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Increase productivity, efficiency and environmental savings by eliminating silos, preventing sprawl and reducing complexity by 50%. Using powerful consolidation systems, Hitachi Unified Storage or Hitachi NAS Platform, lets you consolidate existing file servers and NAS devices on to fewer nodes. You can perform the same or even more work with fewer devices and lower overhead, while reducing floor space and associated power and cooling costs.

Attend this webcast to learn how to:

• Shrink your primary file data without disrupting performance.
• Increase productivity and utilization of available capacity.
• Defer additional storage purchases.
• Save on power, cooling and space costs.

Speaker: Yong Kim, technical director, Americas File and Content Solutions, Hitachi Data Systems

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The growth in unstructured data stresses traditional backup and restore operations. Numerous, disparate systems with large numbers of files and duplicate copies of data increase backup and restore times and hurt the performance and availability of production systems. Cost and complexity rise, with more backup instances to buy and manage, more care and handling of an increasing numbers of tapes, and more management of offsite storage. In addition, you may need to support analytics, a compliance audit, or legal action that needs information that is stored offsite. By tiering data to an archive, you can reduce total backup volume by at least 30%. By extending that core archive to the edges of your business, your potential gains are worth investigating.

Attend this webcast to learn how to:

• Lower capital expenses (hardware, software, licensing, and so on).
• Control maintenance costs.
• Simplify management complexity.
• Reduce backup volume, time cost, and time and administrative effort.

Speaker: Nick Jarvis, director, File, Content and Cloud Solutions Verticals – Americas, Hitachi Data Systems

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For many IT organizations there is simply too much file data to deal with. You may have some of the significant IT challenges, such as inadequate storage space, long backup and restore operations, limitations on available power and floor space, extended or even infinite retention periods, finding the right information in a timely manner, and more. The first step to controlling this file – or "unstructured" – data is intelligent archiving, which preserves access to data from its original location, and stores the data elsewhere. Storing that data in a platform that scales while consuming the least resources possible, protects and preserves data, makes it always available and easily accessible, and helps you extract value from previously "dark" data.

Attend this webcast to learn how to:

• Reclaim or defer high performance storage purchases.
• Save more on all the costs of owning and maintaining growing content.
• Back up less data and reduce capacity needs.
• Set yourself up for what’s next.

Speaker: Peter Sjoberg, senior director, Americas File, Content and Cloud Solutions, Hitachi Data Systems

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Attend this webinar session to learn how you can transform your storage infrastructure into a business enabler.

You will learn:

• Tips and tricks to streamline storage performance monitoring across your Hitachi environment
• How to define and enforce performance and capacity objectives for key business applications by establishing storage service level management
• How to create storage service level management reports that satisfy the needs of multiple IT stakeholders (i.e. CIO, architect, administrator)

Speakers

• Michael Knouse, Software Solution Specialist
• Darryl Fujita, Technical Software Specialist
• Mike Rowley, Sr. Solutions Architect

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Attend this informative Webtech session to learn how to leverage storage analytics to transform your storage infrastructure into a business enabler. Storage analytics helps you to manage your storage environment beyond the operational view to a business centric view where storage resources can become strategic assets to drive storage service level management for business applications.

Attend this WebTech to learn:

• Tips and tricks to streamline storage performance monitoring across your Hitachi environment
• Establish storage service level management by defining and enforcing performance and capacity objectives for key business applications
• Create storage service level management reports that satisfy the needs of multiple IT stakeholders (i.e. CIO, architect, administrator)

Speakers

• Brett Hesterberg, Technical Product Manager
• Ojay Bahra, Technical Product Manager
• Richard Jew, Senior Product Marketing Manager

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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

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IT departments are challenged to meet many business demands that arise from shortages of valued resources: people, physical infrastructure, budget, and time. By extending your IT strategy to the cloud with Hitachi Cloud Service for Content Archiving, you can overcome many of these resource challenges, freeing you to focus on the higher priority needs of the business. By deploying an active archive, you are able to drive even greater value from business analytics.

In this session, you will learn how to:

• Incorporate Hitachi Cloud Service for Content Archiving as part of your extended IT strategy.
• Eliminate inefficiencies by moving target data from higher- to lower-tier storage.
• Improve operational efficiency by out-tasking storage management.
• Develop an integrated, seamless onsite and offsite storage strategy.

Speakers:
Don McNicoll, director Hitachi Cloud Services for Content Archiving
Joe Jose, senior product marketing manager

All attendees will be entered in a drawing to win a Microsoft Surface Tablet!

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IT organizations are under more pressure than ever. Stagnant budgets, overwhelming data growth, new user and application demands, increasing regulation, emerging trends around bring-your-own-device, rogue applications, dark data, consumerization of IT, and big data demand a new approach, not more and more of the same technologies sprawling into more and more silos. Object storage is the adaptation required for evolving into the next generation of IT that supports a new world of applications and storage service delivery models.

By attending this webcast, you'll learn to

• Embrace cloud while retaining proper stewardship and governance of data.
• Deliver better, more cost-effective protection of your data.
• Bring structure to unstructured data so you can better understand it.
• Enjoy more efficient storage and network utilization.

Speaker

• Jeff Lundberg, senior product marketing manager

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Everyone needs information, on the network and on the go. Business needs continuous access to information to support decisions and fuel innovation. IT is looking for innovative and production-ready ways to address IT complexity and inefficiencies. Learn how Hitachi cloud strategy, enabling technologies, and solutions make information accessible everywhere, meet a wide range of SLAs, requirements, and business needs, and efficiently manage and protect data while controlling costs.

By attending this webcast, you'll learn to

• Encourage creative, ongoing collaboration with secure access to fluid content.
• Make information available to your staff for insightful decisions — whether it's housed internally or externally.
• Free your IT staff for more strategic contributions.

Speaker

• Steve Garone, senior cloud product marketing manager

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In part three of three, you will learn how to make object storage part of your existing environments, how to use object storage with the next generation of cloud-enabled applications, and how to develop applications for object storage. Join Wayzen Lin, directory of technology for Hitachi content services, to explore using object storage with legacy applications and new applications and developing applications to work with object storage.

Attend this WebTech to learn how to

• Integrate legacy applications with object storage
• Integrate Web 2.0 applications with object storage
• Develop applications for use with object storage

Speaker
Wayzen Lin, director of technology, Hitachi content services

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In part two of three, Scott Nyman, senior product manager for Hitachi Content Platform, details how a well- designed object storage solution is easy to deploy and use, can control storage and administrative costs, can save IT staff time and effort, and can keep IT relevant in the Web 2.0 world.

Attend this WebTech to learn how to

• Save time, money and effort with object storage
• Identify opportunities to use object storage
• Keep IT relevant

Speaker
Scott Nyman, senior product manager for Hitachi Content Platform

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In part one of three, objects and object storage are defined, their key attributes are identified and the most common use cases for object storage are described. Join Jeff Lundberg, senior product marketing manager at Hitachi Data Systems, to learn the fundamentals of object storage and get answers to your questions.

Attend this WebTech to learn

• What makes an object
• The difference between block, file and object storage
• Key attributes and uses of object store solutions

Speaker
Jeff Lundberg, senior product marketing manager

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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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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Join this webinar and learn how to adopt HANA organically and cost-effectively. We will present Hitachi "Live in Five" services that support HANA business use cases and identify related business ROI. For the data center, we will discuss HANA deployment options that support service level agreements (SLAs).

Benefits of this session:

• Learn about the “Live in Five” program for SAP HANA.
• See how to identify and demonstrate the business value of a SAP HANA implementation.
• Hear industry use cases.
• Understand data center deployment options and how you can deliver SLAs.
• Learn about HANA disaster recovery strategies.

Speakers:

• Joachim Rahmfeld, VP Field Alliances and Mark Albers, VP Consulting Services

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Customers are seeing exponential growth of unstructured data from their social media websites to operational sources. Their enterprise data warehouses are not designed to handle such high volumes and varieties of data. Hadoop, the latest software platform that scales to process massive volumes of unstructured and semi-structured data by distributing the workload through clusters of servers, is giving customers new option to tackle data growth and deploy big data analysis to help better understand their business. Hitachi Data Systems is launching its latest Hadoop reference architecture, which is pre-tested with Cloudera Hadoop distribution to provide a faster time to market for customers deploying Hadoop applications. HDS, Cloudera and Hitachi Consulting will present together and explain how to get you there.

Attend this WebTech and learn how to

• Solve big-data problems with Hadoop.
• Deploy Hadoop in your data warehouse environment to better manage your unstructured and structured data.
• Implement Hadoop using HDS Hadoop reference architecture.

Speakers

• Shankar Radhakrishnan, Solutions Manager, Hitachi Data Systems
• Art Vancil, Big Data Senior Manager, Hitachi Consulting
• Daniel Templeton, Partner Manager, Cloudera

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As more companies grow their business in global markets, they discover the need to capture new opportunities in a matter of days rather than months to have competitive advantage and to capture new market share. Their machines are producing terabytes of various data types — video, audio, Microsoft® SharePoint®, sensor data, Microsoft Excel® files — and leaders are searching for the right technologies to capture this data and help provide a better understanding of their business.

The HDS big data product roadmap will help customers build a big data enterprise plan that ingests data faster and correlate meaningful data sets to create intelligence that’s easy to consume and helps leaders make the right business decisions.

Join this webcast to learn about Hitachi’s product roadmap to big data.

Speaker

• Michael Hay, CTO and VP, Global Solutions Strategy and Development Chief Engineer, Integrated Platform Strategy @ ITPD.

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Content stored for a business purpose is often without structure or metadata required to determine its original purpose. With Hitachi Data Discovery Suite and Hitachi Content Platform, businesses can uncover dark data that could be leveraged for better business insight and uncover compliance issues that could prevent business risks.

Attend this session and learn:

• What is enterprise dark data?
• How can enterprise dark data impact business decisions?
• How can you augment your underutilized data and deliver more value?
• How can you decrease the headache and challenges created by dark data?

Speakers

• Jeff Lundberg, senior product marketing manager, Hitachi Content Platform.
• Marcelline Sanders, senior product manager, Hitachi Data Discovery Suite.
• Eamon O’Neill, senior product manager, Hitachi Content Platform.

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Tap the full potential of big data to find oil more quickly, enhance oil production, and reduce the health, safety, and environmental risks of equipment failure or operator error. Join this informative 60 minute WebTech featuring IDC Energy Insights’ analyst Jill Feblowitz and leading energy experts from Hitachi Data Systems. Explore key findings from IDC Energy Insights' recent examination of big data and analytics in upstream oil and gas.

Learn how to:

• Benefit from the newest technology innovations in upstream oil and gas.
• Improve the geoscience workflows for more accurate and reliable results.
• Create big data solutions that scale and perform as you need.
• Build true big data solutions that are easier to procure, service and support globally.

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We are creating more digitized data than ever before. Big data is about gaining new business insight from expanded and previously untapped sources of information, including unstructured content, machine data logs and social media. This presentation will explain how Hitachi Data Systems delivers the infrastructure, services, content and partner solutions like SAP HANA to help you capitalize on this opportunity today. The presentation will also show how the combined companies of Hitachi, Ltd. are at the forefront of innovation for the world of big data of tomorrow.

By attending this webcast, you’ll learn how to

• Use HDS infrastructure to better manage data centers for big data.
• Analyze content for enterprise dark data.
• Work with HDS partners and services to develop a comprehensive big data solution.

Speakers

• Sara Gardner, senior director of software product marketing
• Laura Chu, senior manager of big data

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Accelerate breakthrough insights across your organization with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Data Warehouse running on the mission-critical and ready-to-deploy Hitachi server-storage-networking platform, Hitachi Unified Compute Platform. Amplify infrastructure performance with Hitachi and Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Fast Track Data Warehouse xVelocity in-memory technologies. Learn how your organization can extract 100 million+ records in 2 or 3 seconds versus the 30 minutes required previously. With SQL Server 2012 Fast Track Data Warehouse and Hitachi software, your organization will be able to leverage a data platform that processes any data anywhere.

By attending this webcast, you’ll learn

• How to reduce deployment time with ready-to-deploy solutions that have been engineered and pre-configured by Hitachi and validated by the Microsoft Fast Track Data Warehouse program
• How Hitachi and Microsoft have optimized performance for your data warehouse requirements
• How your organization can realize immediate ROI from your data warehouse investment

Presenters
Chris Marsh, senior solutions marketing manager, ERP, data warehousing, BI and analytics
Claude Lorenson, Ph.D., director, product management, BPMG management, Microsoft

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Join us for a live webcast and learn how to gain velocity and agility within your VMware vSphere environments while reducing costs and simplifying the management of your server, network and storage infrastructure. You will also learn how to leverage a unified, converged infrastructure to more quickly deploy business-critical workloads within a private cloud environment.

Attend this webcast and learn how to

• Increase IT efficiency and gain business velocity by leveraging a unified and converged infrastructure solution from Hitachi
• Enable both physical and virtual infrastructure consolidation while supporting thousands of VMs across the data center
• Achieve cost reductions through automation and orchestration of your VMware vSphere environment across server, network and storage tiers

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As IT infrastructures continue to be virtualized, data center architects are looking for ways to increase the mobility and high availability of virtual machines beyond a single data center. Expanding data centers across multiple locations has become an increasingly common strategy to address high-availability and disaster recovery needs for businesses with high uptime requirements.

Join Hitachi Data Systems for this Webinar and learn how you can

• Accelerate tier-1 virtualization adoption by providing best-in-class SLAs
• Dynamically move workloads within and across data centers to avoid contention, and support utility-on-demand models
• Provide automated recovery of applications with high return on investment

Speakers

• Michael Nakamura, Sr. solutions architect

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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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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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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

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When it comes to enterprise storage, IT has always had to choose between features and cost. Ongoing tradeoffs between the best technologies to support business operations and an adequate budget to pay for those technologies generally impede an organization’s ability to be competitive, innovative and cost efficient. The entry-enterprise storage market has opened up new opportunities for storage customers – and eliminated the need for tradeoffs. Join this webinar to understand how to accelerate business value with entry-enterprise storage systems and learn about the new Hitachi Data System offering, Hitachi Unified Storage VM.

Attend this WebTech to

• Understand the common tradeoffs and challenges within the entry-enterprise storage market
• Understand the business value of new entry-enterprise offerings
• Learn how Hitachi Unified Storage VM is bringing enterprise-level features to the midrange

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With the many enhancements and improvements in mainframe I/O technology in the past 5 years, the question "Do I need FICON switching technology, or should I go with direct attached storage?" is frequently asked. This webcast explores both technical and business reasons for implementing a switched FICON architecture instead of a direct attached storage FICON architecture for mainframe attached storage. The discussion will also include an overview of the Hitachi Data Systems and Brocade solutions for mainframe environments

By attending this webcast, you’ll learn

• The business and technical value of networking FICON attached storage instead of direct attached
• The business and technical value of Hitachi mainframe storage capabilities
• The offerings from Hitachi Data Systems and Brocade that can help you achieve the benefits of networked FICON storage

Speakers

• Bill Martin, director, mainframe product management, Hitachi Data Systems
• Steve Guendert, PhD, principal engineer, Brocade

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Learn how Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform mainframe replication capabilities can address your business continuity and disaster recovery requirements. Also learn how Brocade switches and directors complement HDS mainframe replication capabilities and add value to HDS solutions.

By attending this webcast, you’ll learn

• Trends driving changes to business continuity requirements, and how HDS replication products such as Hitachi Universal Replicator and hyperswap integration capabilities with Hitachi Business Continuity Manager are best positioned to address them
• The key features and functions of Brocade FCIP switches and Fibre Channel/FICON director inter-data center connectivity that provide additional value to HDS replication solutions
• Examples of how companies have implemented complete HDS solutions to solve their mainframe BC and DR needs

Speakers

• Mark Detrick, global solutions architect, Brocade
• Joe Amato, product manager for remote replication products, Hitachi Data Systems

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A key reason for using dynamic tiering for mainframe storage is performance. This session will focus on dynamic tiering in mainframe environments and how to configure and control tiering. The session ends with a detailed discussion of performance considerations when using Hitachi Dynamic Tiering.

By attending this webcast, you will

• Understand Hitachi Dynamic Tiering and the options for configuring and controlling tiering
• Understand the performance considerations and the type of performance improvements you might experience when you implement Hitachi Dynamic Tiering

Speakers

• Steve Rice, master performance consultant, mainframe, Hitachi Data Systems

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Learn from the experts how Hitachi Dynamic Tiering for Mainframe (HDT) complements existing mainframe storage provisioning processes while offering the full benefits of dynamic tiering to improve performance and simplify performance and capacity optimization. By automatically spreading application data sets across large numbers of physical disks, the software optimizes performance and throughput and reduces performance management concerns. Existing SMS provisioning processes can be aligned to different tiered storage pools

By attending this webcast, you'll learn how to

• Determine if HDT is appropriate for your workload
• Configure HDT to compliment DFSMS and improve flexibility, reducing storage group complexities and overhead
• Use a mix of small quantities of SSDs with SAS storage to dramatically improve mainframe storage performance and scalability

Speakers

• Larry Korbus, senior director, storage infrastructure software integration and architecture manager, Hitachi Data Systems
• John Harker, senior product marketing manager, Hitachi Data Systems

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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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IT environments in different vertical markets face unique complexity, performance and scale challenges as well as common issues such as cost reduction, data protection and system reliability. This session covers the unique workloads in 3 vertical markets 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 in oil and gas, media and entertainment, and healthcare with HUS-based architectures

Presenters

• Host: Ravi Chalaka, VP, Solutions Marketing

Speakers
Tony Hampel, Sr. Solutions Marketing Manager, HUS
Bjorn Anderson, Sr. Solutions Marketing Manager, Oil and Gas
Jeff Greenwald, Sr. Solutions Marketing Manager,  Media and Entertainment
Renee Stacey, Sr. Solutions Marketing Manager, Healthcare

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Forget the academic and sterile debates about what "unified" is, who's more unified and who's less. The fundamental questions at hand are very clear for storage experts: harnessing data growth (file, block and object), money, reducing complexity, and delivering service levels consistently.

So let's get straight to the point in this technical deep dive. We will explore the new Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) architecture. Hear Hitachi technical experts, Julie Herd and Kevin Hildebrandt, give you a solid understanding of the configurations and feature sets of this family. The unified management framework will be demonstrated.

By attending this webinar you'll learn how to:

• Address structured and unstructured data needs
• The key role of storage management software in unified architectures
• Use the architecture to reduce overall costs of your storage environment
• Meet service level objectives with balanced scalability

Speakers
Kevin Hildebrandt, Technical Product Management
Julie Herd, Director, HUS Product Management
Christophe Bertrand, Senior Director Product Marketing
Mark Adams, Senior Product Marketing Manager
Fred Oh, Senior Product Marketing Manager

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Jack of all trades and master of none, traditional unified platforms are reaching limits that negate the benefits they were supposed to deliver in the first place. Times are changing fast and unified platforms are needed in a growing segment of the market…not just at the low end. And with no compromise on performance, service levels or file system size…and for all data types (file, block and object).

Attend this round table with Hitachi product experts to get an update on Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) technologies. Hosted by Hitachi CTO, Hu Yoshida, this session will cover solutions to the top challenges in storage environments today and in the future.

By attending this webinar you'll learn how to:

• Save money through consolidation
• Reduce complexity of your storage environment
• Meet application SLAs consistently
• Learn about the need for balanced scalability

Speakers
Hu Yoshida, Chief Technology Officer
Christophe Bertrand, Senior Director Product Marketing
Mark Adams, Senior Product Marketing Manager
Fred Oh, Senior Product Marketing Manager

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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

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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

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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

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When it comes to enterprise storage, IT has always had to choose between features and cost. Ongoing tradeoffs between the best technologies to support business operations and an adequate budget to pay for those technologies generally impede an organization’s ability to be competitive, innovative and cost efficient. The entry-enterprise storage market has opened up new opportunities for storage customers – and eliminated the need for tradeoffs. Join this webinar to understand how to accelerate business value with entry-enterprise storage systems and learn about the new Hitachi Data System offering, Hitachi Unified Storage VM.

Attend this WebTech to

• Understand the common tradeoffs and challenges within the entry-enterprise storage market
• Understand the business value of new entry-enterprise offerings
• Learn how Hitachi Unified Storage VM is bringing enterprise-level features to the midrange

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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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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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