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IBM Announces the FlashSystem Family of flash storage appliances

Flash Storage drives down costs and unlocks the value of IT investments. Find out how IBM is providing new solutions for customers.

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	Analyst Opinions
	NEW Executive Brief by Jon Toigo: Data Protection – Re-Imagined, Inclusive and Business-Savvy Check out featured Storage Articles in the Storage Community Resources Area. Each paper is designed to help senior executives make critical business, technology, product, partnership, and tactical strategy decisions. Canucks Sports & Entertainment wins at the storage expansion game Competitive Management Cost Study: IBM Storwize V7000 vs. EMC VNX5500 Storage Systems With data volumes growing exponentially, storage-r... Data Protection – Re-Imagined, Inclusive and Business-Savvy : Dependency of business on automated system... Executive Brief: How Midsize Organizations Build Value and Win in a Global Economy Data increasingly is recognized as a business' mos...

	Upcoming Events
	On-Demand Video Webcast: Private Storage Cloud Learn how to build a practical roadmap toward private Storage Cloud by starting with a virtualized, efficient storage environment to build a more flexible and responsive business. Join Dan Galvan, VP, Storage Systems Marketing and Strategy, IBM Systems and Technology Group and featured Gartner Research VP Stan Zaffos for this informative video webcast. Listen to this brief 25 minute Video Webcast to hear how Cloud Storage can help you manage your business more efficiently. Companies are constantly battling two equally important yet seemingly contradictory objectives: data growth and constrained budgets.

Featured Experts

Get your questions answered by one of our experts!

	Jerome Wendt President and Lead Analyst-DCIG Corporation
	Greg Schulz Advisor and Author-StorageIO
	Tony Pearson Senior IT Storage Consultant and Master Inventor - IBM System Storage Product Line.
	Mary Hall Storage Programs - IBM Corporation
	Steve Kenniston Global Storage Efficiency Evangelist- IBM Corporation

Stephen Foskett

Independent IT/business consultant and Storage blogger

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Community News

"IBM FlashSystem Remakes Data Center Economics" by Alan Radding

Analyst Alan Radding's take on IBM's Flash Storage news.

On-Demand Webcast >Software-Defined Storage: The Power of Family Values

Register to hear how the IBM Storwize family of storage solutions leverages advanced functionality like heterogeneous virtualization, real-time compression of live production data, consistent, simplified management tools and intelligent automated flash optimization to maximize efficiency while improving performance and reducing cost. Register now.

	Smarter Storage: IBM's Flash Storage Roundtable Discussion
	IBM executives and experts discuss "Flash Storage". Flash Storage technology offers tremendous cost-savings and increased capacity. Watch this video to get a preview of topics on the agenda at the Edge2013 conference!

Ask the Experts

Get your questions answered by one of our experts!

	Jon Toigo IT Storage Analyst & Blogger.
	Greg Schulz Advisor and Author-StorageIO
	Tony Pearson Senior IT Storage Consultant and Master Inventor - IBM System Storage Product Line.
	Mary Hall Storage Programs - IBM Corporation
	Steve Kenniston Global Storage Efficiency Evangelist- IBM Corporation

Alex Hollingworth

Product Marketing Manager at Emulex and Storage blogger

Events

Save the Date: IBM Edge2013: June 10-14, 2013 at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas.

See the agenda of IBM Edge Technical classes and information about the new Managed Service Provider (MSP) Summit.

	Connect with us on Twitter
	Tweet with us @SmarterStorage: Follow the updates on IT Storage in the Community and join the conversations on Twitter using the hashtags: #storagecommunity and #IT #Storage.

	IBM Edge 2013 Preview Video

	Discussions
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The IBM Edge conference offers over 350 sessions on IT and optimized systems, including IT Storage, SystemX, IBM Pure Systems, Cloud, Big Data, Virtualization and High performance computing. The conference will take place June 10-14 in Las Vegas, NV. For details visit the IBM Edge website.

Until April 28th, Storage Community members can take advantage of early bird pricing and save 15% off the regular price

Edge2013 will offer 4.5 days of world-class technical education for IT professionals and practitioners. This year, Edge will be bigger and better than ever, with an expanded agenda that includes:

IBM Announces the FlashSystem Family of flash storage appliances

NEW Executive Brief by Jon Toigo: Data Protection – Re-Imagined, Inclusive and Business-Savvy

On-Demand Video Webcast: Private Storage Cloud

Listen to this brief 25 minute Video Webcast to hear how Cloud Storage can help you manage your business more efficiently. Companies are constantly battling two equally important yet seemingly contradictory objectives: data growth and constrained budgets.

"IBM FlashSystem Remakes Data Center Economics" by Alan Radding

On-Demand Webcast >Software-Defined Storage: The Power of Family Values

2012 IBM System x Technical University, July 16-20, San Francisco, CA. Featuring sessions on Big Data and Storage Efficiency. Get all the details and special savings for Storage Community members!

IBM Edge Highlights

"IBM strides along the storage edge" by Chris Mellor, The Register

"IBM Beginning to Align & Focus its Storage Portfolio" by Chris O'Connor, Info-Tech Research Group

Save the Date: IBM Edge2013: June 10-14, 2013 at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas.

See the agenda of IBM Edge Technical classes and information about the new Managed Service Provider (MSP) Summit.

Cloud

Big data and analytics

Business continuity

Efficiency solutions

Enterprise virtualization

Flash storage

High performance computing

ISV, database, applications

Networking

Product updates

IBM PureSystems

Security and compliance

Storage for mainframe

Storage virtualization

Systems management

Technology partner/sponsor

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	Community News
	Storage Security : Can you comply with court orders for data from the cloud? New White Papers in the Content Library: Frost & Sullivan Storage Technical Briefs Get the keynote from IBM Technical University on "Virtualization & the Future of IT" in the Community library. Are HDD's getting too big? What are you using to effectively manage your data footprint impact? Join the discussion and tell us what you think. Follow @IBMSTG Tweet with us @IBMSTG: Follow the updates on IT Storage in the Community and join the conversations on Twitter using the hashtags: #storagecommunity and #IT #Storage.

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