Moonwalk Software Certified on HDS Content Archive Platform

Moonwalk Inc., Australian developer of all-inclusive data management and protection software, announced that its
Moonwalk 6.0 Software has been certified for compatibility with the Hitachi Content Archive Platform, giving customers powerful new capabilities for managing the lifecycle of unstructured data across the enterprise.

The Moonwalk and Hitachi Content Archive Platform combination provides a single, integrated, solution for regaining control of the unstructured data. This turnkey solution can be implemented without the overhead typically associated with data management solutions, providing immediate benefits, such as massive reduction in primary storage, significantly reduced backup overhead and the management of data according to specific user-defined attributes. The Moonwalk 6.0 software is designed to transparently move content throughout the enterprise according to corporate policies and transitions the content to Hitachi Content Archive environment where it is secured and managed according to its lifecycle rules. Leveraging this combined solution, customers can expect to achieve immediate reduction on file system data on the order of 75 percent, depending on the policies implemented, delivering an immediate return on investment.     

The Hitachi Content Archive Platform is a cost-effective active archive solution designed to answer data growth, retention and preservation challenges for any size data center. Designed to seamlessly integrate into an existing enterprise storage infrastructure, the Hitachi Content Archive Platform preserves and authenticates archived content while scaling and optimizing performance and availability. The advanced features and flexibility of the Hitachi Content Archive Platform deliver the speed, authentication, security and scalability organizations require meeting both corporate governance and regulatory compliance retention objectives.

“Managing the excessive growth of unstructured, archive data continues to be one of the major challenges facing IT and storage administrators,” said Sean Moser, senior director, Global Software Product Management, Hitachi Data Systems. “Moonwalk provides an elegant solution to this problem that enhances the functionality of the Hitachi Content Archive Platform to address customer’s needs for data retention, scalability, preservation and protection, without adding the complexity and management overhead that are commonly associated with other alternatives.”   

“Moonwalk 6.0 and the Hitachi Content Archive Platform leverages two complementary technologies to deliver tremendous customer value by significantly reducing primary storage requirements and associated backup overhead without the need for an extra middle tier software layer, eliminating the introduction of additional points of failure into the storage infrastructure,” said Peter Harvey, CEO of Moonwalk. “The highly scalable Hitachi Content Archive Platform is the perfect hardware platform to implement the Moonwalk software.”  

One of the first customers in the process of implementing the Moonwalk and Hitachi Content Archive Platform solution is Holmesglen Technical and Further Education (TAFE) Institute, one of Australia’s most accomplished providers of vocational education and training, serving more than 50,000 students at three campuses across the state of Victoria.