HDS Enhanced Content Platform Portfolio

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS), a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., announced new capabilities in its Content Platform portfolio.

Each system delivers peace of mind in an integrated and secure data, workforce and cloud mobility solution. HDS introduced the Content Platform S10, which extends the existing hybrid architecture by adding another low cost tier. The company also updated Data Ingestor and HCP Anywhere to enable secure – and unified – mobile access to both cloud and enterprise data. The enhanced HCP portfolio allows organizations to transform to a cloud, mobile, open source and service-driven IT environment, while protecting their existing investments.

The Hitachi Content Platform portfolio offers integrated solutions for private and hybrid cloud, Openstack, elastic scale backup-free cloud gateways, file sync and share, and mobile access to enterprise NAS file shares from a single architecture. This portfolio is designed, tested and supported from a single vendor and eliminates the complexity of do-it-yourself private and hybrid cloud. By using a common platform, customers can gat cost optimization across multiple use cases, eliminate solution silos, and improve manageability and security from a single point of control.

With the growing adoption of both private and public cloud and the transformation of traditional architectures to open source, cloud and mobile, organizations are grappling with how to bring their existing investments forward into this increasingly mobilized world.

Content Platform Capabilities

• Extend cloud investments in order to deliver cost-optimized cloud services by using technologies and services that are aligned to business value.

• Enable hybrid cloud architectures to integrate business with elastic scalability across onsite and offsite cloud storage environments.

• Empower employees with mobility tools to accelerate productivity and competitiveness with secure unified access to both cloud and enterprise data.

The S10 extends cloud environments by delivering a solution that can be implemented on premises for visibility and control of data. It is a plug-and-play solution that uses large-capacity consumer drives and erasure-coding data protection to ensure long-term protection at the lowest cost. Content can be moved to the S10 using HCP adaptive cloud-tiering functionality, which already offers organizations the ability to tier content to a company’s choice of public cloud services including Hitachi Cloud Service for Content Archiving, Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Verizon Cloud and Google Cloud Storage.

With this release of HCP software, organizations can extend their cloud ecosystem by integrating HCP into their OpenStack environment in order to exploit the capabilities of HCP as part of their overall OpenStack deployment.

Updates to Data Ingestor enable unmatched simplicity of management for file services in remote or branch offices or at storage service providers’ customer sites. It helps hybrid cloud architectures achieve continuity of business without the need for local backups and provides elastic scalability by consistently managing remote site and cloud storage quotas from a single interface. This helps free IT from the burdens of traditional file servers and move to right-sized, simplified, optimized cloud gateways.

Announced, Content Platform Anywhere empowers mobile workers by going beyond file sync and share to provide mobile access to data in existing NAS systems, so users have secure access to cloud and enterprise data from anywhere, on any device, at any time. This capability augments existing investments in NAS environments and helps IT bridge the gap between traditional NAS to next-generation file services. Content Platform Anywhere also lets users pick from multiple languages for their client systems and offers efficient sync of large, open and duplicate files.

“We chose Hitachi Content Platform Anywhere to solve some specific file sharing problems that exist in our environment of offices spread throughout the world,” said Tim Gombold, director, IT and data center infrastructure, Sitel. “We chose HCP Anywhere specifically because it was part of an object storage solution set that also addressed several other challenges we have with unstructured storage. We saw this as a perfect way to build a core, centralized repository of unstructured data while building a private cloud service for our geographically dispersed organization.“

“Hitachi Content Platform Anywhere allows us to share large amounts of data with customers, suppliers and partners in a simple and secure way, from anywhere, on any device” said Mag. Gregor, CMO, executive board member, Kremsmüller Industrieanlagenbau KG.

“Today’s organizations demand seamless and secure mobility solutions that enable their employees to better deliver against their business priorities,” said Peter Sjoberg, CTO, HDS. “This announcement has the everyday mobile users in mind, so that employees, partners and customers can connect with their content from any device or location. The Hitachi content mobility portfolio offers the most integrated and secure solutions for data mobility on the market.“