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<p class="MsoNormal">Greetings!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">IBM is organizing a Spectrum Scale User Meeting in Cologne, Germany. 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"><a href="https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/german-2022-user-meeting/">https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/german-2022-user-meeting/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Draft Agenda (Most talks will be in German):<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">October 19th, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">9:00 10:00 Registration and Networking<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">10:00 10:15 Welcome<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">10:15 10:40 Strategy Update<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">10:40 11:05 Easy Installation using Terraform and Ansible<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">11:05 11:25 Spectrum Scale on IBM Cloud<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">11:25 11:50 Global Data Orchestration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">11:50 12:00 Meet the devs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">12:00 13:00 Lunch and Networking<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">13:00 13:40 What is new in Spectrum Scale?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">13:40 14:10 ESS 3500<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">14:10 14:30 Customer or partner talk - ESS3500<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">14:30 15:00 Coffee and Networking<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">15:00 15:20 AFM - Enhancements and Use Cases<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">15:20 15:40 Customer or partner talk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">15:40 16:00 Customer or partner talk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">16:00 16:15 New requirement process<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">16:15 16:35 Break<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">16:35 16:50 Update from ESCC (Pre-Sales/Lab Services/Support )<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">16:50 17:05 Sneak Preview<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">17:05 17:25 CNSA & CSI Update<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">17:25 17:45 Container & Object Storage hints and tips<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">17:45 18:00 Ask us anything<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">18:00 20:00 Get Together<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">October 20th, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">8:30 9:00 Coffee und Networking<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> Spectrum Scale licensing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">9:00 12:00 Break-out Sessions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> - AFM Deep Dive<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> - Spectrum Scale and Tape<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> - Introduction to Spectrum Fusion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> - Secured Data Sharing to Applications running in OpenShift<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> - ESS Deep Dive<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> - Spectrum Scale on Z<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> - HDFS hands-on experience with Cloudera CDP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> - Terraform and Ansible Deep Dive<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> - Introduction to Spectrum Discover<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">12:00 13:00 Lunch and Networking<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">13:00 13:20 New S3 Access for AI and Analytics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">13:20 13:40 GPUDirect Storage Update<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">13:40 14:00 HDFS Update<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">14:00 14:30 Coffee and Networking<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">14:30 14:50 Customer or partner talk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">14:50 15:10 Monitoring and serviceability enhancements<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">15:10 15:30 Field Update<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">15:30 15:50 Performance Update<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">15:50 16:00 Wrap-up<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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