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Hitachi Storage Command Suite—Device Manager Logical Groups and LDEV Labels Best Practices
Event Type: Webcast
Event Start Date: September 10, 2008
Event End Date: September 10, 2008
Event Location: Internet
Technical Session: This WebTech session introduces and outlines best practices for using two important features of the Hitachi Storage Command Suite: grouping and naming storage resources with meaningful labels using Logical Groups and Logical Device (LDEV) Labels. John Harker, Senior Product Marketing Manager, and Malcolm Muir, Sr. Competitive Software Analyst, will explain that, when used properly, they can greatly ease the complexity of storage management. Logical Groups and LDEV Labels are shared among many of the products in the Hitachi Storage Command Suite and are one of the key integration points of the suite as a whole.
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Heterogeneous Storage Capacity Reporting and Planning
Event Type: Webcast
Event Start Date: September 17, 2008
Event End Date: September 17, 2008
Event Location: Internet
Business Session: Reporting on storage capacity utilization by application can be challenging, especially when the environment includes heterogeneous storage systems, and the installation of host based agents is prohibited. Richard Jew, Senior Product Marketing Manager, will introduce the new Hitachi Storage Capacity Reporter, powered by APTARE®, software that can help storage administrators create application based storage capacity reports without requiring host based agents to improve storage capacity utilization and planning.
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Upgrading from Hitachi Storage Navigator to Hitachi Device Manager
Event Type: Webcast
Event Start Date: September 24, 2008
Event End Date: September 24, 2008
Event Location: Internet
Technical Session: The workload on storage system administrators has grown considerably over the past few years. Hitachi Device Manager was created to help administrators manage storage more efficiently and with less effort. Himanshu Parida, Product Design Manager, and John Harker, Senior Product Marketing Manager, will introduce and outline what you need to do and what you can expect when you upgrade from managing a Hitachi Data Systems storage system with Hitachi Storage Navigator to managing it with Hitachi Device Manager.
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How Hitachi Replication Maximizes a VMware Site Recovery Manager Deployment
Event Type: Webcast
Event Start Date: October 1, 2008
Event End Date: October 1, 2008
Event Location: Internet
Technical Session: Are you curious about VMware's new Site Recovery Manager (SRM) technology and what it will do for you? VMware's SRM leverages Hitachi's market-proven replication technologies to deliver viable business continuity and disaster recovery solutions. Listen to Eric Stephen, Director of Global Solutions, and Bobby Crouch, Product Marketing Manager, explain how Hitachi and VMware together deliver a compelling offering for site recovery testing.
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Creating Real Time Alerts in Hitachi Tuning Manager 6.0
Event Type: Webcast
Event Start Date: October 8, 2008
Event End Date: October 8, 2008
Event Location: Internet
Technical Session: Hitachi Tuning Manager software provides customers with the capability of generating alarms to notify them when key performance, utilization and capacity thresholds are exceeded. Chuck Eaton, Principal Technical Consultant, will explain and demonstrate how to create these real time alarms using the new graphical user interface (GUI) in Tuning Manager that significantly simplifies this process.
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Mainframe Storage Virtualization: Making Modular Storage Useful to z/OS
Event Type: Webcast
Event Start Date: October 15, 2008
Event End Date: October 15, 2008
Event Location: Internet
Technical Session: Curious about how to use inexpensive modular storage in a mainframe environment? This WebTech session will demonstrate ways to expand the use of modular storage by virtualizing it into a z/OS® environment. You will learn the applications best suited for this added storage, learn how to plan for the addition and see a demonstration of the virtualization process using Hitachi Device Manager and Hitachi Universal Volume Manager. Joan Arnold-Roksandich, Account Consultant, will provide you with best practices, hints and tips to allow you to tame those open LUNS into 3390 volumes.
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Crafting an Effective NAS Consolidation Strategy
Event Type: Webcast
Event Start Date: October 22, 2008
Event End Date: October 22, 2008
Event Location: Internet
Business Session: Thinking it's time for network attached storage (NAS) consolidation at your data center? What are the top criteria to consider when you're planning a NAS consolidation project? What should you know before you start? Hear from George Pamboris, Director of NAS Product Management, and Linda Xu, Director of File Services Product Marketing, about what caused NAS proliferation, what challenges NAS proliferation has created for organizations large and small and, when you start a consolidation project, what criteria you will use to evaluate the options available. Learn why the Hitachi High-performance NAS solution is an option to consider if planning a file server or NAS consolidation project.
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Effective Use of Virtualized Tiered Storage Systems
Event Type: Webcast
Event Start Date: October 29, 2008
Event End Date: October 29, 2008
Event Location: Internet
Business Session: Join Hitachi Data Systems Chief Technology Officer Hu Yoshida for an informative discussion on solving key storage problems with the effective use of virtualized tiered storage systems. Like VMware for server environments, the ability to create new storage virtually and deliver differentiated tiers of storage as needed creates great cost efficiencies in the data center. Yoshida will describe how customers have taken advantage of virtualizing mixed types of storage systems to maximize their current investments. The characteristics and best uses of various classes of storage (Fibre, SATA, RAID types, internal, external) will be introduced along with network attached storage (NAS) and Content Archiving options. Expect a lively Q&A session at the end.
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