Hitachi Vantara: Instance Director V6.5 Non-Disruptive Data Governance Copy Services

Hitachi Vantara Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., introduced its latest data recovery platform, Hitachi Data Instance Director (HDID) v6.5, which enables the long-term retention and reuse of managed copy data to support a range of secondary applications.

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HDID has already helped customers protect critical databases and applications using snapshot and replication technologies. This version helps organizations to reuse and monetize their unstructured backup data, with no impact to the primary production environment.

HDID provides data protection and recovery copy services that meet data-availability and service-level requirements. With this new release, it uses the integration of Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) as a storage repository for long-term file system backups. Backup data creates ever-increasing amounts of storage and recurring costs, though its value is realized only when data is recovered. v6.5 provides recovery copy services using data protection technologies, agile copy services enabling the repurposing of the copied data, and governance copy services to manage long-term retention and support data discovery and analytics.

v6.5 sends file system backups to HCP in a native file or object format. The backup data can then be used by Hitachi Content Intelligence and Pentaho analytics software to provide compliance-related and search capabilities, data-driven insights and other new data management use cases.

“Traditionally, backup data sits dormant waiting for disaster to strike, taking up precious storage space,” said Peter Sjoberg, global business leader, data intelligence global field and industry solutions, Hitachi Vantara. “Increasingly, organizations are looking to unleash added value from their backup data, making it available for other uses, such as discovery and business analytics. At Hitachi Vantara, we’re delivering this ability through te integration of Hitachi Data Instance Director, Hitachi Content Platform and our broader data intelligence portfolio.“

This release addresses the needs of customers, data management professionals and backup administrators by letting organizations make greater use of their backup data to support a range of secondary operations, including data discovery, governance and compliance, analytics, DevOps.

Customers who are challenged by scalability, cost, reliability and performance of their current file system backup solutions should benefit in many ways by deploying v6.5 with HCP, including the ability to:

• Increase the value of their HCP investment and reduce the cost and management challenges they have with traditional methods of storing and managing backup data.

• Gain access to a broader range of data, eliminate the complexity of auditing the many systems that are the subject of the audits, and eradicate performance and availability impacts on those production systems when performing audits.

• Capture only incrementally changed files, reducing backup times and the required storage capacity.

HDID v6.5 provides the core capabilities and tools for customers to migrate away from traditional filesystem backup methods and introduce ways to use data, reducing cost in data management and increasing profitability.