Cancelled Events!

Unfortunately due to travel restrictions and the cancellation of SCAsia 2020, the SCAsia user group meeting has been cancelled.

The Spring 2020 USA event also has no venue and so currently has been postponed!

We’d really like the user group events to remain free, but we need organisations to offer meeting spaces and sponsors to support the user group events! If you’re able to support a future group event, please get in touch!

2020 events calendar posted!

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The 2020 events calendar has been updated with all the events we currently have planned over the year. Please mark the dates in your diary to “Save the date”. Of course, things might change over the year so please keep checking back!

Event Report – Sydney Spectrum Scale Usergroup October 2019

The annual Australian Usergroup was held just after Technical University (IBM Technical Symposium) on a lovely spring day on the Level 13 floor of IBM Australia North Sydney Offices (with sweeping views over Sydney water.

There were a range of attendees, from private and public organisations and a number of great presentations by request.

The agenda was:

Spectrum Scale Use Cases and Positioning – Christopher D. Maestas – IBM  

Spectrum Scale Customer Talk – University of Queensland

An update on Spectrum Scale (and ESS) world-wide Support: transformation initiatives ; overview of the world-wide Support organization; some policies such as response time targets; some best practices such as log files and use of WebEx for live debug; includes Q&A. – Andrew Giblon – IBM

Spectrum Scale with HPSS  – Atos

Technical talk – Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition (ECE, a.k.a MESTOR) – Lin Feng – IBM

  Spectrum Scale – Lessons from the field and tips from Support – Suad Musovich – IBM

Spectrum Scale and BDA update – Lin Feng – IBM

Integrated Spectrum Scale backup, archive and HSM with HPE Data Management Framework (DMF) – HPE

What is new in Spectrum Scale? What is new in ESS? Christopher D. Maestas – IBM

Enabler for Containers V2, and Container Storage Interface(CSI) availability – Dale McCurdy – IBM

Hosting SAP & Oracle unstructured data across 2 data centers with Spectrum Scale and AFM-DR Alexis Giral– SystemEthix

Customer/User Site Reports and Open Discussion

A number of presentations we had explained how Spectrum Scale can be leveraged for this type of workload, plus a few excellent Spectrum Scale best practise and broad view direction presentations plus an excellent number of presentations from IBM China Labs experts on new features and fixes. The user talk by Jake and David from UQ is well worth a read, as is the user case from SystemEthix

All the slide decks have been made available by our kind presenters and are NOT under NDA.

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