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We are hosting a half day Scale Day as a part of the IBM Technical Exchange (TechXchange) conference on October 6th based in Orlando Florida. You can register for that here (for free) or come to the bigger event with a discount here:</div>
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PS we are in the process of updating storagescale.org with all the events this week. </div>
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PSS the SC25 Save the Date in St Louis registration link will be available next week.</div>
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<b>From: </b>gpfsug-discuss <gpfsug-discuss-bounces@gpfsug.org> on behalf of scottg <scottg@emailhosting.com><br>
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<b>Subject: </b>[EXTERNAL] Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Scale day in NYC, USA! Registration is live!<br>
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<div dir="auto" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing">Any change there will a scale day in florida at some point?</div>
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From: CHRIS MAESTAS <cdmaestas@us.ibm.com></div>
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Date: 9/9/25 2:16 PM (GMT-05:00)</div>
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To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss@gpfsug.org></div>
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Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Scale day in NYC, USA! Registration is live!</div>
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If there are any problems with the registration link please always try:</div>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">And you will see the latest links:
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<b>From: </b>gpfsug-discuss <gpfsug-discuss-bounces@gpfsug.org> on behalf of CHRIS MAESTAS <cdmaestas@us.ibm.com><br>
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<b>Subject: </b>[EXTERNAL] [gpfsug-discuss] Scale day in NYC, USA! Registration is live!<br>
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There is going to be a New York City for a Storage Scale Day User Meeting featuring user stories, roadmap updates, and the latest innovations for the Global-Data Platform For Storage (GPFS) Services.</div>
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Development experts and peers will be present to discuss the IBM Storage Scale storage solutions with partners.</div>
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Networking with Scale & Scale Storage Systems</div>
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