As the pandemic continues to upend our life in numerous ways, one thing we all can look forward to is the upcoming VMworld being held on October 5-7. Hitachi Vantara is a 20+ year strategic partner with VMware and is a global platinum sponsor to this marquee event. Hitachi Vantara has been hard at work to innovate and simplify the customer journey in the era of multi-cloud and hybrid cloud. Here’s what visitors will experience at the Hitachi Vantara virtual booth: 
High-impact breakout sessions: Top five strategies for your next IT infrastructure. Cloud expert and Director, Product Management, Paul Morrissey, will share configurations/techniques that your peers are deploying to meet various application, availability, and operations criteria that you may find yourself implementing soon. The session will help you better design traditional vSphere clusters with external storage to 100’s of HCI nodes of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) combining VMs and containers across 2/3 & more data centers to respond to the needs for modern application data architectures.Be more creative: Data driven decision making; digitizing tribal knowledge. The session will cover how Hitachi’s vertical expertise combined with VMware Cloud Foundation is delivering a hybrid environment to reduce cost and environment complexity which has resulted in the remediation of some existing constraints.Modernize Your Digital Core to Accelerate Your Business OutcomesLearn how you can embrace Infrastructure-led Innovation to shift from silos of excellence to a data-centric adaptive infrastructure platform and broker of digital and data services. Cut through the FUD, hype & noise to make data a first-class citizen in those architectures. Never seen before exciting solution demos
This demo will showcase how to deploy persistent storage for Kubernetes clusters running on VMware vSphere and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform storage systems
One-Push Life-Cycle Management with VMware vLCM and UCP Advisor
We will showcase a comprehensive, one-push life-cycle management for both software and compute hardware with Hitachi UCP Advisor and vSphere Life-Cycle Manager.
Using VMware Cloud Foundation on Hitachi VSP Storage with vVols
Simplicity of vVols policy-based automation on hybrid cloud infrastructure Hitachi Unified Compute Platform RS (UCP RS) with VCF and Hitachi SANVisit the comprehensive demo library for all Hitachi’s infrastructure portfolio including hyperconverged, containers, converged, storage, object, data protection, and IoT solutions. If you do not want to miss any updates from the event, follow HitachiVantara on social media channels.#Pentaho