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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">For those of you on the mailing list attending the IBM Edge conference in September, there will be at least one NDA session on Spectrum Scale and its future directions. I've heard that
there will be a session on licensing as well. (always a hot topic).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">I have a couple of talks: Spectrum Scale with Transparent Cloud Tiering and on Spectrum Scale with Spectrum Control.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">I'll try and organize some sort of informal meetup one of the nights - thoughts on when would be welcome. Probably not Tuesday night, as that's the entertainment night. :-)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Bob Oesterlin<br>
Sr Storage Engineer, Nuance HPC Grid<br>
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