Massive in scale, hyperscale cloud infrastructures are defining new storage efficiencies as there are intense economical and operational pressures to do more with less, while building and maintaining expansive and complex multi-tiered storage data centers in order to scale, reduce TCO and ultimately manage prolific data growth.

At the heart of these data centers is storage. Come hear HGST talk about the future of HDDs based on a new Helium platform that will enable new market opportunities and improve TCO like never before.

Speaker BioAs the Hitachi GST's VP of Product Marketing, Brendan Collins ensures that HGST HDDs and SSDs are innovative, high quality and competitive while meeting the range of customer needs for digital storage. Under his management, HGST delivers HDDs and SSDs to enterprise, consumer and electronics, desktop and mobile computing, video and other customers. With more than 20 years of technical and management experience in the disk drive industry, Collins previously was director of Enterprise Market Development for Seagate Technology, where he focused on developing emerging business opportunities. He came to Seagate through the company’s acquisition of Maxtor Corporation, where he had advanced from Sr. Director to VP of Marketing, over time addressing the full range of Maxtor’s enterprise, desktop and consumer products.