Enhanced HDS Content Archive Platform

Hitachi announced several  enhancementsto its
21st century digital archiving solution, the Hitachi Content Archive
Platform. The enhanced Hitachi Content Archive Platform is an integral
component of the Hitachi Services Oriented Storage Solutions strategy
and features new authentication services to ensure the secure,
long-term preservation and retrieval of valuable information. Amid
growing customer demand for a first class active archive solution, the
Hitachi Content Archive Platform has gained strong momentum in the
market, deployed across hundreds of customer sites with Hitachi’s
rapidly expanding ecosystem of independent software vendor (ISV)
partners.

With simple integration via open, standards-based interfaces like
CIFS, NFS, and HTTP, and an active archive storage layer that supports
partner and customer data retention policies, the Hitachi Content
Archive Platform has built a growing network of ISV partners which
include some of the world’s leading technology vendors. When combined
with the Hitachi Content Archive Platform, these solutions allow
customers to meet their current e-mail, file, and ECM/ERM archiving
requirements, and allowing scalability for the future. This rapidly
growing partner ecosystem has fueled Hitachi Content Archive
deployments across hundreds of the most demanding customer sites around
the world, across a wide range of industries, including financial
services, insurance, telecommunications and government.

"The unprecedented partner and customer demand that we have
experienced for the Hitachi Content Archive Platform is a direct
reflection of the surge in unstructured data and the increasing need
for high performance, massively scalable storage solutions that are
capable of finding the equivalent of a needle in a haystack in record
time," said Michael Hay, senior director, Product Strategy, Hitachi
Data Systems. "Despite the exponential growth in data across all
industries, businesses today are expected to transform both structured
and unstructured data spread across their enterprise into business
intelligence and actionable information upon a single request. The new
features and flexibility of the Hitachi Content Archive Platform
deliver the speed, authentication, security and scalability
organizations need to manage constant change and prepare for a future
of unhindered data expansion."

"Growth in corporate content across industries and geographies
averages 52 percent annually, resulting from new systems coming online,
new content types, mergers and acquisitions, market expansion,
globalization and transition from a paper to digital workplace and
economy," said Laura DuBois, program director, Storage Software, IDC.
"As managing information becomes crucial to business viability, risk
mitigation and corporate compliance in today’s business environment,
the technologies used to store, search, and recover data are
increasingly important to every facet of business. As a result, we will
continue to see demand for sophisticated content archiving technologies
and file services to enable businesses to manage their data from
beginning to end and transfer the cost benefits of disciplined
structured data management principles to the bottom line."

The Hitachi Content Archive Platform
It delivers the specific content services that customers are demanding to enable them to meet their data
retention, scalability, preservation and protection requirements. It is
the first solution that enables customers to scale archive server nodes
and storage capacity independently capable of addressing up to 80
petabytes in an archive system. To achieve this degree of scaling,
other archiving solutions require many independent foot prints,
increasing their total cost of ownership. Only the Hitachi Content
Archive Platform allows customers to leverage existing storage
infrastructure, consolidating the number of footprints to achieve high
scale, decrease heat emissions, power consumption and simplify
management—resulting in greatly reduced TCO.

Enhanced Security and Search
Customers have new demands and need to meet new data retention,
scalability, preservation and protection requirements as mandated by
governmental regulations and corporate governance. Certain sensitive
data can only be viewed by senior executives while much broader access
is needed for other information. The enhanced Hitachi Content Archive
Platform provides advanced administrative and linkages to common
authentication services making it easier to administer management
access to the system. All administrative functions are encrypted, and
all administrative events are logged by unique login IDs. Multiple,
configurable roles can be created and permissions assigned to each
administrative login. In addition, system events can be broadcast and
sent to a set of syslog servers for tracking. These new strengthened
administrative capabilities add to the already rich security feature
set already available in HCAP such as encryption for object ingestion,
replication, and in-flight/at-rest over the SAN fabric.

As the growth of unstructured data including email, video and web
content and office documents continues to skyrocket and new regulations
require quick access to archived data, advanced, federated search
capabilities across this disparate content is becoming increasingly
important. New full-text search enhancements in the Hitachi Content
Archive Platform deliver role-based access to search results and a
logging of search activities, making it easier and faster to find
unstructured, archived files. Working with the all-new Hitachi Data
Discovery Suite (see separate press release also announced today),
customers and partners are able to conduct federated search services
across the Hitachi Content Archive Platform and Hitachi
High-performance NAS Platforms—simplifying eDiscovery and data
management.

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation