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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Hi Doug,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Found out that I get to attend this year. Please put me down for the SS NDA round-table,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">-Bryan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org [mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Douglas O'flaherty<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 29, 2016 12:34 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [gpfsug-discuss] Edge Attendees<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Greetings:</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I am organizing an NDA round-table with the IBM Offering Managers at IBM Edge on Tuesday, September 20th at 1pm. The subject will be "The Future of IBM Spectrum Scale." IBM Offering Managers are
the Product Owners at IBM. There will be discussions covering licensing, the roadmap for IBM Spectrum Scale RAID (aka GNR), new hardware platforms, etc.
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This is a unique opportunity to get feedback to the drivers of the IBM Spectrum Scale business plans. It should be a great companion to the content we get from Engineering and Research at most User
Group meetings. </span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">To get an invitation, please email me privately at douglasof <at> us.ibm.com. All who have a valid NDA are invited. I only need an approximate headcount of attendees. Try not to spam the mailing
list. </span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I am pushing to get the Offering Managers to have a similar session at SC16 as an IBM Multi-client Briefing. You can add your voice to that call on this thread, or email me directly.
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Spectrum Scale User Group at SC16 will once again take place on Sunday afternoon with cocktails to follow. I hope we can blow out the attendance numbers and the number of site speakers we had last
year! I know Simon, Bob, and Kristy are already working the agenda. Get your ideas in to them or to me.
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">See you in Vegas, Vegas, SLC, Vegas this Fall... Maybe Australia in between?
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">doug</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Douglas O'Flaherty</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">IBM Spectrum Storage Marketing</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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