Update
50 17:10-18:00 Meet the Devs – Ask us Anything
120 19:00-21:00 Get Together @ Etc Venues, Prospero House

Wednesday – June 28, 2023
15 9:00- 9:15 Arrival & Networking
30 9:15- 9:45 Sneak Preview I
45 9:45-10:30 AFM Deep Dive
30 10:30-11:00 Morning Tea & Networking
45 11:00-11:45 ESS Deep Dive
15 11:45-12:00 Lightning Talks II
60 12:00-13:00 Lunch & Networking
20 13:00-13:20 Storage Overview at AWE – Mark Roberts
20 13:20-13:40 Valentine – SACLE at the NHM – Paul Ward
20 13:40-14:00 AFM Migration experience – Robert Horton Cancer Research
30 14:00-14:30 Afternoon Tea & Networking
30 14:30-15:00 Scale and Protect/Archive
30 15:00-15:30 Filesystem Activity Monitoring using Splunk/QRadar
20 15:30-15:50 Sneak Preview II
10 15:50-16:00 Wrap-up
Event registration is https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spectrum-scale-user-group-2023-registration-637962000517

IBM Storage Scale and IBM Storage Ceph Users Group Meeting at IBM TechXchange
2023-09-11 09:00 - 16:00 (America/Denver) | MGM Grand Hotel – Las Vegas, NV
IBM is organizing a Users Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada in association with IBM’s TechXchange Conference. The Users Group meeting will be held at the MGM Grand Hotel in the MGM conference center (look for signs to users group area).
Date: Monday Sept 11, 2023 | 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Las Vegas, NV
The User Meeting at TechXchange is face-to-face only and comes at no additional charge. Registration at TechXchange (https://ibm.biz/BdPANG) is required prior to the event.
We have an exciting Users Group agenda featuring user stories, integration with Watsonx and Nvidia in the AI space, deployment in the cloud, and important product updates. The event will feature IBM subject matter experts and your peers.
Planned Agenda and Topics:

Recent announcements for Storage Scale/Storage Scale System and Storage Ceph
IBM Storage Ceph and watsonx.data
What is a Ceph Ready Node and why should I care?
Customers tell their stories
IBM Storage Scale and AI in the IBM Cloud
Creating a high-performance data lake (access)
Learn how to optimize current data with IBM storage (management/caching)
Cyber resilient storage and 99.9999% availability (security)
NVIDIA, IBM watsonx and AI – have you heard the latest?
Ask the experts anything

A box lunch will be provided, and a reception will be held immediately after the meeting.
We look forward to welcoming you to this event.

NYC User Meeting 2023
2023-09-27 09:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | The Havard Club, 35 W 44th St, New York City, NY, 10036, United States
IBM is organizing a Spectrum Scale User Meeting in New York City. 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. We look forward to welcoming you to this event.
Date: September 27, 2023
Location: New York City
The User Meeting is face-to-face only and free of charge.
Attendees must register prior the event. Please register >> here <<.
We would like to thank Andrew Gauzza and all of the folks at DST (Data In Science Technology) for their sponsorship of this event.

Draft Agenda
9:00 Doors open, light breakfast and coffee
9:30 User Meeting
- Welcome and introduction
- Discussion of IBM Storage Defender
- Storage Scale Strategy
- What's New - Lightning Talk
- Modernization of Storage Scale
- Sneak previews
- MCOT & MROT
- Performance Engineering - ESS3500
- Fabric Hospital & Disk Hospital
- High density Tape for Backup and Archive solutions
- High Performance SMB with Tuxera
- Customer Presentations
5:00-7:00 Reception – Wine/Beer Hors d'oeuvres and networking

Storage Scale User Meeting @ SC23
2023-11-12 12:00 - 18:00 (America/Denver) | The Grand Hyatt Denver, 1750 Welton St, Denver, CO, 80202, United States
IBM is hosting a Storage Scale User Meeting along SC 2023. This meeting provides an opportunity for peer-to-peer learning and interaction with IBM’s technical leadership on the latest in IBM Storage Scale.
Date: Sunday, November 12, 2023 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Venue: The Grand Hyatt Denver
We have an exciting agenda covering user stories, roadmap update, latest insights into data fabrics, data orchestration and data management architectures. The user meeting is followed by a Get Together to continue the discussion.
Please register here for participation:
https://www.ibm.com/events/reg/flow/ibm/9a13aemb/landing/page/landing
Note: A conference pass for SC23 is not required to participate in this event.
12:30-12:40 Welcome
12:40-13:00 Storage Scale Strategy Update
13:00-13:20 Nvidia - Running Storage Scale Software directly on GPU nodes
13:20-13:40 What is new in Storage Scale?
13:40-14:00 Lenovo - Eking out performance using MROT
14:00-14:15 What is new in Storage Scale System?
14:15-14:45 Break
14:45-15:05 Sycomp - Storage Scale and Storage Scale System in a hybrid cloud world
15:05-15:45 Lightning talks with selected product updates by Starfish, Tuxera and IBM
15:45-16:15 Guardant Health - Experiences of Using Storage Scale to Create a Wide-area Single Namespace
Guardant Health - Network Quality of Service and On-Demand Bandwidth Provisioning Using File System Events
16:15-16:35 Short Break
16:35-16:55 University of Queensland - High performance S3 access with IBM Storage Scale, ECE and IBM Storage Fusion
16:55-17:15 Cadence - IBM Cloud HPC EDA Solution for Cadence
17:15-17:45 Performance Update
17:45-18:00 Wrap-up
18:00-20:00 Get together
We are looking forward to welcome to this event.
Sponsored by:

Storage Scale Meeting @ CIUK23
2023-12-07 14:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | Manchester Central Convention Complex, Petersfield, Manchester, M2 3GX, United Kingdom
The Storage Scale User Group has been accepted for a breakout session at Computing Insights UK 2023!
Due to the enormous popularity and applications for breakout sessions this year we have only been provided a 2 hours breakout slot on THURSDAY; so we plan on packing the program!
https://www.scd.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/CIUK-2023-Breakout-Sessions.aspx
To attend this user group event, you must be registered to attend CIUK, registration is online at https://www.scd.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/CIUK2023.aspx

Time
Length
Title
Speaker

14:00
00:10
Intro
Laurence Horrocks-Barlow
Michael Holiday

14:10
00:20
What’s new with Scale and Scale System
Chris Maestas

14:20

14:30
00:10
Tuxera

Heinrich von Keler

14:40
00:20
Data Orchestrator

Indulis Bernsteins

14:50

15:00
00:10
Storage Expert Labs offerings

PAR HETTINGA-AYAKANNU

15:10
00:20
Fusion Demo
Frank Lee

15:20

15:30
00:10
OVER RUN TIME

15:40
00:20
Ask us anything
IBM Team

15:50

16:00

Storage Scale User Meeting @ SCA 2024
2024-02-19
IBM is hosting a Storage Scale User Meeting along SupercomputingAsia 2024. This meeting provides an opportunity for peer-to-peer learning and interaction with IBM’s technical leadership on the latest in IBM Storage Scale.
Date: Monday, February 19th, 2024 – 9am – 5pm
Venue: ICC Sydney, 14 Darling Dr, Sydney NSW 2000, Sydney, Australia
We have an exciting agenda covering user stories, roadmap update, latest insights into data fabrics, data orchestration and data management architectures. The user meeting is followed by a Get Together to continue the discussion.
Detailed agenda will be shared later.
Please register here for the event:
https://www.ibm.com/events/reg/flow/ibm/5r4tchmb/landing/page/landing
We are looking forward to welcome to this event.

German New User Day 2024
2024-03-05 | Marriot Sindelfingen, Mahdentalstrasse 68, Sindelfingen, 71065, Germany
IBM is organizing a Storage Scale New User Day in Sindelfingen, Germany. We have an exciting agenda covering an introduction in Storage Scale and key use cases. We look forward to welcoming you to this event.
Date: March 5, 2024 – New User Day
Location: Hotel Marriot, Sindelfingen, Germany
The New User Day is face-to-face only and free of charge. The event will be held in German.
Details for agenda and registration will be posted later.
The New User Day is followed by the regular Storage Scale User Meeting at March 6+7, 2024:
https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/german-user-meeting-2024/

German User Meeting 2024
2024-03-06 - 2024-03-07 | Marriot Sindelfingen, Mahdentalstrasse 68, Sindelfingen, 71065, Germany
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/

Midwest User Meeting 2024
2024-04-30 - 2024-05-02 | Big Ten Conference, 5440 Park Place, Rosemont, IL, 60018, United States
Join us for the first Midwest Storage Scale User event! This in-person gathering will be held at the Big Ten Conference in Park Place, Rosemont, IL, USA in tandem with the Midwest Research Computing and Data Consortium Spring meeting. Whether you’re a seasoned GPFS user or just getting started, this event is perfect for anyone interested in learning more about Storage Scale and connecting with fellow enthusiasts.
Date: April 30 – May 2
Location: Big Ten Conference, 5440 Park Place, Rosemont, IL 60018, US
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/midwest-gpfs-user-group-tickets-814369800997
Topic Sessions – Tuesday April 30 (9 AM – 3 PM)

AFM use cases and the basics
Network stability strategies
Install experiences with ESS
GPFS cluster management and upgrade strategies, what works and what doesn’t
Architecting replication with stretch-cluster vs AFM
How to successfully use AFM for replication, what are the PROs and CONs
Considerations and alternatives to upgrading to ESS v6.1.9.x
Scale integration with cloud and tape

Mini-Workshop – May 2 (8 AM – 12 PM)

Work hands-on in a Scale lab with developers.
Only 20 spots are available for the lab!

Storage Scale User Meeting @ ISC24
2024-05-13 13:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Hotel Reichshof, Kirchenallee 34-36, Hamburg, 20099, Germany
IBM is organizing a Storage Scale User Meeting at ISC 2024. We have an exciting agenda covering user stories, roadmap update, insights into potential future product enhancements, plus access to IBM experts and your peers. We look forward to welcoming you to this event. The user meeting is followed by a Get Together to continue the discussion.
Date: Monday, May 13, 2024 – 13:00 pm – 6:00 pm | Hotel Reichshof
We are looking forward to welcome to this event

The User Meeting is face-to-face only. There is no ISC conference pass required.
To register for the event, please send an email with your name and your company/organization name to IBMStorageScale@ibm.com.
NDA’s have to be signed when entering the meeting room as roadmap items are discussed. A non-confidential version of the charts will be made available after the event.
Agenda

13:00-13:30 Registration and Networking
13:30-13:40 Welcome
13:40-14:05 Storage for AI - Nvidia and beyond Ted Hoover
14:05-14:20 HyperStore - NVMe/F Performance Pool
14:20-14:35 High-Performance Object Access to data in Storage Scale
14:35-14:55 Sponsor Talk: Starfish
14:55-15:10 Smart Data Orchestration to Accelerate AI Workloads
15:10-15:30 - Break -
15:30-15:55 What is new in Spectrum Scale and Storage Scale System?
15:55-16:10 Secure, API Driven Control Plane for Storage Scale
16:10-16:55 Performance Update
16:55-17:00 Wrap-up
Starting 17:00 Get together
Sponsors

UK New User Day 2024
2024-06-11 | IBM Client Center London, 20 York Road, London, SE1 7ND, United Kingdom
IBM is organizing a Storage Scale New User Day in London, UK. We have an exciting agenda covering an introduction in Storage Scale and key use cases. We look forward to welcoming you to this event.
Date: June 11, 2024 – New User Day
Location: IBM York Road, London, UK
This event is face-to-face only and free of charge.
Detailed agenda will be posted later.
Please register here to attend:
https://www.ibm.com/events/reg/flow/ibm/M9P9QNMB/landing/page/landing

The New User Day is followed by the regular Storage Scale User Meeting at June 12+13, 2024:
https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/uk-user-meeting-2024/

UK User Meeting 2024
2024-06-12 - 2024-06-13 | IBM Client Center London, 20 York Road, London, SE1 7ND, United Kingdom
There will be a Storage Scale User Meeting in London, UK. 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: June 12+13, 2024 – Storage Scale UK User Meeting
Location: IBM York Road, London, UK
This meeting is face-to-face only and free of charge.
Please register here to attend:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spectrum-scale-user-group-2024-tickets-887703052727
Agenda Highlights:

Storage Scale strategy and initiatives
What in new in Storage Scale and Storage Scale System?
Storage Scale performance update
High Performance Object access to data on Storage Scale
Storage Scale Data Caching Services (AFM) updates
Hyperstore – NVMEoF Performance Pool
Secure, API based Control Plane for Storage Scale
Using external Scale/ESS data with Fusion HCI
Customer and partner talks

Detailed agenda will be posted later.
The User Group Meeting is preceded by the Storage Scale New User Day at June 11, 2024:
https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/uk-new-user-day-2024/

POSTPONED! - 2024 IBM Storage Scale User Group Miami - new date to be announced!
2024-07-30 09:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | HILTON CABANA MIAMI BEACH RESORT, 6261 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, FL, 33140, United States
The Miami event is currently POSTPONED!
Stay tuned for an update on the new date!
Please join us for the IBM Storage Scale User Group Meeting in Miami!
This Scale day event will will discuss customer stories, strategy, initiatives as well as what’s new with the IBM Storage Scale System 6000! The afternoon will close out with S3 archive topics as well as first hand installation experience feedback using RedHat OpenShift and IBM Fusion to deploy modernized applications including AI.
The detailed agenda can be found at the registration page. Please register here!

West Coast IBM Storage Scale User Meeting
2024-08-06 - 2024-08-07 | IBM San Jose, 555 Bailey Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95141, United States
This West Coast IBM Storage Scale users group event is open to all IBM Storage Scale (GPFS) and IBM Scale System (ESS) users, as well as those who wish to learn more about IBM Storage Scale.
IBM Storage Scale is IBM’s flagship software-defined parallel file system infused with sophisticated enterprise data management capabilities. The IBM Storage Scale System is a preconfigured high-performance hardware “building block” for unstructured data storage with unrivaled integrity. Ready to participate in today’s multi-cloud world of AI, HPC, and Big Data, Storage Scale delivers the performance and agility you need to get deeper insights from your data faster – giving you the edge to outthink and outperform your competition and win in the cognitive era.
Join us for this interactive technical Users Group two day experience on IBM Storage Scale and the Storage Scale System!
Day 1 – Accelerate your AI Model, Training and Inferencing with IBM Storage Scale – Scale New User Day!
The Storage Scale Users Group event begins with a current and new users’ day. Day one is geared to those interested in learning how IBM Storage Scale can accelerate AI workloads and access data anywhere and everywhere with a global data platform. This one-day session will explore optimizing your NVDIA Superpod and NVDIA DGX environments for model training and inferencing with IBM Storage scale.
Day 2 – IBM Storage Scale Users Group
Day two continues with a discussion on the IBM Storage Scale strategy, what’s new in Storage Scale and Scale System, features and roadmap. This one-day session will feature discussions from long term Storage Scale users, and a user presented case study topic. It will also include a session on IBM Storage Scale for AI workloads with NVIDIA; a session on IBM research, Data Resiliency with Storage Scale and why SuperMicro is a great choice for running Storage Scale.
The detailed agenda can be found at the registration page. Please register here for the event or click the website link below.

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There is an additional day but you need to be nominated by your IBM contact.Please check with your IBM representative on how you may be nominated to attend. Lab seats are limited and on a first come basis.

Day 3 – IBM Storage Scale Hands-on ATG Workshop

This day is open to customers that want to better understand Storage Scale features and functions. Attendees will gain a deep hands-on experience of both Storage Scale and the Storage Scale System. We will delve into basic and advanced features and functions, such as: Installing a Storage Scale cluster, setting up protocol nodes, using ILM policies, and working with AFM. Drive a Storage Scale GUI and more!

NYC 2024 - IBM Storage Scale User’s Group
2024-10-01 09:00 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | One Madison Avenue, New York, NY, 1 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, 10010, United States
New York City 2024 – IBM Storage Scale User’s Group October 1, 2024

There will be a Storage Scale User Meeting in New York City, NY, USA. We have an exciting agenda covering user stories, roadmap updates, development, research, NVIDIA, SuperMicro and DST, plus access to IBM experts and your peers. We look forward to welcoming you to this event.
Agenda highlights:

Storage Scale strategy
NVIDIA AI Solutions with IBM Storage Scale
IBM Research Vela and Blue Vela systems for AI
Supermicro and the IBM Scale POD
Health Monitoring and Call Home Improvements
Networking w. Scale & Scale Storage Systems

The detailed agenda can be found at the registration page. Please register here!

Sponsored by Data In Science Technologies – htps://datainscience.com/

Storage Scale User Group @ SC24 - Sunday, November 17th, 2024
2024-11-17 12:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | The Westin Peachtree Plaza, 210 Peachtree St. NW, Atlanta, GA, 30303, United States
There will be a Scale User Group event in Atlanta, Georgia, USA on November 17th, 2024. We will have an exciting agenda covering roadmap updates, the latest insights from the user community, development, research, NVIDIA, and access to IBM experts and your peers. We look forward to welcoming you to this event.
Date: Sunday, November 17th, 2024
Location: The Westin 210 Peachtree St NW, Atlanta, GA 30303
This meeting is face-to-face only and free of charge.
Please register here to attend:
https://www.ibm.com/events/reg/flow/ibm/xb68k0mb/landing/page/landing
Draft Agenda
11:30-12:00 - Registration and Networking -
12:00-12:05 Introductions and Committee Update
12:05-12:10 Welcome from IBM
12:10-12:25 Storage Scale Strategy and Initiatives
12:25-12:40 What's new in Storage Scale
12:40-13:10 Partner Talk: NVIDIA
13:10-13:30 IBM Storage CTO talk: CAST
13:30-13:50 WWT - Overview & AI initiatives: NVIDIA SuperPod
13:50-14:20 - Coffee and Networking -
14:20-14:40 University of Queensland - Site Update
14:40-15:00 IBM Research Vela and Blue Vela Systems for AI
15:00-15:20 Guardant Health: Single Namespace Updates
15:20-15:35 Starfish Update
15:35-15:55 ORNL: A Tale of Two Systems: Incorporation of Storage Archive in the NCCS
15:55-16:15 - Break -
16:15-16:30 Xinnor: Accelerating Storage Scale with xiRAID software RAID at Aalen University
16:30-16:45 Lenovo Update
16:45-17:00 HPC & EDA workloads on IBM Cloud with Storage Scale
17:00-17:25 Sycomp and Google Cloud: AI workloads using Sycomp Storage in GCP
17:25-17:50 Performance updates
17:50-18:00 Ask us Anything + Wrap up
18:00-19:00 - Networking Event - Sponsored by Sycomp -

German New User Day 2025 - March 18, 2025
2025-03-18 09:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Heidelberg Congress Center, Czernyring 20, Heidelberg, 69115, Germany
IBM is organizing a Storage Scale New User Day in Heidelberg, Germany. We have an exciting agenda covering an introduction in Storage Scale and Storage Ceph. We look forward to welcoming you to this event.
Date: March 18, 2025 – New User Day
Location: Heidelberg Congress Center, Heidelberg, Germany
The New User Day is face-to-face only and free of charge. The event will be held in German.The New User Day is face-to-face only and free of charge. The event will be held in German.
Detailed agenda is available on the registration page. You need to register prior the event.
https://www.ibm.com/events/reg/flow/ibm/cj23mxmb/landing/page/landing
The New User Day is followed by the regular Storage Scale User Meeting at March 19+20, 2025:
German User Meeting 2025 – March 19+20, 2025

German User Meeting 2025 - March 19+20, 2025
2025-03-19 - 2025-03-20 | Heidelberg Congress Center, Czernyring 20, Heidelberg, 69115, Germany
IBM is organizing a Storage Scale User Meeting in Heidelberg, Germany. We have an exciting agenda covering user stories, roadmap update, the latest insights into accelerating AI workloads, plus access to IBM experts and your peers. We look forward to welcoming you to this event.
Date: March 19+20, 2025 – Storage Scale German User Meeting
Location: Heidelberg Congress Center, Heidelberg, 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.
Detailed agenda is available on the registration page. You need to register prior the event.
https://www.ibm.com/events/reg/flow/ibm/cj23mxmb/landing/page/landing
The Storage Scale Scale User Meeting is preceded by the Storage Scale New User Day at March 18, 2025:
https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/german-new-user-day-2025-march-18-2025/

CANCELLED - Midwest Storage Scale User Group 2025
2025-04-16 - 2025-04-17
This event is cancelled. We are looking for a new date later in the year.
Join the Midwest Scale (GPFS) User Group at Case Western Reserve University. Meet with other IBM Storage Scale users, IBM Development and Product Management personnel, IBM Partners, and more.
We will cover the latest strategy and roadmap, how to size your environment, interesting use cases, exciting new capabilities, Scale for containerized workloads, and have guest speakers from customers and partners to share use cases and innovations using IBM Storage Scale and Storage Scale System.
The event is face-to-face and free of charge. Please register here prior the event:
https://www.ibm.com/events/reg/flow/ibm/YQ31JDMB/landing/page/landing
Day 1 – April 16th 9 AM – 5 PM
Tinkham Veale University Center – Senior Class Conference Room
11038 Bellflower Road, Cleveland, OH
We will have a full day of sessions
Day 2 – April 17th 8 AM – 12 PM
Adelbert Hall – Toepfer Room – Second floor
2040 Adelbert Road, Cleveland, OH
We will be a mini-workshop
Would you like to present? Submit your session on our Call for Speakers form, due by March 28th, 2025.

UK New User Day 2025 - May 12, 2025
2025-05-12 | IBM Client Center London, 20 York Road, London, SE1 7ND, United Kingdom
IBM is organizing a Storage Scale New User Day in London, UK. We have an exciting agenda covering an introduction in Storage Scale and Storage Ceph. We look forward to welcoming you to this event.
Detailed agenda will follow later.
Date: May 12, 2025 – New User Day
Location: IBM Innovation Center, London, UK
The New User Day is face-to-face only and free of charge. You need to register prior the event.
https://briefingsource.edst.ibm.com/register/VJAFL4EP
The New User Day is followed by the regular Storage Scale User Meeting at May 13+14, 2025:
https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/uk-user-meeting-2025-may-1314-2025/

UK User Meeting 2025 - May 13+14, 2025
2025-05-13 - 2025-05-14 | IBM Client Center London, 20 York Road, London, SE1 7ND, United Kingdom
The 2025 Storage Scale UK User Meeting will be held in London, UK. We have an exciting agenda covering user stories, roadmap update, the latest insights into accelerating AI workloads, plus access to IBM experts and your peers. We look forward to welcoming you to this event.
Topics planned to be covered include:

Strategy Update
What is new in Storage Scale and Storage Scale System?
Solutions for Nvidia workload
Content Aware Storage
New control plane for Storage Scale (a.k.a. Modernization of Scale)
Containerized Native and CSI deep dive
AFM deep dive
Storage Scale S3 tiering to tape and advanced S3 functions
Consistent Safeguarded Copy for Storage Protect on Storage Scale

Detailed agenda will follow later.
Date: May 13+14, 2025 – Storage Scale UK User Meeting
Location: IBM Innovation Center, London, UK
The Storage Scale UK User Meeting is face-to-face only and free of charge. You need to register prior the event.
https://briefingsource.edst.ibm.com/register/MSXF49FA
The Storage Scale Scale User Meeting is preceded by the Storage Scale New User Day at May 12, 2025:
https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/uk-new-user-day-2025-may-12-2025/

Sponsored by

Storage Scale User Meeting @ ISC25
2025-06-10 15:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Congress Center Hamburg (CCH), Congressplatz 1, Hamburg, 20355, Germany
IBM is organizing a Storage Scale User Meeting at ISC 2025. We have an exciting agenda covering user stories, roadmap update, insights into potential future product enhancements, plus access to IBM experts and your peers. We look forward to welcoming you to this event. The user meeting is followed by a Get Together to continue the discussion.
Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2025 – 15:00-18:00 | ISC Convention Center – Room: XC2
The User Meeting is face-to-face only and free of charge, though an ISC exhibition pass is required to access the venue. We are looking forward to welcome you to this event

Please register here for the event:
https://www.ibm.com/events/reg/flow/ibm/QB4LEYMB/landing/page/landing
NDA’s have to be signed when entering the meeting room as roadmap items are discussed. A non-confidential version of the charts will be made available after the event.
This meeting will cover the following topics:

Keynote – Shaping what’s next: With trusted storage and bold vision
What is new in Storage Scale and Storage Scale System?
Performance update
Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) – Site Update

Please see the registration page for details and updates.
After the meeting we invite you for a reception with refreshments to continue the conversation.

West Coast IBM Storage Scale New User Day and User Group Event 2025
2025-08-05 - 2025-08-07 | IBM San Jose, 555 Bailey Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95141, United States
This West Coast IBM Storage Scale Users Group event is open to all IBM Storage Scale (GPFS) and IBM Scale System (ESS) users, as well as those who wish to learn more about IBM Storage Scale (IBM employees, IBM Business Partners and Customers).
IBM Storage Scale is IBM’s flagship software-defined parallel file system infused with sophisticated enterprise data management capabilities. The IBM Storage Scale System is a preconfigured high-performance hardware “building block” for unstructured data storage with unrivaled integrity. Ready to participate in today’s multi-cloud world of AI, HPC, and Big Data, Storage Scale delivers the performance and agility you need to get deeper insights from your data faster – giving you the edge to outthink and outperform your competition and win in the cognitive era.
Join us for this interactive New Scale User Day and/or Technical Users Group experience on IBM Storage Scale and the Storage Scale System!
Day 1 – Accelerate your AI Model, Training, and Inferencing with IBM Storage Scale
Day 1 is for New Clients interested in how IBM Storage Scale and IBM Storage Scale can accelerate their AI environments
Learn how data generation is changing today, and how IBM Storage Scale can accelerate AI workloads and access data anywhere via a global data platform.
How to optimize NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD and NVIDIA DGX environments for model training and inferencing with IBM Storage Scale and IBM’s new Content Aware Storage.
Location: IBM San Jose, 555 Bailey Avenue, San Jose, CA 95141
Session Times: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Please register here for the New User Day.
Day 2 and 3 – IBM Storage Scale Users Meeting
The 2025 West Coast User Group Meeting will be held in San Jose, California. We have an exciting agenda covering user stories, roadmap update, the latest insights into accelerating AI workloads, plus access to IBM experts and your peers. We look forward to welcoming you to this event.
Agenda:

IBM Storage Scale strategy update
IBM Content Aware Storage
Product-related updates
Scale S3 tiering
Break-outs, workshops and collaborations

Location: IBM San Jose, 555 Bailey Avenue, San Jose, CA 95141
Session Times: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Please register here for the regular user meeting.
Important Note: Dress is business casual and customers will need to bring their own laptop for hands on labs. Attendees will be responsible for their own travel and lodging arrangements and expenses.
For more information on Users Group information: Paul Zakoor (pzakoor@us.ibm.com).
