Primetime Plus Sponsor HGST to Speak on Best Practices for the (R)evolution in Datacenter Storage at GigaOM Structure 2013
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and now a Western Digital company, NASDAQ: WDC) today announced that it is a Primetime Plus sponsor, exhibitor and workshop session speaker at GigaOM Structure 2013, June 19-20 in San Francisco. Bringing next-generation cloud computing disruptors to the stage, this year's Structure 2013 theme is "From Cloud to Clear Strategy," and will focus on how real-time business needs are shaping IT architectures, how hyper-distributed infrastructure will take you beyond the four walls of your traditional data center, and how your cloud tomorrow will look completely different from everything that's come before.
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GigaOM Structure 2013, June 19-20 |
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Whether you think about it or not, storage is at the center of your applications, services and datacenters – and it's at the heart of the world's digital infrastructures. Learn about the future of HDDs and Flash, and discover new innovations and value propositions that can help improve your bottom line. |
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Thursday, June 20, 2013 at 3:20pm PT |
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Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF, 1675 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158 |
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Mike Alexenko, Senior Director, Cloud Market Development at HGST |
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HGST will be exhibiting its full line of enterprise-class HDDs and SSDs that are powering today's largest search, social and cloud datacenters. Exhibit hours are June 19 from 7:30 am to 6 pm PT, and June 20 from 8 am to 4 pm PT. Please visit the Structure 2013 exhibit map for exhibitor locations. |
"Due to the growing popularity of cloud, social, mobile and big data, data – both structured and unstructured – is growing at an exponential rate. This is causing many enterprise and cloud datacenter managers to rethink their infrastructures in order to optimize how they store this avalanche of content effectively, efficiently and affordably," said Brendan Collins, vice president of product marketing at HGST. "We are defining best practices in the storage industry to afford our customers with greater capital savings and operational efficiencies for the cloud and enterprise datacenter, and we look forward to sharing those insights at GigaOM Structure."
To attend Structure 2013, please register at: http://event.gigaom.com/structure/registration/.
If you are a member of the press or analyst community and are interested in setting up a meeting with HGST at the show, please contact Katie Watson, kwatson@vocecomm.com.
About HGST
HGST (formerly known as Hitachi Global Storage Technologies or Hitachi GST), a Western Digital company (NASDAQ: WDC), develops advanced hard disk drives, enterprise-class solid state drives, innovative external storage solutions and services used to store, preserve and manage the world's most valued data. Founded by the pioneers of hard drives, HGST provides high-value storage for a broad range of market segments, including Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing, Consumer Electronics and Personal Storage. HGST was established in 2003 and maintains its U.S. headquarters in San Jose, California. For more information, please visit the company's website at http://www.hgst.com.
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Erin Hartin |
Katie Watson |
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HGST |
Voce Communications |
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Office: 303-284-7790 |
Mobile: 408-439-2002 |
SOURCE HGST, A Western Digital Company
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