Welcome to the IBM & Broadcom
Sunny SANDays (SSD) for Business Partner (BP) education & enablement.
Get ready for the VIP SSD 2023 event, IBM Montpellier, Monday 4th - Wednesday 6th September 2023.
Why Sunny SANDays ?
- We believe in networking and education in order to drive revenues for our Business Partners (BPs). Training is an essential part of our DNA ! Why ? Simply because our training modules are geared to providing you with relevant information for closing business !
- This event is an ideal opportunity for you to meet the Broadcom & IBM experts.
- You will learn the latest "trends & directions" in order to gain a competitive advantage on both IBM Storage and Broadcom SAN solutions.
- Sunny SANDays is a 2 day study tour where we are inviting the winners of the Sunny SANDays Challenge which will run from 1st November 2020 (the beginning of Broadcom's new fiscal year) to the 31st December 2021 (end of IBM's fiscal year). The 2021 edition will be combining a general session with technical and sales break-outs.
- Participating BPs will collect points by selling various IBM-Broadcom products & education (please refer to the Sunny SANDays 2021 - Competition Rules tab : competition-rules
About IBM & Broadcom
Broadcom Inc. is a global infrastructure technology leader built on 50 years of innovation, collaboration and engineering excellence. With roots based in the rich technical heritage of AT&T/Bell Labs, Lucent and Hewlett-Packard/Agilent, Broadcom focuses on technologies that connect our world. Through the combination of industry leaders Avago Technologies, LSI, Broadcom Corporation, Brocade and CA Technologies, the company has the size, scope and engineering talent to lead the industry into the future.
Why IBM & Broadcom
Long-time partners IBM and Broadcom build tightly integrated solutions that help customers create agile and secure infrastructures to enable new business models that support cognitive, cloud, analytics, mobile, and social business requirements, while positioning enterprises for success into the future.
Broadcom's Gen 6 Fibre Channel storage networking, combined with IBM FlashSystem and IBM Spectrum Storage, enables agile cloud architectures, supports massive volumes of data, and optimizes high-density server virtualized environments.
For the highest level of availability and performance, Broadcom Gen 6 storage networking and extension products support IBM’s z14 mainframe.
The partnership allows our customers to:
- Optimize high-density server virtualized environments, enable new workloads, and implement cloud architectures through Broadcom Gen 6 Fibre Channel technology and IBM storage solution
- Maximize the agility, efficiency, and control provided by IBM Spectrum Storage and Broadcom networking solutions
- Enjoy unmatched performance, scalability, and reliability, plus faster, better data-driven decisions with Broadcom Gen 6 Fibre Channel and IBM FlashSystem storage.
- Support mainframe workloads demanding 99.999% availability, including networking over distance for BC/DR requirements
- Gain visibility and insight across your storage infrastructure with powerful monitoring, diagnostic, and management tools powered by IBM b-type storage networking and BroadcomFabric Vision technology
VIP SSD 2023 Competition Rules
Terms & Conditions
This initiative contributes to creating a loyal partner community for IBM and Brocade BPs to share experiences & knowledge.
The event will take place from Monday 4th - Wednesday 6th Septemebr 2023 in Montpellier, The South of France. This event is an incentive study trip for the best performing Business Partners (BPs) in Europe Middle East & Africa (EMEA).
Terms & Conditions (Ts & Cs) :
- All countries in EMEA are entitled to participate.
- All IBM Broadcom BPs are entitled to participate.
- Only the best performing BPs will receive an invitation to attend the study trip based on the number of Gen7 directors or Gen7 b-type enterprise switches P96 sold.
- The Broadcom IBM team will select the BPs who will be eligible to attend.
Qualification :
– Sell minimum of 4 * Gen7 b-type directors will earn 1 ticket to SSD event
– Sell minimum of 4 * b-type SAN P96 switches will earn 1 ticket to SSD event
– We will invite the the 27 best performing BP’s and 3* “ rising stars “ based on the achieved turnover, measured from January 2023 to July 2023.
* The 3 "rising stars" will be identified and validated by the IBM and Broadcom management.
We will send approval invitations to the eligible BPs in the first week of July 2023 in order to provide you with enough time to reserve your travel tickets to and from Montpellier.
What is included in the incentive package ?
–2 nights hotel at the Hotel Mercure, La Grande Motte, France
– Breakfast, lunch/dinner's and transportation during the event
–2 days training at the IBM Montpellier Client Engineering Center
What is excluded ?
–BP's have to pay for their own travel (flight or train) and personal costs during the event.
Overall agenda (subject to change) :
VIP 2023 Agenda
The agenda is work in progress !
19:00 Navette from Hotel Mercure La Grande Motte - Beach Restaurant
19:30-23:00 Netwok drinks & dinner, Beach Restauarnt
23:00 Navette from Beach Restaurant - Hotel Mercure La Grande Motte
Tuesday 5th September
8 :30 Navette from Hotel Mercure La Grande Motte to IBM Montpellier
9:00-9 :30 Welcome Coffee
9:30-10 :00 Welcome & Key note, Monique Schardijn, IBM Alliance Manager EMEA Brocade Storage Networking & Olivier Fraimbault, IBM
10:00- 11:15 What the future of storage networking is and how positioning SAN infrastructure versus other technologies like ISCSI stacks up, Brocade
11:15-12 :30 Why Moving in 64Gbps matters. Move your SAN in 64Gbps to exploit all performance from your latest 64Gbps Flashsystem, Brocade
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15 :00 New IP replication platform. Present new FCIP switch and Compare Embedded Storage IP replication vs IPEX/FCIP. Where is the Embeded IP limitation, Brocade
15:00-16:00 Cyber resilience : How does storage fit in the NIST Framework ? How Qradar can protect your SAN infrastructure ? Demo with Storage and SAN QRadar integration, Andrew Greenfield & Guillaume Legmar
16:00-17:00 AI and Storage Infrastructure of the future. Where is storage going ? IBM
17:00 Navette from IBM Montpellier to Hotel Mercure La Grande Motte
19:00 Navette from Hotel Mercure La Grande Motte to Beach Restaurant
19:30-23:00 Netwok drinks & dinner, Beach Restauarnt
23:00 Navette from Beach Restaurant - Hotel Mercure La Grande Motte
Wednesday 6 September
8:30 Navette from Hotel Mercure La Grande Motte to Beach Restaurant
9:00-9 :30 Welcome Coffee
9:30-10 :00 Storage and SAN Roadmap, IBM & Brocade
10:00- 11 :00 SanNav Management Tools; Brocade
11:00-12:00 NVME Adoption, IBM & Brocade
12:00-14 :00 Lunch & B2B meetings
Contact
- 1 Rue de la Vieille Poste, 34006 Montpellier
- IBM Montpellier
- +33- 6 63 25 68 77 - IBM
- nk@blue-channel.com
- Mon-Fri - 08:00-19:00
SSD 2022 Agenda
11:00 - 19:00
Arrivals in Montpellier
Location: Montpellier Hotel
19:30 - 23:00
Cocktail Network Reception
Location: Montpellier Town Center
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee reception
Location: IBM Montpellier
09:00 - 09:15
Introduction
Location: IBM Montpellier
12:00 - 15:00
Second Panel
Location: IBM Montpellier
16:00 - 17:00
Transportation
Location: Wine Tasting Chateau
17:30 - 18:00
Bus to hotels
Location: From IBM Montpellier to Hotels
19:15 - 23:30
Bus to Gala Dinner
Location: TBC
08:30 - 09:00
Bus to IBM Montpellier
Location: IBM Montpellier
Welcome Coffee
09:00 - 12:00
BP Education
Location: IBM Montpellier
12:15 - 12:45
Bus to the event
Location: Beach
13:00 - 18:00
Lunch & Departures
Location: Beach
08:30 - 09:00
Bus to IBM Montpellier
Location: IBM Montpellier
Welcome Coffee
09:00 - 12:00
BP Education
Location: IBM Montpellier
12:15 - 12:45
Bus to the event
Location: Beach
13:00 - 18:00
Lunch & Departures
Location: Beach
Country SSD Events
Competition Registration
Please choose a nickname/alias for the competition by filling out the following fields. Once your registration has been approved, we will post your company nickname/alias on the following tab, if you are leading the race in your region.
www.sunnysandays.com/the-sunny-sandays-league-table-points-won
Thank You.
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Thank You.
Flight & Hotel Registration Form
Please contact the team for further information :
Nauman Khan
Blue-Channel
Event organiser
+33 6 63 25 68 77
nk@blue-channel.com
Christophe Cavelier d'Esclavelles,
IBM Montpellier Client Center,
Event host
+33 6 88 06 87 35
Chris.dEsclavelles@fr.ibm.com
Monique Schardijn
IBM Alliance Manager Brocade Division Europe
Broadcom
+31 640882598
monique.schardijn@broadcom.com
Eric Lacasse
OEM Alliance Manager, Brocade Division
Broadcom
+33 6 86 16 68 01
eric.lacasse@broadcom.com
Jack van der Schoot
Senior Manager OEM Partner Solutions & Sales - EMEA
Brocade Storage Networking
Broadcom
+31 6 22 6200 78
jack.vanderschoot@broadcom.com
Nauman Khan
Blue-Channel
Event organiser
+33 6 63 25 68 77
nk@blue-channel.com
Christophe Cavelier d'Esclavelles,
IBM Montpellier Client Center,
Event host
+33 6 88 06 87 35
Chris.dEsclavelles@fr.ibm.com
Monique Schardijn
IBM Alliance Manager Brocade Division Europe
Broadcom
+31 640882598
monique.schardijn@broadcom.com
Eric Lacasse
OEM Alliance Manager, Brocade Division
Broadcom
+33 6 86 16 68 01
eric.lacasse@broadcom.com
Jack van der Schoot
Senior Manager OEM Partner Solutions & Sales - EMEA
Brocade Storage Networking
Broadcom
+31 6 22 6200 78
jack.vanderschoot@broadcom.com
The Sunny SANDays Regional League Table - Points won (only 1 registration per BP).
Introduction
Hundreds of distributors and partners will have the opportunity to challenge, through a game app, other distributors and partners across the Americas and EMEA, and demonstrate how much they know about Flash storage and SAN solutions.
Who can play? IBM Business Partners, IBM Distributors, IBM Storage sellers. Both sales, pre-sales, and technical roles are eligible!
The top 50 IBM Business Partnership participants worldwide can earn up to $3,000 for an IBM FlashSystem and b-type SAN customer event. MDF dollars will be awarded based on employee participation. If you’re a Business Partnership, encourage registration and participation by your employees to earn MDF dollars!
Register now via by clicking here
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IBM Gen7 collateral package
Brocade-GEN7-Presentation IBM Sunny SANDays 2021_compressed.pdf
Autonomous-SAN-Solution-Brief-July2020.pdf
Gen 7 webinar - September 17th.pdf
EMEA Infrastructure Storage Networking_Oct2020.pdf
7 Reasons for using Gen 7 in your Mainframe Environment (1).pdf
Brocade Gen 7 FICON Webinar Flyer.pdf
Brocade Sessions at IBM_TechU_2020.pdf
Brocade_SWFH_Webinar_Series_Amers.pdf
Brocade_SWFH_Webinar_Series_EMEA.pdf
ESG_NVMe_Oracle_Infographic.pdf
esg-technical-validation-broadcom-ibm-end-to-end-nvme.pdf
ESG-Technical-Validation-Broadcom-IBM-Sep-2020.pdf
ESG-White-Paper-IBM-Brocade-Cyber-Resilience-Aug-2020.pdf
IBM Gen 7 - Architecting Data Center for the Autonomous SAN.pdf
Keys to enhance the performance and availability of IBM Transparent Cloud Tiering Solutions.pdf
IBM Gen 7 - Introducing the Autonomous SAN.pdf
Presales Training - Using SAN Analytics to Enhance IBM Storage Solutions Training Module.pdf
VIDEO SECTION
Webinar Replays - Brocade Storage Networking - Technical & Commercial Learn & Earn Webinars
Recording of the English version : Introduction SAN Management and Analytics tool - Review and input
Recording : The Fundamentals of SAN vs Alternative Storage Technologies by Juan Tario, 14th April 2020
French replay - Pourquoi le Fibre Channel pour le stockage de nouvelle génération avec NVMe?
En Français par Eric Lacasse OEM Alliance Manager | Brocade Division Broadcom
Brocade_ Using Data Center Management and Discovery tools to access the customer’s Storage Network by John Turner, Pre-Sales, UK&I | Brocade Storage Networking Division, Broadcom
How to position Gen6 SAN for Enterprise Solutions with z15, DS8900F, and TS7770-20200507 0902-1
Web Based Training Modules
Earn 10 points for every Broadcom SAN training successfully completed.
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| Introduction | Audio MP4 link | Training module in pdf format with notes printout |
| How to sell SAN with IBM storage which ensures the best performance for client solutions and the compelling market events that demand that today's storage networks be upgraded. | YouTube Video : Selling IBM b-type Storage Networking - Click Here On-Line Test for this module, www.surveymonkey.com/r/IBM-Brocade-Sales-Quiz The estimated time for completion for both the training and the on-line test is 20 minutes. | Selling IBM b-type Storage Networking Print.pdf |
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| Introduction | Audio MP4 link | Training module in pdf format with notes printout |
| This module is great starter and refresher course for SAN, including how and why Fibre Channel SAN started, the positioning of SAN vs other storage methods and technologies, and the essential components, products, and architectures for IBM Storage and SAN solutions. | YouTube Video : Introduction to IBM b-type Storage Networking - Click Here On-Line Test : www.surveymonkey.com/r/IBM-Brocade-Presales-Quiz The estimated time for completion for both the training and the on-line test is 60 minutes. | Intoduction_IBM_SAN_Fundamentals.pdf |
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| Introduction | Audio MP4 link | Training module in pdf format with with notes printout |
| Based on the book, this training module introduces NVMe over fabrics, how NVMe is differnet than the current SCSI protocol, comparing the various networking options, the potential benefits to business applications, and where to find additional resources to learn more. | YouTube Video : IBM NVMe for Dummies video - Clik Here www.surveymonkey.com/r/IBM-Brocade-NVMe-Quiz The estimated time for completion for both the training and the on-line test is 30 - 35 minutes. | IBM_NVMe_For_Dummies_WBT.pdf |
Download IBM b-type SAN Resources Today!
- NVMe over Fibre Channel For Dummies
- SAN Sales Reference Guide (SSRM).
- IBM Director and Switch Matrix
- IBM 64G Gen 7 b-type Products
