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

 

New Virtual Server Support for Hitachi Storage Command Suite
Feb 10, 2010 (9 a.m. Pacific)

Technical Session

 

Come learn about enhancements to Hitachi Device Manager 6.3 and Hitachi Tuning Manager 6.3, two of the Hitachi Storage Command Suite core products. These new releases enhance visibility, reporting and management of VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual server datastores. Discover these and other new features in detail. The session will end with a quick demonstration on a live VMware server and a live question and answer discussion.

You will learn how to:

• See an integrated, single view of all storage provisioned to individual virtual servers
• See the corresponding relation between a volume on a storage subsystem and the data store on a virtualization server
• Develop reports showing storage allocation and utilization at the virtual server level

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How to Manage Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning
Feb 17, 2010 (9 a.m. Pacific)

Technical Session

See a technical overview and demonstration of Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software using the GUI for Hitachi enterprise and midrange storage solutions. This session will focus on Storage Navigator (SN) for Enterprise and Storage Navigator Modular 2 (SNM2) for midrange.

Attend this session and learn to:

• Define dynamic provisioning and identify key features and functions
• Explain how to perform dynamic provisioning operations
• Setup Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning volumes and assign them to a host

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Storage Service Level Management with Hitachi Storage Command Portal
Feb 24, 2010 (9 a.m. Pacific)

Technical Session

Are you spending a lot of time and effort tracking storage resources back to the respective business applications that rely on them? Do key reporting statistics span multiple storage resource management products, with no easy way to merge and analyze them? Please join us for this WebTech session to learn how you can transform storage management reporting with the Hitachi Storage Command Portal. It combines a variety of management statistics from across the Hitachi Storage Command Suite to establish storage service level objectives (SLOs) by business application and help ensure that storage service levels are met.

In this session learn how to:

• Create business views of applications and their respective Hitachi storage assets
• Define and monitor application-specific storage service objectives
• Customize business-oriented storage management reports and dashboards

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Economic Impact of Storage Archive
Mar 31, 2010 (9 a.m. Pacific)

Point of View Session

Storage capacity reduction and space reclamation are popular topics for IT departments facing tight CAPEX funding. Although many options exist to reclaim space, implementing an archive solution can produce quick results and immediate savings. Secondary savings in the costs of backup, management and cost of growth can also be attributed to an archive tier implemented in the storage architecture. Litigation and discovery costs are not small either and can be greatly enhanced with an archive that produces rapid results in search and recovery for critical business functions.

What you will learn:

• Recognize and measure costs of old data buried within your storage infrastructure
• Measure costs of data discovery risks
• Compare backup costs (and effort) between storage environments that have, or do not have, an archive tier available

Speaker: David Merrill, Chief Economist

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