Live Migration over Distance Using Hitachi Storage Cluster for Hyper-V
Join us for a live webcast and hear experts from Hitachi Data Systems and Microsoft discuss and demonstrate an end-to-end business continuity solution. The Live Migration over Distance solution combines proven technologies from Hitachi, Microsoft and Brocade to enable organizations to proactively migrate Hyper-V environments across distances as well as address common IT problems.
By attending this webcast, you’ll learn how to:
- Protect critical business applications
- Move virtualized applications and data within and across data centers separated by distance
- Balance application workloads to avoid performance interruptions
- Perform routine maintenance procedures or processes within normal business hours and without user interruption
- Leverage new technologies without having to “rip and replace” your existing infrastructure
Presenters:
Ryan Sokolowski – Microsoft / Citrix Solutions Product Manager at HDS
Jim Schwartz – Director of Virtualization Solutions for Microsoft
Lower Your Virtual Machine Costs with an Economical New Framework
In recent years, virtual machines (VMs) have evolved beyond test and development platforms to become staples of data center efficiency and cost reduction. As VMs continue to change and consume a greater percentage of the IT budget, you can increase the efficiency of VMs to contain the cost of growth. This webinar will outline a framework to identify, measure and reduce the costs of VMs regardless of the vendor.
By attending this webcast, you'll learn to:
- Understand the evolving virtual machine ecosystem
- Identify the types of money that virtual machines consume in the datacenter
- Discover which technology solutions can directly reduce the costs of virtual machines
Speakers
Michael Heffernan - Chief Technologist, Virtualization
Julie Raedeke - Senior Solutions Marketing Manager, Server Virtualization
Justin Augat - Senior Product Marketing Manager
Get More from Less - How to Maximize Your Capacity Efficiency
How much could you save your organization by adopting storage virtualization? Find out in this WebTech session with Mark Peters of ESG and Justin Augat, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Hitachi Data Systems. They will share research findings and real-world case studies that illustrate the significant, untapped opportunity to improve storage efficiency – utilization, performance, operations and cost – with storage virtualization. Today's disk drive shortages are highlighting what IT professionals have long understood – you need to get more from your storage investments. There are ways to do that right now, and Mark and Justin will show you how.
Speakers
Mark Peters, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc.
Justin Augat, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Hitachi Data Systems
The Economics of Storage Virtualization
Virtualization in the data center is a
stable and proven approach to make IT more efficient from desktops to
servers and from networks to storage. Whether storage virtualization is
host-based, controller-based or through an appliance, it is a core
ingredient in economical IT architectures. As in most new technology
investments, you need a clear understanding of the benefits versus the
costs. When you can project a positive ROI and fast payback, your
projects gain more traction with IT management. Storage virtualization
is a critical element for any organization that wants to significantly
reduce unit costs in 2012.
Does
storage virtualization make sense for you and your storage environment
now? Are there economic benefits for you with this technology? What
benefits and cost metrics do you need to build your own business case
for Storage Economics? Are you aware of the compound advantage that
storage virtualization and server virtualization make on your data
center operations and costs?
Join
David Merrill, Hitachi Data Systems chief economist and global business
consultant to understand:
- Types of costs that virtualization
can directly address (and reduce)
- Qualitative
benefits of virtualization and how to convert them to cost savings
- Quantitative methods to measure and predict cost
savings of virtualization in data migration, space reclamation, storage
management tools, storage management effort and consolidations
- Qualitative impact of combining server, desktop and
storage virtualization
- Cost savings by large and
small IT organizations around the world through virtualization of their
storage infrastructures
Speakers
David
Merrill, Chief Economist
Justin Augat, Senior Product
Marketing Manager
Manage Rising Disk Prices with Storage Virtualization
Learn how storage virtualization can reclaim
existing storage on the floor. Extend thin provisioning to existing
storage to increase disk utilization and defer capital purchases. Take
advantage of zero page reclaim and write same to reclaim storage
reclamation. Use the Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning overprovisioning
capability for automatic optimum storage utilization. We’ll also
cover dramatic enhancements to the Hitachi Switch IT On III
program that make this extremely attractive and affordable. Come to this
WebTech and learn from Hitachi experts how to use these technologies to
increase your customer satisfaction and sales despite impending
increases in disk prices.
Attend
this session to learn:
- Thin provisioning options for
storage reclamation and expectations that depend on customer
environment
- “How to” on reclaiming storage from
existing systems using Storage
Virtualization
- Details of Hitachi Switch IT On III
enhanced program
Speakers
Steve
Burr, Solution Architect, GSS Services Engineering
John
Harker, Senior Product Marketing Manager
Storage Virtualization – A Foundation for Economically Superior Storage Architectures
Hitachi Dynamic Tiering (Session 3, Operations)
Hitachi Dynamic Tiering (Session 2, Configuration)
Hitachi Dynamic Tiering (Session 1, Principles)
A Buyer’s Guide to Storage Virtualization
In an IT world consumed by growth and complexity yet constrained by budget limitations, storage virtualization offers a practical solution. In this webcast, you will learn what to know and what to look for when purchasing storage virtualization. You will hear explanations of the available approaches with advice on making an informed decision. IT individuals looking for storage best practices should attend to gain insight in addressing their top enterprise storage challenges.
In this WebTech, you’ll learn to:
- Understand what to know and what to look for when purchasing storage virtualization
- Discover the top six enterprise storage issues storage virtualization addresses
- Define your storage requirements to take advantage of storage virtualization capabilities
Speakers:
Mark Peters, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc.
Mike Nalls, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Hitachi Data Systems
Business Case for VAAI
As virtualization becomes more pervasive across the data center, the tight integration between servers and storage becomes increasingly important -- and VAAI support will be key. This webcast will provide a comprehensive look at VAAI, showing you how its technical benefits can translate into business advantages within your organization.
By attending this webcast, you'll:
- Learn how VAAI can help you optimize and simplify your vSphere environments.
- See how VAAI technical benefits can translate into tangible business benefits.
- Discover how VAAI-supported storage systems can enable datacenter transformation.
Speakers:
Mark Bowker, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
Heidi Biggar, Solutions Marketing Principal, Hitachi Data Systems
Optimizing SAP Information Lifecycle Management
Protecting the SAP production environment from any possible negative impact is always the top priority. The very existence of many businesses depends on the 7x24 availability of their SAP business system. The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform includes the technologies required for quality of service (QOS) for production.
- Consolidate all SAP production applications onto a single platform to reduce your hardware costs and make management more efficient
- Grow and scale your SAP and storage environments seamlessly without impacting production applications, performance or your customer's user experience
Specifically you will learn how to
- Develop a top down architecture for a state of the art SAP virtualized storage infrastructure
- Successfully integrate the advanced capabilities of the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and related technologies
- Deploy a virtualized storage infrastructure for SAP that will enable
- Protected QOS for mission critical SAP
- Consolidation, growth and upgrade protection
- Data replication and replication management
- Information lifecycle management
- Optimization of cost and performance
Speaker:Jim Stephens, Hitachi Solutions Product Manager, SAP
Technical Perspectives on Scale Up and Scale Out Architectures for Storage Systems
Point of View Session: Storage vendors have recently hyped up their ability to offer "scale out" systems to handle storage capacity growth and economics. At the same time, many enterprise organizations face significant consolidation and storage performance constraints that may make certain scale out approaches less than perfect. What if you could achieve both scale out and scale up with no compromise?
By watching this session you will be able to:
- Understand key current storage architecture trends and their origins
- Identify core characteristics of scale up and scale out architectures
- Evaluate trade offs and architectural considerations to improve SLA and optimize efficiencies
Increase Savings with File Systems, Thin Provisioning and Storage Reclamation
Technical Session: Learn about Write Same, a new feature of Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning that uses active, ongoing reclamation of file system storage. It is now available on the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family and Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V and VM. Used in conjunction with Symantec Storage Foundation’s VxFS file system and the Veritas Thin Provisioning API, Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning now further increases storage savings. Hitachi Data Systems is one of the first to release support for this significant technology advancement. Come to this WebTech and learn from Hitachi and Symantec experts how to take advantage of this feature.
Watch this session and learn:
- When, why and how to integrate Symantec Storage Foundations server-based, thin provisioning capabilities with Hitachi storage-based thin provisioning.
- How the Veritas Thin Provisioning API and Write Same work in thin provisioned environments to enable active file system storage reclamation.
The Economics of Storage Virtualization
Business Session. Virtualization in the data center is gaining momentum, from desktops to servers, from networks to storage. Irrespective of the virtualization implementation (host-based, fabric, appliance or controller-based), storage virtualization is a core ingredient to deploy economically superior architectures. As in most new technology investments, a clear understanding of the benefits of investment needs to be made relative to the various costs of investments. When the ROI of an action is positive and projects fast payback the projects gains more traction with the IT management team.
So does storage virtualization make sense for you and your storage environment now? Are you in (or close to) the economic sweet spot for this technology? What benefits and cost metrics do you need to build your own business case for storage economics?
Join David Merrill, Hitachi Data Systems Chief Economist and Global Business Consultant and:
- Understand the types of costs that virtualization can directly address (and reduce)
- Qualitative benefits of virtualization and converting these to cost savings
- Quantitative methods to measure and predict cost savings that come from Virtualization, in the areas of data migration, space reclamation, storage management tools, storage management effort and consolidations
- What have global customers, large and small, seen from a cost savings perspective relative to virtualization of storage infrastructure
How and Why to Upgrade to Hitachi Device Manager v7
Hitachi Device Manager v7 lets you simplify and control all your storage assets from a centralized console with improved usability, workflow, speed, scalability and task management. Whether you have already upgraded or are considering an upgrade to v7, please join us for this informative WebTech session to learn the best practices for upgrading to Hitachi Device Manager v7.
In this session, you will learn:
- Key feature differences between Hitachi Device Manager v6 and v7
- Maintenance tasks to conduct prior to the upgrade
- Best practices after completing the upgrade process
Presenters:
Brandon Lambert, Principal Solutions Consultant
Richard Jew, Senior Product Marketing Manager
Storage Service Level Management
Are your mission critical business applications receiving the correct storage service levels for capacity and performance? Join this informative WebTech session on storage service level management for business applications to properly manage the storage services for your business applications and ensure all your service level agreements are being met.
By attending this WebTech, you’ll learn how to
- Effectively manage storage organized by business applications and functions
- Define and monitor application based storage service levels
- Generate reports when application storage service levels are being met and diagnose when and why they are not being met
Speakers:
Richard Jew, Sr. Product Marketing Manager
Albert Tan, Technical Product Manager
Rizwan Muhammad, Technical Product Manager
New Capabilities and Simplified Operations with Hitachi Device Manager since v7.0
Starting with a guest appearance describing how they use Device Manager, this session will then review what’s new in Hitachi Device Manager since v7.0. It will cover and give a quick demo of the highlights of the 7.1 and 7.1.1 releases focusing on improvements in host management, Hitachi Dynamic Tiering support and the new and improved Resource Groups multi-tenancy administration feature. Topped off by a lively Q&A session where you can ask questions of the product manager and field technical specialists, this session will give you the latest on how to get the most from Hitachi Device Manager.
By attending this webcast you will learn how to:
- Simplify host groupings and storage operations
- Setup and manage Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning and Hitachi Dynamic Tiering pools
- Partition your storage system for secure multitenancy administration
Speakers:
John Harker, Senior Product Marketing Manager
Cindy Martinage, Technical Product Manager
Manage Midrange Storage in Enterprise Environments
Technical Session. This WebTech is geared to installations with multiple or large Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 (AMS) systems and that face the demands and complexities of an enterprise environment. Hitachi storage management solutions give full control of the midrange storage infrastructure for optimal performance, availability and capacity utilization while simplifying storage management. These solutions allow the appropriate configuration of Hitachi storage systems to easily align to changing business application needs. They also centralize management to configure devices, plan capacity and tune performance. The Hitachi Storage Command Suite comprises multiple software products that can be used individually but gain power when used together. This WebTech will review the components and their functions, quickly demonstrate their use with an AMS system and end with time for questions and answers.
By watching this WebTech you will learn:
- The components, look and feel, and functions of the Hitachi Storage Command Suite
- How to view and report on your storage by host, virtual machine and storage systems
- How to troubleshoot a storage problem reported against a host using Hitachi Tuning Manager
Storage Service Level Management with Hitachi Storage Command Portal
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
New Virtual Server Support for Hitachi Storage Command Suite
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
Using Hitachi Tuning Manager to Monitor Microsoft Exchange Performance
Technical Session. Hitachi Tuning Manager software provides agents for monitoring and analyzing multiple applications from a single point of management. One of such agent is the Microsoft® Exchange® agent that can monitor performance data for Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2007. It provides storage administrators with convenient and easy way to monitor the Exchange environment health for extent period of time without necessity to use specific Exchange Server management tools.
Attend this webcast and learn how to:
- Install and setup Exchange agent as a part of Tuning Manager software package.
- Identify typical performance issues and trends associated with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and 2007.
- Custom design Hitachi Tuning Manager reports to monitor Exchange Server performance.
Best Practices for Hitachi Storage Capacity Reporter, powered by Aptare®, to Increase Storage Utilization and Decrease Costs
Technical Session. Do you know how much of your allocated storage is actually being used? How much “hidden” storage in your environment sits unused without you knowing about it? Do you need more storage capacity but don’t currently have the budget? If this sounds all too familiar, please join us for this webcast to learn how Hitachi Storage Capacity Reporter software can give you greater visibility into your heterogeneous storage infrastructure to help you maximize on your storage investments. See how this agentless storage reporting application can provide you end-to-end storage capacity reporting: from your storage systems, hosts, to your applications.
In this session learn how to:
- Obtain an end-to-end view of storage utilization including storage systems, hosts and applications without the need to deploy host based agents.
- Identify hidden, unused storage that can be reclaimed for other uses.
- Create custom dashboards and reports to monitor critical information about your storage capacity.
- Increase storage capacity planning with future forecasts of storage systems and host consumption.
Using Hitachi Tuning Manager Performance Reporter for Pre-defined Reports
Flexible Options to Simplify Cloud Deployments
As the cloud model for delivering IT continues to mature, HDS has developed a variety of deployment and consumption models to help you become more agile and lower costs. Since every organization has unique requirements, it's important to provide flexibility and choice in consuming, delivering and maintaining a cloud environment. Join us to learn how you can leverage different approaches to move into the cloud at your own pace, all while minimizing risk and disruption to your existing business and users.
By attending this webinar, you will be able to
- Describe options for consuming and delivering IT
- Identify best practices and expected benefits of offloading IT management
- Determine which consumption model best meets your needs in aligning IT cost to business value
Speakers
Tanya Loughlin - Senior Product Marketing Manager
Joe Jose - Services Product Marketing Manager
Increase Your IT Agility and Cost-competitiveness with Hitachi Cloud Solutions
Join us to learn how to gain agility and competitive edge by adopting a cloud model for IT.
In this webinar we will reveal the new Hitachi Cloud Solutions and services that align with our vision for infrastructure cloud, content cloud and information cloud. With Hitachi Cloud Solutions, we will highlight how you can simplify and accelerate your transition to the cloud, gain more sophisticated insight from data and information and build a foundation for future innovation.
- Gain agility and react faster to the growing and changing needs of your business.
- Reduce operational and capital costs through a flexible infrastructure that supports cloud delivery models for IT.
- Simplify and accelerate the adoption of private, hybrid and public cloud with an integrated portfolio of Hitachi cloud technologies, solutions and services.
Host: Sunil Chavan, Director, Software Group & Cloud solutions, APAC, Hitachi Data Systems
Speaker
Miklos Sandorfi , Chief Strategy Officer, File, Content and Cloud, Hitachi Data Systems
Improve Cloud Adoption with Converged Infrastructure Solutions from Hitachi Data Systems and Brocade
Join us for a live Webcast on tightly integrated compute solutions with open and flexible cloud architectures for your easy ordering, deployment and management, with Ram Kailasanathan from Hitachi Data Systems and Dick Masyga from Brocade.
Listen in to the Hitachi Data Systems and Brocade discussion to learn how to deploy a Microsoft Exchange 2010 and Hyper-V environment with:
- Application specific solutions to reduce integration and tuning time
- Pre-tested configurations of virtualized infrastructure blocks that are repeatable, reliable and easy to deploy
- Centralized and simplified management with end-to-end visibility across the stack-server, network, storage, and application domains
Speakers
Ram Kailasanathan, Systems Engineer, Hitachi Data Systems
Dick Masyga, Systems Engineer, Brocade
Reduce Costs by Eliminating Backups and Dependence on Local Storage at the Edge
Challenged by supporting the needs of unstructured data in distributed IT models, such as remote or branch office and cloud service providers? Learn how to reduce cost and complexity at the edge and simplify cloud deployments with Hitachi Data Ingestor (HDI). HDI is a bottomless and backup-free cloud on-ramp and filer that provides a seamlessly scalable edge-to-core storage solution.
By attending this webcast, you'll learn how to
- Take advantage of the latest features and use cases of HDI v3 and deliver file services to the edge in the most efficient and flexible way
- Gain agility and react faster to the changing needs of your business
- Reduce operational and capital costs through a flexible infrastructure powered by HDI
Speakers
Jon Chinitz, technical product manager
Ken Lamb, technical product manager
Increase Your IT Agility and Cost-efficiency with HDS Cloud Solutions
Find out how to build and use your cloud to support your business's objectives. Learn about new HDS cloud solutions and services that help you create clouds for infrastructure, content and information. Simplify and accelerate your transition to the cloud. Improve your competitive edge and build a foundation for future innovation.
By attending this webcast, you'll learn how to
- Gain agility and react faster to the growing and changing needs of your businesses.
- Reduce operational and capital costs through a flexible infrastructure that supports cloud delivery models for IT.
- Simplify and accelerate the adoption of private, hybrid and public cloud with an integrated portfolio of Hitachi cloud technologies, solutions and services.
Presenter:
Miklos Sandorfi, Chief Strategy Officer, File, Content and Cloud, Hitachi Data Systems
Storage Virtualization: Delivering Storage as an Utility for the Cloud
What are the requirements for cloud storage? You need agile systems and management solutions to meet changing business requirements over time. You need to segregate or compartmentalize storage for multi-tenancy. And you need to be able to flexibly deliver specified service levels to individual departments and applications. When you virtualize storage with Hitachi block virtualization, you can use any of your storage for any system or application. Plus you can move data throughout the Hitachi Dynamic Storage infrastructure without disrupting operations. Attend this informative session to learn how the Hitachi Command Suite can help you meet the demanding storage requirements of private cloud computing.
By attending this WebTech you will learn how to :
- Use storage virtualization and the Hitachi Command Suite to deliver and monitor application storage service levels
- Reduce your operation costs while improving reliability with automation and intelligent workflows
- Efficiently manage and report in a multi-tenancy storage environment
- Understand how Hitachi's solution stacks up against the competition
Speakers:
Sara Gardner, Senior Director, Product Marketing
Richard Jew, Senior Product Marketing Manager
Malcolm Muir, Senior Competitive Marketing Analyst
The Best-kept Insider Secret: VMware vSphere 5 Cloud Deployment
Learn why the industry’s most demanding customers are deploying clouds with the storage virtualization leader. Hear Michael Heffernan, Hitachi Solutions Product Manager, VMware, and Patrick Allaire, Senior Product Marketing Manager, give you the inside information you need to understand why VMware vSphere 5 cloud deployment on Hitachi infrastructure is the way to go.
Speakers:
Michael Heffernan, Hitachi Solutions Product Manager, VMware
Patrick Allaire, Senior Product Marketing Manager
Storage in the Cloud: Analyst Roundtable
Virtualization and cloud computing are some
of the top technologies IT departments are focusing on today. What does
this mean, and what does it mean to storage? What are the opportunities,
and what are the pitfalls? Join leading industry experts in a round
table discussion framing the question and showing how cloud storage is a
key foundation for application clouds. Learn which cloud storage
solutions are appropriate for your company, and how to use them
effectively for successful cloud computing designs.
By attending you will learn how
to:
- Gain a basic
pragmatic understanding of and taxonomy for cloud
computing
- Accelerate cloud computing adoption and
performance with virtualized storage
- Reduce CAPEX
and OPEX costs for cloud storage
- How you may already
be applying the principles in your
environment
Speakers:
Simon
Robinson. Research Director, Storage, 451 Group
Michael Hay,
Vice President of Product Planning, Hitachi Data Systems
John
Harker, Senior Product Marketing Manager
Ensure Data Relevance with Hitachi Data Discovery Suite
Ensure that the data we store is both relevant and readily accessible. Hitachi Data Discovery Suite simplifies cross-platform search, intelligent file tiering, and proactive e-discovery for Hitachi NAS Platform, powered by BlueArc®, Hitachi Content Platform, Microsoft Windows file servers and NetApp devices. The session will cover how the right solution can improve productivity, increase business competitiveness and reduce costs. It will also discuss proactive e-discovery and identification of content for compliance and governance.
By attending this WebTech you’ll:
- Understand how cross-platform search can ensure the right data is available at the right time
- Learn how intelligent file tiering can reduce the total cost of storage ownership and reduce “noise” associated with enterprise search.
- Explore the benefits of proactive e-discovery
Speakers:
Justin Augat, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Hitachi Data Systems
Marcelline Saunders, Senior Product Manager, Hitachi Data Systems
Tina Kadambari, Business Development Manager, Hitachi Data Systems
How to Deliver Efficient IT to Remote and Cloud Users
Hitachi Data Systems has introduced our newly enhanced edge-to-core solution that offers more flexibility, choice, and ease-of-use, to help you reduce the cost and complexity of delivering IT to remote and cloud users. Improve your cost and operational efficiency with this flexible, simplified, distributed IT architecture.
Attend this WebTech and you’ll learn how to:
- Deliver IT to remote and cloud users in the most efficient and flexible way
- Reduce IT cost and complexity
- Simplify and accelerate cloud deployments.
Speakers:
Bill McConnell, Product Manager, File/Content Services
Ken Lamb, Product Manager, File/Content Services
Maximize Performance and Minimize Costs in Your SharePoint Environment
Reducing File Backups with Object Storage
Join us for a recorded webcast and hear how object storage reduces or eliminates the need for traditional tape-based backups. It also speeds content retrieval and provides disaster recovery services for all your unstructured data.
Specifically, you’ll learn how object storage:
- Protects data from disaster, tampering, theft and loss
- Preserves content and evolves with IT technology over time
- Recovers data more quickly, accurately and easily than tape
After watching this webcast, you will be able to:
- Appreciate the benefits of moving static content from primary storage to an object store
- Understand how object storage delivers superior protection and recovery versus tape-based backups
- Identify areas in your environment where object storage can have a significant impact
Doing Business in the Cloud: What You Need to Know
Point of View Session: Cloud is not a single product but rather a way to provide IT services. If you are researching or deploying an internal or private cloud, watch this webinar to understand how to choose the right cloud infrastructure for your organization. Choosing wisely can give you:
- Redeployment of resources instantly, anytime and anywhere, to support business objectives
- Reductions in data center power, cooling and facility costs
- Insight into the efficiency and cost effectiveness of your infrastructure
- Decreases in operating expenses and lower capital expenditures
Watch this webinar with Miklos Sandorfi, Chief Strategy Officer, File and Content Services to learn how to:
- Understand the feasibility of cloud computing for your business
- Evaluate the value of cloud computing in cost savings, increased agility and productive collaboration
- Identify what is important in deploying cloud computing
Reduce Storage Cost up to 40% with Hitachi File and Content Solutions
Point of View Session: Join us for a live webcast to discuss reduction of storage costs up to 40%. Learn about consolidating heterogeneous environments, dynamic tiering across storage tiers, compressing and deduplicating data and dramatic reductions of the backup environment.
Specifically, you’ll learn how Hitachi file and content solutions help you:
- Drive down costs by storing more data on SATA disks and less on Fibre Channel disks
- Reduce the amount of data that must be backed up
- Enable flexibility and ease of management with dynamic tiering
The Best-kept Insider Secret: VMware vSphere 5 Cloud Deployment
Learn why the industry’s most demanding customers are deploying clouds with the storage virtualization leader. Hear Michael Heffernan, Hitachi Solutions Product Manager, VMware, and Patrick Allaire, Senior Product Marketing Manager, give you the inside information you need to understand why VMware vSphere 5 cloud deployment on Hitachi infrastructure is the way to go.
Speakers:
Michael Heffernan, Hitachi Solutions Product Manager, VMware
Patrick Allaire, Senior Product Marketing Manager
Snapshot-based Backup and Data Protection
Backup and restore in Microsoft Exchange, SQL and SharePoint Server environments don’t have to be complicated or expensive. See a new way to backup and protect your data more easily and efficiently using snapshot technology. This solution is also useful in VMware or Microsoft Hyper-V environments.
Improve performance and anticipate your future scalability requirements. An added bonus will be writable clone technology to reduce the capacity requirements within production environments.
By attending this webcast, you’ll learn how to:
- Provide an alternative backup and data protection strategy for Microsoft Exchange, SQL and SharePoint Server
- Demonstrate benefits of application consistent snapshots
- Simplify application administration by saving time and cost
Speakers:
Fred Oh, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, NAS Products
Jim Burgh, Sr. Product Manager, Backup and Data Protection Products
The Six Points of VMware Integration
As VMware environments increase in size and scope, integration becomes increasingly critical to maintain or improve SLAs. This webcast will walk through the six different points of VMware integration to help you understand the value of each and, importantly, the differences among vendor solutions.
By attending this webcast, you'll:
- Understand the technical details of VAAI, vCenter, VADP and other key integration points.
- Learn how to leverage integration in your environment to improve performance, resilience and scale.
- Understand the differences among vendor solutions and technologies -- specifically how certain native feature sets can translate into significant value in your environment.
Speakers:
Michael Heffernan, Hitachi Solutions Product Manager, VMware
Heidi Biggar, Hitachi Solutions Marketing Principal, Server Virtualization
Subject line options:
Meet SLA requirements with VMware integration
VMware: Improve integration, improve performance
Business Case for VAAI
As virtualization becomes more pervasive across the data center, the tight integration between servers and storage becomes increasingly important -- and VAAI support will be key. This webcast will provide a comprehensive look at VAAI, showing you how its technical benefits can translate into business advantages within your organization.
By attending this webcast, you'll:
- Learn how VAAI can help you optimize and simplify your vSphere environments.
- See how VAAI technical benefits can translate into tangible business benefits.
- Discover how VAAI-supported storage systems can enable datacenter transformation.
Speakers:
Mark Bowker, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
Heidi Biggar, Solutions Marketing Principal, Hitachi Data Systems
Maximize Performance and Minimize Costs in Your SharePoint Environment
Live Migration over Distance Using Hitachi Storage Cluster for Hyper-V
Join us for a live webcast and hear experts from Hitachi Data Systems and Microsoft discuss and demonstrate an end-to-end business continuity solution. The Live Migration over Distance solution combines proven technologies from Hitachi, Microsoft and Brocade to enable organizations to proactively migrate Hyper-V environments across distances as well as address common IT problems.
By attending this webcast, you’ll learn how to:
- Protect critical business applications
- Move virtualized applications and data within and across data centers separated by distance
- Balance application workloads to avoid performance interruptions
- Perform routine maintenance procedures or processes within normal business hours and without user interruption
- Leverage new technologies without having to “rip and replace” your existing infrastructure
Presenters:
Ryan Sokolowski – Microsoft / Citrix Solutions Product Manager at HDS
Jim Schwartz – Director of Virtualization Solutions for Microsoft
Optimizing SAP Information Lifecycle Management
Protecting the SAP production environment from any possible negative impact is always the top priority. The very existence of many businesses depends on the 7x24 availability of their SAP business system. The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform includes the technologies required for quality of service (QOS) for production.
- Consolidate all SAP production applications onto a single platform to reduce your hardware costs and make management more efficient
- Grow and scale your SAP and storage environments seamlessly without impacting production applications, performance or your customer's user experience
Specifically you will learn how to
- Develop a top down architecture for a state of the art SAP virtualized storage infrastructure
- Successfully integrate the advanced capabilities of the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and related technologies
- Deploy a virtualized storage infrastructure for SAP that will enable
- Protected QOS for mission critical SAP
- Consolidation, growth and upgrade protection
- Data replication and replication management
- Information lifecycle management
- Optimization of cost and performance
Speaker:Jim Stephens, Hitachi Solutions Product Manager, SAP
Beef up Your Microsoft SQL Server Infrastructure
Technical Session: Beef up your Microsoft SQL Server infrastructure with Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 (AMS2000) systems. Be prepared to meet increasing demands for performance, availability, cost and protection. The webinar will cover SQL Server specific aspects:
- Massively scalable, multitier capacity for optimizing data storage costs across its entire lifecycle
- Advanced backup, replication, migration and protection capabilities
- Thin provisioning for cost savings, simplified provisioning and improved performance
- Consolidation and common management of infrastructure and resources
Watch to this session and learn how:
- How the AMS2000 design supports and enhances the performance and availability characteristics of SQL Server environments
- How to speed up and automate SQL Server backup and disaster recovery using Hitachi Protection Manager
- How to provide advanced 100% uptime options for disaster recovery using Hitachi storage clusters
- How Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning can enhance SQL Server environments with thin provisioning benefits
Why Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform Does So Well in a Mainframe Environment
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is a new paradigm in enterprise array performance. In this session we will discuss the box-wide performance of VSP, and how its new architecture enhances performance. The results of performance testing with synthetic host IO generators and the PAI/O driver will also be presented.
Attend this WebTech to learn:
- How to improve performance in your environment with Hitachi VSP
- How different RAID architectures affect performance in mainframe environments
- How wide striping enabled by Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning optimizes functionality
Speaker:
Ron Hawkins, Manager, Tech Ops Performance, Hitachi Data Systems
Find the Facts and Lies about Replication in Mainframe Storage
Business continuity is essential for today's enterprise computing environments and protecting your data and information is key. However, the many myths associated with data replication can be confusing. How do you sort truth from fiction? Join Hitachi Solution Architect Joe Amato to learn about in-system replication as well as replication to remote locations, both synchronously and asynchronously. You'll come away from the session equipped with valuable insight into the business continuity solutions available for mainframe storage.
Attend this WebTech to understand:
- The differences between 2-, 3- and 4-data-center solutions and the value of each
- Avoid running out of UCBs and also address the problem of very large data sets required by application support with Extended Address Volumes (EAV)
- How to use your remote synchronous copy of data while automatically keeping the data at a secondary remote replication site in-sync with the failover site
Speaker:
Joe Amato, Principal Solutions Architect, Hitachi Data Systems
How to Apply the Latest Advances in Mainframe Storage
Join Hitachi experts in a short, valuable seminar on recent mainframe storage advances and Hitachi mainframe storage support, followed by a live question and answer session. Mainframe storage is moving beyond simply maintaining plug compatibility and on to more advanced storage capabilities introduced and proven in the open systems storage world. External storage virtualization, advanced distant and local disaster recovery are all part of the cutting edge, which now includes dynamic provisioning. This webinar will discuss recent advances in Hitachi Data Systems mainframe storage capabilities as solutions to real world challenges.
Attend this WebTech to learn how to:
- Reduce operations overhead and storage costs by using Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning for Mainframe to automatically optimize both capacity utilization and real-time performance power
- Avoid running out of UCBs and also address the problem of very large data sets required by application support with Extended Address Volumes (EAV)
- Increase the capacity of System z® volumes without taking the volumes offline by using Dynamic Volume Expansion
Speakers:
Walter Amsler, Senior Director, Office of Technology and Planning
John Harker, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Hitachi Data Systems
Improve Mainframe Performance with the latest storage technology and 8Gb FICON
Learn how to improve your overall mainframe system throughput and I/O performance while reducing your operational costs. Experts from Hitachi Data Systems and Brocade will discuss how the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and Brocade networking solutions can dramatically improve elapsed time of critical batch processing as well as improve online transactional system response time through faster I/O processing and the implementation of 8Gb FICON.
By attending this webcast you will learn to :
- Improve your overall mainframe storage infrastructure with a smaller storage footprint as well as reduced power and HVAC requirements.
- Achieve faster response time with the latest storage technology including faster internal processing as well as SSD and SAS disk drives.
- Understand how 8Gb switched FICON is important and can increase your mainframe performance.
Speakers:
John Pilger, Senior Director, Global Accounts Technology and Architecture, Hitachi Data Systems
David Lytle, Global Solutions Architect, System z, Technologies and Solutions, Brocade
Do More for Less with the AMS 2000 Family
Reducing costs in your midrange storage environment can be as simple as choosing the right foundation. Operational efficiency, efficient utilization, and price-to-performance, are all key metrics in justifying a midrange investment. Attend this WebTech webinar to learn how Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family can drive down operational costs and improve storage utilization and efficiency.
Attend this WebTech and you’ll learn how to:
- Lower your total cost of ownership while improving performance
- Grow your midrange storage environment efficiently with increased utilization
- Get more from your assets: Automate and integrate with world-class enterprise storage systems.
Speakers
Mark Adams, Senior Product Marketing Manager
Justin Augat, Senior Product Marketing Manager
Beef up Your Microsoft SQL Server Infrastructure
Technical Session: Beef up your Microsoft SQL Server infrastructure with Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 (AMS2000) systems. Be prepared to meet increasing demands for performance, availability, cost and protection. The webinar will cover SQL Server specific aspects:
- Massively scalable, multitier capacity for optimizing data storage costs across its entire lifecycle
- Advanced backup, replication, migration and protection capabilities
- Thin provisioning for cost savings, simplified provisioning and improved performance
- Consolidation and common management of infrastructure and resources
Watch to this session and learn how:
- How the AMS2000 design supports and enhances the performance and availability characteristics of SQL Server environments
- How to speed up and automate SQL Server backup and disaster recovery using Hitachi Protection Manager
- How to provide advanced 100% uptime options for disaster recovery using Hitachi storage clusters
- How Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning can enhance SQL Server environments with thin provisioning benefits
Manage Midrange Storage in Enterprise Environments
Technical Session. This WebTech is geared to installations with multiple or large Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 (AMS) systems and that face the demands and complexities of an enterprise environment. Hitachi storage management solutions give full control of the midrange storage infrastructure for optimal performance, availability and capacity utilization while simplifying storage management. These solutions allow the appropriate configuration of Hitachi storage systems to easily align to changing business application needs. They also centralize management to configure devices, plan capacity and tune performance. The Hitachi Storage Command Suite comprises multiple software products that can be used individually but gain power when used together. This WebTech will review the components and their functions, quickly demonstrate their use with an AMS system and end with time for questions and answers.
By watching this WebTech you will learn:
- The components, look and feel, and functions of the Hitachi Storage Command Suite
- How to view and report on your storage by host, virtual machine and storage systems
- How to troubleshoot a storage problem reported against a host using Hitachi Tuning Manager
Lower Your Virtual Machine Costs with an Economical New Framework
In recent years, virtual machines (VMs) have evolved beyond test and development platforms to become staples of data center efficiency and cost reduction. As VMs continue to change and consume a greater percentage of the IT budget, you can increase the efficiency of VMs to contain the cost of growth. This webinar will outline a framework to identify, measure and reduce the costs of VMs regardless of the vendor.
By attending this webcast, you'll learn to:
- Understand the evolving virtual machine ecosystem
- Identify the types of money that virtual machines consume in the datacenter
- Discover which technology solutions can directly reduce the costs of virtual machines
Speakers
Michael Heffernan - Chief Technologist, Virtualization
Julie Raedeke - Senior Solutions Marketing Manager, Server Virtualization
Justin Augat - Senior Product Marketing Manager
Get More from Less - How to Maximize Your Capacity Efficiency
How much could you save your organization by adopting storage virtualization? Find out in this WebTech session with Mark Peters of ESG and Justin Augat, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Hitachi Data Systems. They will share research findings and real-world case studies that illustrate the significant, untapped opportunity to improve storage efficiency – utilization, performance, operations and cost – with storage virtualization. Today's disk drive shortages are highlighting what IT professionals have long understood – you need to get more from your storage investments. There are ways to do that right now, and Mark and Justin will show you how.
Speakers
Mark Peters, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc.
Justin Augat, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Hitachi Data Systems
The Economics of Storage Virtualization
Virtualization in the data center is a
stable and proven approach to make IT more efficient from desktops to
servers and from networks to storage. Whether storage virtualization is
host-based, controller-based or through an appliance, it is a core
ingredient in economical IT architectures. As in most new technology
investments, you need a clear understanding of the benefits versus the
costs. When you can project a positive ROI and fast payback, your
projects gain more traction with IT management. Storage virtualization
is a critical element for any organization that wants to significantly
reduce unit costs in 2012.
Does
storage virtualization make sense for you and your storage environment
now? Are there economic benefits for you with this technology? What
benefits and cost metrics do you need to build your own business case
for Storage Economics? Are you aware of the compound advantage that
storage virtualization and server virtualization make on your data
center operations and costs?
Join
David Merrill, Hitachi Data Systems chief economist and global business
consultant to understand:
- Types of costs that virtualization
can directly address (and reduce)
- Qualitative
benefits of virtualization and how to convert them to cost savings
- Quantitative methods to measure and predict cost
savings of virtualization in data migration, space reclamation, storage
management tools, storage management effort and consolidations
- Qualitative impact of combining server, desktop and
storage virtualization
- Cost savings by large and
small IT organizations around the world through virtualization of their
storage infrastructures
Speakers
David
Merrill, Chief Economist
Justin Augat, Senior Product
Marketing Manager
Manage Rising Disk Prices with Storage Virtualization
Learn how storage virtualization can reclaim
existing storage on the floor. Extend thin provisioning to existing
storage to increase disk utilization and defer capital purchases. Take
advantage of zero page reclaim and write same to reclaim storage
reclamation. Use the Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning overprovisioning
capability for automatic optimum storage utilization. We’ll also
cover dramatic enhancements to the Hitachi Switch IT On III
program that make this extremely attractive and affordable. Come to this
WebTech and learn from Hitachi experts how to use these technologies to
increase your customer satisfaction and sales despite impending
increases in disk prices.
Attend
this session to learn:
- Thin provisioning options for
storage reclamation and expectations that depend on customer
environment
- “How to” on reclaiming storage from
existing systems using Storage
Virtualization
- Details of Hitachi Switch IT On III
enhanced program
Speakers
Steve
Burr, Solution Architect, GSS Services Engineering
John
Harker, Senior Product Marketing Manager
3 Ways to Buy Less Storage and Save Money
Learn how to transform your data center with Hitachi Data Systems technologies that can help you buy less storage and put your data on tiers of storage that cost less.
- Dynamically tier your data
- Reclaim previously allocated but unused disk space
- Extend the useful life of your existing storage
Costa Hasapopoulos, VP of Solutions and Products
Five Ways to Drive Efficiencies and Get More from Your Investment
Mapping Cost Reductions to Storage Solutions
Point of View Session: Storage Economics methodology by Hitachi Data Systems outlines 33 different types of costs that constitute total cost of ownership (TCO) for storage. Looking beyond cost of acquisition (or price) is essential to really impact operational costs (OPEX) as well as capital costs (CAPEX). Identifying, isolating and measuring these costs are essential in developing plans and roadmaps on how to reduce the costs. Architects will want to know how to associate cost areas (to target and reduce) with tactical and strategic investments that can reduce particular IT and company costs. There is a mapping approach to correlate specific storage investments with cost reduction potentials.
By watching this webcast you will learn to:
- Prioritize and select costs (OPEX and CAPEX) from the 33 types that are important to your IT department
- Recognize the association of specific investments (thin provisioning, VTL, ITIL improvements) and how they correlate to impact cost areas
- Align the cost area(s) that you need to reduce with specific tactical or strategic investments that have proven to reduce the cost category
Economic Impact of Storage Archive
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
Economic Impact of Storage Archive for Today’s Public Sector Initiatives
Point of View Session: Today’s state and local government agencies are streamlining and automating their day-to-day operations to enhance efficiency and responsiveness for public programs and services. The increase in online initiatives promotes the need for 24-hour, nonstop operations. And those very initiatives translate to explosive data growth, data security challenges and the criticality of keeping those storage costs under control.
Storage capacity reduction and space reclamation are popular topics for agency 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 implement in the storage architecture.
What you will learn:
- Recognize and measure costs of old data buried within your agency’s storage infrastructure
- Measure costs of risks associated with data management and archiving
- Compare backup costs (and effort) between storage environments that have, or do not have, an archive tier available
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