[gpfsug-discuss] IBM Webinar: Spectrum Scale Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)

Hi All, IBM are running a Webinar on 20th October and 21st October titled: “Spectrum Scale Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)” Which might be of interest to the group. Details and registration are at: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6480851 The webinar will be running in

[gpfsug-discuss] SSUG::Digital: Spectrum Scale Container Native Storage Access (CNSA)

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[gpfsug-discuss] SSUG::Digital: What is new in Spectrum Scale 5.1.1?

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[gpfsug-discuss] SSUG Quick survey

On Friday in the webinar, we did some live polling of the attendees. I’m still interested in people filling in the questions – it isn’t long and will help us with planning UG events as well. I thought it would expire when the 24 hour period was up, but it looks like in survey mode, you

[gpfsug-discuss] Update: [NEW DATE] SSUG::Digital Update on File Create and MMAP performance

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[gpfsug-discuss] SSUG::Digital Update on File Create and MMAP performance

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[gpfsug-discuss] https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/ssugdigital-spectrum-scale-expert-talk-strategy-update/

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[gpfsug-discuss] SSUG::Digital Talk 2

Hi All, The next talk in the SSUG:: Digital series is taking place on Monday 13th July at 4pm BST. (Other time-zones are listed on the website!) Speaker: Lindsay Todd Topic: Best Practices for building a stretched cluster More details at:

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Introducing SSUG::Digital

So someone pointed out we’re using webex events for this, in theory there is a “join in browser” option, if you don’t have the webex client already installed. However that also doesn’t appear to work in Chrome/Ubuntu20.04 … so you might want to check your browser/plugin works *before* next

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Introducing SSUG::Digital

First talk: https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/ssugdigital-spectrum-scale-expert-talk-what-is-new-in-spectrum-scale-5-0-5/ What is new in Spectrum Scale 5.0.5? 18th June 2020. No registration required, just click the Webex link in the page above. Simon From: on behalf of

[gpfsug-discuss] Introducing SSUG::Digital

Hi All., I happy that we can finally announce SSUG:Digital, which will be a series of online session based on the types of topic we present at our in-person events. I know it’s taken use a while to get this up and running, but we’ve been working on trying to get the format right. So save

[gpfsug-discuss] THINK Virtual User Group Day

Hi All, As part of IBM’s THINK digital event, there will be a virtual user group day. This isn’t an SSUG event, though we’ve been involved in some of the discussion about the topics for the event. Three of the four Storage sessions are focussed on Spectrum Scale. For storage this will be

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] SSUG Events 2020 update

Registration is open for the May UK meeting. We plan to review 3 weeks before the event in w/c 20th April: current situation number of registrations any travel restrictions in place for speakers/IBM/attendees https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/worldwide-uk-2020-spectrum-scale-user-group/

[gpfsug-discuss] Break-out session for new user and prospects [London Usergroup]

Hi all, We know that a lot of the talks at the user groups are for experienced users, following feedback from the USA user group, we thought we’d advertise that this year we’re planning to run a break-out for new users on day 1. Break-out session for new user and prospects (Wed May 8th,

[gpfsug-discuss] Slack workspace

We’ve been pondering for a while (quite a long while actually!) adding a slack workspace for the user group. That’s not to say I want to divert traffic from the mailing list, but maybe it will be useful for some people. Please don’t feel compelled to join the slack workspace, but if you want

[gpfsug-discuss] Reminder Worldwide/UK User group

I’ve just published the draft agenda for the worldwide/UK user group on 8th and 9th May in London. https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/uk-user-group-meeting/ As AI is clearly a hot topic, we have a number of slots dedicated to Spectrum Scale with AI this year. Registration is

[gpfsug-discuss] UK Spectrum Scale user group

Registration is now open for the UK Spectrum Scale user group, taking place on 8th and 9th May 2019. Details and registration are available at: https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/uk-user-group-meeting/ We’re still looking for some user/customer talks to form part of the agenda and

[gpfsug-discuss] UK Spectrum Scale User Group Sponsorship packages

We're currently in the process of planning for the 2019 UK Spectrum Scale User Group meeting, to be held in London on 8th/9th May and will again be looking for commercial sponsorship to support the event. I'll be sending a message out to companies who have previously sponsored us with

[gpfsug-discuss] Call for input & save the date

Hi All, We’ve just published the main dates for 2019 Spectrum Scale meetings on the user group website at: https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/ Please take a look over the list of events and pencil them in your diary! (some of those later in the year are tentative and there are a couple

[gpfsug-discuss] Request for Enhancements (RFE) Forum - Submission Deadline October 1

GPFS/Spectrum Scale Users, Here’s a long-ish note about our plans to try and improve the RFE process. We’ve tried to include a tl;dr version if you just read the headers. You’ll find the details underneath ;-) and reading to the end is ideal. IMPROVING THE RFE PROCESS As you’ve heard on

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Committee change

On behalf of the group, I’d like to thank Claire for her support of the group over the past 8 years and wish her well in the new role! Its grown from a few people round a table to a worldwide group with hundreds of members. I spoke with Claire yesterday, and she said the 1 key thing she has

[gpfsug-discuss] UK Group Live Streams

Hi All, We’re hoping to have live streaming of today and some of tomorrow’s sessions from London, I’ll post links to the streams on the Spectrum Scale User Group web-site as we go through the day. Note this is the first year we’ll have tried this, so we’ll have to see how it goes!

[gpfsug-discuss] UK Meeting - tooling Spectrum Scale

Hi All, At the UK meeting next week, we’ve had a speaker slot become available, we’re planning to put in a BoF type session on tooling Spectrum Scale so we have space for a few 3-5 minute quick talks on what people are doing to automate. If you are coming along and interested, please drop

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] RFE Process ... Burning Issues

Just a reminder that if you want to submit for the pilot RFE process, submissions must be in by end of next week. Judging by the responses so far, apparently the product is perfect  Simon From: on behalf of "ch...@spectrumscale.org"

[gpfsug-discuss] RFE Process ... Burning Issues

Hi All, We’ve been talking with product management about the RFE process and have agreed that we’ll try out a community-voting process. First up, we are piloting this idea, hopefully it will work out, but it may also need tweaks as we move forward. One of the things we’ve been asking