<font size=2 face="sans-serif">Greetings:</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I am organizing an NDA round-table with
the IBM Offering Managers at IBM Edge on Tuesday, September 20th at 1pm.
The subject will be "The Future of IBM Spectrum Scale." IBM Offering
Managers are the Product Owners at IBM. There will be discussions covering
licensing, the roadmap for IBM Spectrum Scale RAID (aka GNR), new hardware
platforms, etc. </font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">This is a unique opportunity to get
feedback to the drivers of the IBM Spectrum Scale business plans. It should
be a great companion to the content we get from Engineering and Research
at most User Group meetings. </font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">To get an invitation, please email me
privately at douglasof <at> us.ibm.com. All who have a valid NDA
are invited. I only need an approximate headcount of attendees. Try not
to spam the mailing list. </font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I am pushing to get the Offering Managers
to have a similar session at SC16 as an IBM Multi-client Briefing. You
can add your voice to that call on this thread, or email me directly. </font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Spectrum Scale User Group at SC16 will
once again take place on Sunday afternoon with cocktails to follow. I hope
we can blow out the attendance numbers and the number of site speakers
we had last year! I know Simon, Bob, and Kristy are already working the
agenda. Get your ideas in to them or to me. </font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">See you in Vegas, Vegas, SLC, Vegas
this Fall... Maybe Australia in between? </font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">doug</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Douglas O'Flaherty</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">IBM Spectrum Storage Marketing</font><BR>