Positive Customer Momentum With Hitachi Content Archive Platform

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., announced continued positive worldwide customer momentum with the Hitachi Content Archive Platform.

Customer success is further illustrated by a recent global customer survey where 46% of IT organizations reported that consolidating storage was one of the primary drivers for purchasing the platform, 69% of organizations have migrated over 30% of their content off primary disk to the Hitachi Content Archive Platform, and 55% of the content archiving portfolio’s customers experienced a return on their investment within 18 months.

 
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“With the staggering growth of unstructured data that IDC forecasts in the next 5 years, organizations will face an unprecedented need for file-based storage that is more than a simple content store,” said Laura DuBois, Program Director for Storage Software, IDC. “Data custodians and legal and compliance professionals will need to more quickly and easily manage, locate and retrieve their content while assuring data integrity and longevity. Solutions like the Hitachi Content Archive Platform give users the tools they need to successfully meet those challenges.”

“The huge growth of unstructured data and the need for companies to consolidate their storage and ‘do more with less’ means that archiving and long-term information management are now critical elements in the design and delivery of storage infrastructures,” said Sean Moser, Vice President of Software Product Management, Hitachi Data Systems. “As evident by our continued global customer success, the Hitachi Content Archive Platform offers a cost effective and simple end-to-end data archival system, and satisfies key requirements for long term information preservation such as authentication, duplicate file elimination, scalable performance and capacity.”

The Hitachi Content Archive Platform provides organizations an affordable means to reduce their overall storage requirements and support fixed content archiving, as well as adhere to increasingly stringent corporate governance policies. Designed to seamlessly integrate into an existing enterprise storage infrastructure, the Hitachi Content Archive Platform is an ideal solution for archiving reports, email records, enterprise content management repositories, medical records, scanned documents, digital voice recordings and other digital content in an effort reclaim primary storage and reduce backup windows.

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Globally, the Hitachi Content Archive Platform has demonstrated tremendous value to a variety of customers across a number of vertical markets including Health Care, Government, Financial Services and Energy/Utilities.

Amsterdam City Archives created a Digital Store Depot (DSD) using the Hitachi Content Archive Platform that has enlarged its archive capacity to over 27 terabytes and will eventually scale to a repository of up to 247 Petabytes. In addition, the Platform’s rapid storage capacity scalability also guarantees the sustainable preservation and retention of records. The Hitachi Content Archive Platform offers storage facilities to permanently monitor the totality and authenticity of all digitally recorded documents. "We are now stepping into the future with our history," says Bert Nijhoff, Head of ICT, Amsterdam City Archives. "With the rapid growth of digital archives and the changing laws and regulations, we looked for a scalable, but primarily sustainable solution. Our IT partner, Data Matters advised us that the Hitachi Content Archive Platform would be the ideal solution."

"With the incumbent’s offering, we would have to write a custom API to accommodate one of our important applications, and there were also many intricacies with the platform. That’s when we discovered the Hitachi Content Archive Platform, with out-of-the-box open functionality that can be managed from a single pane of glass," said Jason Beckham, Director of Infrastructure, Payformance. "The Hitachi platform gives us a secure, scalable online repository that ingests, preserves and actively manages our content, and we can do it all through one centralized console with an easy-to-use interface. With Hitachi, we’ve eliminated the need for backup because data is replicated almost in real time to the disaster recovery facility. We’ve also rid ourselves of complicated retrievals, tape media and the staff hours to manage it all."