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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-DE">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-DE">there was a couple of very good concerns, questions and statements already. I’d like to summarize my very personal understanding – not necessarily officially speaking for my employer IBM.
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Be invited to reach out to IBM Client Engineering (a presales invest by IBM) if you have a need to discuss, demo or evaluate in connection to an active Opportunity ( i know, but that’s the rules of engagement )<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="en-DE">Swift S3 is complex to maintain, as said by Christoph Martin. IBM supports multiple stacks for multiple products. That along with currency the main reason to move
away<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"><span lang="en-DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="en-DE">For alternatives a focus on ‘unified access via file and s3’ was set, so the feature set required is something (for you as a customer) to evaluate.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="en-DE">You can find references on our future architecture publicly available, its based on the same noobaa stack that is used in RedHat ODF MCG.<br>
I would like to recommend the following blog of my IBM CE peer Nils Haustein:<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><span lang="en-DE"><a href="https://community.ibm.com/community/user/storage/blogs/nils-haustein1/2024/02/21/s3-tiering-to-tape-with-noobaa-part-1-introduction">https://community.ibm.com/community/user/storage/blogs/nils-haustein1/2024/02/21/s3-tiering-to-tape-with-noobaa-part-1-introduction</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><span lang="en-DE"><a href="https://community.ibm.com/community/user/storage/blogs/nils-haustein1/2024/02/21/s3-tiering-to-tape-with-noobaa-part-2-deployment">https://community.ibm.com/community/user/storage/blogs/nils-haustein1/2024/02/21/s3-tiering-to-tape-with-noobaa-part-2-deployment</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><span lang="en-DE"><a href="https://community.ibm.com/community/user/storage/blogs/nils-haustein1/2024/02/26/s3-tiering-to-tape-with-noobaa-part-3-tiering">https://community.ibm.com/community/user/storage/blogs/nils-haustein1/2024/02/26/s3-tiering-to-tape-with-noobaa-part-3-tiering</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"><span lang="en-DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="en-DE">Some might consider release timing, .. But here is the plan, thanks for already outlining, Renar!<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:54.0pt"><span lang="en-DE"><a href="https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-scale/5.1.9?topic=summary-changes">https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-scale/5.1.9?topic=summary-changes</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><i><span lang="en-DE">IBM Storage Scale 5.1.8 is the last release that has CES Swift Object protocol.<o:p></o:p></span></i></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><i><span lang="en-DE">IBM Storage Scale 5.1.9 [EUS release] will tolerate the update of a CES node from IBM Storage Scale 5.1.8 -
</span></i><span lang="en-DE">so if you have it, you can keep it<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><span lang="en-DE">I’m expecting TechPreview and GA within the next two releases – technical details as per above blog.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-DE">I hope this helps to clarify IBM’s plan of record. I’d like to reinvite you to reach out to IBM (via IBM Sales / directly) if you’d like to follow-up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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