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RackWare for IBM Cloud

APAC/EMEA Session
20 May, 2026 at 11:00am CET (UTC+1)
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This technical training equips IBM Cloud engineers and architects with the knowledge and skills to deliver migration, disaster recovery, and backup solutions across IBM Cloud VPC, OpenShift Virtualization, and Hybrid Cloud infrastructures using the RackWare platform.


What You Will Learn

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Key Use Cases

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  • Migration from on-prem (physical or virtual machines) or other public and private cloud environments to IBM Cloud VPC

  • Comprehensive Disaster Recovery across IBM Cloud regions, and hybrid or multicloud infrastructure

  • VMware Exits to IBM Cloud VPC or OpenShift Virtualization

  • IBM Cloud Classic to IBM Cloud VPC migration

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Platform Coverage

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Understand how to deploy RackWare across IBM's diverse infrastructure stacks to migrate into, protect, and manage workloads in:

  • IBM Cloud VPC

  • IBM Cloud Satellite

  • IBM Cloud OpenShift Virtualization

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Hands-On Technical Skills

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Gain practical expertise in RackWare’s deployment, configuration, and management within IBM Cloud:

  • Installation & Setup: Deploy and configure RackWare within IBM Cloud VPC and Hybrid environments

  • Source Environment Preparation: Ready VMware vSphere, KVM, Hyper-V, and bare-metal systems for migration to IBM Cloud

  • Setting up service account for automated provisioning of resources

  • Wave Planning: Organize and execute phased migrations for complex, large-scale IBM Cloud modernization projects

  • Policy Management: Define backup, sync, and failover policies tailored to storage tiers

  • Advanced Features: Application dependency mapping, DR testing, and multi-zone region (MZR) topologies

Program Benefits

 

  • Accelerate time-to-value for IBM Cloud adoption with RackWare’s proven automation

  • Standardize migration, DR, and backup workflows across IBM Hybrid Cloud environments

  • Build RackWare expertise to enhance IBM Cloud service delivery and operational efficiency

  • Empower customer migrations to IBM Cloud with confidence, speed, and repeatability

Who Should Attend

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  • IBM Cloud Engineers and Solution Architects

  • IBM Ecosystem Partners and Managed Service Providers (MSPs)

  • IT Teams driving IBM Cloud modernization and resiliency initiatives

  • IBM Customer Success and Delivery Engineers

Your Instructor

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Akash Bambal
Director of Engineering

Since January 2022, Akash Bambal has served as the Director of Engineering focused on Quality Assurance and Systems Engineering at RackWare. Prior to that he spent nearly five years as the Manager of QA and Systems Engineering. Akash has over 17 years of engineering experience in enterprise class products across a variety of domains like healthcare, networking/SDN, storage, media and OS. Akash plays a critical role in pre-sales, designing migration and DR/backup solutions for customers across the JAPAC and EMEA regions for RackWare.

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