Name: Optimizing Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct configurations with SSDs and HDDs
Start: 2017-11-22T13:00:00Z
End: 2017-11-22T13:00:45.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 5

Western Digital Corporation is an industry-leading provider of storage technologies and solutions that enable people to create, leverage, experience and preserve data. The company addresses ever-changing market needs by providing a full portfolio of compelling, high-quality storage solutions with customer-focused innovation, high efficiency, flexibility and speed. Our products are marketed under the HGST, SanDisk and WD brands to OEMs, distributors, resellers, cloud infrastructure providers and consumers.

In this webinar we will show how to leverage the Western Digital Data24-3200 JBOF and NVIDIA® GPUDirect® Storage (GDS) to saturate multiple GPU’s bandwidth.

AI workloads acceleration with Western Digital Data24-3200 JBOF

Shingled magnetic recording (SMR) hard drives deliver next-generation capacities of up to 28TB for increased storage density and a more efficient footprint for your data center.  Our technical expert will cover the kev considerations needed for adopting this technology to best fit vour Linux®-based application. We will be joined by our friends from Leil Storage who will give real-world insights into what was needed to integrate SMR drives into their data storage system.  This eco-friendly solution bridges the gap between Host Managed SMR and Software-Defined Storage and slashes electricity consumption by up to 43%.

TechTalk: Implementing SMR to maximize storage density and optimize cost

Join this TechTalk to learn about the latest addition to our Platforms products line up - The OpenFlex Data24-3200, our third generation NVMe-oF all flash storage JBOF and Resource Manager Data Center v1.0, our free management software that now allows monitoring of all Western Digital platforms systems from a single pane of glass.

Introducing the OpenFlex Data24-3200 and Resource Manager Data Center Edition

This session will describe infrastructure products and solutions tools that are critical for implementing Edge to Core archiving workflows. Areas included are 
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• Data portability around the core and to the cloud.

End-to-End Archiving from the Edge

Join us for our September TechTalk, where we will discuss how to configure your enterprise SSDs to best suit your workload by optimizing their performance and endurance (DWPD).  After a quick overview of our recently announced Western Digital Ultrastar DC SN655, we will take a detailed look at working examples showing how easy it can be for you to configure a drive’s DWPD and power consumption giving you the possibility to tailor it to your specific workload and optimize your investment

Optimize your Enterprise SSDs to best serve your applications

We’ll take a look at how we can optimize storage for ease of deployment and scalability while maintaining performance and data resilience.  Western Digital’s OpenFlex Data24 NVMe over Fabric storage can be easily combined with BeeGFS robust and flexible file system and Xinnor’s innovative XiRAID software for high performance NVMe RAID with very low system overhead.

Pushing the limits of HPC and AI storage with BeeGFS, Xinnor and NVMe-oF

Hybrid-cloud, or decentralized cloud, workflows are on the rise driven by the need and desire for real-time decision making. Demand for edge solutions is on the rise to address these use cases that include capturing and processing of data at the edge. These edge solutions need to address requirements that go well beyond the datacenter.

Data Mobility and Analytics at the Edge

The seeming insatiable growth of data in the zettabyte age continues to accelerate the adoption of public cloud both at the core and the edge. This growth places increasing demands on the management and storage of data at rack-scale levels and beyond. Western Digital’s HDD enclosures employ unique capabilities to deliver optimum performance, reliability, and uptime so that users can comfortably focus their energy on the monetization of their data assets, where it should be.

Optimizing Data Storage for Rack Scale

Most Cloud Service Provider’s use HDDs and Tape to deliver Storage Services, contain CapEx budgets, easily scale their infrastructure and to manage power consumption. 

As big and unstructured data becomes more prevalent in society and at the same time data growth is approaching 165 ZB’s by 2025, organizations and CSP’s are grappling with data retention compliance and the most cost-effective architectures to manage and deliver storage services to their users and customers.

Additionally, budgets for IT and operating expenses for power and cooling continue to be challenging for both Data Center Operators as well as CIO’s.

This Session will explore:
- HDD based cloud architectures for scale and cost
- Data Tiering 
- Areal Density Growth Strategies

Why Magnetic Recording Creates Substantial Value for Cloud Storage

Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) has fueled IT gains with simple building blocks that are easy to scale and manage.  The downside has been those gains have come at a high cost as HCI requires a greater overprovisioning of equipment to maintain a minimum level of reliability.  NVMe-oF based storage offers a way to reduce cost and improve utilization over what is possible with HCI.

Improving TCO and Asset Velocity with NVMe-oF

WDC has been providing storage components and infrastructure to our customer for many decades. As an outcome of this position in the market, we have observed emerging trends and challenges facing our customers that impede or restrict their ability to capture the full potential in the marketplace. WDC Platforms BU exists to help customers navigate through these core issues that affect growth, TCO, and ultimately asset velocity.

WDC Platforms Vision and Strategy

Learn about factors that affect storage requirements for large-scale IP Video Surveillance deployments
- Data upon Data upon Data: Mass Storage Servers from GeoVision to meet the video storage needs of 100+ camera deployments
- See how a university and a major metropolitan hospital utilized GeoVision Storage Servers & IP Cameras + Western Digital Hard Drives to secure their facilities

Scaling IP Video Storage Solutions to Meet Today’s Campus Threats

The adoption of remote and hybrid work throughout the pandemic accelerated the digital transformation that IT organizations had already been undergoing by months, even years. However, as organizations shift a multitude of users and varying workloads between on-premises, public and private clouds, and the edge, the rise in data breaches and ransomware has prioritized the need for data protection and security, in addition to resource agility requirements.

Join OSNexus, Pogo Linux and Western Digital, as we explain how the QuantaStor software-defined storage platform and Pogo Linux hardware solutions – powered by Western Digital high-performance, low-latency NVMe™ storage and NVMe-over-Fabrics™ networking technologies – enable secure, high-performance multi-tenant object storage environments that can prevent a ransomware or a data loss event.

Multi-Tenancy Everywhere: The Evolution of the Modern IT Department

While data is growing, budgets and reliability requirements are under increasing pressure. Organizations of all types with a wide variety of use cases are looking to cloud storage services to alleviate data growth problems. Join us to learn how Western Digital Corporation and Wasabi Technologies have teamed up to lower cloud storage costs while increasing reliability and performance. This webinar will highlight Wasabi hot cloud storage and how WDC’s technology helps deliver Cloud 2.0 price, performance, and reliability for organizations large and small.

How to Build Cost Effective & Reliable Cloud Storage

Learn how enterprises can combine high-performance, S3 compatible object storage from MinIO with Western Digital’s Ultrastar and OpenFlex storage platforms to deliver a consistent, performant and resilient data architecture from the edge to the data center. MinIO's suite of enterprise features include replication, encryption, tiering, data life-cycle management, monitoring, and access management features. Paired with high-performance JBOD and JBOF offerings from Western Digital, MinIO can execute any workload, from AI/ML, advanced analytics, even performance oriented database workloads. The webinar will cover architecture, best practices, use cases and deployment examples.

Creating a Consistent Data Storage Architecture from Edge to Core

The automotive market is undergoing a technological revolution in data storage. This webinar covers:
• automotive data evolution
• future data storage use cases
• interfaces that best fit these uses
• why storage can no longer be an afterthought in vehicle design

A Guide to Automotive Data Storage – Future Trends, Use Cases and Features

Join Esther Spanjer, Director, Enterprise Business Development EMEA, and Peter Plamondon, Director, Microsoft Partner Marketing  for this webinar where they will discuss how HGST branded HDDs and SSDs can be used to optimize Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct environments. They will discuss the basic operations and advantages of Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct for Hyper-converged infrastructures, and how a tiered storage approach can provide the optimal configuration for your workload. They will share some sample configurations to highlight how they impact performance, capacity and TCO.

Optimizing Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct configurations with SSDs and HDDs

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