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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 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"><a href="https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/nyc-user-meeting-2023/">https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/nyc-user-meeting-2023/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Draft Agenda:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">9:00 Doors open, light breakfast and coffee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">9:30 User Meeting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> - Welcome and introduction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> - Discussion of IBM Storage Defender<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> - Storage Scale Strategy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> - What's New - Lightning Talk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> - Modernization of Storage Scale<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> - Sneak previews<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> - MCOT & MROT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> - Performance Engineering - ESS3500<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> - Fabric Hospital & Disk Hospital<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> - High density Tape for Backup and Archive solutions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> - High Performance SMB with Tuxera<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> - Customer Presentations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">5:00-7:00 Reception – Wine/Beer Hors d'oeuvres and networking<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">Product Manager - IBM Storage for Data and AI, Data-Intensive Workflows<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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