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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Greetings!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Registration for the Storage Scale User Group Meeting @ SC23 is no open. We have an exciting agenda covering user stories, roadmap updates, insights into potential future product enhancements, plus access to IBM experts
and your peers. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Please note that the event location has changed:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Sunday, November 12th, 2023 - 12:30-18:00<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-DE">The Grand Hyatt Denver</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We look forward to welcoming you to this event. The user meeting is followed by a Get Together to continue the discussion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Please register here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/storage-scale-user-meeting-sc23/">https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/storage-scale-user-meeting-sc23/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Ulf<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:#2000">12:30-12:40 Welcome<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:#2000">12:40-13:00 Storage Scale Strategy Update<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:#2000">13:00-13:20 Partner Talk - TBD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:#2000">13:20-13:40 What is new in Storage Scale?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:#2000">13:40-14:00 Lenovo - Eking out performance using MROT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:#2000">14:00-14:15 What is new in Storage Scale System?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:#2000">14:15-14:45 Break<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:#2000">14:45-15:25 Lightning talks with selected product updates by Starfish Storage and IBM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:#2000">15:25-15:45 Sycomp - Storage Scale and Storage Scale System in a hybrid cloud world<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:#2000">15:45-16:15 Guardant Health - Experiences of Using Storage Scale to Create a Wide-area Single Namespace<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:#2000"> Guardant Health - Network Quality of Service and On-Demand Bandwidth Provisioning Using File System Events<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:#2000">16:15-16:35 Short Break<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:#2000">16:35-16:55 Storage Scale on IBM Cloud - Advanced features and performance update<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:#2000">16:55-17:15 University of Queensland - High performance S3 access with IBM Storage Scale, ECE and IBM Storage Fusion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:#2000">17:15-17:45 Performance Update<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:#2000">17:45-18:00 Wrap-up<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:#2000">18:00-20:00 Get together<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="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:#2000">Ulf Troppens<br>
</span></b><span lang="DE" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:#2000">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</span><span lang="DE" style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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