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Spectrum Scale User Meeting – March 8+9 , 2017 – Ehningen, Germany

There is an IBM organized Spectrum Scale User Meeting in Germany. Though, agenda and spirit are very close to the user group organized events. Conference language is German. This is a two-day event. There is an introduction day for Spectrum Scale beginners a day before on March 7.

Please register, if you plan to join:
https://www-01.ibm.com/events/wwe/grp/grp312.nsf/Registration.xsp?openform&seminar=Z9AH7POE

Introduction day:
https://www-01.ibm.com/events/wwe/grp/grp312.nsf/Registration.xsp?openform&seminar=3ACDRTOE

Agenda

Mittwoch – 8. März 2017
09:00-10:00 Anmeldung und Networking
10:00-10:30 Begrüßung
10:30-11:10 Spectrum Scale Update
11:10-11:40 ESS Update
11:40-12:00 Bosch: SAP HANA auf ESS
12:00-13:00 Mittagessen und Networking
13:00-13:25 NEC: Spectrum Scale beim Deutschen Wetterdienst
13:25-13:45 Deutsche Bank: Leistungsoptimierung für Risk Management
13:45-14:05 m.a.x. it: SmartStorage – Software Defined Storage für mixed Workloads
14:05-14:25 DDN: AFM Use Cases
14:25-14:45 DESY: Transparent Cloud Tiering Proof-of-Concept
14:45-15:15 Kaffee und Networking
15:15-15:45 Tape & Spectrum Scale
15:45-16:05 Kundenvortrag: Flexibler Speicher für Spectrum Protect
16:05-16:50 Problem Determination
16:50-17:50 Bericht aus Kundenprojekten
17:50-18:00 Meet the Devs
18:00-20:00 Get Together

Donnerstag – 9. März 2017
08:30-09:00 Kaffee und Networking
09:00-10:00 1. Breakout Session
1) Spectrum Archive und Spectrum Scale ILM (Einführung)
2) Lizensierung und TCOnow
3) GUI und REST API (Meet the Devs)
10:00-11:00 2. Breakout Session
1) Hadoop Integration (Einführung); Immutability (Einführung)
2) Spectrum Protect Integration (Fortgeschrittene)
3) NFS und SMB (Meet the Devs)
11:00-12:00 3. Breakout Session+
1) AFM (Einführung); Einsatz von AFM bei CSI
2) Automation von Storage Services (Fortgeschrittene)
3) Object und SwiftHLM (Meet the Devs)
12:00-13:00 Mittagessen und Networking
13:00-13:25 SVA: Ein Einblick in HPC @ Bosch
13:25-13:45 Mellanox: Warum eigentlich High Speed Interconnect?
13:45-14:05 Lenovo: Distributed Storage Solution (DSS) for Spectrum Scale
14:05-14:30 Kaffee und Networking
14:30-15:30 Bericht von IBM Almaden Storage Research
15:30-16:00 Abschlussdiskussion

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Save the Date! SSUG USA 2017

Please save the date for a two-day user group meeting at NERSC in Berkeley, California.

Date: April 4-5, 2017
Venue: National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (nersc.gov) Berkeley, California, USA

Details of the agenda and for registration will follow shortly here and via the Spectrum Scale user group mailing list.

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Spectrum Storage Sweden User Group Meeting #6

 The Spectrum Storage Sweden User Group Meeting #6 is an IBM hosted event which includes a track on IBM Spectrum Scale. Here is the report which was sent by Mathias Persson Ölander.

For the 6th time we had the opportunity to host a Spectrum Storage User Group meeting in Sweden. It’s the evolution of the classic Tivoli User Group (Spectrum Protect), now including the full Spectrum Storage portfolio (with a focus on Spectrum Virtualize, Spectrum Control, Spectrum Scale and Spectrum Protect). 150+ attendees joined the meeting at IBM on November 16-17th from all of Sweden, a few guys from Norway and our international speakers from every corner of the world including New Zealand.

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Spectrum Scale Users Group at Supercomputing – November 2016

First off, your feedback, please! If you were at the event, please give us feedback here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SSUGSC16 We’ve only heard from 9 attendees so far, and there were a lot more of you there :-).

The slides should be available soon here: http://www.spectrumscale.org/presentations/

Kicking Things Off

This was the second year for a Spectrum Scale Users Group meeting at SC. To start things off Doris Conti welcomed the group and reminded us that the IBMers are here to present, but to also listen to users’ experiences —the good, the bad, (the ugly? 🙂 ) how Spectrum Scale is being used in the field and what should be coming in the product next from the users’ perspective. Doris complimented what she called the heroes of the data centers, the people managing PBs of data short-, if not, single-handedly. The developers then introduced themselves so people could talk to them at the break or during the week. Continue reading “Spectrum Scale Users Group at Supercomputing – November 2016”

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Wrap-up of the first Spectrum Scale User Group in Australia – October 2016

Ah wonderful Melbourne, I haven’t been in Melbourne for a few years but it doesn’t seem to change that much, still a nice place to enjoy.

It was quite a long flight from Perth but all went smoothly with the event thanks to efforts by Justin Glen from DDN (sponsoring organisation) and Scott Fadden – IBM (sponsoring organisation).

So after a great catch-up dinner and chat with Scott Fadden and other attendees such as Suda from Mellanox and Justin from DDN, it was off to bed for an early start for check-ins the next morning (fortunately I ran the desk alongside a great coffee or two – Melbourne is definitely the place for coffee).

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