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.
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.
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.
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
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.”
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.
Build the Optimal Mainframe Storage ArchitectureHitachi Vantara
White Paper which discusses the advantages of FICON networked storage. The paper focuses specifically on Hitachi VSP and Brocade 8510. It discusses why networked FICON and describes the Hitachi VSP enterprise storage and the Brocade 8510 director.
For more information on HDS and Brocade Solutions please visit: http://www.hds.com/products/networking/fibrechannel/brocade.html
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
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.
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.
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
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.”
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.
Build the Optimal Mainframe Storage ArchitectureHitachi Vantara
White Paper which discusses the advantages of FICON networked storage. The paper focuses specifically on Hitachi VSP and Brocade 8510. It discusses why networked FICON and describes the Hitachi VSP enterprise storage and the Brocade 8510 director.
For more information on HDS and Brocade Solutions please visit: http://www.hds.com/products/networking/fibrechannel/brocade.html
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
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/
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.
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
A-B-C Strategies for File and Content BrochureHitachi Vantara
Explains each strategy, including archive 1st, back up less, consolidate more, distributed IT efficiency, enable e-discovery and compliance, and facilitate cloud. For more information on Unstructured Data Management Solutions by HDS please visit: http://www.hds.com/solutions/it-strategies/unstructured-data-management.html?WT.ac=us_mg_sol_udm
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
Reduce Costs and Complexity with Backup-Free StorageHitachi Vantara
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. View 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. For more information on Hitachi Data Systems File and Content Solutions please visit: http://www.hds.com/products/file-and-content/?WT.ac=us_mg_pro_filecont
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/
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.
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
A-B-C Strategies for File and Content BrochureHitachi Vantara
Explains each strategy, including archive 1st, back up less, consolidate more, distributed IT efficiency, enable e-discovery and compliance, and facilitate cloud. For more information on Unstructured Data Management Solutions by HDS please visit: http://www.hds.com/solutions/it-strategies/unstructured-data-management.html?WT.ac=us_mg_sol_udm
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
Reduce Costs and Complexity with Backup-Free StorageHitachi Vantara
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. View 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. For more information on Hitachi Data Systems File and Content Solutions please visit: http://www.hds.com/products/file-and-content/?WT.ac=us_mg_pro_filecont
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.
Quickly Deploy Microsoft Private Cloud and SQL Server 2012 Data Warehouse on ...Hitachi Vantara
Learn how you can virtualize and optimize your Windows applications and workloads while accommodating growth with Microsoft® Private Cloud and SQL Server 2012 running on Hitachi Unified Compute Platform.
You can create building blocks for a cloud environment that is reliable, scalable, multitenant and multi-tiered with Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select for Microsoft Private Cloud.
Also, the Hitachi solution for a medium-sized Microsoft SQL Server data warehouse enables your enterprise to consolidate silos for enterprise-wide business intelligence and scale your data warehouse to hundreds of terabytes.
There has been a lot of interest and buzz recently around hyperconvergence. It's the biggest IT shift since the rise of server virtualization. As with any budding space there is some confusion. This paper looks at the top 10 benefits of hyperconvergence and and also answers some frequently asked questions.
Next Level Hyper-Converged and Software-defined
Storage Solutions Combine State-of-the-art Huawei
FusionServers with Proven DataCore Software.
The Huawei DataCore Software-defined Storage solution enables customers to maximize the value from their storage investments, current and future.
To help you drive the most value from your storage investments, Huawei has partnered with DataCore to consolidate these disparate storage systems with
unified management and a comprehensive set of data services. Additionally, Huawei’s FusionServer and Oceanstor systems can be easily integrated with existing storage from a variety of vendors, including Dell, EMC, Hitachi, HP, IBM and NetApp using DataCore’s comprehensive Software-defined
Storage (SDS) platform. These storage systems can be centrally managed and easily combined into a single set of storage with different tiers of capacity in order to improve their overall productivity and utilization.
Which cloud-based infrastructure service is right for you? CDW compares Microsoft Azure, HP Helion, VMware vCloud Air, IBM SoftLayer and Amazon Web Services.
Every developer dreams about the perfect PaaS solution to spend more time coding but not managing the application. Learn more about Jelastic DevOps Platform as a Service with smart orchestration, automatical vertical/horizontal scaling and high availability.
Hitachi Vantara and our special guest, Dr. Alison Brooks, Research Director at IDC, discuss:
• How video and other IoT data can help your business become smarter, safer and more efficient.
• How to harness IoT data to gain operational intelligence and achieve better business outcomes.
• How Hitachi’s customers are innovating with IoT to excel.
• Which practical applications and best practices will get you started on your own IoT journey to reach your goals and tackle your challenges.
Economist Intelligence Unit: Preparing for Next-Generation CloudHitachi Vantara
Preparing for next-generation cloud: Lessons learned and insights shared is an Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) research programme, sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems. In this report, the EIU looks at companies’ experiences with cloud adoption and assesses whether the technology has lived up to expectations. Where the cloud has fallen short of expectations, we set out to understand why. In cases of seamless implementation, we gather best practices from firms using the cloud successfully.
Information Innovation Index 2014 UK Research ResultsHitachi Vantara
Hitachi Data Systems releases insights from its inaugural ‘Information Innovation Index’, a UK research report, conducted by independent UK technology market research agency, Vanson Bourne, in which 200 IT decision-makers were surveyed during April 2014 to provide insights into how current approaches to IT are thwarting companies’ ambitions to leverage data to drive innovation and business growth.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
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Unified Compute Platform Pro for VMware vSphere
1. Accelerate Your Business-Critical Workloads
to Cloud
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.
To address these issues, organizations have rapidly
adopted and deployed virtualization. They are looking
to service models, such as private cloud, that increase
efficiency, improve flexibility and reduce the cost of
delivering IT services.
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro for VMware vSphere
SOLUTIONPROFILE
Private cloud deployments are quickly becoming
a way for enterprises to improve flexibility and effi-
ciency, and virtualization is becoming ubiquitous.
However, organizations also require predictable
platform reliability to move even business-critical
workloads to private cloud without having to rip up
and replace their current infrastructure. Evolving
beyond current solutions, Hitachi Data Systems offers
a flexible and robust platform for quickly capitalizing
on cloud benefits. At the same time, the platform also
ensures the consistency and level of control required
for business-critical workload environments.
Overview
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro for VMware
vSphere solution (UCP Pro for VMware vSphere) cen-
tralizes and automates the management of servers,
storage and networking components as business
resource pools. Its comprehensive and simplified
management significantly reduces time to value
and operational costs for even the most demanding
applications. UCP Pro for VMware vSphere solution’s
deep integration into vSphere and VMware vCenter
enables faster deployment of cloud infrastructure and
efficient resource allocation. It also supports simple
automation and orchestration for streamlined infra-
structure management.
2. SOLUTION PROFILE
An exceptionally flexible, converged solution,
UCP Pro for VMware vSphere simplifies
deployment and management of data
centers and private cloud deployments.
Improved agility and predictability make
possible dynamic and cost-effective data
centers that can quickly respond to business
needs. It is a solution composed of storage,
servers, networking tools and software with
comprehensive management.
UCP Pro for VMware vSphere is designed
for maximum performance and utilization,
and leverages Hitachi best-in-class hardware
and software technology. The solution is
pretested and preconfigured to each organi-
zation’s requirements, dramatically reducing
deployment time. Unlike other offerings, UCP
Pro for VMware vSphere is an open plat-
form that supports multiple storage systems
through industry-leading Hitachi virtualization
technology. It also provides a roadmap for
multihypervisor support. Organizations can
select from different Hitachi server CPU and
memory configurations to best meet their
workload needs, or to offer multiple tiers of
compute resources.
This solution enables organizations to:
■■ Improve organizational agility by quickly
deploying new applications and services
to respond to changes in business needs
and integrate into current environments.
■■ Have certainty with the predictable reli-
ability of a robust private cloud platform
aligned to business service levels.
■■ Reduce management cost and com-
plexity with coordinated comprehensive
provisioning and administration of virtual-
ized private cloud environments.
■■ Simplify the ordering and procurement
process as well as the onboarding and
management of physical and virtual
resources.
Hitachi storage solutions help your business improve
organizational agility and lower costs by providing a
virtualized data center infrastructure that is robust,
automated and flexible.
■■ Increase operational efficiency and
resource utilization by aligning business
processes to IT execution.
■■ Improve service availability and business
continuity for critical applications.
Capabilities
You can transition your business-critical
workloads to cloud with confidence: Hitachi
Unified Compute Platform Pro for VMware
vSphere integrates infrastructure components
with comprehensive management through
familiar VMware management interfaces. UCP
Pro for VMware vSphere provides predictable
reliability in a robust, enterprise cloud platform,
based on business needs. Key capabilities
include the ability to:
■■ Start small and grow your infrastructure
quickly and easily as more workloads are
transitioned to private cloud.
■■ Simplify management of physical and
virtual resources with tight integration into
VMware.
■■ Match the appropriate tiers of resources
for each workload your cloud infrastruc-
ture supports.
■■ Improve troubleshooting with physical
and virtual infrastructure monitoring and
alerting within VMware.
■■ Provide business units with the right tier
of resources to match application and
business requirements; the solution can
contain multiple tiers of storage and com-
pute resources, enabling workloads to
be deployed with the appropriate type of
resources.
■■ Provide business unit administration
views that allow for consumption and
deployment of subscriptions.
■■ Build confidently upon the extreme reli-
ability and availability of Hitachi servers
and storage.
Accelerate Cloud Value
Your business can capitalize on quick
cloud value using the UCP Pro for VMware
vSphere solution. You’ll achieve faster
deployment of cloud infrastructure and
resource allocation as well as simplified
infrastructure deployment and management
within a VMware environment. Key capabili-
ties include the ability to:
■■ Simplify ordering, planning and imple-
mentation with a single source for
infrastructure as well as coordinated pro-
fessional services.
■■ Bring infrastructure on board quickly with
faster deployment and preconfigured
elements with Hitachi Unified Compute
Platform Director (UCP Director) software.
■■ Automate and orchestrate the man-
agement of essential infrastructure
components as unified pools of business
resources from directly within the vCenter
management console.
■■ Deploy virtual machines with validation of
underlying components.
■■ Perform bare metal installations of Hitachi
servers with simplified management of all
compute resources.
Your Cloud, Your Way
The exceptional flexibility of UCP Pro for
VMware vSphere allows you to integrate
and protect your current storage invest-
ment. You can also grow the level of
automation, at your pace and scale. Key
capabilities include the ability to:
■■ Dynamically scale infrastructure as
needed with the ability to add and
manage servers in configured clusters.
■■ Bring newly available servers and storage
on board quickly, as needed, and ensure
each workload is matched to the appro-
priate tier of resources.
■■ Build on the Hitachi Data Systems port-
folio with various cloud entry points,
including a roadmap for UCP Director to
tie together various solutions over time.
■■ Respect and integrate with current and
future storage infrastructure.
3. Innovation is the engine of change,
and information is its fuel. Innovate
intelligently to lead your market, grow
your company, and change the world.
Manage your information with
Hitachi Data Systems.
www.hds.com/innovate
Hitachi Storage Options for
UCP Pro for VMware vSphere
UCP Pro for VMware vSphere offers
organizations the ability to choose from
3 different, but equally capable storage
systems to best match their needs (see
Figure 1). Each offers legendary Hitachi
Data Systems reliability and is backed by
service and support with 24/7 availability.
Hitachi storage solutions help your business
improve organizational agility and lower
costs by providing a virtualized data center
infrastructure that is robust, automated and
flexible. Choose from Hitachi Virtual Storage
Platform (VSP), Hitachi Unified Storage 150
(HUS 150), or Hitachi Unified Storage VM
(HUS VM).
Support Transition of Business-Critical
Workloads to Cloud
Hitachi UCP Pro for VMware vSphere With
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is the only
3-D scaling storage platform designed for
all data types. It is the only storage archi-
tecture that flexibly scales for performance,
capacity and utilization of multivendor stor-
age assets. Its highly efficient data center
design delivers the highest performance
and capacity combined with the lowest
power consumption and lower cooling
requirements. Key capabilities include the
ability to:
■■ Scale up to meet increasing demands by
dynamically adding processors, connec-
tivity and capacity in a single unit. This
gives you optimal performance for open
systems and mainframe environments.
■■ Scale out to meet business demands
by dynamically combining multiple units
into a single logical system with shared
resources.
■■ Scale deep to extend the advanced
functions of Hitachi VSP to multivendor
storage through virtualization. Offload
less-critical data to external tiers in order
to optimize the availability of the Tier 1
resources.
■■ Support increased needs in virtualized
server environments and ensure safe
multitenancy and quality of service
through partitioning of cache and ports.
■■ Enable rapid transfer of data to new
storage with host-transparent migration.
Reduce operational risks with advanced
data replication topologies.
■■ Employ unmatched efficiency features
that yield the highest capacity available in
the least space.
■■ Work with Hitachi Dynamic Tiering software,
which automates data placement for higher
performance and lower cost. It manages
internal and external data, including mul-
tivendor and mainframe data.
■■ Rely on sustainable design, which is
highlighted by certification as a Super
Eco-Product.
Midrange Storage Without Compromise
Hitachi UCP Pro for VMware vSphere and
Hitachi Unified Storage 150
UCP Pro for VMware vSphere is also avail-
able with HUS 150, a midrange storage
platform with best-in-class scalability, per-
formance and availability. HUS 150 enables
support for critical applications while pro-
viding performance that can scale linearly
to industry-leading heights. You’ll achieve
faster deployment of cloud infrastructure
and resource allocation as well as simplified
infrastructure deployment and management
within a VMware environment. Key capabili-
ties include the ability to:
■■ Balance scalability and capacity to
nearly 3PB with up to 960 disks without
affecting application or virtual machine
performance.
■■ Ensure the highest data availability for
critical applications built upon legendary
Hitachi reliability.
■■ Rely on application-consistent data
protection through Hitachi Application
Protector. You can simplify backup,
recovery and failover while enabling
application-consistent snapshots for
Microsoft®
Exchange server, SQL Server®
and SharePoint®
servers.
Figure 1. Hitachi Storage System Portfolio Comparison
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4. SOLUTION PROFILE
■■ Employ thin provisioning and automatic
tiering to reduce the total cost struc-
ture and help to lower administrative
overhead.
Enterprise Storage Virtualization in a
Modular Package
Hitachi UCP Pro for VMware vSphere
With Hitachi Unified Storage VM
Organizations must address the con-
flicted goals of managing data growth,
controlling increasing costs and com-
plexities, and making efficient use of both
existing and new resources. For these
environments, Hitachi UCP Pro for VMware
vSphere with HUS VM offers industry-
leading storage virtualization, centralizes
storage for critical applications, and pro-
vides shared services for all your storage
systems through a central management
interface. With the ability to virtualize up
to 64PB of external storage from different
manufacturers, HUS VM offers massive
consolidation capabilities. And it provides
a 100% data availability guarantee and the
ability to repurpose existing storage assets
for unprecedented savings. Key capabilities
include the ability to:
■■ Reduce storage costs up to 50% by
consolidating your existing storage into
a centrally managed pool of shared
capacity.
■■ Reclaim up to 65% of unused capacity
in your existing storage and delay pur-
chases of new equipment.
■■ Refresh your storage technology from
old to new systems for reasons of per-
formance or cost optimization with up to
80% less effort than alternatives.
■■ Reduce your carbon footprint while main-
taining higher performance, with 40%
lower power and cooling costs.
Confidence for Your Cloud
Whether your organization is getting started
with private cloud or building upon an exist-
ing infrastructure, Hitachi Unified Compute
Platform Pro for VMware vSphere is an ideal
foundation. You can bring the most critical
workloads to a cloud environment with UCP
Pro for VMware vSphere. It provides pre-
dictable reliability, quick time-to-value and
the ability to rapidly expand your private
cloud environment as requirements evolve.
UCP Pro for VMware vSphere improves the
utilization of IT resources while streamlining
management within VMware environments,
simplifying physical to virtual resource provi-
sioning and accelerating troubleshooting.
UCP Pro for VMware vSphere eliminates the
guesswork and troubleshooting organizations
normally experience when rolling out a new
infrastructure. Easily scalable, the comprehen-
sive and simplified management with deep
component integration allows extremely fast
provisioning and “worry free” scaling to many
physical hosts and virtual machines.
This integrated and pretested solution
removes implementation burdens and
reduces the complexity and cost of
deploying and managing a private cloud.
Your organization benefits from best-
in-class technologies with extreme
reliability and maximum performance as
well as simplified procurement, imple-
mentation and management of cloud
infrastructure.
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Director
enables management of UCP Pro for VMware
vSphere, providing a unified view of resources
from directly within vCenter. This allows you
to align IT with business processes, using
familiar tools. UCP Director monitors all the
elements of the UCP Pro for VMware vSphere
solution under a single view and provides an
overall health status of all solution elements.
Via early indication of any impending device
failures, this solution minimizes system down-
time by directing proactive maintenance. This
monitoring further reduces the complexity
and maintenance challenges associated with
disjointed and inefficient management of
underlying cloud infrastructures, saving time
and money.
Key cloud enabling features include:
■■ Comprehensive management via integra-
tion with vCenter and vSphere through the
UCP Director software.
■■ Simplified configuration and integration of all
solution components.
■■ Appropriate tiers of resources that meet
varying workload requirements.
■■ Elastic scaling when and where needed,
with on-demand storage allocation and
processing.
The UCP Pro for VMware vSphere solution
architecture is modular and flexible to let you
move into the cloud at your own pace, without
disrupting your existing environment.
Figure 2. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro for VMware vSphere: Solution Overview
5. Components
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro for
VMware vSphere solution automates and
integrates server, storage, networking and
management components. The innovative
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Director
software coordinates the administration and
task workflow for servers, storage, network-
ing elements and operating software.
Server
UCP Pro for VMware vSphere is based on
a blade server platform from Hitachi using
the latest Intel processor technology within
a highly reliable architecture. Its unique fea-
tures ensure the highest levels of efficiency,
application availability and uptime. Hitachi
Compute Blade 500 offers enterprise-class
performance, high-density computing
and massive throughput. Multiple RAM
and CPU configurations are supported
with Hitachi Compute Blade 500 within a
predefined architecture, which is key to
providing a flexible platform for changing
business needs.
Networking
Essential to a complete platform, standard
network components are supported to pro-
vide efficient and reliable networking. UCP
Pro for VMware vSphere utilizes Ethernet
and SAN components from Brocade that
are fully prewired and automatically con-
figured for simplified and automated virtual
LAN and SAN provisioning.
Storage
UCP Pro for VMware vSphere is available
with 3 industry-leading storage options
to best meet your needs and match your
application and infrastructure requirements.
Each provides a unique set of features
that allow you to best tailor your deploy-
ment of UCP Pro for VMware vSphere.
Other common and 3rd-party storage can
be integrated into the UCP management
framework by virtualizing it through VSP or
HUS VM. UCP Pro for VMware vSphere
uses unique Hitachi storage technologies
and virtualization capabilities that are inte-
grated with comprehensive management.
Management
UCP Director software is integrated directly
into vCenter and provides a unified and
comprehensive Web-based management
interface with process orchestration for
a collective group of assets as business
resource pools. UCP Director simplifies
the integration and ongoing management
of large dynamic environments. It greatly
reduces the barrier to deployment, speeds
time to value, and streamlines operational
management. These capabilities enable
UCP Director to help you reduce capital
expenditure (capex) and operating expendi-
ture (opex), even while the scope and scale
of these environments continue to grow.
This uniquely unified platform gives data
centers the enterprise scale, efficiency and
agility not found in other offerings. UCP Pro
for VMware vSphere has unmatched abil-
ity to reduce operational costs as well as
management complexities within the most
demanding data center environments and
private cloud deployments.
Best-in-class technologies and deep
technology integration make UCP Pro for
VMware vSphere ideal for consolidating and
virtualizing business-critical and enterprise
applications.
A Unique Platform
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro for
VMware vSphere simplifies and accelerates
the build out of robust private cloud infra-
structures. It provides the assurance that all
the underlying server, storage and network-
ing resources are in place and aligned to
the appropriate business service levels. The
innovative Hitachi Unified Compute Platform
Director software efficiently and reliably
coordinates the management of servers,
storage, networking components and oper-
ating software as collective resources.
The extreme flexibility of the UCP Pro for
VMware vSphere solution offers what may
be one of the most important benefits: IT
investment protection. UCP Pro for VMware
vSphere allows your business to transition
to private cloud while leveraging your current
storage infrastructure. It also allows you to
add the resources and configurations that
best suit your needs in a modular manner,
as you need them. You gain the freedom to
choose only the resources and management
needed today with the ability to extend auto-
mation and resources in the future.
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro for
VMware vSphere supports best-in-class
reliability, performance, scalability and com-
prehensive management of enterprise data
centers and cloud deployments.
Summary
Hitachi Data Systems helps businesses
improve IT agility, lower infrastructure costs
and move to cloud with certainty with pre-
dictable reliability, quick cloud value and
exceptional flexibility. We achieve these
results by streamlining, integrating and auto-
mating a robust platform for enterprise data
centers and cloud deployments. Hitachi
Unified Compute Platform Pro for VMware
vSphere is a unified, predefined solution. It
supports your business needs today and
lets you establish a flexible foundation for
the data center of the future.
For More Information
For more information regarding the capabili-
ties of Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro
for VMware vSphere and how it can sup-
port your data center, please contact your
Hitachi Data Systems representative or visit
www.HDS.com.
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