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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Greetings!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">IBM is organizing a Spectrum Scale User Meeting in New York City. We have an exciting agenda covering user stories, roadmap update, the latest insights into data fabrics, data orchestration and data management architectures, plus access
to IBM experts and your peers. We look forward to welcoming you to this event.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please register here:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"><a href="https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/nyc-user-meeting-2022/"><span lang="EN-US">https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/nyc-user-meeting-2022/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Draft Agenda:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">8:30 9:00 Registration and Morning Coffee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">9:00 9:10 Welcome<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">9:10 9:30 Strategy Update<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">9:30 9:50 What is new in Spectrum Scale?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">9:50 10:10 What is new in ESS?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">10:10 10:30 Customer Talk - TBD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">10:30 11:00 Coffee and Networking<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">11:00 11:20 Container Update<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">11:20 11:40 New S3 access for AI and Analytics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">11:40 12:00 Support for GPUDirect Storage<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">12:00 12:20 Customer Talk - NYU Langone<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">12:20 13:20 Lunch and Networking<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">13:20 13:40 Spectrum Fusion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">13:40 14:00 Spectrum Scale on IBM Cloud<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">14:00 14:20 Customer Talk - TBD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">14:20 14:40 Service Update<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">14:40 15:10 Coffee and Networking<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">15:10 15:30 Monitoring and serviceability enhancements in Spectrum Scale<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">15:30 16:10 Technical Deep Dive - Performance Update<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">16:10 16:40 Open Discussion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">16:40 16:45 Wrap-up<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Starting 17:00 Social Event<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ulf Troppens<br>
</span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Senior Technical Staff Member<br>
Spectrum Scale Development<br>
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IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH<br>
Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Gregor Pillen / Geschäftsführung: David Faller<br>
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen / Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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