Hitachi Dynamic Tiering for Mainframe (HDT) allows data to be automatically spread across storage tiers to optimize performance and capacity. With HDT, existing SMS provisioning can be aligned to tiered storage pools, reducing storage group complexities. HDT also improves flexibility by dynamically placing application data sets across physical disks based on performance needs without requiring storage administrators to manually migrate data.
Consolidate More: High Performance Primary Deduplication in the Age of Abunda...Hitachi Vantara
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. View 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. For more information please visit: http://www.hds.com/products/file-and-content/network-attached-storage/?WT.ac=us_inside_rm_htchunfds
Fully leveraging your data, infrastructure, and IT staff has never been more important than it is now, during these times of fiscal responsibility and evolving business demands. In response, businesses need to maximize their IT by getting increased performance, efficiency, and economics out of their infrastructure and resources.
This presentation focuses on three key technologies that provide particularly compelling opportunities to maximize IT:
-All-flash systems that accelerate access to information for faster decision-making, analysis and productivity.
-Unified storage solutions that enable you to process more, and diverse, workloads in less time while driving capacity efficiencies.
-Unified compute solutions that deliver improved orchestration and automation and enhance the productivity of your IT staff, while avoiding costly over- or under-provisioning.
Virtualizing SAP HANA with Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Solutions: Bring...Hitachi Vantara
Virtualizing SAP HANA with Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Solutions: Bringing Flexibility, Agility and Readiness to the Real-Time Enterprise. VMworld 2015
Hitachi Unified Storage and Hitachi NAS Platform Performance Optimization wit...Hitachi Vantara
Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM) and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) flash technology helps increase performance and decrease total disk quantity and while lowering power, cooling and space costs. Attend this WebTech to learn more about how to optimize Hitachi Unified Storage and Hitachi NAS Platform performance using flash acceleration, SSD storage, and other technologies.
HDS Influencer Summit 2014: Innovating with Information to Address Business N...Hitachi Vantara
Top Executives at HDS share how the company is Innovating with Information to address business needs. Learn how the company is transforming now and into the future. #HDSday.”
Hitachi Virtual Infrastructure Integrator (Virtual V2I) is a VMware vCenter plugin plus associated software. It provides data management efficiency for large VM environments. Specifically, the latest release addresses virtual machine backup and recovery and cloning services. Customer want to leverage storage based snapshots as it is scalable, more granular backup from hours between backups to minutes resulting in improved RPO. VMworld 2015.
Capacity Efficiency: Identifying the Right Solutions for the Right ChallengeHitachi Vantara
Justin Augat, Hitachi Data Systems Senior Product Marketing Manager shares strategies to identify current storage costs, measure the unit cost of data storage, and set preliminary plans to reduce the total cost of storage.
Advantages of Mainframe Replication With Hitachi VSPHitachi Vantara
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 viewing 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. For more information on our mainframe solutions please read: http://www.hds.com/solutions/infrastructure/mainframe/?WT.ac=us_mg_sol_mnfr
Consolidate More: High Performance Primary Deduplication in the Age of Abunda...Hitachi Vantara
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. View 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. For more information please visit: http://www.hds.com/products/file-and-content/network-attached-storage/?WT.ac=us_inside_rm_htchunfds
Fully leveraging your data, infrastructure, and IT staff has never been more important than it is now, during these times of fiscal responsibility and evolving business demands. In response, businesses need to maximize their IT by getting increased performance, efficiency, and economics out of their infrastructure and resources.
This presentation focuses on three key technologies that provide particularly compelling opportunities to maximize IT:
-All-flash systems that accelerate access to information for faster decision-making, analysis and productivity.
-Unified storage solutions that enable you to process more, and diverse, workloads in less time while driving capacity efficiencies.
-Unified compute solutions that deliver improved orchestration and automation and enhance the productivity of your IT staff, while avoiding costly over- or under-provisioning.
Virtualizing SAP HANA with Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Solutions: Bring...Hitachi Vantara
Virtualizing SAP HANA with Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Solutions: Bringing Flexibility, Agility and Readiness to the Real-Time Enterprise. VMworld 2015
Hitachi Unified Storage and Hitachi NAS Platform Performance Optimization wit...Hitachi Vantara
Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM) and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) flash technology helps increase performance and decrease total disk quantity and while lowering power, cooling and space costs. Attend this WebTech to learn more about how to optimize Hitachi Unified Storage and Hitachi NAS Platform performance using flash acceleration, SSD storage, and other technologies.
HDS Influencer Summit 2014: Innovating with Information to Address Business N...Hitachi Vantara
Top Executives at HDS share how the company is Innovating with Information to address business needs. Learn how the company is transforming now and into the future. #HDSday.”
Hitachi Virtual Infrastructure Integrator (Virtual V2I) is a VMware vCenter plugin plus associated software. It provides data management efficiency for large VM environments. Specifically, the latest release addresses virtual machine backup and recovery and cloning services. Customer want to leverage storage based snapshots as it is scalable, more granular backup from hours between backups to minutes resulting in improved RPO. VMworld 2015.
Capacity Efficiency: Identifying the Right Solutions for the Right ChallengeHitachi Vantara
Justin Augat, Hitachi Data Systems Senior Product Marketing Manager shares strategies to identify current storage costs, measure the unit cost of data storage, and set preliminary plans to reduce the total cost of storage.
Advantages of Mainframe Replication With Hitachi VSPHitachi Vantara
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 viewing 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. For more information on our mainframe solutions please read: http://www.hds.com/solutions/infrastructure/mainframe/?WT.ac=us_mg_sol_mnfr
Why Networked FICON Storage Is Better Than Direct Attached StorageHitachi Vantara
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 viewing 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. For more information on our mainframe solutions please read: http://www.hds.com/solutions/infrastructure/mainframe/?WT.ac=us_mg_sol_mnfr
Presentation of Hitachi Accelerated Flash Storage. This presentation describes target applications, positioning and unique differentiators relative to MLC SSD.
Comprehensive and Simplified Management for VMware vSphere Environments - now...Hitachi Vantara
Learn how to build out a robust private cloud infrastructure with the assurance that all the underlying server, storage, and network resources are in place and aligned to the appropriate service levels.
See how to achieve predictable reliability based on business needs in a robust, enterprise-class cloud platform – Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro for VMware vSphere.
We’ll take you through the latest updates to this industry-leading solution that is deeply integrated with vSphere, including HDS servers and storage, Brocade Fibre Channel, your choice of Cisco or Brocade Ethernet networking. We’ll also talk about software updates that include bare-metal support, improved monitoring and performance tuning, federated management, and non-disruptive firmware upgrades.
Infosys Deploys Private Cloud Solution Featuring Combined Hitachi and Microsoft® Technologies. For more information on Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Solutions please visit: http://www.hds.com/products/hitachi-unified-compute-platform/?WT.ac=us_mg_pro_ucp
Object Storage 3: How to Use and Develop Applications Designed for Object Sto...Hitachi Vantara
In part 3 of 3, 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. View 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. For more information on Object Storage please view our white paper: http://www.hds.com/assets/pdf/hitachi-white-paper-introduction-to-object-storage-and-hcp.pdf
Accelerate the Business Value of Enterprise StorageHitachi Vantara
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. View 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. For more information on Hitachi Unified Storage VM please visit: http://www.hds.com/products/storage-systems/hitachi-unified-storage-vm.html?WT.ac=us_mg_pro_husvm
How and why to upgrade to hitachi device manager v7 webinarHitachi Vantara
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.
Big Data – Shining the Light on Enterprise Dark DataHitachi Vantara
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. View 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? For more information please visit: http://www.hds.com/products/file-and-content/
Learn the facts about replication in mainframe storage webinarHitachi Vantara
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 equipped with valuable insight into the business continuity solutions available for mainframe storage.
Comprehensive and Simplified Management for VMware vSphere environmentsHitachi Vantara
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. View 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. For more information on Hitachi Solutions for VMware visit: http://www.hds.com/solutions/applications/vmware/?WT.ac=us_mg_sol_vmw
Unified Compute Platform Pro for VMware vSphereHitachi Vantara
Relentless trends of increasing data center complexity
and massive data growth have companies seeking new,
reliable ways to deliver IT services in an on-demand,
rapid, flexible and scalable fashion. Many data centers
now face growing demands for faster delivery of
business services, serious resource contentions and
trade-offs between IT agility and vendor lock-in. They
also have mounting complications and rising costs in
managing disparate islands of technology resources.
Public Sector Virtual Town Hall: High Availability for PostgreSQLEDB
Highly available databases are essential to organizations depending on mission-critical, 24/7 access to data. PostgreSQL is widely recognized as an excellent open-source database, with critical maturity and features that allow organizations to scale and achieve high availability.
This webinar will explore:
High availability concepts and workings
RPO, RTO, and uptime in high availability
Postgres high availability using streaming replication and logical replication
Important high availability parameters in PostgreSQL and options to monitor high availability
EDB tools (EDB Postgres Failover Manager, BART etc) to create a highly available Postgres architecture
Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 is the preferred choice over any other blade or rack server platform on the market today, presenting a unique combination of built-in virtualization, massive I/O bandwidth, large memory capacity, browser-based point-and-click management, and unprecedented configuration flexibility for companies of all types and sizes.
Storage virtualization: deliver storage as a utility for the cloud webinarHitachi Vantara
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 multitenancy. 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 Hitachi Command Suite can help you meet the demanding storage requirements of private cloud computing.
Software Defined Storage - Open Framework and Intel® Architecture TechnologiesOdinot Stanislas
(FR)
Dans cette présentation vous aurez le plaisir d'y trouver une introduction plutôt détaillées sur la notion de "SDS Controller" qui est en résumé la couche applicative destinée à contrôler à terme toutes les technologies de stockage (SAN, NAS, stockage distribué sur disque, flash...) et chargée de les exposer aux orchestrateurs de Cloud et donc aux applications.
(ENG)
This presentation cover in detail the notion of "SDS Controller" which is in summary a software stack able to handle all storage technologies (SAN, NDA, distributed file systems on disk, flash...) and expose it to Cloud orchestrators and applications. Lots of good content.
The economics of storage virtualization webinarHitachi Vantara
Virtualization in the data center is a stable and proven approach to mke 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 with most new technology investments, you need a clear understanding of benefits versus costs.
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 viewing 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. For more information on Hitachi Dynamic Tiering please visit: http://www.hds.com/products/storage-software/hitachi-dynamic-tiering.html?WT.ac=us_mg_pro_dyntir
Hitachi Unified Storage 100 family systems consolidate and manage block, file and object data on a central platform. For more information on our unified storage please visit: http://www.hds.com/products/storage-systems/hitachi-unified-storage-100-family.html?WT.ac=us_mg_pro_hus100
Why Networked FICON Storage Is Better Than Direct Attached StorageHitachi Vantara
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 viewing 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. For more information on our mainframe solutions please read: http://www.hds.com/solutions/infrastructure/mainframe/?WT.ac=us_mg_sol_mnfr
Presentation of Hitachi Accelerated Flash Storage. This presentation describes target applications, positioning and unique differentiators relative to MLC SSD.
Comprehensive and Simplified Management for VMware vSphere Environments - now...Hitachi Vantara
Learn how to build out a robust private cloud infrastructure with the assurance that all the underlying server, storage, and network resources are in place and aligned to the appropriate service levels.
See how to achieve predictable reliability based on business needs in a robust, enterprise-class cloud platform – Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro for VMware vSphere.
We’ll take you through the latest updates to this industry-leading solution that is deeply integrated with vSphere, including HDS servers and storage, Brocade Fibre Channel, your choice of Cisco or Brocade Ethernet networking. We’ll also talk about software updates that include bare-metal support, improved monitoring and performance tuning, federated management, and non-disruptive firmware upgrades.
Infosys Deploys Private Cloud Solution Featuring Combined Hitachi and Microsoft® Technologies. For more information on Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Solutions please visit: http://www.hds.com/products/hitachi-unified-compute-platform/?WT.ac=us_mg_pro_ucp
Object Storage 3: How to Use and Develop Applications Designed for Object Sto...Hitachi Vantara
In part 3 of 3, 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. View 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. For more information on Object Storage please view our white paper: http://www.hds.com/assets/pdf/hitachi-white-paper-introduction-to-object-storage-and-hcp.pdf
Accelerate the Business Value of Enterprise StorageHitachi Vantara
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. View 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. For more information on Hitachi Unified Storage VM please visit: http://www.hds.com/products/storage-systems/hitachi-unified-storage-vm.html?WT.ac=us_mg_pro_husvm
How and why to upgrade to hitachi device manager v7 webinarHitachi Vantara
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.
Big Data – Shining the Light on Enterprise Dark DataHitachi Vantara
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. View 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? For more information please visit: http://www.hds.com/products/file-and-content/
Learn the facts about replication in mainframe storage webinarHitachi Vantara
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 equipped with valuable insight into the business continuity solutions available for mainframe storage.
Comprehensive and Simplified Management for VMware vSphere environmentsHitachi Vantara
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. View 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. For more information on Hitachi Solutions for VMware visit: http://www.hds.com/solutions/applications/vmware/?WT.ac=us_mg_sol_vmw
Unified Compute Platform Pro for VMware vSphereHitachi Vantara
Relentless trends of increasing data center complexity
and massive data growth have companies seeking new,
reliable ways to deliver IT services in an on-demand,
rapid, flexible and scalable fashion. Many data centers
now face growing demands for faster delivery of
business services, serious resource contentions and
trade-offs between IT agility and vendor lock-in. They
also have mounting complications and rising costs in
managing disparate islands of technology resources.
Public Sector Virtual Town Hall: High Availability for PostgreSQLEDB
Highly available databases are essential to organizations depending on mission-critical, 24/7 access to data. PostgreSQL is widely recognized as an excellent open-source database, with critical maturity and features that allow organizations to scale and achieve high availability.
This webinar will explore:
High availability concepts and workings
RPO, RTO, and uptime in high availability
Postgres high availability using streaming replication and logical replication
Important high availability parameters in PostgreSQL and options to monitor high availability
EDB tools (EDB Postgres Failover Manager, BART etc) to create a highly available Postgres architecture
Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 is the preferred choice over any other blade or rack server platform on the market today, presenting a unique combination of built-in virtualization, massive I/O bandwidth, large memory capacity, browser-based point-and-click management, and unprecedented configuration flexibility for companies of all types and sizes.
Storage virtualization: deliver storage as a utility for the cloud webinarHitachi Vantara
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 multitenancy. 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 Hitachi Command Suite can help you meet the demanding storage requirements of private cloud computing.
Software Defined Storage - Open Framework and Intel® Architecture TechnologiesOdinot Stanislas
(FR)
Dans cette présentation vous aurez le plaisir d'y trouver une introduction plutôt détaillées sur la notion de "SDS Controller" qui est en résumé la couche applicative destinée à contrôler à terme toutes les technologies de stockage (SAN, NAS, stockage distribué sur disque, flash...) et chargée de les exposer aux orchestrateurs de Cloud et donc aux applications.
(ENG)
This presentation cover in detail the notion of "SDS Controller" which is in summary a software stack able to handle all storage technologies (SAN, NDA, distributed file systems on disk, flash...) and expose it to Cloud orchestrators and applications. Lots of good content.
The economics of storage virtualization webinarHitachi Vantara
Virtualization in the data center is a stable and proven approach to mke 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 with most new technology investments, you need a clear understanding of benefits versus costs.
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 viewing 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. For more information on Hitachi Dynamic Tiering please visit: http://www.hds.com/products/storage-software/hitachi-dynamic-tiering.html?WT.ac=us_mg_pro_dyntir
Hitachi Unified Storage 100 family systems consolidate and manage block, file and object data on a central platform. For more information on our unified storage please visit: http://www.hds.com/products/storage-systems/hitachi-unified-storage-100-family.html?WT.ac=us_mg_pro_hus100
Simplify Data Center Monitoring With a Single-Pane ViewHitachi Vantara
Keeping IT systems up and well tuned requires constant attention, but the task is too often complicated by separate monitoring tools required to watch applications, servers, networks and storage. This white paper discusses how system administrators can consolidate oversight of these components, particularly where DataCore SANsymphony V storage hypervisor virtualizes the storage resources. Such visibility is made possible through the integration of SANsymphony-V with Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer.
Do more in your data center with the Hitachi Compute Blade 500 blade server. This highly reliable enterprise platform is designed for virtualization and is the ideal platform for cloud computing applications.
Achieve Higher Quality Decisions Faster for a Competitive Edge in the Oil and...Hitachi Vantara
Hitachi next-generation unified storage solutions meet the challenges of today’s data-intensive oil and gas exploration and production activities. For more information on Hitachi Unified Storage and Hitachi NAS Platform 4000 series please visit: http://www.hds.com/products/file-and-content/network-attached-storage/?WT.ac=us_mg_pro_hnasp
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select for SAP HANA -- Solution ProfileHitachi Vantara
A profile of a converged scale-out solution with Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select SAP HANA. For more information on Hitachi Unified Compute Platform solutions please visit: http://www.hds.com/products/hitachi-unified-compute-platform/?WT.ac=us_mg_pro_ucp
Storage Analytics: Transform Storage Infrastructure Into a Business EnablerHitachi Vantara
View 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 (that is, CIO, architect, administrator). For more information on controlling costs of sprawling storage with storage analytics white paper: http://www.hds.com/assets/pdf/hitachi-white-paper-control-costs-and-sprawling-storage-with-storage-analytics.pdf
Power the Creation of Great Work Solution ProfileHitachi Vantara
This solution discusses how quality and speed are critical in solving storage and data management bottlenecks, delivering cost-effective solutions that are highly scalable for post-production tasks. Whether CGI animation, rendering, or transcoding, Hitachi Data Systems powers digital workflows, enabling extraordinary creative and business achievements with HUS and HNAS infrastructure offerings. For more information on Hitachi Unified Storage and Hitachi NAS Platform 4000 Series please visit: http://www.hds.com/products/file-and-content/network-attached-storage/?WT.ac=us_mg_pro_hnasp
Flash for the Real World – Separate Hype from RealityHitachi Vantara
Join us for a live webcast and hear Hu Yoshida, Chief Technology Officer of Hitachi Data Systems, discuss the real world criteria for making an effective decision when evaluating flash storage. With all the noise in the market it can be difficult to separate fact from fiction in order to evaluate the performance, efficiency and economic trade-offs for flash storage.
Specifically, you’ll learn how to determine if flash storage will help you:
Actually achieve the performance you need as you compare technology options.
Realize efficiency gains that extend beyond the promise of flash performance.
Make the economic case for real-world business decisions before taking the leap.
How to apply the latest advances in hitachi mainframe storage webinarHitachi Vantara
Join Hitachi experts in a short, valuable webcast on recent mainframe storage advances and Hitachi mainframe storage support, followed by a live Q and A session. Mainframe storage is moving beyond simply maintaining plug compatibility and onto more advanced storage capabilities introduced and proven in the open systems storage world.
VMworld 2013: Real-world Design Examples for Virtualized SAP Environments VMworld
VMworld 2013
Vas Mitra, VMware
Mohan Potheri, VMware
Markus Winter, SAP
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
RAPIDS: GPU-Accelerated ETL and Feature EngineeringKeith Kraus
The RAPIDS suite of open source software libraries gives you the freedom to execute end-to-end data science and analytics pipelines entirely on GPUs. It relies on NVIDIA® CUDA® primitives for low-level compute optimization, but exposes that GPU parallelism and high-bandwidth memory speed through user-friendly Python interfaces.
Hear first about the new innovative technology coming from HP to help SMB IT professionals like you. See how this new technology can drive innovation in your own business, while delivering breakthrough energy, space and cost savings.
Speaker Bio: Julian has 30 years’ experience at HP, working with HP’s channel partners and customers through various hardware product sets ranging from the initial Digital PC’s through PDPs, MicroServers and Vaxes onto HP ProLiants, where he has been working for the past 10 years overseeing Generation 1 through to the current Generation 8 models.
NetApp enterprise All Flash Storage
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HDT for Mainframe Considerations: Simplified Tiered Storage
1. HITACHI DYNAMIC TIERING
FOR MAINFRAME
CONSIDERATIONS: SIMPLIFIED
TIERED STORAGE
LARRY KORBUS, SENIOR DIRECTOR, STORAGE
INFRASTRUCTURE SOFTWARE INTEGRATION,
AND ARCHITECTURE MANAGER
JOHN HARKER, SENIOR PRODUCT MARKETING
MANAGER
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
2. WEBTECH EDUCATIONAL SERIES
HDT for Mainframe Considerations: Simplified Tiered Storage
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 complement 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
3. UPCOMING WEBTECHS
Mainframe series
VSP Mainframe and Dynamic Tiering Performance Considerations,
Sept 12, 9 a.m. PT, 12 p.m. ET
Mainframe Replication, Sept 19, 9 a.m. PT, 12 p.m. ET
Why Networked FICON Storage Is Better than Direct-Attached
Storage, Oct 3, 9 a.m. PT, 12 p.m. ET
Other
Storage Analytics, Sept 20, 9 a.m. PT, 12 p.m. ET
Maximize Availability and Uptime by Clustering your Physical Data
Centers Within Metro Distances, Oct 24, 9 a.m. PT, 12 p.m. ET
Check www.hds.com/webtech for
Links to the recording, the presentation and Q&A (available next week)
Schedule and registration for upcoming WebTech sessions
4. AGENDA
Hitachi Data Systems mainframe storage support
Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning (HDP) and Hitachi
Dynamic Tiering (HDT) refresher
Mainframe HDP and HDT differences
HDT mainframe implementation
Recommendations and recap
5. HITACHI MAINFRAME STORAGE SUPPORT
Leverage IBM Compatibility with Hitachi Value Add
Storage Subsystems
FICON, zHPF, FCP, MA, PAV, HyperPAVHardware Interface
IBM Portfolio:
RCMF
Hyperswap Manager
GDPS
Hitachi Portfolio:
BC Manager,
Universal Replicator,
FDM, FC UVM, HDP
zOS + DFSMSdfp, Linux for System z, zVM, zVSE
IMS, CICS, DB2, MQSeries, etc.
IBM
Storage
Hitachi
Storage
Hitachi
Storage
Solution
Level
Operating Systems
Middleware and
Application Level
Concurrent Copy, Flashcopy, Metro Mirror (PPRC),
Global Copy (PPRC-XD), z/OS Global Mirror (XRC)
Storage Functions
IBM Compatibility
Hitachi
Strategy:
IBM Compatibility
IBM Compatibility
Development Focus
on Hitachi Added-
Value Solutions
(Without Host SW)
(Without Host SW)
(Without Host SW)
6. MAINFRAME VISION AND DIRECTION
Hitachi bringing storage virtualization technology to the mainframe space
HDP provides FCSE/DVE/EAV compatibility
HDP the technology foundation for your next wave of mainframe virtualization
UVMNLSASSASSSD
SAS UVM
HDP Pool
HDP Pool + HDT
-Utilize existing assets
or low-cost external
storage
-Better space efficiency
-I/O load balancing
-Flexible volume
allocation
-Automatic dynamic
tiering
-Effective use of high-
speed SSD
EAV
DVE
EAV
DVE
EAV
DVE
FCSE
EAV
DVE
EAV
DVE
EAV
DVE
EAV
DVE
EAV
DVE
EAV
DVE
FCSE
UVM
8. HITACHI DYNAMIC PROVISIONING
SPECIFICATIONS: HDP POOL VOLUME
Emulation = 3390-V (MF)
Pool volume capacity = 8GB to 4TB
Maximum number pool volumes = 1024 / pool
HDP/HDT Pool VOLs managed using pages
MF: 38MB/page
Pages are dispersed based on equalizing array
group (V04) coverage across pool volumes
in a pool (or tier)
Any RAID level, intermix allowed but not recommended
- Intermix in an HDT tier now allowed (V04)
Any HDD type, can mix but not recommended
- External also supported
Any parity group type
- RAID1 is supported
CLPR assignment does not matter, CLPR of DP-VOL
matters
9. SN2 POOL CREATE SETTINGS
• Pool type
• Open/mainframe
• HDT
• Pool volumes
• Pool name
• Pool number
• Subscription limit (threshold)
• Warning and depletion utilization
Thresholds
• Auto or manual
• Auto-cycle time
• Period or continuous
• Buffer percentages per tier
10. HITACHI DYNAMIC PROVISIONING SPECIFICATIONS:
HDP DP-VOL (V-VOL)
DP-VOL Directory
Page Space Control Block
HDP Control Information
Emulation = 3390-A in mainframe
DP-VOL capacity = up to 218GB (262,668 cylinders)
Maximum number = ~62K DP-VOLs
Maximum total DP-VOL capacity of all DP-VOLs = ~1.1PB -> ~4.5PB in V03
All DP-VOLs managed using page units of allocation
11. SN2 DP-VOL CREATE AND EDIT SETTINGS
• Open/mainframe
• HDP or HDT pool
• Size
• LDEV ID
• CLPR
• MP
• Tiering policy LEVEL or ALL
• New page assignment tier
• Relocation priority
• Tier relocation
12. DP VOL8
Directory
DP VO7
Directory
DP VOL6
Directory
DP VOL5
Directory
DP VOL4
Directory
DP VOL3
Directory
DP VOL2
Directory
DP VOL1
Directory
DP VOL16
Directory
DP VO15
Directory
DP VOL14
Directory
DP VOL13
Directory
DP VOL12
Directory
DP VOL11
Directory
DP VOL10
Directory
DP VOL9
Directory
DP-VOL Directory
An HDP page represents 38MB of contiguous tracks in the DP-VOL
The DP-VOL is basically subdivided into 38MB areas where each area matches up to a page
DP
VOL
1
DP
VOL
2
DP
VOL
3 DP
VOL
4
DP
VOL
5
DP
VOL
6
DP
VOL
8
DP
VOL
7
DP
VOL
9
DP
VOL
10
DP
VOL
11
DP
VOL
12
DP
VOL
13
DP
VOL
14
DP
VOL
16
DP
VOL
15
HITACHI DYNAMIC PROVISIONING:
DP-VOL THIN PROVISIONING
“White” areas in DP-VOL have no page mapped since no data has been written to those portions of the
3390. No pool capacity is assigned to these track ranges.
This is thin provisioning
Replication license capacity does not count unmapped DP-VOL capacity
13. DP VOL8
Directory
DP VO7
Directory
DP VOL6
Directory
DP VOL5
Directory
DP VOL4
Directory
DP VOL3
Directory
DP VOL2
Directory
DP VOL1
Directory
DP VOL16
Directory
DP VO15
Directory
DP VOL14
Directory
DP VOL13
Directory
DP VOL12
Directory
DP VOL11
Directory
DP VOL10
Directory
DP VOL9
Directory
DP-VOL Directory
DP
VOL
1
DP
VOL
2
DP
VOL
3 DP
VOL
4
DP
VOL
5
DP
VOL
6
DP
VOL
8
DP
VOL
7
DP
VOL
9
DP
VOL
10
DP
VOL
11
DP
VOL
12
DP
VOL
13
DP
VOL
14
DP
VOL
16
DP
VOL
15
HITACHI DYNAMIC PROVISIONING:
DP-VOL WIDE STRIPING
Pool Volumes
Data from all DP-VOLs using the pool is widely distributed within the pool. This is wide striping
15. MAINFRAME HDP AND HDT:
SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES TO OPEN
Separate pool for mainframe using 3390-V formatted pool volumes
DP-VOLs only use 3390-A emulation
ZPR is different
– Works based on all tracks having no records in a page
Page size 38MB
Maximum system capacity for pool and DP-VOL is different for Open
‒ About 5% less due to page size difference
16. Considerations around transitioning between 3390-x and 3390-A
HDP and HDT DP-VOLs must be 3390-A
VSP supports 3390-A. Older platforms do not support 3390-A
3390-A program product support
DYNAMIC PROVISIONING AND TIERING
SPECIFICATIONS: REPLICATION COEXISTENCE
Copy Combinations
S-VOL -> T-VOL TC HUR SI VM FC
3390-3/9/L/M -> 3390-A Normal OK NG NG NG OK
3390-3/9/L/M -> 3390-A DP-Volume OK NG NG NG OK
3390-A Normal -> 3390-3/9/L/M NG NG NG NG OK
3390-A DP-Volume -> 3390-3/9/L/M NG NG NG NG OK
17. Function • Request expansion to DP-VOL from Hitachi Storage Navigator
and RAID manager while online
• Expand virtual capacity of DP-VOL
• VSP performs async report (DSB=85) to the mainframe host and
the host performs refresh of the volume’s VTOC. (Automatic in
z/OS1.11 and later. In z/OS1.10 operator needs to perform VTOC
refresh manually)
Expected
effect
• Able to expand volume capacity while online without stopping
host I/O
Prerequisite
restriction
• Mainframe host should be OS (z/OS) that can recognize capacity
expansion online
• Expansion is disabled for volumes being used for array-based
replication products (P.P.). (necessary to delete pair first)
• Depending on V-VOL capacity, expansion may be disabled
• Capacity can be expanded up to 262,668 cylinders (maximum
capacity of DP-VOL)
DVE Function (Dynamic Volume Expansion a Feature of z/OS)
MAINFRAME DYNAMIC PROVISIONING
AND TIERING SPECIFICATIONS: DVE
18. Function “0” data page reclamation runs when one of the following is
performed
“0” data page reclamation for the entire volume requested from
Storage Navigator/RAID manager to DP-VOL
Rebalance and relocation can reclaim pages that are allocated
to DP-VOL but do not have any valid record
P.P. sync “0” data page reclamation that runs when
initial/update copy is performed in combination with copy P.P.
In mainframe environments, “0 data page” indicates that there is
no valid record in a page
Expected
effect
After migrating older model or normal volume to DP-VOL,
capacity efficiency of entire system can be improved
Restriction When “0” data page reclamation for a page conflicts with host
I/O, “0” data page reclamation for the page is not performed
Effect of “0” data page reclamation varies depending on I/O
pattern and file delete or creation activity
“0” data page reclamation
DYNAMIC PROVISIONING AND TIERING
SPECIFICATIONS: PAGE RECLAMATION
20. SMS STORAGE GROUPS AND ACS ROUTINES
IMPLEMENTATION
PROC STORGRP
SELECT
WHEN (&STORCLAS = ‘EXCEPTIONAL’) SET &STORGRP = ‘SSD’
WHEN (&STORCLAS = ‘NORMAL’) SET &STORGRP = ‘SAS10’
WHEN (&STORCLAS = ‘WORK’) SET &STORGRP = ‘SAS07’
OTHERWISE SET &STORGRP = ‘SAS10’ <<A guess
END
A simple ACS example
- Have some datasets directed at SSD, SAS, and nearline
- Pick a default for the unknown
21. SMS STORAGE GROUPS AND ACS ROUTINES
WITHOUT HDT
Storage
Group“SSD”
3390-A
StorageGroup
“SAS10” 3390-A
StorageGroup
“SAS07”
3390-A
3390 volumes are “fixed” to only one tier
To transition a volume to another tier
requires migration/recall
Stale datasets are
treated the same as
active ones until HSM
migration
Performance problems need
intervention to migrate to
“higher” storage group
22. IMPLEMENT HDT DP-VOLS INTO MAINFRAME
A simple HDT ACS routine
- You can still have direct control over some select datasets, but you can
also have datasets use the full scope of tiering
PROC STORGRP
SELECT
WHEN (&STORCLAS = ‘EXCEPTIONAL’) SET &STORGRP = ‘SSD’
WHEN (&STORCLAS = ‘NORMAL’) SET &STORGRP = ‘SAS10’
WHEN (&STORCLAS = ‘WORK’) SET &STORGRP = ‘SAS07’
OTHERWISE SET &STORGRP = ‘HDTALL’
END
24. HDT DP-VOLS INTO MAINFRAME
3390-A support
Define new SMS storage group(s) or add to existing ones based on
tier composition and policy (level) settings
Due to dynamic tiering, HDT may allow customer to consolidate
existing storage groups
‒ One storage group of 3 tiers rather than 2-3 separate storage groups
HDT offers ongoing data placement at the page level
‒ ACS routines and HSM cannot achieve this dynamic or granularity
ACS routines can only route a file to a storage group at allocation
(create, recall, restore) time
‒ HDT performs active ongoing management within the storage group
based on the pool construction and the DP-VOL assigned policy
25. IMPLEMENT HDT DP-VOLS
INTO MAINFRAME HSM
HSM may be used for relocating data sets for performance or load
balancing but HDP/HDT is a better alternative
‒ Wide striping is a better solution for load balancing issues
‒ Dynamic tiering is better for locating more demanding blocks to higher
tiers – HDT is automated and more responsive than HSM
‒ HSM must migrate and recall to move a dataset between volumes while
HDT moves pages nondisruptively
‒ HDT will automatically adjust data placement with pool capacity and tier
changes
May also consider delaying HSM data set migrations if HDT tier-3
relocations satisfy customer needs
‒ However HSM migration is still necessary to avoid X37 problems
HDT is an alternative that can be used to reduce some HSM
operations
‒ (Obviously) HDP/HDT cannot eliminate all HSM migrations, recalls,
backups and restores
26. IMPLEMENT HDT DP-VOLS INTO MAINFRAME
THIN SAVINGS
3390-A volumes sparsely allocated with a static set of
files are the primary thin savings candidates
‒ Checkpoint volumes (isolating reserves)
‒ Legacy “short-stroked” volumes
‒ Dedicated application volumes with spare capacity
3390-A volumes with high dataset turnover rates are not
thin savings candidates
‒ Heavily managed HSM volumes
All tracks will have either live or residual data
‒ Tracks will be redeployed quickly after being freed by deleting or
migrating a file
Effort to reclaim a page would be wasted
27. BEFORE HDT AND AFTER
Working with Storage Before HDT With HDT
Add physical capacity Add 3390-x volumes into
storage groups
Add capacity into pool
Balance use over new
capacity
Manually use HSM
migration/recall
No actions are needed
Direct specific
applications to specific
storage resources
Code ACS routines,
follow-up with HSM
migrations and recalls
Set 3390-A to an HDT
policy – use same ACS
routines but no HSM
needed
Address performance
problems by moving
datasets or volumes
Code ACS routines and
use HSM migration/recall
HDT relocation has likely
prevented the issue
Otherwise use HDT Policy
Maintain SMS storage
groups and ACS routines
Constant challenge to
keep updated with rules
describing exceptions
Fewer exceptions since
HDT keeps tiers properly
populated
Demote data to lower tiers HSM moves datasets to
an ML “tier” that hasn’t
been opened for a while
HDT automatically moves
pages that haven’t been
used
29. CACHE RECOMMENDATIONS
Total logical capacity assigned to
CLPR
Number of Multi-
processor
Package (MPK)
Cache Logical
Partition (CLPR) GB
size
Less than 3TB
2 12
4 22
6 32
8 42
Less than 11.5TB 2 16
Less than 100TB
2-4 24
6 32
8 42
Less than 182TB
2-6 32
8 42
Less than 218TB 2-8 42
Less than 254TB 2-8 48
Less than 290TB 2-8 56
Less than 326TB 2-8 64
More 72
31. SYSTEM OPTION MODE (SOM)
RECOMMENDATIONS
SOM # Use Description
729 ON For pool full (use OFF if VMWare VAAI phase 2 )
734 ON Improve threshold SIM
749 OFF Rebalance and relocation should be used
755 OFF ZPR should be used
803 ON Use DRU if pool volume blocks
867 ON Format uses reclaim instead of writing zeroes
872 ON UVM improved sequential processing
896 ON Use background task to clean free pages
897 OFF Improve tiering at low tier range values
898 ON Works with SOM897
901 ON Only use if pool is active – more use of SSD if installed
904 OFF Full-speed relocation
917 ON Balance parity groups rather than pool volumes
32. WRAPPING UP: “STARTING POINT”
RECOMMENDATIONS
VSP
Add shared memory (cache)
Install V04
Use recommended SOMs
Pool storage
1 tier if you can afford to study, otherwise…
2 tiers with SSD and 10K, otherwise…
3 tiers with at least 40% of 10K
All non-SSD tiers, at least 4 parity groups, preferable much
more
RAID6
Size assuming no oversubscription; otherwise be very
conservative
Pool:
Auto
8 hours
Continuous
Buffer defaults
Set utilization thresholds: Warning 75%, depletion 90%
Set maximum subscription to 100%
33. WRAPPING UP WITH RECOMMENDATIONS
DP-VOL
• Use rational sizes – do not increase over what makes
sense without thin provisioning
• Use tiering policy = ALL
• New page assignment tier = middle
• No relocation priority
• Enable tier relocation
• Distribute across MPs
Operational
• Collect relocation log every 3rd day (maybe less often)
• Monitor SIMs for thresholds
• After the pool is loaded and relocation has operated for a
few days, look at and screen-print tier properties display
occasionally
34. IMPLEMENT HDP OR HDT INTO MAINFRAME
HDP and HDT is the same product with few exceptions for open or mainframe –
the technical details are the same.
Check the white papers and training materials for HDP and HDT for open
systems
‒ Pool management
‒ Monitoring options
‒ Relocation (tier management)
‒ DPVOL policies
Learn more at www.hds.com/
‒ Mainframe
‒ http://www.hds.com/solutions/infrastructure/mainframe/
‒ Dynamic Provisioning
‒ http://www.hds.com/products/storage-software/hitachi-dynamic-provisioning.html
‒ Dynamic Tiering
‒ http://www.hds.com/products/storage-software/hitachi-dynamic-tiering.html
You do need a separate license (included with HDT)
You do need separate mainframe HDP and/or HDT pools
36. UPCOMING WEBTECHS
Mainframe series
VSP Mainframe and Dynamic Tiering Performance Considerations,
Sept 12, 9 a.m. PT, 12 p.m. ET
Mainframe Replication, Sept 19, 9 a.m. PT, 12 p.m. ET
Why Networked FICON Storage Is Better than Direct-Attached
Storage, Oct 3, 9 a.m. PT, 12 p.m. ET
Other
Storage Analytics, Sept 20, 9 a.m. PT, 12 p.m. ET
Maximize Availability and Uptime by Clustering your Physical Data
Centers Within Metro Distances, Oct 24, 9 a.m. PT, 12 p.m. ET
Check www.hds.com/webtech for
Links to the recording, the presentation and Q&A (available next week)
Schedule and registration for upcoming WebTech sessions