Accelerate with IBM Storage

What: Come and learn from the Washington System Center experts as they discuss the updated capabilities of both, the Hybrid and All—Flash, DS8880 Storage Systems.  zHyperLink, Transparent Cloud Tiering, RMF Reports and Remote Code Load will be discussed during this webinar. Understanding these capabilities will help you get the most value from the DS8880.

Speakers:  Brian Sherman, Distinguished Engineer, Craig Gordon, Paul Spagnolo, Matt Houzenga, Dennis Robertson

Who:   IBMers, IBM Business Partners, and IBM Clients

When:  Date:  Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Time: 12 p.m. New York, 5 p.m. London, 6 p.m. Paris, 17:00:00 GMT, Duration:  60 minutes

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Abstract:  A TS7700 grid is two or more physically separate TS7700 clusters connected to one another using a customer-supplied Internet Protocol (I/P) network.  Most TS7700 grids share a common attribute – at some point, the overall configuration of the grid will need to change.  Join this webinar to learn more about how to:.

1. Grow a TS7700 grid (cluster join process),
2. Combine two grids into one (grid merge process), and
3. Shrink a grid (cluster removal process). 

We’ll review the requirements and activities required for each of these actions.  Also, we’ll discuss using the Copy Refresh process and commands to copy/move data between clusters within a grid.

Speakers: Bill Danz and Ben Smith, Washington Systems Center, Client Technical Specialists- Enterprise Tape Systems.

Audience - IBMers, IBM Business Partners, and Clients

Date:  April 26, 2018

Time: 12 p.m. New York, 5 p.m. London, 6 p.m. Paris, 17:00:00 GMT

Duration:  1.5 hours

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What: This webinar will provide technical information on the newly announced IBM Spectrum NAS solution, which is designed to address customer demand for general file and scale-out workloads management. Spectrum NAS can reduce hardware costs and improve operational efficiency while providing scalability and ensuring the integrity and protection of file data. This webinar discusses the technical aspects of this new solution.

• Architecture Overview
• Simplicity of deployment and administration
• Scale out file storage that grows with you
• NFS, SMB share, Rolling Upgrade GUI
• Enterprise NAS features: Policies for Quota, Snapshot, File Erasure Coding & Tiering
• Setting up Spectrum NAS Demonstrations on the Client Demo Centers
• Designing Solutions with File and Object Solution Design Studio

Audience – Clients, IBM Business Partners and IBMers

Speakers: 

Christopher Meastas, Global Solution Architect, Software Defined and Flash Solutions

Ash Mate, Sr. Solutions Architect, Spectrum Storage

Norman Bogard, Sr. IT Specialist, Spectrum Storage

Christopher Vollmar, Storage Client Technical Architect - IBM Certified Consulting

Franck Malterre, Certified Specialist, Software Defined Infrastructure

When:  Thursday, Apr. 12, 2018, 12:00-1:15 p.m. New York, 5 p.m. London, 6 p.m. Paris,

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https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/accelerate/resource/SpectrumNASTechWebinar-Apr12_2018-v5_1.pdf

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Join the Washington Systems Center - Storage team at this Accelerate with IBM Storage teleconference to hear about the latest hardware and software updates to the IBM FlashSystem A9000 and A9000R in release 12.2.1. Come learn about updates for cross-gen Hyper-Scale Mobility, increased mirroring scalability and updates to consistency groups. Hear about the latest Hyper-Scale Manager 5.4 which includes some new and exciting features.

Speakers: Steve Solewin, Corporate Solutions Architect, Brian Sherman, DE, Craig Gordon, Lisa Martinez

Who: IBMers, IBM Business Partners, and IBM Clients

When:  Tuesday, March 27th, 2018   
Time: 12 p.m. New York, 5 p.m. London, 6 p.m. Paris, 17:00:00 GMT
Duration:  60 minutes

Presentation Link: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/accelerate/resource/FlashSystemA9000-A9000RR12.2.1AccelerateUpdate-March2018Final.pdf

For Replay Link: https://ibm.box.com/s/6d0bxzklesvg23vqn546cckikyirqwb8

What: Join this Accelerate with IBM Storage session to learn about IBM FlashSystem A9000/R and SVC configuration best practices. Steve Solewin, Corporate Solutions Architect and co-author of the IBM redpaper FlashSystem A9000 and A9000R, XIV and Spectrum Accelerate with IBM SAN Volume Controller Best Practices, will review the best ways to configure the FlashSystem A9000 and A9000R behind SVC. He will also discuss the best places to perform data reduction.  Panelists will be available to answer questions

Speakers: Steve Solewin, Corporate Solutions Architect

Who: IBMers, IBM Business Partners, and IBM Clients

When:  March 15th, 2018   
Time: 12 p.m. New York, 5 p.m. London, 6 p.m. Paris, 17:00:00 GMT
Duration:  60 minutes

To download Presentation, click here: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/accelerate/resource/A9000RandSVCBestpracticesMar2018.pdf

For replay, click here: https://ibm.box.com/s/2irjso1d2nwfvt4yxx967krl5myzc7i3

What: In this session, we reveal why VersaStack is more than converged infrastructure. We will present several traditional IT solutions and on–premise cloud use cases.  These examples will illustrate how customers have quickly deployed dev/test, new workloads, servers and storage systems with IBM VersaStack & UCSD 6.5.   Also, we will present how Spectrum Copy Data Manager (CDM) can be used to move your dev/test data from development to production and between an on-premise cloud or to a public cloud.

Audience – Clients, IBM Business Partners and IBMers

Title:  Accelerate with IBM Storage: VersaStack – Solutions for Fast Deployments

Date:  February 8th, 2018

Time:  12:00pm New York, 5:00p.m. London, 6:00p.m. Paris, 17:00:00 GMT

Duration:  90 minutes

Speakers: Angie Clarke-Smith, Cloud Storage Technical Specialist and Brett Kerns, FlashSystem Specialist and Brad Ashbaugh, Certified Storage Subject Matter Expert

To download the presentation, click here: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/accelerate/resource/VersaStackforFastDeploymentFinal1.pdf

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Abstract:  The TS7700 Management Interface (MI) is a web-based graphical user interface (GUI). It is used to configure the TS7700, set up outboard policy management behavior, monitor the systems, and perform many other customer-facing management functions.

The TS7700 MI belongs to the family of tools that are used for reporting and monitoring IBM storage products. The TS7700 MI is based on a web server that is installed in each TS7700. You can access this interface with any standard web browser. The TS7700 MI is a Storage Management Initiative - Specification (SMI-S) – compliant interface that provides you with a single access point to remotely manage resources through a standard web browser.

This session will also feature a Live Demo of the TS7700 Management Interface

Come, learn about all that you can see with and do using the TS7700 GUI.

Date:  February 16, 2018

Time: 12 p.m. New York, 5 p.m. London, 6 p.m. Paris, 17:00:00 GMT

Duration:  1.5 hours

Speaker: Ben Smith,  Washington Systems Center - Client Technical Specialist - Enterprise Tape Systems

To Download the Presentation: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/accelerate/resource/2018AcceleratewithIBMStorage-TS7700R4.1.2ReleaseandGUI.pdf?lang=en

The Replay is available at: https://ibm.ent.box.com/s/l55lxr8skwm3tqshfndda3xzg2p5r2xw

What: DS8880 Transparent Cloud Tiering (TCT) efficiently moves less frequently used data to cloud environments, reducing cost, while keeping the information available.  TCT can save z/OS CPU cycles by eliminating constraints that are tied to tape methodologies. During this session, our Washington Systems Center Storage experts will demonstrate data movement from a DS8880 directly to the Cloud (TS7700), without going through the host, as TCT is fully integrated with DFSMShsm migrate and recall of z/OS datasets. Hardware requirements and code levels required to support TCT will also be covered on the webinar.  Washington System Center Storage panelists will be available to assist with questions.

Speakers:  Craig Gordon, Subject Matter Expert

Who:   IBMers, IBM Business Partners, and IBM Clients

When:  Date:  Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018, Time: 12 p.m. New York, 5 p.m. London, 6 p.m. Paris, 17:00:00 GMT, Duration:  60 minutes

To download presentation, click here: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/accelerate/resource/AccelerateDS8880TCT02-21.pdf

Replay link: https://ibm.box.com/s/r86u0vo0j9kqucrd8il3urqr80zu3d5n

Abstract:

As we start 2018, come hear the latest news for Big Data Analytics and High Performance Computing storage using Spectrum Scale and ESS.  We'll give the latest technical overview on:

• Spectrum Scale V5 announcement with major performance enhancements and new functions including File Audit Logging
• Spectrum Scale and ESS in US DOE CORAL supercomputer - the Next Generation
• Elastic Storage Server - an excellent 2017, positioning for 2018 
• What is coming soon to ESS and Spectrum Scale  

Speakers: 

Matt Drahzal, Storage Product Strategy/Market Management - IBM Technical Computing

JD Zeeman, Worldwide Business Development Executive, Software Defined Storage Solutions

John Sing, Offering Evangelist, IBM Elastic Storage Server, Spectrum Scale, DF150

Who should attend:   IBMers, IBM Business Partners, and IBM Clients

When:  Date:  Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2018, Time: 12 p.m. New York, 5 p.m. London, 6 p.m. Paris, 17:00:00 GMT, Duration:  75 minutes

Presentation download: https://ibm.box.com/s/n2lgw82ak2rqae5ikch63gkvqlejxy5b

Replay at YouTube.com: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_Ux1lFATeM

What: Easy Tier on the DS8880 has many advanced capabilities which provides optimization of data across a single storage tier or a hybrid system with multiple tiers of storage including high performance flash, high capacity flash, enterprise and nearline drives.  Easy Tier provides both automatic and manual volume management along with automatic intra-tier re-balancing to remove hot spots to optimize your DS8880 performance.  Easy Tier is included with every DS8880.  Come learn from our Washington Systems Center experts, Brian Sherman and Paul Spagnolo as they explain both concepts and deep dive topics during our Accelerate with IBM Storage webinar event.

Speakers: Brian Sherman, DE and Paul Spagnolo

Who: IBMers, IBM Business Partners, and IBM Clients

When:  January 9^th, 2018   
Time: 12 p.m. New York, 5 p.m. London, 6 p.m. Paris, 17:00:00 GMT
Duration:  90 minutes

Presentation: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/accelerate/resource/Acclerate-DS8000EasyTier2018-01-09Final.pdf

Replay Link: https://ibm.box.com/s/rjhfcothqlblaylhdmh707q3netz1njt

Who: IBMers, IBM Business Partners, and IBM Clients

What: Join this session for a discussion of the recent IBM LTO8 tape drive announcement.  the drive features and related updates to IBM tape products.

When: November 30, 2017 at 12 Noon ET. (5:00p.m. London, 6:00p.m. Paris, 17:00:00 GMT)

Speakers: Carl Reasoner and Reena Patel, Tape SMEs from the Washington Systems Center

Replay is now available: On YouTube at: https://youtu.be/WFNDJ6-1hRs

    or at:https://ibm.ent.box.com/s/kkrxnpgxfd663nw59xxqnesxyivm1xxx

To download updated presentation: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/accelerate/resource/2017AcceleratewithIBMStorageLTO8-11-30-17_Final-update1.pdf?lang=en

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What: Come see and learn the new DS8000 GUI enhancements in release 8.3. Presented in a Live Demo by Jason Peipelman, UX Architect IBM Storage and Master Inventor. Demonstrating the new Copy Services views, integrated Easy Tier monitoring, and simplified IBM i and System z configuration experience.

Speakers: Jason Peipelman, UX Architect IBM Storage and Master Inventor.

Who: IBMers, IBM Business Partners, and IBM Clients

When:  December 12^th, 2017   
Time: 12 p.m. New York, 5 p.m. London, 6 p.m. Paris, 17:00:00 GMT
Duration:  90 minutes

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Presentation: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/accelerate/resource/DS8880LiveGUIDemoFinal2017-12-12-1.pdf

Replay link: https://ibm.box.com/s/um69f5daxtcroejyiexc454r4fgpixm0

What: Join this Accelerate with IBM Storage teleconference to learn about the latest hardware updates to the IBM FlashSystem A9000 and A9000R in release 12.2. This release will also include cross-gen asynchronous mirroring, Hyper-Scale Mobility between A9000 and A9000R, increased scalability thresholds and container support. Hear about the latest Hyper-Scale Manager 5.3 which includes some new and exciting features. We will include time for Q&A.

Speakers: Lisa Martinez, Brian Sherman, Craig Gordon and Steve Solewin

Who: IBMers, IBM Business Partners, and IBM Clients

When:  December 5th, 2017   
Time: 12 p.m. New York, 5 p.m. London, 6 p.m. Paris, 17:00:00 GMT
Duration:  90 minutes

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Presentation: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/accelerate/resource/FlashSystemA9000-A9000RR12.2Acceleratecalldec5_update.pdf

Replay link: https://ibm.box.com/s/235fh1da5yhoz66gfu6m5my7y7irxh6u

What: Brocade Gen 6 SAN, IBM Z and IBM Storage are designed, developed, tested, and qualified together to enable the infrastructure required for the Cognitive Era. This webinar, presented by Brocade and IBM subject matter experts, will focus on the specific advances that have been made in the latest generations of hardware and software and to learn how these solutions can optimize your business’ critical infrastructure  

Speakers: Brian Sherman, Craig Gordon, Paul Spagnolo, Bob Sommer, Tim Jeka (Brocade)

Who: IBMers, IBM Business Partners, and IBM Clients

When:  October 10^th, 2017   
Time: 12 p.m. New York, 5 p.m. London, 6 p.m. Paris, 17:00:00 GMT
Duration:  90 minutes

Presentation Link: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/accelerate/resource/Acceleratez14IOInfrastructureModernization2017-10-010.pdf

Replay Link: https://ibm.box.com/s/4omg5cu5wqi9n2rxoz7vatl09dqnla2q

What: Register for this session to learn about Spectrum Control Capacity Planning.  We will explore the use of Spectrum Control as a Capacity Planning tool for space management.  We will cover how to start by identifying key decisions which must be made, look at metrics which can be used, which reports to look at and how to set up alerts.  In addition, we will show this methodology in action with a live demonstration of the Spectrum Control SHOW environment at the Washington Systems Center.

Audience – Clients, IBM Business Partners and IBMers

Title:  Accelerate with IBM Storage: Spectrum Control Capacity Planning

Date:  November 1st, 2017

Time:  12:00pm New York, 5:00p.m. London, 6:00p.m. Paris, 17:00:00 GMT

Duration:  90 minutes

Speakers: Scott McPeek, Spectrum Control & Virtualize Specialist

To download presentation: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/accelerate/resource/SpectrumControlCapacityPlanniningWebinarRev1.pdf

Replay Link: https://ibm.box.com/s/rxb21d82gckp5tbu9kpxwknqij6qvhlo

What: With over 870 installations in 49 countries, GDPS is the premier solution for providing continuous availability and disaster recovery solutions for IBM Z. Using GDPS, IBM helps clients, both large and small, achieve their recovery time and recovery point objectives. If you are new to mainframe technology or want to learn more about the different GDPS solutions then this session is for you. This webinar will provide an introduction to the products under the GDPS solution family and the underlying technology (including DS8K integration) that is exploited to deliver the different solutions along with some references.

Speakers: Dave Petersen and Brian Sherman

Who: IBMers, IBM Business Partners, and IBM Clients

When:  October 3rd, 2017   
Time: 12 p.m. New York, 5 p.m. London, 6 p.m. Paris, 17:00:00 GMT
Duration:  90 minutes

Presentation: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/accelerate/resource/GDPS_Update_100317.pdf

Replay Link: https://ibm.ent.box.com/s/npd4vqgyog2ntmn9al7oh7hgwj30aaj6

Audience – Clients, IBM Business Partners and IBMers

Date: September 7, 2017

Title:  Accelerate with IBM Storage: Utilizing the BVIR VEHSTATS Reports to Monitor Your TS7700 Environment

Time:  12:00pm New York, 5:00p.m. London, 6:00p.m. Paris, 17:00:00 GMT

Duration:  90 minutes

Abstract:  During this session we will review the BVIR VEHSTATS reports and the key fields in those reports that can be used for capacity planning, performance monitoring, problem diagnosis and the general monitoring of a TS7700 environment. Among the topics and reports that will be reviewed will be the host channel throughput, cache utilization, virtual and physical drive usage and Grid replication.

Speakers: Randy Hensley, Washington Systems Center

Replay now available:  https://ibm.box.com/s/tn27orcw4pljphbdwbr8vx6i9w17jdj

You can also access the replay on You Tube at: https://youtu.be/ejt3H4V5214

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What: Do you know all the capabilities of the IBM DS8880 portfolio?  Would you like to get a better understanding of recent feature and function updates that are available? Come listen to the Washington System Center experts talk about the latest technology updates  of the DS8880, and the benefits of using the DS8880 to store data for business-critical applications. 

Speakers: Brian Sherman, Craig Gordon, Charlie Burger, Dennis Robertson, Lisa Martinez, Paul Spagnolo

Who: IBMers, IBM Business Partners, and IBM Clients

When:  September 14^th, 2017   
Time: 12 p.m. New York, 5 p.m. London, 6 p.m. Paris, 17:00:00 GMT
Duration:  90 minutes

Presentation link: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/accelerate/resource/DS8880R8.3Acceleratewebinar09-14-2017.pdf

Replay Link: https://ibm.box.com/s/4omg5cu5wqi9n2rxoz7vatl09dqnla2q

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Audience – Clients, IBM Business Partners and IBMers

Date: August 10, 2017

Title:  Accelerate with IBM Storage: Tape, What’s New

Time:  12:00pm New York, 5:00p.m. London, 6:00p.m. Paris, 17:00:00 GMT

Duration:  90 minutes

Abstract:  Attend this session to learn about the recent tape product announcements, including the new modular TS4300 Tape library, new TS1155 tape drive, with the highest capacity cartridge on the market, updates to the TS4500 V4 and new features and functions available in Spectrum Archive Enterprise Edition V1.3 and V1.4, including support for AFS, Object Storage Interface and a new Dashboard for tape usage and performance monitoring.

Speakers: Carl Reasoner and Reena Patel, Washington Systems Center and Ahmad Alsalman, Data Protection and Retention Sales.

Replay is now available:  http://ibmstg.adobeconnect.com/replay-accelerate0810/

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What:

Many external pressures, such as requirements for immutable storage as well as security concerns, like protecting against RansomWare, impel customers to look for solutions within the capabilities of their storage infrastructure. This session presents different ways that IBM Software Defined Storage helps you deal with these challenges

Speakers: 

Dan Thompson is a software engineer with over 30 years experience in IT, primarily focusing on designing data protection and disaster recovery solutions.

Who:   

IBMers, IBM Business Partners, and IBM Clients

When:

Date:  Monday, July 24, 2017
Time: 12 p.m. New York, 5 p.m. London, 6 p.m. Paris, 17:00:00 GMT
Duration:  75 minutes

Presentation:

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/accelerate/resource/UsingSpectrumStoragetoProvideAirGapsandImmutability.v2.pdf?lang=en

Replay:

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Audience – Clients, IBM Business Partners and IBMers

Title:  Accelerate with IBM Storage: Spectrum Virtualize Encryption

Date:  July 20th, 2017

Time:  12:00pm New York, 5:00p.m. London, 6:00p.m. Paris, 17:00:00 GMT

Duration:  90 minutes

Abstract:  Register for this session to learn about Spectrum Virtualize Encryption.  We will go over both internal and external encryption and what each type offers.  We will also look a key management options (USB and SKLM) and have a demonstration of encryption using both types of key management from a system in the Washington Systems Center.

Speakers: Byron Grossnickle, Certified Sr. IT Specialist

To download presentation, click here: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/accelerate/resource/Spectrum_Virtualize_Encryption_V1.pdf

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Audience - IBMers, IBM Business Partners, and Clients

Title:  Accelerate with IBM Storage: TS7700 BVIR (Bulk Volume Information Retrieval) - What You Need to Know

Date:  June 21, 2017

Time:  12 noon New York, 5 p.m. London, 6 p.m. Paris, 16:00:00 GMT

Duration:  1.5 hours

Abstract: During this session we will discuss how to use the Bulk Volume Information Retrieval (BVIR) function to capture data from your TS7700 clusters and Grids.  BVIR is the function used to download capacity planning, historical performance, and current status information from TS7700 systems.  This information is copied into sequential files on a z/OS LPAR for later processing.  In a planned, separate follow-on session, we’ll explore how to use the VEHSTATS program to create reports from the BVIR outputs and how to analyze this information.

Speakers: Bill Danz

Replay Now Available: http://ibmstg.adobeconnect.com/replay-bvir0621/

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