HDS WebTech Series

Designed for the storage professional

Hitachi Data Systems is pleased to sponsor an on-going monthly webcast forum where technical end-users can learn from HDS experts how to:

• Maximize the potential from your existing IT infrastructure
• Deploy best-in-class techniques for storage and storage management
• Benefit from real-life before/after scenarios

Each lively one-hour webcast will be filled with ideas and information for you and will have plenty of time for questions. At many of the webcasts, you’ll receive an exclusive white paper to help you keep abreast of current and upcoming technologies.

North America

Hitachi Unified Storage for Business-critical Applications: Collaboration, ERP, CRM, Data Warehousing and Virtualization
May 30, 2012 (9am PT, 12pm ET)

IT environments in different business-critical applications face unique complexity, performance and data protection challenges as well as common issues such as cost reduction and meeting service level objectives. This session highlights a number of application environments and discusses ways in which Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) provides a significantly better value by solving a wide range of network storage problems

By attending this WebTech you will learn to:

• Address challenges faced in workloads specific to different data-intensive computing environments
• Achieve your IT goals for lower TCO, higher efficiency, meeting SLAs and more
• Deliver the best of SAN (block) and NAS (file) technologies for  collaboration, ERP, CRM, data warehousing and virtualization with HUS-based architectures

Presenters

• Host: Ravi Chalaka, VP, Solutions Marketing

Speakers
Tony Hampel, Sr. Solutions Marketing Manager, HUS
Mark Orth, Sr. Solutions Marketing Manager, Collaboration
Chris Marsh, Sr. Solutions Marketing Manager, ERP, CRM and Data Warehousing
Julianne Raedeke, Sr. Solutions Marketing Manager, Virtualization

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Building a Private Storage Cloud? Take Flight with Hitachi Data Systems and Brocade
June 13, 2012 (9am PT, 12pm ET)

Making upgrades to your existing storage environment to enable cloud services or looking to deploy new applications on cloud infrastructure?

2012 Storage Networking World conference best practices and common misunderstandings will be discussed and debated by the presenters.

Hitachi Data Systems and Brocade can help you every step of the way and provide a clear distinction between market hype vs reality.

• Modernize your storage architecture, consolidate your SAN and migrate your data in a nondisruptive manner
  • A free SAN health check can help you reduce downtime and improve performance
  • New scale-out fabric architectures increase throughput, dramatically reduce cabling and reduce chassis footprint to free rack space, often by 40% or more
  • Next-generation platforms reduce energy costs by as much as 75%
  • Nondisruptive migration with server virtualization is possible

• Build cloud-optimized SANs to support higher performance, resiliency and scalability levels for new application deployments such as VDI
  • Significance of network performance for large-scale VDI
  • Eliminate boot-storm bottlenecks with no bit-price increase using SSDs
  • Optimize VDI capacity efficiency
  • Resilient fabric architectures for maximum virtual desktop density per server
  • Unified management for newer workloads

Speakers

• Patrick Allaire, senior product marketing manager, enterprise storage platforms, Hitachi Data Systems
• Anthony Peiris, senior product manager, SAN, Brocade

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IT Executive Strategies for Dealing with Economic Challenges, the Continuing Data Deluge and the Cloud
June 19, 2012 (9am PT, 12pm ET)

IT departments are under constant pressure to realign in response to the fast-changing business climate and new technology developments such as virtualization, cloud-based services and mobile devices. Hear Richard Villars, IDC vice president, information and cloud, share what IT leaders in enterprises across North America told IDC about the storage and information management challenges they are facing and the potential solutions they are looking at.

Attend this WebTech and learn:

• IT executive strategies for reacting to economic uncertainties while maintaining business agility
• How cloud and big data are influencing data management strategies
• The key technologies for dealing with rapid, diverse data growth

Speakers
Richard Villars, IDC Vice President, Information and Cloud
Peter Sjoberg, senior director, Americas file, content and cloud solutions

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Storage Virtualization: How to Capitalize on Its Economic Benefits
June 27, 2012 (9am PT, 12pm ET)

The corporate IT world is diligently trying to solve extremely difficult business issues on a massive scale. From a data growth perspective, there seem to be more demands and inefficiencies than there is budget to manage effectively. While storage virtualization has become a mainstay in the enterprise environment, helping companies to modernize and simplify countless storage activities, many organizations are not fully capitalizing on the potential manageability and economic benefits. This webinar will examine 5 key customer problems that storage virtualization can help to solve, as well as how to leverage virtualization technologies to significantly lower capital and operating expenditures.

Attend this WebTech and learn to:

• Recognize the 5 key customer problems that storage virtualization can help to solve
• Understand top use cases for storage virtualization and technologies that leverage current assets and promote cost efficiencies
• Examine current storage virtualization customer success stories

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