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Creating Real Time Alerts in Hitachi Tuning Manager 6.0
Event Type: Webcast
Event Start Date: October 8, 2008
Event End Date: October 8, 2008
Event Location: Internet
Technical Session: Hitachi Tuning Manager software provides customers with the capability of generating alarms to notify them when key performance, utilization and capacity thresholds are exceeded. Chuck Eaton, Principal Technical Consultant, will explain and demonstrate how to create these real time alarms using the new graphical user interface (GUI) in Tuning Manager that significantly simplifies this process.
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Mainframe Storage Virtualization: Making Modular Storage Useful to z/OS
Event Type: Webcast
Event Start Date: October 15, 2008
Event End Date: October 15, 2008
Event Location: Internet
Technical Session: Curious about how to use inexpensive modular storage in a mainframe environment? This WebTech session will demonstrate ways to expand the use of modular storage by virtualizing it into a z/OS® environment. You will learn the applications best suited for this added storage, learn how to plan for the addition and see a demonstration of the virtualization process using Hitachi Device Manager and Hitachi Universal Volume Manager. Joan Arnold-Roksandich, Account Consultant, will provide you with best practices, hints and tips to allow you to tame those open LUNS into 3390 volumes.
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Sneak Preview: The Next Generation of Hitachi Storage
Event Type: Webcast
Event Start Date: October 16, 2008
Event End Date: October 16, 2008
Event Location: Internet
Technical Session: Preview the next generation of Hitachi storage. You will learn about storage innovations that will allow IT departments to achieve new operational efficiencies by automating many complex and time consuming tasks. Listen to Mel Tungate, Hitachi Data Systems Executive Director of Product Management, describing new features and functionality.
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Crafting an Effective NAS Consolidation Strategy
Event Type: Webcast
Event Start Date: October 22, 2008
Event End Date: October 22, 2008
Event Location: Internet
Business Session: Thinking it's time for network attached storage (NAS) consolidation at your data center? What are the top criteria to consider when you're planning a NAS consolidation project? What should you know before you start? Hear from George Pamboris, Director of NAS Product Management, and Linda Xu, Director of File Services Product Marketing, about what caused NAS proliferation, what challenges NAS proliferation has created for organizations large and small and, when you start a consolidation project, what criteria you will use to evaluate the options available. Learn why the Hitachi High-performance NAS solution is an option to consider if planning a file server or NAS consolidation project.
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Effective Use of Virtualized Tiered Storage Systems
Event Type: Webcast
Event Start Date: October 29, 2008
Event End Date: October 29, 2008
Event Location: Internet
Business Session: Join Hitachi Data Systems Chief Technology Officer Hu Yoshida for an informative discussion on solving key storage problems with the effective use of virtualized tiered storage systems. Like VMware for server environments, the ability to create new storage virtually and deliver differentiated tiers of storage as needed creates great cost efficiencies in the data center. Yoshida will describe how customers have taken advantage of virtualizing mixed types of storage systems to maximize their current investments. The characteristics and best uses of various classes of storage (Fibre, SATA, RAID types, internal, external) will be introduced along with network attached storage (NAS) and Content Archiving options. Expect a lively Q&A session at the end.
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What’s New in Replication for Mainframe Environments
Event Type: Webcast
Event Start Date: November 05, 2008
Event End Date: November 05, 2008
Event Location: Internet
Business Session: New functionality has been added to the Hitachi Data Systems portfolio of replication solutions for mainframe environments. Listen to Ros Schulman, Director Data Protection, review new features and functionality, as well as discuss options for substantial cost savings for current Hitachi/IBM-XRC customers.
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Storage Economics
Event Type: Webcast
Event Start Date: November 11, 2008
Event End Date: November 11, 2008
Event Location: Internet
Business Session: Your data center has hidden costs – Storage Economics can help you discover them and reduce them. Purchase price is typically only 1/3 and 1/5 of the total cost of owning storage systems. Hitachi Data Systems has identified 32 different types of costs you can use to baseline and track the hidden costs of storage. Listen to Dave Merrill, Global Business Consultant from the office of the Hitachi Data Systems Chief Technology Officer, explain how you can get a handle on your storage costs.
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Using Tuning Manager Performance Reporter for Pre-defined Reports
Event Type: Webcast
Event Start Date: November 18, 2008
Event End Date: November 18, 2008
Event Location: Internet
Tune up Session: Hitachi Tuning Manager software provides customers with the capability of defining and running reports and charts on performance and capacity using Performance Reporter. John Yarborough, Technical Marketing Engineer, will explain how to create and run both historical and real-time reports, including the new “Combination Reports”. Length: 30 minutes.
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Ad-Hoc Performance and Capacity Reporting with Hitachi Tuning Manager Software
Event Type: Webcast
Event Start Date: December 2, 2008
Event End Date: December 2, 2008
Event Location: Internet
Tune up Session: The “Main Console” in Hitachi Tuning Manager software provides users with the capability to quickly and easily view performance and capacity information about their storage infrastructure. John Yarborough, Technical Marketing Engineer, will demonstrate the use of the Main Console to view this information, drill down within the storage systems to identify performance bottlenecks, use the new Correlation Wizard which dramatically increases the flexibility in ad-hoc reports and how to create dashboard reports using the Favorite Charts option. Length: 30 minutes.
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